US11547309B2
A biological information detection device includes: a video capture unit, a blood flow analysis unit, a local pulse wave detection unit, a pulse wave propagation velocity calculation unit, and a blood pressure estimation unit. The video capture unit obtains video information on a face of a living body. The blood flow analysis unit analyzes video data of at least three skin areas in the video information, as blood flow information. The local pulse wave detection unit is provided for each skin area to calculate pulse information based on the blood flow information sequenced chronologically. The pulse wave propagation velocity calculation unit calculates a pulse wave propagation velocity based on a phase difference between pieces of the pulse information at each skin area calculated by the local pulse wave detection unit. The blood pressure estimation unit estimates blood pressure based on the pulse wave propagation velocity.
US11547295B2
A method to perform automatic corneal topography or tomography difference mapping includes receiving one or more corneal topography or tomography data files and/or a corneal image for an examined patient from a corneal topography or tomography system; receiving personal identification parameters from captured user personal data communicated from the corneal topography or tomography system; and comparing received patient identification parameters to existing patient identification parameters in a database to identify if there are existing topography or tomography data files for a same patient in the database. The method may further include retrieving a prior topography or tomography data file for the patient from the database; and performing difference mapping by comparing the received topography or tomography data files to the prior topography or tomography data file retrieved from the database to generate a topography or tomography difference map.
US11547292B2
A speculum includes a first blade member and a second blade member. Each of the first and second blade members extend from a proximal end to a distal end. A speculum control includes a control nut threadingly engaged with a threaded shaft. Internal threads of the control nut are oversized relative external threads of the threaded shaft such that the control nut freely spins upon the threaded shaft.
US11547290B2
A medical imaging device, comprising a illumination unit, can be configured to illuminate a tissue area with light from a first spectral range, comprising a range of visible wavelengths, and with light from a second spectral range, which is different from the first spectral range, an imaging unit, configured to detect light from the first spectral range and to generate a first image of the tissue area on the basis of the detected light from the first spectral range and furthermore configured to detect light from the second spectral range and to generate a second image of the tissue area on the basis of the detected light from the second spectral range, and a superposition unit, configured to generate a superimposed image on the basis of the first and second image in such a way that, in the superimposed image, on the basis of a visual highlighting, it is possible to identify whether and where the tissue area comprises highlight regions which are characterized by an increased emission of light from the second spectral range in comparison to other regions of the tissue area. The document furthermore relates to a method for image-based support for a medical intervention, and to a use of an imaging device in such a method.
US11547285B2
The present invention provides a device for supporting and positioning an endoscope maneuvering system, the device connectable to a fixed support, the device comprising: a. a support mechanism releasably connectable to said endoscope maneuvering system; b. at least one movable arm comprising at least one first jointed connection to said support mechanism, said at least one movable arm adapted to position and orient said endoscope maneuvering system; and c. a base connector comprising at least one second jointed connection to said at least one movable arm, said base connector fixedly connectable to said fixed support; wherein said device is adapted to maintain said endoscope maneuvering system in a state of quasi-static dynamic equilibrium.
US11547273B2
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a dental measurement method comprising: measuring an orientation of a dental measurement device includes a user interface; and displaying information on said user interface based on said orientation.
US11547269B2
A household appliance includes a housing, a door pivotably connected to the housing, a cable connected to the door, a roller in contact with the cable, and a motor configured to drive the roller to move the cable such as to effect a pivoting movement of the door.
US11547267B2
A condition warning system for an apparatus such as a pot and pan washing machine, a control system and control methods for a pot and pan washing machine are provided. The condition warning system includes a control system that monitors operational, safety or compliance parameters of an apparatus, and a light that illuminates a location below (or above) an operator's direct line of sight, and which is outside of the operator's direct line of sight. The control system and control methods include a punitive wash action lockout, an extended wash cycle time, and a deep clean wash cycle.
US11547264B2
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a mobile device, a representation of each of multiple cleaning levels, each cleaning level corresponding to a respective rank overlap parameter for a wet cleaning mission of the autonomous cleaning robot. The method includes receiving, at the mobile device, an input indicative of a selection of one of the cleaning levels; and controlling the autonomous cleaning robot to execute a wet cleaning mission according to the rank overlap parameter corresponding to the selected one of the cleaning levels.
US11547253B2
Disclosed is a container assembly to enclose a volume. The container assembly includes a container, which may be substantially rigid, and an access portal. The access portal or aperture may be covered with a lid that is configurable in a sealed configuration, a closed configuration, and an open configuration.
US11547251B2
An adaptive towelette dispensing device is provided. The device is operable in conjunction with a container storing a plurality of dried, compressed, individually wrapped, preferably sealed towelettes. The adaptive towelette dispensing device is contemplated to include one or more reservoirs adapted to receive additives, one or more pumps configured to transfer additives through a conduit to be incorporated into a dispensed solution. The adaptive towelette dispensing device is further contemplated to include a towelette releasing mechanism, a towelette chute, a towelette dispensing mechanism, and a controller.
US11547239B2
A system for detecting a possibility of boiling over and preventing said boiling over, the system comprising a vessel (101) having a lid (102), the lid (102) being characterised in that it is configured: to receive information on an initial level of a vessel content and a current level of the vessel content; and based on a difference between the initial level and the current level as well as the time of a creation of said difference: to instruct, by means of a controller (203), a height actuator (207) of the lid (102) to extend said lid (102) vertically, in order to extend the height of said vessel (101); and to instruct, by means of a controller (203), an aperture actuator (206) to create an aperture in a top of the lid (102) in order to facilitate exchange of heat.
US11547233B2
A curtain track for an aircraft cabin enables curtain sliders to be quickly loaded into the curtain track. The curtain track is constructed of an elongate channel with a first end fitting on a first end of the channel and a second end fitting on a second end of the channel. There is a unique cutout in the bottom surface of the first end fitting that forms a curved slot surface that enables curtain sliders to be loaded into the channel of the curtain track through the cutout to quickly load the curtain onto the curtain track without disassembling any of the parts of the curtain track or removing the curtain track from its attachment to the aircraft cabin.
US11547229B1
The cup holder comprises a backing board, an upper cup arm, a lower cup arm, a phone holder, a front card holder, and a rear card holder. The cup holder may be adapted to hold a cup, a cell phone, cards, or combinations thereof. The upper cup arm and the lower cup arm may be moved between an open position and a closed position. The cup may be held by the upper cup arm and by the lower cup arm when the upper cup arm and the lower cup arm are moved to the open position. The cards may be held in the front card holder and/or the rear card holder. As non-limiting examples, the cards may comprise one or more of a credit card, a debit card, a business card, an ID card, a name tag, a driver license, or combinations thereof.
US11547227B2
A salad/produce storage assembly for storing and maintaining the quality of salad/produce. The assembly includes a bowl member having a bottom wall and an annular sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall and terminating at an upper edge portion. The assembly also includes an insert member having a bottom surface and a generally dome shaped, impervious upper surface that drains liquid received thereon downwardly and outwardly toward an annular peripheral portion of the insert. The insert member is insertable into the bowl member in overlying relationship with the bowl member bottom relationship with the bowl member annular sidewall. The bottom wall and a lower portion of the bowl member annular sidewall and the insert member bottom surface define a bowl liquid reservoir. Moisture draining from the dome shaped impervious upper surface of the insert member drains into the liquid reservoir where it remains separated from the salad/produce so it does not wick back into the salad/produce.
US11547226B2
The present disclosure is directed to improved food protection apparatuses, assemblies, and methods of use. The food protection apparatus includes a base portion; a removable covering coupled to the base portion, the removable covering including a top surface and one or more side walls, the top surface integrally connected to the one or more side walls; and a candle delivery apparatus coupled to the top surface of the removable covering, the candle delivery apparatus including one or more openings to receive one or more candles to position the candles external to the removable covering.
US11547214B2
A seat, particularly for video games, includes a collapsible frame which carries a seat surface and a backrest. The frame includes a first part carrying the backrest and a second part configured to carry a console for a steering wheel or joystick for controlling a video game. These parts are connected pivotally to each other by a hinge. The hinge includes a first load-bearing body on which the first frame part is mounted, and a second load-bearing body on which the second frame part is mounted. The hinge has locking means for fixating the first and second frame parts in a desired position relative to each other. A hinge for application in such a seat.
US11547213B2
A seat cushion is provided. The seat cushion includes an upper pad, a lower pad, a support structure, a plurality of optical modules, and a processor. The upper pad includes a plurality of transparent areas. The lower pad is provided with a plurality of grooves to accommodate the optical modules. The support structure is connected between the upper pad and the lower pad. The optical modules are located below the upper pad and are disposed corresponding to the transparent areas. The optical modules respectively transmit sense signals and respectively receive feedback signals corresponding to the sense signals. The processor is coupled to the optical modules and is configured to collect optical signals.
US11547210B2
A retraction device for movable furniture parts has a driver movable along a first guide path, which is movable between a retracted position and a parked position and is directly or indirectly pretensioned into the retracted position by an energy storage device. The driver can be coupled to an activator in order to move the movable furniture part into a closed position. A method uses the driver for opening and closing the movable furniture part and tensioning and releasing a retraction device.
US11547195B2
A universal beauty tester, that is intended for use by any one of a plurality of beauty product suppliers to allow a potential customer at a retail location to obtain a sample testing of one of the beauty products of these suppliers, includes: (a) a display housing configured to house advertising material for the beauty product in such a manner as to not allow unauthorized access to this advertising material, (b) a base, (c) a universal tester bladder that is configured to store any one of the beauty products that are being made available for testing, (d) a liquid dispensing mechanism (e) a non-contact sensing mechanism that is configured to: sense when a customer makes a motion to indicate a desire to receive a test sample of the beauty product, and dispense a test sample, and (f) a processor that controls the operation of the tester and compiles data regarding its use.
US11547192B2
Various implementations include a bag organizer system that includes at least one pocket disposed within a bag cavity and is coupled to a fixed surface within the bag cavity. The pocket includes at least one pocket side wall having a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge along a longitudinal axis of the pocket. The first and second edges of the pocket side wall at least partially define an opening to a pocket cavity defined by the pocket side wall and a closed end of the pocket cavity, respectively. The pocket is expandable and collapsible, and the pocket is coupled to the fixed surface by a single seam extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pocket, and the closed end of the pocket is not coupled to the fixed surface such that the pocket is hingedly coupled to the fixed surface via the single seam.
US11547185B2
A locking ring includes a first annular band portion and a second annular band portion. The locking ring includes a first and second cutout on at least one end of the respective first and second semi-annular band portions. The ring configuration is made by bringing the first and second semi-annular band portions together. A key member is to be inserted within the first and second cutout to thereby lock the first and second annular band portions into a ring configuration to be worn on a finger. The key member is to be released when the ring configuration is under a threshold pressure to thereby allow the first and second semi-annular band portions to be unlocked.
US11547179B2
A tactile feedback shoe sole for footwear comprising a main body that defines a toe portion, a middle portion and a heel portion. A first chamber filled with a fluid is disposed in one or more areas of the main body. A second chamber comprising a second chamber upper wall, a second chamber lower wall and projections is disposed in the arch region of the middle portion. Channels disposed between the first and the second chambers help in establishing fluidic communication between the first and second chambers. If the second chamber is compressed before the first chamber getting compressed, which is likely to happen when the feet of the user of the sole overpronate, the second chamber upper wall comes in contact with the second chamber lower wall and the projections are felt by the user in the arch region since the second chamber is not filled with the fluid.
US11547176B2
An article of footwear has an upper that is direct attached with the sole. The direct attach sole has an insert, such as an airbag, that forms a portion of a sidewall. The insert is externally visible and forms at least a portion of an external sidewall of the sole. The insert is formed into the direct attach sole by having the insert or a mask temporarily joined with the insert contact a sidewall molding surface of a mold used in the direct attach operation such that the insert results in forming a visible element of the direct attached sole.
US11547172B2
A size adjustable footwear includes an upper, an insole, a midsole, an outer sole, and a size adjustment mechanism. The midsole includes a heel plate and a toe plate. The upper is perimetrically connected around the midsole. The insole is adjacently connected atop the midsole and internally positioned within the upper. The outer sole is perimetrically connected around the midsole as the midsole is positioned in between the insole and the outer sole. The heel plate and the toe plate are slidably engaged to the size adjustment mechanism. The size adjustment mechanism is operatively integrated in between the heel plate and the toe plate, wherein the size adjustment mechanism elastically expands and contracts the upper, the midsole, and the outer sole.
US11547169B2
A medical garment for use with a helmet, wherein the garment comprises a shell and a transparent face shield configured to define a barrier between the wearer and the environment. The transparent face shield may comprise a tab configured to be at least partially disposed within an alignment channel of the helmet when the medical garment is attached to the helmet to orient the shell relative to the helmet. The tab may also be separate from the transparent face shield and disposed on the shell of the medical garment. The transparent face shield may also comprise an attachment element configured to removably couple with a coupling member of the helmet, wherein the attachment element and coupling member comprise complementary coupling surfaces.
US11547166B1
A helmet to be worn on a head of a wearer includes a shell comprised of a hard impact resistant material. The shell has inner and outer surfaces and is adapted to surround at least a portion of the cranial part of wearer's head with the inner surface of the shell being spaced from the wearer's head at an initial pre-impact relative position when the helmet is worn. A subliner, at least a part of which is adapted to be in contact with the wearer's head when the helmet is worn prior to an impact and during an impact, includes at least one subliner element extending from the inner surface of the shell. The at least one subliner element is constructed of an energy absorbing viscoelastic foam material. The at least one subliner element is radially partitioned into individual and independent segments. The independent segments are nested with respect to each other with double-sided nano tape positioned therebetween such that the nested segments have side surfaces in direct contacting engagement with the nano tape.
US11547159B2
A face shield and head covering combination is provided. The head covering comprises a body and an attachment element. The body defines a head opening configured to receive a user's head therethrough. The attachment element is coupled to the body and configured to couple to a face shield positionable on the user's face. The attachment element is configured to transition between a first position on the body and a second position on the body, wherein the second position is spaced from the first position.
US11547148B2
An aerosol generating device includes a case, a cover having a metallic body and configured to be coupled to the case, a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating material, a magnetic force generator arranged in the case and configured to generate magnetic force acting on the metallic body according to a current applied thereto, and a controller configured to adjust coupling force between the cover and the case arising, which is generated by the magnetic force, by controlling the current applied to the magnetic force generator based on an operating state of the heater.
US11547143B2
An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.
US11547136B2
The present invention provides food products, nutritional programs, and methods for meeting nutritional needs of subjects with dementia and related cognitive disorders. In one embodiment, the invention provides a food product comprising a reversibly sealed container and a soup, wherein the soup is in the container and comprises a total volume of 200-2000 mls, a vegetable or meat component, 300 to 2500 calories, a macronutrient caloric distribution comprising: 20-80% fat, 10-45% protein, and 10-65% carbohydrate, about 2% to about 40% medium chain triglycerides, omega 3 fatty acids in an amount of 100 to 2000 mg and less than 20 solid food particles having a volume greater than about 20 cm3. Such food products, when administered to affected subjects, can positively impact (i) nutritional status; (ii) quality of life; (iii) disease course; (v) the demand for assistance from a care giver; (vi) subject compliance with a nutritional plan using the food product, and (vii) ease of monitoring compliance by the caregiver for verification.
US11547133B2
An apparatus and a method for soaking foodstuff in a liquid under set acid pH conditions of the liquid is described. The foodstuff is soaked in the liquid so as to reduce a content of phytic acid and/or phytate contained in the foodstuff. The apparatus has a vessel for receiving the foodstuff and the liquid for soaking the foodstuff within the vessel. The apparatus further has an amount determining system which is configured to determine an amount of the liquid and/or an amount of the foodstuff to be used for the soaking within the vessel. Further, the apparatus has a pH adjusting system configured to perform an electrolysis of at least a portion of the liquid for adjusting a pH level of the liquid.
US11547129B2
A composition of matter having the following chemical structure: ⌊ H x O ( x - 1 ) 2 ⌋ Z y wherein x is and odd integer ≥3; y is an integer between 1 and 20; and Z is one of a monoatomic ion from Groups 14 through 17 having a charge value between −1 and −3 or a polyatomic ion having a charge between −1 and −3.
US11547125B2
Compositions and methods are disclosed for providing a pet food feeding system or packaged product containing multiple formulations meeting a number of parameters in order to offer diversified ingredients and varied flavors to a pet with minimized digestive stress due to dietary changes.
US11547120B2
A holding apparatus for holding a gutted poultry body/part during processing has a support body supporting the body/part, a fastening body for holding the support body and fastening the holding apparatus to a circulatingly driven transport unit, and a clamping device for securing the body/part to the support body. The clamping device has a hook for penetrating into soft parts and a clamping lever. The lever has a clamping jaw for clamping parts of the body/part against the hook lower side directed towards the support body. The hook lower side is spaced apart from the support body to form a free space for receiving the parts to be clamped. The clamping lever is movable, against a spring force, from a standby position into a clamping position, and back. The clamping lever also has a centring shoulder projecting into the free space when the clamping lever is in the standby position.
US11547118B1
Methods of fabricating a natural substance may include obtaining a particulate silica including perlite, preparing a liquid formula having at least one essential oil and preparing the natural substance by applying the liquid formula to the particulate silica.
US11547110B2
Portable hunting blind including seat/chair for use in hunting or similar environment including side panels and hinge brackets having support arms mounted to side panels; seat mounted to side panels, the seat together with side panels and hinge brackets having support arms form a chair-like structure; skirt put around side panels to conceal hunter sitting on seat; and bonnets and blind top. Blind top conceals hunter while allowing hunter to see what is going on around him. To hunt or to come out of portable hunting blind, hunter stands up throwing back bonnets and hitting the skirt with his knee, thereby detaching skirt. Portable hunting blind is folded by folding side panels along with skirt with help of hinge brackets and by throwing back bonnets to retracted state for easy transport.
US11547092B2
This device and process is a Special Search Dog Pack and Process for Faster Dog Aided Search, Dog Only Search and Rescue and other Dog Aided Uses for enabling Faster, Dog-Only Search. Particularly this process uses a search pack device that contains specific rescue contents used for and related to a faster search method. Here, the search dog has an attached pack with a tracking device and rescue contents that can be carried directly to a victim without the need of an attending person. Once found the victim can then communicate back to a search party and/or the search party can quickly and accurately locate the victim via the cell phone or GPS device for a precise and faster rescue.
US11547088B2
System and method for selecting and executing training protocols for autonomously training an animal
One variation of a method for autonomously training an animal includes: loading an autonomous training protocol for the animal onto a training apparatus configured to dispense units of a primary reinforcer responsive to behaviors performed by the animal; during an autonomous training session for the animal, accessing a video feed of a working field near the training apparatus, detecting the animal in the video feed, and executing the first autonomous training protocol; calculating a training score for the autonomous training session based on behaviors performed by the animal during the autonomous training session; selecting a manual training protocol, from a set of manual training protocols, based on the training score; generating a prompt to execute the first manual training protocol with the animal during a first manual training session; and transmitting the prompt to a user associated with the animal.
US11547085B2
A pet food container includes a hollow body including a top, a bottom, and an outer surface disposed between the top and the bottom. The top has a recessed portion defined by an inner longitudinal surface and recessed top surface. The recessed top surface includes an opening in communication with an interior of the hollow body and the inner longitudinal surface includes a latching mechanism configured to couple to a removable cap.
US11547081B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid DRTH5007. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTH5007 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTH5007 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11547073B1
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01083019. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01083019. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01083019 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01083019 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US11547066B2
A mobile drip irrigation system includes a plurality of drip tubes anchored at a first end to a water supply conduit. As the mobile irrigation system travels across a surface to be watered a second, free end of each drip tube is pulled along the surface to provide precise and uniform water distribution through the drip tubes. A cable extending across each section of the mobile irrigation system is attached to the plurality of drip tubes within that section, with the cable movable via a winch mechanism to shift the position of the drip tubes within that section to correspondingly shift the drag path of the tubes to a desired location. In exemplary embodiments, a lower manifold distributes water to the drip tubes, and in further embodiments a support restraint provides support to the lower manifold.
US11547050B1
An extractor fan assembly for an extractor of a sugarcane harvester comprises a motor, fan blades, and a clamshell hub. The motor comprises an output that rotates about an axis of rotation. The clamshell hub comprises a base and clamp jaws. The base is coupled to the output for rotation therewith about the axis of rotation. The clamp jaws are positioned angularly about the axis of rotation. Each clamp jaw is fastened to and cooperates with the base to clamp a respective fan blade of the fan blades therebetween to position the fan blades angularly about the axis of rotation.
US11547044B2
A front mower for mounting on a front three point linkage of a tractor to be operated for cutting vegetation, such as grass, in front of the tractor, the mower comprising: (i) a headstock for mounting on the front three point linkage of the tractor; (ii) a mowing head comprising an array of cutting heads for cutting vegetation such as grass, mounted on and moveable relative to the headstock to follow the contours of the ground over which the mower is passing; (iii) a mounting mechanism mounting the mowing head to the headstock, wherein the mounting mechanism comprises a cutting angle adjustment mechanism comprising an arc shaped guide and a follower for the arc shaped guide, the follower being moveable back and forth along the arc shaped guide, so that the cutting angle adjustment mechanism allows the mowing head to move back and forth along an arc defined by the guide and relative to the headstock so as to vary the cutting angle of the cutting heads. This allows for free movement of the mowing head to follow the contours of the ground.
US11547036B2
A seed trench depth sensor is adapted to mount to an agricultural implement. The trench depth sensor determining the difference between a distance measured to a bottom of the seed trench by a first sensor and a distance measured to a surface of the soil by a second sensor disposed rearward of the first sensor.
US11553630B2
Described are electromagnetic shields comprising a substrate, a conductive additive, and a binder incorporated with the conductive additive and deposited on the substrate, and methods of making thereof.
US11553626B2
A system for storing data includes a discrete cooling module that can enable discrete cooling of mass storage devices installed in the chassis interior of a data storage module coupled to a rack. The discrete cooling module includes an air moving device and an air cover. The air moving device can induce and airflow through the chassis interior of the data storage module to remove heat from heat producing components of mass storage devices installed in the chassis interior. The air cover directs the airflow through the chassis interior. The discrete cooling module can isolate rotational vibrations generated by the air moving device from the mass storage devices installed in the chassis. Partial isolation can include indirectly coupling the discrete cooling module to the chassis via directly coupling with the rack.
US11553624B1
Integrated Thermal Interface Detachment Mechanism for Inaccessible Interfaces are disclosed. According to an aspect, an exemplary device for an electronic component having a thermal interface material, comprising a heat sink configured to contact the thermal interface material and configured to heat transfer interface with the electronic component while the thermal interface material is in contiguous contact with both the heat sink and the electronic component, and a separator mechanism configured to advance a separator ram with respect to the heat sink and effect a force upon the thermal interface material, such that advancing the ram breaks the contiguous contact of the thermal interface material with at least one of the heat sink and the electronic component.
US11553623B2
A connector assembly includes a receptacle connector, a shielding cage, a heat sink and a clip. The shielding cage covers the receptacle connector. The clip assembles the heat sink to the shielding cage, is integrally formed by a metal sheet and includes a fixed plate, a movable plate and a plate spring. The fixed plate is provided to the shielding cage, and the movable plate is provided to a side surface of the heat sink. Two ends of the plate spring are respectively connected to the fixed plate and the movable plate, and the movable plate is capable of moving relative to the fixed plate by means of the plate spring.
US11553608B2
Provided is an electronic device including a housing, a plate coupled to one surface of the housing, and an adhesive member at least partially disposed in a coupling portion between the housing and the plate and including a plurality of layers. The adhesive member includes at least one waterproof-ventilation layer to perform a ventilation function and a waterproof function.
US11553592B2
A ceramic substrate of the present disclosure is a ceramic substrate including a ceramic body having a ceramic layer on a surface thereof and a surface electrode placed on a primary face of the ceramic body. Between the surface electrode and the ceramic layer is an oxide layer made of an insulating oxide having a melting point higher than the firing temperature for the ceramic layer. The oxide layer also extends on the ceramic layer not occupied by the surface electrode. The oxide layer on the ceramic layer not occupied by the surface electrode has a rough surface.
US11553587B2
A display panel with display and non-display regions has pixel units in the display region. The non-display region defines a bonding region in which there are traces and driving chips. The driving chips are bonded in a flexible printed circuit, and electrically connect with the pixel units. The traces include high-speed signal traces, power traces, and grounding traces. The grounding traces are adjacent to the power traces and so disposed as to shield against electromagnetic interference affecting the signal and power traces, the grounding traces serving as reference ground to the power traces, and form a shield against electromagnetic interference.
US11553586B2
A wiring substrate which includes a base member having a first surface, a first differential signal line disposed on the first surface of the base member and a second differential signal line disposed adjacent to the first differential signal line on the first surface of the base member. A ground layer which faces the first and second differential signal lines, has a plurality of openings continuously arranged along a predetermined direction. In a planar view of the wiring substrate, where a length of each of the plurality of openings in a direction along the signal lines is a length L1, a length of the opening in a direction orthogonal to Li is a length L2, and a distance between the first and second differential signal lines is a length L3, L1 is equal to or greater than four times L2, and L2 is equal to or less than L3.
US11553584B2
Design and making methods of a neutrons generating target are described. In some embodiments, a surface of a target substrate can be modified to form one or more surface features. In some embodiments, a neutron source layer can be disposed on the surface of the target substrate. In some embodiments, the neutron source layer and the target substrate can be heated to an elevated temperature to form a bond between the two. In some embodiments, the surface modification of the target substrate can reduce blistering and material exfoliation in the target. The target can be used in boron neutron capture therapy.
US11553571B2
An intrinsically safe (IS) luminaire disposed in a hazardous environment provides visible light and serves as a primary, auxiliary, back-up, and/or charging source of IS DC power for external devices disposed in the hazardous environment, such as process control devices and equipment. The luminaire includes a power converter that converts received power into DC power, an IS barrier that converts the DC power into IS DC power native to or utilized by a recipient external device, and a power distribution port via which IS DC power is delivered to the external device. In some configurations, the luminaire monitors communicates statuses, alerts, and/or other information corresponding to delivering IS DC power to one or more external devices to a host and/or portable communication device. The luminaire may include multiple IS barriers of same and/or different IS ratings, and may dynamically control activation/deactivation of the IS barriers and/or usages thereof.
US11553562B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that comprises a control body and an aerosol source member. The aerosol delivery device includes a resonant transformer comprising a resonant transmitter and a resonant receiver. The aerosol source member includes an inhalable substance medium at least a portion of which is positioned proximate the resonant transmitter. The resonant transmitter is configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the resonant receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, such that the alternating voltage causes the resonant receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the inhalable substance medium to produce an aerosol. In some implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the control body. In other implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the aerosol source member.
US11553561B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing Wi-Fi authentication in a wireless communication system. Public key cryptography may be used to enhance the confidentiality of the user's permanent identity in transit. In some embodiments, a RSA-OAEP(SHA-256) encryption scheme may be used to protect the permanent identity when the EAP client needs to send the user's permanent identity to the server in the absence of pseudonym or fast re-authentication identity. In some embodiments, a server certificate is used to authenticate a iWLAN tunnel to protect an IMSI during setup of a Wi-Fi call. Using the methods described herein on both or either of the EAP client and server side may offer improved privacy protection.
US11553554B2
Embodiments include methods for discontinuous reception (DRX) performed by a wireless device. Such methods include receiving, from an access node while operating in idle mode, a first set of beams during operative instants of at least one DRX cycle according to a first DRX cycle pattern. Such methods include determining reception quality metrics for respective beams of the first set and determining a second DRX cycle pattern based on the reception quality metrics. Such methods include receiving, from the access node while operating in idle mode, a second set of beams during operative instants of a subsequent DRX cycle according to the second DRX cycle pattern. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to perform such methods and computer-readable media storing program code that embody such methods.
US11553545B2
A method for session method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, first information to a first network device, wherein the first indication is used for requesting for establishing a packet data network (PDN) connection; receiving, by the terminal device, second information from the network device, wherein the second information indicates that the request, initiated by the terminal device, for establishing the PDN connection is accepted, the second information includes first indication information for indicating whether a protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to the PDN connection supports multi-access (MA) after the terminal devices moves from a 4th-generation (4G) network to a 5th-generation (5G) network, and the PDU session, if supporting the MA, is able to implement data transmission with a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) network and a non-3GPP network simultaneously.
US11553535B1
A method and apparatus for accessing a NR cell in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for accessing a NR cell includes receiving in a first cell, by a terminal from a base station, a System Information Block1, monitoring, by the terminal, Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for Random Access Response based at least in part on a specific ra-ResponseWindow and a specific ra-SearchSpace.
US11553532B2
This application discloses a delay reduction method and apparatus, applied to a random access process. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a message 1 to a network device, where the message 1 is a random access preamble; receiving, by the terminal device, a message 2 sent by the network device; and sending, by the terminal device, a message 3 to the network device, where a time gap between receiving the message 2 and sending the message 3 is set by the terminal based on a timing advance (TA) value. In an embodiment, the TA value is related to a message 1 format of the terminal device and a cell radius or subcarrier spacing supported by the message 1. In this solution, a TA value is reduced, and random access efficiency is improved.
