US11596278B2
An apparatus for dispensing a consumable to a user includes a body, a bar movable relative to the body, an air inlet, a flow generator to receive inlet air from the air inlet and to generate an airflow, a consumable dispensing unit to receive a quantity of a consumable, and a nozzle operatively connected to the consumable dispensing unit to receive the consumable from the consumable dispensing unit. The nozzle provided within a flow path of the airflow from the flow generator such that the consumable is drawn from the consumable dispensing unit, mixed with the airflow, and expelled from the nozzle.
US11596276B2
The Bathroom Space Saver and Organizer is a modular unit consisting in part of a prefabricated box frame manufactured from wood, plastic, marble, stone, or other suitable material which can be easily installed in existing homes or new homes to enhance aesthetics and the usefulness of storage in a bathroom. Various storage media, such as toilet paper roll holders, shelving, hooks, sliding drawers and cabinetry may be configured within the box frame to provide an array of storage options for the user. The invention may be preconfigured and manufactured in a variety of dimensions and shapes, including rectangular, square, oval and arched among other possible shape configurations. Decorative trims and other ornamental features may be provided to enhance the design aesthetic.
US11596274B2
A foam discharge container is a foam discharge container for discharging foam in response to a pushing operation, and includes a discharge port which is opened in a direction opposite to a pushing direction of the pushing operation and discharges foam, and a pushing portion that keeps the distance between a discharge target body receiving foam and the discharge port constant.
US11596270B1
Apparatus and method for dispensing hand sanitizer and particularly for dispensing hand sanitizer in a car, truck or other vehicle. The apparatus is configured to be located and used in a vehicle's cup holder or mounted against a substantially vertical surface such as the rear or side of a vehicle seat or headrest. The apparatus includes one or more sensors to help provide consistent dose sizes and to prevent unwanted or improper usage under various operating conditions.
US11596268B2
A multi-compartment walk-in bathtub is disclosed that allows for a first compartment of the walk-in bathtub to be filled with a quantity of water while a second compartment of the walk-in bathtub allows the user to enter the bathtub. A first movable gate contains a volume of water in the first compartment while the second compartment is in an unfilled condition. A second movable gate is operable to open and close an entry sidewall of the bathtub, allowing the user to enter the second compartment. The second movable gate is then moved to a closed position. When the second movable gate is in the closed condition, the first movable gate may be moved to an open condition to release the volume of water and fill the walk-in bathtub to a filled condition. A seat may be provided that is selectively elevated and lowered by drive mechanism.
US11596260B2
A beverage making apparatus including at least a beverage producing portion, a controllable by-pass water system, and at least one of a sweetener system or flavoring system in which the sweetener system and/or flavoring system controllably mixes a sweetener ingredient and/or flavoring ingredient with water external to the housing without mixing in a confined structure. A method for producing a beverage is provided including at least the steps of: providing a beverage making apparatus; providing a water dispensing system; providing at least one of a sweetener dispensing system and flavoring system; and controllably dispensing water and at least one of sweetener and flavoring externally of the apparatus for combination with beverage produced by the beverage making apparatus.
US11596259B2
The present invention provides a coffee tamper, comprising a casing. A driving device is arranged on the inner top of the casing, connected to a tamping device and used to drive the tamping device to press down and move up. The tamping device is used to press down a container filled with coffee powder and comprises a main shaft, the driving device is connected to the upper end of the main shaft, and a tamping head is connected to the lower end of the main shaft and can be pressed into the container; and in one of embodiments, a container pressing head is sleeved on outside of the tamping head and has an outer cover sleeved on outside of the tamping head, the lower edge of the outer cover is located on the same horizontal plane and presses against the upper edge of the container, and the tamping head can move up and down relative to the container pressing head. The present invention provides a novel coffee tamper, which can overcome defects of existing equipment, apply uniform pressure on coffee powder and make flat coffee powder.
US11596247B2
A pillow includes a head support, a neck support, and an opening extending entirely through a central portion of the pillow. The head support includes a top surface and a bottom surface, and defines a first height extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The neck support is coupled to the head support and includes a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface has a central portion and side portions. The central portion defines a second height extending between a base of the central portion and the bottom surface, and each of the side portions defines a third height extending between an apex of the respective side surface and the bottom surface. The third height is greater than the first and second heights.
US11596233B2
A compact recliner mechanism for use in theater seating units is provided that allows the seat to move linearly as the seating unit moves from the closed position to the reclined position. The mechanism has a back bracket coupled to the seat plate and base plate with a linkage that moves a projected point representing the top of the back of the seating unit downwardly in vertical plane as the seating unit moves from the closed position to the reclined position. In other aspects, the seating unit has an armrest linkage coupled between the seat plate and the back that maintains an armrest lever at a horizontal orientation. Additionally, in some aspects, the base plate of the seating unit may have an adjustment feature that limits recline of the seating unit, to accommodate theater seating with different riser dimensions, and/or legs with an adjustment feature to level the seating unit on existing theater floors.
US11596232B2
A chair includes a lower chair and an upper chair. The lower chair includes a tilt-swivel mechanism defining a vertical swivel axis, a yoke, and a column extending between the tilt-swivel mechanism and the yoke. The upper chair is pivotably mounted to the yoke about a horizontal upper chair pivot axis. The upper chair includes a seat adapted to cradle the ischial tuberosities of a user.
US11596225B1
A convertible furniture article includes a cabinet assembly; a countertop assembly, the countertop assembly attached to the cabinet assembly; a female wing; a male wing; wherein each of the female wing and the male wing are pivotally attached to the countertop assembly; and a rotatable linkage and pivot assembly connected to the countertop assembly and the cabinet assembly. The rotatable linkage and pivot assembly being configured to permit rotation of the countertop assembly approximately 90 degrees from a first position to a second position.
US11596215B2
Disclosed are shoulder belt sliding-down preventing method, and a related preventing tool, shoulder belt, and bag. The belt-shaped neck hanging element is connected to a belt at positions separated from each other via connecting members. A loop-shaped space is thereby formed between the belt body and the neck-hanging element. The head passes through this space, and the neck hanging element contacts the side of the neck. In operation, the connecting member is removed and held with one hand, the belt body is hung on the shoulder, the connecting member is passed around the back of the neck, the neck hanging element is hung around the neck, and the connecting member is engaged again with the belt body. The belt body of the shoulder bag can hang on the shoulder and the neck hanging element can be wound around the neck, thereby preventing the belt body from sliding down the shoulder.
US11596213B2
Systems and methods for luggage systems are provided. The luggage systems and methods include a luggage housing assembly having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion connected to the front housing portion by a hinge. The luggage systems and methods include a set of wheels mounted to the luggage housing assembly. The luggage systems and methods can include a rechargeable power supply assembly that includes a housing component and a battery module casing configured to receive a rechargeable battery module. The luggage systems and methods can include a compression pad subsystem configured to compress contents of the luggage within the housing portions.
US11596206B2
A last extension for a shoe last provides a pattern defining an origin location. The origin location on the last extension can be used to identify locations or points on a last or a shoe component on a last for control of location-critical manufacturing operations, including decorative and functional operations.
US11596200B2
An article may include a first polymeric material layer having a surface. A first conductive trace may form at least a portion of the first layer surface. The article may further include a second polymeric material layer. The second layer may have a first surface, a portion of the second layer first surface being bonded to a portion of the first layer surface. The second layer may have a portion of a channel defined therein, the channel at least partially coinciding with a portion of the first conductive trace. The article may also include a first patch interposed between the first layer surface and the second layer first surface. The first patch may span the channel and cover a portion of the first conductive trace.
US11596198B2
Sole structures (e.g., midsoles and/or outsoles) and articles of footwear include heel-supporting areas and/or forefoot-supporting areas that include a central area (e.g., a central recessed area) and a plurality of surrounding rings. Additionally or alternatively, the sole structures (e.g., midsoles and/or outsoles) may include bands of material defined by recessed grooves to provide a bumpstop type impact-force attenuating structure.
US11596187B2
A system for reducing trauma in the head or neck of a living being caused by acceleration of the head relative to a torso of the living being within a range of motion. The system includes a support engaging at least one of the head, neck, and shoulder of the living being without limiting the range of motion of the head or neck relative to the torso; a sensor in electrical communication with the system; a user interface in electrical communication with the sensor; and a damper associated with the support that is configured to mitigate the position, speed or acceleration of the head relative to the torso in response to information received by the sensor or user interface.
US11596186B2
A garment structure for making a base layer or midlayer jersey for sporting activities that includes a first tubular element that corresponds to both the front and the rear zone of the torso and a second tubular element that affects arms, shoulders and part of the torso in which both the first element and the second are obtained with circular machines making a knitted fabric that provides different processing that enable functional and structural features to be given to the knitted fabric and to the garment. In particular, the first tubular element has a cylindrical conformation with a lower edge that bounds the length of the jersey and an upper end divided into a pair of profiles: a first profile defined, laterally, by the line of the sides and a second profile that leads away from the line of the sides continuing the first profile with a trapezium configuration.
US11596182B2
An aerosol generation device includes a heater configured to generate an aerosol by heating an aerosol generating substrate; and a controller configured to control power to be supplied to the heater by a battery using a control signal, wherein the controller is further configured to identify state information of the battery at a heating start time point when the heater starts to be heated and calculate a duty ratio of the control signal based on the identified state information.
US11596170B2
A cone staging apparatus for production of smoking articles includes (a) a frame, and (b) a cone pallet releasably supported by the frame. The cone pallet includes a plurality of cavities. Each cavity has an open upper end for receiving a cone therein. The apparatus further includes (c) a cone magazine adjacent the frame for holding a supply of cones. The cone magazine includes at least one escapement alignable over the open upper end of a respective cavity of the cone pallet to facilitate transferring a single cone from the supply of cones to the respective cavity.
US11596169B2
A machine and method for packaging tobacco sachets, comprising a plurality of linearly arranged, multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers having fluid sealing means on lower portions thereof, conveyor means disposed below the plurality of multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers, and a lidding apparatus disposed downstream of and in communication with the plurality of vertically moveable chambers through the conveyor means.
US11596167B2
The present invention relates to infant formulas and follow-on formulas containing optimised amino acid profiles, in particular optimised amounts and/or ratios of phenylalanine. The formulas may contain intact proteins, hydrolysed proteins, protein fractions, free amino acids and/or a combination thereof selected based on their ability to provide the formula with an optimised amino acid profile. The present invention also relates to the administration of these formulas to infants in order to achieve balanced growth and/or development, for promoting, assisting or achieving balanced growth or development of the brain of an infant and/or the cognitive function of an infant, and may also assist in preventing or reducing the risk of obesity later in life.
US11596160B2
A filling, coating or spread for use in food applications comprising a structured fat system, wherein the structured fat system comprises from 10 w/w % to 90 w/w % of a lipid and from 10 w/w % to 90 w/w % of an edible porous particle, wherein the lipid is present as a continuous phase in said structured fat system. The use of a structured fat system for reducing the trans- and saturated fat content of a filling, coating or spread, wherein the structured fat system comprises from 10 w/w % to 90 w/w % of a lipid and from 10 w/w % to 90 w/w % of an edible porous particle, wherein the lipid is present as a continuous phase in said structured fat system.
US11596156B2
A method for processing carcasses of livestock, includes the processing steps of: positioning a hanging livestock carcass; making an incision along the spine of the positioned hanging livestock carcass; loosening the meat from opposite sides of the feather bones of the spine; and splitting the spine of the carcass. A device for processing carcasses of livestock is arranged for enabling the process steps.
US11596155B2
A method for manufacturing a food product includes depositing a first foodstuff; transporting the first foodstuff in a first driven direction; depositing a second foodstuff upon a portion of an upper surface of the first foodstuff; transporting the first foodstuff with the second foodstuff deposited thereupon in the first driven direction; separating the first foodstuff with the second foodstuff metered thereupon into a plurality of sheet segments; serially transporting each sheet segment of the plurality of sheet segments from the first driven direction to a second driven direction that is transverse to the first driven direction; compressing the serially transported sheet segments for forming a plurality of thickness segments including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff that define an elongated, food product body; separating the elongated, food product body into a plurality of food product body units; and finishing the plurality of food product body units.
US11596154B2
A health functional food product prepared by fermenting a dough containing whey, including a health functional bakery product prepared by: preparing a sponge and a dough by adding and mixing about 1.0 to 10 wt part of a whey powder and about 0.01 to 1.0 wt part of a mixture of probiotic preparation consisting of Leuconostoc strain, Lactobacillus strain and 2 kinds of Saccharomyces strains as to 100 wt part of a dough; and fermenting, aging and baking the dough. Such may be used to prepare a health functional bakery product as well as a health functional Lactobacillus fermented drink using said health functional bakery product.
US11596144B2
A method of detecting the presence of insects, including larvae, in an indoor environment, which includes the steps of (a) obtaining a sample of volatile organic compounds (VOCs); (b) separating the sampled VOCs; (c) detecting the presence or absence of “target” VOCs from at least one category: “category 1 VOCs”—VOCs emitted independently of the support on which the insects develop and emitted only in an insect infestation VOCs, “category 2 VOCs”—VOCs emitted independently of the support but may have biological origins other than insects, and “category 3 VOCs”—VOCs emitted depending on the support and emitted only in an insect infestation; (d) calculating both an insect infestation index (“3I”) and a limit value (“VL”) based on the presence or absence of the target VOCs; and (e) comparing the “3I” and “VL” values. The environment is infested for a “3I” value strictly greater than the “VL” value.
US11596134B2
A fishing tool is provided for use in association with the performance of fishing and other similar activities, and more particularly, to a rod-mountable fishing tool exhibiting an integrated aesthetic appearance wherein aesthetic shapes and features also can serve multiple functions associated with tasks typically performed while fishing, such as cutting of lines, nipping of knots, tying of knots, storage of hooks and lines, and other tasks.
US11596130B2
An egg-examining device, comprising a sampling device, by which a liquid sample to be taken can be taken from an egg of a rack loaded with eggs, a feeding device for feeding the rack loaded with eggs to the sampling device, and a control unit, by which the feeding device and the sampling device can be controlled. The feeding device feeds the rack to the sampling device at an oblique angle of between 20° and 80° to a plane perpendicular to the direction of gravity. A lifting-out device is provided, by which the egg can be lifted out of the rack and by which the egg can be put into a sampling position, in which the liquid amount to be taken can be taken from the egg by the sampling device.
US11596129B2
Methods of making a pet grooming and skin care appliance and grooming an animal with the appliance by rotating the appliance with a hand held power drill. The appliance includes a drum secured to a rigid arbor. The drum defines an axis of rotation and has an array of flexible and resilient fingers of specific durometer extending radially outward from the axis of rotation. The arbor extends coaxially away from a proximal end of the drum.
