US11410833B2
The present disclosure provides a lower electrode mechanism and a reaction chamber, the lower electrode mechanism includes a base for carrying a workpiece to be processed and a lower electrode chamber disposed under the base, the lower electrode chamber includes an electromagnetic shielding space and a non-electromagnetic shielding space isolated from each other, the chamber of the lower electrode chamber includes a first through hole and a second through hole, and the electromagnetic shielding space and the non-electromagnetic shielding space are respectively connected to outside through the first through hole and the second through hole to prevent a plurality of first components disposed in the electromagnetic shielding space from being interfered by a second component disposed in the non-electromagnetic shielding space.
US11410832B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a measurement system includes a sensor circuit configured to provide a voltage sense signal proportional to an electric field sensed by the RF sensor and a current sense signal proportional to a magnetic field sensed by the RF sensor; an analysis circuit comprising a frequency selective demodulator circuit configured to: demodulate the voltage sense signal into a first set of analog demodulated signals according to a set of demodulation frequencies, demodulate the current sense signal into a second set of analog demodulated signals according to the set of demodulation frequencies, and determine a phase shift between the voltage sense signal and the current sense signal for at least one frequency of the set of demodulation frequencies; and analog-to-digital converters configured to receive the first and second sets of analog demodulated signals.
US11410830B1
A system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a scanning electron microscopy sub-system including an electron source configured to generate an electron beam and an electron-optical assembly including one or more electron-optical elements configured to direct the electron beam to the specimen. In another embodiment, the system includes one or more grounding paths coupled to the specimen, the one or more grounding paths configured to generate one or more transmission signals based on one or more received electron beam-induced transmission currents. In another embodiment, the system includes a controller configured to: generate control signals configured to cause the scanning electron microscopy sub-system to scan the portion of the electron beam across a portion of the specimen; receive the transmission signals via the one or more grounding paths; and generate transmission current images based on the transmission signals.
US11410824B2
A key structure includes a base plate, a key cap, a positioning base, a positioning cover, and a spring. The key cap is disposed above the base plate and has a bottom surface. The positioning base is connected to the bottom surface of the key cap and has a positioning recess. The positioning cover is slidably connected to the positioning base, is inserted into the positioning recess, and includes a bottom portion and a side wall. The spring includes a first spring portion and a second spring portion. The first spring portion is located in the positioning recess and is in contact with the bottom surface of the key cap. The second spring portion is located in the positioning cover. An orthographic projection of the first spring portion on the bottom surface of the key cap is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the side wall of the positioning cover on the bottom surface of the key cap.
US11410821B2
Remote control devices may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be mounted over a mechanical switch that is installed in a multi-gang wallbox adjacent to a second electrical device, such as another mechanical switch or an electrical receptacle. The second electrical device may be recessed with respect to the remote control device and may be brought forward towards a front surface of the adapter by loosening a first set of screws that attach a yoke of the second electrical device to the multi-gang wallbox, and tightening a second set of screws that attach the adapter to the yoke of the second electrical device. The remote control device may comprise one or more configurable attachment members for attaching the adapter to the yoke of the mechanical switch and/or to the yoke of the second electrical device.
US11410814B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body comprising a capacitance-forming portion including a dielectric layer and a plurality of internal electrodes layered with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and upper and lower cover portions disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the capacitance-forming portion, respectively; and external electrodes disposed on the body and electrically connected to at least some of the plurality of internal electrodes, respectively, wherein at least one of the upper cover portion and or the lower cover portion has a step structure, and the step structure has a shorter length and width as compared to the capacitance-forming portion.
US11410805B2
An R—Fe—B base sintered magnet is provided comprising a main phase containing an HR rich phase of (R′,HR)2(Fe,(Co))14B wherein R′ is an element selected from yttrium and rare earth elements exclusive of Dy, Tb and Ho, and essentially contains Nd, and HR is an element selected from Dy, Tb and Ho, and a grain boundary phase containing a (R′,HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase in the form of an amorphous phase and/or nanocrystalline phase, the (R′,HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase consisting essentially of 25-35 at % of (R′,HR), 2-8 at % of M1 which is at least one element selected from Si, Al, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Pt, Au, Hg, Pb, and Bi, up to 8 at % of Co, and the balance of Fe. The HR rich phase has a higher HR content than the HR content of the main phase at its center. The magnet produces a high coercivity despite a low content of Dy, Tb and Ho.
US11410796B2
An apparatus for a coaxial transmission line is provided. The apparatus can include a dielectric member having an inner surface defining a bore along a longitudinal axis of an inner conductor of the coaxial transmission line; and a first conductive member mounted axially around the dielectric member and extending along the longitudinal axis. A cross-section of an outer surface of the first conductive member can define a first perimeter. A cross-section of an inner surface of the outer conductor of the coaxial transmission line can define a second perimeter. The first perimeter can be smaller than the second perimeter and thereby provide clearance between a portion of the outer surface of the first conductive member and the inner surface of the outer conductor of the coaxial transmission line when the apparatus is positioned in an annulus defined by the inner conductor and the outer conductor of the coaxial transmission line.
US11410783B1
An underground nuclear power reactor having a hollow blast tunnel which extends from one end of a containment member which houses a nuclear reactor, heat exchanger, generator, etc. A hollow blast tunnel extends from one end of the containment member with a normally closed door positioned therebetween. The blast tunnel defines a blast chamber having a plurality of spaced-apart debris deflectors positioned therein. The blast chamber has an upper wall with a roof opening formed therein which is selectively closed by a roof portion. If the reactor needs to be repaired or replaced, the door is opened so that the reactor will pass therethrough into the blast chamber and outwardly through the roof opening. If the reactor explodes, the blast therefrom drives the debris therefrom through the door and into the blast chamber where the deflectors reduce the blast force as the debris passes through the blast chamber.
US11410781B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for managing a manufacturing environment, comprising: providing an Internet of Things (IoT) hub, the IoT hub coordinating communication between a mobile device and a product fabrication system; communicating between the mobile device and the product fabrication system via a secure internal network of the manufacturing environment; maintaining a master version of an application on the IoT hub; and, updating a mobile version of an application on the mobile device using the master version of the application maintained on the IoT hub.
US11410773B2
Systems and methods for providing a universal platform for at-home health testing and diagnostics are provided herein. In particular, a health testing and diagnostic platform is provided to connect medical providers with patients and to generate a unique, private testing environment. In some embodiments, the testing environment may facilitate administration of a medical test to a patient with the guidance of a proctor. In some embodiments, the patient may be provided with step-by-step instructions for test administration by the proctor within a testing environment. The platform may display unique, dynamic testing interfaces to the patient and proctor to ensure proper testing protocols and accurate test result verification.
US11410763B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques to predict the success or failure of a drug used for disease treatment. For example, a method of determining drug efficacy may include, for a plurality of patients, generating a directed acyclic graph from health related information of each patient comprising nodes representing a medical event of the patient, at least one first edge connecting the first node to an additional node, each additional edge connecting nodes representing two consecutive medical events, the edge having a weight based on a time difference between the two consecutive medical events, capturing a plurality of features from each directed acyclic graph, generating a binary graph classification model on captured features of each directed acyclic graph, determining a probability that a drug or treatment will be effective using the binary graph classification model, and determining a drug to be prescribed to a patient based on the determined probability.
US11410757B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate providing treatment suggestions are described herein. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises: generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, treatment directed graphs associated with a plurality of treatment regimens, wherein, in connection with generating respective treatment directed graphs, penalties are applied during weighting of respective regimens as a function of an associated confidence level; identifying a treatment directed graph that corresponds to the patient directed graph; and outputting a set of treatment suggestions associated with the treatment directed graph that corresponds to the patient directed graph.
US11410751B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a method computer-implemented method of generating an outlier wheel data visualization for a graphical user interface, GUI, is provided. The method includes receiving emission data from a plurality of amplification reactions. The method further includes generating an outlier wheel data visualization using the emission data including a plurality of lines, where each line included in the outlier wheel data visualization represents emission data from an amplification reaction of the plurality of amplification reactions, and each line having a length and a visual indicator. The length of each line represents growth of intensity of fluorescence of the emission data and the visual indicator indicates the associated cycle number of the emission data. Further, each line is associated with an angular position so that the plurality of lines is configured in a circular shape. The method includes displaying the outlier wheel data visualization on a GUI.
US11410746B2
Methods for the top-down design of nucleic acid nanostructures of arbitrary geometry based on target shape of spherical or non-spherical topology are described. The methods facilitate 3D molecular programming of lipids, proteins, sugars, and RNAs based on a DNA scaffold of arbitrary 2D or 3D shape. Geometric objects are rendered as node-edge networks of parallel nucleic acid duplexes, and a nucleic acid scaffold routed throughout the network using a spanning tree formula. Nucleic acid nanostructures produced according to top-down design methods are also described. In some embodiments, the nanostructures include single-stranded nucleic acid scaffold, DX crossovers, and staple strands. In other embodiments, the nanostructures include single-stranded nucleic acid scaffold, PX crossovers and no staples. Modified nanostructures include chemically modified nucleotides and conjugated to other molecules are described.
US11410740B2
A multi-fuse memory cell is disclosed. The circuit includes: a first fuse element electrically coupled to a first transistor, a gate of the first transistor is electrically coupled to a first selection signal; a second fuse element electrically coupled to a second transistor, a gate of the second transistor is electrically coupled to a second selection signal, both the first transistor and the second transistor are grounded; and a programming transistor electrically coupled to the first fuse element and the second fuse element, wherein a gate of the programming transistor is electrically coupled to a programming signal.
US11410736B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a page buffer, a control logic, and a voltage generator. The memory cell array includes memory cells. The page buffer is connected to the memory cells through a bit line and configure to read data of the memory cells. The control logic generates control signals for controlling the page buffer. The voltage generator generates activation voltages of the control signals. The page buffer includes a first transistor between the bit line and a first node, a second transistor between a power voltage and a second node, a third transistor between the first node and the second node, a fourth transistor between the second node and a third node, and a fifth transistor between the first node and the third node. The voltage generator controls a first control signal controlling the fifth transistor based on temperature of the semiconductor memory device.
US11410733B2
An electronic device is provided. A memory device controls a signal for setting a voltage level of a bit line. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a plurality of program loops for programming selected memory cells among the plurality of memory cells, and a sense signal controller configured to determine, during a program operation on a first memory cell among the selected memory cells, a bit line set-up time of a bit line coupled to the first memory cell based on at least one of a state of second memory cells adjacent to the first memory cell and a number of program loops performed on the first memory cell, the first memory cell having a threshold voltage higher than a pre-verify voltage and lower than a main verify voltage.
US11410732B2
A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device having memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and a controller configured to issue a write command with or without a partial page program command to the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device, in response to the write command issued without the partial page command, executes a first program operation on a page of memory cells and then a first verify operation on the memory cells of the page using a first verify voltage for all of the memory cells of the page, and in response to the write command issued with the partial page command, executes a second program operation on a subset of the memory cells of the page and then a second verify operation on the memory cells of the subset using one of several different second verify voltages corresponding to the subset.
US11410730B2
Memory including an array of memory cells might include an input buffer having calibration circuitry, a first input, a second input, and an output; and calibration logic having an input selectively connected to the output of the input buffer and comprising an output connected to the calibration circuitry, wherein the calibration logic is configured to cause the memory to determine whether the input buffer exhibits offset while a particular voltage level is applied to the first and second inputs of the input buffer, and, in response to determining that the selected input buffer exhibits offset, apply an adjustment to the calibration circuitry while the particular voltage level is applied to the first and second inputs until a logic level of the output of the selected input buffer transitions.
US11410728B2
A semiconductor storage device includes first and second memory strings, a word line, first and second select gate lines, and a control circuit. The first memory string includes a first memory transistor and a first select transistor. The second memory string includes a second memory transistor and a second select transistor. The word line is connected to the first and second memory transistors. The control circuit is connected to the word line and the first and second select gate lines. The control circuit is configured to perform, during a write sequence, a program operation on each of the first and second memory transistors in turn and a verify operation on only one of the first and second memory transistors.
US11410726B2
Integrated circuit devices might include a controller configured to cause the integrated circuit device to apply a first voltage level to a first conductor while applying a second voltage level to a second conductor, apply a third voltage level to the first conductor while applying a fourth voltage level to the second conductor, and apply a fifth voltage level to the first conductor while applying the second voltage level to the second conductor. The second voltage level might correspond to a target voltage level for the second conductor. A difference between the third voltage level and the first voltage level might have a polarity opposite the polarity of a difference between the fourth voltage level and the second voltage level, and the same polarity of a difference between the fifth voltage level and the first voltage level. The fifth voltage level might correspond to a target voltage level for the first conductor.
US11410722B2
A phase-change memory device and a dynamic resistance drift compensation method thereof are provided. The phase-change memory device includes a plurality of bit lines; a plurality of source lines crossing the plurality of bit lines; a plurality of memory cells at respective intersections between the plurality of bit lines and the plurality of source lines, the plurality of memory cells each including a phase-change layer; a current generator connected to the plurality of bit lines and configured to generate a set current to be supplied to each of the plurality of memory cells; and a control driver configured to control the current generator and the plurality of bit lines to supply the set current to each of the plurality of memory cells.
US11410719B2
SRAM arrays are provided. Each SRAM cell is arranged in the same column of a cell array and includes a first transistor formed in a P-type well region of a substrate. The first transistor includes an active region formed by a Si-content fin. Each well strap cell is arranged on one of the columns in the cell array and includes a P-well strap structure formed on the P-type well region and configured to connect a VSS line to the P-type well region. The P-well strap structure includes an active region formed by a fin. In the P-type well region of two adjacent columns of the cell array, a first fin-to-fin distance between the fins of the P-well strap structures of two adjacent well strap cells is less than a second fin-to-fin distance between the Si-content fins of the first transistors of two adjacent SRAM cells.
US11410714B2
A magnetoresistive memory device includes a plurality of bottom conductive lines, a plurality of top conductive lines, a first memory cell, and a second memory cell. The top conductive lines are over the bottom conductive lines. The first memory cell is between the bottom conductive lines and the top conductive lines and includes a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack. The second memory cell is adjacent the first memory cell and between the bottom conductive lines and the top conductive lines. The second memory cell includes a second MTJ stack, and a top surface of the second MTJ stack is higher than a top surface of the first MTJ stack.
US11410706B2
The present disclosure provides a content pushing method and device for a display device and a display device. The content pushing method includes: detecting audio in an environment; acquiring at least one keyword of the audio; acquiring a content to be displayed associated with the keyword of the audio; and pushing the content to be displayed to the display device to display the content to be displayed.
US11410705B2
In some embodiments, a method to process video data may include receiving an upload file; using the publication identifier, identifying a bumper video segment and retrieving the bumper video segment from a storage device; concatenating a video payload with the bumper video segment to create a concatenated video; using the publication identifier, identifying at least one third-party video service to which to publish the concatenated video; and/or transmitting the concatenated video, together with publication credentials, to the third-party video service.
US11410696B2
In the magnetic recording medium, a number distribution A of a plurality of bright regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV and a number distribution B of a plurality of dark regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 2 kV respectively satisfy a predetermined number distribution.
US11410693B2
A flexure assembly is described. The flexure assembly includes a gimbal portion on configured to receive a slider. The gimbal portion includes a first surface and a second surface which is opposite to the first surface. The slider is mounted on the second surface. The flexure assembly also includes a pair of microactuator elements. The flexure assembly also includes a tongue of the gimbal portion on which the slider is mounted. The tongue includes a dimple point which represents the center of the tongue. The flexure assembly also includes a pair of first supporting portions and a pair of second supporting portions of the gimbal portion. A pair of end portions are individually secured to the tongue and the first supporting portions and the pair of second supporting portions. The flexure assembly also includes a conductive circuit portion unsupported between a first stationary part and the pair of end portions.
US11410689B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer positioned between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, and at least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer is a Heusler alloy represented by the following General Formula (1): Co2FeαXβ (1) (in Formula (1), X represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Cr, Si, Al, Ga and Ge, and α and β represent numbers that satisfy 2.3≤α+β, α<β, and 0.5<α<1.9).
US11410686B2
In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing voice and acupressure-based lifestyle management includes the step of measuring a speed at which a user is speaking. A wearable device records the user's voice with a microphone and communicates a digital recording of the user's voice to a computer processor. The method includes the step of measuring a time spacing between a set of user's words and a length of the set of user's words. The method includes the step of determining at least one anomaly by comparing the digital recording of the user's voice with a benchmark recording of the user's voice. The method includes the step of alerting the user of the detected anomaly.
US11410678B2
A method of detecting singing of a user of a personal audio device, the method comprising: receiving a first audio signal comprising bone-conducted speech of the user from a first transducer of the personal audio device; monitoring a second audio signal output to a speaker of the personal audio device; and determining whether the user is singing based on the first audio signal and the second audio signal.
US11410675B2
An animal audio signature may be collected by a solar powered sound collection device. The solar powered collection device may use a supercapacitor to store power. The animal audio signature may be compared to a database of known animal audio signatures. The database may contain one or more identities for each of the known animal audio signatures. A known animal audio signature that matches the collected animal audio signature may be identified. An identity associated with the known animal audio signature may be transmitted to a data repository over a 5G wireless network.
US11410667B2
A speech conversion system is described that includes a hierarchical encoder and a decoder. The system may comprise a processor and memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions may comprise to: using a second recurrent neural network (RNN) (GRU1) and a first set of encoder vectors derived from a spectrogram as input to the second RNN, determine a second concatenated sequence; determine a second set of encoder vectors by doubling a stack height and halving a length of the second concatenated sequence; using the second set of encoder vectors, determine a third set of encoder vectors; and decode the third set of encoder vectors using an attention block.
US11410664B2
An apparatus for estimating an inter-channel time difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal, includes: a calculator for calculating a cross-correlation spectrum for a time block from the first channel signal in the time block and the second channel signal in the time block; a spectral characteristic estimator for estimating a characteristic of a spectrum of the first channel signal or the second channel signal for the time block; a smoothing filter for smoothing the cross-correlation spectrum over time using the spectral characteristic to obtain a smoothed cross-correlation spectrum; and a processor for processing the smoothed cross-correlation spectrum to obtain the inter-channel time difference.
US11410663B2
An apparatus for determining an estimated pitch lag is provided. The apparatus includes an input interface for receiving a plurality of original pitch lag values, and a pitch lag estimator for estimating the estimated pitch lag. The pitch lag estimator is configured to estimate the estimated pitch lag depending on a plurality of original pitch lag values and depending on a plurality of information values, wherein for each original pitch lag value of the plurality of original pitch lag values, an information value of the plurality of information values is assigned to the original pitch lag value.
US11410658B1
Audio data saved at the end of client interactions are sampled, analyzed for pauses in speech, and sliced into stretches of acoustic data containing human speech between those pauses. The acoustic data are accompanied by machine transcripts made by VoiceAI. A suitable distribution of data useful for training and testing are stipulated during data sampling by applying certain filtering criteria. The resulting datasets are sent for transcription by a human transcriber team. The human transcripts are retrieved, some post-transcription processing and cleaning are performed, and the results are added to datastores for training and testing an acoustic model.
US11410657B2
Disclosed is a speech recognition method of an artificial intelligence robot. The speech recognition method includes: receiving uttered speech information of a user from an external device; inputting the speech information to a pre-learned first intent analysis model, and determining an utterance intent of the user according to an output value of the first intent analysis; transmitting response information corresponding to the determined utterance intent of the user to the external device; receive evaluation information of the user on the response information from the external device; and generating a second intent analysis model by adding the evaluation information to learning data and learning the first intent analysis model. Accordingly, an intelligent device is capable of learning an accurate utterance intent even without error correction by a manager.
US11410655B1
Provided is a voice assistance system with proactive routines that couples a remote server and respective user voice interactive devices to deliver a complete experience to the end user of the device. The voice assistance system can also provide a platform to connect remote users to customize commands (e.g., proactive or reactive) to improve day-to-day operation across groups of devices and/or users. For example, routines can be built for an organization and made available to voice interactive devices distributed by or on behalf of the organization. Administrators can select features for the device and pre-configure voice assistance devices with groups of pre-selected routines to deliver a device that is ready to go out of the box. Updates to a device or routines can be based on such groups. Additionally, primary routine instances can be linked to groups where changes to the primary instance are propagated to any linked users.
US11410639B2
During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.
US11410623B2
A control method of a time sequential control signal and a driving circuit are provided. A main TCON chip and an assist TCON chip compute corresponding frame rates according to pixel clock signal frequencies, then call a corresponding table, and transmit the table to a first driving unit and a second driving unit respectively. The first driving unit and the second driving unit respectively perform scanning on rows and columns of pixels to allow complicated dynamic images to be displayed with smooth motions.
US11410620B2
A method of driving an active matrix electrowetting on dielectric device including thin-film-transistors to increase the switching frequency of the propulsion electrodes beyond what is typical for line-by-line active matrix driving. By grouping gate lines and simultaneously driving those gate lines as a gate block, a frame update can be completed much faster and, as a consequence, the overall drive frequency at the propulsion electrodes can be increased substantially. The faster drive frequency improves the performance of electrowetting devices, especially when used with aqueous droplets having a high ionic strength.
US11410618B2
The present invention relates to a dimming panel sequentially including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate, the first substrate sequentially including an insulating substrate, multiple first electrodes, a first insulating layer, and a second electrode including parallel linear electrodes, each of the first electrodes including a base electrode and multiple island electrodes, the base electrode being provided with multiple apertures, the island electrodes being electrically connected to the base electrode, surrounding the base electrode in a plan view, and being arranged with intervals, at least one of the island electrodes of a selected electrode of the first electrodes being disposed in at least one position selected from the group consisting of a position inside at least one of the apertures of a next electrode and a position between adjacent two of the island electrodes of the next electrode.
US11410611B2
An apparatus includes a display screen, an ambient light sensor disposed behind the display screen, and an electronic control unit operable to control a brightness of the display screen based on a duty cycle of a PWM signal. The electronic control unit is operable to sample an output of the ambient light sensor, identify a pair of consecutive samples of the ambient light sensor output that represent a greatest difference in magnitudes of their values, and to estimate a brightness of the display screen based on the difference.
US11410606B2
A vertically stacked pixel circuit is provided that includes a high voltage device for driving a pixel on an upper silicon layer, and low voltage circuitry (such as matrix addressing circuitry, data storage circuitry and uniformity compensation circuitry) on a lower silicon layer. The circuitry on the upper and lower silicon layers are electrically connected via a through-silicon via. This unique arrangement allows the high voltage device for driving a pixel to be physically located on top of the larger number of low voltage devices in the lower silicon layer in order to achieve a substantial reduction in overall pixel emission area. The vertically stacked pixel circuit is particularly suited for organic light-emitting diode microdisplays.
US11410604B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel driving circuit of driving a light emitting element to emit light. The pixel driving circuit comprises: a driving sub-circuit, configured to generate a current for making the light emitting element emit light; a light emitting control sub-circuit, electrically coupled to the driving sub-circuit and a first terminal of the light emitting element; a driving control sub-circuit, electrically coupled to the driving sub-circuit, wherein the driving control sub-circuit is configured to provide the data signal to the driving sub-circuit; a resetting sub-circuit, configured to reset the first node and the first terminal of the light emitting element; and a compensation sub-circuit, electrically coupled to the first node, wherein the compensation sub-circuit is configured to receive a compensation control signal, and compensate a voltage of the first node under a control of the compensation control signal.
US11410601B2
The present disclosure provides method and a computer readable medium for adjusting voltage applied on a display panel. The present disclosure could utilize the ratio of Vgs of two different tests, as an adjustment factor, to compensate the voltage value of each display area. Thus, the method could obtain the same compensation voltage for different display area to compensate the voltage difference between the node G and the node S. This could reduce the influence of the output step. In addition, the method could further detect the inputted compensation voltage to obtain a current value according to a second adjusting step. Through the current formula, the ratio of constant k of each display area could be obtained to adjust the threshold value of the TFT according to the current formula such that the current of each display area could be consistent.
US11410599B2
A pixel of an organic light emitting diode display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, an eighth transistor, a ninth transistor and an organic light emitting diode. The third transistor includes first and second sub-transistors which are coupled to each other in series between a drain of the first transistor and a gate node, and a fourth transistor includes third and fourth sub-transistors which are coupled to each other in series between a line of an initialization voltage and the gate node. The eighth transistor applies a reference voltage to a first node between the first and second sub-transistors in response to an emission signal, and a ninth transistor applies the reference voltage to a second node between the third and fourth sub-transistors in response to the emission signal.
US11410597B2
Disclosed is a shift register including a first input sub-circuit, configured to receive a first input signal from a first input terminal and output a blanking output control signal to a first node in a blanking period of time of a frame; a second input sub-circuit, configured to receive a second input signal from a second input terminal and output a display output control signal to the first node in a display period of time of the frame; an output sub-circuit, configured to output a composite output signal via an output terminal under control of the first node, the composite output signal including a display output signal outputted in a display period of time and a blanking output signal outputted in a blanking period of time which are independent of each other.
US11410588B1
A display device includes a display unit, an external device interface unit configured to receive video having a second frequency from a set-top box converting an original video having a first frequency into the video having the second frequency, and a control unit configured to: determine whether an abnormal output state is detected, based on the video having the second frequency; when the abnormal output state is detected, determine the number of interpolation frames to be generated so as to output the original video having the first frequency as final video having a third frequency through the display unit; and generate interpolation frames as many as the determined number of interpolation frames.
US11410583B2
An electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, a camera, and a processor. The housing includes a first housing and a second housing coupled to and movable with respect to the first housing. The flexible display including an exposed area that is a first size when the electronic device is in a first state and a second size when the second housing moves and the electronic device is switched into a second state. The processor is configured to acquire an image having a designated aspect ratio through the camera. The processor is also configured to display a first area of the image on the exposed area corresponding to the first size when the electronic device is in the first state and display a second area of the image on the exposed area corresponding to the second size when the electronic device is in the second state.
US11410577B1
A privacy label system includes a single sheet of label material configured to be removably attached to a container of a product in an unfolded single layer configuration. The label material includes a top surface area configured to receive personal information of a recipient of the product and an opposing bottom surface area configured to receive advertising information associated with the product. An attachment system of the privacy label system is operable to removably attach the label material to the container in an unfolded single layer configuration such that the bottom surface area is positioned between the top surface area and the container, once the label material is attached to the container. The label material is operable to be removed from the container by the recipient by hand, in order to remove the personal information from the container and to reveal the advertising information to the recipient.
US11410561B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic management for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The systems and methods define a network of waypoint computing devices having traffic corridors connecting the waypoint computing devices. Systems and methods receive suspend calls and initiate calls from waypoint computing devices and dynamically update the network so as to include additional waypoint computing devices and traffic corridor connections based on the initiate calls and to remove from the network waypoint computing devices and associated traffic corridors based on the suspend calls. The systems and methods determine a flight plan for the UAV in response to a request based on the updated network. The flight plan includes a plurality of traffic corridors connecting source and destination global coordinates included in the request. The systems and methods provide a response to the UAV including the flight plan.
US11410539B2
The present disclosure relates to real-time surveillance/monitoring of an environment using an Internet of Things (IoT) based integrated device. The integrated device comprises replaceable sensors and programmable image/video capturing device, that are communicatively connected to a processor. The processor correlates sensor data and data related to the images, audios and videos received from the replaceable sensors and the programmable image/video capturing device to validate occurrence of event in the environment. Later, information related to the validated events are transmitted to edge nodes, cloud servers, user devices or other sensor nodes for effective monitoring of occurred events. The integration of programmable image/video capturing device with the replaceable sensors helps in reducing chances of false event detection, as well as allows users to program the image capturing device for detection of various events. Also, integration of various sensors helps in reducing electrical wirings and overall complexity of the device.
US11410538B2
A system for monitoring an individual within predetermined facilities in order to determine whether there is a need for setting an alert is provided. The system includes: a personal module to be worn by the monitored individual, the personal module including at least one motion sensor; at least one node module, with which the personal module is arranged to communicate; storage; and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device may be arranged to: receive sensor data from the at least one motion sensor in the personal module; determine whether the received sensor data indicates a specific alert state among a plurality of predetermined alert states, the alert states including at least a FALL alert state, to be used if a probable fall has been detected for the monitored individual, and an OUT OF BED alert state, to be used if it has been detected that the monitored individual is probably getting out of bed; determine the distance between the personal module and the at least one node module; determine the location of the personal module within the facilities based at least on the determined distance together with information retrieved from the storage regarding the layout of the facilities within which the monitoring of the individual takes place; and set an alert based at least on whether the received sensor data indicates an alert state and whether the determined location fulfils a predetermined location condition, indicating whether the individual is located in a certain room, such as e.g. the bedroom.
US11410537B2
The subject disclosure relates to solutions for testing lighting systems and in particular, for verifying lighting system operability in the event of a power failure. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving an interrupt command, toggling an interrupt relay in response to the interrupt command, and measuring one or more lighting characteristics of the lighting array to determine if the second power supply can power the lighting array. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11410534B2
A component 14a for a fire protection system 100 includes communications circuitry configured to communicate with another component 14b-14d of the fire protection system 100. The communications circuitry may allow a portable tool 20 to communicate with the other component 14b-14d via the component 14a.
US11410525B2
A system for generating hazard alerts is provided. The system includes a plurality of sensor units including a plurality of sensors and a locating device, and a hazard analyzing (HA) computing device configured to communicate with the sensor units and including at least one memory device configured to store a scene definition, the scene definition defining a coordinate space of a worksite, and at least one processor configured to receive, from the sensors, a plurality of sensor measurements, receive, from the locating device of each sensor unit, at least one coordinate of the coordinate space, determine, based on the at least one coordinate, a location of the sensor unit during each sensor measurement, and determine, for at least a first sensor unit, that an alert condition is present based on the scene definition, the sensor measurements, and the determined location associated with the first sensor unit.
US11410519B2
A system for generating hazard alerts is provided. The system includes a sensor unit including a plurality of sensors and a locating device and a hazard analyzing (HA) computing device configured to communicate with the sensor unit. The HA computing device includes a memory device and a processor configured to receive, from the plurality of sensors, a plurality of sensor measurements, receive, from the locating device, a plurality of sensor locations, determine, based on the received locations, a location of the sensor unit during each sensor measurement of the plurality of sensor measurements, compute, based on at least one of the plurality of sensor measurements and the determined locations, a plurality of sub-risk scores, compute a risk score based on the sub-risk scores, and determine that a first alert condition is present in response to the risk score being greater than a threshold risk score.
US11410508B2
An example beacon system includes a housing, a laser module at least partly retained within the housing, and a controller operable to control the laser module.
US11410501B2
A gaming reward system is described that guarantees a jackpot to a game player. The jackpot is cumulative and based upon the amount paid in by the player over time to play the game. Each time the player plays, the system adds a small amount of the player's wager to the player's jackpot. Over time, the jackpot grows larger. At some point, a triggering event occurs, and the player is awarded the cumulative, guaranteed jackpot. The jackpot is cumulative in the sense that its amount is increased with each play by the player and guaranteed in the sense that the system works to make sure only the specific player who fills the jackpot can win the jackpot.