US11553530B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal for handling listen before talk (LBT) failure in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises identifying consistent LBT failure for active uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) in a serving cell, identifying at least one UL BWP for which consistent LBT failure has not been triggered on same carrier in the serving cell, wherein the at least one UL BWP is configured with physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion, and switching the active UL BWP to an UL BWP among the at least one UL BWP.
US11553528B2
A method of configuring a random access resource, a terminal, and a network node are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a physical random access channel PRACH resource transmitted by a network node; wherein the configuration information is configured to indicate a PRACH transmission resource reserved by the network node for the terminal and used to transmit a beam failure recovery request.
US11553524B2
A method for resource object level authorization at a network function (NF) includes maintaining, by a first NF, a service based interface (SBI) resource object access authorization policy database containing policies for controlling access to SBI resource objects and dynamically populating a resource object owner database containing records for resource objects and corresponding resource object owners. The method further includes receiving, by the first NF and from a second NF, a first SBI resource object access request for accessing a resource object, accessing, using information from the first SBI resource object access request, the resource object access authorization policy database and the resource object owner database, determining that an access to the resource object requested by the first resource object access request is not permitted, and preventing the access to the resource object requested by the first resource object access request.
US11553522B1
Technologies directed to reducing medium access contention within a wireless network are described. One method includes a first wireless device (e.g., an access point (AP) or mesh station) receiving first data with a first schedule from a second wireless device. Both wireless devices operate on a first channel or an adjacent channel in a wireless network. The first schedule defines a first interval during which the second wireless device transmits or receives frames on the first channel or the second channel. The first wireless device generates a second schedule that defines a second interval during which the first wireless device transmits or receives frames on the first or second channels, the second interval being non-overlapping with the first interval. First wireless device sends second data with the second schedule to the second AP device and communicates a data frame with a device connected to the first wireless device according to the second schedule.
US11553516B2
Disclosed is a method in which a user equipment receives downlink control information in a wireless communication system. The user equipment may receive configuration information for reception of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a base station, and may receive a PDCCH including downlink control information (DCI) on the basis of the configuration information.
US11553506B2
A mobile computing device is configured to dynamically aggregate wireless communications on a common antenna. The device determines that a WiFi communication in a first frequency band is associated with an antenna, the WiFi communication having a number of assigned transmission time slots. The device determines that a second wireless communication in a second frequency band also is associated with the antenna, and determines a periodicity and/or a media quality of the second wireless communication. Based on the periodicity and/or media quality of the second wireless communication, the device aggregates the WiFi communication and the second wireless communication, the aggregation comprising assigning a number of packets of the second wireless communication to an aggregation frame of a plurality of frames associated with the transmission time slots assigned to the WiFi communication.
US11553502B2
Recalibrating resource profiles for network slices in a 5G or other next generation wireless network
The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating the allocation, scheduling, and management of network slice resources. According some embodiments, a system can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include, based on a request for a network service type that was received from a user device, allocating a network slice of a network to the user device, with the network slice being previously assigned a capacity of a resource of the network in accordance with a resource profile. Further, operations include monitoring performance of the network slice, resulting in monitored slice performance compared to a performance requirement of the network service type. Another operation includes, based on the monitored slice performance, facilitating recalibration of the resource profile in accordance with a condition associated with the network service type, resulting in a modification of the capacity of the resource assigned to the network slice.
US11553498B2
The present disclosure provides a PDCCH resource configuration method, a PDCCH resource determining method, a network device and a user equipment. The PDCCH resource configuration method is applied to a network device and includes: determining resource configuration information of PDCCH, where the resource configuration information at least includes: REG bundle size, CCE-REG mapping manner, and REG mapping manner; and configuring PDCCH resources according to the resource configuration information, and transmitting the resource configuration information to a user equipment.
US11553497B2
A PUCCH collision processing method and a terminal are provided, and the method includes: transmitting, in a case that a first PUCCH and a second PUCCH overlap in a first slot, one of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH within the first slot according to a configuration of at least one of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH, wherein, the first PUCCH is configured as multi-slot PUCCH repetition transmission, and a carried content in the first PUCCH includes one of Channel State Information CSI and a Scheduling Request SR, the second PUCCH is configured as single-slot or multi-slot PUCCH repetition transmission, and a carried content in the second PUCCH includes one of CSI and an SR; the first slot is one or more slots.
US11553492B2
A slot resource configuration method in wireless communication and a device are provided, to resolve a problem of how to configure a flexible resource included in a new slot structure. In this method, user equipment-specific downlink control information (UE-specific DCI) sent by a base station is received, where the UE-specific DCI indicates a use configuration status of a flexible resource in at least one slot; and the flexible resource is configured according to the use configuration status. This method implements configuration of a flexible resource, so that the flexible resource can be used for communication, thereby improving slot resource usage.
US11553489B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for receiving, by a network entity from a user equipment (UE), a measurement report, wherein the network entity corresponds to a serving network entity; and determining, by the network entity, a single frequency network (SFN) network entity group for the UE based on the measurement report, wherein the SFN network entity group corresponds to a one or more neighbor network entities designated for transmitting SFN data to the UE.
US11553488B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. According to one or more aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for a set of time periods associated with a reference signal associated with a physical downlink shared channel, an overlap between a first set of frequency resources allocated for the reference signal and a second set of frequency resources that are scheduled to puncture the first set of resources and that are unavailable for scheduling on the physical downlink shared channel. The UE may determine a remaining set of frequency resources from the first set of frequency resources based on the overlap, and a subset of frequency resources from the remaining set of frequency resources based on a reference signal processing configuration. The UE may then process the reference signal in the subset of frequency resources based on the reference signal processing configuration.
US11553475B2
In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control signaling scheduling one or more uplink transmissions for one or more transmission resources. The method also includes determining, by the UE, to perform superposition transmission operations for at least one transmission resource of the one or more transmission resources. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, an uplink channel data transmission and a sidelink channel data transmission in a same transmission resource, responsive to determining to perform superposition transmission operations for the least one transmission resource. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11553460B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The methods include determining a sidelink message to transmit to a second user equipment (UE) over a time resource of a sidelink connection between a first UE and the second UE, encoding at least a subset of time periods of the time resource according to a configuration that is based on a switching time for the second UE for switching from a receiving mode to a transmitting mode during reception of the sidelink message during at least the subset of time periods of the time resource, and transmitting the sidelink message to the second UE using a set of time periods of the time resource that includes the subset of time periods.
US11553439B2
Embodiments of a method of operation of a power control coordinator to control transmission power of a plurality of Device-to-Device (D2D) pairs that co-exist with a Cellular User Equipment (CUE) that communicates with a base station of a cellular communications network comprises obtaining, for a particular time slot, delayed Network State Information (NSI) feedback from at least some of the plurality of D2D pairs. The method further comprises computing transmission powers for the D2D pairs, respectively, for the particular time slot using On-Line Convex Optimization (OCO) to solve an optimization problem that maximizes a weighted sum data rate of D2D pairs with a constraint of maximum expected interference to the base station. The method further comprises providing, to each D2D pair, an indication of the computed transmission power for the D2D pair for the particular time slot.
US11553436B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for uplink power control in a cellular communications network that are particularly well-suited for flying wireless devices (e.g., aerial User Equipments (UEs)). In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for uplink power control comprises receiving, from a base station, reference altitude information comprising one or more height thresholds and detecting that a height of the wireless device is above a height threshold. The method further comprises triggering and sending a measurement report to the base station upon detecting that the height of the wireless device is above the height threshold, and receiving, from the base station, an indication to use a particular one of two or more fractional pathloss compensation factors for uplink power control. The two or more fractional pathloss compensation factors for uplink power control comprise one or more wireless device specific fractional pathloss compensation factors.
US11553418B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for reporting transmission for discontinuous reception. One method includes determining whether a symbol occurs within a discontinuous reception on duration time period. The method includes, in response to determining that the symbol occurs within the discontinuous reception on duration time period, determining whether to transmit a report. The method includes transmitting the report regardless of whether a discontinuous reception on duration timer is running.
US11553412B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network communication device that includes a backhaul link circuit and a Wi-Fi access point to provide broadband services to a service provider's broadband customers and to provide mobility services to the service provider's mobility customers. This network communication device is installed outside of a dwelling unit in order to simplify the installation procedure and avoid property disruption. An extender device registered to a broadband customer user account may associate to the access point for seamless service. User equipment (UE) of the service provider's mobility customers may associate to the access point to receive Wi-Fi roaming services. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11553402B2
A method may include receiving registration information from a first user equipment (UE) device and identifying a first multicast service associated with the first UE device. The method may also include transmitting, to the first UE device, a first file associated with the first multicast service and determining a number of UE devices associated with the first multicast service that have provided registration information. The method may further include determining whether a threshold associated with the number of UE devices that have provided registration information has been reached and initiating a broadcast of content associated with the first multicast service, in response to determining that the threshold has been reached.
US11553401B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a serving node update method and a device. The method includes: sending a first message to a target node; receiving, from the target node, a second message used for responding to the first message; and sending a third message to a terminal device when the second message indicates that the target node rejects a multi-connectivity serving node update, where the third message is used to indicate the terminal device to perform a serving node update in a legacy serving node update manner.
US11553397B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining, by a processing system, real-time information regarding a state of a communication network and capabilities of the communication network; selecting a routing for delivering a message to user equipment (UE) coupled to the network, in accordance with the real-time information; and configuring a messaging path according to the routing. The method further includes detecting whether the UE is in a non-active state and if so, providing a notification on a user plane data path of the communication network; the UE on returning to an active state thus is notified that the message is available via the user plane data path. If the UE on returning to the active state is unable to receive the message via the user plane data path, the message is then provided on a control plane signaling path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11553395B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus and a terminal. The method includes: performing, by a terminal, a first action according to first information, where the first action is that at least one user module of the terminal transmits a same piece of application data through a plurality of connections.
US11553390B2
Seamless client roaming for Multi-Link Device (MLD) clients may be provided. First, a Traffic Identifier (TID)-to-link map may be established by an Upper Service Access Point (U-SAP) of a multi-AP MLD entity that assigns subsets of TIDs to at least two links of the entity. For example, a client device logically associates with the U-SAP, while the client device physically connects to a first and second AP of the entity on a respective first and second link, where the first and second AP include first and second Lower Service Access Points (L-SAPs) and are non-collocated. Next, using the map, data received at the U-SAP is directed over one of the two links for transmission to the client device. Further, frame aggregation and block acknowledgment functions may be performed by one of the first or second L-SAP based on whether data transmission is over the first or second link.
US11553389B2
This application provides a method for controlling a terminal to use a wireless network, a system, and a related device. The method includes: obtaining, by a network decision device, service information of a terminal, constructing network use indication information, and delivering the network use indication information to a network trigger device; and triggering, by the network trigger device based on the network use indication information, the terminal to use a wireless network corresponding to the service information. According to the method, an operator can assign, based on a service requirement of the operator, the terminal to use a specific wireless network, so that the terminal can use in time a wireless network that is consistent with a requirement of the operator. This helps improve network use efficiency for the operator, and can prevent a service of the terminal from being affected.
US11553386B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a trigger to dynamically modify a serving site of a communication endpoint, wherein the communication endpoint is registered to receive digital communication service from a first serving site. The method further includes determining a stored serving-site selection policy applicable to the communication endpoint. The method also includes selecting a second serving site for the communication endpoint based, at least part, on a stored serving-site selection policy. Also, the method includes determining endpoint-configuration requirements of the second serving site. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically generating endpoint configurations that satisfy the endpoint-configuration requirements of the second serving site. Moreover, the method includes writing the generated endpoint configurations to the communication endpoint. Additionally, the method includes causing the communication endpoint to register to receive digital communication service from the second serving site in place of the first serving site.
US11553385B2
Provided are a data transmission method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus using the method. The base station transmits a message requesting information for data transmission to a second base station and receives, from the second base station, a response message to the message requesting the information for data transmission, wherein the information for data transmission is to transmit data on a terminal in a light connection state.
US11553383B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) communication system, such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a security method of a mobility management apparatus of a second system in a wireless environment may comprise the steps of: receiving a handover request for a terminal connected to a first system; transmitting the handover request to a base station of the second system; and receiving a handover ACK including security information generated by the base station of the second system and transmitting the same to the first system.
US11553370B2
A method for congestion mitigation via admission control in a shared-backhaul telecommunications network is disclosed, comprising: assessing a congestion state in a multi-node radio access network having a shared backhaul connection, the congestion state based on congestion of the shared backhaul connection; retrieving an admission control policy based on the congestion state of the shared backhaul connection; performing a policy action of the admission control policy at a first base station acting as a gateway for the multi-node radio access network with respect to the shared backhaul connection; and sending the admission control policy to other nodes in the multi-node radio access network, thereby causing the other nodes to perform the policy action, wherein the policy action is denying a request from a user equipment to attach to the radio access network.
US11553363B1
A computer system for evaluating the communication performance of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The vehicle may have a vehicle controller including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The processor may be programmed to receive, from a standard data transmission location network device, an evaluation data packet. The processor may be programmed to decode the evaluation data packet and initiate a diagnostic test of the vehicle based upon the decoded evaluation data packet. The processor may also be programmed to record measurements of the vehicle during the diagnostic test, and transmit the measurements to the standard data transmission location network device.
US11553361B2
A large-scale radio frequency signal collection and processing system comprising a plurality of sensor systems mounted on a plurality of collection platforms that integrates a plurality of overlapping datasets with differing characteristics (e.g., different resolutions, different view angles, different heights, different time periods, unrelated types of data) to generate an enriched dataset or datasets using a variety of processing techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, signal processing, image processing) that allows for more comprehensive analysis of the radio frequency signal landscape than would be possible using any of the datasets individually, or in combination but without such integration.
US11553360B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication identifying a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring location associated with receiving a next downlink control information (DCI) communication. The user equipment may monitor in the PDCCH monitoring location based at least in part on the indication. The indication may be valid at least until the PDCCH monitoring location, irrespective of an amount of time between receiving the indication and monitoring in the PDCCH monitoring location. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11553358B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for enabling a client device to learn characteristics of one or more access points in a wireless network used by the client device. In addition to learning the characteristics of the access point, the client device also can learn its own hardware characteristics, its usage profile, its environmental operation condition, its user preferences, and its computing context. The client devices uses the learned characteristics to realize computing efficiencies based on dynamic configuration of wireless network settings at the client device.
US11553355B2
Example methods and apparatus to recognize metered devices connected to proprietary WiFi extenders are disclosed herein. In some examples, a first device comprising at least one memory including a table, and at least one processor to broadcast a first message to a network extender, the first message including a first address associated with a second device and a message identifier, identify, in response to obtaining a second message including the message identifier, a second address embedded on a data link layer of the second message, and store the second address in the table in association with the second device.
US11553352B2
Technologies are shown for trust delegation that involve receiving a first request from a subject client and responding by sending a first token having first permissions to the subject client. A second request from a first actor includes the first token and responding involves linking the first actor to the subject client in a trust stack and sending a second token to the first actor with second permissions, the second token being a first complex token that identifies the subject client and the first actor. A third request from a second actor includes the second token and responding to the third request involves linking the second actor to the first actor in the trust stack, and sending a third token to the second actor partner with third permissions, the third token being a second complex token that identifies the first actor and the second actor.
US11553342B2
A method for mitigating a 5G roaming attack using a security edge protection proxy (SEPP), includes receiving, at an SEPP, user equipment (UE) registration messages for outbound roaming subscribers. The method further includes creating, in a SEPP security database, UE roaming registration records derived from UE registration messages. The method further includes receiving, at the SEPP, a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment request message. The method further includes performing, using at least one parameter value extracted from the PDU session establishment request message, a lookup in the SEPP security database for a UE roaming registration record. The method further includes determining, by the SEPP and based on results of the lookup, whether to allow or reject the PDU session establishment request message.
US11553341B2
A gateway for assigning an access authorization for a mobile operating device to a field device, including a first interface that wirelessly communicates with the mobile operating device, a second interface that communicates with an authorization assignment device, a memory device that stores an access authorization of the mobile operating device transmitted by the authorization assignment device, authorization assignment circuitry that reads the access authorization of the mobile operating device from the memory device and transmits the access authorization to the mobile operating device via the first interface.
US11553338B2
A method of controlling a building system is provided. The method comprising: receiving an action request to adjust a building device from a user device; obtaining a token from a previous action request from the user device to adjust the building device when a token exists from a previous action request; transmitting the token for validation within the building device; and adjusting the building device when the token has been validated.
US11553325B2
A communication system for monitoring process units includes at least one process unit operably connected to an associated peripheral communication unit via a communication interface in order to transmit process variables to the associated peripheral communication unit. The process variables which are transmitted to the associated peripheral communication unit are configurable. Each peripheral communication unit is configured to receive the configured process variables from the corresponding process unit and to emit them as advertising packets. The communication system further includes a central communication unit configured to receive the advertising packets from each peripheral communication unit.
US11553324B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for transmitting system information by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising identifying whether an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a user equipment (UE) is configured with common search space, and transmitting, to the UE, an updated system information in a dedicated signaling when the active DL BWP of the UE is not configured with the common search space.
US11553316B2
A method and apparatus for storing a computer location including the steps of initiating, by a user of a device, a capture sequence, wherein the device includes a processor and a display screen, obtaining, by the processor, visual data corresponding to an image displayed on the display screen at the time of the initiating step, obtaining, by the processor, location data corresponding to a computer location accessed by the device, and storing, by the processor, the visual data and the location data as associated data such that the visual data and the location data are associated with each other. A method and apparatus for sending the computer location further including the step of sending, by the first device, the associated data to a second device, wherein the second device includes a second processor and a second display screen.
US11553302B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
US11553300B2
Examples of lighting equipment provide services to and on behalf of a biomechatronically enhanced organism and/or a biomechatronic component of the organism. Such services include charging, communications, location-related services, control, optimization, client-server functions and distributed processing functionality. The biomechatronically enhanced organism and/or biomechatronic component utilize such services provided by and/or via the lighting equipment to enable, enhance or otherwise influence operation of the organism.
US11553299B2
A method for handling broadcast information is described. A first network node (111) operating in a wireless communications network (100) determines (403) one or more decryption keys (K1, K2, K3) to be provided to a wireless device (131) in the wireless communications network (100). The decryption keys enable the wireless device (131) to decrypt information to be broadcasted by a second network node (112) in the wireless communications network (100). The information comprises a plurality of subsets of positioning information. Each of the subsets is to be, or is, encrypted with a different encryption key based on a respective type of subscription for wireless devices (131, 132, 133) in the wireless communications network (100). The determined decryption keys are based on at least one type of subscription of the wireless device (131). The first network node (111) then initiates (404) providing the determined to the wireless device (131).
US11553295B2
Estimating the field strength from an ultrasonic phased array can be done by summing the contribution of each transducer to the point of interest. Since this contribution is already calculated when creating a converging spherical wave, it can be reused to add a virtual microphone to the system. By monitoring this microphone and moving it along with new focus points, a robust system of field estimates and regulation may be established.
US11553289B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for a user adjustment interface using remote computing resources. Specifically, a system can include a mobile device in communication with a hearing assistance device or a remote server. The mobile device can interpret an acoustic environment and send information about the environment to a remote server. The remote server can determine and send information to the mobile device for use in a user interface. The mobile device can receive a user selection of hearing assistance parameter information to be sent to the hearing assistance device.
US11553286B2
Various implementations include systems for processing audio signals to remove artifacts introduced by a machine learning system in challenging environments. In particular implementations, a method includes generating a processed audio signal for a hearing assistance device in which the processed audio signal is intended to perceptually dominate a user auditory experience, including: processing an unprocessed audio signal received by the hearing assistance device, wherein the processing includes utilizing a machine learning (ML) system to generate an ML enhanced audio signal; determining a mixing coefficient from an environmental noise assessment; mixing the ML enhanced audio signal with the unprocessed audio signal using the mixing coefficient to generate the processed audio signal; and outputting the processed audio signal.
US11553284B2
The disclosure relates to a battery charger for one or more hearing devices, comprising: a test sound generator configured to produce testing sound; an input configured to obtain first information regarding a first microphone output of a first hearing device in response to the testing sound and obtain second information regarding a second microphone output in response to the testing sound. A processing unit is configured to detect a clogging of a filter such as a wax filter based at least in part on the first information regarding the first microphone output of the first hearing device, and based at least in part on the second information regarding the second microphone output. An output is configured to provide a signal indicating the clogging of the filter.
US11553279B1
An electromagnetic transducer includes a yoke, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a spacer. The yoke is disposed along a vertical axis. The first magnet is magnetically coupled to the yoke and has a polarization in a first orientation with respect to the vertical axis. The second magnet is magnetically coupled to the yoke and has a polarization in the first orientation with respect to the vertical axis. The spacer is disposed between the first magnet and the second magnet and is extended along the vertical axis.
US11553268B2
A wireless headset includes a first headset part and a second headset part. The first headset part includes a first earplug, a battery box, and a first part of a cable control box. The first part of the cable control box includes a first interface, a first wireless chip configured to receive and send a wireless signal, and a processor configured to process the wireless signal. The battery box includes a first battery. The second headset part includes a second earplug and a second part of the cable control box, and the second part of the cable control box includes a second interface. The first interface is detachably connected to the second interface. When the first interface is electrically connected to the second interface, a data path is formed between the second earplug and the processor, and the first battery supplies power to the second earplug.
US11553261B2
A system for releasing locking of a fusion splicer includes a fusion splicer, an information terminal, and a server. The fusion splicer locks a fusion-splicing function in accordance with a predetermined lock condition and releases the locked function in accordance with a release command input. The server includes a storage unit that stores authentication information provided by a user of the fusion splicer, a collation unit that collates authentication information provided from the information terminal with the authentication information stored in the storage unit, and a password issuance unit that issues a one-time password including at least a date in an algorithm when a collation result is favorable. The information terminal authenticates the one-time password in consideration of a day difference or a time difference between the information terminal and the server and applies the release command to the fusion splicer when an authentication result is favorable.
US11553250B2
A system and method for updating a settop box (STB) architecture that can be used to immediately update a device without requiring the device to be reset/restarted. The device may be any type of device that simultaneously supports multiple applications. The architecture may be used to update one of the applications with new functionality in a seamless manner that allows the applications including the one application to continue to operate without interruption.
US11553248B2
A system and method for controlling the display of video content upon one or more displays as a function of user identity as determined by facial recognition. The system and method provide for the video content to be transferred between multiple screens so as to provide a user with a substantially continuous video experience as the user travels between screen locations. User images captured by both video and still image cameras can be utilized for purposes of user recognition. One or more media hubs may be utilized in performing and supporting the disclosed technology.
US11553242B2
A system may perform operations including displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display screen of a web client; displaying a first content prompt on a prompt screen comprised in the GUI, wherein the prompt screen is disposed on the GUI at least one of proximate or adjacent to a camera of the web client; recording a first video clip while displaying the first content prompt; displaying a second content prompt on the prompt screen in response to the recording the first video clip being completed; recording a second video clip while displaying the second content prompt; and/or concatenating the first video clip and the second video clip into a video.
US11553236B2
A method and system for real-time customizing and synchronizing media by a client device in communication with a server device. A client device customizes stock media content based on user preferences, and synchronizes the customized content for playback with a server-side playback of the stock media content.
US11553229B2
A method for providing captured video to a subsequent user device, via a desired video host, including at least some of allowing a user to designate, via a mobile device, at least one desired video host; allowing the subsequent user, via the subsequent user device, to be associated with the at least one desired video host; allowing the user to capture video, via the mobile device, and upload or stream the captured video to the desired video host device(s), wherein the captured video includes at least one categorization for the captured video, as designated by the user prior to capturing the video; and allowing the subsequent user to access, via the subsequent user device, the captured video, via the video host device associated with the at least one desired video host, wherein the captured video is accessed, based on the at least one categorization for the captured video.
US11553228B2
A multi-media presentation system includes an input subsystem operable to collect data including an unassisted data input of a viewer from within a natural, unaided sensing range of the viewer; a storage subsystem with a multiple of storage subsystems operable to store the data including the unassisted data input in a storage subsystem in a manner associated with a preference; and a server subsystem operable to selectively display a multi-media presentation in accordance with the preference.
US11553226B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach from marginal ratings with missing information. An example apparatus includes a pseudo universe calculator to (i) determine a first pseudo universe estimate for a first audience of media corresponding to a first union of first margins, the first margins corresponding to known audience totals, and (ii) determine a second pseudo universe estimate for a second audience of the media corresponding to a second union of second margins, the determination based on an audience constant, the second margins including a margin corresponding to an unknown audience total. The example apparatus also includes a reach calculator to (i) determine an estimate of the unknown audience total of the second audience based on the second pseudo universe estimate for the second audience, and (ii) determine a reach estimate for the second union based on the first and second pseudo universe estimates.
US11553221B2
A video transmission method, system and a device includes a sending device that generates and sends a source video stream, where the source video stream includes a plurality of video data packets, each video data packet includes discard indication information, a discard priority indicated by discard indication information included in a first video data packet is higher than a discard priority indicated by discard indication information included in a second video data packet, video data in a video frame whose frame type is a non-reference B frame is encapsulated into the first video data packet, and video data in a video frame whose frame type is an I frame, a P frame, or a reference B frame is encapsulated into the second video data packet.
US11553213B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can receive coded information of pictures in a coded video sequence. The coded information can include a coding tree unit (CTU) size information that indicates a CTU size selected for the pictures. The CTU size information can be encoded using a truncated unary code. The processing circuitry can determine the selected CTU size based on the CTU size information encoded using the truncated unary code. The processing circuitry can reconstruct samples in the pictures based on the selected CTU size. The selected CTU size can be 32×32, 64×64, or 128×128 luma samples.
US11553208B2
A video decoding method includes obtaining a bitstream including a plurality of coded frames of a video signal; decoding each of the plurality of coded frames into a plurality of CTUs and each of the plurality of CTUs into a plurality of residual blocks; recovering a coding block for each of the plurality of residual blocks based on multiple reference line intra prediction flags and reference samples included in each coded frame, wherein a subset of all available intra prediction modes, is determined for each of the multiple reference lines selected for intra prediction based on coding efficiency and compression performance, and each of the multiple reference lines is identified by an index number; reconstructing each frame of the video signal by storing the recovered coding block for each of the plurality of residual blocks in a frame buffer; and continuously outputting the reconstructed frames to restore the video signal.
US11553206B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for determining whether to bypass bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) if BDOF is used in combination with bi-prediction with coding unit (CU) weights (e.g., generalized bi-prediction (GBi)). A coding system may combine coding modes, coding techniques, and/or coding tools. The coding system may include a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). For example, the coding system may combine BDOF and bi-prediction with GU weights (BCW). BDOF may include refining a motion vector associated with a current CU based at least in part on gradients associated with a location in the current CU. The coding system may determine that BDOF is enabled, and/or that bi-prediction with CU weights is enabled for the current CU. The coding system's determination that bi-prediction with CU weights is enabled and/or that BDOF is enabled may be based on one or more indications.
US11553205B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that obtains a plurality of control point motion vectors for a current block, determines first motion vectors and second motion vectors for a plurality of sub-blocks of the current block according to the plurality of control point motion vectors. The first motion vectors correspond to a first relative position in each sub-block. At least one first motion vector is different from a corresponding second motion vector. The processing circuitry obtains a first set of predicted samples according to the first motion vectors, obtains a second set of predicted samples according to the second motion vectors, and obtains a third set of predicted samples for the current block based on the first set of predicted samples and the second set of predicted samples.
US11553201B2
A method for processing a video includes performing a conversion between a current block of visual media data and a corresponding coded representation of the visual media data, wherein the conversion of the current block includes determining whether a use of one or both of a bi-directional optical flow (BIO) technique or a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) technique to the current block is enabled or disabled, and wherein the determining the use of the BIO technique or the DMVR technique is based on a cost criterion associated with the current block.
US11553200B2
Techniques are disclosed for coding and decoding video data using object recognition and object modeling as a basis of coding and error recovery. A video decoder may decode coded video data received from a channel. The video decoder may perform object recognition on decoded video data obtained therefrom, and, when an object is recognized in the decoded video data, the video decoder may generate a model representing the recognized object. It may store data representing the model locally. The video decoder may communicate the model data to an encoder, which may form a basis of error mitigation and recovery. The video decoder also may monitor deviation patterns in the object model and associated patterns in audio content; if/when video decoding is suspended due to operational errors, the video decoder may generate simulated video data by analyzing audio data received during the suspension period and developing video data from the data model and deviation(s) associated with patterns detected from the audio data.
US11553193B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a plurality of first blocks in a current coded picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates that the plurality of first blocks is coded in a local illumination compensation (LIC) mode. The processing circuitry selects a neighboring region for each of the plurality of first blocks. The selected neighboring region and the respective first block form a second block. The processing circuitry performs an inter prediction for the plurality of second blocks in parallel. The processing circuitry determines a set of LIC parameters for each of the plurality of first blocks based on the selected neighboring region of the respective first block and reconstructs the plurality of first blocks based on the sets of LIC parameters.