US11596128B2
A fluid directing grooming glove apparatus for vacuuming and washing pets includes a glove body having a glove opening configured to receive a user's hand. A fluid diverter is coupled to the glove body and has a hose aperture and a plurality of tube apertures. Each tube aperture is in fluid communication with the hose aperture. A plurality of finger tubes is coupled to the glove body and attached to, and in fluid communication with, the tube apertures of the fluid diverter. A feed hose is coupled to the fluid diverter. The feed hose has a hose distal end attached to, and in fluid communication with, the hose aperture and a hose connector coupled to a hose proximal end. The hose connector attaches to a vacuum hose or a water hose to either suck air or spray water through the finger tubes.
US11596126B2
An animal tether system and method wherein the rate of extension and retraction of the tether and/or the length of the tether can be actively controlled at least in part as a function of the angular direction and/or speed and/or length of which the tether extends/retracts. The system can be used to maintain an animal in a non-circular boundary, such as a rectangular space, by controlling how far the tether can extend at certain angular positions. The system also allows a user to block off certain areas within a space from access by the animal.
US11596121B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PNCU10 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PNCU10 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PNCU10 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PNCU10 or a locus conversion of 1PNCU10 with another maize variety.
US11596117B2
A system (100) for controlling garden equipment by operating a garden equipment control device (110), the system (100) comprising: a first module (120) configured to pair with the garden equipment control device (110) over a first network (N1), where the first module (120) is configured to control the garden equipment control device (110) when paired therewith; a second module (200) configured to wirelessly communicate with the garden equipment control device (110) over a second network (N2), wherein the second module (200) is connected to the garden equipment control device (110) through a gateway (210); and a controller associated with the garden equipment control device (110), wherein the controller is configured to check whether the garden equipment control device (110) is paired with the gateway (210); characterized in that: wherein when the controller determines that the garden equipment control device (110) is paired with the gateway (210): the second module (200) is enabled to control the garden equipment control device (110), and the first module (120) is disabled to control the garden equipment control device (110).
US11596106B2
A supply apparatus for supplying wrapping material to a wrapper inlet of a baling chamber, in which a bale is to be wrapped. A reservoir supplies the wrapping material to an upper driven roller forming a lower part of the wrapper inlet. The wrapping material is guided to the wrapper inlet from above the wrapper inlet. A displaceable supply unit is located between the reservoir and the upper driven roller, the supply unit being moveable between a baling position and a wrapping position about a pivot axis located above the wrapper inlet. A free end of the wrapping material outside of the baling chamber is protected by the displaceable supply unit from air turbulence during operation of the baling apparatus.
US11596097B2
A cultivation method based on an optimization of a plant nitrogen fertilizer disclosure amount includes: selecting plants to be planted in this batch, recording a number of the plants planted this time, and preparing different parts of nitrogen fertilizer for individual plants, each part of the nitrogen fertilizer being 10 g; and planting the same batch of plants every Monday with an interval of one week and fertilizing the planted plants in the second week after planting. According to the cultivation method based on the optimization of the plant nitrogen fertilizer disclosure amount, by adopting a mode of more tests and less planting, consumed plant seedlings are correspondingly reduced when a worker calculates an optimal fertilizer disclosure amount, thus effectively avoiding excessive waste, making a cost of a subsequent use cheaper, bringing a help to a whole experiment, and enabling people to use the method more conveniently.
US11596093B2
The invention relates to a method for predictively generating data for controlling a drive track and an operating sequence of an agricultural vehicle and of an agricultural machine, the method comprising the steps automatically detecting and storing vehicle and/or machine data through a sensor arrangement that is arranged at individual vehicles or individual machines for generating a vehicle and machine model; collecting and storing data regarding a three dimensional terrain topography and/or data regarding current and/or forecasted terrain properties and/or a weather condition for generating a predictive three dimensional geo referenced terrain model; optimizing imaging of the vehicle and machine model into the three dimensional predictive terrain model and computing drive track control data for defining a drive track and/or machine control data for controlling machine components; putting out and transmitting the drive track control data and/or the machine control data to a control unit of the agricultural vehicle and/or agricultural machine.
US11602091B2
The present application relates to an electromagnetic wave shielding film, which can provide an electromagnetic wave shielding film having excellent mechanical strength, flexibility, electrical insulation properties, bonding properties with other constituents, oxidation and high-temperature stability and the like, while having excellent electromagnetic shielding ability.
US11602089B2
In a high-frequency module provided with a shield member between components, improvement in the degree of freedom in design such as arrangement of components or the like is achieved while preventing damage to a wiring board. A high-frequency module (1a) includes a multilayer wiring board (2), a plurality of components (3a) and (3b) mounted on an upper surface (20a) of the multilayer wiring board (2), and a shield member (5) for shielding between the component (3a) and the component (3b), in which the shield member (5) is formed in a flat plate shape, with a plurality of metal pins (5a) each stacked in a thickness direction of the sealing resin layer (4) such that a length direction is made to be substantially parallel to the upper surface (20a) of the multilayer wiring board (2), and a resin molded portion (5b) for fixing the metal pins (5a).
US11602083B2
Disclosed is system, method, and rack stand portion for the advantageous cooling of computer equipment. The rack stand includes a hollow body that may be formed of cartridges. Gas from an airflow source is guided into the rack stand body and then into a sealed case of the computer equipment. Air flow is then guided out of the computer equipment for recirculation, exhaust, or other purpose.
US11602065B1
This disclosure provides a waterproof structure of an electronic device having a box, a cable, a sealant, and a cover. The box has an opening and a groove defined on the box along an edge of the opening, the groove is extended in a closed curve manner, and an outer through opening communicated with the groove is defined on an external surface of the box and the groove has an inner through opening communicated with an internal space of the box. An outer baffle and an inner baffle respectively corresponding to the outer and the inner through opening are arranged on the cable, the cable penetrates the box through the outer and the inner through opening, and the outer and the inner baffle respectively close the outer and the inner through opening. The sealant is filled in the groove. The cover body covers the opening and closes the groove.
US11602064B2
Process assemblies and cable management assemblies for managing cables in tight envelopes. A processing assembly includes a top chamber having at least one substrate support, a support shaft, a robot spindle assembly, a stator and a cable management system. The cable management system includes an inner trough assembly and an outer trough assembly configured to move relative to one another, and a plurality of chain links configured to house at least one cable for delivering power to the process assembly.
US11602061B2
A field of enclosures for electronics and electrical components within electric devices, such as electric drive devices for industrial applications, e.g. for working machine and marine applications, and more particularly to an electronics enclosure arrangement for an electric device, and to an electric device. The electronics enclosure arrangement according to the present invention is arranged for an electric device, the electric device including one or more circuit boards and electronics components assembled on the one or more circuit boards, wherein the electronics enclosure arrangement includes an electronics enclosure cover; and an at least one volume element part, arranged in the space between the electronics enclosure cover and the one or more circuit boards with the electronics components.
US11602060B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display devices, in particular, to a rear housing assembly and a display device. The rear housing assembly includes: a rear housing, a back plate, and a connecting assembly. The back plate and the rear housing are disposed oppositely in a thickness direction of the display device. The connecting assembly includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part. One of the first connecting part and the second connecting part is coupled to the rear housing, and the other is coupled to the back plate. The first connecting part includes a limiting cavity extending in the thickness direction, the second connecting part includes a limiting engaging portion, the limiting engaging portion extends into the limiting cavity, and the limiting engaging portion is engaged with the first connecting part.
US11602056B2
Circuit board includes conductive plate, core dielectric layer, metallization layer, first build-up stack, second build-up stack. Conductive plate has channels extending from top surface to bottom surface. Core dielectric layer extends on covering top surface and side surfaces of conductive plate. Metallization layer extends on core dielectric layer and within channels of conductive plate. Core dielectric layer insulates metallization layer from conductive plate. First build-up stack is disposed on top surface of conductive plate and includes conductive layers alternately stacked with dielectric layers. Conductive layers electrically connect to metallization layer. Second build-up stack is disposed on bottom surface of conductive plate. Second build-up stack includes bottommost dielectric layer and bottommost conductive layer. Bottommost dielectric layer covers bottom surface of conductive plate. Bottommost conductive layer is disposed on bottommost dielectric layer and electrically connects to metallization layer. First build-up stack includes more conductive and dielectric layers than second build-up stack.
US11602052B2
A device for fixing a camera module, includes a base part; and a fixing unit including a first fixing part for supporting one side of each of a plurality of boards, and a second fixing part for supporting the other side facing one side of each of the plurality of boards, wherein a plurality of first fixing parts extends in a first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts protruding in the direction perpendicular to the first direction in order to support one side of each of the plurality of boards, and a plurality of second fixing parts extends in the first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts for supporting the other side of each of the plurality of boards.
US11602050B2
A flexible printed circuit board includes: a proximal end portion; a left strip portion and a right strip portion that extend in the rear direction from the proximal end portion; and conductive paths, a portion of which is provided spanning from the proximal end portion to the left strip portion, and another portion of which is provided spanning from the proximal end portion to the right strip portion. In portions of the conductive path in the left strip portion and the right strip portion, strip side connecting portions that are electrically connected to electrode terminals of electricity storage devices are provided. In the left strip portion, a deformation portion that deforms to increase the distance between the left strip portion and the right strip portion is provided.
US11602046B2
A wiring board according to the present disclosure includes a core board including an upper surface, a lower surface, a through-hole penetrating from the upper surface to the lower surface, and a plurality of glass fibers located inside, and a through-hole conductor located in the through-hole. The through-hole conductor includes a first portion located on an inner wall of the through-hole, and second portions connected to the first portion and located inside the glass fibers. The second portions include portions in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction in a planar direction of the core board, the portions having a shorter length in the planar direction from the inner wall of the through-hole than portions, of the second portions, in directions other than the first direction and the second direction.
US11602043B2
A system may include a circuit board comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive layers separated and supported by layers of insulating material laminated together, wherein the plurality of electrically-conductive layers comprises a ground plane and the layers of insulating material comprise a surface layer having one or more openings through which the ground plane is exposed through the one or more openings. The system may also include a plurality of electrically-conductive pads formed on a surface of the surface layer and a cable comprising a first signal conductor mechanically contacted to a first pad of the plurality of electrically-conductive pads and a first drain conductor mechanically contacted to the ground plane through the one or more openings.
US11602041B2
Described herein are cooling hardware and methods for cooling a heterogeneous computing architecture. In one embodiment, a system for cooling a heterogeneous computing architecture includes a base stiffener; a top stiffener including a mounting channel; a printed circuit board (PCB) including multiple electronics and chips, the PCB that is attached to the base stiffener; and a cooling device mounted on top of the top stiffener. One or more heat transfer plates (HTP) are inserted into the top stiffener via the mounting channel to transfer heat generated by the hardware modules to the cooling device, while resistance channels inside the top stiffener are designed for ensuring proper loading pressure on the entire assembly.
US11602036B2
A multimode switch includes a line voltage switch, coupled to a line voltage and a device; a switch controller that directs the line voltage switch to provide line voltage to, and subsequently remove line voltage from, the device, and that receives first identifying information and a functional group designation for the device, and that controls the device according to the first identifying information and the functional group designation; and a ground leakage power supply, coupled to an AC hot line and to an earth ground, that generates a regulated voltage to power the switch controller without requiring connection to an AC neutral line, while limiting ground leakage current to the earth ground to a prescribed leakage value.
US11602034B2
A system (1) is configured to receive device control information. The device control information specifies how devices, e.g. lights, should be controlled. The device control information may identify specific devices or specify device requirements, for example. The system is further configured to form a group of identified devices by analyzing the device control information, the identified devices of the group being controlled similarly according to the device control information. The system is also configured to transmit at least one message comprising an identifier of the group to allow the identified devices to be configured to carry out one or more commands comprising the identifier when receiving such one or more commands. The at least one message identifies the identified devices of the group.
US11602031B2
A grounded voltage protection circuit for a linear drive circuit includes an AC-DC power supply module, a first voltage protection module, an LED module, a drive IC and a linear current adjustment module. Through the cooperation of the first voltage protection module, the drive IC and the linear current adjustment module, when a DC voltage signal output by the AC-DC power supply module exceeds a first preset voltage value, the first voltage protection module outputs the first preset voltage signal to prevent the drive IC and the LED module from being damaged due to the overvoltage output by the AC-DC module, and avoid the transient impulse voltage in the entire voltage protection circuit, thereby enabling the voltage protection circuit to pass the CEC certification.
US11602029B2
A lighting circuit turns on multiple semiconductor light sources. Multiple current sources are each coupled in series with a corresponding one from among the semiconductor light sources. A switching converter supplies a driving voltage VOUT across each of multiple series connection circuits formed of the multiple semiconductor light sources and the multiple current sources. A converter controller controls a switching transistor of the switching converter based on a relation between a voltage across one from among the multiple current sources and a reference voltage having a positive correlation with the temperature Tj.
US11602023B2
A luminaire adapted to apply an auto-gradient effect across pixels has an interface coupled by a connection to a controller. The controller has electronic circuitry that receives a predetermined start light parameter for a start pixel of a luminaire and receives a predetermined end light parameter for an end pixel of the first luminaire, the predetermined end light parameter greater than the predetermined start light parameter. The controller circuitry then automatically interpolates a gradient effect for a middle light parameter of each of a plurality of middle pixels of the luminaire based on the start and end predetermined light parameters. The controller circuitry then outputs control signals having the start, end and middle light parameters to the start, end and middle light pixels, respectively, through the connection and to the interface.
US11602018B2
A heating element for heating cigarette and a heater are disclosed, the heating element includes: a heating part at a proximal end of the heating element, with a longitudinal axis along the longitudinal direction of the heating element; the heating part is configured for inserting inside the cigarette along the longitudinal direction; a fixing part at a distal end of the heating element and secured with the heating part, the fixing part is provided with an air inlet; the heating part comprises an air flow path formed therein and extending along the longitudinal direction; the air inlet is in communication with the air flow path; the heating part is bored with an air hole that communicates the air flow path with outside the heating part, such that the air flow in the air flow path is flowing into the cigarette.
US11602015B1
A control and protection circuit of a heater, a towel heating barrel and a control method thereof are provided in this disclosure. The control and protection circuit of the heater includes a power module, a power supply module, a control module, a temperature detection module and a heating module. The power module, the power supply module and the heating module are connected in series to supply power to the heating module, the control module is in signal connection with the power supply module to control on and off of the power supply module, and the temperature detection module in signal connection with the control module. The power supply module includes a high-temperature protection switch, a fuse and a relay. The control and protection circuit of the whole heater has three levels of protection, which can not only effectively provide high-temperature protection, but also ensure service life of the heater.