US11410489B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing zero, one or more awards in association with one or more game outcomes from one or more dynamically activated sets of reels.
US11410480B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a connection unit that establishes connection to a user terminal by wireless communication; an acquisition unit that acquires terminal identification information transmitted from the user terminal via the wireless communication when the user terminal has read an image used for a request for entry to a control target area; and a determination unit that determines whether or not to permit a user carrying the user terminal to enter the control target area based on the terminal identification information.
US11410472B2
A computing device-implemented method includes receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a vehicle that includes a first propulsion system, and, receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a vehicle that includes a second propulsion system. The distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the first propulsion system are equivalent to the distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the second propulsion system. The method also includes receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a collection of vehicles. The distribution ranges for the collection of vehicles are equivalent to the distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the second propulsion system.
US11410470B2
Provided is a charging system including: an axle load meter disposed on a lane and configured to measure an axle load of each of a plurality of axles of a vehicle traveling on the axle load meter; an acceleration information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the vehicle, vertical-direction acceleration information associated with each of the axles; a correction calculation unit configured to calculate a corrected axle load for each of the axles by correcting, based on the vertical-direction acceleration information, a measurement result for each of the axles obtained by the axle load meter; and a toll determination unit configured to determine a toll for the vehicle based on the corrected axle load for each of the axles.
US11410469B2
A vehicle-mounted device includes a waiting time determination unit which determines a waiting time until the vehicle-mounted device transitions from a power-on state where a service providing function is performed to a power saving state where the service providing function is stopped while an engine of a vehicle is stopped, and a state transition unit which shifts the vehicle-mounted device from the power-on state to the power saving state after the waiting time has elapsed since stopping of an engine of the vehicle, and the waiting time determination unit changes the waiting time from a waiting time at a time of previous engine stopping.
US11410466B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises a camera module including a camera, a sensor module including sensing circuitry, a display, a memory; and a processor configured to: control the memory to store registered biometric information, obtain at least one image using the camera module, obtain biometric information using the sensor module, control the display to display a first object generated by converting at least part of a second object included in the at least one image, and control the display to display the first object together with information for changing posture based on at least one of a position, shape, or size of a third object included in the at least one image until the obtained biometric information and the registered biometric information meet a designated condition.
US11410455B2
A method for fingerprint image recognition according to an embodiment includes ranking a plurality of target feature points acquired from a target fingerprint image according to a feature point attribute, comparing the ranked plurality of target feature points with a plurality of reference feature points in a reference fingerprint image to form an entropy map, and determining whether the target fingerprint image matches the reference fingerprint image according to the entropy map, wherein the entropy map indicates similarity between the target fingerprint image and the reference fingerprint image. The solution of the present disclosure makes full use of the acquired image information of the target fingerprint image for fingerprint recognition, thereby significantly improving the accuracy and effectiveness of fingerprint recognition.
US11410446B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus for processing a receipt associated with a user disclosed herein includes an optical character recognition engine to generate bounding boxes, respective ones of the bounding boxes associated with groups of characters detected in the receipt, the bounding boxes including a first bounding box, a second bounding box and a third bounding box, a word connector to connect the first bounding box to the second bounding box based on (1) an adjacency of the first bounding box to the second bounding box and (2) a difference value from a comparison of a location of the first bounding box to a location of the second bounding box, a line connector to form a line of the ones of the bounding boxes by connecting the third bounding box to the second bounding based on a relationship between the first bounding box and the second bounding box, the line of the ones of the bounding boxes indicative of related receipt fields, and a creditor to generate a report based on the line.
US11410436B2
A method for operating a vehicle including a vehicle sensing system includes generating a baseline image model of an cabin of the vehicle based on image data of the cabin of the vehicle generated by an imaging device of the vehicle sensing system, the baseline image model generated before a passenger event, and generating an event image model of the cabin of the vehicle based on image data of the cabin of the vehicle generated by the imaging device, the event image model generated after the passenger event. The method further includes identifying image deviations by comparing the event image model to the baseline image model with a controller of the vehicle sensing system, the image deviations corresponding to differences in the cabin of the vehicle from before the passenger event to after the passenger event, and operating the vehicle based on the identified image deviations.
US11410425B2
A method includes receiving a query from a user requesting a prediction on future location of a target at a time t>0, receiving a trafficability map wherein the target is located in the trafficability map at an initial time t=0, receiving information about the target including uncertainty on speed of the target, modeling motion of the target using information from the trafficability map including terrain and target mobility on different terrain types to locations on the trafficability map, and answering the query from the user based on output from modeling motion of the target.
US11410423B1
This invention provides a system and method for fleet management, including handling visual events in association with an activity. One or more visual event detector(s) is/are provided, having at least one camera that acquires images of the activity, and a processor that receives the images. A visual event detection process operates to process the images. A queuing process identifies visual events from the visual event detector and stores the visual events. A communications process transmits the stored visual events in a queued format to a remote location. A display that is accessed by users to view visual events, and a collaboration process displays information related to collaboration between permitted users based upon a context of each of the visual events—which can comprise fleet management activities related to at least one of bridge operations, cargo operations, maintenance operations, safety operations, and vetting and security with respect to a vessel.
US11410418B2
A method, system, and computer program product generate at least one tagged image, and include the feature of determining at least one user content image from at least one subject image. There are also the features of identifying at least one product in the obtained user content image using at least one artificial intelligence model, and generating at least one tagged image with the identified product or products in the obtained user content image or images.
US11410415B2
A processing method that is performed by one or more processor is provided. The processing method includes determining a target video frame in a currently captured video; determining an object area in the target video frame based on a box selection model; determining a category of a target object in the object area based on a classification model used to classify an object in the object area; obtaining augmented reality scene information associated with the category of the target object; and performing augmented reality processing on the object area in the target video frame and the augmented reality scene information, to obtain the augmented reality scene.
US11410404B2
A computer-implantable method includes accessing a model file containing a digital 3-D object, calculating at least one dimensional measurement of the object, uniformly scaling the object in the X, Y and Z axes by a predetermined percentage, mirroring the object across the X, Y and Z axes, slicing the mirrored object at a predetermined interval by an infinite plane in both a rotated and animated state of the infinite plane, generating from the slices points at the edge of a plane object collision, and assigning to the points positive and negative values relating to all possible X, Y and Z quadrant locations.
US11410403B1
A mobile device is fitted with a camera and an extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system. Via the XR software application program, various techniques are performed for manipulating virtual objects in an XR environment. In a first technique, the XR software application program facilitates the movement of a virtual object from a first location to a second location. In a second technique, the XR software application program facilitates the rotation of a virtual object. In a third technique, the XR software application program facilitates the scaling of a virtual object along one or more axes.
US11410397B2
This present invention relates to a virtual reality (VR) based outreach program operational using a VR headset and a 360-degree camera. The VR outreach program enables the incarcerated or detained individuals to connect with their families, friends and other interested individuals and allows them to witness birthdays, sporting events, and other events, while spending time in a correctional or detention facility. The VR outreach program ensures the inmates, prisoners or detainees can reach their family, friends and others thereby helping their family and others to adjust to the absence of the incarcerated or detained individual. Also, the outreach program provides a unique way of overcoming the effects incarceration and prevents the inmates or detainees from developing mental illness due to prolonged periods of solitary or isolated confinement.
US11410390B2
The invention provides an augmented reality device and method for assisting a user in choosing appropriate luminaire fixtures to install within their home. A user may point the camera of a mobile device toward the region or location in a room where a new luminaire is desired, and based upon data generated by an orientation determination means included within the device, an appropriate luminaire or luminaire category is selected automatically for the user from a stored catalogue or database. Once an appropriate luminaire has been chosen, it is inserted within an image captured by the camera to generate an augmented reality image depicting the luminaire fixture in place within the user's room.
US11410374B2
Synthetic CT is estimated for planning or other purposes from surface data (e.g., depth camera information). The estimation uses parameterization, such as landmark and/or segmentation information, in addition to the surface data. In training and/or application, the parameterization may be used to correct the predicted CT volume. The CT volume may be predicted as a sub-part of the patient, such as estimating the CT volume for scanning one system, organ, or type of tissue separately from other system, organ, or type of tissue.
US11410372B2
Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein provide a virtual object aging system. The virtual object aging system can utilize artificial intelligence to modify virtual objects within a video game to age and/or deteriorate for a certain time period. The virtual object aging system can be used to determine erosion, melting ice, and/or other environmental effects on virtual objects within the game. The virtual object aging system can apply aging, rust, weathering, and/or other effects that cause persistent change to object meshes and textures.
US11410368B2
An animation system is provided for generating an animation control rig for character development, configured to manipulate a skeleton of an animated character. Hierarchical representation of puppets includes groups of functions related in a hierarchy according to character specialization for creating the animated rig are derived using base functions of a core component node. The hierarchical nodes may include an archetype node, at least one appendage node, and at least one feature node. In some implementations, portions of a hierarchical node, including the functions from the core component node, may be shared to generate different animation rigs for a variety of characters. In some implementations, portions of a hierarchical node, including the component node functions, may be reused to build similar appendages of a same animation rig.
US11410362B1
An example computing platform is configured to (i) receive a two-dimensional (2D) image file comprising a construction drawing, (ii) generate, via semantic segmentation, a first set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iii) generate, via instance segmentation, a second set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iv) generate, via unsupervised image processing, a third set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (v) based on (a) overlap between polygons in the first, second, and third sets of polygons and (b) respective confidence scores for each of the overlapping polygons, determine a set of merged polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, and (vi) cause a client station to display a visual representation of the 2D image file where each merged polygon is overlaid as a respective selectable region of the 2D image file.
US11410361B2
Procedural model digital content editing techniques are described that overcome the limitations of conventional techniques to make procedural models available for interaction by a wide range of users without requiring specialized knowledge and do so without “breaking” the underlying model. In the techniques described herein, an inverse procedural model system receives a user input that specifies an edit to digital content generated by a procedural model. Input parameters from these candidate input parameters are selected by the system which cause the digital content generated by the procedural model to incorporate the edit.
US11410359B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein create or modify a personalized mixed reality environment by taking into consideration both a user preferences and the actual location characteristics of the user.
US11410354B2
The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for motion signal recalibration. The method includes obtaining a motion signal of a subject based on positron emission tomography (PET) data of the subject. The motion signal may represent a plurality of motion cycles. The method includes determining a distribution of the motion cycles. The distribution of the motion cycles may indicate a probability that each motion cycle of the plurality of motion cycles corresponds to an actual motion cycle. The method includes correcting the motion cycles of the motion signal based on the distribution of the motion cycles to obtain corrected motion cycles. The method includes reconstructing a PET image by gating the PET data based on the corrected motion cycles.
US11410352B2
A method may include obtaining a first acquisition time period related to a scan of a first modality performed on an object. The method may also include obtaining one or more second acquisition time periods related to a scan of a second modality performed on the object. The method may also include obtaining, based on the first acquisition time period and the one or more second acquisition time periods, target data of the object acquired in the scan of the first modality. The method may also include generating one or more target images of the object based on the target data.
US11410344B2
A method for image generation, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: a first image of a target object is generated according to a line image of the target object; structure extraction is performed on the first image to obtain at least one of texture information or orientation information of the first image; and a second image of the target object is generated according to the at least one of the texture information or the orientation information.
US11410340B2
Provided is a method for compressing texture data of a three-dimensional model, including: acquiring data of polygonal surfaces constituting a contour of a target three-dimensional model, and data of a texture image and a phase plane of the contour; acquiring the texture data of texture points in a texture point group corresponding to each polygonal surface, the texture points in the texture point group including first and second texture points; assigning a weight to each texture point in each texture point group according to the texture data of the first texture points in the texture point group; calculating a sum of weights of each texture point in each texture point group; and compressing the texture data, according to a target compressed data amount, and the texture data and the sum of weights of the texture point whose sum of weights is not zero.
US11410339B2
An encoding device includes a voxel-data acquiring unit and an encoding unit. The voxel-data acquiring unit acquires voxel data expressing a three-dimensional object to be fabricated and containing, for each voxel constituting the three-dimensional object, a value of the voxel and link information indicating a link direction of the voxel. The encoding unit encodes the voxel data by setting a code based on a predicting unit that has made a correct prediction of a value of a target voxel among multiple predicting units that predict the value of the target voxel based on a value of at least one reference voxel surrounding the target voxel, the target voxel being encoded based on the link information of the target voxel.
US11410336B2
A method for visual signal processing of a signal includes subdividing a signal, by a signal processor, into a selected number (n) of sets of data. The method also includes assembling the signal, by the signal processor, into an image. The image includes a matrix. The matrix includes a plurality of cells in a predetermined number (m) of columns and the selected number (n) of rows. Each cell of the matrix includes a particular color corresponding to an amplitude of a sample of the signal represented by the cell. The method also includes analyzing the image, by the signal processor, using an image detection algorithm to determine frequency information of the signal.
US11410331B2
A method for using a virtual camera location to display image data to one device from another device associated with a plurality of cameras. The method includes receiving image data from a plurality of cameras associated with a second user device associated with a second user. The method further includes establishing a virtual camera location different from positions of the plurality of cameras. The method further includes providing an image using the image data on a first user display of a first user device based at least on a viewpoint of the virtual camera location.
US11410323B2
A method for training a convolutional neural network to reconstruct an image. The method includes forming a common loss function basing on the left and right images (IL, IR), reconstructed left and right images (I′L, I′R), disparity maps (dL, dR), reconstructed disparity maps (d′L, d′R) for the left and right images (IL, IR) and the auxiliary images (I″L, I″R) and training the neural network based on the formed loss function.
US11410317B2
A method for calculating a 3D representation of a vascular malformation of a vascular structure is provided. The method comprises: providing 2D X-ray image data of a vascular structure containing a contrast agent and having a vascular malformation, providing 3D image data of the vascular structure and transforming the 3D image data into transformed 2D image data, overlaying the 2D X-ray image data and the transformed 2D image data; calculating a correspondence between the 2D X-ray image data and the transformed 2D image data to determine a co-registration between the 2D X-ray image data and the 3D image data, determining in the co-registered 2D X-ray image data the vascular malformation, and calculating the 3D representation of the vascular malformation based on the determined vascular malformation of the co-registered 2D X-ray image data.
US11410312B2
A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device. The hardware processor obtains a cycle of temporal change in a feature amount relevant to a function to be diagnosed from each of dynamic images obtained by imaging of a dynamic state of a living body with radiation. The hardware processor further adjusts the obtained cycle, thereby generating a plurality of cycle-adjusted data having cycles of the temporal change in the feature amount being equal to one another. The hardware processor further generates difference information at each phase in the plurality of cycle-adjusted data. The output device outputs the difference information.
US11410309B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, a device, and a computer program product for deep lesion tracker. The method includes inputting a search image into a first three-dimensional DenseFPN (feature pyramid network) of an image encoder and inputting a template image into a second three-dimensional DenseFPN of the image encoder to extract image features; encoding anatomy signals of the search image and the template image as Gaussian heatmaps, and inputting the Gaussian heatmap of the template image into a first anatomy signal encoders (ASE) and inputting the Gaussian heatmap of the search image into a second ASE to extract anatomy features; inputting the image features and the anatomy features into a fast cross-correlation layer to generate correspondence maps, and computing a probability map according to the correspondence maps; and performing supervised learning or self-supervised learning to predict a lesion center in the search image.
US11410306B2
The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus, and storage medium for recognizing medical image. The method includes obtaining, by a device, a medical image. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes determining, by the device, the medical image through a first recognition model to generate a lesion recognition result used for indicating whether the medical image comprises a lesion; and in response to the lesion recognition result indicating that the medical image comprises a lesion, recognizing, by the device, the medical image through a second recognition model to generate a lesion degree recognition result of the medical image used for indicating a degree of the lesion. Manual analysis and customization of a feature extraction solution are not required, so that the efficiency and accuracy of medical image recognition are improved.
US11410300B2
A defect inspection device includes at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to acquire a first image of an inspection target created in a first creation method, acquire a second image obtained by photographing the inspection target, extract index data similar to the acquired first image with reference to a database, the index data being a third image created in the first creation method or a feature quantity obtained by the third image, the database including the index data associated with correct data that is used as a comparison target of the index data and is an image determined not to be defective in previous inspection, acquire the correct data associated with the extracted index data in the database, generate a reference image on the basis of the acquired correct data, and estimate a pixel associated with a defective position on the inspection target photographed in the second image by comparing the reference image with the second image.
US11410279B2
An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a small region setting unit, a determination unit, a search unit, a noise reduction unit, and a synthesis unit. The setting unit sets a target patch in an input image. The small region setting unit sets a small region near the target patch. The determination unit determines a number of similar patches to be detected as a patch similar to the target patch based on a noise amount in the small region. The search unit searches the input image for the similar patch based on the number of similar patches. The noise reduction unit configured to perform noise reduction processing with respect to the target patch using the target patch and the similar patch. The synthesis unit generates an image by synthesizing a plurality of patch groups subjected to the noise reduction processing.
US11410277B2
A method and device for blurring an image background, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The method for blurring an image background comprises: using a preset classification model to divide an image to be processed into a foreground region and a background region (201); detecting a contour edge of a photographic subject in the foreground region obtained from the division (S202); and performing blurring on a background of the image according to the contour edge of the photographic subject (S203).
US11410270B2
One or more cameras capture objects at a higher resolution than the human eye can perceive. Objects are segmented from the background of the image and scaled to human perceptible size. The scaled-up objects are superimposed over the unscaled background. This is presented to a user via an augmented reality display whereby the process selectively amplifies the size of the objects' spatially registered retinal projection while maintaining a natural (unmodified) view in the remainder of the visual field.
US11410265B2
A computer vision system is provided that includes a camera capture component configured to capture an image from a camera, a memory, and an image compression decompression engine (ICDE) coupled to the memory and configured to receive each line of the image, and compress each line to generate a compressed bit stream. To compress a line, the ICDE is configured to divide the line into compression units, and compress each compression unit, wherein to compress a compression unit, the ICDE is configured to perform delta prediction on the compression unit to generate a delta predicted compression unit, compress the delta predicted compression unit using exponential Golomb coding to generate a compressed delta predicted compression unit, and add the compressed delta predicted compression unit to the compressed bit stream.
US11410263B1
A method for transforming an input array of pixel data into an output array of data, to yield enhanced expression of a digital watermark signal in the output array. One such method includes, for each pixel in the input array, generating a first datum that indicates a value difference between said pixel and a neighboring pixel in a first direction, the first data thereby collectively comprising a first directional difference array. Similarly, for each such pixel in the input array, generating a second datum that indicates a value difference between said pixel and a neighboring pixel in a second direction, the second data thereby collectively comprising a second directional difference array. One or more transforms to a spatial frequency domain are then performed, using these first and second directional difference arrays as input data. First and second results from the one or more transformations are then combined to yield an output array. The just detailed process causes the digital watermark signal in the output array to exhibit a greater signal-to-noise ratio than in the digital watermark signal in the input array. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US11410261B2
Differential modulation schemes encode a data channel within host signal or noisy environment in a manner that is robust, flexible to achieve perceptual quality constraints, and provides improved data capacity. Differential arrangements enable a decoder to suppress host signal or other background signal interference when detecting, synchronizing and extracting an encoded data channel. They also enable the incorporation of implicit or explicit synchronization components, which are either formed from the data signal or are complementary to it.
US11410258B2
The invention is directed to a system and method for collection, distribution and delivery of university student enrollment, progress, and degree completion data, media content, and other data to campus students, faculty, users, employees, and external stakeholders, and more particularly to an integrated distribution system and method that obtains data from multiple sources into a single database, extracts and validates relevant data from the multiple sources and removes legacy formatting and non-essential information, provides user-centric reports, and distributes graphic media from one or more filtered special-purpose user-centric reports that is published to user display devices.
US11410253B2
The present disclosure provides a description of systems and methods for managing routes and travel planning. A computing device of an entity receives, from a charter flight transportation provider and via an application programming interface associated with the entity, charter flight information for a plurality of charter flights. The computing device receives, from a commercial transportation provider and via an application programming interface associated with a different entity, commercial flight information for a plurality of commercial flights. The computing device stores records for the charter flight information and the commercial flight information. The computing device provides, to a user computing device, data for the user computing device to generate a single user interface including charter flight information, commercial flight information, and fields to enter search criteria. The computing device receives, from the user computing device, user-input search criteria including user starting location, user ending location, and date of travel.
US11410251B2
An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing device that acquires information acquired by the vehicle from the vehicle. The vehicle acquires information on an occupant in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, and acquires position information of the vehicle. When it is determined based on the information on the occupant that the vehicle has traveled to the vicinity of a hidden tourist attraction, the information processing device generates tourist attraction information including the position information of the vehicle at a point at which the determination has been performed.
US11410250B2
The present application discloses an automated restaurant comprising: a kitchen; a customer-tracking area comprising a dining area; and a plurality of vehicles. The kitchen comprises a storage apparatus to store ingredient containers, a transfer apparatus to move ingredient containers, and one or more cooking stations. Each vehicle is configured to move one or more food containers from cooking stations to dining tables. A tracking system comprises video cameras, lidars, etc., which are fixedly mounted. The tracking system can dynamically map out the fixtures, humans and vehicles in the restaurant. Information from the tracking system is used to control the motion of the vehicles. The tracking system can dynamically track the positions of customers in the customer-tracking area, so that foods ordered by specific customers may be automatically sent by vehicles to the customers' locations.
US11410248B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications between drivers who share a route. The system may allow communications to be sent from one driver to another driver and allow drivers to post queries to other drivers sharing a route. Computing devices in the vehicle may collect route data for the system to evaluate and to use in identifying drivers sharing a route.
US11410246B2
A system for consolidating and reconciling invoices includes: an input port receiving benefits information related to insurance benefits recipients and invoices from one or more benefits vendors; a rules engine enforcing rules on the benefits information, the rules engine being configured to monitor the benefits information for determining exceptions based on the rules; a processing unit including a consolidation module and reconciliation module; the reconciliation module analyzing and comparing each invoice against the benefits information to detect inaccuracies in each invoice, the inaccuracies being designated as exceptions; and the consolidation module merging the invoices into a single bill. During merging, the processing unit calculates an adjusted invoice amount for the invoice which has the exception and incorporates the adjusted invoice amount into the single bill. An output port transmits the single bill to a client device for making a single deposit of funds to settle the invoices.
US11410242B1
Disclosed are method and systems to program a server to identify the value of a fund comprising shares of multiple private entities. The server receives transaction data associated with a fund where the transaction data identifies a proportion of shares within the fund associated with each private entity, price per share of each private entity, and other relevant data. The server then executes multiple artificial intelligence models to identify comparable public entities to each private entity. The server then retrieves stock price data for each public entity and calculates a value for each private entity in real time. The server also displays a value of the fund in real time where identification of each private entity is anonymized.
US11410241B2
Systems, devices and methods for monitoring and managing parts, enterprise resources and other assets, and alleviating risks, in a complex collaboration environment are provided. A device with a hardware- and software-based control system scans and/or writes unique asset-related information within a plurality of chemical, electromagnetic, or written data-bearing tags within, on or throughout an asset for use in a manufacturing, maintenance and/or tracking process. A system records that asset-specific information (e.g., using secure network(s) and/or a blockchain), providing it for later access and modification by a number of trusted users, to track and control manufacturing-, maintenance-relevant or other factors. An enterprise resource planning system both outputs information to, and receives information from, the control system, reconciling changes in the data.
US11410239B2
A system and method for defining and processing timed orders are defined. According to one embodiment, a trader may define a timed order by defining an intra-day time trigger or a time period when the timed order should be automatically modified, such as deleted or cancelled/replaced with a new order. In one embodiment, the intra-day time trigger or time period may be dynamically changed to a later time, for example, upon receiving a predetermined user input. Also, the time trigger and time period may be configured to dynamically vary based on any user configurable formula. Also, the timed order may be associated with one or more actions to be taken once the order is deleted, such as sending a new order, for example.
US11410234B2
Systems and methods for dynamic implementation of exchange traded funds. In one embodiment, a method for dynamic implementation of exchange traded funds may include: (1) receiving a start of day value for a holding comprising a plurality of funds; (2) calculating a current value for the holding by applying a plurality of conducted trades after the start of day value involving at least one fund in the holding; (3) applying a plurality of open orders to at least one of the funds in the holding; (4) determining a per unit fund basket based on the current value; (5) optimizing the per unit fund basket; (6) compliance checking the per unit fund basket; (7) adjusting the per unit fund basket by using tax lot information to harvest a highest tax lot and a lowest tax lot; and (8) rebalancing the per-unit basket to match a next day index.
US11410231B2
An electronic trading system is configured to create speculative orders based on real orders. The speculative order differs from the real order by the price, quantity, or the type of financial instrument. The match engine chooses one or more speculative orders in an attempt to predict the next real order. Even though processing multiple trades at the same time is impossible, the use of speculative orders can permit the match engine to perform the calculations involved with the trade and generate the messages associated with the trade ahead of time. If the prediction was correct and the next order received by the match engine corresponds to one of the speculative orders, some of the matching activity has already been performed. This in effect, allows the match engine to process trades more efficiently and increases the total trading volume that can be handled by the electronic trading system.
US11410229B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for reconciling a transaction against data in a database to identify the transaction parameters based on text descriptors provided for the transaction. One method includes an operation for identifying features for reconciling transactions of a first entity by a machine-learning program. The features include, at least, a description of the transaction, a name of a second entity in the transaction, a location of the second entity, and an account for the transaction. The machine-learning program is trained with training data that includes values of the features for previously reconciled transactions. A received first transaction includes a description, a date, and an amount. The first transaction is input for the machine-learning program, which generates one or more suggestions for reconciling the first transaction. Each suggestion includes the name of the second entity in the first transaction and an account.
US11410228B1
The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.
US11410226B2
An advanced data platform may receive an asset pricing request containing information about an asset. An optimization engine may determine a predicted price for the asset at different locations and times and compute a price matrix accordingly. The engine may identify an optimized predicted price from the price matrix, taking into account the spatial and temporal factors and various optimization conditions. A view for presentation of the optimized predicted price for the asset on a client device is generated and communicated to the client device over a network. When the asset is a vehicle, the engine may compute a linear regression model that defines a set of input variables with associated regression coefficients, the set of input variables comprising input variables representing attributes describing the vehicle.
US11410218B1
A method and system of providing product-specific information to a user during shopping excursions is disclosed. The user can access a smart shopping assistant application to search for supplemental items that may need to be purchased in order to assemble or implement a desired product. The user can maintain a current home inventory of tools and products through the application to quickly determine whether any of the supplemental items are already in the user's possession. The application can also guide the user from their current location to the location of the required item, as well as present reminders to the user about the supplemental items during their shopping trip to ensure the user returns home with all of the required items.
US11410215B1
The present disclosure describes devices and methods for facilitating specific transactions between a seller and a purchaser. In particular, a computing device an accounts circuit, accounts database, and a network interface is disclosed. In some embodiments, the specific transaction is a layaway transaction. The computing device receives a request to facilitate the transaction between the seller and purchaser. The computing device then sets up a transient account for the transaction, facilitates funding of the account, and finalizes the transaction in response to a condition being met.
US11410214B2
A device may receive entity data identifying parameters needed by entities to generate a quotation, and entity encryption data identifying homomorphic encryption schemes supported by the entities. The device may receive, from a client device, a smart contract that includes a request for a quotation, client encryption data identifying homomorphic encryption schemes supported by the client device, and identification data identifying the entities. The device may encrypt the data included in the smart contract, based on the entity encryption data and the client encryption data, to generate encrypted data. The device may generate a modified smart contact by replacing the data included in the smart contract with references to the encrypted data. The device may provide the modified smart contract to server devices associated with the entities. The device may receive, from the server devices associated with the entities, the modified smart contract with quotations.
US11410212B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for verifying an identity of a user. The method includes receiving a preset key that is associated with a key carrier that is a physical object, storing the preset key in a database storing mappings between a plurality of preset keys and a plurality of users, receiving a verification key in connection with an identity verification of a user, retrieving the preset key associated with the user from the database, determining whether the verification key matches the preset key associated with the user, and causing a determination of whether the key carrier is authentic.
US11410209B1
A technique is provided that transforms account number data received from the consumer into one or more forms based on use by specific processes. Further provided is a technique for establishing payees using these account numbers such that remittances can be routed via the most cost effective means, e.g. which remittance processor is determined and/or which processor among internal processors within an enterprise is determined, and such that, when available, electronic bills can be successfully requested for on-line presentation. The technique to transform account number data can be applied by systems in industries other than banking and for account numbers from sources other than a customer.
US11410207B2
A method for dynamically evaluating a resource value is described. Data encoding one or more parameters related to the resource value is accessed, where the one or more parameters are monitored by a plurality of sensors that form an Internet of Things (IoT) and then released by the IoT of the plurality of sensors on a blockchain network. At least one parameter from the data is compared with a predetermined threshold value or a predetermined threshold range. In response to determining that the at least one parameter has exceeded the predetermined threshold value or the predetermined threshold range, a calculation of the resource value is triggered according to evaluation logic described by a smart contract released on the blockchain network in association with the one or more parameters being monitored, such that a consensus is reached on the blockchain network regarding the resource value that has been calculated.
US11410205B2
Described are systems and methods for dynamic integration and presentation of advertising content and media content. The method includes receiving a request for media content from a remote computing device and providing, in response to the request, an interactive advertising unit. The interactive advertising unit includes a first content layer including the requested media content and a media player, a second content layer including the advertising content, wherein the advertising content comprises static content and interactive content, an integration module configured to display the requested media content in the media player, and reveal the advertising content in an area extending from a boundary of a playback window of the media player, wherein revealing the advertising content includes moving web page content to accommodate the advertising content. The method includes transmitting the interactive advertising unit for presentation on the remote computing device.
US11410199B2
An apparatus and a method by which a content such as an advertisement corresponding to a user at the reception apparatus side can be selectively outputted to the reception apparatus are provided. A transmission apparatus transmits signaling data (MPD) having a user information setting region, a control information file capable of being accessed or generated applying user information-set data generated by a process for the MPD, and a user information-corresponding advertisement capable of being acquired and reproduced on the basis of description data of the control information file. The reception apparatus sets user information to the user information setting region of the MPD, applies the generated user information-set data to acquire a control information file of a user information-corresponding advertisement, applies the description data of the acquired control information file to acquire the user information-corresponding advertisement, and outputs the user information-corresponding advertisement.
US11410193B2
According to one example of the present invention, provided is a method for allowing an advertisement-providing server connected to a user terminal to provide an advertisement through an advertisement-providing application installed on the user terminal, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, from the user terminal, an activation-requesting signal for making a request to change the state of a display part of the user terminal from being off to being on; (b) providing the advertisement to the display part according to the activation-requesting signal; (c) receiving, from the user terminal to which the advertisement is provided, an advertisement content-requesting signal for making a request to provide advertisement content associated with the advertisement; (d) if receiving the advertisement content-requesting signal, providing the advertisement content to the user terminal; and (e) accumulating, for the user terminal, a first reward according to the activation-requesting signal and a second reward according to the advertisement content-requesting signal.