US11553178B2
A method for analyzing an image for anomaly detection includes obtaining a first image. The method also includes generating a second image by auto-encoding the first image. The method additionally includes extracting first and second feature vectors from the first and second images, respectively. The method further includes filtering each of the first and second feature vectors by using a filtering vector generated based on first distance values between first respective elements of the first and second feature vectors. Additionally, the method includes determining whether there is an anomaly in the first image based on second distance values between second respective elements of the filtered first and second feature vectors.
US11553174B2
The present disclosure provides methods and devices of intra predicting a block of a picture. The method comprises for a sample of the block: obtaining a predicted sample value from one or more reference sample values by performing intra-prediction using a DC intra-prediction mode; multiplying the predicted sample value by a sample weighting factor to produce a weighted predicted sample value; adding an additional value to the weighted predicted sample value to produce a non-normalized predicted sample value; and normalizing the non-normalized predicted sample value by an arithmetic right shift; wherein the sample weighting factor is ((2<
US11553168B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US11553159B1
One example method includes capturing audio data at a client engine while outputting an output video, the output video being based upon an original video stored at the client engine, delivering the captured audio data to a prediction engine upon the captured audio data being captured for a pre-determined time, receiving from the prediction engine substitute frame data used by the client engine to stitch one or more frames into the original video stored at the client engine, and following stitching the one or more frames into the output video to generate an altered output video, outputting the captured audio data and the altered video from the client engine.
US11553153B2
The present disclosure relates to a display system (1) for generating a composite view of a region behind a vehicle (V) towing a trailer (T). A first camera (C1) is provided for outputting first image data corresponding to a first image (IMG1), the first camera (C1) being configured to be mounted in a rear-facing orientation to the vehicle (V). A second camera (C2) is provided for outputting second image data corresponding to a second image (IMG2), the second camera (C2) being configured to be mounted in a rear-facing orientation to the trailer (T). An image processor (5) receives the first image data and said second image data. The image processor (5) is configured to combine said first image data and said second image data to generate composite image data corresponding to a composite image (IMG3). The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding method of generating a composite image (IMG3), and to a rig made up of a vehicle (V) and a trailer (T).
US11553151B2
A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of pixels (20a) arrayed in a two-dimensional lattice, and a control unit (115). The pixel includes a first light receiving element (401a) that outputs a first photocurrent corresponding to received light, a second light receiving element (401b) that outputs a second photocurrent corresponding to received light, a conversion unit (300) that converts a current into a voltage, an output unit (320 or 330) that detects an event based on a change in the voltage converted by the conversion unit, and outputs a detection signal indicating a detection result of the detection, and a switch unit (113a) that performs switching of switching the current to be converted into the voltage by the conversion unit between the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent. The control unit controls the switching performed by the switch unit.
US11553150B2
Techniques, systems, architectures, and methods for amplifying the time difference between events detected on a focal plane array, allowing greater resolution than that afforded by a reference clock are herein disclosed.
US11553149B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric converter. The photoelectric converter includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided under the first semiconductor region, and a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type provided under the second semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region has a first end portion and a second end portion opposing to the first end portion. The third semiconductor region has a first region and a second region overlapping with the second semiconductor region in a plan view, and the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other from a part of the first end portion to a part of the second end portion.
US11553145B2
A method for compensating a Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) in an image sensor, the method includes receiving, by processing circuitry, at least one analog signal from an active pixels sensor (APS) array, the at least one analog signal including power supply noise, combining, by the processing circuitry, amplified power supply noise with at least one ramp signal to obtain combined power supply noise, and compensating, by the processing circuitry, the PSRR of the APS array by cancelling the power supply noise of the at least one analog signal using the combined power supply noise.
US11553133B2
A camera body with which it is possible to improve the effect of shake correction, a camera accessory, and an information transmission method wherein the camera body to which a camera accessory can be detachably mounted, and includes: a movable section which is movable to correct shaking of the camera body; a detection unit which detects the shake and outputs a detection signal; a calculation unit which, on the basis of the detection signal, calculates an amount of movement of the movable section; and a transmission unit which transmits, to the camera accessory, body-side information the calculation unit uses to calculate the amount of movement.
US11553121B2
An optical device includes a refractive prism including a first surface facing an object, a second surface facing a first lens, and a third surface configured to reflect incident light to change a path of the incident light, one of the first surface, the second surface, or both the first and the second surface includes a pattern such that the refractive prism is a diffractive optical element; and a plurality of lenses including the first lens.
US11553116B2
An electronic component assembly having thermal pads with thermal vias coupling an image sensor and a camera board fab is provided for heat dissipation. The electronic component assembly can include: a circuit board having at least one thermal pad disposed on a top surface of the circuit board; and an image sensor disposed on the top surface of the circuit board, having at least one conductive pad disposed at at least one corner of the image sensor. The at least one thermal pad is coupled to the at least one conductive pad of the image sensor and the at least one thermal pad is formed with a plurality of first thermal vias penetrating the thermal pad and the circuit board for transfer of heat of the image sensor.
US11553101B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a processor of a first terminal device compatible with a first platform. The instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the first terminal device to accept selection of an image processing apparatus from among one or more devices connected with the first terminal device, obtain setting information from the selected image processing apparatus, install, into the first terminal device, a first program compatible with the image processing apparatus and the first platform, display access information on a display of the first terminal device, the access information being based on an address of a web page representing a site of a supply source for a second program that is compatible with the image processing apparatus and a second platform, and display the setting information on the display.
US11553098B2
An image processing apparatus includes a motor, a sheet feeding roller, a separation roller, a conveyance roller, a first clutch set provided in a transmission path of a driving force transmitted from the motor to the sheet feeding roller, and a second clutch set provided in a transmission path of a driving force transmitted from the motor to the separation roller. The first clutch set includes a first one-way clutch and a first two-way clutch, and the second clutch set includes a second one-way clutch and a second two-way clutch. A maximum value of a first play angle set between a first transmission portion and a first transmitted portion in the first two-way clutch is larger than a maximum value of a second play angle set between a second transmission portion and a second transmitted portion in the second two-way clutch.
US11553097B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image former to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming condition for adjusting a position of the image on the sheet, a heater to fix the image on the sheet, and an image reader to read the image on the sheet, the image reader being arranged downstream from the heater in a conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed. A processor controls the image former to form an image including a mark on a sheet, controls the image reader to read the mark, generates the image forming condition based on a reading result of the mark by the image reader, and controls to determine, in a case where a second image including the mark is formed by the image former after the first image including the mark is formed by the image former, whether to form a chart including the mark on the sheet before the second image is formed based on an elapsed time after forming the first image.
US11553094B2
In an image forming apparatus, a controller allows a sound output device to output a starting sound and an ending sound at a start and end of diagnostic image formation processing, respectively, determines whether abnormal noise has occurred by identifying data ranging from the starting sound to the ending sound in an diagnostic spectrogram as a comparison target for data ranging from the starting sound to the ending sound in a normal spectrogram to match both the spectrograms in terms of width in a time-axis direction, and identifies a source of the abnormal noise by identifying the data ranging from the starting sound to the ending sound in the diagnostic spectrogram as a comparison target for data in ranging from a timing of start to a timing of end in a timing chart to match the diagnostic spectrogram with the timing chart in terms of width in the time-axis direction.
US11553093B2
A detection device includes an electrostatic capacitance sensor including an electrode pair and being configured to detect electrostatic capacitance of a medium brought into contact with the electrode pair, and a first ultrasonic wave sensor including a first transmission unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave and a first reception unit configured to receive an ultrasonic wave transmitted from the first transmission unit. The transmission unit and the reception unit are positioned to sandwich the medium.
US11553092B2
In various embodiments, a device receives profile data regarding users or devices of an on-premise telephony system. The device identifies, based on the profile data, group features associated with the users or devices of the on-premise telephony system. The device forms a candidate set of users or devices of the on-premise telephony system for migration to a cloud-hosted call agent, based on them sharing at least one of the group features. The device provides data indictive of the candidate set of users or devices to a user interface for display.
US11553086B1
A computer-implemented method and system for streamlining interactions between a customer and a company representative. Information related to a customer is received by a company representative. A predicted future action by the customer is then calculated by a computer process wherein the calculation is based on the received information. The predicted future action is then caused to be displayed on a computer operated by a representative of the company. A conversation plan may be generated according to the information and a business rule which may be displayed on the representative's computer.
US11553085B2
A method and an apparatus for predicting satisfaction of a customer pursuant to a call between the customer and an agent, in which the method comprises receiving a transcribed text of the call, dividing the transcribed text into a plurality of phases of a conversation, extracting at least one call feature for each of the plurality of phases, receiving call metadata, extracting metadata features from the call metadata, combining the call features and the metadata features, and generating an output, using a trained machine learning (ML) model, based on the combined features, indicating whether the customer is satisfied or not. The ML model is trained to generate an output indicating whether the customer is satisfied or not, based on an input of the combined features.
US11553084B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a call for a subscriber; determining, by the processing system, that the call is from an interactive voice response (IVR) system; determining whether the IVR system is providing a query that requires a response; and responsive to a first determination that the IVR system requires the response, providing the response. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11553078B2
A method includes determining a first device status when at a first moment, determining a touch parameter of a first side area of the curved screen of the electronic device as a first response threshold based on the first device status, where a pressure sensor is disposed in the first side area of the curved screen, receiving a first operation, responding to the first operation when the first operation meets the first response threshold, determining a second device status at a second moment, adjusting the touch parameter from the first response threshold to a second response threshold based on the second device status, receiving a second operation of the user in the first side area of the curved screen, and responding to the second operation when a pressure threshold of the second operation meets the second response threshold.
US11553077B2
Systems and methods for providing conversation assistance include receiving from at least one user device of a user, conversation information and determining that the conversation information is associated with a conversation involving the user and a first person that is associated with first conversation assistance information in a non-transitory memory. Body measurement data of the user is retrieved from the at least first user device. A need for conversation assistance in the conversation involving the user and the first person is detected using the body measurement data. First conversation assistance information associated with the first person is retrieved from the non-transitory memory. The first conversation assistance information associated with the first person is provided through the at least one user device.
US11553076B1
A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) is programmed to automatically respond to data sent by various sensors from which the user's activity may be inferred. One or more alarms on the device may be temporarily disabled when sensor data indicates that the user is asleep. One or more of the sensors may be worn by the user and remote from the device. A wireless communication link may be used by the device to obtain remote sensor data. Data from on-board sensors in the device—such as motion sensors, location sensors, ambient light sensors, and the like—may also be used to deduce the user's current activity. User data (such as calendar entries) may also be used to determine likely user activity and set alarms accordingly. Biometric data from a second, nearby person may also be used to automatically select certain alarm modes on a first person's device.
US11553074B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an interaction identifier by a processor and in response to an input entered by a user at a first user interface of a mobile device. The input is associated with a frame within a page displayed at the first user interface. The method further includes receiving interaction information and application deeplinking purchase information associated with the purchase identifier and determining a uniform resource identifier (URI) of a second user interface at the mobile device. The second user interface is different from the first user interface. The method includes sending a signal, based on the URI, to cause the second user interface to be rendered at the mobile device with the interaction information pre-populated to complete an interaction requested by the user.
US11553057B2
A highway detection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device associated with a user traveling in the vehicle, and a server computer. The server computer may receive traveling data for a trip of the user from the one or more sensors and via the telematics device. The server computer may then determine whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway based on analysis of the traveling data for the trip of the user, which may include a statistical analysis to calculate standard deviations of metrics in the traveling data. In response to the determination, the server computer may generate a notification to transmit to the user based on whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway and transmit the notification to the mobile device associated with the user.
US11553039B2
A blockchain-enabled cloud-based service mesh environment including a network service mesh network that includes network service domains that communicate with each other and an application service mesh network positioned in communication with the network service mesh network, the application service mesh network including applications that communicate with each other and a network service domain. A plurality of smart contracts record information including resource assignment and consumption information from the network service mesh network and the application service mesh network are recorded to a blockchain network.
US11553029B2
A method and apparatus for building and delivering a HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) construction representing digital content layout are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes constructing the digital content layout by selecting a delivery method, selecting subwidgets, and using the selected subwidgets to build and represent the digital content layout, wherein the delivery method is an inline, and wherein the subwidgets include images, texts, or videos. The method also includes integrating the digital content layout with a designated website. The method further includes delivering third-party content to the designated website. In addition, the method includes tracking interactive content on the designated website.
US11553027B2
A method for improving performance of a streaming media session between a plurality of communicating entities. Observation reports are collected from a plurality of monitoring entities. Each observation report includes information pertaining to events observed and recorded at a corresponding monitoring entity. A size of at least one window to be used for analyzing the observation reports is determined. The observation reports are analyzed using the at least one window of the determined size, to determine a correlation between the events across the observation reports. A problem encountered during the streaming media session is identified, based upon the correlation between the events. A notification is sent to at least one of the monitoring entities, based upon the problem. The notification is sent during the streaming media session.
US11553025B2
A method or system configured for receiving a first single data stream representing a first multimedia file, the first single data stream including an interleaved sequence of data elements of a plurality of media, and/or transmitting a second single data stream representing a second multimedia file, the second single data stream including an interleaved sequence of data elements of said plurality of media, where the second multimedia file differs from said first multimedia file by at least one data element of a selected medium extracted from said first multimedia file, and/or by at least one data element of a selected medium added to the first multimedia file, and/or by at least one data element of a selected medium added to the first multimedia file being a converted version of the at least one data element of a selected medium extracted from the first multimedia file.
US11553023B2
Methods and systems for implementing an abstraction layer for streaming data sources are disclosed. A request to perform an operation based on one or more keys is received using a key-value interface. A streaming data source is selected based on the request. The operation is performed using the streaming data source, wherein the operation comprises storing or retrieving one or more values based on the one or more keys.
US11553017B1
An apparatus may be configured to: transmit, to a client, an indication of one or more request-response overload capabilities; receive, from the client, at least one request for a plurality of media segments based, at least partially, on the indication of the one or more request-response overload capabilities; and transmit, to the client, at least one response comprising the plurality of media segments. The apparatus may be, for example, a media server, an HTTP overload handler, an edge server, a DANE, etc.
US11553002B2
A system is described whereby a cloud router may allow routing as a service in a cloud-like manner. In an example, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory coupled with the processor that effectuates operations. The operations may include receiving first routing information associated with a first customer edge device; adding the first routing information to network routing information of the apparatus, wherein the network routing information comprises a network routing table with routes for a plurality of networks; and propagating the network routing information to a software defined network (SDN) controller, wherein, based on the network routing information, the SDN controller sends a forwarding information base (FIB) to a provider edge device connected with the first customer edge device.
US11552996B2
A system and method for managing implementation of policies in an information technologies system receives at least one policy function, at least one refinement template and at least one available policy function from the at least one memory, receives a policy input indicating a high-level policy for the IT system where the policy input is compliant with the at least one policy function and is received in a format that is not machine-enforceable at an enforcement entity of the IT system, based on the received policy input, automatically or semi-automatically generates a machine-enforceable rule and/or configuration by filling the at least one refinement template, where the machine-enforceable rule and/or configuration includes the at least one available policy function and being compliant with the received policy input, and distributes the machine-enforceable rule and/or configuration to the at least one memory of the IT system or another at least one memory to thereby enable implementation of the policies.
US11552984B2
Systems and methods are described for improving assessment of security risk based on a user's personal information. Registration of personal information of a user of an organization is received at a security awareness system. Post receiving the registration of the personal information, at least one of an exposure check or a security audit of the personal information of the user is performed by the security awareness system. A personal risk score of the user is then generated or adjusted based at least on a result of one of the exposure check or the security audit.
US11552981B2
Assessing a risk of a message is disclosed. A sender specified by the message is identified. A measure of authenticity that the sender specified by the message is an actual sender of the message is determined using at least one sender model associated with the sender. The sender model was at least in part automatically generated using one or more previously observed messages. The measure of authenticity is utilized to perform a risk assessment of the message.
US11552980B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining whether or not users of a communication network are implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) when authenticating with an entity's business tools, applications, and cloud services. This information can be used as component in the calculation of a risk score that can help quantify and assess the risk posture of the entity. In some embodiments, network traffic flow metadata may be used to anonymously identify user data to assess the entity's use of MFA in determining enterprise risk that may not rely on questionnaires, surveys, manual data entry, and/or interviews. Embodiments of the application can produce a real-time analysis of the security risk of the system.
US11552975B1
Identifying Internet of Things (IoT) devices with packet flow behavior including by using machine learning models is disclosed. Information associated with a network communication of an IoT device is received. A determination of whether the IoT device has previously been classified is made. In response to determining that the IoT device has not previously been classified, a determination is made that a probability match for the IoT device against a behavior signature exceeds a threshold. Based at least in part on the probability match, a classification of the IoT device is provided to a security appliance configured to apply a policy to the IoT device.
US11552971B1
Techniques for detection of the fraudulent use of content delivery network (CDN) served byte streams are described. A fraud detection service obtains CDN log data, distribution data, and account data and uses elements therefrom to perform a distribution-centric fraud analysis using machine learning techniques. Based on the likelihood of fraud determined by the analysis, the fraud detection service can rapidly perform actions to address the fraud, such as the termination of service for the distribution, throttling of resources provided for the distribution, or further investigation techniques.
US11552967B2
Systems and methods for performing graph-based analysis of computing system threats and incidents, and determining response and/or mitigation actions for the threats and incidents, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods generate node graphs of computing system threat artifacts, and perform actions to identify recommended resolutions to the threats, based on information derived from the generated node graphs.
US11552963B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods to identify an electronic control unit transmitting a message on a communication bus, such as an in-vehicle network bus, are provided. ECUs transmit messages by manipulating voltage on conductive lines of the bus. Observation circuitry can observe voltage transitions associated with the transmission at multiple points on the in-vehicle network bus. A voltage waveform can be generated from the observed voltage transitions. ECUs can be identified and/or fingerprinted based on the generated waveforms.
US11552960B2
A processing technique can be implemented by a security device. The security device verifies that a message sent by a communicating device to a receiving device is a message to be sent. When the verification is positive, the message is sent to the receiving device. The security device than receives a notification sent by the receiving device indicating that the sent message is to be blocked. Subsequent messages of the same type as the message for which the notification was received, sent by communicating devices provided by the same manufacturer and with the same product identifier as those of the communicating device that sent the message are thus blocked by the security device during the verification process.
US11552959B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing resource policy management based on a pre-commit verification engine are provided. Pre-commit verification operations are executed to simulate committing a policy, in a distributed computing environment, for test request instances, without actually committing the policy. In operation, a policy author communicates a policy and one or more test request instances. Based on the policy and the test request instances, an access control manager simulates committing the policy for the test request instances to the computing environment. Simulating committing the policy for test request instances is based on an existing set of policies including a live version of the policy and contextual information corresponding to the policy and the test request instances for the computing environment in which the policy will be applied. Based on simulating committing the policy without committing the policy, policy verification results for the policy are generated and communicated.
US11552954B2
Management of IoT devices through a private cloud. An IoT device is coupled to a gateway. A request from the IoT device to connect to a private cloud, wherein the private cloud is used to manage IoT devices, is received at a private cloud control center agent. An identification of the IoT device is determined. The IoT device is onboarded, using the identification, for management through the private cloud. A device profile of the IoT device is generated. The flow of data to and from the IoT device is regulated through application of IoT rules according to the device profile of the IoT device.
US11552942B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for verifying location using sound. In some embodiments, location data representing an unverified location of a first electronic device are received. Audio data generated based on sound detected by a sensor of the first electronic device during a predetermined time are received, as well as audio data generated based on trusted sound detected by a sensor of a second electronic device during the predetermined time, wherein the second electronic device is located near the unverified location of the first electronic device, and wherein the trusted sound includes one or more frequencies inaudible to humans (e.g., infrasonic and/or ultrasonic sound). The audio data generated by the first and second electronic devices are analyzed and a similarity score representing a similarity between the respective audio data is generated. The unverified location of the first electronic device may be verified based on the similarity score.
US11552939B2
The disclosure relates to a method for configuring a control device of an automation system, comprising: detecting a local access token via an interface of the control device; and modifying at least one parameter of the control device, which is designed to configure a data connection of the control device in response to the detection of the local access token.
US11552929B2
Systems and methods for improving the catch rate of attacks/malware by a cooperating group of network security devices are provided. According to one embodiment, a security management device configured in a protected network, maintains multiple dynamic IP address lists including an NGFW deep detection list, a DDoS deep detection list, a NGFW block list and a DDoS block list. The security management device, continuously updates the lists based on updates provided by a cooperating group of network security devices based on network traffic observed by the network security devices. In response to receipt of a request from a NGFW device or a DDoS mitigation device associated with the protected network, the security management device provides the requestor with the requested dynamic IP address lists for use in connection with processing network traffic by the requestor.
US11552925B1
Described systems and methods enable protecting client devices (e.g., personal computers and IoT devices) implementing encrypted DNS protocols against harmful or inappropriate Internet content. A DNS proxy intercepts an attempt to establish an encrypted communication session between a client device and a DNS server. Without decrypting any communications, some embodiments of the DNS proxy determine an identifier of the respective session and an identifier of the client device, and send a query tracer connecting the session identifier with the client identifier to a security server. In some embodiments, the security server obtains the domain name included in an encrypted DNS query from the DNS server and instructs the DNS server to allow or block access of the client device to the respective Internet domain according to a device- and/or user-specific access policy.
US11552922B2
One or more non-transitory storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause performance of a method of enhancing online contents based on digital alliance data are disclosed. The method comprising receiving from a web server a webpage at a first user device associated with a first user and a first user account managed by a communication data management server; extracting a type of data of a plurality types of data from a body or metadata of the webpage; and determining that the type of data matches certain data regarding an organization. The method further comprises updating the webpage with specific data related to one or more members or contacts of an alliance network of the first user account that are associated with the organization; and causing displaying the updated webpage by the first user device.
US11552916B2
Among other disclosures, a method may include identifying content in an electronic communication, the content including a link. The method may include characterizing content associated with the link and storing the characterization. Upon detecting a match of a characterization, presenting one or more of the communication or portion thereof, the link or content associated with the link.
US11552905B2
A first node of a packet switched network transmits at least one flow of protocol data units of a network to at least one output context of one of a plurality of second nodes of the network. The first node includes X virtual output queues (VOQs). The first node receives, from at least one of the second nodes, at least one fair rate record. Each fair rate record corresponds to a particular second node output context and describes a recommended rate of flow to the particular output context. The first node allocates up to X of the VOQs among flows corresponding to i) currently allocated VOQs, and ii) the flows corresponding to the received fair rate records. The first node operates each allocated VOQ according to the corresponding recommended rate of flow until a deallocation condition obtains for the each allocated VOQ.
US11552903B2
Various arrangements for increasing a transfer rate of a data transfer via satellite are presented. A satellite gateway may set an accelerated set of communication parameters that control communication between the satellite gateway and the satellite terminal via the satellite and between the satellite gateway and the content source to an accelerated transfer rate between the content source and the satellite terminal. A first set of data may be transferred from the content source to the satellite terminal using the set of communication parameters. After transferring the first set of data, the satellite gateway may adjust the initial set of communication parameters to an adjusted set of communication parameters. The adjusted transfer rate can be lower than the accelerated transfer rate.
US11552901B2
A durability assessment system may receive a request, from a computing system, for a durability index describing an entity. The durability assessment system may determine the durability index based on information about the resource usage by the entity, such as a resource availability score or a resource allocation score. The durability assessment system may compare the obtained resource availability score and resource allocation score to ranges associated with a set of durability indices. Based on the comparison, the durability assessment system may determine a durability index for the entity. The durability index may indicate an ability of the entity to return accessed resources. In some cases, the durability assessment system may provide the durability index to an allocation computing system that is configured to determine whether to grant access to resources based on the durability index.
US11552898B2
A system and method for management of communications for components of a global accelerator system is provided. The global accelerator system includes client devices communicating with a global access point via a public network to access various endpoints that can host services. In turn, a global access point communicates to various endpoints, which are organized into different data centers, via a private network. A global access point creates and manages separate TCP connections between the client and global access point and the client and endpoint to improve first byte latency experienced by clients that leverage the data throughput resources of the private network.
US11552893B2
In this disclosure, in a network comprising a plurality of network devices, a network device includes processing circuitry configured to: receive packet data corresponding to a network flow originating at a first device, the packet data destined to a second device; generate an entropy label to add to a label stack of the packet data, wherein the entropy label is generated from one or more attributes corresponding to the network flow that originated at the first device and is destined to the second device; generate a flow record including the entropy label, wherein the entropy label identifies the network flow amongst a plurality of network flows in the network; and send, to a controller of the network, the flow record, wherein the controller identifies the flow record based on the entropy label corresponding to the network flow originating at the first device and is destined to the second device.
US11552890B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for introducing entropy in a Converged Interconnect Network. For instance, a remote physical layer device (RPD) can receive a first plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that are assigned to the RPD. The RPD can receive, from a Converged Cable Access Platform Core (CCAP-Core) device, a first data packet having a first destination IP address selected from the first plurality of IP addresses. The RPD can receive, from the CCAP-Core device, a second data packet having a second destination IP address selected from the first plurality of IP addresses. In some examples, a difference between the first destination IP address and the second destination IP address can cause a router disposed between the CCAP-Core device and the RPD to select a first route for the first data packet and a second route for the second data packet.
US11552888B2
A communication device includes a processor. The processor updates, when a port which is received a packet is connected to a first path or a second path, an identifier assigned to the packet from a value according to the path to a first value or a second value. The processor learns a correspondence relationship between a destination address of the packet and a transmission port by flooding the packet, and determines the transmission port based on the correspondence relationship. The processor updates, when the transmission port is connected to the first path or the second path, the identifier assigned to the packet of which the transmission port is determined to a value according to the first path or the second path. The processor discards the packet of which the identifier is updated to the second value by the first process and the transmission port is connected to the second path.
US11552881B2
In a troubleshooting method, a controller first determines that a fault occurs on a first multi-layer link passing through a first port on a first network device, where the first multi-layer link is a link in a link aggregation group between the first network device and a second network device. The controller then releases an optical layer resource of the first multi-layer link, and deletes the first multi-layer link from the link aggregation group. The controller further establishes, a second multi-layer link for restoration of the first multi-layer link, based on a first idle port on the first network device and a second idle port on a target network device, and adds the second multi-layer link to a target link aggregation group between the first network device and the target network device.
US11552876B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring routing data and issuing alarms for route anomalies detected based on the monitored routing data. Routing data, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcement and/or withdraw messages for a targeted prefix of an Autonomous System (AS), is collected and analyzed to detect route anomalies. The analysis may include a comparison of the BGP messages to internal routing data. An alarm is selectively output corresponding to the detected route anomalies. The detected route anomalies may be correlated with monitored network traffic data to classify the route anomalies, where the output of the alarm is based on the classification of the route anomalies.
US11552842B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises determining which functional splits between processing performed in a baseband controller and processing performed in a remote unit are supported by each remote unit served by the baseband controller. The method further comprises determining at least one functional split in the processing performed in the baseband controller and the processing performed in the remote units to use. The method further comprises, for each said at least one functional split and each remote unit associated with that functional split, configuring the processing performed in the baseband controller and the processing performed in that remote unit are configured to use that functional split and configuring a respective interface between the baseband controller and that remote unit are configured for communicating front-haul data therebetween using that functional split.
US11552837B2
Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a base station (BS) includes receiving a set of uplink signals; estimating, based on a subset of the set of uplink signals, uplink channels; estimating a timing offset (TO) and a frequency offset (FO) for a subset of the estimated uplink channels; compensating, based on the estimated TO and FO, the subset of the estimated uplink channels to generate TO and FO compensated uplink channel estimates; and generating channel prediction information based on the compensated subset of the estimated uplink channels.
US11552836B1
Physical layer processing methods for network acquisition by remote nodes in wireless communication systems are described herein. New methods for wireless network discovery and synchronization by remote nodes are described herein that utilize spatial (e.g., antenna array) processing algorithms which may achieve enhanced functioning in challenging radio frequency environments, such as those containing interference and multipath distortion effects. These methods may include advantageous use of spatial whiteners and associated pluralities of adaptive beamformers to detect network reference and synchronization signals and estimate their parameters.
US11552835B2
A radio transmitter circuit (10) for transmitting signals within an uplink or sidelink frequency band of a cellular communications system is disclosed. It comprises a signal-generation circuit (20) configured to generate a transmission signal to be transmitted, and a radio front-end circuit (30), connected to the signal-generation circuit (20) at an input of the radio front-end circuit (30), for receiving the transmission signal, and configured to be connected to an antenna (40) at an output of the radio front-end circuit and to transmit the transmission signal to a remote node via said antenna (40). The signal-generation circuit (20) is configured to select a distortion function (D1, D2) based on a location of an allocated radio frequency resource, within said uplink or sidelink frequency band, for the transmission signal. Furthermore, the signal-generation circuit (20) is configured to generate an intermediate transmission signal, based on information to be transmitted in the transmission signal. Moreover, the signal-generation circuit (20) is configured to generate the transmission signal by applying the distortion function (D1, D2) to the intermediate transmission signal.