US11602009B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a non-transitory computer readable medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions for providing a mobile user monitoring solution that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to capture a first message transmitted over a packet forwarding control protocol (PFCP) interface, extract a permanent ID and a first user plane tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) from the first message, store the permanent ID and the first user plane TEID in a PFCP protocol data unit (PDU) session record, store the permanent ID in a session details record, capture a second message transmitted over a user plane interface after the first message is transmitted, extract a second user plane TEID from the second message, wherein the second user plane TEID matches the first user plane TEID, and retrieve the session details record using the second user plane TEID.
US11601998B2
According to an embodiment, An electronic device comprises at least one communication circuit, a display and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform connection of second communication network in response to receiving an add configuration for the second communication network based on first communication network using the at least one communication circuit, with the first communication network connected, control the display to display a first indicator indicating that the second communication network is connected, based on the connection of the second communication network, measure a parameter of a signal corresponding to the second communication network, based on detection of a disconnection of the second communication network, and determine whether to display the first indicator based on the parameter of the signal. Other certain embodiments are possible as well.
US11601993B2
A wireless communication device may locate a proximate object in an environment, such as an electronic device or a resource. During this communication technique, the wireless communication device may receive a transmission that includes an identifier associated with the object. The wireless communication device may determine a range and/or a direction of the object from the wireless communication device. For example, the wireless communication device may determine the range and/or the direction, at least in part, using wireless ranging. Next, the wireless communication device may present output information that indicates the range and/or the direction. In particular, the wireless communication device may display a map of a proximate area with an indicator representative of the object shown on the map. Alternatively, the wireless communication device may display an image of the proximate area with the indicator representative of the object on the image.
US11601987B2
For collision handling between shortened Transmission Time Interval (sTTI) and Transmission Time Interval (TTI) transmissions, a method determines a collision between user equipment (UE) uplink transmission resources in a first TTI 16 of a first TTI length and uplink transmission resources in a second TTI 16 of a second TTI length. The method further transmits a first uplink data transmission block (TB) in the first TTI and a second uplink data TB in the second TTI. The method interrupts the transmission of the first uplink data TB before transmission of the second uplink data TB. The method receives an indication that indicates whether to resume transmission of the first uplink data TB. The method determines to resume the transmission of the first uplink TB based on the indication.
US11601970B2
A communication device receives an uplink grant from a node of a cellular network. The uplink grant indicates uplink radio resources allocated to the communication device in reoccurring time intervals. For each of these time intervals, the communication device selects between an active mode and an inactive mode. In the active mode the communication device performs an uplink transmission in the allocated uplink radio resources. In the inactive mode the communication device performs no uplink transmission in the allocated uplink radio resources.
US11601967B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a grant scheduling a downlink transmission of a set of configurable downlink transmissions. The downlink transmission may include reference slots corresponding to offset values associated with one or more feedback occasions. The UE may construct a feedback codebook based on a first quantity of slots in the set of configurable downlink transmissions, a second quantity of reference slots in the set of configurable downlink transmissions, and a third quantity of configurable offset values associated with one or more feedback occasions. Based on a size of the feedback codebook, the UE may generate feedback bits for reporting whether the UE successfully received a downlink transmission in corresponding slots. In some examples, the UE may identify a slot with a symbol reserved for an uplink transmission, and skip generating a corresponding feedback bit for the identified slot.
US11601956B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless communication. In one embodiment, the UE first receives a first signaling, then receives a second signaling, and finally receives a first radio signal on target time-frequency resources; wherein the target time-frequency resources comprise time-frequency resources among second time-frequency resources other than first time-frequency resources, and the second signaling is used for determining whether the target time-frequency resources comprise the first time-frequency resources and the second time-frequency resources. The present disclosure makes effective use of the remaining time-frequency resources that transmit control information in a time interval less than 1 millisecond, thus improving resource utilization.
US11601944B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for virtual carrier operation in wireless systems with large carrier bandwidth. In one novel aspect, virtual carrier (VC) with a block of physically contiguous radio resources within a component carrier is configured. In one embodiment, the UE configures a downlink (DL) common virtual carrier (CVC) and an uplink (UL) CVC, which carry control information for the UE, and one or more DL/UL dedicated VCs (DVCs), which carry data services. In one embodiment, the UE obtains the CVC configuration information including the channel bandwidth and the physical location through system information. In another embodiment, the UE obtains DVC configuration through an RRC-layer signaling. In another novel aspect, the UE obtains a VC configuration switch command through either a MAC signal or a PHY signal, and subsequently reconfigures one or more configured VCs based on the received switch command.
US11601939B2
A base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink control information to a user equipment, the downlink control information being generated based on one of (1) a first uplink allocation information indicating a first frequency block corresponding to a first plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and (2) a second uplink allocation information indicating a second frequency block corresponding to a second plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and a third frequency block corresponding to a third plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency, the second frequency block and the third frequency block being separated in frequency.
US11601936B2
Disclosed is a method and device for configuring sidelink resources. The method includes: a network side indicates time domain resources of a sidelink resource pool used for sidelink communication, where the sidelink resource pool includes at least one slot in time domain, and a slot includes at least one time domain symbol, the time domain resources of the sidelink resource pool are dedicated resources of the sidelink communication, or resources shared by the sidelink communication and a cellular link. Further disclosed are a system for configuring resources, and a storage medium.
US11601934B2
Data transmission methods and devices are provided. A data sender determines a target sending position based on channel detection results of available sending positions within a set time window. The length of the set time window is associated with a type of data to be transmitted. The data to be transmitted includes signaling or a signal that is periodically sent. The length of the set time window does not exceed a transmission period of the data to be transmitted. The data sender may further transmit the data at the target sending position.
US11601931B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, techniques for an enhanced paging procedure. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting, during a paging occasion (PO), at least one downlink control information (DCI) that indicates a paging message and additional downlink signals and using the additional downlink signals to enhance processing of the paging message.
US11601923B2
A UCI transmission method and a mobile terminal are provided, which relate to the field of communication technology and are used for ensuring normal transmission of UCI. The method includes: in a case that at least one of K first time-domain resources aggregated in a time domain on an uplink data channel conflicts with a second time-domain resource on an uplink control channel for carrying UCI, transmitting the UCI on M ones of the K first time-domain resources; K is an integer greater than 1, M is a positive integer less than or equal to K. Normal transmission of the UCI may be ensured by carrying the UCI on at least one first time-domain resource, when a time conflict occurs between time-domain resources aggregated in time domain on an uplink data channel and a time-domain resource on an uplink control channel for carrying the UCI.
US11601921B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify an opportunistic conversion of a particular resource from a downlink resource into an uplink or full-duplex resource. The UE may determine at least one parameter for the particular resource based at least in part on identifying the opportunistic conversion of the particular resource from the downlink resource into the uplink or full-duplex resource, wherein the at least one parameter includes at least one of a power control parameter, a bandwidth part configuration, a configured grant configuration, or a random access configuration. The UE may communicate, using the particular resource, in accordance with the at least one parameter. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11601916B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may measure the reference signal received power (RSRP) of reference signals from other UEs in a time window and exclude resources of transmissions with a measurement which is above RSRP threshold. In some cases, not enough resources are identified, and the UE may increase the RSRP and search for resources again, however the UE may only increase the RSRP until a stop RSRP limit is reached. The UE may increase the RSRP based on an absolute value or a factor of an incremental power value. Once the stop RSRP threshold is reached, the UE may modify the size of the time window, shift the time window, or reduce the number of retransmission of the sidelink message to search for resources for the sidelink message.
US11601915B2
A multi-channel transmission method of a V2X communication apparatus is disclosed. A multi-channel transmission method of a V2X communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes acquiring CBR values for each of a plurality of channels; setting a CBR threshold on the basis of the CBR values; selecting a channel candidate group on the basis of the CBR threshold; and transmitting data through a channel included in the channel candidate group.
US11601905B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and particularly to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an SSB, the SSB comprising 15 kHz-granularity-based offset information; determining, on the basis of the 15 kHz-granularity-based offset information, a subcarrier offset used to identify the frequency position of a CORESET linked to the SSB; and monitoring, on the basis of the subcarrier offset, the CORESET linked to the SSB.
US11601904B2
A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
US11601898B2
An integrated communication power system supplies power to a communication equipment, and the communication equipment includes a base station module and an antenna processing module. The integrated communication power system includes a first transfer switch, a first integrated conversion module, a DC conversion module, and an energy storage module. The first transfer switch selectively switches one of input sources and a renewable energy to be coupled to the first integrated conversion module to receive an input voltage. The first integrated conversion module converts the input voltage into a DC voltage, and the DC conversion module provides an output voltage to supply power to the antenna processing module according to the DC voltage. The energy storage module receives an energy storage voltage provided by the first integrated conversion module or the DC conversion module to supply power to the base station module.
US11601896B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a power headroom report. One method includes determining a power headroom report for transmission on a physical uplink shared channel resource corresponding to a configured grant. The method includes transmitting the power headroom report on the physical uplink shared channel resource, wherein: determining the power headroom report comprises determining whether the power headroom report is based on a real transmission or a reference format based on signaling for configured grants and downlink control information received up until a predetermined time before a first uplink symbol of the physical uplink shared channel resource; and the predetermined time is computed based on: a first parameter set to zero; and a subcarrier spacing of an active downlink bandwidth part of a scheduling cell for the configured grant.
US11601875B2
An application management apparatus for controlling tasks, including a task split and response merge circuit configured to divide an application into a plurality of tasks and associate respective Key Performance Indicator (KPI) attributes to the plurality of tasks; and a task management circuit configured to allocate each of the plurality of tasks to a first or second Radio Access Technology (RAT) based on the KPI attributes, and to derive a plurality of task responses from the first or second RATs to which the respective plurality of tasks are allocated, wherein the task split and response merge circuit is further configured to merge the task responses to select the first or second RAT to run the application.
US11601873B2
Systems and methods are provided by which all APs in a particular deployment can be used to assist in the out-of-band discovery of 6 GHz radios by client devices. That is, a series of iterative operations can be performed to: (I) determine the state of 6 GHz radios in a zone/deployment area; (II) identify what radios can be considered near-neighbors to non-6 GHz radios for purposes of advertising one or more of the 6 GHz radios; (Ill) rank neighboring 6 GHz radios for a given non-6 GHz radio based on certain radio metrics; and (IV) ultimately determine those 6 GHz radios that can be advertised by the given non-6 GHz radio.
US11601871B2
A data connection establishment method and a terminal device, where the method includes receiving, by an application processor (AP), a switch-on instruction, sending, by the AP, a network searching instruction to a communications processor (CP), where the network searching instruction instructs the CP to search for a network, receiving, by the AP, subscriber identity module (SIM) card status change information and network status change information from the CP, and sending, by the AP, a data connection establishment instruction to the CP based on the SIM card status change information and the network status change information, where the data connection establishment instruction instructs the CP to establish a data connection to the found network.
US11601867B2
A management method is described, the management method implemented by a core network entry device. The method comprises, for at least one terminal connected to the mobile access network via an access point, following the receipt of an NAS request from the terminal, detecting whether a contention period is associated with this terminal. If not, a contention period to be applied for sending NAS requests to the network core is associated with and transmitted to the terminal. If a contention time is associated with the terminal and has not been respected by the terminal a temporary identifier allocated to the terminal for communicating with the network core is sent to the terminal via the access point, and a control message comprising at least a part of the temporary identifier is sent to the access point, the control message requiring blocking by the access point of all or part of the requests sent by a terminal which contains at least one part of the temporary identifier.
US11601863B2
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services.
US11601856B2
A user equipment, apparatus provided in a user equipment, and method are for receiving a Multicast Broadcast Service, and include receiving a system information block (SIB) from a current serving cell of the user equipment, and performing a cell reselection operation where a cell having a highest ranking determined based on a radio quality and an offset is selected as a serving cell of the user equipment from among a plurality of cells. In the cell reselection operation, a determination is made, based on the SIB, whether to use an infinite offset as the offset to be applied to a cell providing the Multicast Broadcast Service.
US11601853B2
The invention provides a method of and apparatus for controlling a ProSe service in a communication system. An eNB sends a first PLMN identifier, and carrier frequency information of another PLMN to indicate at least one carrier frequency at which a UE of the other PLMN can carry out the ProSe service, to a UE in a shared cell, and if the UE is in an idle state, then the UE reselects a cell or selects a PLMN; or if the UE is in a connected state, then the UE performs a handover procedure. If the handover procedure fails, then the UE releases an RRC connection to enter the idle states, or is DRX-configured and carries out the ProSe service in a DRX sleep time. With the solution of the invention, the UE can reselect or be handed over to the cell to carry out the ProSe service at the carrier frequency indicated by the carrier frequency information to thereby avoid the problem of an overload arising from too many ProSe services being carried out concurrently in the shared cell.
US11601842B2
A communication device includes a receiver , a transmitter that executes first transmission processing and second transmission processing , and a controller that controls the transmitter in accordance with a radio quality of wireless communication so that either the first transmission processing or the second transmission processing is executed.
US11601839B1
A wireless access point (WAP) supports one or more physical layer (PHY) operational parameters which can be restricted from use to lessen congestion within a wireless network (WN). The WAP periodically transmits a management frame to enable one or more communication devices to establish and/or maintain communication with the WAP. The wireless network can restrict one or more of the one or more PHY operational parameters, such as PHY data rates to provide an example, that are supported by the WAP from being utilized for communicating the management frame. This restriction of the one or more PHY operational parameters allows the WAP to periodically transmit the management frame at an increased PHY data rate thereby decreasing time needed for communicating the management frame which can lessen the congestion within the WN.
US11601838B2
A non-connection state measurement method, UE, and a base station are provided. The measurement method according to this disclosure includes: acquiring measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more frequencies; starting, by the UE in a non-connection state, to perform measurements in the one or more frequencies according to the measurement configuration information; and reporting, by the UE after the UE enters a connected state from the non-connection state, a measurement result obtained from the measurements.
US11601835B2
A beam detection method and apparatus addresses communication quality for downlink beam detection. The beam detection method comprises: a user equipment receiving beam quality monitoring signals sent by a network device by using M beams; determining signal quality indicators of M beam quality monitoring signals, and determining, based on the signal quality indicator of each of the M beam quality monitoring signals, a beam quality indicator of a beam used for sending a beam quality monitoring signal; generating a first detection report which comprises at least one of indication information of at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet a first threshold, from among the M beams, the beam quality indicator of the at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet the first threshold, from among the M beams.
US11601829B2
A modular test instrument for performing tests and measurements in a network is disclosed. The modular test instrument may include a modular processing unit comprising a processor and memory, the modular processing unit connectable to at least one modular test unit or modular test subunit. The modular test instrument may also include a modular display unit connectable to the modular processing unit or the modular test unit. Display modularity may enable quick and cost-efficient display replacement when damage, malfunction, or failure is incurred. Furthermore, the modular test instrument may include an additional modular test subunit connectable to at least one of the modular processing unit or the modular test unit. When the modular processing unit is fitted with the modular display unit, the modular least, or modular test subunit, for example, the modular test instrument may form an integrated test instrument for performing any number of tests and measurements associated with installation, troubleshooting, or maintenance of a long-term evolution (LTE) or 5G network.