US11410192B2
Group actions may be performed on behalf of multiple users based in part on the suitability of the various user devices of the different users to perform such group actions. Different user devices may also be used to generate different query intent determinations for a query such that the query intent determination made by a particular user device may be used to fulfill the query.
US11410178B2
A message tracking computing device for identifying anomalous activity in real-time is provided. The message tracking computing device includes a memory in communication with a processor. The processor is programmed to receive a transaction dataset including a plurality of transaction records, each transaction record associated with a payment transaction. The processor is further programmed to compute, for a subset of transaction records of the plurality of transaction records, a normalized velocity score by computing a streaming mean, computing a streaming standard deviation, and computing the normalized velocity score based on the streaming mean, the streaming standard deviation, and a transaction ratio. The processor is further programmed to analyze the at least one computed normalized velocity score to detect anomalous activity, automatically generate an alert message identifying the anomalous activity, and transmit the alert message to a remote computing device.
US11410177B1
In preferred embodiment, an analysis tool is provided to help a user quickly comb through a vast number of expense card purchases, to focus only on those where there is some indication that fraud could have been involved. These suspect purchases are those where there is a lack of correspondence between the location and time of any vehicle stop and the purchase record. Because the purchase record can be misleading regarding time and location, a lack of match is not a certain indication of fraud, but it does merit further investigation. The tool permits a user to set a time and distance window about each fuel purchase time and location, or to choose a best match algorithm. After a table showing the purchases and closest stops is returned, the user may, for any one of them, choose to view a map view showing vehicle stops and purchase location.
US11410175B2
Systems and methods for authenticating a party to a secure transaction may include receiving, from a first computing device on behalf of a first party at a second computing device of a second party, information associated with a secure transaction between the parties, receiving, from the first device at the second device, video or audio evidence of actions taken by the first party, capturing, by the second computing device during presentation of the video or audio evidence, acknowledgement of actions taken by the first party as observed or heard by the second party in the evidence, determining, dependent on the acknowledgement, whether the actions observed or heard by the second party match expected actions of the first party in accordance with an out-of-band user interaction protocol, and determining whether to accept the information associated with the secure transaction dependent on whether the observed or heard actions match the expected actions.
US11410163B2
A system and method for digital smart wallet communications that operates by managing separately-owned, private blockchains to reduce processing times, eliminate proof of work burdens, and retain blockchain immutable security while allowing protection of confidential information contained on each blockchain. The system and method may further comprise auditability of blockchains, and may be operated on an integrated communications platform that allows seamless interoperability of communication devices across multiple modes of communication, and automates digital smart wallet transactions.
US11410162B2
Techniques to perform mathematically and logically rigorous validations for decentralized applications (DApp) communicatively coupled to a distributed ledger are disclosed. A protocol for a business or enterprise process is encoded as a workflow on a labeled transition system as part of a DApp. Transitions are coded via an asynchronous Pi Calculus or other process calculi. A rules engine validates transitions using process calculi operations, or alternatively performing mathematical and logical analyses on the labeled transition system. Validations are disclosed for both development time and run time. In some embodiments, the logic behind the DApp is composed of a predetermined set of components representing processes. In one specific embodiment, the predetermined set of components is solely of an input component and an output component when composed perform a transaction where either both components received artifact representations from the other component or neither do.
US11410154B2
In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by obtaining at least one payment proxy having a syntax including a monetary currency indicator preceding an alphanumeric character. The payment proxy may be transmitted by a transmitter component of a payment beacon device. The method includes generating, through an application accessed through the customer device, a message by identifying the payment proxy in a message and a money transfer amount in the message; parsing the payment proxy to identify the merchant associated with the payment proxy in the message; identifying a merchant financial account associated with the identified merchant, based on a stored association between the merchant financial account and the identified merchant; and initiating, by the payment processing system, a transfer of funds indicative of the money transfer amount from a financial account of the customer to a financial account of the merchant.
US11410145B2
The disclosure relates to a blockchain-implemented system and method of controlling the transmission and/or distribution of digital content. A first user is associated with a deposit quantity of cryptocurrency at a common address. A first node associated with the first user sends a request to the second node to provide an episode of digital content from a series of digital content; determines a payment transaction to transfer a payment quantity of cryptocurrency to the second user, wherein the payment quantity is based on a quantity of episodes of digital content in the series; and signs and sends the payment transaction to a second node. The second node associated with the second user: receives the request and the payment transaction; verifies the payment transaction; and based on the result of verifying: provides access to the episode of digital content to be available to the first node; and co-signs and sends the payment transaction to a distributed ledger.
US11410143B2
An email payment gateway having electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with a product that is being offered for sale, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the product associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the product. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the e-commerce system. The e-commerce system may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, execute a transaction to purchase the identified product on behalf of the customer.
US11410137B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, at a payment server via an application executing on a device of a user, a request to create a payment proxy identifier. The method includes associating, in a data store maintained by the payment server, the payment proxy identifier to a financial account associated with the user. The method includes generating a personalized interactive element for initiating a transaction to the financial account of the user. The method includes receiving an indication of an intent to transfer a value from a sender to the user. The indication is produced via interaction of a device associated with the sender with the personalized interactive element. The method includes, responsive to receiving the indication, identifying a financial account of the sender and initiating a transfer of the value between the financial account of the user and the financial account of the sender.
US11410125B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for dynamically assorting merchandise. For example, a method may include receiving or generating a plurality of cells defined by one or more dimensions, receiving a total number of resources for allocation to the plurality of cells, allocating the total number of resources among the plurality of cells, determining one or more stock keeping units for each cell, determining a quantity of each of the one or more stock keeping units in each cell, assigning one or more launch dates for each of the one or more stock keeping units for each cell, and stocking the one or more inventories with one or more articles corresponding to the stock keeping units in each cell, based on the determined quantity and the assigned one or more launch dates of each of the stock keeping units in each cell.
US11410121B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for proactively predicting large orders and providing fulfillment support related thereto are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes classifying, via a first set of one or more machine learning techniques, a transaction quote as a transaction quote that exceeds one or more size-related parameters or a transaction quote that does not exceed the one or more size-related parameters; determining, if the transaction quote is classified as a transaction quote that exceeds one or more size-related parameters, supportability of converting the transaction quote into a transaction order via a second set of one or more machine learning techniques; and outputting, based on the determined supportability, information pertaining to converting the transaction quote into a transaction order and fulfilling the transaction order to one or more entities associated with transaction order fulfillment.
US11410120B1
Systems and methods for product imaging and provisioning include a mobile application (app) installed on an imaging device, where the mobile app activates the imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product at a first location. The mobile app determines, based on the image, a product indicator associated with the unavailable product. A provisioning app, executing on a remote device, receives the product indicator associated with the unavailable product. The provisioning app also receives a user indicator associated with a first user and executes one or more product provisioning rules that determine, based on a product availability database and the user indicator, an availability result. The availability result indicates whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user. The provisioning app is further operable to send the availability result to the imaging device for presentation by the imaging device.
US11410119B1
A user undertakes an event, such as adding, removing, or otherwise interacting with an item stowed at a fixture. Using successive samples of weight data that occur during an event, a plurality of vectors are generated that are indicative of a weight change and a location associated with the fixture. The vectors are processed to determine where within the fixture the event took place. Hypotheses are generated that describe predicted interactions involving predicted locations that correspond to those indicated by the vectors. The hypotheses are ranked and then one is selected as a solution. The predicted values associated with the selected hypothesis are then used to generate interaction data that indicates one or more types of item and quantities of the items that were added, removed, or otherwise handled by the user.
US11410109B2
A system and computer-implemented method for real-time monitoring and responding to user experiences at a location. The method includes deploying a centralized communications and display node, and each of a plurality of portable communications devices with a respective subject, within the location, receiving, from one or more of the portable devices, and at the centralized node, transmitted data including a respective identifier of a respective actuator of each of the one or more portable devices and that was activated by the respective subject, a respective activation time indicator, and a respective identifier of each of the one or more portable devices. The method also includes generating respective machine-readable values indicative of a positive or negative experience type for each of the actuator-activating subjects using the received data, and a respective alert using the generated machine-readable values and if the indicated experience type for the respective subject is negative.
US11410101B2
An example embodiment may involve a software application executable on a computing device of a computational instance of a remote network management platform associated with a managed network. The managed network may contain an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system comprised of computing devices of the managed network on which ERP software is executable. The managed network may be granted a number of authorizations to access the ERP system and capabilities thereof. The ERP system may store user-related data for individual users of the managed network who access the ERP system. The software application may communicate with one or more of the ERP clients to access the user-related data, use a set of compliance criteria to identify, within the user-related data, a set of users, and store in memory an indication identifying the set of users as a potential source of non-compliance with the number of authorizations.
US11410093B2
A business process related computer software that displays a tabular view of a business process. Also, assigning types and/or attributes to worksteps of a business process and filtering the view of the business process based on the workstep types and/or workstep attributes. Also: (i) method for searching for worksteps based on a string pattern; (ii) a method for bulk update of worksteps satisfying search/filter criteria; (iii) a method for combining consecutive tasks into sub-tasks, or elevating sub-tasks to higher level tasks; (iv) a method for automatically setting the successor(s)/predecessor(s) workstep(s) as new worksteps are added or existing worksteps are removed; (v) a method for drilling down through a path in the process flow; (vi) a method for computing estimated duration for reaching a workstep along a path through the process flow; (vii) a method for identifying sequential and parallel worksteps and/or total duration through a timeline diagram; (viii) a method for printing process summary in tabular format; and/or (ix) methods of importing and exporting Microsoft projects.
US11410092B2
A system for a dynamic weather-driven seat selection is provided. A computing device receives (i) weather data, (ii) venue data for a physical venue, and (iii) user preferences, the user preferences including preferred sun exposure information for a user. The computing device predicts cloud coverage and available shade for the physical venue, based, at least in part, on the weather data and the venue data. The computing device generates a sun exposure profile for the physical venue, based, at least in part, on the predicted cloud coverage and available shade. The computing device provides a user with a dynamic seat selection for a scheduled event at the physical venue based, at least in part, on the user preferences and the sun exposure profile.
US11410089B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for allocating a set of shared dockless bikes. The method includes providing a notification to a user of an availability prediction of a shared dockless bike, from among the set of shared dockless bikes, based on a trajectory of the shared dockless bike with respect to a current location of the user, and adding the user to a request queue associated with the current location of the user, responsive to the user agreeing to wait a specified time period for access to the shared dockless bike. The method further includes maintaining an available bikes queue for newly available shared dockless bikes, from among the shared dockless bikes, responsive to the newly available ones of the shared dockless bikes becoming available. The method also includes notifying users of the newly available shared dockless bikes in a priority order determined from the request queue.
US11410083B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining operating range of hyperparameters are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a machine learning model, a list of candidate values for a hyperparameter, and a dataset; performing one or more hyperparameter range trials based on the machine learning model, the list of candidate values for the hyperparameter, and the dataset; automatically determining an operating range of the hyperparameter based on the one or more hyperparameter range trials; and training the machine learning model to convergence based at least in part on the determined operating range.
US11410078B2
A method and data processing system for making a machine learning model more resistant to adversarial examples are provided. In the method, an input for a machine learning model is provided. A randomly generated mask is added to the input to produce a modified input. The modified input is provided to the machine learning model. The randomly generated mask negates the effect of a perturbation added to the input for causing the input to be an adversarial example. The method may be implemented using the data processing system.
US11410071B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for simulating a physical system. A Hamiltonian describing the physical system is transformed into a qubit Hamiltonian describing a corresponding system of qubits, the qubit Hamiltonian comprising a transformed kinetic energy operator. The evolution of the system of qubits under the qubit Hamiltonian is simulated, including simulating the evolution of the system of qubits under the transformed kinetic energy operator by applying a fermionic swap network to the system of qubits. The simulated evolution of the system of qubits under the qubit Hamiltonian is used to determine properties of the physical system.
US11410069B2
The illustrative embodiments provide a method, system, and computer program product. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of Pauli observables. In an embodiment, a method includes initializing a measurement basis, the measurement basis comprising a set of Pauli bases equivalent to a number of qubits of a quantum processor. In an embodiment, a method includes creating a list of a set of Bell basis candidates, each of the set of Bell basis candidates configured to measure at least one of the set of Pauli observables. In an embodiment, a method includes selecting a Bell basis candidate from the set of Bell basis candidates. In an embodiment, a method includes reconfiguring the measurement basis to replace a subset of the set of Pauli bases with the selected Bell basis candidate.
US11410068B2
A quantum processing system may include one or more superconducting qubits and a qubit controller for controlling the one or more qubits. The qubit controller includes a radio frequency generation unit comprising electronic components, which are altogether configured to generate modulated RF signals. The controller also includes a phase locked loop unit maintaining a reference clock for two or more of the components of the RF generation unit, and a timing controller including an absolute timing register, the latter accessed by the reference clock, in operation. The qubit controller comprises a sequencer coupled to the timing controller to synchronize said two or more of said components by maintaining a coherent signal for said two or more of said components, the coherent signal phase matched to the one or more qubits, to drive and/or read out the one or more qubits via modulated signals generated by the synchronized components, in operation.
US11410062B2
The present teaching generally relates to removing perturbations from predictive scoring. In one embodiment, data representing a plurality of events detected by a content provider may be received, the data indicating a time that a corresponding event occurred and whether the corresponding event was fraudulent. First category data may be generated by grouping each event into one of a number of categories, each category being associated with a range of times. A first measure of risk for each category may be determined, where the first measure of risk indicates a likelihood that a future event occurring at a future time is fraudulent. Second category data may be generated by processing the first category data and a second measure of risk for each category may be determined. Measure data representing the second measure of risk for each category and the range of times associated with that category may be stored.
US11410058B2
A system for selection of physical asset transfer paths using mixed-payload aeronautic excursions includes a client-interface module operating on at least a server, the client-interface module, configured to receive an initial location, a terminal location, and a description of at least an element of non-sapient payload, a path-selection module operating on the at least a server configured to identify at least an aeronautic path from the initial location to the terminal location and a plurality of aeronautic excursions traversing the at least an aeronautic path and select an aeronautic excursion of the plurality of aeronautic excursions based on a plurality of excess non-sapient payload storage estimations corresponding the plurality of aeronautic excursions, and a capacity estimation artificial intelligence module operating on the at least a server, the capacity estimation artificial intelligence module designed and configured to generate the plurality of excess non-sapient payload storage estimations.
US11410053B2
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DIGITAL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (“DCM-Platform”) transforms digital dialogue from consumers, client demands and, Internet search inputs via DCM-Platform components into tradable digital assets, and client needs based artificial intelligence campaign plan outputs. In one implementation, The DCM-Platform may capture and examine conversations between individuals and artificial intelligence conversation agents. These agents may be viewed as assets. One can measure the value and performance of these agents by assessing their performance and ability to generate revenue from prolonging conversations and/or ability to effect sales through conversations with individuals.
US11410049B2
Embodiments for responding to computing system incidents are provided. Information associated with a computing system is analyzed to generate a base system model of the computing system. The information includes at least one of system logs and metrics data of the computing system. An indication of an incident associated with the computing system is received. The base system model is utilized to analyze the incident. The analysis of the incident includes characterizing the incident as a previously detected incident or an unknown incident. A strategy for responding to the incident is identified based on the analysis of the incident.
US11410048B2
According to one aspect, anomalous event detection based on deep learning may include a system for anomalous event detection for a device. The system includes a computing device having a processor, an encoding module, and a decoding module. The processor is configured to receive sensor data. The encoding module generates reconstruction data based on the sensor data, identifies at least one reconstruction error in the reconstruction data, and determines an anomaly score based on the at least one reconstruction error. The decoding module generates an action prediction based on the sensor data and determines a likelihood value based on the action prediction. The processor can then calculate a scaled anomaly score based on the anomaly score and the likelihood value and causes the processor to execute an action based on the scaled anomaly score.
US11410045B2
A few-shot learning method according to an embodiment may be performed in a computing device including one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors. The method may include performing a first task for subjecting a first model to few-shot learning (FSL) based on one or more meta-training data and performing a second task for subjecting a second model to supervised learning based on one or more derived data modified from the one or more meta-training data.
US11410044B2
The present disclosure provides an application development platform and associated software development kits (“SDKs”) that provide comprehensive services for generation, deployment, and management of machine-learned models used by computer applications such as, for example, mobile applications executed by a mobile computing device. In particular, the application development platform and SDKs can provide or otherwise leverage a unified, cross-platform application programming interface (“API”) that enables access to all of the different machine learning services needed for full machine learning functionality within the application. In such fashion, developers can have access to a single SDK for all machine learning services.
US11410018B2
A contaminated air exposure level inferring apparatus may include a receiver for receiving a fine dust concentration measured from a fine dust sensor of the wearable device or the portable air purifier, an exposure level classifier for inferring a contaminated air exposure level of a user holding the wearable device or the portable air purifier based on the measured fine dust concentration, and a communicator for communicating with a server. The server may include an artificial intelligence model learner for generating an artificial intelligence model that has learned data on the measured fine dust concentration through a deep neural network. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to infer the contaminated air exposure level of the user of the wearable device or the portable air purifier by using artificial intelligence (AI), a contaminated air exposure level inferring technology based on the artificial intelligence, and a 5G network.
US11410013B2
A method for filling a through slit in a metal layer for use in a metallic smartcard by providing a metal sheet having at least one through slit extending through the thickness of the metal sheet, applying a polymer resin to the metal sheet so as to substantially fill the slit(s), and curing the resin. A coupling frame for a smartcard, and a smartcard are also provided.
US11410012B2
A method, apparatus, and product-by-process, for preparing an RFID access card constructed out of wood is disclosed. The method involved preparing two wooden surfaces of appropriate thickness, preparing an RFID chip emitting an appropriate frequency, and pressing the wooden surfaces and the RFID chip together through the use of adhesive(s) and a hot press and a cold press. The apparatus included an RFID access card constructed out of at least two wooden surfaces where an RFID chip is disposed between the two surfaces. The two wooden surfaces are attached with a hot melt adhesive.
US11410008B1
In accordance with one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to methods, systems and machine readable media including computer programs to track information for an article of manufacture. An illustrative method includes providing a blank tag for the article of manufacture, and forming a marked tag from the blank tag by forming at least one character on the blank tag using a light source, such as a laser. The at least one character can be encoded with information relating to the article of manufacture.
US11409999B2
A method of labelling features for image recognition and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes inputting an image to be recognized to an image recognition model to obtain a classification result; obtaining a plurality of recognized features and positions of the recognized features from the image to be recognized based on activation maps respectively corresponding to a plurality of preset features in the classification result; and labelling the recognized features and the positions of the recognized features activating the classification result. Accordingly, the features determined by the image recognition model can be showed clearly by the method of labelling features for image recognition and the apparatus thereof.
US11409984B2
A system and a method for image searching. The method may include obtaining a target image and a plurality of images, wherein at least one similar image to the target image is to be searched from the plurality of images. The method may include determining a target feature vector of the target image and a feature vector of each of the plurality of images, each of the target feature vector and the feature vectors being an N-dimensional feature vector in an N-dimensional feature space. The method may include determining a search region in the N-dimensional feature space. The method may include determining one or more candidate images, the feature vector of each candidate image being within the search region. The method may further include determining the at least one similar image to the target image among the one or more candidate images.
US11409974B2
Copies of a distributed ledger with multiple blocks are stored on multiple computing devices. A first computing device coming into proximity with a particular object triggers generation of a new block to the distributed ledger, the new block identifying a characteristic of the object and including a hash of a previous block of the distributed ledger. The new block is optionally verified before it is appended onto the distributed ledger and transmitted out to each of the multiple computing devices so that each copy of the distributed ledger includes the new block.
US11409972B2
A device implementing a system for NFC communication with a second device includes an antenna and a processor configured to transmit a pulse signal for detection of another device within proximity of the device, and to detect, in conjunction with transmission of the pulse signal, that a first value of a measurement parameter of the antenna satisfies an initial detection factor. The processor is further configured, in response to the detection, to set a confirmation detection factor for the measurement parameter of the antenna based at least in part on the first value of the measurement parameter of the antenna, to transmit a confirmation pulse signal, and to initiate a second polling for reception of data from the other device when a second value of the measurement parameter of the antenna detected in conjunction with transmission of the confirmation pulse signal satisfies the confirmation detection factor.
US11409970B2
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication device is provided, comprising: a UWB communication unit being configured to establish and perform UWB radio communication with an external device, a radio frequency (RF) communication device being a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, wherein the RF communication device is configured to receive at least one command from an external reader and to initiate a wake-up or a power-up of the UWB communication unit in response to receiving said command. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication device is conceived.
US11409969B2
A system and method are disclosed for automatically dispensing labels for information handling systems being assembled, in an assembly line that is configured to produce many different types of information handling systems with differing internal components. In some embodiments, a service tag identifier and parts listing are associated with each information handling system-under-assembly. The service tag identifier is written to an RFID tag that can be read at various stages of assembly. In some embodiments, when an assembly bin arrives at a label station of the assembly line, the RFID tag is read and a database is searched for the matching service tag and the associated parts listing. One or more appropriate labels are then automatically dispensed in response to the components in the listing. In this manner, correct association of labels with the components is maintained, and the search and dispensing process is performed in an efficient manner.
US11409967B2
A translation method includes: selecting a source word from a source sentence; generating mapping information including location information of the selected source word mapped to the selected source word in the source sentence; and correcting a target word, which is generated by translating the source sentence, based on location information of a feature value of the target word and the mapping information.
US11409962B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for automated insight curation and alerting. The system generates insights from time-series data at scale using unsupervised machine learning algorithms. The system can further automate the suggested actions by signaling the actuators or middleware which ultimately executes the action.
US11409959B2
A rule having text is pre-processed by replacing terms with dummy tokens. A first machine learning model (MLM) uses the dummy tokens to generate a dependency graph with nodes related by edges tagged with dependency tags. A second MLM uses the dependency graph to generate a canonical version with node labels. The node labels are sorted into a lexicographic order to form a document. A third MLM uses the document to generate a machine readable vector (MRV) that embeds the document as a sequence of numbers representative of a structure of the rule. The MRV is compared to additional MRVs corresponding to additional rules for which computer useable program code blocks have been generated. A set of MRVs is identified that match the MRV within a range. The set of MRVs correspond to a set of rules from the additional rules. The set of rules is displayed to a user.
US11409954B2
An example method includes requesting, by a user device from a remote provider and from a local provider, candidate data for use in autofill for an application. The method further includes receiving a first data set from the remote provider and a second data set from the local provider. The method additionally includes detecting that an input field of the application has focus, where the input field is included in both sets. The method further includes responsively causing a selectable list to be displayed on the user device, where the selectable list includes a first selectable option corresponding to the first data set and a second selectable option corresponding to the second data set. The method also includes receiving user input data indicating a selected data set and responsively filling one or more candidate values from the selected data set into one or more corresponding input fields of the application.
US11409933B2
A method for diagnosing analog circuit fault based on cross wavelet features includes steps of: inputting an excitation signal to an analog circuit under test, and collecting time domain response output signals to form an original data sample set; dividing the original data sample set into a training sample set and a test sample set; performing cross wavelet decomposition on both sets; applying bidirectional two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis to process the wavelet cross spectra of the training sample set and the test sample set, and extracting fault feature vectors of the training sample set and the test sample set; submitting the fault feature vectors of the training sample set to a support vector machine for training an SVM classifier, constructing a support vector machine fault diagnosis model; and inputting the fault feature vectors of the test sample set into the model to perform fault classification.
US11409932B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for estimating an output current of an input/output (I/O) driver given a set of voltages present at pins of the I/O driver. A set of voltages are received comprising voltages present at a power pin, a ground pin, at least three input pins, and at least three output pins of an I/O driver. Neural network models are applied to one or more voltages of the set of voltages to determine currents associated the I/O driver. A state space model is applied to one or more voltages of the set of voltages to determine another current of the I/O driver. An output current of the I/O driver is estimated based on the currents and the one or more values.
US11409928B2
A method simulates aspects of a system. The method includes: (a) creating models of a system, wherein each individual model describes a specific aspect of the system, (b) determining for each model an initial first data record containing specific data used only by the model and an initial second data record containing common data used by the model and at least one other model, (c) selecting a first model and a second model, (d) determining updated first and second data records on the basis of the initial first data record for the first model and the initial second data records, and (e) determining updated first and second data records for the second model based on the initial first data record for the second model, the updated second data record for the first model and the initial second data records for all of the models except for the first model.
US11409925B2
This disclosure relates to methods and systems for simulation of electricity value ecosystem using agent based modeling approach. State-of-the-art methods utilize simulation tools to support decision making that do not model agents own behaviour and its response to other agents based on an interaction, thereby unable to analyse complex interactions in the electricity value ecosystem. The present disclosure provides a generalized integrated simulation platform which provides dynamic configurability to simulate a plurality of user requirements associated with the electricity value eco-system using a causal diagram which is further used to identify a plurality of agents. Further, a plurality of a plurality of models and processes for the plurality of agents are determined or generated based on their availability in a repository. The causal diagram is refined in accordance with one or more constraints which supports in making a better and informed decision considering changing dynamics of the plurality of agents.
US11409923B1
Systems and methods for generating reduced order models are provided herein. In embodiments, a set of learning points is identified in a parametric space. A 3D physical solver may be used to perform a simulation for each learning point in the set of learning points to generate a learning data set, where the 3D physical solver is selected from a plurality of compatible 3D physical solvers for simulating different physical aspects of a product or process. The learning data set may be compressed to reduce the learning data set to a smaller set of vectors. Coefficients from the learning data set and the smaller set of vectors may then be used to interpolate a set of coefficients within a design space for the reduced order model.
US11409919B2
A device includes a substrate, an array of metal pads on a first surface of the substrate, a carbon polymer composite covering the array of metal pads, the composite having variations that result in random resistance values between the metal pads usable as a random code. A method of manufacturing a secure device, including forming an array of metal pads on a dielet substrate, the dielet substrate containing at least one memory in which is stored an encryption key, and an RF communication section, covering the array of metal pads with a carbon polymer composite such that variations in the carbon concentration in the polymer forms a unique pattern of resistance, attaching the dielet substrate to a host component, receiving a request from a security server for a unique code determined by the unique pattern of resistance, and using the encryption key, encrypting and providing the unique code to the security server.
US11409908B2
A centralized data repository system, in various embodiments, is configured to provide a central data-storage repository (e.g., one or more servers, databases, etc.) for the centralized storage of personally identifiable information (PII) and/or personal data for one or more particular data subjects. In particular embodiments, the centralized data repository may enable the system to populate one or more data models (e.g., using one or more suitable techniques described above) substantially on-the-fly (e.g., as the system collects, processes, stores, etc. personal data regarding a particular data subject). In this way, in particular embodiments, the system is configured to maintain a substantially up-to-date data model for a plurality of data subjects (e.g., each particular data subject for whom the system collects, processes, stores, etc. personal data).
US11409902B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. Restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems can be imposed via a central portal.
US11409889B2
The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for encrypted searching. In a search session, a uniform resource locator (URL) is received, wherein a portion of the URL is encrypted via a first key. A second key associated with the first key is obtained. A determination is made regarding whether a time-related criterion associated with the second key is satisfied. In response to the time-related criterion being satisfied, the portion of the URL is decrypted based on the second key to obtain a keyword, one or more search results are obtained based on the keyword, and a webpage including the one or more search results to be provided to a user is generated.
US11409873B2
A method of cyber protection of a machine based on acquiring acoustic signals from a vicinity of the machine, while the machine is operative. The method includes analyzing the acquired acoustic signals to determine whether the machine or a controller of the machine is operating suspiciously and initiating a cyber measure on the controller of the machine, responsive to a determination based on the acquired acoustic signals that the machine or the controller is operating suspiciously.
US11409870B2
In example embodiments, systems and methods extract a model of a computer application during load time and store the model in memory. Embodiments may insert instructions into the computer application at run time to collect runtime state of the application, and analyze the collected data against the stored model to perform detection of security events. Embodiments may also instrument an exception handler to detect the security events based on unhandled memory access violations. Embodiments may, based upon the detection of the security events, dynamically respond, such as by modify a computer routine associated with an active process of the computer application. Modification may include installing or verifying an individual patch in memory associated with the computer application.
US11409863B2
To facilitate improved email and device security, embodiments of systems and methods include intercepting, by a processor associated with an entity, an internet request, where the internet request is produced by a link received in an email at a first computing device. The processor determines that the link is externally bound relative to an entity network. The processor determines an existence of a sandbox environment instance in a set of existing sandbox environment instances. The processor routes the link through the sandbox environment instance. The processor updates the sandbox log in the database based on the sandbox environment instance and the link. The processor causes to display on a screen of the first computing device a user interface for interacting with the link in the sandbox environment instance, and the processor logs activities associated with interacting with the link in a security log.
US11409862B2
A variety of methods are provided for an application or operating system (OS) kernel intrusion detection and prevention, based on verification of security invariants and legitimacy of security state transitions from the past historical state. Methods are provided for an application or OS kernel intrusion detection and prevention for unknown attack vectors and vulnerabilities based on additional security checks added to the software by means of live patching.
US11409856B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing video-based authentication are provided. Aspects include receiving a master video comprising a recording of a first plurality of objects. Aspects also include identifying each of the first plurality of objects using image recognition techniques. Aspects also include receiving a user selection of a plurality of authentication objects, where the plurality of authentication objects are a subset of the first plurality of objects. Aspects also include receiving a user authentication request comprising an authentication video. The authentication video is a recording of a second plurality of objects. Aspects also include identifying each of the second plurality of objects using image recognition techniques. Aspects also include authenticating a user associated with the user authentication request in response to determining that identifications of a subset of objects of the second plurality of objects match identifications of the plurality of authentication objects.
US11409852B2
Biometric module configured to perform processing as part of a device configured to perform contactless or contact communication with a terminal, the module comprising: a biometric sensor; a display screen; and a control unit configured to: cause the biometric sensor to capture biometric data of a user which can be used to biometrically authenticate the user; obtain biometric authentication information indicating whether the user was biometrically authenticated based on the captured biometric data; and in response to the biometric authentication information indicating the user was biometrically authenticated, cause the display screen to display authenticated information.
US11409851B2
An authentication method and an electronic device, the method including receiving a touch operation on an icon of a first application, collecting a biological feature of a user in response to the touch operation, comparing the collected biological feature with a biological feature bound to the first application, where the first application is bound to at least one biological feature, each biological feature is bound to a user account of the first application, each user account is corresponding to a resource directory, when the comparison result indicates that the collected biological feature matches a first biological feature of the at least one biological feature, determining a first user account bound to the first biological feature, and logging in to the first application based on the first user account, and loading information stored in a first resource directory corresponding to the first user account.
US11409849B2
The present invention relates to a system, a method, and a program for preventing unauthorized copies of webcomics and tracking replicated webcomics. A method for preventing unauthorized copies of webcomics according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step (S100) in which a service server separates and stores webcomic images and dialogue text which are included in general webcomic data; a step (S110) of recognizing a user operation for a user client and recognizing a point on a webcomic that has moved from an initial position; and a step (S120) of providing final webcomic data that combines the webcomic images and the dialogue text with respect to an area displayed in real time on a screen of the user client.