US11552831B1
A method for equalizer correction in a communication network includes (a) obtaining raw equalizer coefficients in a frequency domain, (b) removing time delay from the raw equalizer coefficients to generate corrected equalizer coefficients in a time domain such that a direct current (DC) corrected equalizer coefficient of the corrected equalizer coefficients has a phase of zero, and (c) converting the corrected equalizer coefficients from the time domain to the frequency domain.
US11552826B2
Method for the operation and expansion of a network of lights Described herein is method for the operation and the expansion of a network of lights, each light in the network including a control module which is assigned to a group, each control module being in communication with a group controller as well as control modules in the same group. The network can be expanded by installing new lights with their associated control modules (19), and each new control module scans its environment and transmits environmental information to a central server (20) where the environmental information is analysed and the new control modules are allocated into groups (21). After allocation to a group in which control modules may be moved from one group to another or a new group is formed, the new control modules are available for normal operation. This process is repeated for each new light and associated control module.
US11552816B2
The techniques disclosed herein provide a system that can generate targeted positioning of message content for multi-user communication interfaces. In some configurations a system may generate a user interface that displays a number of video stream renderings, wherein individual video stream renderings, e.g., thumbnail views, show a participant of a communication session. When one of the participants sends the user a private message, the system renders at least a portion of the private message in a semi-transparent format as an overlay on the video rendering of the sender. This allows a traditional video stream interface to also function as an organizer for private messages sent to a particular user. This user interface format allows a user to readily identify a broader perspective of chat activity without requiring a user to enter specific chat user interfaces or provide a number of manual input entries to view the private chat content.
US11552810B2
The generation of “fingerprints”, also called challenge-response pairs (CRPs) of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), can often stress electronic components, leaving behind traces that can be exploited by crypto-analysts. A non-intrusive method to generate CRPs based on Resistive RAMs may instead be used, which does not disturb the memory cells. The injection of small electric currents (magnitude of nanoAmperes) in each cell causes the resistance of each cell to drop abruptly by several orders of magnitudes through the formation of temporary conductive paths in each cell. A repeated injection of currents into the same cell, results in an almost identical effect in resistance drop for a single cell. However, due to the small physical variations which occur during manufacturing, the cells are significantly different from each other, in such a way that a group of cells can be used as a basis for PUF authentication.
US11552809B1
A method for gesture-based multi-factor authentication includes mapping a gesture password to a first substitution string, generating a cryptographic key using the first substitution string as an input to a password authenticated key exchange protocol, encrypting a challenge response with the cryptographic key to generate an encrypted challenge response, and transmitting, to a relying party computing system, a first authentication message comprising the encrypted challenge response and a user identifier identifying a user.
US11552807B2
A method includes sending, by a trusted application (TA) entity, a certificate of the TA entity and a private key signature of the TA entity to a target security domain (SD). The certificate and the private key signature enable the target SD to perform trust verification via a server, obtaining, by the TA entity, a first key of the target SD when the trust verification of the TA entity succeeds, and establishing, by the TA entity, a trust relationship with the target SD.
US11552806B2
A system for enhanced public key infrastructure is provided. The system includes a computer device. The computer device is programmed to receive a digital certificate including a composite signature field including a plurality of signatures. The plurality of signatures include at least a first signature and a second signature. The computer device is also programmed to retrieve, from the digital certificate, a first key associated with the first signature from the digital certificate. The computer device is further programmed to retrieve the first signature from the composite signature field. In addition, the at least one computer device is programmed to validate the first signature using the first key.
US11552801B2
In a method of operating a memory system, first security data and a first timestamp for preventing a replay attack are written by a host device to a first memory area which is an external memory area. A second timestamp is updated by the host device based on the first timestamp. The second timestamp corresponding to the first timestamp is stored in a second memory area distinguished from the first memory area. A first notification signal representing a result of updating the second timestamp is received by the host device. A writing operation for the first security data is completed when it is determined, by the host device, based on the first notification signal that the second timestamp is successfully updated.
US11552796B2
A cryptographic method is provided. The cryptographic method comprises an initialisation phase for determining a provisional generator point G′ equal to a first product G′=[d′]G, where d′ is a first random scalar forming a secret key of N bits and G is a generator point of an elliptical curve, and determining a provisional key Q′ equal to a second product Q′=[d′]Q, where Q is a point of the elliptical curve forming a public key. During an encryption phase a second random scalar forming a second secret key k of M bits, with M
US11552795B2
Generating a private key recovery seed based on random words extracted from an input memory of a user and using the recovery seed to recover the private key. An input that is related to a specific memory of a user is received. The specific memory was previously entered and used to generate random words that are related to each other by being included in the specific memory. The random words are extracted from the received input. The random words are associated with a first private key recovery mechanism for recovering a private key. The random words are input into the first private key recovery mechanism to generate a recovery seed. The recovery seed is input into a second private key recovery mechanism. The second private key recovery mechanism generates a recovered private key upon performing a recovery operation on the private key recovery seed.
US11552789B2
The invention relates to a system for transmitting encoded information over radio channels and wired communication lines, including the Internet. The system includes a transmitting side and a receiving side each comprising various software/hardware modules for generating/displaying the output/received information of the transmitting side, cryptographic calculations of the transmitting side, service information of the transmitting side, a module for generating a set key of the transmitting side, a module for generating a computed key of the transmitting/receiving side, a module of transmitting side communication channel, macroblocks for blocking computer brute-force search including at least three software/hardware modules for information encoding/cryptographic transformations, a module for random numbers generation, and modules for a degree of the setting polynomial. These modules of the transmitting and receiving sides are connected to each other within their respective sides, as well as to each other across a communication channel.
US11552785B2
A system for an artificial intelligence synchronized distributed ledger. The system includes a computing device containing a receiving module, the receiving module designed and configured to receive an input from a remote device, parse the input to identify protected and non-protected data contained within the input, transform the protected data into a digitally signed assertion and convert the non-protected into an encrypted datastore. The computing device containing a processing module, the processing module designed and configured to receive the digitally signed assertion from the receiving module, insert the digitally signed assertion into an immutable sequential data structure, receive the encrypted datastore, retrieve at least an input, generate a record utilizing the at least a retrieved input, and perform a first machine-learning process utilizing the at least a retrieved input.
US11552775B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for clock synchronization in half-duplex communication systems. Devices in a half-duplex system are synchronized based on time stamp values captured by each device that define a specified period of time that is of equal in length. The specified period of time spans two change-over periods to average the jitter and/or drift that occurs during each period. Each device uses these measured lengths to determine the variance in the rates at which the two internal clocks operates, which is then used to synchronizes the internal clocks of the two devices.
US11552774B2
Embodiments described herein relate to time division duplexing (TDD) support for in-band, guard band, and standalone operation modes of narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) systems. At least one example is directed to an indication technique for transmission of a narrowband system information block type 1 (SIB1-NB) on a carrier.
US11552764B2
A method for performing wireless communication by a first device is proposed in an embodiment. The method may comprise the steps of: selecting a synchronization source on the basis of a sidelink synchronization priority; acquiring synchronization on the basis of the synchronization source; transmitting a sidelink-synchronization signal block (S-SSB) to a second device on the basis of the acquired synchronization; transmitting, to the second device, information related to a pattern of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for decoding a PSSCH through sidelink control information (SCI) on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH); mapping the PSSCH DMRS onto a time resource related to the PSSCH on the basis of the information related to the pattern of the SSCH DMRS and an interval of a time resource scheduled for transmission of the PSSCH related to the PSCCH; and transmitting the PSSCH DMRS to the second device through the PSSCH.
US11552760B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for suggesting a packet preamble structure for efficient communication in a wireless communication environment in which a legacy terminal and a non-legacy terminal are mixed, and a wireless communication terminal using the same. For this, the present invention provides a wireless communication method including: generating a packet including a first preamble and a second preamble, wherein a first symbol and a second symbol of the second preamble are modulated using binary phase shift keying (BPSK); and transmitting the generated packet and a wireless communication terminal using the same.
US11552757B2
A terminal is disclosed including a processor that generates a sequence for a demodulation reference signal based on a symbol index and a slot index. The terminal further includes a transmitter that transmits the demodulation reference signal. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
US11552749B2
Provided are a data transmission method and a network device, the method including: configuring a multiple access mode of uplink transmission for a terminal device; sending the multiple access mode of uplink transmission to the terminal device. The multiple access mode of uplink transmission is used for the terminal device to determine a multiplexing mode of a first uplink signal and a second uplink signal on a target time domain resource, wherein the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal are signals which the terminal device is scheduled to transmit on the target time domain resource simultaneously.
US11552748B2
A method and system provides for execution of calibration cycles from time to time during normal operation of the communication channel. A calibration cycle includes de-coupling the normal data source from the transmitter and supplying a calibration pattern in its place. The calibration pattern is received from the communication link using the receiver on the second component. A calibrated value of a parameter of the communication channel is determined in response to the received calibration pattern. The steps involved in calibration cycles can be reordered to account for utilization patterns of the communication channel. For bidirectional links, calibration cycles are executed which include the step of storing received calibration patterns on the second component, and retransmitting such calibration patterns back to the first component for use in adjusting parameters of the channel at first component.
US11552743B2
Intelligent hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback can better support link adaption. Thus, in addition to the traditional HARQ feedback, which is to relay acknowledgement (ACK) and negative acknowledgement (NAK) data based on a decoding result, a new state for the HARQ feedback can be represented as “ACK+”. Consequently, ACK+ can be used to indicate to the network that a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a current data packet is too conservative, and the user equipment (UE) is capable of supporting a more aggressive MCS.
US11552740B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus of transmitting uplink (UL) information and a method and apparatus of receiving UL information. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method of transmitting UL information comprises transmitting a reference signal using a first sequence; and transmitting UL control information using a second sequence; wherein a reference signal and the UL control information are staggered-multiplexed in frequency domain. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the uplink information can be transmitted in reduced uplink symbols so as to adapt for a proposed subframe structure with reduced uplink symbols and thus, the transmission latency can be reduced greatly.
US11552738B2
The present invention discloses methods for operating a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system and devices for supporting the same. More specifically, the present invention provides various embodiments of methods by which a user equipment transmits an uplink signal to a base station and receives feedback information on the uplink signal in order to transmit and receive signals to and from the base station.
US11552732B2
The invention refers to the parallel calculation method for polarization coding (PCPE) for channel coding technique in 5th next generation mobile communication systems which includes to split N-bits input sequence into X parallel streams, each stream has Y bits; to multiply Y bits at each stream by the columns of the Kronecker matrix GY, the results are displayed in rows according to the principle of bit elimination; and to multiply the matrix obtained with the columns of the Kronecker matrix GX according to the sample repeat and scalar multiplication. In addition, the invention also refers to the polarization coding system according to the Parallel Computation for Polarization Encoding (PCPE) for the channel coding technique in the 5th next generation mobile communication system.
US11552728B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for encoding code blocks for transmission in a wireless communication system. An example encoding method in a wireless communication system includes determining, for one or more code blocks of a transport block, that at least one of a plurality of criteria is met, wherein the plurality of criteria includes that a coding rate (R) is less than or equal to ¼ or that a transport block size (TBS) is less than or equal to 3824 bits and the R is less than or equal to ⅔. The one or more code blocks are encoded using low-density parity-check (LDPC) base graph 2, wherein a maximum code block size is 3840 bits. The one or more encoded code blocks are transmitted over the wireless network.
US11552725B2
A base station can select orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerologies that define subcarrier spacing values based on attributes associated with one or more services that a user equipment (UE) is using. The base station can use the selected OFDM numerologies for transmission associated with the services. When the UE is using multiple services simultaneously, the base station can select the same or different OFDM numerologies for the multiple services.
US11552719B2
The present technology relates to a reception apparatus and a data processing method that ensure reliable reproduction of content. The reception apparatus receives content, and controls reproduction of the content on the basis of time correspondence information associating first time information provided from a transmission side of the content with second time information generated on a reception side of the content by a time axis according to the first time information corresponding to the second time information. The present technology can be applied to a television receiver compatible with ATSC 3.0, for example.
US11552717B2
The present disclosure relates to manufacture of an active array antenna from a combination of modular sub-arrays, nominally of equal size; each sub-array being associated with a separate receiver and/or transmitter. A solution to calibrating a modular array is the inclusion of a calibration manifold having multiple 1st ports that connect to respective sub-arrays between their passive network and their respective receiver and/or transmitter. Each of the first ports communicate with a common second port through which a signal can be introduced in order to be received at each element of each sub array, or through which a signal from any element of any sub-array can be received. This allows any element of the sub array to be calibrated at any time including during operation.
US11552712B2
A pulsed light communication device has a plurality of indicator light emitting diodes emitting diodes emitting at least one of a plurality of wavelengths of colored light to correspond to a designated color assigned to a security level for a network. A continuous uninterrupted modulated pulsed light emitting diode light signal may be generated having a sensitivity threshold detection level exceeding minimal parameters of a photodetector.
US11552704B1
Synchronizing a pulse position modulation (PPM) signal. A method includes performing a first synchronization operation by receiving a first series of symbols. The symbols in the first series are transmitted with a pulse in a known slot, such that the symbols comprise pulses that are substantially equally spaced in time from adjacent symbols. The first synchronization operation includes identifying when each pulse is received for each of the symbols and using information identifying when each pulse is received for each of the symbols in the first series of symbols to identify symbol and slot boundaries for the pulse position modulation signal. The method further includes performing a second synchronization operation by receiving a second series of symbols transmitted in a known pattern, and identifying the known pattern in the received second series of symbols to identify a frame boundary.
US11552701B2
A method for performing a handover operation includes using one or more processors of a non-terrestrial node to initiate communication with a first terrestrial node of a network, the terrestrial node having a first unique node identifier and a cell identifier and store a mapping that associates the first unique node identifier with the cell identifier. The method also includes using the one or more processors to receive an indicator that the mapping is subject to change and update the mapping to associate a second unique node identifier of a second terrestrial node of the network with the cell identifier based on the received indicator.
US11552698B2
An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein is a method for downlink scheduling. The method includes scheduling, by a satellite, one or more protocol data units (PDUs) in a slot, determining, by the satellite, whether available capacity of the slot is less than a predetermined threshold, responsive to determining that the available capacity of the slot is not less than the predetermined threshold, scheduling, by the satellite, a second one or more PDUs in the slot, and responsive to determining that the available capacity of the slot is less than that the predetermined threshold, transmitting, by the satellite, the slot to an endpoint. In some embodiments, the one or more PDUs are associated with a first spreading factor (SF). In some embodiments, the first SF is lower than a second SF. In some embodiments, the second one or more PDUs are associated with the second SF.
US11552697B2
A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, which includes a base station and a non-terrestrial network part, the non-terrestrial network part transmitting a plurality of spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region formed by a first of the spot beams. The method comprises receiving assistance information from the communications device, identifying, based on the received assistance information, that a backup configuration should be updated to indicate one or more others of the spot beams, the one or more others of the spot beams being backups to the first spot beam in case of beam failure of the first spot beam, and transmitting a backup beam reconfiguration message to the communications device, the backup beam configuration message comprising an indication of the updated backup configuration.
US11552691B2
A method of wireless communication, the method including: communicating, by a first wireless communication device with a second wireless communication device, communication signals using a first beam; detecting a failure of the first beam; in response to the failure of the first beam, determining that the first beam is associated with a first beam recovery group of a plurality of beam recovery groups; transmitting a beam failure recovery signal to the second wireless communication device based on determining that the first beam is associated with the first beam recovery group; and communicating, by the first wireless communication device with the second wireless communication device, the communication signals at least in part using a second beam.
US11552687B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and apparatuses of channel state information (CSI) reporting for multiple reception point (TRP) transmission. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include transmitting a first CSI report on a first TRP of multiple TRPs serving a terminal device for a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set for CSI acquisition. The method may further include transmitting a second CSI report on a second TRP of the multiple TRPs serving the terminal device for the CSI-RS resource set. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to support CSI reporting for multiple TRP transmission.
US11552680B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating a Single-User (SU) Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission. For example, a first wireless communication station may be configured to transmit a Request to Send (RTS) to a second wireless communication station via a plurality of SU MIMO Transmit (Tx) sectors of the first wireless communication station, the RTS to establish a Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) to transmit an SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station, a control trailer of the RTS including an indication of an intent to transmit the SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station; and to transmit the SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station, upon receipt of a Clear to Send (CTS) from the second wireless communication station indicating that the second wireless communication station is ready to receive the SU-MIMO transmission.
US11552676B2
A mobile device includes; a power line communication ( ) module that communicates data with an external device via a power line, receives a first preamble signal from the external device during a first preamble interval, receives a voltage signal as the data during a data reception interval following the first preamble interval, and demodulates the voltage signal to provide a demodulated voltage signal, a frequency/duty detector that detects a frequency and a duty of the first preamble signal, and a control circuit that performs signal a data determination operation on a demodulated voltage signal during a data period and using the first detected frequency and the first detected duty.
US11552674B2
Systems and methods for detecting, monitoring, and mitigating the presence of a drone are provided herein. In one aspect, a system for detecting presence of a one or more drones includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver configured to receive an RF signal transmitted between a drone and a controller. The system can further include a processor and a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the at least one processor to receive a set of samples from the RF receiver for a time interval, the set of samples comprising samples of the first RF signal, obtain a parameter model of the first frequency hopping parameters, and fit the parameter model to the set of samples.
US11552671B2
A method of a first communication device for removing a self-interference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a signal having a size less than a first threshold value from a second communication device in a first interval within a first frame, transmitting a first signal to a third communication device in the first interval, and estimating a self-interference channel through which the self-interference signal is transmitted based on the signal received in the first interval and the first signal transmitted in the first interval. The self-interference signal is a signal transmitted by the first communication device and is received by the first communication device through the self-interference channel.
US11552657B2
The invention relates to a directional coupler comprising a non-straight main conductor line for receiving a high power signal and at least one coupling element. The main conductor line is arranged to run in a plane P0. The at least one coupling element is arranged sectionally parallel to the main conductor line. Further, the invention relates to a method for measuring RF voltage and/or RF power using a directional coupler. The method comprises the steps of combining the measured signals of the directional coupler and the measured voltage and current values of the VI sensor unit. In case, one of the measured signals has a low or zero level the sensitivity of the measuring of RF voltage and/or RF power is increased.
US11552656B2
A transmission driver includes a pulse generator and a current mode logic driver. The pulse generator is configured to generate and output a first pulse signal by synchronizing at a falling edge time point of a first input signal, and generate and output a second pulse signal by synchronizing at a falling edge time point of a second input signal. The current mode logic driver is configured to output a pre-emphasis signal to which pre-emphasis technique has been applied by changing a first load resistance value and a second load resistance value based on the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal, respectively.
US11552641B2
A frequency generation solution controls an oscillator amplitude using two feedback paths to generate high frequency signals with lower power consumption and lower noise. A first feedback path provides continuous control of the oscillator amplitude responsive to an amplitude detected at the oscillator output. A second feedback path provides discrete control of the amplitude regulating parameter(s) of the oscillator responsive to the detected oscillator amplitude. Because the second feedback path enables the adjustment of the amplitude regulating parameter(s), the second feedback path enables an amplifier in the first feedback path to operate at a reduced gain, and thus also at a reduced power and a reduced noise, without jeopardizing the performance of the oscillator.
US11552640B2
The redundancy control device includes three controllers that output status signals, a majority voting circuit to which a first voltage or a second voltage is supplied as an output signal through an output line of each controller, a switch provided in each output line, a voltage supply unit provided for each output line to supply the second voltage to the output line when the first voltage is lost, a latch circuit provided for each output line to latch the second voltage when the second voltage is supplied thereto and continue to output the second voltage, a comparison circuit provided for each controller to output a comparison signal based on a comparison of the status signals, and a switch control unit provided for each switch to outputs a switch signal to the switch in response to the comparison signal from the comparison circuit.
US11552635B2
One inductive sensor is configured to maintain a fixed frequency in a resonant circuit. One apparatus includes an inductance-to-digital converter (LDC). The LDC includes a digital filter to measure an inductance change of a sensor and convert the inductance change to a digital value. The LDC further includes a digital control loop to maintain a fixed frequency in the sensor. The sensor forms an oscillator in the digital control loop. An output of the digital control loop is representative of the inductance change of the sensor.
US11552619B2
An apparatus includes a first control circuit having an output and including a first comparator and a second control circuit coupled to the output of the first control circuit. The second control circuit includes a second comparator configured to: compare a first value to a reference frequency value, the first value indicating a frequency of a signal at the output of the first control circuit; and provide an adjustment value to change a hysteresis window of the first comparator.
US11552618B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method capable of performing immediate impedance matching according to changes of a distance and positions between TX/RX coils. The present invention includes: an impedance adjustment unit including a voltage-controlled variable capacitance device; a power detector configured to detect a reflection signal which enters the transmitter or receiver when there is no impedance matching to measure a magnitude of the reflection signal and convert the reflection signal into a DC signal; a multiplier configured to multiply the DC signal with a periodic signal; an integrator configured to accumulate and add a signal in which the DC signal and the periodic signal are multiplied; and a voltage summer configured to sum a signal output from the integrator with a reference voltage to calculate a capacitance control voltage to be applied to the voltage-controlled variable capacitance device.
US11552617B2
A microwave dielectric component (100) comprises a microwave dielectric substrate (101) and a metal layer, the metal layer being bonded to a surface of the microwave dielectric substrate (101). The metal layer comprises a conductive seed layer and a metal thickening layer (105). The conductive seed layer comprises an ion implantation layer (103) implanted into the surface of the microwave dielectric substrate (101) and a plasma deposition layer (104) adhered on the ion implantation layer (103). The metal thickening layer (105) is adhered on the plasma deposition layer (104). A manufacturing method of the microwave dielectric component (100) is further disclosed.
US11552610B2
Superconducting output amplifiers (OAs) including compound direct current-superconducting quantum interference devices (DC-SQUIDs) having both inputs driven by an input signal having the same phase and related methods are described. An example superconducting OA includes: (1) a first compound DC-SQUID having a first DC-SQUID and a second DC-SQUID, and (2) a second compound DC-SQUID having a third DC-SQUID and a fourth DC-SQUID. The superconducting OA includes a first driver configured to receive a single flux quantum (SFQ) pulse train and amplify a first set of SFQ pulses associated with the SFQ pulse train to generate a first signal for driving the first DC-SQUID and the second DC-SQUID. The superconducting OA further includes a second driver configured to receive the SFQ pulse train and amplify a second set of SFQ pulses associated with the SFQ pulse train to generate a second signal for driving the third DC-SQUID and the fourth DC-SQUID.
US11552598B2
Wideband power combiners and splitters are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a power combiner/splitter is implemented with a first coil connecting a first port and a second port, and a second coil connecting a third port and a fourth port. The first coil and the second coil are inductively coupled to one another. For example, the first coil and the second coil can be formed using adjacent conductive layers of a semiconductor chip, an integrated passive device, or a laminate. The power combiner/splitter further includes a fifth port tapping a center of the first coil and a sixth port tapping a center of the second coil. The fifth port and the sixth port serve to connect capacitors and/or other impedance to the center of the coils to thereby provide wideband operation.
US11552596B2
An odd harmonic generation device is provided. The odd harmonic generation device includes an even harmonic generation unit and a mixer. In this context, the even harmonic generation unit is configured to generate two even harmonic signals on the basis of a fundamental signal. In addition to this, the mixer is configured to mix the fundamental signal with the two even harmonic signals to generate a desired odd harmonic signal.
US11552572B2
Embodiments include systems for regulating windings in a power supply. Aspects include a transformer comprising a first primary winding and a first secondary winding, a DC to DC converter, a saturable reactor coupled to an output of the first secondary winding and an input to the DC to DC converter, and a controlled current source coupled to a node between the saturable reactor and the input of the DC to DC converter, wherein the controlled current source is configured to provide a current rate based on an output voltage of the DC to DC converter, wherein a first filter inductor of the DC to DC converter is magnetically coupled to a second filter inductor of a second DC to DC converter.
US11552567B2
A single-inductor multiple output (SIMO) switched-power DC-DC converter for a class-D amplifier provides outputs that are symmetric about a common-mode input voltage of the amplifier, while remaining asymmetric about a return terminal of the amplifier and switching converter. The DC-DC converter includes an inductive element, a switching circuit that energizes the inductive element from an input source, and a control circuit that controls the switching circuit. The control circuit may have multiple switching modes, and in one of the multiple switching modes, the switching circuit may couple the inductive element between outputs of the converter so that stored energy produces a differential change between the voltages of the outputs. The control circuit may implement a first control loop that maintains a common mode voltage of the pair of outputs at a predetermined voltage independent of the individual voltages of the pair of outputs.
US11552564B1
A switched-mode power regulator circuit has four solid-state switches connected in series and a capacitor and an inductor that regulate power delivered to a load. The solid-state switches are operated such that a voltage at the load is regulated by repetitively (1) charging the capacitor causing a current to flow in the inductor and (2) discharging the capacitor causing current to flow in the inductor. The power regulator circuit may be configured to operate with zero current switching at frequencies in the range of 100 MHz, enabling it to be fabricated on a unitary silicon die along with the load that it powers.
US11552563B2
A power converter is disclosed. The power converter is configured to provide a regulated output voltage. The power converter includes a first control loop configured to generate a first voltage based on a rate of change of the regulated output voltage. A second control loop is configured to generate a second voltage based on an output current provided by the power converter. An amplifier is configured to generate a third voltage based on the first and second voltages. A control circuit is configured to control the regulated output voltage based on the third voltage.
US11552561B1
A converter circuit. In one aspect, the converter circuit includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, and first, second, third and fourth capacitors coupled to a plurality of switches, where the plurality of switches are arranged to repetitively cycle the first, second, third and fourth capacitors between a first state and a second state to generate first and a second output voltages, where in the first state, the first and second capacitors are connected in parallel with each other and in series with a third capacitor to apply a first fraction of an input voltage at the first output terminal, and in the second state, the first and second capacitors are connected in series with each other and in parallel with the fourth capacitor to apply a second fraction of the input voltage at the second output terminal.
US11552559B2
A charge pump cell for a charge pump is disclosed that may exhibit improved latch-up immunity. A circuit may be arranged at the charge pump cell to apply a voltage to a bulk contact of a charge transfer transistor of such a charge pump cell at least partially responsive to a relationship between a voltage at a first terminal of the charge transfer transistor and a voltage at a second terminal of the charge transfer transistor. A charge pump including one or more such charge pump cells may include a control loop that is configured to control a pumping signal at least partially responsive to a state of an output voltage of the charge pump.
US11552555B2
In some examples, a circuit includes a state machine. The state machine is configured to operate in a buck state in which the state machine is configured to control a power converter to operate in a buck mode of operation at a first frequency. The state machine is configured to determine that a switch time of the power converter has decreased to within a threshold amount of a minimum switch time for the power converter. The state machine is configured to, responsive to the switch time of the power converter having decreased to within the threshold amount of the minimum switch time for the power converter, transition from the buck state to a reduced frequency buck state in which the state machine is configured to control the power converter to operate in the buck mode of operation at a second frequency that is less than the first frequency.
US11552552B2
A memory system having a non-volatile memory and a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) that has a voltage regulator to apply a voltage on the non-volatile memory during normal operations. During a shutdown process, the PMIC has a bleeder that is activated to reduce the voltage applied on the non-volatile memory to a level that is below a programmable threshold, before allowing the memory system to restart again. During the bleeding operation, a comparator of the PMIC compares the voltage applied to the non-volatile memory and the threshold to determine whether the shutdown process can be terminated for a restart.
US11552544B2
A circuit may be configured detect current in different phases of an N-phase power converter. The circuit may comprise a first set of elements defining at least part of a first current loop associated with a first phase of the power converter, wherein the first set of elements is configured to detect current during the first phase of the power converter. In addition, the circuit may comprise a second set of elements defining at least part of a second current loop associated with a second phase of the power converter, wherein the second set of elements is configured to detect current during the second phase of the power converter when a duty cycle associated with the different phases is greater than 100/N, and wherein the first set of elements is configured to detect current during the second phase of the power converter when the duty cycle is less than 100/N.
US11552539B2
Disclosed within are a structure and method for forming a component for a rotor to be used in an electric machine. The formed rotor components can include a rotor assembly or rotor shaft. The rotor assembly can include a plurality of poles spaced about a rotor core. The plurality of poles can include a pole shoe or pole body. Quasi-laminations that can result in a unitary structure that includes support structures can be used to form all or a portion of the pole shoe or pole body.
US11552536B2
An electric motor and inverter assembly (100) used in an electric vehicle or a hybrid electric vehicle to drive the vehicle's wheels to rotate is disclosed. The electric motor and inverter assembly comprises: an electric motor (300), which includes a housing including a main shell (310), an end cover (320) and a connecting cover (330), wherein a cooling passage is formed in a wall of the housing such that coolant is able to flow in the cooling passage, and an end cover (320) and a connecting cover (330) are respectively connected to opposite ends of the main shell; and an inverter, which includes a housing (210) in which a power element and/or an electrical device is received, wherein the housing of the inverter contacts the connecting cover such that an interface is defined between the connecting cover and the housing of the inverter, and the coolant flowing through the cooling passage is able to contact the interface.