US11601825B2
Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for dynamic management of the timing of data transfer between a connected vehicle and a remote computing system. For example, during navigation a connected vehicle may switch between connections to a number of different networks, each having different parameters (cost, bandwidth, quality, etc.). The disclosed techniques can use inputs including vehicle location, available networks, and data transfer timing requirements to optimize data transfer with respect to one or more of these parameters.
US11601822B2
This disclosure provides a random access method and a communications device. The method includes: transmitting a message in a random access process by using a target beam in selectable beams, where the message in the random access process is an Msg1, an Msg2, an Msg3, or an Msg4.
US11601819B2
Systems and methods for orchestration and configuration of end-to-end network slices across a 3GPP core network and ORAN are described. The network includes a NSMF that receives an AllocateNSI operation with attributes to allocate an NSI. The AllocateNSI operation includes an attributeListIn parameter that specifies network slice properties in a ServiceProfile to be supported by the NSI. The NSMF determines that a new NSI is to be created rather than using an existing NSI and that the new NSI is to contain a NSSI (RAN) and a NSSI (CN). The NSMF communicates with a NSSMF (RAN) and NSSMF (CN) to create the new NSI. The new NSI includes an O-CU-CP, O-CU-UP and O-DU VNFs, and an O-RU PNF for the NSSI (RAN), and UPF, AMF, and SMF VNFs for the NSSI (CN).
US11601817B2
This Application sets forth techniques for cellular wireless service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including delayed delivery of an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to the secondary mobile wireless device for subscription to cellular wireless service of a mobile network operator (MNO).
US11601802B2
A method for providing system information (SI) by a base station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The SI includes minimum SI and at least one other SI block. The method includes broadcasting the minimum SI having an area identification (ID) and at least one value tag, and receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message requesting the at least one other SI block from a user equipment (UE) when the area ID is different from a stored area ID on the UE or when the value tag is different from a stored value tag on the UE.
US11601801B2
System, method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing mobile device support services
A method is provided for providing mobile device support services. The method may include monitoring a mobile device status. The method may additionally include performing device diagnostics based at least in part on captured deice status data to identify potential faults that may affect mobile device functionality. A corresponding system, apparatus, and computer program product are also provided.
US11601800B2
A converged wireless subsystem environment includes a converged wireless front end controller. The converged wireless front end controller includes: a WiFi modem control circuit, the WiFi modem control circuit generating WiFi modem control information for controlling a WiFi modem; a cellular radio control circuit, the cellular radio control circuit generating cellular radio control information for controlling a cellular radio; a WiFi modem sideband interface, the WiFi modem control circuit communicating the WiFi modem control information with the WiFi modem via the WiFi modem sideband interface; and, a cellular radio sideband interface, the cellular radio control circuit communicating the cellular radio control information with the cellular radio via the cellular radio sideband interface.
US11601794B2
Various systems described herein may allow a user's personal information, such as their medical history, to be automatically delivered to appropriate emergency personnel in response to a reported emergency, such as a 911 call, activation of a smoke alarm or security system, or other emergency. Various items of personal and confidential information may be stored in a secure location, and the user may provide advanced approval to have the information automatically delivered to emergency responders in response to a request for emergency assistance. For example, after the user initiates a request for emergency assistance, a computing device may determine whether the user has granted approval for emergency delivery of the user's confidential information, and if such approval has been granted, the computing device may request the delivery of the user's confidential information to the emergency responders.
US11601793B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a first communication circuit configured to support a first communication protocol; a display; and at least one processor operatively connected to the first communication circuit and the display, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: configure a cluster with at least one external electronic based on the first communication protocol device through the first communication circuit, receive through the first communication circuit, from the at least one external electronic device, information identifying at least one short-range communication device connected to the at least one external electronic device via a second communication protocol, and control the display to display at least one indicator of the at least one short-range communication device based on the information received from the at least one external electronic device.
US11601792B1
A method of communication in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) network comprising a master device and a plurality of slave devices. The method has the steps of: generating a unique identifier parameter comprising a data string having a plurality of bits; assigning to each slave device a unique bit of the unique identifier parameter and a value of the bit representative of active communication; sending from the master device to each slave device a communication which includes the unique identifier parameter; at each slave device, determining the value of the bit assigned to the respective slave device; at each slave device, if the determined value of the bit is representative of active communication, processing the communication, otherwise ignoring the communication.
US11601782B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying device intersections using application data derived from multiple mobile devices. The method extracts the unique devices identified in a user defined area of interest (AOI) and generates individual geospatial layers for each device. The layers are derived from the metadata containing coordinates and associated timestamps for all available points of the device. Combining the individual layers will produce a convergence surface of polygonal intersections, indicating where devices have shared additional locations outside the initial AOI. Applying the timestamp to the resulting layer with a user defined time interval will generate a probability matrix of association.
US11601779B2
Methods and devices useful in performing precise indoor localization and tracking are provided. By way of example, a method includes locating and tracking, via a first wireless electronic device, a plurality of other wireless electronic devices within an indoor environment. The method also includes performing front-back detection, performing stationary node detection, performing angle of arrival (AoA) error correction, and performing field of view (FOV) filtering. Performing indoor localization and tracking of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices includes providing an indication of a physical location of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices within the indoor environment.
US11601772B2
Systems and methods for using auditorily-induced vection (AIV) to enhance a person's attitude awareness are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an auditory object is projected based on the orientation of the person or a vehicle and the projected auditory is provided to the person. By projecting the auditory object, the attitude of the person or the vehicle can be conveyed to the person to enhance the person's attitude awareness.
US11601771B2
An audio signal processing apparatus includes a first bus, a second bus, and a controller that assigns a first input channel to the first bus, assigns a second input channel to the second bus, receives an amount of feed from the first input channel to the first bus, and receives an amount of feed from the second input channel to the second bus.
US11601767B2
A hearing device includes an enclosure comprising a shell and a faceplate and is configured for at least partial insertion within an ear of a user. An antenna structure of the hearing device is oriented such that a direction of an electric field (E-field) of a propagating electromagnetic signal generated by the antenna structure is directed non-tangentially with respect to the user at the location of the user's ear. The antenna structure includes an antenna disposed in or on the faceplate and a ground plane at least partially supported by the faceplate. A battery and electronic circuitry are disposed within the shell. The electronic circuitry is powered by the battery and is electrically coupled to send and/or receive signals via the antenna structure.
US11601762B2
A sound transducer and a method for operating a sound transducer are disclosed. In an embodiment a sound transducer includes a first piezoelectric element having first external electrodes configured to generate an acoustic signal from an electrical signal or vice versa, and at least one second external electrode, wherein the second external electrode is separately controllable from the first external electrodes in order to set electro-acoustic properties of the sound transducer.
US11601750B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that the processor may execute to access an audio signal captured by a microphone of a user's speech while the microphone is in a muted state. The processor may also execute the instructions to analyze a spectral or frequency content of the accessed audio signal to determine whether the user was facing the microphone while the user spoke. In addition, based on a determination that the user was facing the microphone while the user spoke, the processor may execute the instructions to unmute the microphone.
US11601747B2
The present disclosure provides a magnetic system within a case for an electronic accessory. The case may include a housing portion and a lid coupled to the housing portion. Within the housing portion may be a housing magnet. The housing magnet may be oriented such that the magnetic field of the housing magnet is oriented transverse to a longitudinal axis of the case. The housing magnet may have a size and strength to magnetically couple the electronic accessory within a cavity of the housing. A hinge magnet may be located along an axis of rotation of the lid with respect to the housing. The hinge magnet and housing magnet may magnetically interact to form a bistable magnetic hinge. Thus, the one housing magnet may be large enough and have a strong enough magnetic field to perform various functions.
US11601744B2
An on-ear headphone includes an alignment structure extending into the user's concha to help the user to align the headset for optimal comfort and sound perception. The alignment minimizes sound leakage, optimizes audio playback, and improves active noise cancelation.
US11601743B2
Ear buds may have sensors to gather orientation information such as accelerometer measurements during user movements. A host electronic device may communicate wirelessly with the ear buds and may form part of an ear bud system that supplies the user with coaching and feedback while evaluating user performance of a head movement routine or other exercise routine. During operation, the ear buds may gather accelerometer data in a first reference frame such as a reference frame associated with the ear buds and may use a rotation matrix to rotate the data in the first reference frame into a second reference frame such as a neutral reference frame with a fixed orientation to the earth. The data in the neutral reference frame may be analyzed using a user head pose look-up table to categorize measured user head positions as corresponding to respective user head poses.
US11601726B2
In a set-top-box system, messages from a service provider are stored and delayed until activity from a set-top-box remote is detected. Messages are then generated and provided to a television associated with the set-top-box. Delaying of the message display until set-top-box activity is detected allows short display times, thus preventing burn-in on some television screens, while providing a greater likelihood that messages will be viewed.
US11601724B2
The present disclosure can provide a method, an apparatus and a system for displaying comment information, a client, and a server. The client can determine a comment copywriting tag of a user account first, and then in response to a comment releasing instruction from the user account, obtain target comment information corresponding to the comment copywriting tag from a comment database, and release the target comment information in a comment interface of the user account.
US11601721B2
The presentation of an interactive video is dynamically modified based on a user profile. A first interactive video can be represented by a first video tree defining multiple branches in the first interactive video, with each branch having one or more video segments. Information is tracked including (i) the content of video segments played during presentation of the first interactive video and/or (ii) decisions of a user made during the presentation of the first interactive video. A user profile having measured attributes is generated based on the tracked information. The profile can then be used in dynamically modifying the presentation of a second interactive video.
US11601720B2
Methods, systems, computer readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing event messages to a user. The event messages may include video data or a link to video of the event. In some variations, a user or content provider may define criteria for the event messages that are to be displayed to the user. The event messages may be stored so that a user may be able to browse through the stored event messages and decide when to view the video of the event. Upon a user's selection of the event message, the video of the event may be displayed to the user on the same display device or another display device.
US11601714B2
Methods, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media to monitor media presentations are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a locator to compare a location of a mobile device with a set of reference locations at which audio monitoring is to be performed. The disclosed example apparatus further includes an audio receiver to enable a microphone of the mobile device to collect audio for media monitoring when (1) the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first one of the reference locations and (2) a media presentation monitor at the first one of the reference locations indicates a likelihood of media being presented at the first location satisfies a threshold. In some disclosed examples, the audio receiver of the example apparatus is to disable the microphone from collecting audio for media monitoring when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to any of the reference locations.
US11601707B2
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a primary tuner presents a demanded service while a secondary tuner scans for duplicate transmissions of the service, and if one is found, the version with the better quality metrics may be presented.
US11601697B2
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses.
US11601692B2
Systems, methods, software and apparatus enable providing supplemental audio content to members of a communication group via a group communication service that manages the multiple member user nodes' transmission and receipt of communications between and among the member user nodes. A request for audio content (e.g., from the communication group or a member user node) causes the group communication service to launch a bot node member to locate and deliver the requested audio content. The audio content can be merged with user node communications (e.g., as transmission packets or as streaming audio content). In some implementations each user node includes a wearable push-to-talk end user device linked to a communication device executing a communication application connected to the group communication service.
US11601679B2
An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving quantized transform coefficients with respect to a target block from a bitstream; performing inverse quantization with respect to the quantized transform coefficients with respect to the target block and deriving transform coefficients; deriving residual samples with respect to the target block on the basis of reduced inverse transform with respect to the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples with respect to the target block and prediction samples with respect to the target block. The reduced inverse transform is performed on the basis of a reduced inverse transform matrix. The reduced inverse transform matrix is a non-square matrix of which the number of columns is smaller than the number of rows.
US11601678B2
A video encoder may transform residual data by using a transform selected from a group of transforms. The transform is applied to the residual data to create a two-dimensional array of transform coefficients. A scanning mode is selected to scan the transform coefficients in the two-dimensional array into a one-dimensional array of transform coefficients. The combination of transform and scanning mode may be selected from a subset of combinations that is based on an intra-prediction mode. The scanning mode may also be selected based on the transform used to create the two-dimensional array. The transforms and/or scanning modes used may be signaled to a video decoder.
US11601672B2
An apparatus for block-wise decoding a picture from a data stream and/or encoding a picture into a data stream, the apparatus supporting at least one intra-prediction mode according to which the intra-prediction signal for a block of a predetermined size of the picture is determined by applying a first template of samples which neighbours the current block onto a neural network. The apparatus may be configured, for a current block differing from the predetermined size, to: resample a second template of samples neighboring the current block, so as to conform with the first template so as to obtain a resampled template; apply the resampled template of samples onto the neural network so as to obtain a preliminary intra-prediction signal; and resample the preliminary intra-prediction signal so as to conform with the current block so as to obtain the intra-prediction signal for the current block.
US11601671B2
A method of encoding a motion vector predictor index, in particular a Merge index, comprises generating a list of motion vector predictor candidates, in particular merge candidates. The list includes an ATMVP candidate. One of the motion vector predictor candidates in the list is selected. A motion vector predictor index for the selected motion vector predictor candidate is generated using CABAC coding. One or more bits of the motion vector predictor index are bypass CABAC coded. For example, only the first bit of the motion vector predictor index is CABAC coded using a single context.
US11601669B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for video coding. The systems include, for example, an image encoder comprising: circuitry; and a memory coupled to the circuitry, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs the following: predicting a first block of prediction samples for a current block of a picture, wherein predicting the first block of prediction samples includes at least a prediction process with a motion vector from a different picture; padding the first block of prediction samples to form a second block of prediction samples, wherein the second block is larger than the first block; calculating at least a gradient using the second block of prediction samples; and encoding the current block using at least the calculated gradient.
US11601663B2
A video decoding method includes determining a usage of an SVT-vertical (V) or an SVT-horizontal (H) for a residual block; determining a transform block position of a transform block of the residual block; determining a transform type of the transform block, wherein the transform type indicates a horizontal transform and a vertical transform for the transform block, wherein at least one of the horizontal transform or the vertical transform is a discrete sine transform (DST)-7; and reconstructing the residual block based on the transform type, the transform block position, and transform coefficients of the transform block.
US11601657B2
A method of coding video data includes determining that chroma related syntax elements of the video data are present for luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) for a coding unit (CU) of the video data, coding a syntax element of the video data when the chroma related syntax elements are present for LMCS for the CU, the syntax element is indicative of a value for determining a scaling parameter for chroma scaling in LMCS, and coding a chroma block of the CU based on the scaling parameter for chroma scaling.