US11409843B2
A method is provided for protecting a software program from copying. The method includes providing a first implementation of the software program. A second implementation of the software program is then provided. The second implementation provides a same functionality as the first implementation, and wherein the second implementation includes a plurality of dummy operations to increase a number of operations and an execution time of the second implementation compared to the first implementation. The dummy operations are encoded. The second implementation may then be compared to another software program to determine if the another software program is a copy of the first implementation of the software program. This allows a copy of the first implementation to be detected without disclosing the first implementation.
US11409841B2
The invention relates to a method for detecting an object in a spatial region. The method comprises the following steps for each cell of a plurality of cells of the spatial region: determining evidence masses for the hypotheses that a cell is occupied, is not occupied, or may not be occupied at a current point in time on the basis of sensor data relating to the spatial region; determining predicted evidence masses for the hypotheses at the current point in time on the basis of actual evidence masses for a hypothesis at a previous point in time and on the basis of a plurality of particles for a corresponding plurality of movement hypotheses for the cell; and determining the actual evidence masses at the actual point in time by combining the measured evidence masses with the predicted evidence masses at the current point in time.
US11409833B2
A tool (systems, apparatus, methodology, application, user interface, etc.) for accessing content, such as webpages hosted over a network such as the internet, and more particularly, a tool for accessing the content of a webpage and further displaying a grid view superimposed over the content of the webpage.
US11409829B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for redirecting a user. For instance, the method may include: determining whether a there is a presence of one or combinations of: a particular webpage of a third party website and particular DOM element(s); performing a first DOM analysis on the particular webpage to extract an entity and first data from at least one of the particular DOM element(s); determining whether an entity website is mapped based on the entity and a mapping of entities to entity websites; performing a navigation process to interact with the entity website and extract second data; and performing a comparison analysis on the first data and the second data to determine whether at least one difference is present.
US11409827B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing electronic search and guidance using non-address destination designations. In one embodiment, a particular feature identifier is selected via a client device. A particular geographic location corresponding to the particular feature identifier is determined. Navigation instructions to the geographic location and/or a map showing the geographic location are presented via the client device.
US11409825B2
Methods and systems generally include determining coordinated activity in social media movements on a social media channel. The method includes identifying a plurality of markers of coordinated activity through analysis of campaign signals from the social media movements. The plurality of markers includes a network dimension for representing how accounts are connected, a temporal dimension for representing patterns of messages over time, and a semantic dimension for representing a diversity of topics and meanings of the social media movements. The method includes analyzing the campaign signals indicative of the coordinate activity of the social media movements in the social media campaign including determining users within the social media campaign, determining clusters of users that make up the social media campaign and determining relationships between the users participating in the social media movements, and determining propagation patterns across clusters of users of the social media campaign.
US11409823B2
An information processing apparatus includes a means for storing coating material information on coating material, and tactile sensation information in which the tactile sensation when each coating material is applied to the skin is recorded, the coating material information and the tactile sensation information is associated with each other, a means for acquiring search criteria for at least one of tactile sensations and textures, identifying at least one tactile sensation information corresponding to the acquired search criteria, and a means for presenting the coating material information associated with the identified tactile sensation information.
US11409806B2
Apparatus and method for constructing Aho-Corasick automata for detecting regular expression pattern
An apparatus for constructing Aho-Corasick automata according to the present invention includes a concatenative normal form transforming unit configured to receive a regular expression that is expressed using an operator including a concatenation and an alternation and transform the regular expression into concatenative normal forms (wherein each concatenative normal form is defined as a form in which character alternations are connected by concatenation); a trie generating unit configured to generate a trie from the concatenative normal forms by updating states and transitions of the trie (wherein each transition corresponds to a set of characters) while processing each concatenative normal form in order; and a failure link creating unit configured to create a failure link for each state of the trie by using a set of characters corresponding to each transition of the trie.
US11409805B2
A computer-implemented system and method performs a search operation. A matching unit is configured to access data included in a data store defining a database of matching query terms and a database of predefined matching keywords. The matching unit is configured to receive a partial query term entered into a displayed search access point. The matching unit is configured to match the partial query term to the database of matching query terms to create a list of corresponding matching terms, then match the corresponding matching query terms to the database of predefined matching keywords to define matched keywords. A relevancy process is performed to define a matched keyword's relevancy, and then top matched keywords are determined based upon the matched keyword relevancy. The matching unit is configured to send a listing to be displayed in a matched keyword results zone adjacent to the displayed search access point, including a hyperlink to a landing location.
US11409803B2
A system for ranking a plurality of items comprising an online platform capable of displaying a list showing ranking of the items, a voting link generating module for generating a voting link that is assigned to a specific item to allow a vote to be cast thereon following a specific action performed on the voting link, a ranking engine for determining ranking of the items through updating and/or repositioning the items on the list upon receiving the vote, and one or more servers having a processor for managing processes executed by the system, wherein the voting link is configured to be inserted and displayed on a third-party platform managed by a third-party server to readily interact and receive the specific action for the vote to be cast on the item from users browsing the third-party platform without having the user to visit the online platform of the system.
US11409798B2
A method for operating a graph processing system including a first and second memory, comprising: storing in the first memory, a start index, a terminal index and an edge value of graph data; storing in the second memory, a start vertex of the graph data; rearranging the start vertex as an intermediate vertex by using to the start index; performing a graph computation on the intermediate vertex by using to the terminal index and the edge value; storing in the second memory, a terminal vertex as a result of the graph computation; determining whether a graph processing operation is completed by comparing the terminal vertex and the start vertex; setting the terminal vertex as the start vertex when the graph processing operation is not completed; and iterating the rearranging, the performing, the storing the terminal vertex, the determining and the setting until the graph processing operation is completed.
US11409794B2
A method and a device for controlling deformation on an image, and a hardware device are provided. In the method for controlling deformation on an image, a to-be-processed image is acquired; an audio file is acquired; the audio file is played and a first attribute value of the audio file corresponding to a current time point is acquired; an extent of the deformation on the image is determined based on the first attribute value; and deformation processing is performed on the to-be-processed image based on the extent of the deformation on the image. With the method for controlling deformation on an image, the extent of the deformation on the image is controlled based on the attribute value of the audio file, thereby solving the technical problem in the conventional technology that the special effects of deformation cannot be flexibly generated.
US11409793B2
Method and system for performing a storage tier operation on video data using a data processing unit
A method for processing video data is performed by a data processing unit (DPU). The method includes obtaining, by the DPU of an edge device, video data; processing the video data to obtain video data chunks and video processing engine outcomes; generating storage tier metadata based on the video data chunks and the video processing engine outcomes; associating the storage tier metadata with the video data chunks; and storing the storage tier metadata and the video data chunks in the appropriate storage based on the storage tier metadata.
US11409788B2
A method for clustering groups of photographs, wherein users are each identified by a unique identifier, each user photographs. The method includes capturing photographs; assigning, to each captured photograph, at least one metadata defined by a type, comparing the metadata assigned to each photograph to determine at least one discriminant type, grouping at least two photographs by discriminant type of metadata and clustering the groups if the number of photographs is superior to a first predefined limit value. The method further includes determining a degree of similarity of a cluster of photographs depending on metadata, and defining a common cluster among the users if the degree of similarity is superior to a second predefined limit value.
US11409785B2
A media file processing method is described. Multiple selected media files are processed by a terminal device comprising a processor and a memory storing computer readable instructions executed by the processor. The terminal device extracts content association information corresponding to the multiple selected media files. The terminal device further synthesizes the multiple selected media files according to the content association information to obtain an animation that is a dynamic presentation of contents of the multiple selected media files. The animation is then stored in a predetermined file format in the terminal device.
US11409766B2
Disclosed herein is the creation of probabilistic data structures for container reclamation. One method involves retrieving a segment object list of a data container and creating a probabilistic data structure. The segment object list comprises a plurality of segment objects, the data container comprises the plurality of segment objects and a plurality of data objects, and each segment object of the plurality of segment objects comprises a hash value determined by performing a hashing function on a corresponding data object of the plurality of data objects. The creating includes, for each segment object in the segment object list, identifying an element of a plurality of elements of the probabilistic data structure using a hash value of the each segment object and setting the element to indicate the segment object references a corresponding data object of the plurality of data objects.
US11409764B2
A computer-implemented method of managing data in a data repository is disclosed. The method comprises maintaining a data repository, the data repository storing data imported from one or more data sources. A database entity added to the data repository is identified and a metadata object for storing metadata relating to the database entity is created and stored in a metadata repository. The metadata object is also added to a documentation queue. Metadata for the metadata object is received from user via a metadata management user interface and the received metadata is stored in the metadata repository and associated with the metadata object.
US11409756B1
An integrated data analytics tool is described that enables users to efficiently create and communicate data analysis flows or storylines. The data analytics tool includes graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that enable users to create data analysis “pipelines” that serve as both a visual and technical representation of a data analysis flow. Among other features, a data analysis pipeline enables users to easily add and link related data visualizations in a pipeline, to update datasets and filters associated with data visualizations in a pipeline and to have those updates be propagated automatically to other visualizations in the pipeline, and to create side-by-side comparisons of visualizations based on different datasets/filters. Users presented with such data visualization pipelines can also interact with the visualizations and dynamically update a displayed analysis by selecting different datasets, filters, pipeline paths, and so forth.
US11409754B2
A method for context-aware data mining of a text document includes receiving a list of words parsed and preprocessed from an input query; computing a related distributed embedding representation for each word in the list of words using a word embedding model of the text document being queried; aggregating the related distributed embedding representations of all words in the list of words to represent the input query with a single embedding, by using one of an average of all the related distributed embedding representations or a maximum of all the related distributed embedding representations; retrieving a ranked list of document segments of N lines that are similar to the aggregated word embedding representation of the query, where N is a positive integer provided by the user; and returning the list of retrieved segments to a user.
US11409744B2
Systems and methods for query generation based on merger of subqueries are described. For example, methods may include accessing a first join graph representing tables in a database, wherein the first join graph has vertices corresponding to respective tables in the database and directed edges corresponding to join relationships; receiving a first query specification that references data in two or more of the tables of the database to specify multiple subqueries in a set of subqueries; checking that two or more subqueries from the set of subqueries have the same join graph; checking that the two or more subqueries have the same set of grouping columns; responsive, at least in part, to the two or more subqueries having the same join graph and the same set of grouping columns, merging the two or more subqueries to obtain a consolidated query.
US11409738B2
A system and method for generating a database query from a natural language using a query engine selector module for identifying appropriate database query format, a query engine builder module to generate appropriate database query using an intermediate query language 2 (IQL2) as input, and a data retriever module for fetching data from single or multiple data sources.
US11409734B2
Disclosed is a blockchain system. A blockchain system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: at least one confirmation node; at least one management node configuring a confirmation group by including the at least one confirmation node, and configuring a confirmation block by combining transactions generated in the confirmation group; and an operator node controlling the at least one management node, wherein the at least one management node configures blockchain by combining respective confirmation blocks, wherein the management node configures the blockchain by resetting a parent block on the basis of an generation order of the confirmation blocks and distributes the blockchain.
US11409733B2
An approach is described to provide a method, a computer program product, and a computer system to implement hole punching. The described approach provides an automated way to free up space without requiring manual intervention by a DBA to manually reorganize database objects to free up space.
US11409730B2
Provided is a method of truncating one or more blocks in a blockchain (300) by an aging process executed by participating computer node (501, 502) of the blockchain. The method includes truncating one or more blocks (310, 320) with a time stamp (210) that is older than a pre-determined cut-off time (t1) by the computer node; creating a new block (360) in which one or more data packets of the new block capture essential data (312, 320) of blocks that are truncated; and appending the new block to the blockchain.
US11409728B2
A map information system includes: an in-vehicle device that executes driving support control based on map information; an external device having external map information used for the driving support control; and an update determination device. The in-vehicle device further executes external update processing that updates first map information being the map information of a first area by using first external map information being the external map information of the first area. The update determination device calculates a change degree being a difference between the first map information and the first external map information, for each point or each area in the first area. The external update processing is prohibited with respect to a section in which the change degree is equal to or less than a threshold. The external update processing is permitted with respect to a section in which the change degree exceeds the threshold.
US11409725B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for multi-tenant partitioning in a time-series database are disclosed. A partitioning scheme is determined that maps a plurality of data points to a plurality of partitions based at least in part on table identifiers associated with the data points. The partitions are stored using a plurality of storage resources. After the storage resources are provisioned, an additional table identifier is generated. Based at least in part on the partitioning scheme, one or more additional data points comprising the additional table identifier are mapped to a particular partition of the plurality of partitions. The one or more additional data points are stored in the particular partition using the storage resources.
US11409723B2
Mechanisms are provided for detecting interesting decision rules from a set of decision rules in a tree ensemble. Each tree in the tree ensemble is traversed in order to assign each individual data record from a set of data records to an identified leaf node in each tree. Predicted values are determined for the tree ensemble based on predictions provided by each leaf node to which each individual data record is assigned. Interesting sub-indices for decision rules from the set of decision rules are determined and, for each decision rule corresponding to the leaf nodes in the tree ensemble, the sub-indices are combined into interestingness index It. The decision rules are ranked corresponding to the leaf nodes in the tree ensemble according to the associated value of the interestingness index It and a subset of the decision rules corresponding to the leaf nodes in the tree ensemble are reported.
US11409717B1
A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.
US11409714B2
Techniques for replication rule evaluation are provided. A replication rule is received at a first node of a plurality of nodes where the replication rule defines object replication among the plurality of nodes. The replication rule is labeled as pending, where a second replication rule on the first node is labeled as active. Upon receiving a request to predict an effect of the replication rule, a first object of a plurality of objects is identified based on the first replication rule. Upon determining that the first object is present on the first node but is not present on a second node of the plurality of nodes, an indication of the first object is outputted.
US11409705B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques managing a log-structured solid state drive (SSD) format in a distributed storage system. SSDs in the distributed storage system maintains a journal of logical changes to storage objects to persist prepared and committed changes in the latency path. The journal includes metadata entries that describe changes and reference data pages. Dense data structures (such as a logical block addressing table) index the metadata entries. To reduce the amount of overhead in I/O operations, the distributed storage system maintains the dense data structures in memory rather than on disk.
US11409703B2
A request to access to a logical location in a file stored in a content addressable storage (CAS) system can be processed by retrieving first tree data from a first node in a first hash tree that represents a first version of the file. Based on the first tree data, a second node is selected from which a CAS signature is compared to a reserved CAS signature to determine the proper file version. In response to a match, a third node is accessed in a second hash tree that represents a second version of the file. Tree data is retrieved from a third node.
US11409702B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display an image thereon; a storage configured to store a plurality of files therein to display the image; and a processor configured to: generate a first integrity check value of a first file based on at least one second file corresponding to a request for execution of the first file from an application, and identify whether to execute the first file by identifying whether the first integrity check value generated as above is consistent with a second integrity check value of the first file that has been generated based on the at least one second file before the request for execution of the first file was made.
US11409693B2
Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11409690B2
Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for serial peripheral interface (SPI) functionality for node transceivers in a two-wire communication bus. For example, in some embodiments, a node transceiver may include SPI circuitry and upstream or downstream transceiver circuitry. SPI commands received via the SPI circuitry may be executed by the node transceiver, or transmitted upstream or downstream along the two-wire bus for execution by another node transceiver or a slave device coupled to another node transceiver.
US11409687B2
A system may include a data delivery pipeline communicatively coupled to one or more microservices that receive a dataset transmitted through the data delivery pipeline. The system may also include a first microservice that receives a first dataset corresponding to operation technology (OT) data or information technology (IT) data and determines a second dataset based on the first dataset. The system may also include a second microservice that receives the second dataset from the first microservice via the data delivery pipeline, determines an action to perform in an industrial automation component of an industrial automation system based on an analysis of the second dataset, and transmits the action to the industrial automation component via the data delivery pipeline.
US11409684B2
A processing element/unit can include a plurality of networks, a plurality of cores, crossbar interconnects, a plurality of memory controllers and local memory on an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The plurality of cores can be coupled together by the plurality of networks on chip. The crossbar interconnects can couple the networks of cores to the plurality of memory controllers. The plurality of memory controllers can be configured to access data stored in off-chip memory. The local memory can be configured to cache portions of the accessed data. The local memory can be directly accessible by the network of processing cores, or can be distributed across the plurality of memory controllers. The memory controllers can be narrow channel (NC) memory controllers having widths of 4, 8, 12, 16 or a multiple of 4 bits.
US11409677B2
A single-wire bus apparatus that includes a bus slave circuit(s) is provided. The bus slave circuit(s) can receive a unicast, a multicast, and/or a broadcast command sequence over a single-wire bus. In embodiments disclosed herein, the bus slave circuit(s) can be configured to determine whether to respond to a received multicast or broadcast command sequence based on a predefined response policy. As such, the single-wire bus apparatus can be configured to mix and match a legacy slave circuit(s), which always responds to the received multicast or broadcast command sequence, with an enhanced slave circuit(s) that can decide whether to respond to the received multicast or broadcast command sequence based on the predefined response policy. As a result, it is possible to improve design and implementation flexibility, such as supporting more bus slave circuits per port.
US11409676B2
Provided is a SoC, a memory device, an electronic device and a method for storing data in an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a host configured to output data, and a memory device including a memory storage configured to receive the data and to store the data. The host is configured to generate data bus inversion (DBI) information on the data to be provided to the memory device in accordance with a data parallelizing system, the data parallelizing system being inside the memory device, and to provide the DBI information to the memory device. The memory device is configured to provide the data to the memory storage, the data output from the host, the data encoded in accordance with the DBI information, the providing the data being in accordance with the data parallelizing system.
US11409672B2
A memory module includes at least two memory devices. Each of the memory devices perform verify operations after attempted writes to their respective memory cores. When a write is unsuccessful, each memory device stores information about the unsuccessful write in an internal write retry buffer. The write operations may have only been unsuccessful for one memory device and not any other memory devices on the memory module. When the memory module is instructed, both memory devices on the memory module can retry the unsuccessful memory write operations concurrently. Both devices can retry these write operations concurrently even though the unsuccessful memory write operations were to different addresses.
US11409652B2
Systems and methods for estimating the number of workers needed to perform a garbage collection operation are disclosed. Similarity groups are used to identify segments associated with objects in a computing system. Using deletion records that identify objects to be deleted, the similarity groups impacted by the deletion records can be identified. The number of workers can be determined based on the impacted similarity groups. More specifically, the number of impacted similarity groups and/or workers can be evaluated in terms of memory requirements, input/output constraints and/or time requirements to estimate the number or workers needed to clean similarity groups impacted by a garbage collection operation.
US11409651B2
Devices and techniques for host accelerated operations in managed NAND devices are described herein. A host logical-to-physical (L2P) table of the NAND device has an associated map. Entries in the map correspond to one or more logical addresses (LA) and indicate whether the host L2P table is current for those LAs. If the table is not current, then a request will bypass the host L2P table, using a standard device L2P lookup instead. Otherwise, the host L2P table can be used.
US11409649B2
A data storage interconnect system has a network controller with a first expansion bus switch connected to a central processor over an expansion bus interface thereof, and a first transceiver connected to the first expansion bus switch. A directly attachable storage host with a second transceiver is communicatively linked to the first transceiver of the network controller. A second expansion bus switch is connected to the second transceiver, and is connectable to a removable storage device over an expansion bus interface. The removable storage device communicates with the second expansion bus switch over an expansion bus protocol. A data transmission link interconnects the first transceiver and the second transceiver, with expansion bus protocol data traffic between the first expansion bus switch and the second expansion bus switch being carried thereon.
US11409641B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for mutation testing of database functions. A computing device identifies database functions for testing from at least one database. The computing device generates, for each identified database function, mutated database functions by automatically applying mutations to the identified database function that change aspects of the identified database function. The computing device deploys the mutated database functions to the at least one database. The computing device determines line coverage attributes associated with each mutated database function. The computing device selects tests for execution against each mutated database function based upon the line coverage attributes associated with each mutated database function. The computing device executes the selected tests against each mutated database function using test automation applications to determine an outcome associated with each test. The computing device generates an output file comprising the outcome associated with each test executed against the mutated database functions.
US11409636B2
The present disclosure discloses a debug unit, comprising: a write register configured to store kernel write data written by a kernel of a processor, wherein the processor is communicatively coupled to a debugger configured to read the kernel write data, wherein the kernel write data is associated with a kernel write flag bit to indicate data validity of the kernel write data; and a control unit including circuitry configured to control access to the write register by the kernel of the processor and the debugger based on data validity indicated by the kernel write flag bit. The present disclosure further discloses a corresponding processor including the debug unit, a corresponding debugger communicatively coupled to the processor, and a corresponding debug system including the processor coupled to the debugger.
US11409628B2
A system, includes: a distributed cache that stores state information for a plurality of configuration items (CIs). Management, instrumentation, and discovery (MID) servers form a cluster, each of the MID servers including one or more processors that receive, from the distributed cache, a subset of the state information associated with assigned CIs and perform a statistical analysis on the subset of the state information.
US11409624B2
The technology disclosed herein enables a guest executing in a host of a host computing system to access an IHMM device of the host computing system. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in the host, providing a virtualized IHMM device to a guest IHMM device driver in the guest and exchanging IHMM information between the guest IHMM device driver and the virtualized IHMM device. The method further provides, translating the IHMM information between the virtualized IHMM device and a host IHMM device driver on the host. The host IHMM device driver interacts with the host IHMM device based on the IHMM information.
US11409623B2
An integrated circuit (IC) power-up testing method, an IC power-up testing device, a storage medium and an electronic equipment are disclosed. The IC power-up testing method includes: obtaining power-up testing parameters for an IC; obtaining a plurality of power-up testing waveforms; generating a plurality of power-up test instances by conducting parameter assignments for the power-up testing waveforms based on the power-up testing parameters; and performing power-up tests on the IC using the plurality of power-up test instances. The method allows simulating various IC power-up scenarios through a plurality of power-up test instances.
US11409619B2
Post-copy is one of the two key techniques (besides pre-copy) for live migration of virtual machines in data centers. Post-copy provides deterministic total migration time and low downtime for write-intensive VMs. However, if post-copy migration fails for any reason, the migrating VM is lost because the VM's latest consistent state is split between the source and destination nodes during migration. PostCopyFT provides a new approach to recover a VM after a destination or network failure during post-copy live migration using an efficient reverse incremental checkpointing mechanism. PostCopyFT was implemented and evaluated in the KVM/QEMU platform. Experimental results show that the total migration time of post-copy remains unchanged while maintaining low failover time, downtime, and application performance overhead.
US11409617B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having energy harvesting circuitry that experiences power failures. The device may include computing circuitry having a processor coupled to the energy harvesting circuitry. The processor may be configured to reduce a number of write operations to a log structure having a hardware bit-vector used by the computing circuitry to boost computational progress even with the power failures.
US11409615B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating a backing layer having a file volume, in a layering file format and representing a portion of a volume snapshot that is backed up on a slower storage, and enabling an associated virtual machine. The method also includes generating an active layer comprising a second file volume, in the layering file format, representing a second portion of the volume snapshot, and enabling the associated virtual machine. The method further includes starting a process to pull a plurality of blocks from the backing layer to the active layer.
US11409614B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a technique for performing an enhanced backup and restore for a computing device. The method may include: receiving, at a backup management device, a request to perform an enhanced backup operation; creating, by the backup management device, an enhanced recovery asset including computing device data items and stored on a backup storage device; performing a backup operation of a volume of the computing device to obtain a first backup container; performing a backup operation of system state information associated with the computing device to obtain a second backup container; associating the first backup container and the second backup container with the enhanced recovery asset; receiving, by the backup management device, a second request to perform a recovery operation; and performing, based on the second request, the recovery operation using at least a portion of the enhanced recovery asset.
US11409613B1
A backup manager for providing backup services to clients includes storage for storing a priority list. The backup manager also includes a processor programmed to obtain a request to generate a backup for a client of the clients; make a determination that the client is a high restoration priority client using the priority list; in response to the determination: obtain a raw disk backup for the client; and store the raw disk backup in backup storage in raw disk format.
US11409612B2
A method for performing a backup operation includes obtaining, by a backup server, container information associated with a plurality of application containers, generating a container score for each application container in the plurality of application containers based on the container information, identifying a resource availability for a backup agent associated with the plurality of application containers, generating an ordering of the plurality of application containers based on the availability and the container scores, and sending a prioritization list update request to the backup agent based on the ordering.
US11409608B2
Providing host-based error detection capabilities in a remote execution device is disclosed. A remote execution device performs a host-offloaded operation that modifies a block of data stored in memory. Metadata is generated locally for the modified of block of data such that the local metadata generation emulates host-based metadata generation. Stored metadata for the block of data is updated with the locally generated metadata for the modified portion of the block of data. When the host performs an integrity check on the modified block of data using the updated metadata, the host does not distinguish between metadata generated by the host and metadata generated in the remote execution device.
US11409607B1
Example implementations relate to Basic Input Output System updates. In some examples, a computing device can include a memory, a processor to, in response to completion of a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) update, generate and store a boot status variable in the memory, determine whether the BIOS update was successful, in response to the BIOS update being successful, delete the boot status variable from the memory and perform a power event, and in response to the BIOS update being unsuccessful, perform a BIOS recovery.
US11409605B2
Systems and methods include receiving an exception raised by a database storage system in response to a database operation requested by an application, providing, in response to the exception, the application with a pointer to a failover framework comprising a memory store, receiving, from the application and at the failover framework, a request to write first data, storing, in response to the request to write first data, the first data in a tree structure of the memory store in chronological order, receiving, from the application and at the failover framework, a request to read second data, and, in response to the request to read second data, sorting the tree structure primarily by user and secondarily by chronological order and reading the second data from the sorted tree structure.
US11409600B2
Disclosed in some examples are memory devices which increase a parallelism of host operations of a memory device. While a first block of data from a first stripe in a first memory die is being read, blocks of data belonging to a second stripe stored in memory dies other than the first memory die are concurrently read. This includes reading the parity value of the second stripe. The parity data, along with the blocks of data from the second stripe from dies other than the first die are then used to determine the block of data of the second stripe stored in the first memory die without actually reading the value from the block in the first memory die. This reconstruction may be done in parallel with additional read operations for other data performed on the first die.
US11409598B2
A semiconductor device includes a selection input circuit and a core data generation circuit. The selection input circuit is configured to generate selection data, a selection parity, and a selection data control signal from data, a parity, and a data control signal during a write operation and sets the selection data, the selection parity, and the selection data control signal to a predetermined logic level during a pattern write operation. The core data generation circuit is configured to receive drive data, a drive parity, and a drive data control signal driven by the selection data, the selection parity, and the selection data control signal to generate core data which are stored into a memory core according to whether an error correction operation and a data inversion operation is performed.
US11409595B2
Methods, systems, and devices for channel modulation for a memory device are described. A system may include a memory device and a host device coupled with the memory device. The system may be configured to communicate a first signal modulated using a first modulation scheme and communicate a second signal that is based on the first signal and that is modulated using a second modulation scheme. The first modulation scheme may include a first quantity of voltage levels that span a first range of voltages, and the second modulation scheme may include a second quantity of voltage levels that span a second range of voltages different than (e.g., smaller than) the first range of voltages. The first signal may include write data carried over a data channel, and the second signal may include error detection information based on the write data that is carried over an error detection channel.
US11409593B1
Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: in an information technology (IT) management system, grouping one or more ongoing service failure events into a service failure record; identifying a representative event for the service failure record; identifying one or more conversations that relate to the one or more ongoing service events; computing, using a similarity algorithm, feature similarity scores for respective conversations of the one or more conversations based, at least in part, on the features associated with the representative event and features associated with the respective conversations; linking a subset of the one or more conversations to the one or more ongoing service events in the service failure record based, at least in part, on the computed feature similarity scores; and providing the service failure record to a collaboration platform utilized in addressing the one or more ongoing service events.
US11409592B2
A method or system for predicting failures in an earth-boring tool. Communication between one or more nodes in the earth-boring tool may be monitored. Metadata from the communication may be stored in a storage device. The metadata may be compared to historical communication metadata. The metadata may be fed into models built from historic metadata. Predictions from the models may be aggregated in to a recommendation. A failure prediction for each of the one or more nodes may be generated from the comparison.
US11409591B2
An anomaly determination apparatus, an anomaly determination method, and a program, capable of easily determining whether or not an anomaly has occurred are provided. An anomaly determination apparatus (1) includes a transformation unit (2) and an anomaly determination unit (3). The transformation unit (2) performs a transformation process using a transform function for transforming an anomaly level of a signal into a probability variable value, the probability variable value being a variable value in accordance with a predetermined probability distribution. Note that the transform function is a monotone function. The anomaly determination unit (3) determines presence/absence of an anomaly of a sample of the anomaly level by using a result of the transformation by the transformation unit (2).
US11409590B2
There are provided systems and methods for a proactive outreach platform for server-driven communication channel presentation. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may utilize a data aggregation operation to detect different error or help events occurring thought different domains, pages, and interfaces of service provider. Using these events, mappings of user intents that resulted in the error event, and assistance channels may be generated. Rule may be established for mapping user intents to channels based on the error events, as well as issue priority and user engagement. Thereafter, when a user accesses a particular online service of the service provider and is performing an operation that results in an error, such as an account access failure, the mappings and rules may be used to proactively outreach to the user with a particular assistance channel that may result the user's error event.
US11409588B1
In an approach for generating hardware failure labels, a processor receives sensor data from a plurality of sensors associated with a hardware system. A processor calculates an adaptive stress factor, wherein the adaptive stress factor is a dynamic selection model. A processor calculates an adaptive stress time window, wherein the adaptive stress time window is a spatial distribution of the adaptive stress factor. A processor calculates a relative duty cycle, wherein the relative duty cycle is a first function of an internal state of the hardware system, a type of input to the hardware system, the adaptive stress factor, and the adaptive stress time window. A processor generates a failure label, wherein the failure label is calculated as a second function of the relative duty cycle and a design duty cycle.
US11409575B2
The present disclosure provides a computation method and product thereof. The computation method adopts a fusion method to perform machine learning computations. Technical effects of the present disclosure include fewer computations and less power consumption.
US11409568B2
In an approach for pod scheduling and recursion, a processor schedules a master pod and one or more worker pods for applications to be deployed on a cluster. A processor builds a topology between the master pod and the one or more worker pods. A processor monitors a workload in the one or more worker pods. A processor determines whether any of the one or more worker pods needs to scale out. In response to determining that one of the one or more worker pods needs to scale out, a processor schedules a next layer of the one or more worker pods according to the workload.
US11409567B2
An application management method, a terminal, a computer readable storage medium, and a computer program product including an instruction are disclosed. The method includes: suspending a background application when the background application meets a preset condition and disconnecting a communication link between the background application and a communications module when suspending the background application. Applicable to management of background applications on terminals, this method is intended to resolve a problem existing in the prior art that a battery life of the terminal is reduced when a large quantity of applications run in the background.