US11552534B2
In order to improve the angle detection accuracy, when an exciting order is 2, a double axial angle is 5, and the number of resolver teeth is 8, an inner diameter deformation order is one of 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9, when the exciting order is 5, the double axial angle is 4, and the number of resolver teeth is 10, the inner diameter deformation order is one of 3, 5, 7, 9 or 10, when the exciting order is 3, the double axial angle is 4, and the number of resolver teeth is 12, the inner diameter deformation order is one of the 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 or 12, and the resolver stator is fixed to the resolver device mounting part by the number of fixing points corresponding to any one of the inner diameter deformation order.
US11552523B2
Electrical generators having one or more conformal support and cooling devices for use in supporting and cooling rotating elements of the generator are disclosed herein. An electrical generator includes a housing, a shaft disposed axially through the housing, a rotor assembly including a plurality of poles that are disposed within the housing and mounted on the shaft, a support wedge disposed between two of the plurality of poles. The conformal support and cooling device includes an internal cooling channel in a helical configuration or a V-shape configuration that extends from a first length-wise end of the support and cooling device to a second length-wise end of the support and cooling device. Additive manufacturing processes are employed to fabricate the conformal support and cooling device.
US11552521B2
A stator for an electric machine includes a generally cylindrical stator core having a plurality of circumferentially-spaced and axially-extending core teeth that define a plurality of circumferentially-spaced and axially-extending core slots in a surface thereof, a main winding having a plurality of coils, each of the coils including a plurality of turns occupying the plurality of slots in the stator core, and a tertiary excitation winding having a plurality of coils, each of the coils including a single turn occupying at least a subset of the plurality of slots in the stator core. The coils of the main winding are unevenly arranged in the plurality of slots.
US11552515B2
A rotor includes a rotor core. A permanent magnet constitutes a first magnetic pole, and a part of the rotor core constitutes a second magnetic pole. In the second magnetic pole, a plurality of slits is symmetrically formed with respect to a magnetic pole center line connecting a pole center of the second magnetic pole and the center axis. On one side of the magnetic pole center line in a circumferential direction about the center axis, the plurality of slits has a first slit closest to the magnetic pole center line and a second slit adjacent to the first slit in the circumferential direction. A minimum distance L1 from the first slit to the outer circumference of the rotor core and a minimum distance L2 from the second slit to the outer circumference of the rotor core satisfy L1
US11552505B1
A wireless power system for an implantable device is described. The system includes multiple inductive charging coils to increase an effective area for receiving an electromagnetic charging field from a wireless charging device. The multiple inductive charging coils produce different alternating current signals in response to receiving the electromagnetic charging field. The system includes a rectifying circuit for rectifying the alternating current signals into direct current signals. The system also includes a current combination circuit for combining the multiple direct current signals into a single direct current for powering an operation of the implantable device. Methods and devices for implementing the power system in an implantable device are also described.
US11552503B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal device and a charging control method. The terminal device includes a receiving coil, a wireless charging module, an inverter circuit and a transmitting coil. The receiving coil is configured to receive a wireless charging signal. The wireless charging module is configured to perform a wireless charging to a battery based on the wireless charging signal received by the receiving coil. The inverter circuit is configured to generate an alternating current signal based on a power supply voltage provided by the battery. The transmitting coil is configured to transmit a wireless charging signal to the outside based on the alternating current signal.
US11552489B2
An electrically operable aerosol-generating system is provided, including a charging device including a primary power source; and an elongated aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having a proximal end, a distal end, and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the charging device having a docking arrangement configured to engage with the elongated aerosol-generating device and to charge the secondary power source by the primary power source, in which a first coupling member disposed on the body of the elongated aerosol-generating device is configured to engage with a second coupling member disposed on a wall of the charging device.
US11552486B2
A portable vehicle-charging system includes a control-pilot circuit configured to generate a plurality of signals, each of the signals having a unique duty cycle that corresponds to a predetermined charging current to be used during a charging event. The system further includes a global positioning system (GPS) module configured to output GPS data indicative of a location of the portable vehicle-charging system. A controller of the system is programmed to receive the GPS data to determine the location of the portable vehicle-charging system, and command the control-pilot circuit to generate the one of the signals corresponding to the location so that the vehicle charges according to a corresponding one of the charging currents that is compatible with a power grid of the location.
US11552481B2
An information processing terminal 100, which is used for after-sales service of an energy storage facility 10 that includes an energy storage unit U including a plurality of energy storage modules M, includes: a display unit 107; and a control unit 101, in which the control unit 101 acquires, from the energy storage facility, a temperature of each of the energy storage modules M after start of operation, the temperature being measured by a temperature sensor 37 provided in each of the energy storage modules M, and in which the control unit 101 displays a temperature distribution of the energy storage unit U on the display unit 107 by a color distribution of display colors of a plurality of blocks B depicting an arrangement of the plurality of energy storage modules M in the energy storage unit U.
US11552463B2
A flange fitted around a round cylindrical condenser core of a bushing is described. The flange comprises an annular lower flange part arranged to fit around a radial shoulder of the condenser core such that a lower shoulder chamfer of the shoulder rests against lower flange chamfer of the lower flange part around the circumference of the condenser core; and an annular upper flange part fastened to the lower flange part and fits around the condenser core above an upper shoulder chamfer of the shoulder. An upper flange chamfer of the upper flange part is between an upper sealing element and a lower sealing element, forming an annular chamfer space is formed between the upper flange chamfer and the upper shoulder chamfer between the upper and lower sealing elements. The flange comprises an injection through hole for a filler material to be injected there through to fill the chamfer space.
US11552462B2
A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at the branching portion.
US11552454B1
Integrated laser sources emitting multi-wavelengths of light with reduced thermal transients and crosstalk and methods for operating thereof are disclosed. The integrated laser sources can include one or more heaters and a temperature control system to maintain a total thermal load of the gain segment, the heater(s), or both of a given laser to be within a range based on a predetermined target value. The system can include electrical circuitry configured to distribute current to the gain segment, the heater(s), or both. The heater(s) can be located proximate to the gain segment, and the distribution of current can be based on the relative locations. In some examples, the central laser can be heated prior to being activated. In some examples, one or more of the plurality of lasers can operate in a subthreshold operation mode when the laser is not lasing to minimize thermal perturbations to proximate lasers.
US11552453B2
A method for the production of a diode laser having a laser bar, wherein a metal layer having raised areas is used which is located between the n-side of the laser bar and the cover. The metal layer can be plastically deformed during installation without volume compression in the solid physical state. As a result the laser module can be reliably installed and a slight deviation (smile value) of the emitters from a centre line is achieved.
US11552449B2
A semiconductor radiation source includes at least one semiconductor chip that generates radiation; and at least one capacitor body, wherein the semiconductor chip and the capacitor body are stacked on top of each other, the semiconductor chip directly electrically connects in a planar manner to the capacitor body, the semiconductor chip is a ridge waveguide laser, and a ridge waveguide of the semiconductor chip is arranged on a side of the semiconductor chip facing away from the capacitor body.
US11552447B2
In various embodiments, laser systems or resonators incorporate two separate cooling loops that may be operated at different cooling temperatures. One cooling loop, which may be operated at a lower temperature, cools beam emitters. The other cooling loop, which may be operated at a higher temperature, cools other mechanical and/or optical components, for example optical elements such as lenses and/or reflectors.
US11552434B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for providing overvoltage protection for circuitry coupled to connector ports, such as USB-C ports. One example circuit for overvoltage protection between a connector port and a signal node corresponding to the connector port generally includes a first switch having a first terminal for coupling to the connector port and having a second terminal for coupling to the signal node; a first resistive element coupled in parallel with the first switch; a first transient protection circuit coupled between the signal node and a reference potential node; and a control circuit having an input coupled to the signal node and having a first output coupled to a control input of the first switch.
US11552433B2
An electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector has a casing, a terminal seat and a conductive plastic element. The terminal seat is mounted in the casing and has an insulator board and a terminal set. The terminal set has a ground terminal and a high-speed signal terminal set. One side of the conductive plastic element is mounted on an inner wall of the casing and another side thereof passes through the insulator board to be close to the high-speed signal terminal set. When the casing is electrically connected to a ground, the conductive plastic element is electrically connected to the ground through the casing. Therefore, the conductive plastic element may eliminate a noise interference caused by the high-speed signal terminal set during high-speed transmission. A crosstalk and a common-mode interference are also reduced to keep the stability of signal transmission of the electrical connector.
US11552415B2
A system is disclosed that is configured to secure a connection between a component and at least one wire, such as an antenna, within a computer. The system includes a retainer configured to move between a first position and a second position. The retainer in the first position is configured to secure a connection between at least one connector of the component and the at least one wire within the computer. The retainer in the second position is configured to permit release of the connection between the at least one connector of the component and the at least one wire within the computer, such as by providing access to the connection.
US11552412B2
An apparatus includes an aperture layer coupled to a polarizer layer. The aperture layer includes an antenna and a filter. A circuit layer is mechanically and thermally coupled to the aperture layer. The antenna includes a square horn antenna made of a polymer material. The filter includes a waveguide filter having a first and a second piece separately molded. The waveguide filter includes a folded-back waveguide coupled to the horn antenna at one end and to the circuit layer at another end.
US11552409B2
A Yagi-Uda monopolar antenna configured to be mounted on the conductive surface of a vehicle, especially an aircraft. The antenna comprises: a radiating element, taking the form of a conductive plate, for example one having the shape of a disc, which plate is equipped with a return conductor; a reflecting element; and at least one directing element taking the form of a monopole that is folded on itself. The various elements are mounted on a substantially planar surface such as the skin of the fuselage of an aircraft. The antenna simultaneously has a wide operating band, a good compactness and a good directivity. It may especially serve as joint antenna for a plurality of air-ground communication systems of an aircraft.
US11552408B2
A base station antenna (BSA) includes a reflector having a main reflector surface thereon, which extends between first and second sidewalls thereof. First and second choke-within-a-choke assemblies are provided on first and second sides of the reflector, respectively. The first choke-within-a-choke assembly includes: a first relatively low-band choke defined on one side thereof by the first sidewall of the reflector, and a first relatively high-band choke contacting on two sides thereof a rear surface of the reflector and an inner surface of the first sidewall. The second choke-within-a-choke assembly includes: a second relatively low-band choke defined on one side thereof by the second sidewall of the reflector, and a second relatively high-band choke contacting on two sides thereof the rear surface of the reflector and an inner surface of the second sidewall.
US11552405B1
A communication terminal may include an array of antenna modules. Each module may include an array of radiators on a substrate and a radio-frequency lens overlapping the array. The lens may include a tapered base on the substrate and a curved portion on the tapered base. The tapered base and curved portions may be rotationally symmetric about a central axis of the lens. The curved portion may be hemispherical. The tapered base portion may be conical and may have a first radius at the hemispherical portion and a second radius that is less than the first radius at the substrate. At least one radiator in the array may be located beyond the first radius and within the second radius from the central axis. The lens may be formed from lattice having interleaved layers of dielectric segments separated by gaps to reduce the overall weight of the module.
US11552404B2
A multibending antenna structure includes a substrate, a microstrip antenna layer, and at least a decouple unit. The microstrip antenna layer is disposed on one side of the substrate. The microstrip antenna layer includes a plurality of radiation units which are respectively formed in a multibending shape and forming a concave area. The radiation units are sequentially connected to form an antenna array, and a plurality of antenna arrays are disposed in a transversely parallel arrangement, with an interval between each two neighboring antenna arrays. The decouple unit is disposed between the neighboring antenna arrays. When the input end of the radiation unit receives a signal input to emit an electromagnetic wave having a radiation energy, the half-power beam width thereof is increased.
US11552403B2
Embodiments herein disclose techniques for apparatuses and methods for making a slot antenna on a PCB with a cutout. A PCB may include a metal layer. The metal layer may include a cavity to be a first radiating element of an antenna, and a slot to be a second radiating element of the antenna. In addition, the cavity may extend to be the cutout of the PCB through other layers of the PCB. The first and second radiating elements may provide a determined transmission frequency for the antenna. The metal layer may further include a portion of a transmission line of the antenna, and the transmission line is in contact with the cavity and the slot. A package may be affixed to the PCB, where a portion of the package may be within the cutout of the PCB. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11552401B2
An antenna system includes a first substrate, a plurality of chips and a waveguide antenna element based beam forming phased array that includes a plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells for millimeter wave communication. Each radiating waveguide antenna cell includes a plurality of pins where a first pin is connected with a body of a corresponding radiating waveguide antenna cell and the body corresponds to ground for the pins. The first pin includes a first and a second current path, the first current path being longer than the second current path. A first end of the radiating waveguide antenna cells is mounted on the first substrate, where the plurality of chips are electrically connected with the plurality of pins and the ground of each of the plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells.
US11552396B2
The present disclosure relates to a phase shifter, which includes: a phase shift circuit board with conductive traces printed thereon; and a phase shift circuit board with conductive traces printed thereon; and a slide device with a first tooth section configured to be driven, wherein movement of the first tooth section drives the slide device to slide on the phase shift circuit board. In addition, the present disclosure further relates to a remote electrical tilt system, which includes an actuator, a transmission mechanism, and at least one phase shifter according to the present disclosure, wherein the actuator is configured to drive the transmission mechanism, and the transmission mechanism engages the first tooth section to drive the slide device to slide on the phase shift circuit board. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a base station antenna which includes the remote electrical tilt system according to the present disclosure. The base station antenna according to the present disclosure may improve the stability of the transmission of the remote electrical tilt system and increase the space utilization of the remote electrical tilt system.
US11552385B2
The present disclosure relates to stripline cavity structures. One example stripline cavity structure is disposed on a back surface of a reflecting plate, and first avoidance holes are provided on the reflecting plate. The stripline cavity structure includes at least one second conductor strip, the stripline cavity structure is disposed on the back surface of the reflecting plate, and the second conductor strip passes through the first avoidance holes to be connected to the first conductor strip in a microstrip circuit.
US11552384B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a ground plane having a perimeter, at least one support positioned within the perimeter of the ground plane and extending outwardly from the ground plane and at least one multi-port antenna supported by the support at a distance from the ground plane. The multi-port antenna has a different radiation pattern associated with each port. The multi-port antenna operates with a first radiation pattern when a first port is used and operates with a second radiation pattern, different to the first radiation pattern, when a second port, different to the first port, is used. The at least one support defines a slot positioned between the multi-port antenna and the ground plane and/or the ground plane defines a slot.
US11552382B2
A radio frequency (RF) loopback substrate or printed circuit board (PCB) which contains receive and transmit antennas located on the bottom of the loopback substrate which are aligned with the complementary transmit and receive antennas on an antenna on package (AOP) device under test. The loopback substrate receive and transmit antennas are coupled to each other. The device under test contacts are driven by a conventional tester, which causes RF circuitry in the integrated circuit to drive an AOP transmit antenna. The corresponding loopback substrate receive antenna receives the RF signal from the AOP transmit antenna and provides it to the loopback substrate transmit antennas. The integrated circuit package AOP receive antennas then receive the RF signals from the loopback substrate transmit antennas. The signals at the integrated circuit package AOP receive antennas are monitored through the integrated circuit contacts to monitor the received RF signals.
US11552379B2
The invention relates to a transition from a stripline to a waveguide, wherein: the stripline, preferably a microstrip line, is located on a substrate; an upper side of the substrate has a metallised surface and the lower side of the substrate has a metal layer, preferably a high-frequency ground-potential layer; the upper side and the lower side are connected to vias; and at least part of the metallised surface on the upper side of the substrate acts as a waveguide wall.
US11552376B2
The present invention provides a single electrode assembly, in which a plurality of negative electrodes and positive electrodes are stacked alternately and repeatedly, and separators are disposed between the plurality of negative electrodes and positive electrodes, the electrode assembly including: a negative electrode tab part formed on one end of the electrode assembly and extending from the plurality of negative electrodes; a positive electrode bus bar spaced apart from the negative electrode tab part on the one end of the electrode assembly and electrically connecting the plurality of the positive electrodes; a positive electrode tab part formed on the other end of the electrode assembly opposite to the one end and extending from the plurality of positive electrodes; and a negative electrode bus bar spaced apart from the positive electrode tab part on the other end of the electrode assembly and electrically connecting the plurality of the negative electrodes.
US11552374B2
The present disclosure provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a stable open-circuit voltage. An electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment includes a belt-like current collector, a mixture layer formed on each surface of the current collector, and a lead bonded to an exposed portion of the current collector where the surfaces of the current collector are exposed, the lead extending from one end of the current collector, the one end and another end constituting both ends of the current collector in the width direction. In an electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment, a mixture layer is formed on at least one surface of a current collector in the width direction of the current collector and adjacent to an exposed portion on one end side.
US11552370B2
In accordance with at least selected embodiments or aspects, the present invention is directed to improved, unique, and/or complex performance lead acid battery separators, such as improved flooded lead acid battery separators, batteries including such separators, methods of production, and/or methods of use. The preferred battery separator of the present invention addresses and optimizes multiple separator properties simultaneously. It is believed that the present invention is the first to recognize the need to address multiple separator properties simultaneously, the first to choose particular multiple separator property combinations, and the first to produce commercially viable multiple property battery separators, especially such a separator having negative cross ribs.
US11552359B2
A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage modules laminated, a conductive plate and a sealing member. The conductive plate and the sealing member are provided between the power storage modules adjacent to each other in a laminating direction of the power storage modules. The plurality of power storage modules each have an electrode laminate, an electrolytic solution, and a sealing body. The electrode laminate has electrode exposed portions exposed from the sealing body at one end and the other end in the laminating direction. Between the power storage modules adjacent to each other in the laminating direction, the conductive plate is disposed between the electrode exposed portions opposing each other to be in contact with the electrode exposed portions, and at least a portion between the sealing bodies opposing each other is filled with the sealing member.
US11552346B2
A battery system includes a can with a lip around an opening. At least an interior surface of the can is anodized and the lip of the can includes a longer and shorter side. The can further includes a flange on the longer side of the lip and a plurality of layers that are inserted into the can. The plurality of layers includes a battery cell and a thermally conducting layer with a fin and the fin has a spring force that pushes the fin towards the anodized interior surface. The battery system further includes a lid that is configured to cover the opening of the can, where the flange is configured to wrap around the lid when the lid covers the opening of the can.
US11552340B2
A battery pack may be configured to power any of a plurality of different outdoor power equipment device types. The battery pack may include one or more rechargeable battery cells configured to power a device to which the battery pack is operably coupled, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may include at least a processor and memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to enable configuration of the device or another device of a same device type as the device based on a set of configuration settings stored in the memory.
US11552336B2
A battery pack includes a cell block including battery cells electrically connected to each other, the cell block having a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides which surround lateral surfaces of the battery cells and are tangent to the lateral surfaces of the battery cells, and a flexible wiring surrounding the cell block in a direction parallel to the pair of long sides of the cell block, the flexible wiring including sensors to detect state information from the battery cells.
US11552334B1
Additives for energy storage devices comprising nitrogen-containing compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, where at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electrolyte composition. Nitrogen-containing compounds may serve as additives to the first electrode, the second electrode, and/or the electrolyte, as well as the separator.
US11552331B2
A solid electrolyte composition includes: an inorganic solid electrolyte (A) having ion conductivity of a metal belonging to Group 1 or Group 2 in the periodic table; a binder (B); and a dispersion medium (C), in which the binder (B) includes a first binder (B1) that precipitates by a centrifugal separation process and a second binder (B2) that does not precipitate by the centrifugal separation process, the centrifugal separation process being performed in the dispersion medium (C) at a temperature of 25° C. at a centrifugal force of 610000 G for 1 hour, and a content X of the first binder (B1) and a content Y of the second binder (B2) satisfy the following expression, 0.01≤Y/(X+Y)<0.10.
US11552319B2
The present disclosure is directed towards the design of electrochemical cells for use in high pressure or high differential pressure operations. The electrochemical cells of the present disclosure have non-circular external pressure boundaries, i.e., the cells have non-circular profiles. In such cells, the internal fluid pressure during operation is balanced by the axial tensile forces developed in the bipolar plates, which prevent the external pressure boundaries of the cells from flexing or deforming. That is, the bipolar plates are configured to function as tension members during operation of the cells. To function as an effective tension member, the thickness of a particular bipolar plate is determined based on the yield strength of the material selected for fabricating the bipolar plate, the internal fluid pressure in the flow structure adjacent to the bipolar plate, and the thickness of the adjacent flow structure.
US11552314B2
To provide a fuel-efficient fuel cell system configured to eliminate flooding in a fuel-based gas flow path, etc. The fuel cell system is a fuel cell system comprising a first fuel cell stack, a second fuel cell stack, a fuel gas supplier, a first supply flow path, a first circulation flow path, a second supply flow path, a second circulation flow path, a first bypass flow path which includes a first on-off valve, a second bypass flow path which includes a second on-off valve, a temperature detector, a current detector, a voltage detector and a controller.
US11552312B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, an anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO), an ATO injector configured to mix a first portion of an anode exhaust from the fuel cell stack with a cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack and to provide a mixture of the first portion of the anode exhaust and the cathode exhaust into the ATO, an anode exhaust conduit which is configured to provide the first portion of the anode exhaust into the ATO injector, and cathode exhaust conduit which is configured to provide at least a portion of the cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the ATO injector. The ATO injector includes injector tubes or injection apertures.
US11552307B2
A gas liquid separator of a fuel cell system includes a first channel forming section forming a first channel for allowing an oxygen-containing exhaust gas to flow in a horizontal direction, and a second channel forming section forming a second channel connected to the first channel. The first channel forming section is provided with an inlet for guiding the oxygen-containing exhaust gas into the first channel. The second channel forming section is provided with an outlet for discharging the oxygen-containing exhaust gas flowing through the second channel. The second channel includes a bent channel for guiding upward the oxygen-containing exhaust gas guided from the first channel.
US11552305B2
An alkaline electrochemical cell has a central cathode having a corresponding cathode current collector electrically connected with a positive terminal of the electrochemical cell. The cathode current collector has a tubular shape, such as a cylindrical shape or rectangular shape, extending parallel with the length of the central cathode. The cathode current collector is embedded within the central cathode, such as at a medial point of a radius of the central cathode, thereby minimizing the distance between the cathode current collector and any portion of the central cathode, thereby increasing the mechanical strength of the cathode and facilitating charge transfer to the cathode current collector.
US11552304B2
An alkaline electrochemical cell has a central cathode having a corresponding cathode current collector electrically connected with a positive terminal of the electrochemical cell. The cathode current collector has a tubular shape, such as a cylindrical shape or rectangular shape, extending parallel with the length of the central cathode. The cathode current collector is embedded within the central cathode, such as at a medial point of a radius of the central cathode, thereby minimizing the distance between the cathode current collector and any portion of the central cathode, thereby increasing the mechanical strength of the cathode and facilitating charge transfer to the cathode current collector.
US11552297B2
Provided is a binder composition for lithium ion secondary battery electrode-use that reduces internal resistance of a lithium ion secondary battery while also providing the lithium ion secondary battery with excellent life characteristics. The binder composition contains a copolymer X and a solvent. The copolymer X is obtained from a monomer composition X that contains at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 75.0 mass % of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid compound (A) composed of either or both of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, and at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 75.0 mass % of a copolymerizable compound (B) that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond and a solubility of at least 7 g in 100 g of water at 20° C. The copolymer X has a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of less than 120 mass %.
US11552294B2
Provided are a nickel-based active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the nickel-based active material, and a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including the nickel-based active material. The nickel-based active material includes at least one secondary particle that includes at least two primary particle structures, the primary particle structures each including a porous inner portion and an outer portion having a radially arranged structure, and the secondary particle including at least two radial centers.
US11552286B2
The present disclosure provides a lithium-ion battery, the lithium-ion battery comprises a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator and an electrolyte. The positive active material comprises a material having a chemical formula of LiaNixCoyMzO2, the negative active material comprises a graphite-type carbon material, the lithium-ion battery satisfies a relationship 58%≤KYa/(KYa+KYc)×100%≤72%. In the present disclosure, by reasonably matching the relationship between the anti-compression capability of the positive active material and the anti-compression capability of the negative active material, it can make the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate both have good surface integrity, and in turn make the lithium-ion battery have excellent dynamics performance and excellent cycle performance at the same time.
US11552283B2
A method of coating a flexible substrate in a roll-to-roll deposition system is described. The method includes unwinding the flexible substrate from an unwinding roll, the flexible substrate having a first coating on a first main side thereof; measuring a lateral positioning of the first coating while guiding the flexible substrate to a coating drum; adjusting a lateral position of the flexible substrate on the coating drum depending on the measured lateral positioning of the first coating; and depositing a second coating on the flexible substrate, particularly on a second main side of the flexible substrate opposite the first main side. Further described is a vacuum deposition apparatus for conducting the methods described herein.
US11552281B2
A method for manufacturing a display device includes providing a panel substrate including a panel area, a peripheral area, and a dummy pattern disposed at a boundary between the panel area and the peripheral area. A protection part is disposed on the panel substrate. A first processing line overlaps a first outline of the panel area extending from a first point of an outline of the panel area. A second processing line overlaps a second outline extending from the first point in a direction different from the first outline are defined. The protection part is partially cut along the first processing line. The protection part is fully cut along the second processing line. The dummy pattern overlaps the first point.
US11552278B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may provide a display device or display surface including at least one emissive layer and a near-infrared (NIR) emissive layer disposed in a stack arrangement between a first electrode and a second electrode, where NIR light is emitted from the NIR emissive layer through the at least one emissive layer, or visible light is emitted from the at least one emissive layer through the NIR emissive layer, and where the NIR light output by the NIR emissive layer has a peak wavelength of 740 nm-1000 nm. Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may provide a near infrared (NIR) light source disposed behind or in front of an active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED), where the NIR light source has an area greater than 25% of an active area of the display device or display surface.
US11552269B2
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a display device. The display substrate of the present disclosure includes a base substrate, a pixel definition layer located on the base substrate, and a first pixel and a second pixel that are adjacent to each other and defined by the pixel definition layer, in which a spacer function layer for blocking hole transport between adjacent pixels is arranged at at least a part of a contact interface between the second hole transport layer in the second pixel and the light function layer in the first pixel. By providing the spacer function layer, the present disclosure effectively prevents the migration of holes between the hole transport layers of adjacent pixels or between the hole transport layer and the light emitting layer, thereby avoiding accompanying light emission between adjacent pixels.
US11552268B2
A solid-state imaging element including: a photoelectric conversion layer, a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to each other with the photoelectric conversion layer interposed therebetween, a semiconductor layer provided between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, an accumulation electrode opposed to the photoelectric conversion layer with the semiconductor layer interposed therebetween, an insulating film provided between the accumulation electrode and the semiconductor layer, and a barrier layer provided between the semiconductor layer and the photoelectric conversion layer.
US11552266B2
The present application relates to an organic electronic device, said electronic device comprising a multi-layer electrode as well as an organic semiconducting layer, as well as to a method for producing such organic electronic device.
US11552262B2
The invention relates to an organic molecule, in particular for use in organic optoelectronic devices. According to the invention, the organic molecule has one first chemical moiety with a structure of formula I, and one second chemical moiety with a structure of formula II, wherein the first chemical moiety is linked to the second chemical moiety via a single bond.
US11552256B2
To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV.
US11552253B2
Provided is a novel compound capable of improving the luminous efficiency, stability and lifespan of a device, an organic electronic device using the same, and an electronic device.
US11552246B2
Memristors, including memristors comprising a Schottky barrier, and related systems and methods are generally described.
US11552234B2
A thermoelectric conversion element includes: a thermoelectric member that is columnar; an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member; and a metal layer formed continuously on an edge surface of the thermoelectric member and an edge surface of the insulator. An edge portion of the thermoelectric member and an edge portion of the insulator define a gap covered with the metal layer. The inner portion of the gap covered with the metal layer is a void.
US11552233B2
A thermionic energy converter, preferably including an anode and a cathode. An anode of a thermionic energy converter, preferably including an n-type semiconductor, one or more supplemental layers, and an electrical contact. A method for work function reduction and/or thermionic energy conversion, preferably including inputting thermal energy to a thermionic energy converter, illuminating an anode of the thermionic energy converter, thereby preferably reducing a work function of the anode, and extracting electrical power from the system.
US11552232B2
Provided is a ultra-small light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly including a base substrate; an electrode line formed on the base substrate, and including a first electrode and a second electrode formed in a line shape to be interdigitated with each other while being spaced apart from each other; and at least one ultra-small LED device connected to the electrode line. A cross section of at least one of the first and second electrodes in a vertical direction has a height variation such that the first and second electrodes easily come in contact with the at least one ultra-small LED device.
US11552227B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing a wiring substrate on which a light emitting element and a frame body surrounding the light emitting element are disposed; forming a support column member in contact with at least one of an inner peripheral surface and a top surface of a corresponding portion of the frame body, an outermost edge of the support column member being positioned at a same position or inwardly of an outermost edge of the frame body in a top plan view; and forming a light-transmissive member at least partially in contact with the frame body and the support column member with at least a part of the light-transmissive member being positioned above the frame body and the support column member.