US11601656B2
A method and apparatus for video processing on a data storage device. A chip bound architecture includes a CMOS coupled to one or more NAND die, the CMOS including one or more processors, memories, and error correction code (ECC) engines capable of processing video data. According to certain embodiments, macroblocks are correlated between two I-frames, including motion vectors to define different locations of correlated macroblocks. A P-frame may be determined from a previous I-frame and its correlated macroblocks and motion vectors, while a B-frame may be determined from two or more adjacent I-frames with concomitant macroblocks and motion vectors, as well as P-frames associated with an adjacent I-frame.
US11601652B2
A method of video processing is described. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, an intra coding characteristic of the video region based on a color format of the video according to a rule; and performing the conversion according to the intra coding characteristic.
US11601648B2
A video decoder decodes a first indication (190) indicating whether transform coefficients of a first transform coefficient block (921) corresponding to a first color component are encoded into a data stream. The decoder also decodes a second indication (190) indicating whether transform coefficients of a second transform coefficient block (922) corresponding to a second color component are encoded into the data stream using context-adaptive entropy decoding with a context selected based on the first indication for the first transform coefficient block (921). The decoder further derives a block (84) of the picture by, separately for the first color component and the second color component, a reverse transformation of the first transform coefficient block (921 and the second transform block (922, respectively.
US11601646B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention may include: a step for dividing a picture into a plurality of tiles; and a step for determining at least one slice on the basis of the plurality of tiles. Here, the step for dividing a picture into a plurality of tiles may include: a step for determining the width of a first tile column in the picture; and a step for determining the width of a second tile column neighboring the first tile column.
US11601644B2
Video coding may include generating, by a processor, a decoded frame by decoding a current frame from an encoded bitstream and outputting a reconstructed frame based on the decoded frame. Decoding includes identifying a current encoded block from the current frame, identifying a prediction coding model for the current block, wherein the prediction coding model is a machine learning prediction coding model from a plurality of machine learning prediction coding models, identifying reference values for decoding the current block based on the prediction coding model, obtaining prediction values based on the prediction coding model and the reference values, generating a decoded block corresponding to the current encoded block based on the prediction values, and including the decoded block in the decoded frame.
US11601638B2
In one example, a head-mounted display (HMD) device includes multiple display panels arranged in parallel with each other. Each of the display panels is associated with one of multiple focal lengths. The HMD device includes multiple lenses to view a three-dimensional (3D) scene on the display panels. The HMD device also includes a controller to provide a frame of the 3D scene, viewable at the focal lengths. The frames include focal layers generated at one of the focal lengths. The frames are rendered by displaying the focal layers in a sequence on the display panels associated with the focal length at which the focal layer is generated. The controller also allows visible light to pass through one or more of the display panels based on whether the render planes are between an active focal layer and the lenses.
US11601633B2
A system and method for creating an improved three-dimensional image includes several steps. One step includes providing one or more adjacent viewing zones, where each of the adjacent viewing zones includes several views of content, and where the adjacent viewing zones include central subset zones that include centrally located views within the adjacent viewing zones, and transition subset views that include views at edges of the adjacent viewing zones. Another step includes inserting at least one of the views from the central subset views into the transition zone to create an expanded transition zone. A further step includes removing at least one transition subset view from the adjacent viewing zone and replacing the removed at least one transition subset view with the inserted at least one of the views from the central subset views.
US11601626B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that enable suppression of a reduction in subjective image quality. Image processing is performed on each of a plurality of frame images before projection. The image processing suppresses an influence of superimposition of the plurality of frame images in a projection image in projecting each of the plurality of frame images cyclically using a corresponding one of a plurality of projection sections. The plurality of frame images is included in a moving image. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image projection apparatus, a control apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an image projection system, an image processing method, a program, or the like.
US11601619B2
In some implementations, a system may retrieve an electronic calendar associated with a user. The system may identify, based on the electronic calendar, a plurality of virtual sessions. The system may generate an electronic invitation to join an aggregated virtual session for the plurality of virtual sessions. The system may transmit the electronic invitation to a client device associated with the user. The system may receive, from the client device, a selection of the electronic invitation. The system may establish, based on the electronic invitation, the aggregated virtual session for the client device that enables the client device to connect to each of the plurality of virtual sessions associated with the aggregated virtual session.
US11601618B1
A user interface display is provided to a participant who is viewing an event via a communication system that provides videoconferencing. The communication system provides a composite video stream that includes a plurality of different video layers, each video layer providing a different portion of the composite video stream. The participant has a participant computer for allowing the participant to receive the composite video stream for display on the user interface display. A plurality of participants view the event via user interface displays of their respective participant computers. The layers include a participant layer that displays video streams of the participants, a foreground layer, an event layer that includes video of the event, an audience layer, a background layer, and an immersive layer.
US11601617B2
A method for forming an image sequence that is an output sequence, from an input image sequence, is provided. The input image sequence has an input spatial resolution and an input temporal resolution. The output sequence has an output temporal resolution equal to the input temporal resolution and an output spatial resolution equal to a predetermined fraction 1/N of the input spatial resolution by an integer number N higher than or equal to 2. The method, implemented for a sub-sequence of the input frame sequence that is a current input sub-sequence and including a preset number of images, includes: obtaining a temporal frequency that is an image frequency, associated with the current input sub-sequence; processing the current input sub-sequence to obtain an output sub-sequence; and inserting the output sub-sequence and the associated image frequency into an output container.
US11601615B2
A display apparatus includes: a display; a motor configured to rotate the display; a sensor configured to sense rotation of the display; and a processor configured to output a driving signal for rotating the display in a first direction to the motor when an event for rotating the display from a first posture to a second posture occurs and output a driving signal for rotating the display in a second direction to the motor when it is identified that the display collides with an object on the basis of the driving signal output to the motor and a signal received from the sensor while the display rotates.
US11601612B2
An imaging device includes an image sensing circuitry configured to receive image signals from pixels, to convert the received image signals into image data, and to output the image data. The imaging device includes a digital processing circuitry configured to process image data in synchronization with a digital clock. The digital processing circuitry includes a digital clock generator configured to generate the digital clock. The digital clock generator is configured to scatter the digital clock, in response to the image sensing circuitry converting the image signals into the image data.
US11601605B2
An improved camera system includes an uncooled thermal imaging sensor, a rotary actuator, a rotary encoder, and a slip ring. The rotary actuator is physically coupled to the uncooled thermal imaging sensor and enables the sensor to rotate a full 360 degrees any number of times relative to the system's horizontal base. Through the use of the slip ring, the sensor and the sensor's wiring can rotate freely without impedance. Notably, the sensor's wiring can be disposed through a central through-hole running the length of the rotary actuator. Therefore, prior to reaching the slip ring, the sensor and its wiring rotate in unison with the rotary actuator. The encoder is structured to monitor the angular position of the sensor in order to accurately determine where the sensor is being aimed.
US11601597B2
A dual-camera device includes a first camera and a second camera, where the first camera includes a first motor, and the first motor includes at least one first Hall effect sensor, where the second camera includes a second motor, the second motor and the first motor are disposed in parallel, the second motor includes N second coils and N second magnets, the second coils are configured to levitate and support the second magnets during power-on, N is a positive integer and is a multiple of four. A distance between a first disposition location of the first Hall effect sensor and a second disposition location of the second magnets in the second motor is greater than or equal to a first preset distance.
US11601589B2
Methods and devices related to actuating an image sensor are described. In an example, a method can include generating a first image of an area at a first time using an array of image sensors, wherein each image sensor of the array of image sensors is coupled to a respective actuator, generating a second image of the area at a second time using the array of image sensors, comparing the first image to the second image using a processing resource coupled to the array of image sensors, identifying a moving object based at least in part on comparing the first image to the second image, and activating the actuator for each image sensor of the array of image sensor used to generate the first and second images based at least in part on identifying the moving object.
US11601570B2
In a predetermined look-up table, in which each of a plurality of grid points that are defined by dividing each axis of RGB color coordinates is associated with a combination of density values respectively corresponding to a plurality of inks to be used by a printing apparatus, the plurality of grid points include a plurality of first grid points, at which a density value of a predetermined ink among the plurality of inks does not correspond to 0, and a second grid point, at which the density value of the predetermined ink corresponds to 0, and the plurality of first grid points do not exist at points adjacent to each other in the plurality of grid points.
US11601565B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller to set one of a first print mode, in which, after starting printing on a first number of sheets per unit time, a printer decreases a number of sheets on which the printer performs printing per unit time from the first number of sheets per unit time so as to avoid a rise in temperature of a fixing device to a predetermined temperature value, and a second print mode. In the second print mode the printer performs printing on a second number of sheets per unit time without changing, based on a rise in temperature of the fixing device, a number of sheets on which the printer performs printing per unit time, where the second number is smaller than the first number.
US11601562B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of display objects for giving an instruction to execute processing on an operation screen, a determination unit configured to determine whether to change a display order of the plurality of display objects based on a state of the information processing apparatus, and a change unit configured to change the display order of the plurality of display objects displayed on the operation screen based on the numbers of uses of the respective display objects in a case where the determination unit determines to change the display order.
US11601559B2
An information processing device including a numerical value inputter that inputs a numerical value, the information processing device comprising: a display that displays the numerical value inputter on an operation screen; and a numerical value inputting method controller that selects a numerical value inputting method of the numerical value inputter based on a physical display size of the numerical value inputter relative to the operation screen.
US11601547B2
Embodiments may provide techniques to screen for, detect, and prevent connection of robocalls. For example, in an embodiment, a method, implemented in a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, may comprise receiving, at a telecommunications switch, a request to initiate a call from an originating party, selecting, at the telecommunications switch, from a list of terminating carrier networks, a media server, routing, at the telecommunications switch, the request to initiate the call to the media server, forwarding, from the media server, a media prompt requesting the originating party to enter a response to the media prompt, and when the originating party does not enter a correct response to the media prompt, forwarding, from the media server, an indication that the call is forbidden.
US11601546B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to provide to a storage entity information relating to pairing an accessory with the apparatus, and determine an event and at least partly responsive to the event, notify the storage entity, the apparatus and/or the accessory of the event.
US11601542B1
A crash detection system for a vehicle comprises first and second batteries and a computational system comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. First and second antennas are both in electronic communication with the computational system and powered by one of the batteries, with the antennas configured to independently wirelessly communicate with an external network. A microphone powered by one of the batteries and in electronic communication with the computational system. The microphone continuously receives sound waves in real time and transmits sound signals to the processor. The processor monitors properties of the sound waves within the sound signals, compares the properties to thresholds stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium, determines if the vehicle has been involved in a collision if at least one of the properties crosses the respective threshold, and communicates with the external network to report the collision with one of the antennas.
US11601527B2
Provided are a method and device for transmitting an image. The method includes: adjusting an image compression ratio based on a current network transmission condition; performing compression processing on an image to be transmitted according to the adjusted image compression ratio to obtain a compressed image; and sending the compressed image to a viewing device side for the viewing device side to play the compressed image. The present disclosure ensures the fluency of image playback on the viewing device side, and improves the viewing experience of a user.
US11601524B1
Techniques for intelligent proactive template-driven data caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving notification of input by the user of a user computing device, identifying a user activity corresponding to the user input, using the identified user activity to obtain a template comprising a number of data retrieval operations for the identified activity and timing information indicating, for each data retrieval operation, a corresponding timing for performing the data retrieval operation, performing a data retrieval operation identified by the template to retrieve data item(s) from data storage remote to the user computing device in accordance with the corresponding timing indicated by the template, causing the retrieved data items to be stored in data storage local to the user computing device.
US11601504B2
Support of coexistence of wireless transmission equipment in shared wireless medium environments is disclosed, which is applicable to various types of wireless transmission equipment. For instance, a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) delivers power to wireless power receiver clients via transmission of wireless power signals using one or more frequencies and/or channels within shared wireless medium environments in which other wireless equipment is operating, such as access points and stations in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The WPTS is configured to co-exist with the operations of the other wireless equipment within the shared wireless medium environment by adapting its transmission operations to utilize frequencies or channels that do not interfere with other equipment and/or implementing co-channel and shared channels operations under which access to channels is implemented using standardized WLAN protocols such as PHY and MAC protocols used for 802.11 (Wi-Fi™) networks.
US11601500B2
A method of storing or searching data files on a plurality of cloud-based storage systems includes detecting an event on the electronic device indicative of storing at least one data file on a cloud-based storage, analyzing the at least one data file in response to detecting the event to extract a plurality of elements, mapping the plurality of elements to one or more rules stored in a memory of the electronic device, selecting at least one cloud-based storage for storing the at least one data file, and storing information corresponding to the at least one data file in the memory upon storing the at least one data file onto the selected at least one cloud-based storage for searching the at least one data file.
US11601478B2
A method for communication session management by a session controller is described. Usage data associated with a video communication session is received for data stream handlers of a first network topology, which handle data streams of the video communication session at a first time. The first network topology includes a plurality of client devices and at least a first media server. A second network topology is determined based on the usage data to handle the data streams when a network parameter and/or an application parameter reaches a corresponding update threshold. Data stream handlers of the second network topology include at least a second media server. The data stream handlers of the second network topology are configured to handle the data streams at a second time, including instructing the first media server to offload at least some of the data streams to the second media server.
US11601477B2
A first mobile communication device is configured to transmit video and audio content to a second mobile communication device utilizing a server. The first mobile communication device, via the server, transmits a share request or “knock” with the second mobile communication device. The second device must either accept the request or reject the request. If the second mobile communication device accepts the knock, it transmits a share accept message to the server. The first mobile communication device then transmits the video and audio content to the second mobile communication device via the server.
US11601471B2
This disclosure describes an integrated management method to manage a service mesh data plane over a network fabric. The method includes determining at least one service mesh data plane policy for a microservice of a service mesh. The method further includes sending, over the network fabric, the at least one service mesh data plane policy to a virtual router associated with the microservice based at least in part on connectivity information maintained by a network fabric control plane manager of a configuration manager.
US11601465B2
An embodiment may involve a plurality of configuration items and an unmatched configuration item, wherein the unmatched configuration item is associated with a first set of attribute values and a first vulnerability, wherein the first vulnerability is associated with a first set of field values. The embodiment may further involve one or more processors configured to: (i) determine that the unmatched configuration item and a particular configuration item both represent a specific component, wherein the particular configuration item is associated with a second set of attribute values and a second vulnerability, wherein the second vulnerability is associated with a second set of field values; (ii) merge the unmatched configuration item into the particular configuration item; (iii) determine that the first vulnerability and the second vulnerability both represent a specific vulnerability; (iv) merge the first vulnerability into the second vulnerability; and (v) delete the unmatched configuration item and the first vulnerability.