US11409566B2
A process control unit (41) causes a plurality of control-target processes to operate in a memory area of a size equal to or smaller than a limiting value x. When a stopping process is detected, a resource allocation unit (43) allocates a size of a usable memory area for each of the control-target processes as a relaxed limiting value. When the stopping process is detected, the process control unit (41) causes each of the control-target processes to perform fallback operation in a memory area of a size equal to or smaller than the relaxed limiting value allocated to the process by the resource allocation unit (43).
US11409563B2
Disclosed is an improved system, method, and computer program product to allocate backup devices for a database system, where an appropriate appliance can be automatically allocated to accommodate backups. The allocation selects an appliance that effectively balances space allocation needs of the database with overall performance effects on a multi-tenant backup system that handles multiple databases of varying sizes.
US11409554B2
Approaches for managing how the passage of time is observed by a software execution environment, such as a virtual machine or a sandbox environment. A computer system maintains a set of physical time sources. A set of virtual time sources are computed based on the set of physical time sources. The virtual time sources operate independently of the set of physical time sources. For example, the virtual time sources may observe time passing faster or slower than the set of physical time sources. The set of virtual time sources are presented to the software execution environment as the set of time sources. Many benefits may be obtained such as higher utilization of allocated resources and avoidance of timeouts.
US11409551B2
A system and method of emulating virtual processor identifiers includes a nested hypervisor requesting a virtual processor identifier, which identifies a virtual processor, the request triggering an exit to a host hypervisor. The host hypervisor identifies a request including the virtual processor identifier. The host hypervisor generates a key defining an association between a virtual machine and the virtual processor identifier. The host hypervisor stores the key.
US11409547B2
A method for rendering a user interface and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes running a target application; obtaining a running stage in which the target application is located currently or go next; generating a rendering strategy that is adapted to the running stage; and rendering the user interface of which the target application is to be presented in the running stage through the rendering strategy.
US11409541B2
An information handling system may include a processor, non-transitory computer readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a primary operating system of the information handling system and a secondary operating system of the information handling system, and a basic input/output system communicatively coupled to the processor and having provisioned thereon a signed signature of the secondary operating system signed with a private key of a public-private key pair and a public key of the public-private key pair. The basic input/output system is configured to, responsive to a determination to boot to the secondary operating system in lieu of booting to the primary operating system of the information handling system verify the secondary operating system using the signed signature of the secondary operating system and the public key and responsive to verifying the secondary operating system, allow the information handling system to boot to the secondary operating system.
US11409538B2
A data processing system includes a sensor data acquisition circuit configured to acquire sensor data from at least one sensor and a server circuit configured to receive the sensor data from the sensor data acquisition circuit and to forward the sensor data to a processing unit. The sensor data transmission path from the sensor data acquisition circuit to the server circuits might be setup as a static configuration. Any physical connection issue between the sensor data acquisition circuits and the server circuits would force the system to pre-defined data routing configurations.
US11409529B2
The present invention relates to a hardware high-speed computation combined RISC-V based computation device for supporting a user-defined instruction set and a method thereof which configures a hardware high-speed computation unit executing a user-defined function through a field programmable gate array (FPGA) in a single chip together with a RISC-V based computation device, executes general computation and user-defined computation in an instruction level, not a separate bus connection configuration, through a program using a RISC-V based instruction set including a user-defined instruction set, and provides flexibility capable of optionally changing the user-defined instruction set and a corresponding function and a method thereof.
US11409521B2
A method for an uncontrolled modeling language to be hyperpiled into a general purpose language is disclosed herein. The method overcomes previous limitations by allowing for a modeling language that is syntactically simple, while conceptually unlimited, while offloading the burdens of minutia and control structure to the hyperpiler.
US11409520B2
A system includes reception of a definition of a first attribute to associate with a logical object of the first application, reception of a definition of a second attribute to associate with a second logical object of the first application, determination, based on the definition of the first attribute and the definition of the second attribute, that the first attribute and the second attribute are associated with a same semantic, based on the determination, generation of e a first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute and storing the first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute in a first data schema associated with the first application, and storage of the first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute in an analytics schema associated with an analytics application.
US11409517B2
The correct clusters of operating system (OS) components to package for hydration to client devices is learned through analyzing telemetry data of numerous end devices. The telemetry data captures snapshots of the OS components that were used or loaded by the end devices during runs of different applications. An OS component service mines this telemetry data and compares the frequency in which pairs of OS components are used by the end devices together during the different applications runs. Using on these frequencies, the OS components are filtered in a relationship graph and an clustering algorithm is applied to determine whether the OS components are interdependent (meaning used together) or independent (meaning not used together). Interdependent OS components are packaged together into a hydration package and may be transmitted to client computing devices requesting any of their constituent OS components.
US11409515B2
An example of an apparatus including a communication interface to receive telemetry data from a client device. The telemetry data includes a resource capacity and a usage level. The apparatus further includes a grading engine to generate a scoring map. The apparatus also includes a diagnostic engine in communication with the communication interface and the grading engine. The diagnostic engine is to generate a score based on an application of the scoring map on the telemetry data. The apparatus also includes an upgrade engine to implement an upgrade at the client device based on the score.
US11409507B1
A software project management system can store object data about components of a software development project, such epics, features, and stories. The software project management system can also store dependency objects that reflect dependency relationships between two or more components of the software development project. The dependency objects can track status information about the dependency relationships, including expected completion dates, acceptance criteria, and state indicators. The information stored in the dependency objects can be updated over time as information about the dependency relationship changes. The software project management system can also use the dependency objects to display information in a user interface about one or more dependency relationships, such as to indicate which dependency relationships are on track or behind schedule.
US11409506B2
Examples may include a method of compiling a declarative language program for a virtual switch. The method includes parsing the declarative language program, the program defining a plurality of match-action tables (MATs), translating the plurality of MATs into intermediate code, and parsing a core identifier (ID) assigned to each one of the plurality of MATs. When the core IDs of the plurality of MATs are the same, the method includes connecting intermediate code of the plurality of MATs using function calls, and translating the intermediate code of the plurality of MATs into machine code to be executed by a core identified by the core IDs.
US11409505B1
Automatically generating code from an abstract model of a database. The abstract model is derived from a physical model which may be a source such as a legacy database, an entity relationship diagram, or other schema defining the data tables, objects, entities, or relationships etc. of the source. The generated code exhibits several patterns, interfaces and/or features including (a) separation of generated and developer code (b) context patterns (c) response/action patterns (d) language, database interfaces, operating systems and/or (e) user interface patterns.
US11409501B1
An approach for detecting non-compliant methodologies in a repository. The approach can generate an abstract model of an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) repository based on security requirements of an IaC. The approach can compare the abstract model to one or more validated abstract models associated with other repositories of a hybrid multi-cloud system. The approach can generate an alert notifying the IaC repository of one or more non-compliant methodology measures. The approach can send the alert to the IaC repository.
US11409498B2
A data processing system calculates prediction or planning data of an object from observation data of a calculation object of the prediction or planning data and observation data of various factors, including a first processing section which identifies a model used for calculation of the prediction or planning data of each of the factors, a second processing section which calculates data which indices the kind of a time transition of the factor from the observation data of the factor and classifies the observation data of the factor by using the calculated data which indicates the kind of the time transition, and a third processing section which changes the model for calculation of the prediction or planning data on the basis of the classified observation data and the prediction data of the factor in a prediction or planning data calculation object time period and calculates the prediction or planning data.
US11409493B2
A photographing method includes enabling, by a first terminal device, an image shooting function, and obtaining and displaying a preview image, outputting, by the first terminal device, first prompt information based on the preview image if the preview image includes an image of an image output device, where the first prompt information indicates that the first terminal device can connect to a second terminal device which is a device determined by the first terminal device based on feature information of the image output device, connecting, by the first terminal device, to the second terminal device in response to an operation of triggering the first prompt information, receiving, by the first terminal device, first image sent by the second terminal device, where the first image includes content currently played by an image output device of the second terminal device.
US11409484B2
A system including a server and a terminal device controls a specific printer. The server includes an input acquisition unit that acquires input data generated based on sound data indicating voice by an utterer and transmitted from a voice input device to which the voice is input, and a print instruction output unit that outputs print instruction data indicating an instruction relating to a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the input data. The terminal device includes a print instruction receiving unit that receives the print instruction data transmitted from the server via a first communication interface, a print job generation unit that generates print job data indicating a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the print instruction data, and a print job transmission unit that transmits the print job data to the specific printer via a second communication interface.
US11409482B2
A communication apparatus performs communication processing in the first communication mode and the second communication mode to set a communication period of the first communication mode per unit time to be longer than that of the second communication mode in a case where both the first communication mode and the second communication mode are enabled, a communication partner apparatus in the first communication mode is determined, and a communication partner apparatus in the second communication mode is not determined.
US11409475B2
An inspection apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: conducts an inspection on an image by comparing a scanned image with a correct image, the image being formed on paper in accordance with a print job, the scanned image being generated by reading the image, the correct image serving as a reference for the inspection of the image; and determines whether a page is a target for the inspection in accordance with a type of the paper on which the image will be formed according to print setting of the print job, wherein the hardware processor conducts the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to be the target for the inspection by the hardware processor, and does not conduct the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to not be the target for the inspection.
US11409469B2
An operation method of a storage device including first and second physical functions respectively corresponding to first and second hosts includes receiving performance information from each of the first and second hosts, setting a first weight value corresponding to the first physical function and a second weight value corresponding to the second physical function, based on the received performance information, selecting one of a first submission queue, a second submission queue, a third submission queue, and a fourth submission queue based on an aggregated value table, the first and second submission queues being managed by the first host and the third and fourth submission queues are managed by the second host, processing a command from the selected submission queue, and updating the aggregated value table based on a weight value corresponding to the processed command from among the first and second weights and input/output (I/O) information of the processed command.
US11409466B2
In one embodiment, a method provides access to a data storage device from a host coupled to the data storage device. The host is running a plurality of virtual functions. The method includes receiving an inbound request to a memory of a storage device controller of the data storage device. The memory of the storage device controller includes a DRAM memory and a non-DRAM memory. Whether the inbound request is a CMB/PMR transaction request is determined. The CMB/PMR transaction request is scheduled. Whether the scheduled CMB/PMR transaction request is allowed is determined. The allowed CMB/PMR transaction request is issued toward the DRAM memory of the storage device controller.
US11409462B2
Devices and techniques for data removal marking in a memory device are described herein. A delete command can be received at the memory device. A count of data portions in the delete command can be compared to determine whether the count is below a threshold. In response to determining that the count of data portions is below the threshold, the data portions can be written to a buffer. When a buffer full event is detected, a segment of an L2P data structure can be loaded into working memory of the memory device. Then, each record in the segment of the L2P data structure that has a corresponding entry in the buffer can be updated to mark the data as removable (e.g., invalid).
US11409457B1
A method and system for co-locating journaling and data storage based on write requests. A write request that includes metadata and data is received from a client. A logical storage unit for storing the metadata and the data is identified. The logical storage unit is divided into a journal partition and a volume partition. The journal partition includes a first log and a second log. Which of the first log and the second log is an active log and which of the first log and the second log is an inactive log are identified. The metadata is recorded in a first location in the active log and the data is recorded in a second location in the active log during a single I/O operation. A reply is sent to the client after the metadata and the data are recorded in the journal partition.
US11409455B2
Techniques are used for enabling deduplication for asynchronous replication in a storage system. The techniques may be used to provide, among other things, retrieving, on a source system, a virtual index key corresponding to a logical address, and determining whether a deduplication index table for a target system includes an entry with the same virtual index key.
US11409454B1
A protocol for processing write operations may include recording each write operation in a log using a PDESC(page descriptor)-PB(page block) pair. The protocol may be a data commit sequence that assigns ownership to containers of logged writes. Each container may be associated with a particular logical block address (LBA) range of a logical device, where logged writes that write to target addresses in the particular LBA range of the logical device may be included in the container. Ownership of a container may be determined by the initial write operation that is mapped to, and placed into, the container based on the target logical address of the write operation. A container may be allocated in response to the initial write operation of the container. Multiple nodes may independently flush containers of logged operations based on the particular node designated as the current owner of the containers.
US11409443B2
A data storage device including, in one implementation, a non-volatile memory device and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory device. The non-volatile memory device includes a memory block. The controller is configured to receive a cycle operation request and perform a wear-level mitigation operation in response to receiving the cycle operation request. To perform the wear-level mitigation operation, the controller is configured to determine a read state condition of the memory block, perform the requested cycle operation, and increment a cycle count of the memory block by a value based on the determined read state condition of the memory block. The first read state of the memory block and the second read state of the memory block are based on a wordline voltage that is associated with the memory block.
US11409438B2
A peripheral circuit includes a data preparation circuit, configured to selectively import, to a row or column of the resistive random access memory (RRAM) crossbar array based on a first control signal, preprocessed data obtained by first preprocessing on first data that is input into the data preparation circuit, a data selection circuit, configured to selectively export second data from the row or column of the RRAM crossbar array based on a second control signal, and perform second preprocessing on the second data to obtain third data, a data reading circuit, configured to: perform a weight update control operation, and perform a max pooling operation on fourth data that is input into the data reading circuit, to obtain fifth data, and a reverse training computation circuit, configured to calculate an error and a derivative of sixth data that is input into the reverse training computation circuit.
US11409433B2
Systems and methods are provided to enable users to interact with user terminals having a touch screen interface without requiring the user to physically contact a surface of the touch screen interface.
US11409426B2
A user interface (UI), data structures and algorithms facilitate programming, analyzing, debugging, embedding, and/or modifying problems that are embedded or to be embedded on an analog processor (e.g., quantum processor), increasing computational efficiency and/or accuracy of problem solutions. The UI provides graph representations (e.g., source graph, target graph and correspondence therebetween) with nodes and edges which may map to hardware components (e.g., qubits, couplers) of the analog processor. Characteristics of solutions are advantageously represented spatially associated (e.g., overlaid or nested) with characteristics of a problem. Characteristics (e.g., bias state) may be represented by color, pattern, values, icons. Issues (e.g., broken chains) may be detected and alerts provided. Problem representations may be modified via the UI, and a computer system may autonomously generate new instances of the problem representation, update data structures, embed the new instance and cause the new instance to be executed by the analog processor.
US11409419B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for sound-directed graphic accessibility. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to present a graphic on a touch-enabled display of a device. The graphic may be formatted as a binary graphic with lines defining edges of objects within the graphic. The code is executable by the processor to detect a touch on the touch-enabled display. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to determining that the touch is at a location on the display that corresponds to a line of the graphic, provide at least one sound to direct the touch to follow the line of the graphic.
US11409410B2
The present disclosure generally relates to managing user inputs. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via a button. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via touch sensors. In some examples, the biometric sensor and/or the touch sensor is integrated into the button.
US11409404B2
Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence, in conjunction with a user point-of-view, being navigable by the user in at least a two-dimensional sub-space of the spatial publishing object space.
US11409401B2
A touch sensor and a display device including the same, in which the touch sensor includes a base layer including a first sensing area and a second sensing area, a sensing driving electrode extending along a first direction in the first sensing area and the second sensing area, a first sub-sensing electrode disposed in the first sensing area and extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a second sub-sensing electrode disposed in the second sensing area and extending along the second direction, a first common electrode disposed in the first sensing area, and a second common electrode disposed in the second sensing area. The first sub-sensing electrode and the second sub-sensing electrode are electrically connected to each other.
US11409394B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first electrode layer provided on a display surface side to prevent noise from being emitted from a display element to the outside; a second electrode layer provided outside the first electrode layer to perform position detection; a hover signal generation unit that generates a detection signal to be input to the second electrode layer and the first electrode layer for detection of an indicator approaching the display surface; a common electrode that applies a common voltage to derive the display element; a cancellation signal generation unit that generates a cancellation signal which cancels a signal component leaking from the first electrode layer to the common electrode; and a voltage addition unit that superimposes a cancellation signal on the common voltage.
US11409391B2
A touch display device in which routing lines are formed to have the same resistance value. Routing lines connected to touch electrodes in a non-active area and display signal links electrically connected to a light-emitting element are formed in different shapes from each other, and the lengths of at least one of zigzag patterns of the routing lines disposed in the non-active area and single-line regions are formed differently.
US11409390B2
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for touch and speech interface, with audio location, includes structure and/or function whereby at least one processor: (i) receives a touch input from a touch device; (ii) establishes a touch-speech time window; (iii) receives a speech input from a speech device; (iii) determines whether the speech input is present in a global dictionary; (iv) determines a location of a sound source from the speech device; (v) determines whether the touch input and the location of the speech input are both within a same region; (vi) if the speech input is in the dictionary, determines whether the speech input has been received within the window; and (vii) if the speech input has been received within the window, and the touch input and the speech input are both within the same region, activates an action corresponding to both the touch input and the speech input.
US11409389B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring touchscreen events (3) of a handheld device (6), wherein —a monitoring application (1) is provided, —at least one touchscreen event (3) on a display screen (61) of said handheld device (6) is detected by means of said monitoring application (1), wherein the touchscreen event (3) is directed to a foreground application (2), —event data (4) is generated for said at least one touchscreen event (3) by means of said monitoring application (1), wherein said event data (4) comprises a time stamp (41) of said at least one touchscreen event (3) and an identification (42) of said foreground application (2), —said event data (4) is stored by means of said monitoring application (1). The invention further relates to a computer program for executing the steps of the method according to the invention.
US11409387B2
A display device includes a display panel including display pads, display connection pads disposed on a side surface of the display panel and connected to the display pads, a touch member including touch pads disposed on a display surface perpendicular to the side surface of the display panel, and touch connection pads overlapping a top surface of the touch member and the side surface of the display panel and connected to the touch pads. The side surface of the display panel includes a first area overlapping the display connection pads, a second area overlapping the touch connection pads, and a third area which does not overlap the display connection pads and does not overlap the touch connection pads. The first area, the second area, and the third area are located on a same plane.
US11409386B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, by implementing a touch routing line using a part of a display electrode metal disposed in a non-active area of a display panel, the non-active area is reduced, and the touch routing line can be disposed while preventing an increase of a load of the touch routing line. Furthermore, by connecting the touch routing line implemented with the display electrode metal under an encapsulation layer to a touch electrode on the encapsulation layer through a connecting metal located under a dam, the touch routing line can be disposed under the encapsulation layer without dropping a function of the encapsulation layer for reducing moisture permeation.
US11409376B2
A method for controlling movement of a computer display cursor based on a point-of-aim of a pointing device within an interaction region includes projecting an image of a computer display to create the interaction region. At least one calibration point having a predetermined relation to the interaction region is established. A pointing line is directed to substantially pass through the calibration point while measuring a position of and an orientation of the pointing device. The pointing line has a predetermined relationship to the pointing device. Movement of the cursor is controlled within the interaction region using measurements of the position of and the orientation of the pointing device.
US11409375B2
A method of adjusting an optical setting of an optical input device includes: determining a desired level of an intensity of captured reflected light reflected from a tracking surface; determining whether a surface changing event occurs; and adjusting an optical setting of the optical input device according to the desired level of the intensity of the captured reflected light if it is determined the surface changing event occurs.
US11409363B2
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for detecting pinch gestures in an augmented reality environment. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a wearable display, a sensor, and a processing device. The wearable display may be configured to attach to a head of a user and display an augmented reality environment to the user. The sensor may be configured to detect a position of a first digit of a hand of the user and detect a position of a second digit of the hand of the user. The processing device may be configured to: identify a first fingertip of the first digit; identify a second fingertip of the second digit; determine that the first fingertip and the second fingertip are in an open pinch position at a first point in time; and display a cursor at a midpoint between the first fingertip and the second fingertip.
US11409361B2
A computer device is provided that includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.
US11409360B1
A method comprising determining a set of position parameters for an inertial measurement unit (IMU) on a headset worn by a user. The set of position parameters includes at least a first yaw measurement and a first roll measurement. The set describes a pointing vector. The method further comprises calculating a drift correction component that describes a rate of correction. The drift correction component is based at least in part on the set of position parameters. The method further comprises applying the drift correction component to one or more subsequent yaw measurements for the IMU. The drift correction component forces an estimated nominal position vector to the pointing vector at the rate of correction.
US11409355B2
Techniques for power savings in communications equipment are provided. The computer-implemented method can comprise identifying, by an electronic device operatively coupled to a processing unit, one or more connectivity requirements of one or more servers associated with a data center. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the electronic device, a defined graph that satisfies the one or more connectivity requirements. The computer-implemented method can further comprise powering down, by the electronic device, one or more elements of the data center that are not required by the defined graph; and powering up, by the device one or more nodes of the data center, which are in any state other than power up, that are required by the defined graph.
US11409353B2
Self capacitance touch circuits to cancel the effects of parasitic capacitance in a touch sensitive device are disclosed. One circuit can generate a parasitic capacitance cancelation signal that can be injected into touch sensing circuitry to cancel the parasitic capacitance. Another circuit can adjust the phase and magnitude of the parasitic capacitance cancelation signal based on characteristics of channels in the touch sensing circuitry so as to fine tune the parasitic capacitance cancelations. Another circuit can drive a guard plate and touch panel electrodes so as to cancel the parasitic capacitances between the panel and the plate and between the electrodes.
US11409349B2
A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to process an event stream that includes one or more high power events. Tracking circuitry tracks the one or more high power events and power management circuitry manages power consumption by controlling a voltage supply and a frequency of a clock signal provided to the processing circuitry. The power management circuitry controls an extent to which execution by the processing circuitry of the high power events is restricted.
US11409346B2
A control circuit is provided. A memory is configured to store a program code. A central processing unit (CPU) executes a plurality of instructions according to the program code. When a specific instruction is executed by the CPU, the CPU generates a control signal. A power mode management circuit generates a selection signal according to the control signal. A processing circuit transforms first power data according to the selection signal. A first storage circuit stores the first power data. The processing circuit generates first set data and second set data according to first power data. A first specific device operates in a first power mode according to the first set data. A second specific device operates in a second power mode according to the second set data. The first storage circuit, the power mode management circuit and the processing circuit are in an always-on state.
US11409342B2
A modular PC cooling pump for use in a personal computer is disclosed, according to certain embodiments. The modular PC cooling pump comprises a plurality of stackable interchangeable modules, according to certain embodiments.
US11409335B2
A display device including a display panel having a plurality of signal wirings disposed on a side surface, each of the signal wirings including a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface; and a printed circuit board attached to the side surface of the display panel and including a base film and a plurality of lead wirings disposed on one surface of the base film. Each of the lead wirings includes a first lead portion and a second lead portion having a thickness less than that of the first lead portion. The first lead portion is bonded to the second surface, and the second lead portion is bonded to the first surface.
US11409334B2
A device includes a first body, a second body, and a rotating shaft connection mechanism configured to connect the first body and the second body. The rotating shaft connection mechanism includes N rotating shaft components, a connection component, and N movable linear components corresponding to the N rotating shaft components. An ith linear component is wound around a rotating shaft of a corresponding ith rotating shaft component. A segment of extending linear component and a segment of extending linear component separately pass through the connection component. When the second body rotates relative to the first body, the segment of linear component and the segment of linear component have different rotation radii.
US11409333B2
The disclosure provides a foldable display device comprising a flexible display panel, a foldable mechanism, a support, and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism includes two base plates and a fixing part. The flexible display panel is located on the two base plates. The flexible display panel when in an unfolded state is located on the fixing part. When the flexible display panel is in a folded state, a portion of the flexible display panel enters into a cavity of the fixing part through an opening.
US11409316B2
A method for operating an energy generation system containing a photovoltaic generator and an inverter, wherein electric power is transferred between the inverter and an AC voltage grid, and wherein the transferred electric power comprises an active power (P) and a reactive power (Q) is disclosed. The method includes operating the photovoltaic generator, in a first operating mode, at a maximum active power point (MPP) by way of the inverter, and setting the active power (P) of the photovoltaic generator via the inverter in a second operating mode depending on a grid frequency instantaneous value (f) and on a grid frequency rate of change (df/dt), and in the second operating mode, setting the reactive power (Q) depending on a grid voltage instantaneous value (U) and on a grid voltage rate of change (dU/dt).
US11409314B2
The invention provides a full swing voltage conversion circuit. The full swing voltage conversion circuit comprises: an input terminal for inputting a first level signal; an output terminal for outputting a second level signal; a differential input unit for inverting the first level signal of the input terminal, and outputting a differential input signal; a conversion unit; and an output driving unit; wherein the full swing voltage conversion circuit further comprises an auxiliary pull-down unit between the input terminal and the conversion unit for receiving a feedback to improve capability of the conversion unit in recognizing the differential input signal, such that the full swing voltage conversion circuit of the invention can convert from inputting a low voltage to outputting a high voltage.
US11409310B2
A unit for the regulation for control of a fluid pressure, having at least one housing section and a switching film connected to the at least one housing section. A chemically inert, non-rubber-like PTFEswitching film switching film is disposed in the valve housing and switches at pressure differences of 1 mbar to 250 mbar for regulating, opening or blocking a flow of a fluid from the inlet to the outlet. The switching film is formed of a fluorine and carbon containing polymer material. The switching film has a plate-shaped flat body with a bending region and has a central closure region surrounded by the bending region. The bending region, when switching the switching film, moves the central closure region relative to a valve seat of the valve housing in an axial direction of the plate-shaped flat body toward or away from the valve seat by a stretch free or low-stretch bending movement.
US11409304B1
The described techniques relate to predicting object behavior based on top-down representations of an environment comprising top-down representations of image features in the environment. For example, a top-down representation may comprise a multi-channel image that includes semantic map information along with additional information for a target object and/or other objects in an environment. A top-down image feature representation may also be a multi-channel image that incorporates various tensors for different image features with channels of the multi-channel image, and may be generated directly from an input image. A prediction component can generate predictions of object behavior based at least in part on the top-down image feature representation, and in some cases, can generate predictions based on the top-down image feature representation together with the additional top-down representation.
US11409288B2
A lane changing method, device for a driverless vehicle and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The lane changing method includes: determining candidate lanes, to which a lane changing is to be performed, based on a travelling intention of a main vehicle; screening the candidate lanes based on lane changing conditions of the candidate lanes; selecting, from the screened candidate lanes, a target lane, to which the lane changing of the main vehicle is to be performed; determining whether the lane changing of the main vehicle from a current lane to the target lane is safe; and performing the lane changing, if the lane changing is determined to be safe.
US11409277B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on storage devices, for monitoring, security, and surveillance of a property. In one aspect, a system includes multiple robotic devices, multiple sensors, wherein the multiple sensors includes a first sensor, multiple charging stations, and a monitor control unit. The monitor control unit may include a network interface, one or more processors, and one or more storage devices that include instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data from the first sensor that is indicative of an alarm event, accessing information describing the capabilities of the each of the robotic devices, selecting a subset of robotic devices from the multiple robotic devices, and transmitting a command to each robotic device in the subset of robotic devices that instructs each respective robotic device to deploy to the location of the first sensor.
US11409276B2
A program for operating a robot, comprising providing, a user interface for controlling a robot, wherein the user interface is from the perspective of a recording device, applying, an overlay over the robot, wherein the overlay is visible through the user interface, enabling, a user to control the position and orientation of a robot, connecting a user device with a robot, converting a request from a user to alter the position and orientation of the robot, where the request is processed based on the requested position and orientation of the robot based on a target location determined by the recording device, detecting, the updated robot position and orientation through the recording device, and altering, the robot position and orientation based on a request from the user and the preserved overlay of the robot based on the new position and orientation based on the recording device perspective of the robot.
US11409271B2
Data presented in a visual image is monitored and verified. A processing component receives data from sensors and other sources, and interprets the data to generate processed data. A render component generates a visual image based on the processed data. A projector component projects the image, which is received by a splitter component that splits the light stream of the image and routes a portion of light energy to the display screen viewed by the user and another portion of the light energy to a data verification component (DVC). DVC interprets information presented in the image to determine the data being presented to the user by the image. DVC also receives the processed data from the processing component. DVC compares the data determined from the image to the processed data to determine whether they match and takes appropriate responsive action if they do not match.
US11409269B2
A system including means for creating a workflow by receiving user input for combining a plurality of guidance elements, means for visually displaying the guidance elements and the workflow, means for saving the combination of the plurality of guidance elements into a file, means for obtaining the file using an application comprised in a mobile apparatus, means for executing the plurality of guidance elements combined in the file by the application.
US11409265B2
The invention relates to a method for the closed-loop control of a proportional integral-type controller (2) in an instrumentation and control device (1) of a closed-loop control system (3), in particular a servovalve-actuator system, said controller (2) including a setpoint-weighting coefficient (β), said closed-loop control method comprising the consecutive steps of assigning (11) a unit value to the set-point weighting coefficient (β), optimizing (12) a closed-loop control of the controller (2) satisfying at least one predefined performance criterion, defining a characteristic tracking error (εTC) making it possible to respond to the performance constraints of the system to be closed-loop controlled, and assigning (132) a setpoint weighting coefficient (β) value, depending on the characteristic tracking error (εTC) and the closed-loop control of the controller (2).
US11409261B2
In some examples, a distribution of values of a property of a given layer to be printed as part of three-dimensional (3D) printing is predicted, wherein the predicting is based on a distribution of values of the property in a previous layer that has been printed as part of the 3D printing. 3D printing of an object is controlled based on the predicted distribution of values of the property of the given layer.
US11409257B2
To facilitate work for creating a data utilization program for collecting control data held by a PLC and a dashboard for displaying the control data. A setting device receives selection of a dashboard, receives designation of collection target data, creates setting data including a set of a template of the dashboard and a template of a data utilization program, and transfers the setting data to a PLC. A second executing section of the PLC executes, based on the setting data, predetermined data processing on the collection target data to generate display target data. The display target data is linked with a graph display component included in the template of the display data of the dashboard.
US11409255B2
An output control apparatus that controls opening and closing between an output terminal connected to an external apparatus and a power supply terminal to which power for the external apparatus is supplied is provided. The output control apparatus includes a first switching element and a second switching element that are connected in series between the power supply terminal and the output terminal, a data generation portion that generates output data for turning on and off the first switching element and the second switching element based on a control command received from outside, a first controller that controls drive of the first switching element, and a second controller that controls drive of the second switching element.
US11409254B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing system, method and control circuitry for quality assured manufacturing of at least two biopharmaceutical products. The manufacturing system comprises a warehouse facility, a hydration facility, and at least two biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, wherein the warehouse facility and hydration facility are comprised in the macro structure. Each biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is comprised in a respective micro node, and a control facility in the macro structure is configured to control interoperability of the macro structure and the micro nodes by means of a network spine interconnecting the macro structure with each micro node.
US11409250B2
Systems and methods for training a surrogate model for predicting system states for a building management system based on generated data from a system identification model are disclosed herein. The system identification model is used to generate predicted system parameters of a zone of the building based on historic data from operation of the building equipment. The surrogate model is trained based on the predicted system parameters from the system identification model. Predicted future parameters of the variable state of the building are generated using the surrogate model. The surrogate model is re-trained based on new operational data from the building equipment. An updated series of predicted future parameters is generated using the re-trained surrogate model.