US11552217B2
A semiconductor device is provided, which includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure and a light-emitting structure. The light-emitting structure is located between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The light-emitting structure includes a multiple quantum well structure. The multiple quantum well structure contains aluminum and includes a plurality of semiconductor stacks. Each of the semiconductor stacks is stacked by a well layer and a barrier layer. In each semiconductor stack, the well layer has a thickness larger than a thickness of the barrier layer.
US11552215B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes: forming a first electrode on a substrate; forming an insulating layer on the substrate and on the first electrode; providing light emitting elements in the insulating layer, each of the light emitting elements having a long axis and a short axis crossing the long axis and being configured to emit light; aligning the light emitting elements such that one end of each of the light emitting elements faces the substrate and the long axis of each of the light emitting elements is arranged in a direction from the substrate toward the insulating layer; patterning the insulating layer to form an insulating pattern exposing another end of each of the light emitting elements; and forming a second electrode electrically connected to the exposed other end of each of the light emitting elements.
US11552207B2
Photovoltaic (PV) cell structures are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a PV cell includes an emitter layer, a base layer adjacent to the emitter layer, and a back surface field (BSF) layer adjacent to the base layer. The BSF layer includes a first layer, and a second layer adjacent to the first layer. The first layer includes a first material and the second layer includes a second material different than the first material.
US11552203B2
A PCSS comprises a photoconductive semiconductor block that exhibits electrically-conductive behavior when exposed to light of a predetermined wavelength; two or more electrodes fixed to the photoconductive semiconductor block and connectable to a power supply; a resonance cavity enveloping the photoconductive semiconductor block, the resonance cavity having a reflective outer surface to trap light within the resonance cavity and the photoconductive semiconductor block, the resonance cavity having a window through the reflective outer surface to admit light of the predetermined wavelength, the resonance cavity being transmissive to light of the predetermined wavelength within the reflective outer surface; and a light source directed toward the photoconductive semiconductor block and through the window, and emitting light at the predetermined wavelength. The photoconductive semiconductor block may include Si, GaAs, GaN, AlN, SiC, and/or Ga2O3. The resonance cavity may include glass, crystal, Au, Ag, Cr, Ni, V, Pd, Pt, Ir, Rh, and/or Al.
US11552201B2
Disclosed is an optical package assembly. The optical package assembly includes a substrate (100), a light sensor chip (200), and a protection portion. The protection portion and the light sensor chip (200) both are fixed to the substrate (100), the light sensor chip (200) is packaged in the protection portion, a plane on which the light sensor chip (200) is located intersects with a plane of the substrate (100), and the protection portion includes a light entering region. Further disclosed is a mobile terminal.
US11552197B2
Nanowire structures having non-discrete source and drain regions are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a plurality of vertically stacked nanowires disposed above a substrate. Each of the nanowires includes a discrete channel region disposed in the nanowire. A gate electrode stack surrounds the plurality of vertically stacked nanowires. A pair of non-discrete source and drain regions is disposed on either side of, and adjoining, the discrete channel regions of the plurality of vertically stacked nanowires.
US11552190B2
A modified structure of an n-channel lateral double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor is provided to suppress the rupturing of the gate-oxide which can occur during the operation of the LDMOS transistor. The LDMOS transistor comprises a dielectric isolation structure which physically isolates the region comprising a parasitic NPN transistor from the region generating a hole current due to weak-impact ionization, e.g., the extended drain region of the LDMOS transistor. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, this can be achieved using a vertical trench between the two regions. Further embodiments are also proposed to enable a reduction in the gain of the parasitic NPN transistor and in the backgate resistance in order to further improve the robustness of the LDMOS transistor.
US11552185B2
There is provided a semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate including a drift region of a first conductivity type; an emitter region of the first conductivity type provided above the drift region inside the semiconductor substrate and having a doping concentration higher than the drift region; a base region of a second conductivity type provided between the emitter region and the drift region inside the semiconductor substrate; a first accumulation region of the first conductivity type provided between the base region and the drift region inside the semiconductor substrate and having a doping concentration higher than the drift region; a plurality of trench portions provided to pass through the emitter region, the base region and first accumulation region from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, and provided with a conductive portion inside; and a capacitance addition portion provided below the first accumulation region to add a gate-collector capacitance thereto.
US11552183B2
A method to fabricate a transistor includes implanting dopants into a semiconductor to form a drift layer having majority carriers of a first type; etching a trench into the semiconductor; thermally growing an oxide liner into and on the trench and the drift layer; depositing an oxide onto the oxide liner on the trench to form a shallow trench isolation region; implanting dopants into the semiconductor to form a drain region in contact with the drift layer and having majority carriers of the first type; implanting dopants into the semiconductor to form a body region having majority carriers of a second type; forming a gate oxide over a portion of the drift layer and the body region; forming a gate over the gate oxide; and implanting dopants into the body region to form a source region having majority carriers of the first type.
US11552182B2
Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may include forming a dummy channel region and an active region of a substrate, forming a bottom source/drain region on the active region, forming a gate electrode on one of opposing side surfaces of the dummy channel region, and forming first and second spacers on the opposing side surfaces of the dummy channel region, respectively. The gate electrode may include a first portion on the one of the opposing side surfaces of the dummy channel region and a second portion between the bottom source/drain region and the first spacer. The methods may also include forming a bottom source/drain contact by replacing the first portion of the gate electrode with a conductive material. The bottom source/drain contact may electrically connect the second portion of the gate electrode to the bottom source/drain region.
US11552181B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a fin-shaped structure on a substrate, forming a gate material layer on the fin-shaped structure, performing an etching process to pattern the gate material layer for forming a gate structure and a silicon residue, performing an ashing process on the silicon residue, and then performing a cleaning process to transform the silicon residue into a polymer stop layer on a top surface and sidewalls of the fin-shaped structure.
US11552177B2
Metal gate stacks and integrated methods of forming metal gate stacks are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise NbN as a PMOS work function material at a thickness in a range of greater than or equal to 5 Å to less than or equal to 50 Å. The PMOS work function material comprising NbN has an effective work function of greater than or equal to 4.75 eV. Some embodiments comprise HfO2 as a high-κ metal oxide layer. Some embodiments provide improved PMOS bandedge performance evidenced by improved flatband voltage. Some embodiments exclude transition metal niobium nitride materials as work function materials.
US11552176B2
An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active area that extends on a substrate in a first direction, a gate structure that extends on the substrate in a second direction and crosses the fin-type active area, source/drain areas arranged on first and second sides of the gate structure, and a contact structure electrically connected to the source/drain areas. The source/drain areas comprise a plurality of merged source/drain structures. Each source/drain area comprises a plurality of first points respectively located on an upper surface of the source/drain area at a center of each source/drain structure, and each source/drain area comprises at least one second point respectively located on the upper surface of the source/drain area where side surfaces of adjacent source/drain structures merge with one another. A bottom surface of the contact structure is non-uniform and corresponds to the first and second points.
US11552173B2
A silicon carbide device includes a stripe-shaped trench gate structure extending from a first surface into a silicon carbide body. The gate structure has a gate length along a lateral first direction. A bottom surface and an active first gate sidewall of the gate structure are connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure. The silicon carbide device further includes at least one source region of a first conductivity type. A shielding region of a second conductivity type is in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length.
US11552171B2
A substrate structure and a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure including the substrate structure are provided. The substrate structure includes a substrate, a bow adjustment layer, and a silicon layer. The bow adjustment layer is on the top surface of the substrate. The silicon layer is on the bow adjustment layer. The substrate structure has a total bow value, and the total vow value is from −20 μm to −40 μm.
US11552163B2
What is disclosed is structures and methods to integrate microdevices into system or receiver substrates. The integration of microdevices is facilitated by adding staging pads to microdevices before or after transferring. Creating stages after the transfer of a first microdevice to a substrate for the subsequent microdevice transfer to the first (or the second) microdevice transfer. The stage improves the surface profile of the substrate so that next microdevice can be transferred without the first microdevice on the substrate get damaged by or interfere with the surface of the donor or transfer head. Some embodiments further relate to tiled display device and more particularly, to stacking tiles to a backplane to form the tiled display device.
US11552162B2
In a transparent display panel, a layer of each of a VSS voltage connection line and a VDD voltage connection line as a power line in a display region is different from a layer of a data line and a reference voltage connection line, while each of the VSS voltage connection line and the VDD voltage connection line partially overlaps the data line and the reference voltage connection line. Thus, an overall width of a line region may be reduced. Thus, an area of a pixel circuit region is reduced, such that an area of a transmissive region increases, thereby to increase an overall transmittance of the panel. Further, a width of each of the VSS voltage connection line and the VDD voltage connection line is large while reducing or minimizing an area of the line region in the display region. This reduces or minimizes occurrence of VDD drop or VSS rise, thereby to reduce luminance non-uniformity of the panel.
US11552156B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a gate insulation layer, a gate layer, an interlayer insulation layer, and data lines, wherein the semiconductor layer is directly below the data lines.
US11552143B1
Embodiments described herein generally relate to sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes substrate, pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures disposed over the section of the substrate, inorganic or metal overhang structures disposed on an upper surface of the PDL structures, and a plurality of sub-pixels. The PDL structures include a trench disposed in the top surface of the PDL structure. Each sub-pixel includes an anode, an OLED material disposed over and in contact with the anode, and a cathode disposed over the OLED material. The inorganic or metal overhang structures have an overhang extension that extends laterally over the trench. An encapsulation layer is disposed over the cathode and extends under at least a portion of the inorganic or metal overhang structures and along a top surface of the PDL structures.
US11552140B2
A top emission organic EL element includes a substrate, an insulating layer including a hole portion, a lower electrode, a light emitting layer, a bank surrounding the lower electrode and the light emitting layer, and an upper transparent electrode. The insulating layer, the lower electrode, the light emitting layer, the bank, and the upper transparent electrode are disposed above the substrate. The bank is arranged on the insulating layer so as to surround the hole portion. The lower electrode is configured to cover an inner side of the hole portion and an area, where the bank is not arranged, of an upper surface of the insulating layer, and a thickness at a center area of the lower electrode is 150 nm or more.
US11552133B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device including a display and a camera. The electronic device may include a camera overlapping the display and configured to photograph external light passing through the display, wherein the display may include: a colorless and transparent substrate, a pixel layer disposed in a first direction from the substrate and comprising organic light-emitting diode (OLED) type pixels, an organic encapsulation layer (e.g., thin film encapsulation (TFE)) disposed in the first direction from the pixel layer, and a color filter layer disposed in the first direction from the organic encapsulation layer, wherein the display may include: a first area overlapping at least a portion of the camera and a second area not overlapping the camera, wherein an arrangement density of a first group of pixels in the first area may be lower than an arrangement density of a second group of pixels in the second area, and wherein the color filter layer may include first color filters overlapping the pixels of the first group, second color filters overlapping the pixels of the second group, a black matrix disposed between the second color filters in the second area, and a transmission area disposed between the first color filters in the first area.
US11552130B2
A display device includes a first subpixel including a light-emitting layer of a first color, a second subpixel adjacent to the first subpixel in a row direction or a column direction, the second subpixel including a light-emitting layer of a second color, and a third subpixel adjacent to the first subpixel and the second subpixel in a diagonal direction, the third subpixel including a light-emitting layer of a third color, wherein the first subpixel to the third subpixel include light-emitting regions that are geometrically similar to one another, the light-emitting regions of two of the first subpixel to the third subpixel are in the same size, and a light-emitting region of remaining one of the first subpixel to the third subpixel is larger than the light-emitting regions of the two of the first subpixel to the third subpixel.
US11552125B2
A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device, including the steps of: a) providing an active diode stack comprising a first doped semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a second doped semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, coating the upper surface of the first layer; b) arranging a third semiconductor layer on the upper surface of the active stack; c) after step b), forming at least one MOS transistor inside and on top of the third semiconductor layer; and d) after step b), before or after step c), forming trenches vertically extending from the upper surface of the third layer and emerging into or onto the upper surface of the first layer and delimiting a plurality of pixels, each including a diode and an elementary diode control cell.
US11552123B2
A front-side type image sensor may include a substrate successively including: a P− type doped semiconducting support substrate, an electrically insulating layer and a semiconducting active layer, and a matrix array of photodiodes in the active layer of the substrate. The substrate may include, between the support substrate and the electrically insulating layer, a P+ type doped semiconducting epitaxial layer.
US11552113B2
A moiré pattern imaging device includes a light-transmitting film and an optical sensor. The light-transmitting film includes a plurality of microlenses, and a light-incident surface and a light-exit surface opposite to each other. The plurality of microlenses are disposed on the light-incident surface, the light-exit surface or a combination thereof, and the plurality of microlenses are arranged in two dimensions to form a microlens array. The optical sensor includes a photosurface. The photosurface faces the light-exit surface of the light-transmitting film, the photosurface is provided with a plurality of pixels, and the plurality of pixels are arranged in two dimensions to form a pixel array. The microlens array and the pixel array correspondingly form a moiré pattern effect to produce an imaging magnification effect, and the photosurface of the optical sensor senses light and forms a moiré pattern magnification image.
US11552110B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes first semiconductor layers crossing a first scanning line in a non-display area, the first semiconductor layers being a in number, second semiconductor layers crossing a second scanning line in the non-display area, the second semiconductor layers being b in number, and an insulating film disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers and the first and second scanning lines, wherein a and b are integers greater than or equal to 2, and a is different from b, and the first and second semiconductor layers are both entirely covered with the insulating film.
US11552107B2
Provided is a display device with extremely high resolution, a display device with higher display quality, a display device with improved viewing angle characteristics, or a flexible display device. Same-color subpixels are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a predetermined direction. In other words, when attention is paid to a subpixel, another two subpixels exhibiting the same color as the subpixel are preferably located upper right and lower right or upper left and lower left. Each pixel includes three subpixels arranged in an L shape. In addition, two pixels are combined so that pixel units including subpixel are arranged in matrix of 3×2.
US11552106B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A patterned metal member of the array substrate includes a patterned first metal layer, a patterned second metal layer, and a patterned copper layer which are sequentially disposed on a substrate. An etching rate at which an etching solution etches the second metal layer is less than another etching rate at which the etching solution etches the first metal layer. An adhesion force between the patterned first metal layer and the substrate is greater than another adhesion force between the patterned copper layer and the substrate.
US11552103B2
A method of forming a ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) device includes: forming a first layer stack and a second layer stack successively over a substrate, where the first layer stack and the second layer stack have a same layered structure that includes a layer of a first electrically conductive material over a layer of a first dielectric material, where the first layer stack extends beyond lateral extents of the second layer stack; forming a trench that extends through the first layer stack and the second layer stack; lining sidewalls and a bottom of the trench with a ferroelectric material; conformally forming a channel material in the trench over the ferroelectric material; filling the trench with a second dielectric material; forming a first opening and a second opening in the second dielectric material; and filling the first opening and the second opening with a second electrically conductive material.
US11552102B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming holes passing through a stacked structure, surrounding channel structures, and replacing some of the materials of the stacked structure through the holes.
US11552099B2
A vertical-type nonvolatile memory device including: a substrate including a cell array area and an extension area, the extension area extending in a first direction from the cell array area and including contacts; a channel structure extending in a vertical direction from the substrate; a first stack structure including gate electrode layers and interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked along sidewalls of the channel structure; a plurality of division areas extending in the first direction and dividing the cell array area and the extension area in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; in the extension area, two insulating layer dams are arranged between two division areas adjacent to each other; a second stack structure including sacrificial layers and interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked on the substrate between the two insulating layer dams; and an electrode pad connected to a first gate electrode layer in the extension area.
US11552089B2
Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The 3D memory device also includes a memory stack including interleaved conductive layers and dielectric layers at the first side of the substrate. The 3D memory device also includes a plurality of channel structures each extending vertically through the memory stack. The 3D memory device also includes a first insulating structure extending vertically through the memory stack and extending laterally to separate the plurality of channel structures into a plurality of blocks. The 3D memory device further includes a first doped region in the substrate and in contact with the first insulating structure. The 3D memory device further includes a first contact extending vertically from the second side of the substrate to be in contact with the first doped region.
US11552085B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one memory cell and at least one logic cell. The at least one logic cell is disposed next to the at least one memory cell and includes a plurality of fins. The plurality of fins are separated into a plurality of fin groups for forming transistors. A distance between two adjacent groups of the plurality of fin groups is different from a distance between another two adjacent groups of the plurality of fin groups. A method is also disclosed herein.
US11552074B2
A package structure and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes bonding a first die and a second die to a wafer in a first die region of the wafer hybrid bonding; bonding a first dummy structure to the wafer in the first die region and a first scribe line of the wafer; and singulating the wafer and the first dummy structure along the first scribe line to form a stacked integrated circuit (IC) structure.
US11552071B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include one or more semiconductor electrostatic discharge protection devices. At least one embodiment includes a semiconductor electrostatic discharge device with one or more fingers divided into two segments with alternating p-diffusion and n-diffusion regions, with each region being associated with at least one of a portion of a diode and/or silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR).
US11552054B2
A package structure includes a semiconductor device, a circuit substrate and a heat dissipating lid. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die. The circuit substrate is bonded to and electrically coupled to the semiconductor device. The heat dissipating lid is bonded to the circuit substrate and thermally coupled to the semiconductor device, where the semiconductor device is located in a space confined by the heat dissipating lid and the circuit substrate. The heat dissipating lid includes a cover portion and a flange portion bonded to a periphery of the cover portion. The cover portion has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, where the cover portion includes a recess therein, the recess has an opening at the second surface, and a thickness of the recess is less than a thickness of the cover portion, where the recess is part of the space.
US11552052B2
A semiconductor device includes a first metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor on a first substrate, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the first MOS transistor, a second substrate on the first ILD layer, and a second MOS transistor on a second substrate. Preferably, the semiconductor device includes a static random access memory (SRAM) and the SRAM includes a first pull-up device, a second pull-up device, a first pull-down device, a second pull-down device, a first pass-gate device, a second pass-gate device, a read port pull-down device, and a read port pass-gate device, in which the read port pull-down device includes the first MOS transistor and the read port pass-gate device includes the second MOS transistor.
US11552036B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer formed from a strained silicon epitaxial layer, in which a lattice constant is greater than 5.461 at a temperature of 300K. The first mold compound resides over the active layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die.
US11552033B2
A semiconductor package includes a first connection structure, a first semiconductor chip on an upper surface of the first connection structure, a first molding layer on the upper surface of the first connection structure and surrounding the first semiconductor chip, a first bond pad on the first semiconductor chip, a first bond insulation layer on the first semiconductor chip and the first molding layer and surrounding the first bond pad, a second bond pad directly contacting the first bond pad, a second bond insulation layer surrounding the second bond pad; and a second semiconductor chip on the second bond pad and the second bond insulation layer.
US11552031B2
A bonding apparatus includes a bond head structure, an optical unit and an actuator unit. The bond head structure includes a bond head collet, a connecting unit to which the bond head collet is attached and a look-through passage extending through the bond head collet and the connecting unit along a central axis of the bond head structure. In use, the bond head collet holds an electrical component to be bonded to a bonding area of a base member and the optical unit is positioned relative to the bond head structure to view and inspect the electrical component through the look-through passage of the bond head structure. The actuator unit moves the connecting unit of the bond head structure based on the inspection of the electrical component by the optical unit, to align the electrical component with the bonding area of the base member.
US11552027B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a semiconductor packaging device including a shield structure configured to block magnetic and/or electric fields from a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first and second electronic components may, for example, be inductors or some other suitable electronic components. In some embodiments, a first IC chip overlies a second IC chip. The first IC chip includes a first substrate and a first interconnect structure overlying the first substrate. The second IC chip includes a second substrate and a second interconnect structure overlying the second substrate. The first and second electronic components are respectively in the first and second interconnect structures. The shield structure is directly between the first and second electronic components. Further, the shield structure substantially covers the second electronic component and/or would substantially cover the first electronic component if the semiconductor packaging device was flipped vertically.
US11552015B2
A substrate that includes a core layer comprising a first surface and a second surface, a plurality of core interconnects located in the core layer, a high-density interconnect portion located in the core layer, a first dielectric layer coupled to the first surface of the core layer, a first plurality of interconnects located in the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer coupled to the second surface of the core layer, and a second plurality of interconnects located in the second dielectric layer. The high-density interconnect portion includes a first redistribution dielectric layer and a first plurality of high-density interconnects located in the first redistribution dielectric layer. The high-density interconnect portion may provide high-density interconnects.
US11552014B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a chip, a conductive pillar, a dielectric layer, a first patterned conductive layer and a second patterned conductive layer. The chip has a first side with at least a first metal electrode pad and a second side with at least a second metal electrode pad. The conductive pillar, which has a first end and a second end, is disposed adjacent to the chip. The axis direction of the conductive pillar is parallel to the height direction of the chip. The dielectric layer covers the chip and the conductive pillar and exposes the first and second metal electrode pads of the chip and the first and second ends of the conductive pillar. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected between the second metal electrode pad and the second end of the conductive pillar. The second patterned conductive layer is disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected between the first metal electrode pad and the first end of the conductive pillar.
US11552003B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die.
US11551997B2
A thermal interface material may be formed comprising a polymer material and a self-healing constituent. The thermal interface material may be used in an integrated circuit assembly between at least one integrated and a heat dissipation device, wherein the self-healing constituent changes the physical properties of the thermal interface material in response to thermo-mechanical stresses to prevent failure modes from occurring during the operation of the integrated circuit assembly.
US11551992B2
A device includes plural semiconductor fins, a gate structure, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, and an isolation dielectric. The gate structure is across the semiconductor fins. The ILD surrounds the gate structure. The isolation dielectric is at least between the semiconductor fins and has a thermal conductivity greater than a thermal conductivity of the ILD layer.
US11551983B2
A semiconductor device includes: a case having an opening; a semiconductor element contained in the case; a control substrate which is disposed above the semiconductor element in the case and on which a control circuit to control the semiconductor element is disposed; a lid to cover the opening of the case; and a control terminal having one end portion connected to the control circuit disposed on the control substrate and the other end portion protruding out of the case. The control terminal has a bend in the case, and a side portion of the case or the lid is provided with a support capable of supporting the bend.
US11551980B2
A dynamic misregistration measurement amelioration method including taking at least one misregistration measurement at multiple sites on a first semiconductor device wafer, which is selected from a batch of semiconductor device wafers intended to be identical, analyzing each of the misregistration measurements, using data from the analysis of each of the misregistration measurements to determine ameliorated misregistration measurement parameters at each one of the multiple sites, thereafter ameliorating misregistration metrology tool setup for ameliorated misregistration measurement at the each one of the multiple sites, thereby generating an ameliorated misregistration metrology tool setup and thereafter measuring misregistration at multiple sites on a second semiconductor device wafer, which is selected from the batch of semiconductor device wafers intended to be identical, using the ameliorated misregistration metrology tool setup.
US11551979B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes etching trenches in a semiconductor substrate to form a semiconductor fin between the trenches; converting sidewalls of the semiconductor fin into hydrogen-terminated surfaces each having silicon-to-hydrogen (S—H) bonds; after converting the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin into the hydrogen-terminated surfaces, depositing a dielectric material overfilling the trenches; and etching back the dielectric material to fall below a top surface of the semiconductor fin.
US11551976B2
A method includes transferring a layer onto a flexible substrate, the layer being located in a stack on the front face of the substrate. The substrate includes at least one supplementary stack interposed between the stack and the bulk layer of the substrate. This supplementary stack includes at least two layers with thicknesses decreasing in the direction of the front face. The method makes provision, after bonding the flexible substrate on the front face, for successively and gradually removing the various layers of the substrate. Such gradualness makes it possible to transfer a thin layer of silicon, with a thickness of less than 50 nm, onto a flexible substrate.
US11551974B2
A manufacturing process of an element chip comprises a preparing step for preparing a substrate having first and second sides opposed to each other, the substrate containing a semiconductor layer, a wiring layer and a resin layer formed on the first side, and the substrate including a plurality of dicing regions and element regions defined by the dicing regions. Also, the manufacturing process comprises a laser grooving step for irradiating a laser beam onto the dicing regions to form grooves so as to expose the semiconductor layer along the dicing regions. Further, the manufacturing process comprises a dicing step for plasma-etching the semiconductor layer along the dicing regions through the second side to divide the substrate into a plurality of the element chips. The laser grooving step includes a melting step for melting a surface of the semiconductor layer exposed along the dicing regions.
US11551965B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide a process kit for an electrostatic chuck. In one implementation, a substrate support assembly is provided. The substrate support assembly includes an electrostatic chuck having a first recess formed in an upper portion of the electrostatic chuck. A process kit surrounds the electrostatic chuck. The process kit includes an inner ring and an outer ring disposed radially outward of the inner ring. The outer ring includes a second recess formed in an upper portion of the upper ring. The inner ring is positioned within and is supported by the first recess and the second recess. An upper surface of the inner ring and an upper surface of the outer ring are co-planar.
US11551962B2
A ceramic substrate made of a dielectric material including silicon carbide particles, which is used as a forming material, in which the number of the silicon carbide particles per unit area on the surface of the substrate is smaller than the number of the silicon carbide particles per unit area in a cross section of the substrate.
US11551959B2
A system and an operating method for automated wafer carrier handling are provided. The system includes a storage rack including a standby position and a storage position separated from each other, a first and second moving mechanism, and a controller operatively coupled to the first and second moving mechanism to control operations of the first and second moving mechanism. The storage position is for buffering a wafer carrier awaiting transfer to a load port. The first moving mechanism is movably coupled to the storage rack and provides at least one degree of freedom of movement to transfer the wafer carrier from the storage position to the standby position. The second moving mechanism is disposed over the storage rack, operatively coupled the storage rack to the load port, and provides at least one degree of freedom of movement to transfer the wafer carrier from the standby position to the load port.
US11551958B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a first loading tray configured to couple to a first wafer holding device holding a plurality of wafers. The first wafer holding device includes a first opening. The apparatus includes a second loading tray configured to couple to a second wafer holding device. The second wafer holding device includes a second opening. The apparatus includes a first motor coupled to the first loading tray and configured to rotate the first wafer holding device until the first opening faces the second opening to allow transfer of the plurality of wafers from the first wafer holding device to the second wafer holding device.
US11551954B2
An advanced process control system including a first process tool, a second process tool, and a measurement tool is provided. The first processing tool is configured to process each of a plurality of wafers by one of a plurality of first masks, and provide a first process timing data. The second processing tool is configured to process the wafer processing by the first process tool by one of a plurality of second masks to provide a plurality of works. The second process tool provides a measurement trigger signal according to the first process timing data. The measuring tool is configured to determine whether to perform a measuring operation on each works in response to the measurement trigger signal, and correspondingly provide a measurement result.
US11551951B2
A method for controlling a temperature of a substrate support assembly is provided. A first direct current (DC) power is supplied to a heating element embedded in a zone of the substrate support assembly included in a processing chamber. A voltage is measured across the heating element. Similarly, a current is measured through the heating element. A temperature of the zone of the substrate support assembly is determined based on the voltage across the heating element and the current through the heating element. A temperature difference between the determined temperature of the zone and a target temperature for the zone is determined. A second DC power to deliver to the heating element is determined to achieve the target temperature based at least in part on the temperature difference. The second DC power is supplied to the heating element to cause the temperature of the zone to be modified to the target temperature.
US11551942B2
Methods and apparatus for removing substrate contamination are provided herein. In some embodiments, a multi-chamber processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber for processing a substrate; a factory interface (FI) coupled to the processing chamber via a load lock chamber disposed therebetween; and a cleaning chamber coupled to the FI and configured to rinse and to dry the substrate, wherein the cleaning chamber includes a chamber body defining an interior volume and having a first opening at an interface with the FI for transferring the substrate into and out of the interior volume.
US11551923B2
A Taiko wafer ring cut process method is provided. The Taiko wafer ring cut process method includes the following steps. A Taiko wafer is disposed on the platform. The Taiko wafer is performing by laser ring cutting so that a Taiko ring and an edge portion of the Taiko wafer are separated from a wafer portion of the Taiko wafer. The wafer portion of the Taiko wafer is adhered to a frame.
US11551917B2
One or more embodiments described herein relate to abatement systems for reducing Br2 and Cl2 in semiconductor processes. In embodiments described herein, semiconductor etch processes are performed within process chambers. Thereafter, fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-GHGs), HBr, and Cl2 gases exit the process chamber and enter a plasma reactor. Reagent gases are delivered from a reagent gas delivery apparatus to the plasma reactor to mix with the process gases. Radio frequency (RF) power is applied to the plasma reactor, which adds energy and “excites” the gases within the process chamber. When HBr is energized, it forms Br2. Br2 and Cl2 are corrosive and toxic. However, the addition of H2O in the plasma reactor quenches the Br2 and Cl2 emissions, as the H atoms recombine with the Br atoms and the Cl atoms to form HBr and HCl. HBr and HCl are readily water-soluble and removed through a wet scrubber.