US11601458B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that generate microsegmentation quotients for computational entities and components of a distributed-computer-system. In the described implementation, microsegmentation quotients are generated for each component, subsystem, or computational entity, collectively referred to as “system entities,” of a set of specified system-entity types within the distributed computer system. Microsegmentation quotients are generated for system entities at any of the various hierarchical levels within a distributed computer system, including for the entire distributed computer system. Microsegmentation quotients are generated by an iterative process that refines initial estimates of the microsegmentation quotients for system entities within the distributed computer system. Microsegmentation quotients are displayed, through system-management interfaces, to administration and management personnel and provided to automated administration-and-management-system tools and facilities in order to facilitate analysis and monitoring of distributed-computer-system security as well as to facilitate rapid and accurate detection and amelioration of security-related deficiencies and problems.
US11601453B2
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing natural language process (NLP), namely semantic learning approaches in network security. Techniques include analyzing network transaction records to form a corpus related to a semantics of network activity. The corpus includes formulated network sentences, representing sequences of network entities that are accessed in the network. A corpus of network sentences can include sequences of servers accessed by each user. A network sentence embeddings model can be trained on the corpus. The network sentence embeddings model includes an embedding space of text that captures the semantic meanings of the network sentences. In sentence embeddings, network sentences with equivalent semantic meanings are co-located in the embeddings space. Further, proximity measures in the embedding space can be used to identify whether network sentences (e.g., access sequences), are semantically equivalent. Using network sentence embeddings model, equivalent semantics of access can be established to efficiently detect anomalies.
US11601450B1
The present invention relates to methods, network devices, and machine-readable media for an integrated environment for automated processing of reports of suspicious messages, and furthermore, to a network for distributing information about detected phishing attacks.
US11601449B2
Provided is a way of evaluating rules/conditions that span different domain entities against a set of disparate events from multiple sources that have occurred within a specific window or interval of time from the current time back to a specific time in the past. Events are stored in dedicated storage to enable an extended window of time to be used for multiple event evaluation. Only relevant event/rule pairs are evaluated. The system will record when an event relevant to a rule happens. When a second event that is relevant to the rule happens, the system checks the records to see if a previous relevant event had happened in the past that would cause the rule to trigger an alert. A mechanism is also provided for evaluating static state in combination with changed properties.
US11601444B1
A device for verifying previous determinations from cybersecurity devices comprising a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the processor. The storage device comprises submission analysis logic including object parsing logic to receive submission message data and then parse the submission message data into object data, along with workflow selector logic to receive the object data and process the object data to select at least one analyzer within analyzer logic. The analyzer logic can generate at least one analyzer based on the selected analyzer within the workflow selector logic, analyze the object data for potential threats and embedded object data, generate results data based on that analysis, and pass the embedded object data back to the workflow selector for further analysis. Finally, the submission analysis logic comprises triage ticket generation logic to generate triage tickets for analyst review and alert logic to generate automatic alerts.
US11601443B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for generating and storing forensics-specific metadata. In one aspect, a digital forensics module is configured to generate a backup of user data stored on a computing device in accordance with a backup schedule. The digital forensics module identifies, from a plurality of system metadata of the computing device, forensics-specific metadata of the computing device based on predetermined rules, wherein the forensics-specific metadata is utilized for detecting suspicious digital activity. The digital forensics module generates a backup of the forensics-specific metadata in accordance with the backup schedule and analyzes the forensics-specific metadata for an indication of the suspicious digital activity on the computing device. In response to detecting the suspicious digital activity based on the analysis, generates a security event indicating that the suspicious digital activity has occurred.
US11601442B2
A system associated with detecting a cyber-attack and reconstructing events associated with a cyber-attack campaign, is disclosed. The system performs various operations that include receiving an audit data stream associated with cyber events. The system identifies trustworthiness values in a portion of data associated with the cyber events and assigns provenance tags to the portion of the data based on the identified trustworthiness values. An initial visual representation is generated based on the assigned provenance tags to the portion of the data. The initial visual representation is condensed based on a backward traversal of the initial visual representation in identifying a shortest path from a suspect node to an entry point node. A scenario visual representation is generated that specifies nodes most relevant to the cyber events associated with the cyber-attack based on the identified shortest path. A corresponding method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11601439B2
A digital ledger built upon a blockchain to provide users with the ability to securely, accurately, and verifiably share state information between distrustful parties is provided herein. The Verifiable Outsourced Ledger is hosted in a networked environment, accessible by multiple parties, and maintains an immutable view of the transactions submitted by authorized parties and a continuous view of the states shared between the parties that the parties can replicate independently locally to verify the integrity of the ledger.
US11601438B2
Systems and methods for adjusting the behavior of an endpoint security agent based on a network location are provided. According to an embodiment, an agent of an endpoint device identifies whether a security service of a cloud-based security service is not reachable or is unresponsive. The security service is associated with a particular security function implemented by the agent. When the security service is not reachable or is unresponsive, the agent further determines whether the endpoint device is within a trusted network of multiple trusted networks that have been previously registered with the cloud-based security service by querying a trusted network determination service associated with the cloud-based security service. When the determination is affirmative, the particular security feature is configured for operating inside a trusted network. When the determination is negative, the particular security feature is configured for operating outside a trusted network.
US11601433B2
A communication device is connected to first and second networks. The communication device includes a processor executing a process including relaying communication between the first and second networks; and confirming connection to a first device connected to the first network or a second device connected to the second network, based on a device list registered in advance. The confirming includes blocking the relaying when the confirmation of the connection to the first device is unsuccessful; enabling the relaying when the confirmation of the connection to the first device is successful and when the second device is not registered in the device list; enabling the relaying when the confirmation of the connections to the first and second devices is successful; and blocking the relaying when the confirmation of the connection to the first device is successful and when the confirmation of the connection to the second device is unsuccessful.
US11601431B2
Systems and methods for authenticating presumptively incompatible elements in a digital network are provided. A method may include receiving an access request from a client node in the network. The access request may be requesting access to an application in the network. The access request may be associated with a uniform resource identifier (“authURI”). The method may include extracting a target application from the URI. The method may include determining an authentication protocol that is supported by the target application. The method may include generating, based on the authentication protocol, a series of one or more authentication tests that, in combination, satisfy the authentication protocol. The authentication tests may satisfy the authentication protocol even when the client node natively supports a different authentication protocol. The method may include executing the series of authentication tests to authenticate the client node vis-à-vis the target application.
US11601430B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a system and method of verifying an identity of user. A computing system receives a HTTP request. The HTTP request includes at least a user name and an IP address associated with a router accessed by the remote client device. The computing system parses the HTTP request to extract the user name and the IP address contained therein. The computing system identifies a user account associated with the extracted user name. The computing system identifies an internet service provider associated with the IP address. The computing system transmits a verification message to the third party service provider. The computing system receives a confirmation message from the third party service provider. The computing system increases a level of confidence in an identification verification process based on the confirmation.
US11601429B2
Concepts and technologies of network service control for remote access to wireless radio networks are provided herein. In an embodiment, a client network can be provided by a network access point that can include a processor that is configured to detect a guest user equipment and determine whether the guest user equipment is a recognized device. In response to determining that the guest user equipment is not a recognized device, the processor can create an identity verification request message that seeks approval from a host device to allow the guest user equipment to access the client network. The processor can provide the identity verification request message to the host device and receive a trigger response message. The processor can create a network access package that provides the guest user equipment with access credentials to access the client network and provide the network access package to the guest user equipment.
US11601428B2
Cloud delivered access may be provided. A network device may provide a client device with a pre-authentication virtual network and a pre-authentication address. Next, a policy may be received in response to the client device authenticating. The client device may then be moved to a post-authentication virtual network based on the policy. A post-authentication address may then be obtained for the client device in response to moving the client device to a post-authentication virtual network. Traffic for the client device may then be translated to the post-authentication address.
US11601417B2
A software activation system includes a sewing machine and at least one server connected via a network. The sewing machine acquires an authentication code corresponding to an activation target software that is at least one of a program and data not activated on the sewing machine, and transmits, to an authentication server included in the at least one server, an authentication request including the acquired authentication code. The server acquires an authentication key on the basis of the authentication request, when the authentication request is received by the first receiver; and transmits the acquired authentication key to the sewing machine. The sewing machine also receives the authentication key from the authentication server, determines whether the received authentication key satisfies a predetermined authentication condition, and activates the activation target software on the sewing machine when it is determined that the authentication key satisfies the predetermined condition.
US11601415B2
This document discusses designing and managing medical devices that are equipped with software, including a variety of ways of managing the public interest in safety and effectiveness of medical devices that are preferably implemented with open-source software. In one general aspect, a method of updating a medical device is disclosed. The method includes storing a vendor certificate in the device, and receiving and storing a licensed prescriber certificate in the device. A signed request to update code in the medical device can then be received and this request can be authenticated with one of the certificates, and the code can be updated in the medical device with code from the authenticated update request.
US11601398B2
Various embodiments relate generally to computer science, data science, application architecture, and computer data security. More specifically, techniques for credential and authentication management in scalable data networks is described, including, but not limited to, multiplexed data exchanges in a scalable data network. For example, a method may include receiving a subset of requests to access a data network. The requests each may originate from an associated computing device having a source identifier. The method also may include data to cause modification of data representing presentation of a hosted page via the data network, monitoring data traffic from the data network and managing actions initiated via a request based on the data traffic. Optionally, data traffic received via an aggregation port may be filtered to origination of a request associated with a source identifier.
US11601392B2
An example embodiment may include a computational instance and a computing device within a remote network management platform. The computing device may be configured to: receive, from a client device of the managed network, a request to redirect, to a second URL, future requests addressed to a first URL; provide, to the client device, instructions to generate a certificate that binds an identity of the entity that operates the managed network to the first URL; receive, from the client device, the certificate; store the certificate and a corresponding cryptographic key; and generate a mapping between the first URL and the second URL. The computational instance may be configured to, in response to receiving a content request referencing the destination, generate a content response containing content from the destination, where any hyperlinks to the second URL in the content are replaced with hyperlinks to the first URL.
US11601390B2
A system and method are provided for tagging data. The method is executed by a device having a communications module and includes providing via the communications module, to a client device, an option to associate tags with an event, the option providing at least one automatically determined tag based on: i) the event, ii) an entity associated with the client device, or iii) stored tag data associated with a plurality of client devices. The method also includes receiving via the communications module, from the client device, at least one tag added by the client device, and associating the at least one tag with the event and store the association with the stored tag data. The method also includes enabling via the communications module, the at least one tag to be displayed in a user interface comprising a listing of events, and using the at least one tag in executing a follow up action associated with the client device.
US11601389B1
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, input from a sender of an email, the input defining the email as having a task associated with it; inserting, by the computing device, code into the email, the code defining a selectable object in the email; sending, by the computing device, the email to one or more recipients; receiving, by the computing device, input indicating a selection of the selectable object by one of the one or more recipients; assigning, by the computing device, the one of the one or more recipients as an owner of the task; and sending, by the computing device, a notification email to the sender and the one or more recipients, the notification email indicating the owner of the task.
US11601387B2
A method and system for combining subsequent data in a communication stream including receiving an indication of a selection of a first image in a communication thread and identifying a user attribute setting associated with the first user. Based on one or more composite image generation rules, the method includes determining that the selected first image is compatible for converting into a composite image. The method further includes accessing a user attribute setting associated with a second user and generating the composite image based on the selected first image and the user attribute settings of the first and second users. The generated composite image is then caused to be displayed in the communication thread.
US11601382B2
Network infrastructure systems including asymmetric Distributed Broadcast Select Switches and Asymmetric Network Interface Controllers for implementation in asymmetric networks and more particularly in cluster networks are provided.
US11601377B1
Techniques for sending Compute Express Link (CXL) packets over Ethernet (CXL-E) in a composable data center that may include disaggregated, composable servers. The techniques may include receiving, from a first server device, a request to bind the first server device with a multiple logical device (MLD) appliance. Based at least in part on the request, a first CXL-E connection may be established for the first server device to export a computing resource to the MLD appliance. The techniques may also include receiving, from the MLD appliance, an indication that the computing resource is available, and receiving, from a second server device, a second request for the computing resource. Based at least in part on the second request, a second CXL-E connection may be established for the second server device to consume or otherwise utilize the computing resource of the first server device via the MLD appliance.
US11601374B2
Systems and methods for accelerated stabilization of data packet metadata are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory having a content database and a user profile database. The system can include a user device having a first network interface and a first I/O subsystem. The system can include one or more servers. The one or more servers can: retrieve data packet metadata for a data packet; determine that the data packet metadata is unstable; identify a set of potential recipients of the data packet; select one of the set of potential recipients as the recipient of the data packet; provide the data packet to the recipient of the data packet; receive a response from the recipient to the provided data packet; and automatically update the data packet metadata based on the response received from the recipient.
US11601366B2
Methods and systems are provided for latency-oriented router. An incoming packet is received on a first interface. The type of the incoming packet is determined. Upon the detection that the incoming packet belongs to latency-critical traffic, the incoming packet is duplicated into one or more copies. Subsequently, the duplicated copies are sent to a second interface in a delayed fashion where the duplicated copies are spread over a time period. The duplicated copies are received and processed at the second interface.
US11601365B2
An indication of a set of premises between which network traffic is to be routed via a private fiber backbone of a provider network is obtained. Respective virtual routers are configured for a first premise and a second premise, and connectivity is established between the virtual routers and routing information sources at the premises. Contents of at least one network packet originating at the first premise are transmitted to the second premise via the private fiber backbone using routing information obtained at the virtual routers from the routing information source at the second premise.
US11601344B1
A cloud gateway outage risk detector can receive, by an event listener module, user session data associated with a plurality of user sessions over a cloud gateway. The event listener module can store the data in a database. A run-time collection module can obtain at least a portion of the data. The run-time collection module can provide the portion of the data to a run-time risk criteria evaluation module that can determine, based upon the portion of the data, a run-time outage risk criteria for the cloud gateway. A baseline risk criteria evaluation module can obtain historical data from the database. The baseline risk criteria evaluation module can determine, based upon the data, a baseline outage risk criteria for the cloud gateway. The run-time risk criteria evaluation module can determine whether the run-time outage risk criteria meets or exceeds an outage risk threshold.
US11601343B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. In certain systems and methods, access to a network such as a wireless network, can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the network. Moreover, access to a first service available over the network can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the first service. Various network resource can be allocated to the first service based at least upon the number of device access the first service.
US11601341B2
The present disclosure provides a method of managing a system and an apparatus therefor. The method of the present disclosure may include providing a menu management tool for managing a menu of a system, setting an item of the menu and an authority to access the item by receiving an input through the menu management tool, and providing, when a terminal having the authority accesses the system, information regarding the item to the terminal.