US11409246B2
A time display apparatus includes a display section that displays the time, a first receiver that receives a wireless signal containing information on the time zone corresponding to a destination from a transmitter provided in a moving object, a second receiver that receives a satellite signal from a positioning satellite to perform positioning and calculates position information, and a processor that is capable of selectively executing a first process of setting time to be displayed on the display section based on the time zone information and a second process of setting the time to be displayed on the display section based on the position information and does not execute the second process for the period until the processor determines that a predetermined condition is satisfied in a case where the first receiver has received the wireless signal.
US11409243B2
A transmission coupling (100), especially a timepiece transmission coupling, for the mechanical linkage of at least one first part (2A) of a first shaft at least movable in rotation about a first axis (A2) to at least one second part (3A) of a second shaft at least movable in rotation about a second axis (A3), the first and second axes being parallel or substantially parallel, the transmission coupling including the at least one first part (2A), the at least one second part (3A), and at least a first elastic return system (15, 16; 18; 16a′-16d′; 111a, 111b; 221, 222, 223, 224) arranged so as to limit or cancel out the play between the at least one first part (2A) and the at least one second part (3A), and connecting the at least one first part (2A) and the at least one second part (3A).
US11409239B2
A method for determining the validity of a parallax image, including: receiving a parallax image's captured two-dimensional image having at least three target identifiers, where at least two target identifiers are located at different depth planes in the parallax image; identifying at least three target identifiers in the parallax image's captured two-dimensional image and determining spatial relationship between at least three target identifiers in the two-dimensional image of the parallax image; comparing the spatial relationship of at least three target identifiers in the parallax image's captured two-dimensional image against a predetermined spatial relationship of at least three target identifiers that indicates authenticity; and adjudicating the authenticity of the parallax image based on the degree of difference between spatial relationship of at least three target identifiers in the parallax image's captured two-dimensional image and the predetermined spatial relationship of at least three target identifiers.
US11409221B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a cutting apparatus, and a controller. The cutting apparatus includes a conveyance path, a first cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to a conveyance direction of the sheet on the conveyance path, the sheet in a width direction perpendicularly intersecting with the conveyance direction, and a second cutting unit configured to cut, at a cutting position with respect to the width direction, the sheet in the conveyance direction. The controller is configured to control the cutting apparatus such that, in a case where the sheet is cut neither with the first cutting unit nor with the second cutting unit, the sheet is conveyed through the conveyance path with the first cutting unit and the second cutting unit retreated not to contact with the sheet passing through the conveyance path.
US11409218B2
An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a power supply circuit, a driving circuit, an opening/closing unit, a first switch configured to switch to a connected state and a disconnected state, at least one processor including a first mode for executing vector control for controlling the driving circuit and a second mode for controlling the driving circuit. The at least one processor is configured to determine a rotational phase using a detected current and a set control value, to control the driving circuit, to execute discriminating a type of the motor based on the detected current in the second mode, and to set the control value based on a result of the discriminating. The result based on the detected current in a state where the first switch is in the disconnected state is not used to set the control value.
US11409213B2
An image forming apparatus includes an AC input portion to which AC power is to be supplied from a commercial power source, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a fixing device including a first fixing heater and a second fixing heater which are configured to generate heat, the fixing device being configured to heat the image on the recording material by using the first fixing heater and the second fixing heater to fix the image to the recording material, a first relay configured to be switched between a first state in which electric connection is established and a second state in which electric connection is not established, and a second relay configured to be switched between a third state in which electric connection is established and a fourth state in which electric connection is not established.
US11409210B2
In a cartridge, a housing has a developer accommodating portion and includes a first side wall and a second side wall. A coupling member is disposed at a position opposite to the developer accommodating portion with respect to the first side wall. A detection body is disposed at a position opposite to the developer accommodating portion with respect to the second side wall. A first driving force transmission member is positioned at the same side with the coupling member with respect to the first side wall, and transmits driving force from the coupling member to a rotating member. A second driving force transmission member is positioned at the same side with the detection body with respect to the second side wall, and transmits driving force from the rotating member to the detection body.
US11409206B2
A method of determining a position of a feature (for example an alignment mark) on an object (for example a silicon wafer) is disclosed. The method comprises determining an offset parameter, determining the second position; and determining a first position from the second position and the offset parameter, the position of the mark being the first position. The offset parameter is a measure of a difference in: a first position that is indicative of the position of the feature; and a second position that is indicative of the position of the feature. The offset parameter may be determined using a first measurement apparatus and the second position may be determined using a second, different measurement apparatus.
US11409202B2
Provided is a digital exposure control method, including: performing exposure of different types of functional areas of a substrate to be exposed through one or a plurality of full-page scans, wherein scan speeds for different types of functional areas of the substrate to be exposed are different.
US11409200B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a substrate measuring device in a lithography projection apparatus that provides multiple light sources having different wavelengths. In some embodiments, a lithography projection apparatus includes a substrate measuring system disposed proximate to a substrate stage, the substrate measuring system further including an emitter including multiple light sources configured to provide multiple beams of light, each of at least some of the multiple beams of light having a different wavelength, at least one optical fiber, wherein each of respective portions of the at least one optical fiber is configured to pass a respective one of the multiple beams of light, and a receiver positioned to collected light emitted from the emitter and reflected off of a substrate disposed on the substrate stage.
US11409189B2
Provided are an optical module and an image display apparatus, in which an adjustment position of a compensation plate is easily maintained even in a case where the image display apparatus is miniaturized, and a method of manufacturing the image display apparatus. An optical module including a fixing part that fixes an adjustment position of a phase difference compensation plate in a Z-axis direction perpendicular to a main surface of a liquid crystal panel; a projection type image display apparatus including a light source, a rotation body that rotationally adjusts, by an angle adjustment member, rotation of a phase difference compensation plate disposed between a liquid crystal panel and a polarized beam splitter of the liquid crystal panel, and a holder part that fixes the angle adjustment member of the rotation body to a fixing part in a Z-axis direction; and a method of manufacturing an optical module, the method including fixing an adjustment position of a phase difference compensation plate in a Z-axis direction perpendicular to a main surface of a liquid crystal panel.
US11409175B1
A cholesteric liquid crystal device has an optical response opposite to that of the Prior Art. The liquid crystal device takes advantage of a unique and unusual effect in cholesteric liquid crystals where pressure applied to the device with a pointed stylus, without applying a voltage, creates a transmissive texture as opposed to the planar texture of the Prior Art.
US11409174B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region; multiple gate lines; and multiple data lines. The gate lines include regular gate lines and irregular gate lines. In the display region, the regular gate lines and the irregular gate lines are extended in a first direction, and a length of a part of the regular gate line in the display region is greater than a length of a part of the irregular gate line in the display region. The data lines include regular data lines and irregular data lines, and an extension direction of the regular data lines and the irregular data lines intersects with the first direction.
US11409170B2
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first metal layer, an active material layer, a second metal layer, a pixel electrode layer, and a common electrode layer. The first metal layer includes a gate electrode layer, scan lines, and a shielding metal layer. The shielding metal layer includes a plurality of shielding metal wirings. At least one corner on a portion of each of the shielding metal wirings overlapping pixel opening areas is designed as an outer corner, and a protrusion is arranged at the outer corner, thereby relieving light leakage at metal intersections.
US11409165B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate formed with an alignment film on a pixel; a counter substrate disposed opposite to the TFT substrate and formed with an alignment film on a top surface on the TFT substrate side; and a liquid crystal sandwiched between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. In the liquid crystal display device, the alignment film is configured of a first alignment film layer contacting the liquid crystal layer and having at least one kind of polyimide and a second alignment film layer formed below the first alignment film layer and having at least one kind of polyimide, the first alignment film layer is a material that is enabled to provide liquid crystal alignment regulating force by applying polarized light, and the first alignment film layer and the second alignment film layer contain a common polyimide structure.
US11409163B2
An LED panel has an interleaved topology in which two adjacent LED rows in the LED panel are driven by different drivers. A delay time can be implemented between starting times two adjacent LED rows. Such an LCD panel can be employed to backlight an LCD panel in an LCD display. Implementing a delay time in driving the LED panel can reduce visual artifacts in the LCD display.
US11409162B2
An electronic device is provided, including a frame, a backlight module, a working panel, and a tape. The frame includes a side wall and a back plate. The side wall includes an outer surface. The extension direction of the back plate is different from the extension direction of the side wall. The backlight module is disposed on the back plate. The working panel and the back plate are disposed on the opposite sides of the backlight module. The tape is in contact with at least a portion of the outer surface and the working panel.
US11409156B2
An optical device, comprising: —a first electrode layer; —a second electrode layer provided at a distance from the first electrode layer; —the first and second electrode layer being light transmitting; wherein the optical device further comprises, in between the first and the second electrode layers: o a diffractive optical element adjacent to the first electrode layer and comprising at least one sloped surface; and o a liquid crystalline material filling a space between the sloped surface and the second electrode layer; the liquid crystalline material having a pretilt that compensates for a slope angle of the at least one sloped surface.
US11409151B2
Provided a liquid crystal display (LCD) including a backlight unit, a lower polarizing plate provided on the backlight unit, a lower glass substrate provided on the lower polarizing plate, a plurality of thin-film transistors provided on the lower glass substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided on the plurality of thin-film transistors, the liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal cells spaced apart from each other in a lattice structure and respectively corresponding to the plurality of thin-film transistors, a color filter provided on the liquid crystal layer, an upper glass substrate provided on the color filter, an upper polarizing plate provided on the upper glass substrate, and a heat release structure configured to externally release thermal energy of the LCD.
US11409149B2
An electronic device includes a first base substrate, a flexible member, and a bending auxiliary structure. The first base substrate includes a first side. The flexible member includes a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, and a main body portion located between the first end and the second end. The first end is connected to the first base substrate at the first side. The bending auxiliary structure is provided at the first side and including at least one curved surface. The main body portion of the flexible member is bent around the at least one curved surface of the bending auxiliary structure, so that the first end and the main body portion or the first end and the second end are at least partially overlapped in a direction perpendicular to the first base substrate.
US11409146B2
The present disclosure relates to a dual-display digital cluster for use with a vehicle, which includes a plastic lens having a plurality of curvatures, super retardation films (SRFs) adhered to a plurality of positions on a rear surface of the plastic lens by using an optically clear adhesive (OCA), a plurality of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) each adhered to rear surfaces of the super retardation films by using an optically clear resin (OCR), a carrier bezel configured to be assembled to a rear side of the plastic lens, to support the plurality of LCDs closely, and to prevent the plastic lens from being deformed, a rear cover assembled to a rear side of the carrier bezel, and at least one printed circuit board (PCB) disposed between the carrier bezel and the rear cover.
US11409142B2
Metallic and dielectric domains in phase change materials (PCM) provide spatially localized changes in the local dielectric environment, enabling launching, reflection, and transmission of hyperbolic polaritons (HPs) at the PCM domain boundaries, and tuning the wavelength of HPs propagating in hyperbolic materials over these domains, providing a methodology for realizing planar, sub-diffractive refractive optics. This approach offers reconfigurable control of in-plane HP propagation to provide design optical functionality because the phase change material can be manipulated by changing the local structure, for example, to manipulate polaritons in the adjacent hyperbolic material, thus tuning the wave propagation properties of the polaritons in the hyperbolic material.
US11409137B2
Disclosed is a method for determining at least one fitting parameter of an optical equipment configured to equip a user, the method including: providing an imaging device; taking a plurality of images of the user equipped with the optical equipment when the user takes successively at least two distinct positions; among the at least two distinct positions, identifying at least one period when the user is in a favorable position to determine the at least one fitting parameter, wherein the at least one period is manually identified by an operator; recording the at least one identified period and at least one image taken during the at least one identified period; determining the fitting parameter on the basis of the at least one recorded image.
US11409132B2
An ophthalmic lens, including: an optical portion having: a near portion with a near dioptric power for viewing near distance; and a distance portion with a distance dioptric for viewing a distance further than the near distance; with the near portion or the distance portion being centrally disposed, wherein a portion that is not centrally disposed is annularly disposed at an outer edge of the near portion or the distance portion, the near portion or the distance portion centrally disposed in the optical portion having a portion A in which power is intensified and then weakened when viewed in X direction from a center to a periphery, and having a portion A′ in which power is intensified and then weakened when viewed in X′ direction from the center to the periphery, which is an opposite direction to the X direction, and also included is a related technique thereof.
US11409127B1
A folding frame for eyeglasses, the frame being structured to fold into a W-shape and thereby, dispose a frame front left half in parallel with a frame front right half, both left and right halves being disposed between respective left and right temple pieces. A first catch holds the left and right halves in parallel at a stored configuration, and a second catch holds the temple pieces in parallel at the stored configuration. An enlarged grip area is sometimes provided in at least one temple piece to facilitate one-handed orienting of the fully-deployed frame in registration on a user's head. Certain embodiments are configured to permit a user to cause a one-handed release and subsequent automatic frame deployment from a stored configuration to a first configuration wherein the frame front left and right halves are disposed in a common plane, and the temple pieces are disposed normal to that plane.
US11409126B2
The present disclosure is related to a display panel. The display panel may include a plurality of pixel units. Each of the plurality of pixel units may include a first pixel unit or a second pixel unit. The first pixel unit may include a first light adjusting structure configured to adjust an angle of light that transmits through the first light adjusting structure. The second pixel unit may include a second light adjusting structure configured to adjust an angle of light that transmits through the second light adjusting structure. A plurality of first pixel units may be configured to display a left-eye image. A plurality of second pixel units may be configured to display a right-eye image.
US11409120B2
There is provided an optical display system, including a light source, a control unit, and an array of at least two pixels, each of the pixels being a juxtaposed double grating element, comprising a first grating and a second grating spaced apart at a constant distance from each other, each of the two gratings having at least two edges, at least one sequence of a plurality of lines and apertures, the spacing between the lines gradually changing over the aperture of the gratings, the first grating diffracting a light wave from the light source towards the second grating, the light wave further diffracted by the second grating as an output light wave in a given direction, wherein for each of the pixels the direction of the output light wave from the second grating is separately, dynamically and externally controlled by the control unit.
US11409118B2
The present disclosure provides a device for generating a 3D light field. The device comprises a first lens having a fixed focal length, and an imaging element arranged to send light into the first lens. The imaging element is configured to send the light from different positions within a defined distance on the optical axis of the first lens, in order to produce different depth layers of the 3D light field within a frame duration.
US11409113B2
An accessory for an electronic device includes: an AR headset; at least one phased array antenna on the AR headset, the at least one phased array antenna comprising an array of antenna elements that are configured to form a beam in a determined direction, the at least one phased array antenna being configured to communicate wirelessly with an external device; a local communication system in the AR headset, the local communication system configured to communicate locally with the electronic device; and a battery in the AR headset, the battery operatively connected to each of the at least one phased array antenna and the local communication system.
US11409111B2
Techniques are provided to re-arrange the placement of a photodiode within an illumination system to achieve improved characteristics and reduced form factor. An illumination system includes a laser assembly, a MEMS mirror system, a beam combiner, and a photodiode. The laser assembly includes RGB lasers, and the MEMS mirror system redirects laser light produced by the RGB lasers to illuminate pixels in an image frame. The beam combiner combines the laser light. The photodiode is provided to determine a power output of the laser assembly by receiving and measuring some of the laser light. The photodiode may be beneficially positioned before or after collimating optics and/or the beam combiner.
US11409106B2
A display module and an HMD device including the same are discussed in which a black matrix is not recognized as a lattice type by a user without an increase in resolution of the display module. The display module according to an embodiment includes a first substrate on which a plurality of pixels are provided, a second substrate including one surface on which an engraved pattern is provided, and a lens layer filled into the engraved pattern of the second substrate. The lens layer comprises a plurality of lenses respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels.
US11409104B2
Data characterizing a relative arrangement of vehicle occupants with respect to one another are continuously transmitted to display devices worn on the heads of the vehicle occupants. Virtual environments are displayed as a function of these data.
US11409091B2
A method of operating a surgical microscope includes detecting a direction of gaze of a user and detecting an amount of a movement of a head of the user. The movement of the head of the user is of a translatory movement type and a rotatory movement type. Amounts of movements or rotations of the camera or changes in the magnification are performed based on the detected amount of a movement of the head of the user.
US11409087B1
The present disclosure relates to optical lens, and provides a zoom lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power; distances between adjacent two of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens group are variable in the direction of the optical axis; the fifth lens group including a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the zoom lens satisfies conditions of: f_Tele/f_Wide>1.8; 4.78≤LB_Tele/LB_Wide≤6.20; 76.00≤ν1≤82.00; 58.00≤ν2≤78.00; and 76.00≤ν6≤82.00.
US11409080B2
An optical imaging lens may include a first, an aperture stop, a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surface of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may have improved imaging quality, enlarged half field of view and reduced surface area in front of the optical imaging lens while the optical imaging lens may satisfy AAG/T5≤1.400 and HFOV≥50.000°, wherein a sum of the four air gaps from the first lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by AAG, a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by T5, and a half field of view of the optical imaging lens is represented by HFOV.
US11409079B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens, an aperture stop, a third lens element and a fourth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. An optical axis of the image-side surface of the first lens element is convex and an optical axis of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave. HFOV stands for the half field of view of the entire optical imaging lens and TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image plane along the optical axis to satisfy HFOV/TTL≤1.500°/mm.
US11409067B2
A cable management structure includes a base portion for removable mounting on a telecommunications fixture, the base portion defining an upper guide portion and a lower guide portion separated by a cable channel, wherein a transverse slit defined between the upper and lower guide portions communicates with the cable channel for insertion of cables into the channel and a flexible portion that is elastically flexible and is biased to cover at least a portion of the slit for retaining cables within the channel.
US11409065B2
A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, a strength layer surrounding the optical fiber, and an outer jacket surrounding the strength layer. The strength layer includes a matrix material in which is integrated a plurality of reinforcing fibers. A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, a strength layer, a first electrical conductor affixed to an outer surface of the strength layer, a second electrical conductor affixed to the outer surface of the strength layer, and an outer jacket. The strength layer includes a polymeric material in which is embedded a plurality of reinforcing fibers. A method of manufacturing a fiber optic cable includes mixing a base material in an extruder. A strength layer is formed about an optical fiber. The strength layer includes a polymeric film with embedded reinforcing fibers disposed in the film. The base material is extruded through an extrusion die to form an outer jacket.
US11409061B2
An optical module includes a base having a first surface, a board having a second surface and a third surface, an optical circuit element having a fourth surface, a fifth surface and two ports, and an array lens. The first surface is joined to the second surface by a first solder. The third surface has a first metallic pattern and a second metallic pattern that are joined to the fourth surface by a second solder. The array lens is fixed onto the first surface of the base so as to be optically coupled to the two ports provided at one end of the optical circuit element in the first direction. The first metallic pattern is formed closer than the second metallic pattern to the one end of the optical circuit element in the first direction and is formed between the two ports in the second direction.
US11409060B2
The optical module according to the present invention includes a photoelectric converter and an optical receptacle. The optical receptacle includes a first optical surface, a second optical surface, a transmission and reflection part, a recess, and a third optical surface. The transmission and reflection part is secured to the inner surface of the recess at a position that does not coincide with the optical path of signal light. The transmission and reflection part transmits the signal light incident on the first optical surface toward the second optical surface. The transmission and reflection part reflects the received light incident on the second optical surface toward the third optical surface. When viewed along a direction normal to a substrate, the optical path in the recess is inclined relative to the optical path between the second optical surface and the recess.
US11409058B1
Systems and methods are provided to align a first optical component carried by a first semiconductor chip with a second optical component carried by a second semiconductor chip. Each of the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip may include at least one primary semiconductor chip fiducial which assists in the alignment of the first optical component carried by a first semiconductor chip with a second optical component carried by a second semiconductor chip.
US11409050B2
A plug-in connection for the transmission of electric current having a male connector and a female connector, wherein the male connector includes a plug-in extension having electrical contacts, and the female connector includes a plug-in extension receptacle having electrical mating contacts, and at least one projection is arranged on one jacket wall, and the other of these jacket walls incorporates at least one receptacle slot which matches the projection. The plug-in extension, with the projection and the receptacle slot in an undamaged state, can only be inserted into the plug-in extension receptacle from an unambiguously defined plug-in position. The male connector, in the plug-in extension interior, additionally incorporates at least one moulding, and the female connector, in the plug-in extension receptacle interior, additionally incorporates at least one mating moulding, and the moulding and the mating moulding, in combination, constitute a stop mechanism for the prevention of any electrical contacting of the electrical contacts with the electrical mating contacts.
US11409049B2
A MEMS element includes a substrate, a fixing portion provided at the substrate, first and second actuators provided at the fixing portion, a drive target member coupled to the first and second actuators, a third actuator provided at the fixing portion, and a restriction member coupled to the third actuator. The first and second actuators drive the drive target member in a direction parallel to or crossing an upper surface of the substrate. The third actuator drives the restriction member in a direction crossing a movement direction of the drive target member to position the restriction member within a movement plane of the drive target member such that the restriction member restricts displacement of the drive target member.
US11409026B2
The invention relates to a mirror cabinet capable of preventing mirror capacitive touch button from touch misoperation, the mirror cabinet comprises a mirror surface, which comprises a glass layer, a metal plating layer provided on the back of the glass layer, and an uncoated metal layer area is provided on the back of the glass layer, and a capacitive touch panel including a plurality of touch buttons is provided in the uncoated metal layer area; a back of the mirror is also provided with a controller electrically connected to the capacitive touch panel and a high-frequency switching power supply electrically connected to the controller. The mirror cabinet can prevent touch misoperation of the mirror surface capacitive touch button so as to enable a touch system to have good stability.
US11409025B2
Provided is a functional polyamide sheet in which air bubbles are not generated or are reduced in a polarizing and/or photochromic functional sheet when the polarizing and/or photochromic functional sheet are/is manufactured using a sheet or film formed by a polyamide resin as a protective layer, and a functional polyamide lens using the functional polyamide sheet. Provided are a polyamide functional sheet obtained by disposing a protective layer formed by a transparent plastic sheet or film on at least one surface of a functional layer, which is a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizing film layer, a photochromic layer, or a combination of these layers, with an adhesive layer being interposed therebetween, in which the protective layer is a sheet or film formed by a polyamide resin, and an oxygen transmission rate at 23° C. and 85% RH is 50 cm3/m2·24 hr·bar or more, and a functional polyamide lens using the polyamide functional sheet.
US11409022B2
A system is provided with a measurement system having a light source, a light sensor, and a controller coupled to the light source and the light sensor. The controller is configured to determine a clearance between a rotor and a casing at least partially based on an interruption of light transmitted from the light source to the light sensor.
US11409018B2
A method for operating a wellbore system for producing hydrocarbons from a wellbore in an underground formation in which a working fluid is circulated through the wellbore during operation. The method includes detecting a loss of the working fluid, allocating the loss to one or more layers of the underground formation, determining a ballooning potential of the wellbore based on the allocated loss and a lithology of the one or more layers of the underground formation, detecting an increase in a return flow of the working fluid from the wellbore, and comparing the increase in the return flow to the ballooning potential of the wellbore to determine whether the increase in the return flow is due to an influx of formation fluid into the wellbore. Remedial action may be taken in response to a determination that the increase in the return flow is due to an influx of formation fluid.
US11409014B2
Method for acquiring seismic data is described. The method includes determining a non-uniform optimal sampling design that includes a compressive sensing sampling grid. Placing a plurality of source lines or receiver lines at a non-uniform optimal line interval. Placing a plurality of receivers or nodes at a non-uniform optimal receiver interval. Towing a plurality of streamers attached to a vessel, wherein the plurality of streamers is spaced apart at non-uniform optimal intervals based on the compressive sensing sampling grid. Firing a plurality of shots from one or more seismic sources at non-uniform optimal shot intervals. Acquiring seismic data via the plurality of receivers or nodes.
US11409013B2
A method is described for property estimation including receiving a seismic dataset representative of a subsurface volume of interest and a well log from a well location within the subsurface volume of interest; identifying seismic traces in the seismic dataset that correspond to the well location to obtain a subset of seismic traces; windowing the subset of seismic traces and the well log to generate windowed seismic traces and a windowed well log; multiplying the windowed seismic traces and the windowed well log by a random matrix to generate a plurality of training datasets; and training a neural network using the plurality of training datasets. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US11409012B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: decomposing the seismic data into a plurality of sub-volumes, each sub-volume associated with a respective one of the plurality of frequency components; identifying a portion of the seismic data that includes one or more multiples, the multiples being seismic data associated with multiply reflected seismic energy; identifying, based on the plurality of sub-volumes, the one or more multiples within the portion of the seismic data; and determining, from the plurality of frequency components, a single frequency that gives rise to a predetermined continuity along a primary reflector affected by the one or more multiples.
US11409007B2
A communication apparatus calculates information about a position of the communication apparatus based on a GPS radio wave and registers the calculated information about the position as an installation position of the communication apparatus when a measured strength of the GPS radio wave is equal to or stronger than a predetermined strength, when the measured strength of the GPS radio wave is equal to or stronger than the predetermined strength, periodically calculates the information about the position of the communication apparatus based on the GPS radio wave or the like, uses the calculated information of the position as a current position of the communication apparatus, compares the current position of the communication apparatus with the registered installation position of the communication apparatus.
US11409006B2
An azimuth estimation device includes a satellite data acquisition unit that acquires Doppler shift frequencies of navigation signals, a sensor data acquisition unit that acquires a yaw rate from a yaw rate sensor, a Doppler azimuth estimation unit that estimates an azimuth of a moving object, a state variable determination unit that determines a state variable indicating reliability of an azimuth angle, a threshold selection unit that selects, from plural evaluation parameter threshold groups for determining whether to adopt the azimuth as a reference azimuth, one of the evaluation parameter threshold groups, an evaluation parameter calculation unit that calculates plural evaluation parameters for evaluating reliability of an azimuth, and an adopting determination unit that compares the plural evaluation parameters with the evaluation parameter threshold group, and based on determination that an adopting condition is satisfied, determines adoption of the azimuth as the reference azimuth.
US11409005B2
A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver that includes a satellite signal generator generating signal data for a signal that is not being tracked by the receiver. The receiver includes a satellite signal generator running an algorithm to process first and second received signals to produce a software-synthesized satellite signal, and the generated signal data is used to correct bias or is communicated to a spaced-apart GNSS receiver or used for onboard positioning calculations. The satellite constellation may be the Galileo constellation, with the first and second signals being E5A and E5B signals tracked by the receiver and the generated third signal being an E5AltBOC signal. With a half-a-cycle bias resolution technique, the satellite signal generator generates synthetic E5AltBOC data of high quality. For a receiver, which physically tracks E5AltBOC, synthetic E5AltBOC may be used to monitor polarity of a physically tracked E5AltBOC and correct it if error is detected.
US11408987B2
Aspects of the invention include ultrasound systems that suppress grating lobe artifacts arising due to high frequency operation of an array transducer probe which is operated at a frequency higher than its pitch limitation.
US11408986B1
A method for calibrating an acoustic calibration tank providing the tanks with reference hydrophones positioned along the tank. The tank is filled with a fluid at a known temperature and pressure. A calibrated reverse hydrophone is positioned in the tank, opposite one of the reference hydrophones. A known acoustic wave is created in the tank using the calibrated reverse hydrophone and the opposite reference hydrophone output is measured. Free field voltage sensitivity is computed for the reference hydrophone. This gives the calibration factor for the reference hydrophone. The calibrated reverse hydrophone can be repositioned. An iterative process can be utilized for the other reference hydrophones, and other known pressures and temperatures.
US11408970B2
This position detection system comprises a mobile station that transmits a beacon signal, a plurality of fixed stations that receive the beacon signal, and a position analysis device that acquires position information for the mobile station by estimating the position of the mobile station from the reception intensities of the beacon signal at each fixed station. The mobile station includes a movement detection unit (acceleration sensor, geomagnetic sensor, etc.) that determines when movement has stopped. While the movement of the mobile station has stopped, the position analysis device stops estimating the position of the mobile station and keeps the position information at a fixed position.
US11408960B2
A two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation method for a coprime planar array based on structured coarray tensor processing, the method includes: deploying a coprime planar array; modeling a tensor of the received signals; deriving the second-order equivalent signals of an augmented virtual array based on cross-correlation tensor transformation; deploying a three-dimensional coarray tensor of the virtual array; deploying a five-dimensional coarray tensor based on a coarray tensor dimension extension strategy; forming a structured coarray tensor including three-dimensional spatial information; and achieving two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation through CANDECOMP/PARACFAC decomposition. The present disclosure constructs a processing framework of a structured coarray tensor based on statistical analysis of coprime planar array tensor signals, to achieve multi-source two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation in the underdetermined case on the basis of ensuring the performance such as resolution and estimation accuracy, and can be used for multi-target positioning.
US11408959B2
A positioning system and method includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The transmitter includes at least one energy source configured to emit an optical or quasi-optical electromagnetic signal as a channel communication. The receiver includes at least one detector element configured to receive the channel communication. The controller is connected to the receiver and configured to estimate a position of the transmitter within a space using a reference map of the space and one or more diffuse components of an impulse response of the channel communication.
US11408952B2
The present disclosure directs to a system and method for configuring a pulse sequence in MRI. The method may include obtaining a preliminary gradient pulse configuration, wherein the preliminary gradient pulse configuration relates to a portion of a pulse sequence to be implemented by one or more coils of an MR scanner, the pulse sequence including a plurality of gradient pulses. The method may also include determining a global peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) value of the preliminary gradient pulse configuration according to a PNS model. The method may further include determining a target gradient pulse configuration based at least in part on the preliminary gradient pulse configuration, the global PNS value, and a PNS threshold.
US11408941B2
Provided are an abnormality detection unit that detects abnormality or stop of at least one of a plurality of storage battery housing devices, a storage device extraction unit that extracts, when the abnormality detection unit detects the abnormality or the stop, one or more storage battery housing devices related to the storage battery housing device in which the abnormality or the stop is detected from among the plurality of storage battery housing devices, and an adjustment unit that determines adjustment of utilization rate of at least one of the one or more storage battery housing devices extracted by the storage device extraction unit.
US11408939B2
A power distribution unit includes a circuit protection device having output terminals and a current transformer board connected to the output terminals of the circuit protection device. The power distribution unit further includes a signal board connected to the current transformer board and a measurement board connected to the signal board.
US11408935B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: a host device or a System-on-Chip: a memory component having an independent structure and including at least an array of memory cells organized in sub-arrays with associated decoding and sensing circuitry; a JTAG interface in said at least an array of memory cells including a boundary-scan architecture; an instruction register in said boundary-scan architecture of the JTAG interface including at least a couple of Bits indicative of the presence of a Test Data Input (TDI) signal. The apparatus has an extended TDI functionality using the data IO to improve the overall performances. A method for improving the communication between a Host or SoC device and an associated independent memory component is also disclosed.
US11408930B2
A semiconductor device includes a voltage comparison circuit and a calibration control circuit. The voltage comparison circuit compares test reference voltages and generates a comparison result signal. The calibration control circuit controls an offset value of the voltage comparison circuit.