US11551915B2
Provided are a method of manufacturing a ring-shaped member and the ring-shaped member. A method of manufacturing a ring-shaped member to be placed in a process chamber of a substrate processing apparatus includes arranging one silicon member and another silicon member to cause one abutting surface of the one silicon member and another abutting surface of the other silicon member to abut on each other, heating the one abutting surface and the other abutting surface through optical heating to melt silicon on a surface of the one abutting surface and silicon on a surface of the other abutting surface such that silicon melt is caused to flow into a gap between the one abutting surface and the other abutting surface, and cooling the one abutting surface and the other abutting surface to crystallize the silicon melt forming a silicon adhesion part.
US11551914B2
There is provided a plasma generating device that includes a first electrode connected to a high-frequency power supply, and a second electrode to be grounded, a buffer structure configured to form a buffer chamber that accommodates the first and second electrodes wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are alternately arranged such that a number of electrodes of the first electrode and the second electrode are in an odd number of three or more in total, and wherein the second electrode is used in common for two of the first electrode being respectively adjacent to the second electrode used in common, and wherein a gas supply port that supplies gas into a process chamber is installed on a wall surface of the buffer structure.
US11551906B1
Electron beam modulation in response to optical pump pulses applied to a sample is measured using SPAD elements. Individual detection events are used to form histograms of numbers of events in time bins associated with pump pulse timing. The histograms can be produced at a SPAD array, simplifying data transfer. In some examples, two SPAD arrays are stacked and a coincidence circuit discriminates signal events from noise events by determining corresponding events are detected within a predetermined time window.
US11551901B2
The invention relates to a surge protection device ensemble comprising a surge protection device having an overvoltage protection means in a first housing, wherein the first housing has at least two connections for contacting the overvoltage protection means, characterized in that the surge protection device ensemble also has a fuse module having a fuse in a second housing, wherein the second housing has at least two connections for contacting the fuse, characterized in that the second housing having one of the connections of the fuse module is inserted in a form-fitting manner into one connection of the at least two connections of the surge protection device, wherein the fuse module provides an electrical connection on the inserted side between the fuse module and the surge protection device.
US11551899B2
A circuit breaker comprises a solid-state bidirectional switch, a switch control circuit, current and voltage sensors, and a processor. The solid-state bidirectional switch is connected between a line input terminal and a load output terminal of the circuit breaker, and configured to be placed in a switched-on state and a switched-off state. The switch control circuit control operation of the bidirectional switch. The current sensor is configured to sense a magnitude of current flowing in an electrical path between the line input and load output terminals and generate a current sense signal. The voltage sensor is configured to sense a magnitude of voltage on the electrical path and generate a voltage sense signal. The processor is configured to process the current and voltage sense signals to determine operational status information of the circuit breaker, a fault event, and power usage information of a load connected to the load output terminal.
US11551892B2
A switch assembly according to an example of this disclosure includes a disk rotatable about a disk axis in a first circumferential direction and a second circumferential direction opposite the first circumferential direction. A U-shaped spring is fixed to the disk. Rotation of the disk in the first circumferential direction moves the disk in a first axial direction, and rotation of the disk in the second circumferential direction moves the disk in the first axial direction.
US11551889B2
A key switch is provided, which includes a base, a cap, a first linkage rod, a second linkage rod, an elastic contraction element, at least one activate member and a thin film circuit unit. The base includes a plurality of first connection portions and a plurality of second connection portions. The first linkage rod is movably connected to the first connection portions and the cap. The second linkage rod is movably connected to the second connection portions and the cap. One end of the elastic contraction element is connected to the first linkage rod, and the other end thereof is connected to the second linkage rod. The activate member is disposed on one of the first linkage rod, the second linkage rod and the cap. The thin film circuit unit includes an activate portion.
US11551886B2
An enhanced push-button includes a keycap disposed on an elastic member and having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, and a reinforcing member mounted on the bottom surface of the keycap and having an outer surface facing the elastic member and an abutting portion located on the outer surface. The abutting portion has a contact surface recessed on the outer surface. The elastic member extends into the abutting portion such that the contact surface is abutted against the elastic member for allowing the keycap to be pressed with the reinforcing member against the elastic member to trigger a circuit switch. The invention can have better overall structural rigidity and operating feel and can maintain the pressing quality of the push-button and is suitable for low profile keyboards.
US11551883B2
Axis orientation compensation is provided in a system in which movement of a controlling device is used to control navigational functions of a target appliance by determining which one of plural sides of the controlling device is an active side of the controlling device and by causing navigational functions of the target appliance made relative to at least one of an X, Y, and Z axis of the target appliance to be dynamically aligned with movements of the controlling device made relative to at least one of an A, B, and C axis of the controlling device as a function of the one of the plural sides of the controlling device that is determined to be the active side of the controlling device.
US11551881B2
A flexible switch has a deformable body and a plurality of electrodes, at least one of the electrodes being provided on the deformable body. The switch has a first state in which the electrodes are spaced apart and a second state in which the electrodes are in electrical contact, and the switch is configured to allow movement between the states when a force is applied to or removed from the deformable body.
US11551880B2
A poly(vinylphosphonic acid) (PVPA)-(NH4)2MoO4), gel polymer electrolyte can be prepared by incorporating redox-mediated Mo, or similar metal, into a PVPA, or similar polymer, matrix. Gel polymer electrolytes including PVPA/MoX, x representing the percent fraction Mo in PVPA, can be used to make supercapacitors including active carbon electrodes. The electrolytes can be in gel form, bendable and stretchable in a device. Devices including this gel electrolyte can have a specific capacitance (Cs) of 1276 F/g, i.e., a more than 50-fold increase relative to a PVPA system without Mo. A PVPA/Mo10 supercapacitor can have an energy density of 180.2 Wh/kg at power density of 500 W/kg, and devices with this hydrogel structure may maintain 85+% of their initial capacitance performance after 2300 charge-discharge cycles.
US11551879B2
Representative embodiments provide a liquid or gel separator utilized to separate and space apart first and second conductors or electrodes of an energy storage device, such as a battery or a supercapacitor. A representative liquid or gel separator comprises a plurality of particles, typically having a size (in any dimension) between about 0.5 to about 50 microns; a first, ionic liquid electrolyte; and a polymer. In another representative embodiment, the plurality of particles comprise diatoms, diatomaceous frustules, and/or diatomaceous fragments or remains. Another representative embodiment further comprises a second electrolyte different from the first electrolyte; the plurality of particles are comprised of silicate glass; the first and second electrolytes comprise zinc tetrafluoroborate salt in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidalzolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid; and the polymer comprises polyvinyl alcohol (“PVA”) or polyvinylidene fluoride (“PVFD”). Additional components, such as additional electrolytes and solvents, may also be included.
US11551877B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a carbonaceous material used for an electric double layer capacitor having a high electrostatic capacity and capable of maintaining the high electrostatic capacity and energy density over a long period and a method for producing the same. The present invention relates to a carbonaceous material having a specific surface area of 1,200 m2/g to 1,800 m2/g according to a BET method, an R-value of 1.2 or more and a G-band half-value width of 70 cm−1 or more according to a Raman spectrum.
US11551871B2
A dielectric composition includes a ceramic powder, a high polymerization binder, and a low polymerization binder type dispersant having a degree of polymerization between 100 and 1,000.
US11551869B2
A multilayer electronic component that includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, each of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers having a plurality of crystal grains, at least some of the plurality of crystal grains having a trap portion therein, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cu, Pt, Sn, Pd and Ag is present locally in the trap portion; and a plurality of internal electrode layers arranged between adjacent dielectric layers of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers.
US11551861B2
An ignition coil includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a center core, a side core, a core cover, a case, and an insulating resin. The core cover is formed in a form that covers an inner side face, one thickness direction end face, and an other thickness direction end face of the side core. Wall portions that divide a mass of the insulating resin into portions, or reduce an amount thereof, are provided in the core cover on an aperture portion side of the case, which is the one thickness direction end face side of the side core.
US11551860B2
An ignition coil includes a center core, a first core member, and a second core member. The first core member includes a first core-facing portion facing a front core surface of the center core and a first core side portion extending rearward from the first core-facing portion. The second core member includes a second core-facing portion facing a rear core surface of the center core and a second core side portion extending frontward from the second core-facing portion. The first core-facing portion has an end surface contacting a portion of the second core side portion to create a first contact region. Similarly, the second core-facing portion has an end surface contacting a portion of the first core side portion to create a second contact region. The first and second contact regions are shaped to approach frontward close to the first core side portion. This structure enhances productivity of the ignition coil.
US11551856B2
A coil component according to one or more embodiments includes a base body having first to sixth surfaces, and a coil conductor including a winding portion that extends around a coil axis intersecting the first and second surfaces. The winding portion includes first, second, third, and fourth portions facing the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces, respectively when viewed from a direction of the coil axis. The radii of curvature of the first and second portions are both smaller than the radii of curvature of the third and fourth portions. When viewed from the direction of the coil axis, the distance between the first portion and the third surface and the distance between the second portion and the fourth surface are both larger than the distance between the third portion and the fifth surface and the distance between the fourth portion and the sixth surface.
US11551847B2
An inductor includes a coil that is provided in a component body. A first end of the coil is connected to a first outer electrode, and a second end of the coil is connected to a second outer electrode. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductor layers that are provided in a width direction. Each coil conductor layer is substantially spirally formed with the number of turns being greater than or equal to about one turn. The height of the component body is greater than the width of the component body.
US11551841B2
A superconducting magnet device including a plurality of superconducting magnet coils; a structural element mechanically and thermally linked to respective magnet coils to retain them in respective relative positions; and a cooling station thermally connected to a cryogenic refrigerator and to the structural element. A thermally conductive path, which passes through the structural element, is established between the cryogenic refrigerator and the superconducting magnet coils through the structural element.
US11551834B2
A cable-laying device for producing wiring or cable harnesses of different types includes a laying plane for positioning lines of a wiring or cable harness, a plurality of transport units which can be moved relative to the laying plane in an at least partially automated manner, and a control device which is configured to control the transport units. A method for producing cable harnesses of different types by using a cable laying device is also provided.
US11551830B2
A telecommunications cable includes a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors, a separator, a first jacket, one or more barriers and a second jacket. In addition, the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors extends substantially along a longitudinal axis of the telecommunications cable. Further, the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors includes an electrical conductor and an insulation layer. Furthermore, the separator separates each of the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors. Moreover, the first jacket and the second jacket extend substantially along the longitudinal axis of the telecommunications cable. Also, the one or more barriers are positioned between the first jacket and the second jacket.
US11551813B2
A next-best-action system includes real-time operation and off-line training and processes. During off-line training databases of medical conditions and associated diagnostic factors, tests and treatments are used to create models used for later natural language processing of input electronic text. Diagnostic factors are ranked according to the probability that they indicate conditions and are stored in a matrix. Treatments corresponding to conditions are also stored in a matrix. During real-time operation electronic text is received from patient history of an EHR system, from a transcribed conversation between a physician and a patient, or from input that the physician makes in the EHR system or in an overlaid diagnostic user interface. The electronic text is processed by an NLP pipeline that derives clinical diagnostic factors and test results for the patient. The factors and test results are matched against the matrix of factors to produce a list of likely conditions, along with an ordered list of factors and tests that are either unknown or not yet performed for that patient.
US11551807B2
In some embodiments, an example method or system consistent with the present disclosure may: obtain a desired property of a simulated trajectory of a virtual camera; receive a first video of a wound captured by a moving camera, the first video including a plurality of frames; use the desired property of the simulated trajectory of the virtual camera to analyze the first video to select at least two frames of the plurality of frames corresponding to the simulated trajectory of the virtual camera; use the desired property of the simulated trajectory of the virtual camera to select an order for the selected at least two frames; and rearrange the at least two frames based on the selected order to create a new video of the wound that represents the simulated trajectory of the virtual camera.
US11551803B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented process for generating and providing simulated user absorption information pertaining to users and based on target profiles and target situations, thereby providing user targeted and situationally targeted content recommendations. It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a technological solution to the long felt need in small scale content recommendation systems caused by the technical problem of generating situationally targeted and user profile targeted content recommendations for users of an interactive electronic system.
US11551802B2
Disclosed are examples of a device, a system, methods and computer-readable medium products operable to implement functionality to determine and respond to a purpose of a meal. An algorithm or application may receive data that may include data related to a meal purpose from data sources and determine whether any of the data received from the plurality of data sources was received from a direct data source or an indirect data source. The data may be evaluated to determine a purpose of the meal. Based on the results of the evaluation, instructions may be generated to provide an appropriate response based on the determined purpose of the meal. The generated instructions to provide the appropriate response based on the determined purpose of the meal may be output.
US11551799B1
The present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition for multi-stage release of psychoactive substances including cannabinoids. The pharmaceutical composition comprises two or more staged compositions having different release profiles or different release time such that the one or more active agents in each of the two or more staged compositions are released into the subject's blood stream at different time points.
US11551798B2
Use of improved image acquisition for a medical dose preparation system. The medical dose preparation system may include a work station for capturing medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation image may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device. Accordingly, memory resources may be more efficiently employed while maintaining high quality medical dose preparation images.
US11551796B2
Systems and methods for management of a distributed ledger including prescription information are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a processor and a logical data structure to configure a device according to an electronic prescription defining an action for a patient, the electronic prescription organized as record(s) in a distributed ledger and processible by the device to apply the action to the patient. The electronic prescription is to cause the device to at least: configure the device to apply the action to the patient; validate the action for the patient using the distributed ledger; and propagate a record of the action to the distributed ledger.
US11551792B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for identifying, stratifying, and prioritizing patients who are eligible for care management services. For each patient, patient health data is used to determine one or more of a disease burden associated with the patient, an amount of health system utilization by the patient, and an amount of money spent on healthcare services for the patient. It is further determined if the patient exceeds a respective threshold value associated with each of these criteria. If the patient exceeds the respective threshold value, the patient is stratified into a category comprising one of high-risk senior, high-risk adult, high-risk pediatrics, or high-risk maternity. The patient may also be prioritized based on one or more factors, and a notification may be sent to the patient informing the patient of his/her eligibility for care management services.
US11551780B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include a repair circuit configured to activate a redundant line of a cell array region by comparing repair information and address information. The semiconductor apparatus may include a main decoder configured to perform a normal access to the cell array region by decoding the address information. The address information may include both column information and row information.
US11551778B2
One embodiment provides a memory module that enables online repair of defective memory cells. The memory module includes a memory array storing data, a self-test controller coupled to the memory array and configured to perform a self-test on a region within the memory array without interrupting operations of the memory module, and a memory-repair module configured to repair a defective memory cell identified by the self-test controller.
US11551775B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) circuit and a control logic circuit to control the ECC circuit. The memory cell array includes memory cells and a normal cell region and a parity cell region The ECC circuit, in a normal mode, receives a main data, performs an ECC encoding on the main data to generate a parity data and stores the main data and the parity data in the normal cell region and the parity cell region. The ECC circuit, in a test mode, receives a test data including at least one error bit, stores the test data in one of the normal cell region and the parity cell region and performs an ECC decoding on the test data and one of the main data and the parity data to provide a decoding result data to an external device.
US11551760B2
A semiconductor memory device includes memory cells, a first circuit that includes a first latch group including first and second data latch circuits and a second latch group including third and fourth data latch circuits, and a control circuit configured to control a write operation during which first and second data to be written into the memory cells are stored in the first and second data latch circuits, respectively, wherein the first and second data are also stored in the third and fourth data latch circuits, respectively, while the first and second data stored in the first and second data latch circuits, respectively, are being written in the memory cells.
US11551747B2
A computation apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of sense amplifiers, in which each of the memory cells includes a memory circuit and a calculation circuit. The memory circuits of the memory cells are configured to receive input values from a plurality of word lines, generate a computation result based on the input values and output the computation result to a bit line. The calculation circuits of the memory cells are configured to receive calculation input values from a plurality of calculation word lines, generate calculation output values based on the calculation input values, and output the calculation output values to a plurality of calculation bit lines. The sense amplifiers are configured to sense the calculation output values from the calculation bit lines to generate sensed values, wherein a value of the computation result is determined based on the sensed values and the calculation output values.
US11551742B2
Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and medium storing instructions for execution by a processor for refreshing memory blocks of solid state memory through a temperature compensated refresh rate. Techniques discussed herein include a solid state memory to store data and a temperature sensor to identify a temperature of the solid state memory. The memory device with solid state memory also includes a memory controller that periodically refreshes memory blocks of the solid state memory at an adjustable refresh rate, wherein memory controller is to adjust the adjustable refresh rate based on the temperature of the solid state memory.
US11551737B2
A magnetic storage element and an electronic apparatus having a reduced writing current while retaining a magnetism retention property of a storage layer. The magnetic storage element includes a spin orbit layer extending in one direction, a writing line that is electrically coupled to the spin orbit layer, and allows a current to flow in an extending direction of the spin orbit layer, a tunnel junction element including a storage layer, an insulator layer, and a magnetization fixed layer that are stacked in order on the spin orbit layer, and a non-magnetic layer having a film thickness of 2 nm or less, and disposed at any stack position between the spin orbit layer and the insulator layer.
US11551735B2
Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory module includes a pin interface for coupling to a memory controller via a bus. The module includes at least two non-volatile memory devices, and a buffer disposed between the pin interface and the at least two non-volatile memory devices. The buffer receives non-volatile memory access commands from the memory controller that are interleaved with DRAM memory module access commands.
US11551727B2
A graphical user interface for framing a video may include a framing element. Responsive to user interaction with the framing element, a framing of the video at a moment may be determined. The framing of the video may define viewing direction, viewing size, viewing rotation, and/or viewing projection for a viewing window. The framing of the video at the moment may be determined based on how the video is being presented when the user interacted with the framing element.
US11551718B2
A recording and reproducing device includes: a reading unit that reads production information from a recording medium of a magnetic tape cartridge, the magnetic tape cartridge including a magnetic tape, and the recording medium other than the magnetic tape and on which the production information is recorded, the production information being information regarding the magnetic tape obtained in a production process of the magnetic tape cartridge; and a control unit that performs, as an initialization process of the magnetic tape cartridge, control of recording the production information on the magnetic tape and invalidating the production information in the recording medium.
US11551715B2
A cartridge memory is a cartridge memory used in a recording medium cartridge and includes an antenna section that induces an induced voltage by means of electromagnetic induction, a load modulation section including a load whose magnitude is variable, and a control section that measures the induced voltage and controls the load modulation section on the basis of the measured induced voltage.
US11551710B1
According to an embodiment, a magnetic disk has a plurality of second servo sectors and a plurality of third servo sectors each arranged between two second servo sectors of the plurality of second servo sectors, in which the second and third servo sectors are arranged in a circumferential direction. A controller performs a first demodulation for detecting a servo mark and demodulating a burst pattern on the servo data in each second servo sector. The controller performs a second demodulation for demodulating the burst pattern without detecting the servo mark, on the servo data in each third servo sector. The controller performs the second demodulation on the servo data in a fourth servo sector which is one of the plurality of second servo sectors in a case where the detection of the servo mark fails when the first demodulation is performed on the servo data in the fourth servo sector.
US11551707B2
Disclosed is a method for speech processing, an information device, and a computer program product. The method for speech processing, as implemented by a computer, includes: obtaining a mixed speech signal via a microphone, wherein the mixed speech signal includes a plurality of speech signals uttered by a plurality of unspecified speakers at the same time; generating a set of simulated speech signals according to the mixed speech signal by using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), in order to simulate the plurality of speech signals; determining the number of the simulated speech signals in order to estimate the number of the speakers in the surroundings and providing the number as an input of an information application.
US11551704B2
A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11551703B2
The invention provides a concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices. An audio decoder for decoding an audio bitstream and a metadata bitstream related to the audio bitstream according to the concept includes an audio processing chain including a plurality of adjustment stages including a dynamic range control stage for adjusting a dynamic range of the audio output signal and a guided clipping prevention stage for preventing clipping of the audio output signal; and a metadata decoder configured to receive the metadata bitstream and to extract dynamic range control gain sequences and guided clipping prevention gain sequences from the metadata bitstream, at least a part of the dynamic range control gain sequences being supplied to the dynamic range control stage, and at least a part of the guided clipping prevention gain sequences being supplied to the guided clipping prevention stage.
US11551701B2
Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a weighting factor during stereo signal encoding. In those embodiments, a parameter value corresponding to the encoding mode of the to-be-encoded signal is determining based on an encoding mode of a to-be-encoded signal in a stereo signal and a correspondence between an encoding mode and a parameter value. Based on the determined parameter value and an energy spectrum of a linear prediction filter corresponding to an original line spectral frequency parameter of the to-be-encoded signal is a weighting factor for calculating a distance between the original line spectral frequency parameter and a target original line spectral frequency parameter is calculated.
US11551697B2
Some aspects disclosed herein are directed to, for example, a system and method comprising a client device receiving an input of at least a portion of a message. The client device may display, on a display of the client device, the at least the portion of the message. The client device may transmit, to a server device, the at least the portion of the message for display via a second client device. The client device may receive, from a user of the client device or a user of the second client device, a request to generate a marker for the at least the portion of the message. In response to the receiving the request to generate the marker, the client device may determine, based on a lexicon, a name for the marker for the at least the portion of the message. The client device may store, at a storage location, the name for the marker for the at least the portion of the message, an identifier for the at least the portion of the message, and an association between the name for the marker for the at least the portion of the message and the identifier for the at least the portion of the message.
US11551692B2
In one aspect, a server that receives, from a client terminal via a network, a request to initiate a verbal conversation using natural language that is in a spoken or textual format, extracts information during the verbal conversation, determines a context of the verbal conversation, receives an inquiry during the verbal conversation, processes the inquiry, acquires response information based on the determined appropriate response, and transmits to the client terminal the response information.
US11551691B1
Systems and techniques for adaptive conversation support bot are described herein. An audio stream may be obtained including a conversation of a first user. An event may be identified in the conversation using the audio stream. A first keyword phrase may be extracted from the audio stream in response to identification of the event. The audio stream may be searched for a second keyword phrase based on the first keyword phrase. An action may be performed based on the first keyword phrase and the second keyword phrase. Results of the action may be out via a context appropriate output channel. The context appropriate output channel may be determined based on a context of the conversation and a privacy setting of the first user.
US11551690B2
In one aspect, a playback deice is configured to identify in an audio stream, via a second wake-word engine, a false wake word for a first wake-word engine that is configured to receive as input sound data based on sound detected by a microphone. The first and second wake-word engines are configured according to different sensitivity levels for false positives of a particular wake word. Based on identifying the false wake word, the playback device is configured to (i) deactivate the first wake-word engine and (ii) cause at least one network microphone device to deactivate a wake-word engine for a particular amount of time. While the first wake-word engine is deactivated, the playback device is configured to cause at least one speaker to output audio based on the audio stream. After a predetermined amount of time has elapsed, the playback device is configured to reactivate the first wake-word engine.
US11551687B2
An electronic device for recognizing a user's speech and a speech recognition method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a microphone configured to receive a user's speech, a memory for storing speech recognition models, and at least one processor configured to select a speech recognition model from among the speech recognition models stored in the memory based on an operation state of the electronic device, and recognize the user's speech received by the microphone based on the selected speech recognition model.
US11551683B2
Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to an electronic device and an operation method therefor. The electronic device comprises: a housing that includes a circular upper end surface comprising a plurality of openings having a selected pattern, a flat circular lower end surface and a side surface surrounding a space between the upper end surface and the lower end surface; an audio output interface that is formed on the side surface; a power input interface that is formed on the side surface; a microphone that is located inside the housing, and that faces the openings; a wireless communication circuit; a processor that is operatively connected to the audio output interface, the power input interface, the microphone and the communication circuit; and a memory that is operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory, when the electronic device is executed, can store instructions for the processor to receive a wake-up command through the microphone, to recognize the wake-up command, to transmit to a server information regarding reception of the wake-up command using the communication circuit, to receive a response from the server using the communication circuit, to generate a first audio signal based on the response, and to output the first audio signal using the audio output interface when the microphone is available, wherein the audio signal can be a non-language sound. Various embodiments are also possible.
US11551678B2
A first electronic device is provided. While a media content item provided by a media-providing service is emitted by a second electronic device that is remote from the first electronic device, the first electronic device receives, from the media-providing service, data that includes an audio stream that corresponds to the media content item. The first electronic device detects ambient sound that includes sound corresponding to the media content item emitted by the second electronic device. The first electronic device generates a cleaned version of the ambient sound, which includes: using the data received from the media-providing service to align the audio stream with the ambient sound; and performing a subtraction operation to subtract the audio stream from the ambient sound. The first electronic device detects a voice command in the cleaned version of the ambient sound.
US11551674B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for increasing the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of language processing systems. A provided method may include storing a plurality of distinct rule sets in a database. Each of the rule sets may be associated with a different pipeline from a set of pipelines. The method may include receiving the utterance. The method may include tokenizing and/or annotating the utterance, determining a pipeline for the utterance, and comparing the utterance to the rule set that is associated with the pipeline. When a match is achieved between the utterance and the rule set, the method may include resolving the intent of the utterance based on the match. The method may include transmitting a request corresponding to the intent to a central server, receiving a response, and transmitting the response to the system user.
US11551666B1
Example embodiments provide techniques for configuring a natural-language processing system to perform a new function given at least one sample invocation of the function. The training data consisting of the sample invocation may be augmented by determining which subset of available training data most closely resembles the sample invocation and/or function. The effect of re-training a component this this augmented training data may be determined, and an annotator may review any annotations corresponding to the invocation if the effect is large.
US11551659B2
Systems and methods for communicating information related to a wearable device are disclosed. Exemplary information includes audio information.
US11551655B2
A sound absorption structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The sound absorption structure includes a first sound absorption layer comprising first elements of which longitudinal directions are misaligned in a thickness direction of the sound absorption structure, the first sound absorption layer having a first internal filling density and absorbing sound waves of a first reactance frequency; and a second sound absorption layer disposed on the first sound absorption layer, having a second internal filling density different from the first internal filling density, and absorbing sound waves of a second reactance frequency different from the first reactance frequency.
US11551654B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a multi-layered sound absorption structure. The multi-layered sound absorption structure may include a form material, an acoustic material disposed on a surface of the form material, and a construction material disposed on the acoustic material. The acoustic material may couple to the construction material during curing of the construction material. After the construction material is cured, the form material may be removed exposing a least a portion of the acoustic material.
US11551639B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display region, and including a light transmission region overlapping an electronic element within an edge portion of the display region, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, and configured to perform an edge-dimming operation that gradually decreases a luminance of an area of the display region excluding the light transmission region from a center portion of the display region to the edge portion of the display region while not decreasing a luminance of the light transmission region.
US11551637B2
An electronic device comprises a plurality of display devices, a designation unit that designates one of a plurality of predetermined color balances for which adjustment values of the plurality of display devices are set in advance, and an adjustment unit that adjusts color balances of the plurality of display devices. The adjustment unit performs a first adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices using adjustment values of the color balance designated by the designation unit, and a second adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices that have undergone the first adjustment, wherein resolution of the second adjustment is higher than resolution of the first adjustment.
US11551628B2
Disclosed are a driving method including: acquiring a first preset scanning driving signal, a second preset scanning driving signal and a preset data driving signal, and shortening the driving time of the second preset scanning driving signal so as to shorten the driving time of the second preset scanning driving signal compared to the driving time of the preset data driving signal. The even-numbered column pixels in the first row and the odd-numbered column pixels in the second row in the driving period are driven by a first preset scanning driving signal, and the odd-numbered column pixels in the first row and the even-numbered column pixels in the second row in the driving period are driven by a second preset scanning driving signal.
US11551627B2
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes pixel units arranged in an array, and the pixel units include at least two sub-pixels in a same row. Driving polarities of sub-pixels in a same pixel unit are same. The driving polarities include a positive frame driving and a negative frame driving, wherein in a row direction, driving polarities of sub-pixels of adjacent pixel units are different, and in a column direction, driving polarities of adjacent first-row pixel units and second-row pixel units are different.
US11551623B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a controller. The controller is configured to control voltages between the common electrode and pixel electrodes in first periods included in one frame period and control an operation of a light source in second periods included in the one frame period. The controller controls, in a first first period of the first periods included in the one frame period, the voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes to write, following an immediately preceding one frame period, a video component of a same color as a color of a video component written by applying voltages between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes in a last first period of the first periods included in the immediately preceding one frame period.
US11551622B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a compensator, a controller, and a data driver. The compensator determines a degradation grayscale of a compensation region of the display panel. The degradation grayscale may be determined based on a driving time of at least one pixel in the compensation region and degradation data corresponding to the at least one pixel. The controller generates compensated image data for input image data based on the degradation grayscale. The data driver provides a data voltage to the at least one pixel based on the compensated image data.
US11551621B2
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescence display device including a display panel including a pixel driving circuit and a light emitting element, a power supply circuit for generating a logic voltage to be applied to the pixel driving circuit, and a timing controller for supplying a voltage control signal to the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit may include a power IC, a booster circuit, and a voltage regulator. In the electroluminescence display device, degradation noise of the pixel can be reduced, and thereby, the image quality of the display panel can be improved.