US11601340B2
Techniques for integrating a device platform in a core network or MEC environment, and managing data communications associated with devices are presented. The device platform, integrated with the core network or MEC environment, can comprise a communication management component (CMC) that can manage communication of data associated with devices connected to the core network. CMC can receive data and metadata from a device, analyze the data and metadata, and, based on the analyzing and data management criteria, determine whether any, all, or a portion of the data is to be communicated to a second device associated with the core network or associated communication network. CMC can be trained, using machine learning, to learn to identify device types, communication protocols, and data payload formats of devices. Based on the analyzing and the training, CMC can determine the device type, communication protocol, and data payload format associated with the device.
US11601335B2
Presented herein are systems, and methods thereof, that is configured to enter a maintenance mode to isolate itself from its neighbor and to gracefully cause neighbor devices to isolate themselves from the system, as to cause minimal or “zero” service disruption with its neighbors. The system broadcasts a maintenance-related message, via a standard transport layer, over routing protocols, to counter parts protocols at the neighbor device and waits for an acknowledgement message from the neighbor network devices. The broadcast and acknowledgement, through standard transport layer messaging, ensures that traffic generated by such protocols at the neighbor devices, regardless of manufacturer, are redirected before the system fully enters into the maintenance mode.
US11601319B2
A digital modulator according to the present disclosure includes a polar converter that generates a phase signal and an amplitude signal from a baseband signal, an RF phase signal generator that generates an RF phase signal on the basis of the phase signal, a rectangulating unit that generates a rectangular RF phase signal by converting the RF phase signal into a rectangular shape, a time interleaver that time interleaves the amplitude signal and outputs first and second time interleaved signals, a ΔΣ modulator that ΔΣ modulates the first and second time interleaved signals on the basis of the rectangular RF phase signal and outputs first and second ΔΣ modulated signals, and a selector that selects and outputs one of the first and second ΔΣ modulated signals on the basis of the rectangular RF phase signal.
US11601311B2
Provided is a base station, comprising: a configuration unit, configured to configure a transmission waveform of a User Equipment (UE) for uplink transmission; and a transmission unit, configured to transmit information related to the configuration to the UE. The configuration unit is configured by using any of the following modes: physical layer signaling, a Random Access Response (RAR) message of Media Access Control (MAC), and Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling. The present application also provides a user equipment (UE) and a corresponding method.
US11601308B2
A communication device is provided that includes a baseband circuit and a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal and a projected signal. The baseband circuit is configured to determine the projected signal based on an estimated signal state information such that an energy of a shaped projected signal is smaller than an energy of a shaped signal. The estimated signal state information is an estimate of a signal state information based on the first signal and a received signal that is received by a receiver of the second communication device. The shaped projected signal is the projected signal received by the receiver of the second communication device and filtered by a filter of the second communication device. The shaped signal is the received signal filtered by the filter of the second communication device.
US11601304B2
A vehicle control method of starting and shutting down an engine, in which a processor receives a blockchain update comprising a first transaction with instructions to perform an engine startup or shutdown; the blockchain update is validated; an engine startup or shutdown is performed based on the validated blockchain update; where the engine startup or shutdown is delayed based on validating a predetermined number of subsequent blockchain updates, including a second transaction with instructions to perform the engine startup or shutdown.
US11601262B2
A distributed key management system includes a first SCP subsystem coupled to second SCP subsystems via a network. The first SCP subsystem establishes secure communication channels with the second SCP subsystems, and a first key management subsystem in the first SCP subsystem retrieves enabling key(s) for communicating via the secure communication channels from a second key management subsystem in one of the second SCP subsystems, and stores the enabling key(s). The first key management subsystem then receives a first enabling key request from the first SCP subsystem and determines whether the first SCP subsystem is trusted. If the first SCP subsystem is trusted, the first key management subsystem provides the first SCP subsystem access to the at least one enabling key. If the first SCP subsystem is not trusted, the first key management subsystem prevents the first SCP subsystem from accessing the at least one enabling key stored.
US11601252B2
A wireless device receives one or more RRC messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters indicate uplink BWPs of an uplink carrier of the cell. The uplink BWPs comprise a first uplink BWP and a second uplink BWP. The configuration parameters further indicate a sidelink BWP of the uplink carrier of the cell. A numerology of the second uplink BWP is different than a numerology of the sidelink BWP. The wireless device activates the first uplink BWP. The wireless device activates the sidelink BWP. The wireless device switches from the first uplink BWP to the second uplink BWP as an active uplink BWP. The wireless device deactivates, based on the switch, the sidelink BWP.
US11601246B2
A base station apparatus includes a downlink reference signal generation unit configured to generate a first demodulation reference signal and a second demodulation reference signal that are reference signals used to demodulate a data signal, and a radio transmitting unit configured to transmit the first demodulation reference signal, the second demodulation reference signal, and control information to the terminal apparatus. The control information includes parameters regarding the first demodulation reference signal and parameters regarding the second demodulation reference signal. The parameters regarding the first demodulation reference signal include an antenna port number. The parameters regarding the second demodulation reference signal include an antenna port number, and a time domain density or a frequency domain density with which demodulation reference signals are mapped into a slot. The first demodulation reference signal is mapped before the second demodulation reference signal in the slot.
US11601238B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method, device and computer readable medium for beam failure recovery. In example embodiments, a method implemented at a terminal device is provided. The method comprises determining a configuration for receiving Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) from a network device, the network device communicating with the terminal device via first and second Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs), wherein the configuration indicates which one of the first and second TRPs are the PDCCHs to be received from. The method further comprises determining whether a beam failure occurs in at least one of the first and second TRPs. In addition, the method further comprises, in response to determining that a beam failure occurs in at least one of the first and second TRPs, performing beam failure recovery (BFR) for the first and second TRPs at least based on the configuration.
US11601231B2
A method to operate a transmitting radio device of a radio communications network is provided, wherein the method comprises: transmitting (102), towards a receiving radio device, first data according to a first transmit mode; determining (104) a last reception time when a positive acknowledgment was received from the receiving radio device, the positive acknowledgement indicating a successful reception of the transmitted first data at the side of the receiving radio device; and transmitting (106), towards the receiving radio device, second data according to a second transmit mode, wherein the second transmit mode is activated upon expiry of a first transmit mode time period since the determined last reception time.
US11601211B2
A time synchronization system includes a master station (100) and slave stations (200) communicably connected to the master station (100). The master station (100) includes a contention determiner (114) and a time synchronization frame processing unit (113). The contention determiner (114) determines, based on receipt timings of a plurality of first time synchronization frames transmitted from the respective slave stations (200), whether the plurality of first time synchronization frames have a possibility of contention over relay processing. The time synchronization frame processing unit (113) discards, when the contention determiner (114) determines that the plurality of first time synchronization frames have the possibility of the contention, out of first time synchronization frames that have a possibility of mutual contention, a first time synchronization frame received later.
US11601202B2
Active bias circuits for integrated devices are described. In one example, an active bias circuit includes a voltage control element to establish a control voltage, an active bias device to provide a power bias responsive to the control voltage, and a compensation circuit connected to the active bias device. The compensation circuit can be configured to set output impedance and compensate for parasitic capacitance of the active bias device. In another embodiment, the voltage control element can be omitted, and a control voltage can be relied upon to directly control the power bias output provided by the active bias device. The active bias circuit can be used to power a driver of an integrated optical transmitter, in one example, among other possible applications.
US11601190B2
Provided herein are apparatus and methods for radio frequency signal boosters for cellular and broadcast television signals with Wi-Fi signals transmission function. Cell phone, Wi-Fi, and broadcast television signals are boosted and retransmitted over a shared antenna or over more than one antenna. In certain implementations, a multi-band signal booster is configured to provide signal path gain to at least three signal paths: a first signal path configured to receive a first time division duplexed Wi-Fi signal, a second signal path configured to receive a first frequency division duplexed mobile or cellular signal, and a second signal path configured to receive a broadcast television signal.
US11601185B2
A method for optimizing user equipment wireless localization using K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces reflecting signal(s) transmitted between a base station and the user equipment, the method including, whatever an a priori position of the user equipment selecting at least one reconfigurable intelligent surface to activate among the K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, determining phases of elements of the at least one reconfigurable intelligent surface, by minimizing a predetermined cost function, depending on the a priori position, and accounting for a predetermined position error bound of the user equipment, while ensuring that at most K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are selected, ensuring that the minimum Euclidian distance between two consecutive selected reconfigurable intelligent surfaces of a predetermined configuration, is strictly higher than a predetermined value limiting interference between additional multipath components generated by the at least one reconfigurable intelligent surface.
US11601184B2
The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and a communication method that permit realization of more reliable communication. Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a control section that performs control such that plural aggregated subframes are sent in a predetermined sequence for each frame included in each of spatially multiplexed streams when a frame is sent to another communication apparatus as plural spatially multiplexed streams. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a communication apparatus included in a wireless LAN system.
US11601183B2
Spatial redistributors and methods of redistributing signals in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes an array of channels configured to receive and retransmit a signal, where each of a plurality of independently operating channels in the array includes: at least one antenna element; an RF chain configured to apply at least a time delay to the received signal prior to retransmission; control circuitry configured to control the time delay applied to the received signal by the RF chain; and a reference oscillator. In addition, the array of channels is configured to redirect a signal received from a first set of directions for retransmission in a second set of directions; and the control circuitry of the channels in the array of channels coordinates the time delays applied to the received signal across the array of channels to control the wave front of the retransmitted signal.
US11601182B2
A method of transmitting and receiving a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosure. The method includes receiving information related to beam switching from a base station (BS), generating at least one transmission beam pattern based on the information related to the beam switching, transmitting a reference signal by using the at least one transmission beam pattern, measuring a self-interference signal based on the reference signal, transmitting information about the measured self-interference signal to the BS, and receiving beam pattern information based on the measured self-interference signal from the BS. The beam pattern information indicates a beam pattern determined by the BS, and the information related to the beam switching includes information about one of whether beam switching is requested, a beam switching interval, and the number of beam switching candidates.
US11601181B2
Methods and apparatuses for recovering from beam failure are disclosed. A method of recovering from beam failure, comprising: sending a beam failure recovery request message including information regarding beam failure recovery and information regarding a new candidate beam via a working beam of a first cell; monitoring a response via the new candidate beam of a second cell; and receiving the response via the new candidate beam from the second cell.
US11601176B2
Provided is a method and an apparatus for encoding CSI, a storage medium, and a processor, where the method includes: placing a first type of information bits of the CSI in a first type of position indexes of the position index set, and determining, from the indexes other than the first type of position indexes determined by the first type of information bits in the position index set, indexes of the second type of information bits of the CSI, indexes of the third type of information bits of the CSI, and indexes of the fourth type of information bits in the position index set; or placing the fourth type of information bits in the fourth type of position indexes of the position index set, and determining indexes of the first type of information bits, indexes of the second type of information bits, and indexes of the third type of information bits of the CSI in the position index set from indexes other than the fourth type of position indexes determined by the fourth type of information bits in the position index set. The present disclosure solves the problem that positions of various types of information in the CSI reporting cannot be reasonably mapped in the related art.
US11601173B2
For converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system and supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), a channel state information (CSI) acquisition method includes transmitting CSI configuration information to a terminal, selecting a beam for transmitting a beamformed CSI reference signal (BF-CSI-RS) to the terminal, transmitting the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and notifying the terminal of a beamforming update. A base station for acquiring CSI in a mobile communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals, and a controller configured to control the transceiver to transmit CSI configuration information to a terminal, to select a beam for transmitting a BF-CSI-RS to the terminal, to transmit the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and to notify the terminal of a beamforming update.
US11601163B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
US11601159B2
An apparatus may determine a mode in association with frequency/beam hopping. The mode may be configured semi-statically through RRC signaling and/or dynamically through a MAC-CE. The apparatus may determine the mode based on the RRC signaling/MAC-CE in order to switch between different configurations of frequency and beam hopping for single-beam and multi-beam PUCCH transmissions. The apparatus is configured to receive a PUCCH resource IE for a PUCCH resource indicating a PUCCH resource intra-slot frequency hopping configuration. The apparatus is configured to determine whether multiple PUCCH beams are activated for the PUCCH resource. The apparatus is configured to determine a mode for frequency hopping and beam hopping for the PUCCH resource based on at least one of the PUCCH resource intra-slot frequency hopping configuration, or the determination whether multiple PUCCH beams are activated. The apparatus is configured to transmit on the PUCCH resource based on the determined mode.
US11601158B2
In an embodiment, a remote antenna unit includes a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna array, and first and second interference circuits. The transmitter is configured to generate at least one transmit signal, and the receiver is configured to process at least one receive signal. The antenna array includes one or more antennas, each of at least one of the one or more antennas coupled to the transmitter and configured to radiate a respective downlink signal in response to a respective one of the at least one transmit signal, and each of at least one of the one or more antennas coupled to the receiver and configured to generate a respective one of the at least one receive signal in response to an uplink signal. And the first and second interference circuits are each coupled to the transmitter and to the receiver and are each configured to reduce interference in each of the at least one receive signal.
US11601147B2
A semiconductor chip includes a first wireless communication circuit, a local oscillator (LO) buffer, and an auxiliary path. The first wireless communication circuit has a signal path, wherein the signal path has a mixer input port and a signal node distinct from the mixer input port. The auxiliary path is used to electrically connect the LO buffer to the signal node of the signal path. The LO buffer is reused for a loop-back test function through the auxiliary path.
US11601138B2
A decoding method of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on partial average residual belief propagation includes the following steps: S1: calculating a size of a cluster π in a protograph based on a code length m and a code rate of a target codeword; S2: pre-computing an edge residual rci→vj corresponding to each edge from a variable node to a check node in a check matrix H; S3: calculating, based on π, a partial average residual (PAR) value corresponding to each cluster in the check matrix H; S4: sorting m/π clusters in descending order of corresponding PAR values, and updating an edge with a largest edge residual in each cluster; S5: updating edge information mci→vi from a check node ci to a variable node vj, and then updating a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) value L(vj) of the variable node vj; and S6: after the updating, making a decoding decision.
US11601135B2
A disclosure for lossless data compression can include receiving a data block by a processor, performing, by the processor, a sparse transform extraction on the data block, selecting, by the processor, a transform matrix for the data block, modeling, by the processor, the selected transform matrix for the data block, selecting, by the processor, a transform coefficient model for the data block, modeling, by the processor, the selected transform coefficient model for the data block, compressing, by the processor, the data in the data block using the selected transform matrix and the selected transform coefficient model.
US11601123B1
Embodiments of power-on reset (POR) circuits are described. In one embodiment, a POR circuit includes a primary ladder circuit connected to a supply voltage and configured to generate a reference signal for a reset signal in response to the supply voltage and a secondary ladder circuit connected to the supply voltage and configured to bias the primary ladder circuit in response to the supply voltage.
US11601113B2
A ladder filter comprises a plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in series between an input port and an output port of the ladder filter and a plurality of shunt bulk acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in parallel between adjacent ones of the plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators and ground, at least one of the plurality of shunt bulk acoustic wave resonators including raised frame regions having a first width, at least one of the plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators having one of raised frame regions having a second width less than the first width or lacking raised frame regions.