US11408914B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) probe for electric connection between a tested contact point of an object to be tested and a testing contact point of a test circuit. The MEMS probe includes: a first terminal contact portion; a second terminal contact portion movable close to and away from the first terminal contact portion; and an elastic connecting portion connecting the first terminal contact portion and the second terminal contact portion, elastically deformed by an approach of the second terminal contact portion and comprising a plurality of plating layers stacked in the elastic deformation direction. According to the present disclosure, the MEMS probe includes a plurality of plating layers stacked in the elastic deformation direction, thereby decreasing fatigue failure and improving durability.
US11408909B2
The present disclosure discloses a step counting device that includes a motion detection circuit, a storage circuit and a processing circuit. The motion detection circuit detects a body movement to generate a detection signal. The processing circuit executes computer executable commands to execute the steps outlined below. The detection signal is received from the motion detection circuit. Key data points from the detection signal and representing a simplified waveform are approximated and stored in the storage circuit, each corresponding to a turning data point within a predetermined time period of the detection signal. Periodic waveform sections in the simplified waveform are identified, wherein an error value of waveform parameters between each two of the periodic waveform sections is smaller than a predetermined value. A step group count including a left step and a right step corresponding to each of the periodic waveform sections is accumulated.
US11408897B2
The use of mass defect signatures to impart milliDalton mass differences between isotopically labeled peptides at the MS1-level allows multiplex quantification without the increased mass spectral complexity that occurs with mass difference approaches. Provided herein is a mass defect-based chemical tag, dimethyl pyrimidinyl ornithine (DiPyrO), that is compact and easy to synthesize at high purity in few steps using commercially available starting materials. The multiplex DiPyrO tags are amine-reactive and can impart a mass difference onto labeled peptides and through calculated substitution of heavy isotopes. DiPyrO offers up to 10-plex quantification on current Orbitrap or FT-ICR platforms without increasing mass spectral complexity. The synthesis of the DiPyrO tag is provided along with viability of the DiPyrO tag for labeling complex proteomics samples using yeast extract digests and its effect on labeled peptides during LC-MS2 analysis. Labeling and quantification of glycans and metabolites using the DiPyrO tag is also demonstrated.
US11408895B1
A method for detecting and quantifying allergen components of a substance is described herein. A method can include obtaining an Ig sample derived from two or more individuals, and one or more capillaries comprising allergenic biologics adhered thereto. The Ig sample can be applied to the one or more capillaries and allergen component and molecules that has bound with the Ig sample, can be detected in the one or more capillaries. A molecular weight and/or frequency of appearance, an isoelectric charge and/or frequency of appearance, a molecular functional group and/or frequency of appearance or a combination thereof, of the allergen component can be recorded. Furthermore, methods for determining the minimum and maximum concentrations of the detected allergen components for pre-determined platforms, formulating an allergen product using the determined concentration ranges and applying the allergen product to result an effective assay are described.
US11408890B2
The present invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide improved high-throughput super-resolution whole-organ imaging methodology to image protein architectures over whole organs with nanoscale resolution by using high-throughput microscopes in combination with samples that have been iteratively expanded more than once, in a method referred to herein as “iterative expansion microscopy” (iExM). In the ExM method, biological samples of interest are permeated with a swellable material that results in the sample becoming embedded in the swellable material, and then the sample can be expanded isotropically in three dimensions The process of iteratively expanding the samples can be applied to samples that have been already expanded using ExM techniques one or more additional times to iteratively expand them such that, for example, a 5-fold expanded specimen can be expanded again 3- to 4-fold, resulting in as much as a 17- to 19-fold or more linear expansion.
US11408888B2
Provided are methods, assays, and kits for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as methods for stratifying subjects among higher and lower risk categories for having hepatocellular carcinoma, and methods of treating and managing treatment of subjects that are suspected or at risk of having hepatocellular carcinoma. Although previous work has attempted to address the need for a highly sensitive, early predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma by assessment of one or more biological factors, none have approached the degree of sensitivity that is required for clinically relevant determination of whether a subject, especially a non-symptomatic subject, has that condition. The present inventors have discovered that certain combinations of factors fulfill this need by conferring a high level of accuracy that was not previously attainable.
US11408884B2
Lyophilized chromophoric polymer dot compositions are provided. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the lyophilized compositions, methods of dispersing the lyophilized compositions in aqueous solutions and kits supplying the compositions.
US11408879B2
Provided is a system for centralized water monitoring of a fish farm. the system including a plurality of fish tanks divided into a first and a second subgroup; and a first sample conduit only connected to the first of the subgroups through a first set of pipe connections, and a second sample conduit connected only to the second of the subgroups through a second set of pipe connections; each one of the pipe connections being connected to only one fish tank; the pipe connections being configured for water sampling from a selected fish tank of the first subgroup into the first sample conduit and from a selected fish tank from the second subgroup into the second sample conduit. Water samples are received by a first and second sensor system from the first and second sample conduits for simultaneous measurements of the samples by the sensor system.
US11408878B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for lifecycle prediction is provided. The present invention may include identifying a unit of a product that has been selected from a store bin. The present invention may include retrieving data from at least one connected Internet of Things (IoT) device and a connected infrared scanner. The present invention may include predicting a lifecycle of the identified unit. The present invention may include displaying the lifecycle on the at least one connected IoT device or the infrared scanner. The present invention may include determining whether the unit is added to a cart. The present invention may lastly include pushing the collected data to a point of sale for generating data at checkout.
US11408874B2
A system for analysis of at least one analyte gas present in an insulating fluid of an electrical transformer includes a gas sensor in operational contact with at least one analyte gas from an insulating fluid to provide multiple responses from the sensor. One or more processors are configured to receive the multiple responses during exposure of the sensor to the analyte gas from the insulating fluid representative of a concentration of the analyte gas present in the insulating fluid. The processors are configured to select one or more responses of the multiple responses that provide rejection of interfering gases, resolution between gases, improved low detection range of the analyte gas, improved high detection range of the analyte gas, improved response linearity of the analyte gas, improved dynamic range of measurements of the analyte gas, or one or more combinations thereof compared to non-selected responses from the sensor.
US11408871B2
Various techniques are described herein for using smell sensor-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to detect and identify individual users based a unique scent or smell print. Interconnected networks of such devices may be used in collaboration, along with other devices such as IoT devices and home monitoring system devices, to track user movements and activities. Such smell sensor device also may be used to detect weapons, explosives, narcotics, and other prohibited items that may be concealed and/or not detectable using security cameras. The data received from the smell sensors and smell-based IoT devices may be used, alone or in combination with other security sensors and systems, to perform safety and security screening within homes, airports or other secure areas, or within any public indoor or outdoor location.
US11408868B2
Provided are a method and system for measuring hydrogen peroxide concentration in sample water collected from a prescribed position in a water treatment process and includes: collecting the sample water; measuring a concentration of a dissolved oxygen in the sample water or a treated water obtained by treating the sample water with the hydrogen peroxide decomposing device by first and second dissolved oxygen concentration measuring analyzers to obtain a corrected value that is a difference between the two dissolved oxygen concentration values; measuring the concentration of the dissolved oxygen in the sample and treated water by the first and second dissolved oxygen concentration measuring analyzers, respectively, and obtaining a measured value that is a difference between the dissolved oxygen concentration values; and calculating a corrected concentration of hydrogen peroxide from the measured value obtained during the measured value obtaining and the corrected value obtained during the corrected value obtaining.
US11408866B2
When a user inputs samples per group, a sample tree and a peak matrix are generated. Peak lists per group are shown in the sample tree, and m/z values and signal strength values from the peak lists are coordinates in the peak matrix. A multivariate analysis is applied to the generated peak matrix. The sample tree, peak matrix, score plot, and loading plot are displayed. When the user clicks a plotted point on the loading plot, a row indicating a corresponding peak on the peak matrix is discriminated. When the user deletes a checkmark corresponding to the discriminated row, the multivariate analysis is applied to the peak matrix from which the peak has been excluded. The score plot and other data are updated. When separation between groups is known from the score plot as failure, the excluded peak may be visually determined as a marker contributing to the group separation.
US11408853B2
In DM-SWATH a plurality of CoVs and a precursor ion mass range are received. A processor performs an iterative series of steps for each CoV of the plurality of CoVs. For each CoV of the plurality of CoVs, the CoV is applied to the DMS device to select a group of precursor ions. A mass filter is instructed to select precursor ions of the group that are within the precursor ion mass range, producing a subgroup of precursor ions. A fragmentation device is instructed to fragment the subgroup of precursor ions, producing a group of product ions. A mass analyzer is instructed to measure the intensity and m/z of the group of product ions, producing a product ion spectrum for each CoV of the plurality of CoVs. DM-SWATH is further used to validate if a known compound is in a sample.
US11408847B2
An electrical capacitance volume tomography sensor for use in high temperature, high pressure applications for measuring or imaging a flow within the sensor, the sensor comprising an outer pressure vessel, a plurality of electrodes placed within the outer pressure vessel, a plurality of threaded studs, wherein one of the threaded studs is attached to one of the plurality of electrodes, a coating or layer is placed on the plurality of electrodes for electrically isolating the plurality of electrodes, a plurality of holes in the outer pressure vessel for allowing terminal connections to the plurality of electrodes within the outer pressure vessel, wherein each of the plurality of holes accepts one of the plurality of threaded studs, and a plurality of gaskets, where one gasket is placed at each of the plurality of holes to seal the pressure at each of the holes in the outer pressure vessel by placing one gasket concentric around one threaded stud and conforming each gasket between a back of an electrode and the inside wall of the pressure vessel by tightening each of the plurality of nuts on each of the threaded studs.
US11408842B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a versatile method that makes highly sensitive detection of nucleic acid, and the like, possible even if a solution has a high salt concentration. This objective has been achieved through a method for detecting a target substance in a solution through EIS impedance measurement, wherein the solution includes at least the target substance, an impedance observation substance A, and a substance B for causing the charge mobility of the impedance observation substance to vary, and the substance B for causing the charge mobility to vary has a property of being taken into the target substance.
US11408841B2
A thermal conductivity measuring device includes a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections; a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure the temperature of a predetermined position of the sample container.
US11408839B2
The processing device includes: a temperature transition acquisition unit that acquires rising transition of the temperature of the winding in a state in which a first voltage is applied in order to raise a temperature of the winding to a first temperature and further acquires falling transition of the temperature of the winding in a state in which a second voltage is applied in order to lower the temperature of the winding to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature after the temperature of the winding converges to the first temperature; and a decision unit that calculates stator-related parameters on the basis of the falling transition to decide a stator temperature characteristic mode and further calculates winding-related parameters on the basis of the rising transition and a stator temperature characteristic model to decide a winding temperature characteristic model.
US11408838B2
A method for a multielement analysis via neutron activation. The method includes generating fast neutrons with an energy in the range of 10 keV to 20 MeV and moderating the neutrons, irradiating the sample with the neutrons, and measuring the gamma radiation emitted by the irradiated sample using a detector to determine at least one element of the sample. The sample continuously irradiated in a non-pulsed fashion. The measurement is implemented during the irradiation. The determination of the at least one element includes an evaluation of the measured gamma radiation. The sample is subdivided into individual partitions and the measurement is implemented using a collimator. The evaluation includes a spatially resolved and energy-resolved determination of the neutron flux within the respective partition of the sample and calculation of energy-dependent photopeak efficiencies and neutron flux and neutron spectrum within a single partition of the sample by an approximation method.
US11408832B2
Various surface and structural defects are currently inspected visually. This method is labor intensive, requiring large maintenance man hours, and is prone to errors. To streamline this process, herein is described an automated inspection system and apparatus based on several optical technologies that drastically reduces inspection time, provides accurate detection of defects, and provides a digital map of the location of defects. The technology uses multiple sensing/imaging modalities such as ring illumination angular scanning, coherent speckle scanning, multi-spectral imaging such as ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared (IR) spectrums, and polarization detection.
US11408831B2
An apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires a display condition for displaying at least a part of target data as a display image on a display unit, determines, in a case where the display image is changed, whether to store the display condition according to a changed display image in a storage unit, based on an index relating to the change of the display image, and stores, in a case where the display condition is determined to be stored, the display condition according to the changed display image in the storage unit.
US11408824B2
A biological material measurement device 80 comprises; a first light source emitting a first light; an ATR prism 20 including a front surface and a back surface and allowing the first light made incident from one end to be transmitted therethrough and emitted from the other end; a hyperbolic metamaterial layer 90 including a front surface and a back surface and arranged on the front surface of the ATR prism 20 such that the back surface of the hyperbolic metamaterial layer is in contact therewith; and a first light detector detecting the first light emitted from the ATR prism 20. An amount of a biological material in a living body is measured from the detected first light.
US11408818B2
A gasket sandwiched between a flow cell and a joint member has, in a main flat surface, an inlet communication hole for communicating between an inlet hole of the flow cell and an inlet flow path of the joint member and an outlet communication hole for communicating between an outlet hole of the flow cell and an outlet flow path of the joint member. Furthermore, a deformation absorbing structure for absorbing deformation of the gasket is provided between the inlet communication hole and the outlet communication hole in the main flat surface of the gasket.
US11408814B2
An imaging system (200) including a phase-modulating element (202) configured and arranged with optics (100) in an imaging path (300) of the imaging system, to modulate light emitted from an object (150), while the object is in motion with respect to the imaging system, to create a modified point-spread function (PSF); and a processor (700) configured and arranged to generate, on an image plane (500) of the imaging system, a three-dimensional image from the modulated light to provide depth-based characteristics of the object. Other applications are also described.
US11408813B2
In flow cytometry, particles (2) can be distinguished between populations (8) by combining n-dimensional parameter data, which may be derived from signal data from a particle, to mathematically achieve numerical results representative of an alteration (48). An alteration may include a rotational alteration, a scaled alteration, or perhaps even a translational alteration. Alterations may enhance separation of data points which may provide real-time classification (49) of signal data corresponding to individual particles into one of at least two populations.
US11408810B2
A test device for determining the particle load of pressurized hydrogen includes a housing (2), with an inlet (4) and an outlet (8) for the inflow or outflow of hydrogen, respectively. A sampling chamber (52) has a filter holder (44) for a test filter (58). A sample amount of hydrogen can flow through the test filter during a test procedure. After the test procedure has been completed, the test filter can be removed from the sampling chamber (52) for evaluating the deposition of particles. A venting device (64, 70) for reducing the pressure in the sampling chamber (52) is arranged inside the housing (2) and discharges any remaining hydrogen, at least partially, in the direction of the inlet (4) of the test device after the hydrogen has stopped flowing from the testing device.
US11408809B2
Methods for determining the gelation period of a gel solution are provided. The methods provided include introducing an inert ball into each of a plurality of gel solution containers having a gel solution therein. In the method, the inert balls are then allowed to sink to the bottom of the containers, followed by a step of repeatedly inverting a first gel solution container at specified time intervals until the onset of gelation of the first gel solution is observed. Methods further include repeatedly inverting an additional gel solution container at specified intervals where each of the subsequent gel solution containers containing the inert balls and gel solutions are sequentially inverted in series until the inert ball is observed to remain fixed in place in the solution.
US11408801B2
In some examples, an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) device may include a laser source to emit a laser beam into a device under test (DUT), and a connection port to connect the OTDR device to a first end of the DUT, where the OTDR device may be designated a first OTDR device. A sensor display generator may determine a length of the DUT, receive, from a second OTDR device connectable to a second opposite end of the DUT, and over the DUT, OTDR information acquired by the second OTDR device in a direction from the second OTDR device towards the first OTDR device, and ascertain, based on acquisition by the first OTDR device, further OTDR information in a direction from the first OTDR device towards the second OTDR device. The sensor display generator may generate a bi-directional combined schematic display that includes relevant optical events with respect to the DUT.
US11408793B2
Methods for checking a connection between a compressed air outlet of a blood treatment apparatus and a pressure measuring line of an extracorporeal blood tubing set. The methods include providing a blood treatment apparatus having a compressed air line. A compressed air device is in fluid communication with the compressed air line for generating pressure within the compressed air line. A compressed air outlet is in fluid communication with both the compressed air line and an exterior of the blood treatment apparatus. The compressed air outlet is connectable with a pressure measuring line and a pressure sensor. The method also includes building up a pressure and an air flow in the compressed air line and/or at the compressed air outlet, measuring a pressure at the compressed air outlet or in the compressed air line, and evaluating an increase of the measured pressure.
US11408791B2
A pressure sensor includes a pressure detecting element; a base material on which the pressure detecting element is mounted; a pad electrode provided on the base material and electrically connected to the pressure detecting element; a ground electrode provided on the base material and spaced from the pad electrode; and a cap having a tubular shape, the cap surrounding a periphery of the pressure detecting element on the base material and being attached to the ground electrode with a conductive adhesive. An inner receiving section is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the cap and a ground-electrode-side end surface of the cap, the inner receiving section thereby preventing excessive spreading of the conductive adhesive. The cap can be attached to the base material with the conductive adhesive without causing excessive spreading of the conductive adhesive.
US11408786B2
A torque sensor which can detect a torque with high accuracy is provided. First structure and second structure are connected by a plurality of third structures. First and second strain sensors are connected between the first structure and the second structure. Each of the first and second strain sensors includes a strain body connected between the first structure and the second structure and a plurality of sensor elements provided on the strain body. The sensor elements are disposed in a region of one side of each of the first structure and the second structure with respect to a longitudinal central portion of the strain body, and the region on the one side is a region where there is only a little difference in strain between along a torque direction of the strain body and a torque-excepted direction.
US11408782B2
An indoor temperature control system includes a server, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, and a third temperature sensor. The server obtains a first heat adjustment amount according to a first temperature value of the first temperature sensor. The server obtains a second heat adjustment amount according to a second temperature value of the second temperature sensor. The server obtains a predetermined amount of heat of a predetermined region according to a third temperature value of the third temperature sensor. The server obtains a heat flow simulation diagram according to the first heat adjustment amount, the second heat adjustment amount, and the predetermined amount of heat. The server determines an operating time of an air conditioning device based on a target temperature, the second temperature value, and the heat flow simulation diagram.
US11408776B2
Disclosed is a power supply device including a battery having an exhaust valve that opens when an internal pressure becomes higher than a set pressure, the battery being housed in a case, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature in the case, and a detection circuit that detects opening of the exhaust valve at a detected temperature detected by the temperature sensor. In this power supply device, the detection circuit detects that a high temperature time (t1) from a timing at which a rate of rise (ΔT/Δt) of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than a rise rate set value and exceeds the rise rate set value to a timing at which the detected temperature falls to less than or equal to a reference temperature is longer than a high temperature time set value, and detects the opening of the exhaust valve.
US11408773B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing on-board electromagnetic radiation sensing using beam splitting in a radiation sensing apparatus. The radiation sensing apparatuses can include a micro-mirror chip including a plurality of light reflecting surfaces. The apparatuses can also include an image sensor including an imaging surface. The apparatuses can also include a beamsplitter unit located between the micro-mirror chip and the image sensor. The beamsplitter unit can include a beamsplitter that includes a partially-reflective surface that is oblique to the imaging surface and the micro-mirror chip. The apparatuses can also include an enclosure configured to enclose at least the beamsplitter and a light source. With the apparatuses, the light source can be attached to a printed circuit board (PCB). Also, the enclosure can include an inner surface that has an angled reflective surface that is configured to reflect light from the light source in a direction towards the beamsplitter.
US11408768B2
A terahertz spectrometer includes: a terahertz-wave emitter and a terahertz receiver elements. The terahertz wave generated by means of generating beat frequency corresponding to the difference between two rapidly tunable continuous wave lasers. Having a difference in time between the interrogating signal and the reference signal at the receiver end side, which corresponds to intermediate frequency (IF), not centered around the baseband, i.e. zero Hertz. The offset step size of the intermediate frequency from zero Hertz is linearly correlated to the position of the interrogated object position.
US11408766B2
According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of photodiodes arranged on the substrate; a protective film that covers the photodiodes; a plurality of lenses provided so as to overlap the respective photodiodes; a first light-blocking layer that is provided between the photodiodes and the lenses and is provided with first openings in regions overlapping the respective photodiodes; and a second light-blocking layer that is provided between the first light-blocking layer and the lenses and is provided with second openings in regions overlapping the respective photodiodes and the respective first openings. The first light-blocking layer is provided with slits in regions overlapping gaps between the photodiodes adjacent to each other, and the second light-blocking layer is provided so as to be continuous across the photodiodes adjacent to each other and is provided so as to overlap the slits.
US11408765B2
There is provided in a first form, a detector. The detector includes a photosensitive detector element; and a reflecting surface disposed about and proximal to the photosensitive detector element, wherein the reflecting surface is configured to reflect radiation impinging on the reflecting surface onto the photosensitive detector element; and wherein the reflecting surface is further configured to determine a field of regard greater than a predetermined field of view.
US11408755B2
A resonant rotor, for use in an inductive position sensor, includes a rotor core, a first rotor coil, and a rotor capacitor. The first rotor coil includes a first twisted rotor loop drawn about the rotor core and the rotor capacitor is connected in series with the first rotor coil. For a second embodiment, the first rotor coil includes a second twisted rotor loop. The first rotor coil has a first symmetry and the inductive position sensor includes a stator. An excitation coil is drawn on the stator and has a second symmetry. The first symmetry substantially corresponds to the second symmetry. A method for determining a position of an object using an inductive position sensor includes generating three electromagnetic fields using respective excitation coils, inducing voltages, respectively, in three receive coils, and determining based on voltages a position of an object coupled to a resonant rotor. The voltages being based on mutual inductances arising between the rotor with each of the excitation and receive coils, and the elimination, by the resonant rotor, of mutual inductances arising between the excitation and receive coils.
US11408754B2
A rotation angle detection apparatus includes a driving gear, two driven gears, two sensors, and an arithmetic circuit. The two driven gears have different numbers of teeth and each are in mesh with the driving gear. The arithmetic circuit is configured to compute a rotation angle of the driving gear based on the rotation angles of the two driven gears, detected through the two sensors. The arithmetic circuit is configured to, when a relationship between the rotation angles of the two driven gears, detected through the two sensors, is different from the relationship when the rotation angle of the driving gear, computed by the arithmetic circuit, is normal, detect an abnormality in the rotation angle of the driving gear, computed by the arithmetic circuit.
US11408750B2
A host map system for updating a region of a host map based on sensor data received from a plurality of connected vehicles travelling in the region comprises monitoring a host map region for discrepancies, defining a geo-fence around an area of a discrepancy and setting a schedule for activing the geo-fence. When a connected vehicle enters the geo-fence, the host mapping system transmits the geo-fence to the connected vehicle and requests that it share its sensor data while travelling in the geo-fenced area. The host mapping system receives the sensor data and processes the data to update details of the host map. The host mapping system may transmit the updated map to connected vehicles travelling in the map region.
US11408745B2
A method comprises determining a plurality of available parking spaces within a threshold distance of a destination; determining an initial utility score for each of the available parking spaces based on a distance between each of the available parking spaces and the destination; determining a safety score associated with each of the available parking spaces based on crime data and a distance between each of the parking spaces and a major street, an entrance to a parking facility in which each available parking space is located, or an entrance to a point of interest; determining an adjusted utility score for each of the available parking spaces based on the initial utility score and the safety score associated with each of the available parking spaces; and selecting a parking space among the plurality of available parking spaces based on the adjusted utility score for the parking space.
US11408732B2
A vehicle wheel alignment system has a plurality of cameras, each camera for viewing a respective target disposed at a respective wheel of the vehicle and capturing image data of the target as the wheel and target are continuously rotated a number of degrees of rotation without a pause. The image data is used to calculate a minimum number of poses of the target of at least one pose for every five degrees of rotation as the wheel and target are continuously rotated the number of degrees of rotation without a pause. At least one of the cameras comprises a data processor for performing the steps of preprocessing the image data, and calculating an alignment parameter for the vehicle based on the preprocessed image data.
US11408727B2
In an observation method, measurement values of an object of measurement at a plurality of different positions in a plane that intersects a depth direction are acquired from an optical coherence tomography instrument (S100). In the observation method, measurement values are integrated in the depth direction at each of the plurality of positions (S104). In the observation method, a shrinkage parameter of the object of measurement is calculated on the basis of the integrated values at each of the plurality of positions (S105).
US11408718B2
A tool, such as a tape measure, including a retraction system is shown. The tape measure includes a magnetic retraction speed controller. The magnetic retraction speed controller includes a magnet that induces an eddy current in a conductive component of the tool and slows a retraction speed.
US11408710B2
A sighting device includes a base portion structured to be mounted to a gun, a battery powered accessory, and a battery receiver structured to contain a battery for the battery powered accessory. The battery receiver has a closed position in which the battery receiver is contained within the base portion as well as an open position in which the battery receiver is at least partially separated from the base portion. The sighting device includes a manually operated release button that, when pressed, causes the battery receiver to be released from the closed position.
US11408707B2
A firearm grip assembly includes a firearm adapter having functionality for engaging the receiver of a firearm. An elongated handgrip body having an opening along the top end slidingly receives the bottom end of the adapter. The latching mechanism is positioned within the adapter and includes a resilient member having a pair of buttons extending outward therefrom. The buttons are positioned through a first set of openings located on the adapter body and are selectively positioned within a second pair of openings on the handgrip body when the adapter is positioned within the handgrip body.
US11408706B2
In an example, an apparatus includes a cryogenic container configured to store a cryogenic fluid, a superconducting coil disposed within the cryogenic container, and an outer casing surrounding at least a lateral surface area of the cryogenic container. The apparatus is configured such that, while the superconducting coil is carrying a current, is in a superconducting state, and is being cooled by the cryogenic fluid stored in the cryogenic container, an outward magnetic pressure is imposed on the cryogenic container and the outer casing. The cryogenic container and the outer casing are configured to withstand the outward magnetic pressure for at least a predetermined period of time, including while the superconducting coil is being charged to the superconducting state. An occurrence of a trigger event while the outward magnetic pressure is being imposed causes the cryogenic container and the outer casing to expand and burst into radially-dispersed fragments.
US11408704B2
In some embodiments, an archery bow riser comprises a body defining a first end, a second end and a grip portion. The body defines a shooting axis and comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a metal and the second portion comprises carbon fibers. The first portion extends to a first side of the shooting axis and to a second side of the shooting axis, and the second portion extends to the first side of the shooting axis and to the second side of the shooting axis.
US11408689B2
Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling device and method for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling device includes a solar spectrum reflecting structure configured and arranged to suppress light modes, and a thermally-emissive structure configured and arranged to facilitate thermally-generated electromagnetic emissions from the object and in mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths.
US11408687B2
A heat exchanger assembly comprising a frame (10) and a heat exchanger (20), wherein the heat exchanger (20) comprises a core of plates (21) stacked in a first direction, with edges (22) protruding along their outline, characterized in that the frame (10) comprises a retaining element (30) configured to engage plate edges (22) so that the retaining element (30) restricts movement of the heat exchanger (20) with respect to the frame (10) in the first direction, wherein the retaining element (30) comprises an elongated core (31) attached to the frame (10) and plurality of protrusions (32) protruding from this core (31), said protrusions (32) configured to protrude between plate edges (22).
US11408684B1
A loop heat pipe evaporator includes a porous primary wick, and a nonporous envelope unseparatingly surrounding the primary wick. The primary wick and the envelope are of one-piece construction.
US11408679B2
A shoe dryer including a main body, a shoe receiver provided inside the main body and configured to receive a shoe, a blower configured to blow air toward the shoe received in the shoe receiving portion, a camera configured to obtain an image of the shoe by photographing the shoe received in the shoe receiver, and a control device configured to recognize information about the shoe from the image of the shoe obtained by the camera, and control a direction of air blown by the blower based on the information about the shoe.
US11408678B2
The claimed invention provides a method and an apparatus for separating hydrocarbons, wherein the method and the apparatus are used for separating a hydrocarbon having 3 or more carbon atoms including at least propane (hereinafter sometimes called “C3+ NGL”. NGL: Natural Gas Liquid) from liquefied natural gas (LNG).
US11408676B2
A system and method for cooling a gas using a mixed refrigerant includes a compressor system and a heat exchange system, where the compressor system may include an interstage separation device or drum with no liquid outlet, a liquid outlet in fluid communication with a pump that pumps liquid forward to a high pressure separation device or a liquid outlet through which liquid flows to the heat exchanger to be subcooled. In the last situation, the subcooled liquid is expanded and combined with an expanded cold temperature stream, which is a cooled and expanded stream from the vapor side of a cold vapor separation device, and subcooled and expanded streams from liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device, or combined with a stream formed from the subcooled streams from the liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device after mixing and expansion, to form a primary refrigeration stream.
US11408650B2
The invention is directed to an energy efficient thermoelectric heat pump assembly. The thermoelectric heat pump assembly preferably includes two to nine thermoelectric unit layers capable of active use of the Peltier effect; and at least one capacitance spacer block suitable for storing heat and providing a delayed thermal reaction time of the assembly. The capacitance spacer block is thermally connected between the thermoelectric unit layers. The present invention further relates to a thermoelectric transport and storage devices for transporting or storing temperature sensitive goods, for example, vaccines, chemicals, biologicals, and other temperature sensitive goods. Preferably the transport or storage devices are configured and provide on-board energy storage for sustaining, for multiple days, at a constant-temperature, with an acceptable temperature variation band.
US11408643B2
As a circulation pump is activated while a hot water supply faucet is closed, an immediate hot water supply circulation path is formed to bypass the hot water supply faucet on the outside of a water heating apparatus and to pass through a heat exchanger in the inside of the water heating apparatus. A controller determines in a test mode, whether or not the immediate hot water supply circulation path has been formed by connection of a thermal water stop bypass valve, based on whether or not a temperature detector senses increase in temperature to a predetermined criterion temperature while the circulation pump and a heat source apparatus are active.
US11408641B2
A bell mouth includes an upstream body including an upstream-side opening formed to allow air introduced from an air supply duct to pass through and an upstream measurement portion connected with a differential-pressure acquisition device that uses pressure of the air in the upstream-side opening, in which the air supply duct guides the air into a water-heating device from the outside, a differential-pressure generation part that is located downstream of the upstream body with respect to a flow direction of the air and that has a structure that reduces the pressure of the air passing through the differential-pressure generation part, and a downstream body including a downstream-side opening formed to allow the air passing through the differential-pressure generation part to pass through and a downstream measurement portion connected with the differential-pressure acquisition device that obtains a difference between the pressure of the air passing through the downstream-side opening and facing toward a blower of the water-heating device and the pressure of the air in the upstream-side opening.
US11408630B2
A management system for building equipment includes several units. An instruction transmission unit transmits an instruction to at least one device. A response reception unit receives a response indicating that a state transition is made by the device in accordance with the instruction. A detection unit detects an abnormal condition in which the response is not received by the reception unit within a reference time period after transmission of the instruction. A storage unit stores the reference time period. A time measurement unit measures a length of time from when the instruction is transmitted to when the response is received. A mode setting unit sets an operating mode of the management system to a reference-time-period calculation mode. A calculation unit performs calculations to determine the reference time period based on a measurement result obtained by the measurement unit, and prompts the storage unit to store the determined reference time period.