US11551604B2
A scan driver of a display device includes a plurality of stages. Each stage includes a clock line configured to receive a first clock signal and a second clock signal having different phases, a shared input circuit configured to transfer an input signal to a shared control node, a first output circuit coupled to the shared control node, configured to transfer a voltage of the shared control node to a first control node, and configured to output a first scan signal in response to a voltage of the first control node and the first clock signal, and a second output circuit coupled to the shared control node, configured to transfer the voltage of the shared control node to a second control node, and configured to output a second scan signal in response to a voltage of the second control node and the second clock signal.
US11551598B2
The present disclosure may provide a display apparatus including a display panel configured to display an image, a shift register configured to supply a scan signal to the display panel, a level shifter configured to output clock signals for driving the shift register, a power supply configured to supply a gate voltage to the level shifter, and a controller configured to sense a node voltage of a circuit generating the gate voltage, detect a short circuit between the clock signals based on a sensed value and an internal reference value, and control the power supply when the short circuit occurs between the clock signals.
US11551593B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being grouped into a plurality of pixel blocks, a nonvolatile memory configured to store previous accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to a previous driving period, a controller configured to calculate current block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks in a current driving period, to calculate current accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to the current driving period by adding the current block degradation information to the previous accumulated block degradation information in response to a power control signal indicating a power-off, and to determine whether a sensing operation for each of the plurality of pixel blocks is to be performed by comparing the current accumulated block degradation information for each of the plurality of pixel blocks with a sensing reference degradation amount, and a sensing circuit configured to selectively perform the sensing operation for each of the plurality of pixel blocks.
US11551592B2
An example device includes a main display panel that includes a main array of pixels and an opening within the main array of pixels. The example device further includes a beam splitter positioned to communicate light through the opening within the main array of pixels, a sensor positioned with respect to the beam splitter to capture light incident on the opening within the main array of pixels, and a subarray including a pixel. The subarray is positioned with respect to the beam splitter to output light through the opening within the main array of pixels.
US11551591B2
An electronic device includes a housing and an array of LEDs deposited on a substrate disposed in the housing. The array of LEDs is disposed to form an indicia via which a logo is displayable.
US11551588B2
A display device includes: a first pixel including a first light emitting diode (LED) and a first capacitor including a first electrode connected to a first power source voltage providing a driving voltage to an anode of the first light emitting diode (LED) or to an initialization voltage, and a second electrode connected to the anode of the first light emitting diode (LED); and a second pixel including a second light emitting diode (LED) and a second capacitor including a first electrode connected to the first power source voltage providing the driving voltage to an anode of the second light emitting diode (LED) or to an initialization voltage, and a second electrode connected to the anode of the second light emitting diode (LED), wherein capacitance of the second capacitor is less than capacitance of the first capacitor.
US11551580B2
A resettable injection training device for simulating an injection is provided in an embodiment herein. The device may include an outer housing, a safety shield having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end for engaging with a target surface during an injection simulation, the safety shield comprising a retracted position, an extended unlocked position and an extended locked position, a plunger; and a locking tab for interfacing with the safety shield for interfacing with the safety shield the extended locked position, wherein if the safety shield distal end disengages from the target surface during an injection simulation, the safety shield extends to the extended, locked position until the device is reset.
US11551574B1
Systems and methods for objectively assessing physical performance of a subject and generating programs specifically tailored to correct any physical deficiencies identified during that assessment. Generally, the assessments may produce results in binary format so that the assessments may be conducted objectively. Additionally, the recommended exercise programs may be generated based on the results of those assessments so that the recommended exercise programs target the identified physical deficiencies.
US11551569B2
A system and method for characterizing, selecting, ordering and rendering discrete elements of digitized video content helpful to learn or teach various skills. Each of a plurality of observed or computer-generated instances of modeling of distinguishable skills are recorded as digitized assets. Microskills are identified and deconstructed in the abstract from one or more of the visual and audible recordings of skills modeling moments. Identifiers of microskills are associated by a human editor with recorded modeling instances and/or portions thereof. Modeling presentations are dynamically generated by a user asserting one or more microskill identifiers and a network-enabled selection, ordering and rendering of portions of modeling instances that are associated with the asserted microskill identifiers.
US11551567B2
The embodiments herein disclose a system and a method for providing an online web-based interactive audio-visual platform for note creation, presentation, sharing, organizing, and analysis. The system provides a conceptual and interactive interface to content; analyses a student's notes and instantly determines the accuracy of the conceptual connections made and a student's understanding of a topic. The system enables the student to add and use audio, visual, drawing, text notes, and mathematical equations in addition to those suggested by the note taking solution; to collate notes from various sources in a meaningful manner by grouping concepts using colors, images, and text; and to personalize other maps developed within the same environment while maintaining links back to the original source from which the notes are derived. The system highlights keywords in conjunction with spoken text to complement the advantages of using visual maps to improve learning outcomes.
US11551563B2
A system and method for reliably and efficiently monitoring and arbitrating the performance of one or more UTM infrastructure systems are provided herein. The method for monitoring and arbitrating a plurality of UTM infrastructure networks involves monitoring and arbitrating a plurality of unmanned traffic management (UTM) infrastructure networks comprising integrating a UTM arbitration system between the plurality of UTM infrastructure networks, wherein the UTM arbitration system is operably configured to simultaneously monitor the UTM infrastructure networks; monitoring information and/or data associated with one or more UTM systems associated with the UTM infrastructure networks; detecting the presence or absence thereof of one or more inconsistencies in the data and/or information associated with the one or more UTM systems; and initiating a reconciliation activity in response to detecting the presence of at least one inconsistency in the data and/or information associated with the one or more UTM systems.
US11551556B2
A network computer system receives request data from computing devices of requesting users in a sub-region of a service area. The system further receives location data from computing devices of drivers operating in the sub-region. Based on the request data and the location data, the system determines a service condition for the sub-region. Based on the service condition indicating that the sub-region is in a driver oversupply state, the system transmits a service instruction to computing devices of a plurality of drivers within the sub-region, the service instruction being associated with a target outside the sub-region and a set of progress conditions. The system then periodically determines, for each driver of the plurality of drivers, an estimated time of arrival (ETA) to the target from a current position of the driver to determine whether the driver is satisfying the set of progress conditions of the service instruction.
US11551548B1
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for predicting wrong-way-driving events. A WWD event defines an event in which a vehicle travels in a direction opposing a traffic direction designated for a portion of a road. In one example, the apparatus estimates a likelihood of portion of the road inducing a wrong-way-driving (WWD) event by using a machine learning model as a function of map data, sensor data, or a combination thereof. If the likelihood satisfies a threshold, the apparatus updates a map layer to indicate the WWD event at the portion of the road.
US11551544B2
A system for preventing unauthorized access to a network can include a secure container having an access portal for controlling access to contents of the secure container and a security checkpoint configured to determine a state of the access portal and to receive an authorization code for opening the access portal. The security checkpoint can also include a logical lock module that switches to a breach mode of operation in response to a signal from the security checkpoint indicating that the access portal has been opened without receipt of the authorization code within a predetermined amount of time. The system can also include a network switch disposed within the secure container. The network switch is configured to communicate on a network and disable outgoing network communications to the network in response to a breach signal indicating that the logical lock module has switched to the breach mode.
US11551534B2
A refuse vehicle comprising a chassis, a body assembly coupled to the chassis, the body assembly defining a refuse compartment, and a thermal event monitoring system comprising a sampling element configured to detect a thermal event associated with the refuse vehicle indicating at least one of a fire or an overheating component and transmit a notification in response to detecting the thermal event.
US11551532B2
A haptic system is described. The haptic system includes a linear resonant actuator (LRA), a receiver, and a transmitter. The LRA has a characteristic frequency and provides a vibration in response to an input signal. The receiver is configured to sense received vibration from the LRA. The transmitter is configured to provide the input signal to the LRA. The receiver is coupled with the transmitter and provides vibrational feedback based on the received vibration. The input signal incorporates the vibrational feedback.
US11551530B2
A method and system based on betting using an enhanced roulette game are provided with more exciting game play with differing odds as compared to traditional roulette. The roulette game has a two-track roulette wheel, each track having cross-sectional curvatures allowing for the simultaneous use of two separate balls that do not interfere with each other during game play, with an increased number of betting numbers of 63 (1-60, 0, 00, and 000) or 75 (0, 00, 000, 1-72) around a single course of pockets or cassettes. One of the two roulette balls may be a “gold” ball that represents a bonus payout or bonus for hitting both numbers for one or more players. A set of playing chips have radio frequency identification (RFID), or other locating devices that interact with the grid to determine chip placement on the betting layout to automatically calculate a bet payoff.
US11551526B2
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) is provided. The EGM includes a processor circuit and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations. Operations include causing a display, by a display device and for a first play of a game, of a first plurality of symbols at a first plurality of symbol display positions associated with a plurality of reels. Operations include, responsive to an occurrence of a symbol display location modification event associated with a reel of the plurality of reels, modifying a location of symbol display positions associated with that reel. Operations include, responsive to a modified location of symbol display positions associated with that reel being a designated location, triggering a secondary event associated with an event zone associated with that reel.
US11551522B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for facilitating an automatic transfer of funds to and from an electronic gaming machine via a mobile device.
US11551520B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a player identifier with a financial account. The financial account can holds funds that are accessible through the player's use of a payment vehicle. The payment vehicle can be, for example, a credit payment vehicle or a debit payment vehicle. The player can load funds from the financial account to a wagering account.
US11551519B2
Systems and methods that provide one or more mobile device facilitated non-cash avenues to redeem a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
US11551499B2
A method includes transmitting, by a handler device associated with a package handler, a message to an access control system requesting access to a secure container secured by an electronic lock mechanism; determining, by the access control system, whether the package handler is authorized to access the secure container based on the received message; transmitting, by the access control system, an unlock command to the secure container in response to a determination that the package handler is authorized to access the secure container; and unlocking the electronic lock mechanism of the secure container in response to successful authentication of the unlock command.
US11551498B2
A locking system and method for a movable freight container door comprises an electronic module and a mechanical lock element. The mechanical lock element comprises a shaft, at least of portion of which is configured to be inserted through an aperture in the electronic module, across a door handle retention region, and into a cavity in the electronic module. The shaft is securely retained in the electronic module by moving a lock mechanism to a locked position. At least one magnetic field sensor in the electronic module is used to read the position of the shaft in the cavity by sensing or not sensing one or more magnets in the shaft. A wireless communication component in the electronic module wirelessly transmits magnetic field sensor information.
US11551497B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a connection interface, a local area network (LAN) interface, a wide area network (WAN) interface, and a processor. The connection interface is to connect to a printed circuit board (PCB) of a door controller. The LAN interface is to communicate with a plurality of door sensors, wherein each one of the plurality door sensors is to monitor operation of a respective door of a plurality of doors. The WAN interface is to communicate with a remote server of a service provider. The processor is communicatively coupled to the connection interface, the LAN interface, and the WAN interface. The processor is to receive door data from the plurality of door sensors via the LAN interface, transmit the door data to the remote server for analysis via the WAN interface, receive a correction action from the remote server over the WAN interface in response to the door data, and execute the corrective action on a door of the plurality of doors via the LAN interface.
US11551495B2
An information processing apparatus for managing an electronic key compatible with a locking/unlocking apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: acquire terminal data that is data for notifying of a state of a first mobile terminal that uses the electronic key, and transmit, based on the terminal data, the electronic key corresponding to the first mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal different from the first mobile terminal.
US11551492B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle manages storage of data and transfer between other connected devices. The unmanned aerial vehicle captures sensor data from sensors on the unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle transfers the captured sensor data from the unmanned aerial vehicle to a remote controller via a wireless interface. The captured data may be transferred via a TCP link, a UDP link, or a combination thereof. If a loss of link is detected, the captured sensor data is stored to a buffer and a battery level of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a flight status of the unmanned aerial vehicle is monitored. The stored sensor data is transferred from the buffer to a non-volatile storage responsive to the battery level dropping below a predefined threshold or detecting that the unmanned aerial vehicle is stationary and a shutdown may be imminent.
US11551488B2
A method of using an adaptive fault diagnostic system for motor vehicles is provided. A diagnostic tool collects unlabeled data associated with a motor vehicle, and the unlabeled data is transmitted to a central computer. An initial diagnostic model and labeled training data associated with previously identified failure modes and known health conditions are transmitted to the central computer. The central computer executes a novelty detection technique to determine whether the unlabeled data is novelty data corresponding with a new failure mode or normal data corresponding with one of the previously identified failure modes or known health conditions. The central computer selects an informative sample from the novelty data. A repair technician inputs a label for the informative sample, and the central computer propagates the label from the informative sample to the associated novelty data. The central computer updates the labeled training data to include the labeled novelty data.
US11551481B2
Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure provide a living body detection method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a payment system, a video surveillance system, and an access system to which the living body detection method is applied, and generally belong to the field of biometric recognition technologies. The living body detection method can include obtaining an image of a to-be-detected object performing key point detection on a biometric feature corresponding to the to-be-detected object in the image, and constructing a constraint box in the image according to detected key points. Further, the method can include capturing a shape change of the constraint box constructed in the image, and determining the to-be-detected object as a prosthesis in response to capturing an abnormal deformation of the constraint box or detecting no key points.
US11551477B2
Disclosed is a process for performance monitoring and feedback for facial recognition systems. A first image for image matching from a camera capture device at a first location is received for purposes of image matching. A highest match confidence score of the first image to a particular stored enrollment image is determined. One or more image or user characteristics associated with the first image or first user is identified. The identified image or user characteristics and highest match confidence score are added to a facial recognition monitoring and feedback model. Subsequently, a particular one of the stored image or user characteristics consistently associated with a below-threshold highest match confidence score is identified, and a notification is displayed or transmitted including an indication of an identified facial recognition low match pattern and identifying the particular one of the stored image characteristics or user characteristics.
US11551472B1
A method of fingerprint recognition for a fingerprint sensing circuit includes steps of: performing a first fingerprint sensing process including a first exposure operation and a first readout operation under a first light spot setting; and performing a second fingerprint sensing process including a second exposure operation and a second readout operation under a second light spot setting. Wherein, a host performs a first fingerprint recognition in response to the first fingerprint sensing process; and wherein, the second light spot setting and the first fingerprint recognition are performed simultaneously.
US11551467B2
Various example embodiments are directed towards systems, apparatuses, and/or methods of obtaining a reference image for optical object recognition, the method including driving a subset of light sources of a plurality of light sources, receiving, using an object recognition sensor, light reflected off a first target object, obtaining a first reference image based on the reflected light, obtaining a first target image associated with the first target object based on the reflected light, obtaining at least one first environment information using at least one environmental sensor while driving the subset of light sources, the first environment information associated with a surrounding environment, storing the first reference image and the first environment information together, and obtaining a first effective image for the first target object based on the first target image and the first reference image.
US11551461B2
A text classifying apparatus (100), an optical character recognition unit (1), a text classifying method (S220) and a program are provided for performing the classification of text. A segmentation unit (110) segments an image into a plurality of lines of text (401-412; 451-457; 501-504; 701-705) (S221). A selection unit (120) selects a line of text from the plurality of lines of text (S222-S223). An identification unit (130) identifies a sequence of classes corresponding to the selected line of text (S224). A recording unit (140) records, for the selected line of text, a global class corresponding to a class of the sequence of classes (S225-S226). A classification unit (150) classifies the image according to the global class, based on a confidence level of the global class (S227-S228).
US11551451B2
A system for monitoring and recording and processing an activity includes one or more cameras for automatically recording video of the activity. A processor and memory associated and in communication with the camera is disposed near the location of the activity. The system may include AI logic configured to identify a user recorded within a video frame captured by the camera. The system may also detect and identify a user when the user is located within a predetermined area. The system may include a video processing engine configured to process images within the video frame to identify the user and may modify and format the video upon identifying the user and the activity. The system may include a communication module to communicate formatted video to a remote video processing system, which may further process the video and enable access to a mobile app of the user.
US11551449B2
An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data generated by a capture device. The processor may be configured to generate video frames in response to the pixel data, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects, perform a classification of the objects detected based on characteristics of the objects, determine whether the classification of the objects corresponds to a user-defined event and a user-defined identity and generate encoded video frames from the video frames. The encoded video frames may comprise a first sample of the video frames selected at a first rate when the user-defined event is not detected and a second sample of the video frames selected at a second rate while the user-defined event is detected. The video frames comprising the user-defined identity without a second person may be excluded from the encoded video frames.
US11551446B2
A video detection device includes a video acquisition interface, a video recognition interface, and a tilt angle estimation interface. The video acquisition interface acquires a video of the face of an imaging subject. The video recognition interface recognizes the left and right eyes from the video acquired by the video acquisition interface. The tilt angle estimation interface estimates a tilt angle with respect to the horizontal based on the position of the left and right eyes recognized by the video recognition interface.
US11551441B2
Methods, apparatus, and database management systems are disclosed for providing, organizing, and present database search results and, more specifically, systems and methods for a chronological-based search engine. One method includes presenting live image data being captured by a camera of the end-user device. The method also includes determining a pose of the end-user device. The pose including a location of the end-user device. Additionally, the method includes sending the pose of the end-user device to an augmented reality platform entity and receiving closed captioning data from the augmented reality platform entity. The closed captioning data is based on the location of the end-user device and includes indications of first topics within the closed captioning data. The method includes superimposing the closed captioning data onto the live image data.
US11551439B2
A system for vector extraction comprising a vector extraction engine stored and operating on a network-connected computing device that loads raster images from a database stored and operating on a network-connected computing device, identifies features in the raster images, and computes a vector based on the features, and methods for feature and vector extraction.
US11551436B2
Provided is a method and processing unit for computer-implemented analysis of a classification model which is adapted to map, as a prediction, a number of input instances, each of them having a number n of features, into a number of probabilities of output classes, as a classification decision, according to a predetermined function, and which is adapted to determine a relevance value for each feature resulting in a saliency map. The disclosure includes the step of identifying an effect of each feature on the prediction of the instance by determining, for each feature, a relevance information representing a contextual information for all features of the instance omitting the considered feature. Then, the relevance value for each feature is determined. Finally, the plurality of relevance values for the features of the instance is evaluated to identify the effect of each feature on the prediction of the instance.
US11551432B1
Systems and methods for training an artificial intelligence (AI) classifier of scanned items. The items may include a training set of sample raw scans. The set may include in-class objects and not-in-class raw scans. An AI classifier may be configured to sample raw scans in the training set, measure errors in the results, update classifier parameters based on the errors, and detect completion of training.
US11551430B2
A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously persisted maps, even maps of very large environments, and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The cross reality system may quickly process a batch of images acquired with a portable device to determine whether there is sufficient consistency across the batch in the computed localization. Processing on at least one image from the batch may determine a rough localization of the device to the map. This rough localization result may be used in a refined localization process for the image for which it was generated. The rough localization result may also be selectively propagated to a refined localization process for other images in the batch, enabling rough localization processing to be skipped for the other images.
US11551422B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generate floorplans and measurements using a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a physical environment generated based on sensor data.
US11551417B2
A method for generating a more accurate mesh that represents a 3D printed part based on a model includes slicing the model into layers and identifying an infill-wall boundary and an exterior-interior boundary of each layer of the model. Layers of the model may be identified as critical by iterative comparison with adjacent layers. An interior voxel mesh may be constructed based on common two-dimensional reference grids imposed on the critical layers. The interior voxel mesh may be augmented to an augmented mesh and then extended to a protomesh. The protomesh may be extruded to construct the final mesh, which may be analyzed by finite element analysis. The part may be 3D printed based on the layers output by the slicing operation.
US11551416B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for using full waveform inversion for imaging surveyed mediums are provided. The full waveform inversion uses a Sifrian functional to fully leverage Hessian information and update a model by augmenting and assembling data derived from the Sifrian functional when equilibrated. The Sifrian inversion produces high resolution images of the surveyed medium typically only seen with full Hessian inversions and can produce such images without requiring supercomputer computation power or extremely long computation time.
US11551389B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may a performance-enhanced computing system comprising a sensor for measuring luminance values corresponding to light focused onto the sensor at a plurality of pixel locations, a memory including a set of instructions, and a processor. The processor executes a set of instructions causing the system to generate a multi-segment tone mapping curve, generate a set of tone mapping values corresponding to the multi-segment tone mapping curve for equally spaced input values between zero and one for storage into a look up table, and process the luminance values using the look up table to apply the tone mapping curve to the luminance values of the pixels.
US11551371B2
A method for analyzing an image to assess a degree of asymmetry in an object having a presumed mirror symmetry includes: retrieving an image of the object; obtaining a mirrored image by flipping along an axis that has an a-priori unknown spatial relation to the presumed plane of symmetry; obtaining a mapping between the retrieved image and the mirrored image; determining a measure of asymmetry in the object by considering element pairs of a first element of the retrieved image and a second element of the mirrored image according to the mapping. Obtaining the mapping comprises performing a rigid registration followed by a non-rigid registration of the retrieved image to the mirrored image. The measure of asymmetry is determined by calculating the Jacobian of the non-rigid deformation in each element of the image. The invention also pertains to a computer program product and an image processing system.
US11551357B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a target electronic image corresponding to a target specimen, the target specimen comprising a tissue sample of a patient, applying a machine learning system to the target electronic image to determine at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or at least one characteristic of the target electronic image, the machine learning system having been generated by processing a plurality of training images to predict at least one characteristic, the training images comprising images of human tissue and/or images that are algorithmically generated, and outputting the target electronic image identifying an area of interest based on the at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or the at least one characteristic of the target electronic image.
US11551354B2
An interlobar position specifying unit specifies an interlobar position in a lung field area included in a three-dimensional image. An expansion unit expands a plane area at the interlobar position in a thickness direction to generate an expansion area including an interlobar membrane. A projection processing unit processes the expansion area by a projection method that emphasizes the interlobar membrane to generate a projection image. The display control unit displays the projection image on a display.
US11551349B2
A method is disclosed that includes receiving, by a processing device, a plurality of images of a test assembly. The processing device selects a component in the test assembly and an image of the plurality of images of the test assembly as received. For the component as selected and the image as selected, the processing device compares a plurality of portions of the image as selected to a corresponding plurality of portions of a corresponding profile image and computing a matching score for each of the plurality of portions. The processing device selects a largest matching score from the matching score for each of the plurality of portions as a first matching score for the component as selected and the image as selected. The first matching score is stored for the component as selected and the image as selected.
US11551346B2
A computer system is provided for processing ultrasonic data of an ultrasonic probe applied to an area of an aircraft component that includes carbon fiber reinforced polymer. C-scan data is obtained and a preliminary mesh is defined over the C-scan data by taking into account the underlying structural or mechanical characteristics of the analyzed component. The mesh is further refined and data gathered for each mesh cell. A heat map is generated based on the mesh.
US11551343B2
An apparatus acquires a plurality of candidate correct answer images for generating a correct answer image that is used for image quality evaluation, and detects a candidate correct answer image to be excluded from the acquired plurality of candidate correct answer images, based on differences between the acquired plurality of candidate correct answer images.
US11551335B2
Methods and systems are disclosed using camera devices for deep channel and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) images and formats. In one example, image values are captured by a color sensor array in an image capturing device or camera. The image values provide color channel data. The captured image values by the color sensor array are input to a CNN having at least one CNN layer. The CNN provides CNN channel data for each layer. The color channel data and CNN channel data is to form a deep channel image that stored in a memory. In another example, image values are captured by sensor array. The captured image values by the sensor array are input a CNN having a first CNN layer. An output is generated at the first CNN layer using the captured image values by the color sensor array. The output of the first CNN layer is stored as a feature map of the captured image.
US11551330B2
The present disclosure relates to image processing systems and methods. The method may include obtaining a first image and a second image. The first image may be captured by a first camera lens of a panorama device and the second image may be captured by a second camera lens of the panorama device. The method may also include performing an interpolation based on a center of the first image to obtain a first rectangular image, and performing an interpolation based on a center of the second image to obtain a second rectangular image. The method may further include generating a fused image based on the first rectangular image and the second rectangular image, and mapping the fused image to a spherical panorama image.
US11551328B2
A method for profiling energy usage in graphics user interfaces (UI) in handheld mobile devices is disclosed, which includes quantifying the central processing unit (CPU) energy drain of each UI update, quantifying the graphics processing unit (GPU) energy drain of each UI update, quantifying the number of pixels changed due to each UI update, identifying an UI update that consumes energy drain but results in no pixel changes to the displayed frame as a graphics energy bug.
US11551326B2
A tile-based graphics system has a rendering space sub-divided into a plurality of tiles which are to be processed. Graphics data items, such as parameters or texels, are fetched into a cache for use in processing one of the tiles. Indicators are determined for the graphics data items, whereby the indicator for a graphics data item indicates the number of tiles with which that graphics data item is associated. The graphics data items are evicted from the cache in accordance with the indicators of the graphics data items. For example, the indicator for a graphics data item may be a count of the number of tiles with which that graphics data item is associated, whereby the graphics data item(s) with the lowest count(s) is (are) evicted from the cache.
US11551324B2
A device, system and method for role based data collection and public-safety incident response is provided. A computing device receives a call to report a public-safety incident. The computing device determines a role of a caller on the call, the role of the caller being relative to the public-safety incident. The computing device retrieves, from one or more memories, data dependent on the role of the caller. The computing device controls a notification device to provide the data dependent on the role of the caller.
US11551316B1
A system and method for developing a secondary market for transferring and acquiring mortgages is disclosed. The system offers an alternative to the expensive and wasteful proposition of foreclosures. Using the disclosed system, mortgagees holding a security interest in distressed properties can harness the power of computer technology and intelligent processing of data to rapidly perform actuarial analysis and generate documents that enable interested buyers to acquire mortgages through a mortgage transfer process. The system disclosed creates a secondary market of transferrable mortgages and is designed to be beneficial for new buyers where the equity in the existing mortgage is used for down-payment; or excess equity is used to make a one time payment to the original property owner. The system disclosed offers benefits to all key players—investors, banks, purchasers and realtors, and prevents waste and enables distressed properties to command their market value.
US11551309B1
System, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for determining, through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a drafting characteristic of a drafting relationship using vehicle operational data, where the drafting characteristic may include one or more of a vehicle spacing between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, vehicle speed, and vehicle type. Vehicle driving data and other information may be used to calculate an autonomous droning reward amount. In addition, vehicle involved in a drafting relationship in addition to, or apart from, an autonomous droning relationship may be financially rewarded. Moreover, aspects of the disclosure related to determining ruminative rewards and/or aspects of vehicle insurance procurement/underwriting.
US11551306B2
Techniques for displaying market depth information for a financial instrument including a plurality of bid and ask order metrics at corresponding prices of the market instrument and associated time information. A graphical representation of the market depth information, with axes corresponding to time and price, is aligned with color gradients corresponding to one or more metrics including, for example, bid and ask order volume, order count, or order consideration, generated based on the market depth information. The graphical representation of the market depth information and the color gradients are displayed using a display device.
US11551298B1
The present invention generally relates to systems, methods and program products for use with Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETF”) holding one or more secured notes backed by one or more precious metals.
US11551291B1
A computer-implemented method includes managing bank accounts respectively associated with a plurality of account holders for a bank, including processing transactions for the bank accounts where a transaction includes at least credit card transactions and checking transactions and where the first user has full access to a first bank account. The method includes providing a second user restricted access to the first bank account, establishing a connection with the second user via the Internet, providing the second user, according to the restricted access, a user interface to display at least a portion of a plurality of budget categories and at least a portion of transactions associated with the first bank account, receiving an input from the second user to flag a transaction, and responsive to the input, updating the user interface to reflect the flag and notifying the first user of the flag.
US11551284B2
A session-based recommendation method and device according to one or more embodiments of this disclosure are provided, which use a pre-trained recommendation model to perform item recommend. The method includes following contents: a directed session graph is constructed according to a session to be predicted; the directed session graph is then input into a gated graph neural network which outputs the item embedding vector; a user's dynamic preference is determined according to a user's current preference and a first long-term preference, the current preference is an item embedding vector of a last item in the session and the first long-term preference is determined according to the item embedding vector and an importance score of the item; a prediction score of a respective item is determined according to the dynamic preference and the item embedding vector; and a recommended item is output according to the prediction score of the respective item.
US11551283B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing a vehicle suggestion to a user based on image analysis. The method may include: receiving one or more vehicle images via website data associated with the user; identifying one or more first-level traits from the one or more vehicle images; obtaining one or more vehicle identifications from the one or more vehicle images based on the one or more first-level traits; determining a value of each of the one or more first-level traits and/or the one or more vehicle identifications via one or more algorithms; determining the vehicle suggestion based on the value of each of the one or more first-level traits and/or the one or more vehicle identifications; and transmitting, to a device associated with the user, a notification indicating the vehicle suggestion.
US11551279B2
A vehicle includes a system for recording and analyzing user preferences during a vehicle test drive. The system includes a processor and a memory that stores processor-readable instructions. When executed by the processor, the processor-readable instructions cause the system to: determine a user identity; create a user preference profile based on the user identity; communicate a prerecorded message describing one or more vehicle options to the user; record a user response of the user in response to the prerecorded message; analyze the recorded user response; and update the user preference profile based on the analysis of the recorded user response.