US11408628B2
Electronic device for regulating a thermo-fluidic system for a building, including a heating/cooling system including mixing valves adapted to control flows of hot/cold water within said heating/cooling system, the device including a control unit adapted to: receive a main signal from a building management system; receive a predefined reference signal representative of a desired parameter for the building; receive environmental signals from environmental sensors placed in the building and adapted to measure environmental parameters of said building; issue a control signal towards an actuator associated with a respective mixing valve in order to modify the opening or closing thereof.
US11408618B2
Provided is an indoor unit of an air-conditioner including: an indoor unit body configured to be provided in a ceiling; a suction port attached to a lower surface of the indoor unit body; a panel including a blow port for blowing conditioned air into a room; and a louver provided at the blow port of the panel to change an air sending direction. The panel includes an outer frame provided outside the blow port and provided with a substantially horizontal flat portion, and a protruding portion provided on the flat portion of the outer frame and protruding vertically downward. A lower end of the protruding portion is positioned vertically above a lower end of the louver. A lower end of an inner flow path wall surface forming a flow path wall surface inside the blow port is positioned vertically below the lower end of the louver.
US11408613B2
A solar thermal control system includes a membrane configured to receive solar energy, wherein the membrane is configured to form a cavity between the membrane and an outer surface of a structure by coupling to the outer surface, and wherein the solar energy is configured to heat air within the cavity. The control system also includes a thermal collection unit configured to connect to the cavity and receive and direct air from the cavity, and a ducting system coupled to the thermal collection unit and configured to direct air from the thermal collection unit to at least one of the interior of the structure and a vent.
US11408612B2
A cooking appliance is provided such that upper and front surfaces of a housing are open and a door can open and close the upper and front surfaces of the housing. The cooking appliance having such a configuration can provide an expanded passage required to enable a user to easily and conveniently insert or withdraw food or a tray into or from a cooking compartment.
US11408607B2
Methods and apparatus for vaporizing liquid into the surrounding environment, including directing liquid from a liquid source to a vaporization port where the vaporization port has lateral dimensions varying from 10 um to 300 um, applying heat to the liquid in the vaporization port with an at least one heating element located in thermal communication to the vaporization port, and releasing vaporized liquid from the vaporization port into the surrounding environment so that fluid is transported through the depth of the structure.
US11408594B2
A light fixture assembly for mounting on a mounting surface of a building material includes: a light fixture. The light fixture comprises a main body comprising a back side surface and a light transmissive side surface opposing the back side surface. The main body has a first dimension from a first lateral edge to a second lateral edge opposing the first lateral edge that is greater than a second dimension from the back side surface to the light transmissive side surface. The assembly further includes a mounting adapter provided at the back side surface, and a plate spring provided at the back side surface and extending along a first direction from the first lateral edge to the second lateral edge. The plate spring is configured to apply a restoring force to the first lateral edge and the second lateral edge.
US11408592B2
An optical structure for controlling distribution of light generated by a light source is described. The optical structure includes a primary optics disposed relative to the light source and configured to reflect light generated by the light source towards a target region. The optical structure also includes a secondary optics disposed and aligned relative to the primary optics. The secondary optics is configured to at least partially block light generated by the light source from illuminating a region outside the target region.
US11408591B2
An LED lighting module with micro led arrays and phosphor film is disclosed. The LED lighting module includes a plurality of micro LED arrays and a phosphor film. The micro LED arrays are respectively composed of at least one micro LED. The phosphor film is disposed on one side of the micro LED arrays; and the phosphor film has a transparent substrate and is provided with a plurality of light emitting regions. The plurality of light emitting regions are arranged adjacent to each other and into a matrix form, and are set corresponding to the micro LED arrays collimation respectively. A part or the whole of the surface of the plurality of light emitting regions is provided with at least one type of phosphor powder.
US11408590B2
A luminaire and an illumination system are disclosed. In an embodiment a luminaire includes at least one light-emitting semiconductor chip having a main emission side and a reflector having a reflection side facing the main emission side, the reflection side being a freeform different from a circle, an ellipse, a parabola or a hyperbola when seen in cross-section, wherein a base line of the reflector runs through the main emission side and a local height of the reflection side is measured against the base line, wherein a local focal length of the reflection side is increased along the local height, concerning ray bundles coming in parallel with the base line from an exterior of the luminaire during operation, and wherein local heights do not have a common focal point.
US11408576B2
A high and low beam integrated vehicle lamp lighting device, a vehicle lamp, and a vehicle. The lighting device comprises a first light source, a first light-condensing element, a second light source, a second light-condensing element, a light distribution element, and a lens; the first light-condensing element is arranged to be capable of condensing light emitted by the corresponding first light source and making the light projected through the lens by means of the light distribution element to form a low beam shape, and the second light-condensing element is arranged to be capable of condensing light emitted by the corresponding second light source and making the light projected through the lens by means of the light distribution element to form a high beam shape, wherein the light exit direction of at least one of the first light-condensing element and the second light-condensing element intersects with a light shape projection direction.
US11408575B2
The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for a for a motor vehicle headlight and/or for a rear light of a motor vehicle and/or for a signal light for a motor vehicle registration for generating at least two, in particular precisely two, light distributions, or for generating at least two, in particular precisely two different lighting functions, wherein the lighting device (1) comprises an optical element (2) and two light sources (30, 40) —a first light source (30) and a second light source (40), in particular LED light sources—wherein each of the light sources (30, 40) can be controlled independently of the other light source or sources, wherein the optical element (2) is formed from an optically transparent material, and wherein the optical element (2) has a light coupling region (10) and a light exit surface (11), and wherein light of the light sources (30, 40) which is introduced into the optical element (2) via the light coupling region (10) at least partially exits via the light exit surface (11), wherein the light coupling region (10) is formed from a central light coupling surface (100) and a lateral coupling surface (200) on the side, wherein the central light coupling surface (100) is opposite the light sources (30, 40), and wherein the lateral coupling surface (200) adjoins the central light coupling surface (100) in such a way that a recess is formed in the optical element (2), in or opposite which the light sources (30, 40) are arranged and into which the light sources (30, 40) emit their light, wherein the two light sources (30, 40) lie on a straight line (G) which runs in a vertical direction (R), which runs parallel to a vertical axis (Z), and wherein the first light source, seen in the vertical direction (30), lies above the second light source (40), and wherein the light coupling region (10) has two focal points (F1, F2), wherein one of the light sources (30) is arranged in one of the focal points (F1) and the other light source (40) is arranged in the other focal point (F2), wherein the lateral coupling surface (200) of the light coupling region (10) is designed in such a way that, in a region which is at least partially or completely above a first horizontal plane (E1) in which the first light source (30) is arranged, in the vertical direction (R), the lateral boundary surface (200) has a first, curved lateral boundary surface portion (201), and in a region which in the vertical direction (R) lies at least partially or completely below a second horizontal plane (E2) in which the second light source (40) is arranged, the lateral boundary surface (200) has a second, curved lateral boundary surface portion (202), wherein the horizontal planes (E1, E2) are planes which run parallel to a plane (X, Y) to which the vertical axis (Z) is orthogonal and which contains the optical axis (X), and wherein the two lateral boundary surface portions (201, 202) are connected to one another via lateral boundary surface connecting portions (203, 204); and the central light coupling surface (10) is designed as follows: starting from each lateral boundary surface connecting portion (203, 204), a central coupling surface (103, 104) extends in the direction of the other lateral boundary surface connecting portion (204, 203), wherein the central coupling surfaces (103, 104) converge and terminate at a single central edge (110); above and below the central coupling surfaces (103, 104) extend two connection coupling surfaces (101, 102) which connect the central coupling surfaces (103, 104) to the lateral boundary surface portions (201, 202), wherein the central coupling surfaces (103, 104) are concavely curved in horizontal sectional planes—sectional planes which run parallel to a plane (X, Y) to which the vertical axis (Z) is orthogonal, and which contains the optical axis (X) —such that concave central coupling surface contours (103″, 104″) are produced.
US11408552B2
A tablet or smartphone holding system for video and photo shooting is disclosed. The holder is a clip which has a clear, flat, front panel and a back panel which are joined together by an axis. The axis goes through bases on both the front and back panel and has a spring, which generates pressure to press the back panel toward the front panel, with a tablet or smartphone in between.
US11408545B2
A clamping clip, including a clamping band the two end portions of which overlap one another in a closed condition of the clamping clip forming an inner band portion and an outer band portion, the clamping band including a first tensioning hook arranged on the outer band portion, and a second tensioning hook arranged on the inner band portion, the second tensioning hook including an inclined surface facing the outer band portion as a ramp, wherein at least one of the first tensioning hook and the second tensioning hook includes a plurality of projections facing away from the other of the first tensioning hook and the second tensioning hook.
US11408544B2
A fluid coupling including a first adapter, a second adapter configured to selectively connect with and disconnect from the male adapter, an inner sleeve, a first seal between the first adapter and the inner sleeve, a second seal between the second adapter and the inner sleeve, and at least one thermally-activated seal between two of the first adapter, the second adapter, and the inner sleeve. During normal operation, the at least one thermally-activated seal may be spaced apart from at least one of the two of the first adapter, the second adapter, and the inner sleeve. At or above a predetermined temperature, the thermally-activated seal may be configured to expand to create a seal between the two of the first adapter, the second adapter, and the sleeve.
US11408541B2
Coupling device (12) for connecting elongated hollow bodies (26, 28) in an assembly system (10), comprising: a first receiving opening (32) for receiving a first elongated hollow body (26) and a second receiving opening (34) for receiving a second elongated hollow body (28), wherein the receiving openings (32, 34) are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the first and second elongated hollow bodies (26, 28) can be coupled to one another after introduction into the respective receiving openings (32, 34).
US11408540B2
A tube coupling assembly is disclosed, which comprises a first connector for connecting to a tube; a second connector for jointing with the first connector; a first member is adapted to mount on the first connector and operably affixable to the second connector; and a second member is adapted to mount on the second connector, and is capable of being engaged with the first member to prevent separation between the first connector and the second connector.
US11408539B2
A resin line is provided with a corrugated pipe that has a wall with individual circumferentially arranged through openings. Sections of the wall are circumferentially closed. The wall has a cross-sectional shape of non-rotational symmetry transverse to a longitudinal center axis and is divided in relation to the cross-sectional shape of non-rotational symmetry into a first part and a second part. The first part has a flattened base extending in a transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal center axis across a length of the corrugated pipe. The second part has an arc shape extending in a direction of height transverse to the longitudinal center axis across the length of the corrugated pipe. The flattened base has a width measured in the transverse direction that is larger than a height of the arc shape measured in the direction of height.
US11408538B2
A support assembly for hydraulic lines is disclosed. The support assembly includes a frame designed to retain at least one ring within its opening. Each ring is configured to be secured about a single hydraulic hose, thus simultaneously securing it within the frame. Each ring can rotate with respect to the frame about their longitudinal axis, reducing the stress exerted directly on the hydraulic line. The support assembly further includes a second frame in which the frame is attached. The frame can rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotation of the rings to further lessen the stress on the hydraulic lines. The support assembly is attached to a hydraulically operated machine by a base plate or bracket onto which the second frame is fixedly attached.
US11408535B2
A valve for pressurized fluid including a body housing a fluid circuit having an upstream end configured to be placed in communication with a reserve of pressurized fluid and a downstream end configured to be placed in communication with a user of fluid, the circuit including a collection of valve shutter(s) including at least one shutoff valve shutter allowing the circuit to be closed or opened, the valve including a member for manually controlling the collection of valve shutter(s).
US11408529B2
A coupling device couples a drive shaft of a pivot drive (30) of an exhaust gas stream exhaust flap (10) for an internal combustion engine with a pivot shaft (14), which is rotatable about a pivot axis (A) and carries a flap member (16). The coupling device includes a coupling element (46) with a first coupling area (42) positive-locking engaging with a drive shaft (34) and with a second coupling area (44) positive-locking engaging with a pivot shaft. A prestressing element (58) is supported in relation to the coupling element and in relation to a support element (66) and prestresses the coupling element in a direction of a coupling axis (K), axially away from the support element and in a circumferential direction. A preassembly-blocking device (78) holds the support element under axial prestress and circumferential prestress in a preassembled position in relation to the coupling element.
US11408526B2
A pilot-operated relief valve assembly can include a relief valve, and a pressure detection assembly. A valve lift factor or indicator of relief flow can be determined based on pressure measurements gathered by the pressure detection assembly.
US11408517B2
Example aspects of a valve are disclosed. The valve can comprise a valve body defining a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an inner surface, and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a body bore extending from the first end to the second end and a channel extending radially outward from the body bore, the channel defining a seat retention groove; a metal barrier applied to the inner surface and covering the seat retention groove, the metal barrier defining a first edge and a second edge, the first edge oriented between the seat retention groove and the first end, and the second edge oriented between the seat retention groove and the second end; and a valve seat positioned within the channel.
US11408515B2
A pressure regulator including: a housing including an inlet flow passage and an outlet flow passage; a plunger reciprocally mounted in the housing and including a plunger flow passage; an inlet to the plunger flow passage, wherein the inlet is aligned with a plane oblique to an axis of the plunger flow passage; and a valve seat fixed to the housing and positioned between the inlet flow passage and the inlet to the flow passage of the plunger, wherein the valve seat is configured to receive and abut the inlet to the flow passage of the plunger.
US11408514B2
A toy gun magazine constant gas flow valve structure is coupled with a magazine of a pneumatic toy gun and structurally includes a gas valve body fixed in the magazine and includes a gas inlet end portion, a gas discharge portion, and a coupling end portion, a driving rod movably disposed in the gas valve body, a control member coupled with one end of the driving rod, a stroke limiting trough having a front limiting portion and a rear limiting portion, and a stop element. Before the toy gun is firing, the stop element abuts the front limiting portion to control the extent by which the driving rod presses against the leak-sealing element and after the firing of the toy gun, the stop element abuts the rear limiting portion to control the extent of opening of the gas inlet end portion and the gas discharge portion.
US11408512B2
A magnetic fluid sealing device, includes first pole teeth and a first magnetic fluid adsorbed on the first pole teeth functioning as a first line of defense for sealing, as well as second pole teeth and a second magnetic fluid adsorbed on the second pole teeth functioning as a second line of defense for sealing. The second pole teeth of the magnetic fluid sealing device are arranged on the permanent magnet or the flux sleeve. Since the flux sleeve is fitted over the permanent magnet, the arrangement of the second pole teeth can ensure the ability of the pole shoe to absorb the magnetic fluid, and also can make full use of a length of the permanent magnet in the axial direction of the rotating shaft. Therefore, the magnetic fluid sealing device is effectively improved in the sealing effect and the pressure resistance without increasing its axial length.
US11408507B2
A piston (10) for an internal combustion engine includes a groove (16) for an oil wiper ring and a recess (18) between the groove (16) and at least one shaft wall (20). A lower edge of the groove (16), which is closer to the shaft wall (20), has a larger diameter than a lower edge of the recess (18).
US11408499B2
Device for transferring rotational power, a machine including such a device and use of such a device
A device (13) for transferring rotational power from a first shaft (14) to a second shaft (15), comprising an endless toothed belt (16) and a housing (17), wherein the belt (16) is arranged inside said housing (17) and is connectable to the first and second shafts (14, 15) for transferring rotational power from the first shaft (14) to the second shaft (15). The housing (17) comprises a first cavity (18) and a second cavity (19), wherein the second cavity (19) is separated from the first cavity (18) by means of a wall (20). The belt (16) is arranged in the first cavity (18) and the first cavity (18) is provided with a first liquid for contacting the belt (16). The second cavity (19) is provided with a second liquid, the second liquid being a cooling liquid. The housing (17) comprises an inlet (23) to the second cavity (19) and an outlet (24) from the second cavity (19) for the second liquid, and the second cavity (19) is connected to a source of the second liquid through the inlet (23), so that the second liquid can be circulated through the second cavity (19). Disclosed is also a machine including such a device and uses of such a device for industrial machines.
US11408495B2
A hybrid module comprising a rotor assembly including a rotor carrier and a torque converter completely disposed radially inside of the rotor carrier is provided. The torque converter assembly includes an impeller having an impeller shell fixed to the rotor carrier such that the impeller shell and the rotor carrier form a housing of the torque converter.
US11408494B2
A clutch assembly is disclosed herein. The clutch assembly includes a joint balance chamber positioned between a disconnect apply chamber and a torque converter clutch apply chamber. A torque converter assembly includes a charge pressure fluid circuit. A hub defines a passage between the charge pressure fluid circuit and the joint balance chamber, such that fluid from the torque converter assembly is provided to the joint balance chamber.
US11408489B2
A drive system for driving a belt is presented. The system comprises a frame, a driving shaft connected to a motor, a controller, a driven shaft, two pulleys connected to the driven and driving shafts, and a belt. The frame supports the driving and driven shafts to mount the belt on the pulleys. A signal element is mounted on and drives with the belt. At least two detection elements are mounted on the frame so that when the signal element passes the detection elements, a signal is generated as the belt moves. The detector elements are connected to a controller which controls the motor so that when the system starts, the belt moves until the signal element generates a signal in a first detector element to fix a zero point of the belt movement. The signal of the second detector element checks the zero point during normal drive operation.
US11408486B2
A carrier includes a first carrier portion and a second carrier portion. The first carrier portion includes a gear housing space that houses a planetary gear, an opening that opens the gear housing space toward the second carrier portion and allows the planetary gear to fit into the gear housing space, and a first support hole that supports a first end portion of the planetary support shaft. The second carrier portion includes a cover portion that covers the opening, a second support hole that supports a second end portion of the planetary support shaft, and a joining portion that detachably joins the second carrier portion to the first carrier portion. The joining portion is joined to the first carrier portion by being tightened in a direction aligned with a direction of an axial core of a sun gear.
US11408478B2
A transmissive joint has an elastic response for transmitting a torsional load capable of ensuring the transmission in the absence of coaxiality between two actuating and actuated devices, and allowing the internal passage of cabling or possible accessory components along the axis of transmission/torsion.
US11408475B2
A wheel brake arrangement for a wheel of a vehicle, said wheel brake arrangement comprising a wheel hub (102) comprising an outwardly facing gear teeth arrangement (104) arranged in a circumferential direction thereof; and a brake disc (106) comprising an inwardly facing gear teeth arrangement (108) arranged in meshed connection with the outwardly facing gear teeth arrangement of the wheel hub for preventing a relative circumferential movement between the brake disc and the wheel hub, wherein one of the wheel hub and the brake disc comprises a circumferentially arranged groove (110); wherein the wheel brake arrangement further comprises at least one retainer (112) connected between the wheel hub and the brake disc for preventing a relative axial movement between the wheel hub and the brake disc, wherein the at least one retainer is at least partially arranged in the circumferentially arranged groove (110) of one of the wheel hub and the brake disc.
US11408473B2
The invention relates to a bar spacer (10) for a braked aircraft wheel, the bar being for fitting to a rim (1) of the wheel in order to drive the rotor disks of the brake in rotation, the spacer being for interposing between the bar and the rim, the spacer comprising two bearing blocks (11) connected together by a core (15) that is pierced to pass a screw for fastening the bar to the rim. According to the invention, the bearing blocks (11) of the spacer include voids defining a void fraction of at least 30% of the volume of the bearing blocks.
US11408468B2
A torque limiter embedded damper device is provided between a power source-side member and an output-side member. The torque limiter embedded damper device includes a damper unit coupled to the output-side member, and a torque limiter unit that limits torque transmitted between the power source-side member and the damper unit. The damper unit includes first and second plates opposed to each other. The first and second plates have a disc shape. The first plate includes a first coupling portion in an outer peripheral end thereof. The second plate includes a second coupling portion in an outer peripheral end thereof. The first and second coupling portions are coupled to each other. The torque limiter unit includes a friction disc including a third coupling portion in an inner peripheral part thereof. The third coupling portion is coupled to the damper unit and disposed radially inside the first and second coupling portions.
US11408454B2
The invention relates to a fastener (10) for attaching together workpieces (50a, 50b) having aligned holes therethrough, the fastener (10) comprising a shank portion (11) and a head portion (13) provided at one end of the shank portion (11), the diameter of the shank portion (11) and/or of the head portion (13) being selected such that the fastener (10) can be installed in the aligned holes in close tolerance. The fastener (10) further comprises an oversizing structure (20), said oversizing structure (20) being firmly bonded to at least a part of the shank portion (11) and/or the head portion (13) in order to oversize at least the part of the shank portion (11) and/or the head portion (13) such as to allow the fastener (10) to be installed in aligned holes (60a, 60b) having a diameter larger than that required for the fastener (10) without the oversizing structure (20).
US11408451B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to an apparatus for monitoring a valve having a control element, wherein the control element is actuated by an actuator, including a valve stem having a bore therethrough, wherein the bore is defined by a wall of the valve stem, and further wherein the valve stem is connected at a first end to the actuator and at a second end to the control element; and an electronics module within the bore of the valve stem, wherein the electronics module further includes one or more sensors within the valve stem.
US11408449B2
A method and apparatus for dithering hydraulic valves to mitigate static friction (“stiction”) associated with the hydraulic valves. A first hydraulic valve and a second hydraulic valve are dithered to mitigate stiction associated with those valves. The dithering of the first and second hydraulic valves also cause dithering of a main hydraulic valve associated with the first and second hydraulic valves. Accordingly, stiction of three hydraulic valves of a hydraulic system is mitigated.
US11408447B2
The “factory installed” pressure regulator valve of an automotive transmission is replaced by a pressure regulator valve having two separate valve components conjointly movable together in a bore. A protrusion or protuberance extending from the center of one end of one of the valve components defines a fulcrum which abuts against an adjacent end of the other valve component as the two valve components move conjointly and in direct contact with each other within the bore during operation of the pressure regulator valve. Preferably, an opening is provided in a land in one of the valve components to vent hydraulic fluid (transmission oil) to prevent a pressure build-up in the bore which might separate the two valve components from each other during reciprocating movement of the valve components in the bore.
US11408438B2
A blower configured to be positioned in confined spaces and to provide ventilation of a fluid, such as temperature controlled air, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the blower is configured to have a reduced axial thickness, which can be desired in such confined spaces. In some embodiments, the blower has an integral filter, a wire channel for the routing of one or more wires, and/or an exposed backplate. In some embodiments, the blower has a snap-fit circuit board, containment system for mounting the motor, one or more vanes for directing fluid flow, shrouded impeller, and/or integrated connector.
US11408424B2
An actuator for a compressor element, the actuator comprising an electrical motor with a motor casing which defines a motor chamber in which a motor rotor is positioned rotatably with the help of one or more motor bearings in relation to a motor stator, whereby the motor stator is built of laminations around which windings are attached and whereby the motor rotor is built of a shaft with laminations, whereby the actuator is further equipped with a cooling circuit for a coolant, wherein the coolant is water, the motor bearings are water-lubricated, the shaft on the motor rotor is made from stainless steel, the windings are embedded in an epoxy resin and a composite sleeve is applied around each of the laminations on the motor rotor and on the motor stator.
US11408420B2
The present invention aims to provide a long-life stator and a uniaxial eccentric screw pump provided with the stator, which enable a comparatively extended period of use by preventing damage of the stator due to repeating of attachment and removal to/from the uniaxial eccentric screw pump. A stator 20 includes an outer cylinder 30, and a stator main body 42 having flange-shaped gasket parts 46 and 47. The stator 20 includes fixing areas 24 and 25 to which the gasket parts 46 and 47 and the outer cylinder 30 are adhered. One or both of the outer cylinder 30 and the gasket parts 46 and 47 has a derricking part penetrating or being dented in axial directions X and made into such a shape where at least part of one of the outer cylinder and the gasket parts is fitted into the other.
US11408419B2
A fluid end having its fluid flow bores sealed without threading a retaining nut into the walls of each bore. The fluid ends may be assembled using a plurality of different kits that each comprise a fluid end body, a component, a retainer element, and a fastening system. The retainer element holds the component within each of the bores formed in the fluid end body and the fastening system secures the retainer element to the body. The fastening system comprises a plurality of externally threaded studs, washers and nuts in some embodiments. In other embodiments, the fastening system comprises a plurality of screws.
US11408416B2
Pump systems with pinch valves for surgical procedures. At least some of the example embodiments are pump systems including a stationary housing defining a front face. A tube support extends outwardly from the front face for aligning and supporting a first tube and a second tube. At least one pinch member is movable relative to the tube support by a power actuator operably coupled to the at least one pinch member and configured to have three orientations that define: a first arrangement of the pinch member relative to the tube support configured to pinch closed the first tube, a second arrangement of the at least one pinch member relative to the tube support configured to pinch closed the second tube, and a third arrangement of the at least one pinch member relative to the tube support configured to pinch closed neither the first tube nor the second tube.
US11408410B2
The application discloses a plastic air pump mechanism, which comprises a plastic body, a plastic output unit and an actuating unit; the plastic body has an integrally forming structure, which comprises a plastic cylinder and a plastic bracket disposed at an air inlet end of the plastic cylinder; the plastic output unit is detachably connected to an air outlet end of the plastic cylinder; the actuating unit comprises a motor, plastic gears disposed on the plastic bracket and electrically connected to the motor, and a plastic rocker arm driven by the plastic gears to realize reciprocating of a piston in the plastic cylinder; and a large body insert of metal is provided in an air outlet of the plastic cylinder. The plastic air pump mechanism can reduce product weight, simplify production and installation processes, save materials and labor costs, and reduce self weight of a vehicle.
US11408407B2
An oxygen concentrator includes a wobble plate compressor having one or more double-headed pistons and cylinders. A wobble plate of the compressor does not spin as an axle rotates, but orbitally tilts relative to the axle, thereby causing the double-headed pistons to move within the respective cylinders.
US11408400B2
Disclosed is a wind turbine blade having a blade de-icing system. The blade de-icing system comprises: a first channel longitudinally extending from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is between the tip end and the first position; and a heating channel longitudinally extending from the second position to the first position along the leading edge of the wind turbine blade, the heating channel and the first channel being in fluid connection. The blade de-icing system is arranged to provide a flow of heated fluid through the first channel and the heating channel, the flow of heated fluid through the heating channel having a main flow direction along a longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade, and wherein the blade de-icing system is configured to affect the flow of heated fluid through the heating channel resulting in a rotational flow of the heated fluid about the main flow direction. The rotational flow is rotating from the suction side to the pressure side at the leading edge.
US11408398B2
The wind turbine comprises at least one controller arranged to control a function of the wind turbine, and a data storage unit arranged to store controller specific data for the at least one controller, where the data storage unit is associated with the at least one controller to enable communication of the controller specific data between the data storage unit and the at least one controller. The method comprises detecting a connection between a programming enabling key and a connection interface dependent on a presence of the programming enabling key in proximity of the connection interface, initiating a programming mode wherein a control unit is enabled to receive controller specific data or wind turbine specific data from which the controller specific data can be determined, and obtaining the controller specific data or the wind turbine specific data via a manual action or via a trusted data source.
US11408396B2
A wind turbine and method are provided for defining a plurality of thrust limits for the wind turbine located at a site and having a rotor with rotor blades, wherein the thrust limits define values of aerodynamic thrust on the rotor not to be exceeded in operation. The method includes providing a wind speed distribution representative for the site and defining one or more isolines of constant turbulence probability representing a turbulence parameter as a function of wind speed. The isolines correspond to quantile levels of turbulence of the wind speed distribution and the turbulence parameter is indicative of wind speed variation. The turbulence parameter is determined by continuously measuring wind speed upstream of the rotor with an active sensing system and calculating the wind speed variations from the measured wind speed. Turbulence ranges are defined with respect to the isolines and thrust limits are defined for the turbulence ranges.
US11408392B2
A composite material blank (190) comprising an elongate blank body (300) extending between a first end face (312a) and a second end face (312b); said blank body (300) extending in a longitudinal direction, parallel to a longitudinal axis thereof, and having four peripheral sides (341, 342, 343, 344); each said first and second end face (312a, 312b) having edges (361a-364a; 361b-364b) which define a trapezoid shape; wherein the peripheral sides (341, 342, 343, 344) of said blank body (190) connect the edges (361a-364a) of said first end face (312a) with the edges (361b-364b) of said second end face (312b); and wherein said first trapezoid end face (312a) is inverted in relation to said second trapezoid end face (312b). A method of manufacturing a composite blank (190), and a wind turbine blade root insert (105) which may be formed from a blank (190).
US11408387B2
An auto-stop start system for a vehicle. The auto-stop start system has a control unit with an auto-stop start function controlling stop and start of an engine of the vehicle, and a control device by which control device the auto-stop start function can be temporarily deactivated by an operator of the vehicle. The control unit is configured to reactivate the auto-stop start function after a predetermined duration of a temporary deactivation. The predetermined duration of the temporary deactivation of the auto-stop start function is selectable by means of the control device.
US11408383B2
In at least some implementations, an assembly includes a reservoir, a primary fuel pump having an inlet in communication with the reservoir's internal volume, an outlet, a motor and a pumping element driven by the motor and a secondary fuel pump with a body having first and second inlets and an outlet. The first inlet receives fuel from the primary fuel pump and a nozzle is communicated with the first inlet and fuel flows out of the nozzle into the body via the first inlet. The second inlet is in communication with the reservoir inlet, and the outlet is in communication with the internal volume. The flow of fuel through the nozzle draws fuel from the fuel source through the second fuel inlet and that fuel is combined with the flow of fuel from the nozzle and discharged into the reservoir.
US11408382B2
A carburetor includes a carburetor bowl, a fuel supply pipe, a fuel drain pipe, and a valve. The carburetor bowl is configured to store fuel and provide the fuel to an air passage. The fuel supply pipe is connected a fuel tank and the carburetor bowl. The fuel drain pipe is connected to the carburetor bowl and the fuel supply line. The valve for the fuel drain pipe is configured to open and close in response to an orientation of the carburetor.
US11408379B2
The invention relates to a an air supply arrangement (100) for supplying air from the atmosphere towards an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, the air supply arrangement comprising an air intake (101) for intake of air from the atmosphere, an air outlet (102) for outlet of air towards the internal combustion engine, and an air duct (103) for leading air from the air intake (101) in a downstream direction to the air outlet (102). A separator (200) is arranged in the air duct (103) so as to divide the air duct (103) into an upstream portion (104) and a downstream portion (105) for filtering of atmospheric air from debris by passage of said atmospheric air through the separator (200). The air supply arrangement (100) further comprises a compressed air delivery arrangement (300) being arranged to supply compressed air towards the separator (200) for cleaning the separator (200) from assembled debris.
US11408367B2
An internal combustion engine includes: a piston guided by a cylinder to reciprocate along a cylinder axis and forming a combustion chamber with a crown surface facing a cylinder head; and a fuel injection valve having an injection port facing the combustion chamber and injecting fuel to a forward tumble flow in the combustion chamber. A ridge formed on the crown surface rises toward a ceiling surface side relative to a reference plane, orthogonal to the cylinder axis and including an outer peripheral edge of the crown surface, and has a ridge line formed by a curved surface to surround a recessed part. The recessed part is recessed toward a center of the crown surface in a direction orthogonal to a virtual plane including the cylinder axis and parallel to a rotation axis of a crankshaft, and is recessed toward the center in an axial direction of the crankshaft.