US11601112B2
A ladder filter comprises a plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in series between an input port and an output port of the ladder filter and a plurality of shunt bulk acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in parallel between adjacent ones of the plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators and ground, at least one of the plurality of shunt bulk acoustic wave resonators including raised frame regions having a first width, at least one of the plurality of series arm bulk acoustic wave resonators having one of raised frame regions having a second width less than the first width or lacking raised frame regions.
US11601110B2
A bulk-acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer, of which at least a portion is disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer, and a passivation layer disposed to cover the first electrode and the second electrode. Either one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode includes an aluminum alloy layer. Either one or both of the piezoelectric layer and the passivation layer has aluminum nitride, or aluminum nitride added with a doping material, having a ratio of an out-of-plane lattice constant “c” to an in-plane lattice constant “a” (c/a) of less than 1.58.
US11601108B2
According to one embodiment, in an isolator, a first capacitive element is arranged on a first signal line. The first capacitive element has one end electrically connected to an input side circuit and having another end electrically connected to an output side circuit. A second capacitive element is arranged on a second signal line. The second capacitive element having one end electrically connected to the input side circuit and having another end electrically connected to the output side circuit. A first inductive element has one end electrically connected to a first node between the first capacitive element in the first signal line and the output side circuit. A second inductive element has one end electrically connected to a second node between the second capacitive element in the second signal line and the output side circuit.
US11601099B1
A multi-stage amplifier includes a first stage comprising a first common-source amplifier, a first inductive load network comprising a serial connection of a first load resistor and a first load inductor, and a first source network configured to receive a first signal and output a first load signal, and a first inter-stage inductor configured to couple the first load signal to a second signal; and a second stage comprising a second common-source amplifier, a second inductive load network comprising a serial connection of a second load resistor and a second load inductor, and a second source network configured to receive the second signal and output a second load signal, and a second inter-stage inductor configured to couple the second load signal to a third signal, wherein the first load inductor and the second load inductor are laid out to enhance an inter-stage inductive coupling.
US11601095B2
A Doherty power amplifier circuit having a main power amplification device, an auxiliary power amplification device arranged in parallel with the main power amplification device, and a load modulation circuit comprising a harmonic injection circuit connected with respective outputs of the main power amplification device and the auxiliary power amplification device. The harmonic injection circuit is arranged to transfer harmonic components generated at the main power amplification device to the auxiliary power amplification device and harmonic components generated at the auxiliary power amplification device to the main power amplification device, when both the main and auxiliary power amplification devices are operating, for modulating the respective outputs of the main power amplification device and the auxiliary power amplification device.
US11601093B2
The present document relates to differential amplifiers. A differential amplifier may comprise a current source, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a compensation circuit. A reference voltage may be applied to a first terminal of the first transistor, and a second terminal of the first transistor may be coupled to an output of the current source. A feedback voltage may be applied to a first terminal of the second transistor, and a second terminal of the second transistor may be coupled to the output of the current source. The compensation circuit may comprise a capacitive element coupled to the first terminal of the first transistor, and the compensation circuit may be configured to reduce a change of the reference voltage at the first terminal of the first transistor.
US11601092B2
Radio frequency (RF) mixer circuits having a complementary frequency multiplier module that requires no balun to multiply a lower frequency base oscillator signal to a higher frequency local oscillator (LO) signal, and which has a significantly reduced IC area compared to balun-based frequency multipliers. In one embodiment, the complementary frequency multiplier module includes a complementary pair of FETs controlled by an applied base oscillator signal. The complementary FETs are coupled to a common-gate FET amplifier and alternate becoming conductive in response to the base oscillator signal. The alternating switching of the complementary FETs in response to the opposing phases of the base oscillator signal cause the common-gate FET amplifier to output a higher frequency local oscillator (LO) signal. The LO signal is coupled to the LO input of a mixer or mixer core of a type suitable for use in conjunction with a frequency multiplier.
US11601086B2
A solar canopy has a solar panel assembly including a first solar panel coupled to a second solar panel and oriented non-parallel with respect to the second solar panel. A solar panel assembly support structure is coupled to the solar panel assembly. One or more components of the support structure are manufactured by cold rolling. The solar panel assembly has an effective solar-panel-assembly wind loading less than a sum of a first-solar-panel effective wind loading and a second-solar-panel effective wind loading determined individually. An actual load applied by the solar panel assembly to a solar-panel-assembly support structure coupled thereto when the solar panel assembly is subject to a wind loading is less than a design load for the solar panel assembly subject to the wind loading based on a sum of a first-solar-panel net pressure and a second-solar-panel net pressure determined independently.
US11601083B1
A power module for driving a motor includes: a positive bus input voltage terminal; a phase terminal for each motor phase; an inverter including a half bridge for each motor phase, each half bridge including a high-side power switch electrically coupled between the positive bus input voltage terminal and respective phase terminal, and a low-side power switch electrically coupled between the respective phase terminal and ground; a first driver circuit for driving a gate terminal of each power switch; a protection switch electrically coupled in series between the positive bus input voltage terminal and each high-side power switch, and having a greater short-circuit withstand time and a lower short-circuit current level compared to each inverter power switch; and a second driver circuit for turning on the protection switch during normal operation and turning off the protection switch in response to a detected short circuit condition.
US11601073B2
An energy harvester includes a frame having a base, a first side member affixed to the base, and a second side member affixed to the base and spaced apart from the first side member. A beam is coupled between the first side member of the frame and the second side member of the frame. The beam has a substrate layer with a first end affixed to the first side member of the frame, a second end affixed to the second side member of the frame, a first face, and a second face opposite to the first face. The substrate is elastically deformable in response to the vibratory force. The beam further includes a first piezoelectric layer joined to the first face of the substrate layer and having a terminal for electrical connection to a load, the first piezoelectric layer comprising at least one piezoelectric patch.
US11601071B1
The present disclosure provides an ultrathin, flexible, and tattoo-like triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with a well-designed aesthetic pattern. The tattoo-like TENG as an energy harvester can provide not only an aesthetic pattern, but also various practical applications. With the rising acceptance of people towards the tattoo, the tattoo-like TENG offers an alternative tattoo-like epidermal electronics covering traditional tattoo's advantages and further carries out other potential applications.
US11601069B2
An electrostatic machine includes a drive electrode and a stator electrode. The drive electrode and the stator electrode are separated by a gap and form a capacitor. The drive electrode is configured to move with respect to the stator electrode. The electrostatic machine further includes a housing configured to enclose the drive electrode and the stator electrode. The stator electrode is fixed to the housing. The electrostatic machine also includes a dielectric fluid that fills a void defined by the housing, the drive electrode, and the stator electrode. The dielectric fluid includes an ester.
US11601068B2
A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit and a power conversion control circuit. The power conversion control circuit is configured to calculate a positive-phase sequence current command signal based on a positive-phase sequence voltage of the three-phase AC output voltage and a positive-phase sequence current of the three-phase AC output current, calculate a negative-phase sequence current command signal based on the first axis negative-phase sequence current command value, the second axis negative-phase sequence current command value, the first axis negative-phase sequence current value, and the second axis negative-phase sequence current value, and generate the switching control signal based on the positive-phase sequence current command signal and the negative-phase sequence current command signal.
US11601067B2
This application describes a variety of approaches for generating high voltage sinusoidal signals whose output voltage can be adjusted rapidly, without introducing high-frequency artifacts on the output. When these approaches are used, stronger electric fields can be applied to the tumor for a higher percentage of time, which can increase the efficacy of TTFields therapy. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by preventing adjustments to a DC power source during times when the output of that DC power source is powering the output signal. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by synchronizing the operation of an AC voltage generator and an electronic switch that is connected to the output of the AC voltage generator.
US11601054B2
A power semiconductor device protection circuit includes: a drive circuit that drives a power semiconductor device; a current detector which includes a first resistor and an inductor connected in parallel; and a detection circuit that detects a short-circuit condition of the power semiconductor device. One end of the first resistor and one end of the inductor are connected to one terminal of the power semiconductor device. The detection circuit detects the short-circuit condition of the power semiconductor device by comparing a voltage of the one terminal of the power semiconductor device, which changes as a function of current flow through the first resistor and the inductor, with a short-circuit detection voltage. A reference potential of the drive circuit is connected to the other end of the first resistor and the other end of the inductor.
US11601052B2
An apparatus comprises an emulator and a corresponding compensator. During operation, the emulator produces, at different instants of time, an emulated output current value representative of an amount of current supplied from an output voltage to a load. In general, the compensator provides selective compensation to the emulated output current value over time. For example, for a first time duration, compensation adjustments from the compensator are used to modify the emulated output current value. For a second duration of time, compensation adjustments from the compensator are not used to modify the emulated output current value. Disabling or discontinuing application of adjustments (such as based on the actual measured output current) during the second time duration (such as during a respective transient condition) provides more accurate and timely generation of a respective emulated output current value.
US11601051B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a connection terminal pattern and layout for a three-level buck regulator. One example electronic module generally includes a substrate, an integrated circuit (IC) package disposed on the substrate and comprising transistors of a three-level buck regulator, a capacitive element of the three-level buck regulator disposed on the substrate, and an inductive element of the three-level buck regulator disposed on the substrate. In certain aspects, the capacitive element and the inductive element may be disposed adjacent to different sides of the IC package.
US11601032B2
Disclosed herein is an electrical angle calculation device including a signal value extraction section that extracts a signal value that monotonously increases or monotonously decreases with respect to an electrical angle of a motor from output signal values of a plurality of Hall sensors embedded in a stator of the motor, and an electrical angle calculation section that calculates the electrical angle from the extracted signal value.
US11601017B2
A system includes a primary coil, a first drive circuit, a first sense circuit, and a communication and control circuit for providing power inductively to a portable device that includes a battery and an inductive receiver unit including a receiver coil and a receiver circuit. A portable device includes a battery and a receiver unit capable of receiving inductive power from a compatible inductive charging system including a base unit with a primary coil and associated circuit. A system includes a system rechargeable battery, an inductive coil, a drive circuit, a sense circuit, a communication and control circuit, a receiver rectifier circuit, and a wired power input for providing power inductively to a compatible portable device comprising a battery and an inductive receiver unit including a receiver coil and a receiver circuit.
US11601016B2
An electronic device for providing a wireless charging function and a method thereof is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touch pad which is disposed in the housing and includes an electrode pattern and multiple openings formed on the electrode pattern, a wireless charging coil, and a processor operationally connected to the touch pad and the wireless charging coil, wherein the processor is configured to perform a touch detection function of detecting a touch by an inputting subject by using at least one electrode pattern of the touch pad, calculate a capacitance variation of the touch pad while the touch detection function is performed, determine whether the inputting subject requires a charging function, based on the calculated capacitance variation, and, in response to determining that the inputting subject requires the charging function, perform a charging function of transmitting power by using the wireless charging coil.
US11601007B2
A DC power supply system includes: a DC bus serving as a bus bar for DC power supply; a natural energy power generator 30 that supplies generated power to the DC bus; a plurality of storage batteries that store the generated power from the natural energy power generator; a plurality of bidirectional DC-DC converters that connect the plurality of corresponding storage batteries to the DC bus; a power management apparatus that manages operations of the plurality of bidirectional DC-DC converters; and a target voltage corrector that calculates a correction value of a target value for the output voltage by using an average value of a plurality of actual measurement values of each output voltage of the bidirectional DC-DC converters. The power management apparatus individually controls the each output voltage of the bidirectional DC-DC converters by using each target value of the output voltages corrected based on the correction value.
US11601002B2
This invention discloses an electrical energy transmission apparatus. The electrical energy transmission apparatus includes an input component which is connected to a direct current (DC) energy storage component, an output component which comprises an alternating current (AC) device interface used to connect an AC device, and an adapter component which transfers electrical energy from the input component to the output component. The adapter component comprises a DC driving unit and an AC driving unit. The DC driving unit converts energy of the DC energy storage component into a DC power. The AC driving unit converts energy of the DC energy storage component into an AC power. At least one of the DC driving unit and the AC driving unit is connected to the AC device interface.
US11600998B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile device charger. A mobile device charger, comprising a housing having a connector to a mobile device; an inner cavity configured to house one or more extensions, wherein the one or more power connectors are at least: a male USB connector, a male outlet plug connector, or a male cigarette lighter connector. The housing can comprise a cover, wherein the cover is configured to conceal the inner cavity of the housing. The mobile device charger is configured to have a retracted position and an extended configuration for the power connectors. The mobile device charger further comprising an extender fixture to secure the mobile device.
US11600996B2
An electric vehicle (EV) charging station for fast charging (e.g. 5 to 15 minutes) an electric vehicle (EV). The EV charging station can be configured to charge multiple EVs and multiple conventional fuel type vehicles at the same time.
US11600980B2
Disclosed is a combined cable trough and walkway (1) comprising a trough (200a) and a lid, the trough (200a) comprising two trough units (200) arranged to be coupled together end to end to form the trough (200a).
US11600972B2
An embedded wire removal tool is disclosed. The embedded wire removal tool can include a feed mechanism operable to cause movement of a cable. The cable can have a jacket about a core. The cable can also include a wire disposed about the core and at least partially embedded in the jacket. The embedded wire removal tool can also include a jacket cutter operable to receive the cable from the feed mechanism and remove at least a portion of the jacket. In addition, the embedded wire removal tool can include a wire excavator operable to separate the wire from the core.
US11600968B2
A single-mode micro-laser based on a single whispering gallery mode optical microcavity and a preparation method thereof described includes: preparing a desired single whispering gallery mode optical microcavity doped with rare earth ions or containing a gain material such as quantum dots, wherein an optical microcavity configuration include a micro-disk cavity, a ring-shaped microcavity, and a racetrack-shaped microcavity; a material type include lithium niobate, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, etc.; preparing an optical fiber cone or an optical waveguide of a required size which can excite high-order modes of the optical microcavity, such as a ridge waveguide and a circular waveguides; and coupling, integrating, and packaging the optical fiber cone or the optical waveguide with the microcavity. A pump light is coupled to the optical fiber cone or the optical waveguide to excite a compound mode with a polygonal configuration.
US11600966B2
The present disclosure relates to a light source system suitable for use in a time of flight camera. The light source system includes a light source, such as a laser, and a driver arranged to supply a drive current to the light source to turn the light source on to emit light. The driver includes two transistors coupled to the light source in series, such that when both transistors are turned on, a drive circuit is completed, current flows and the light source turns on. A very short pulse of light emission may be achieved efficiently by switching one of the transistors to the on-state to complete the drive circuit and a short time later turning off the other transistor in order to break the drive circuit. In this way, a pulse of light in the order of less than 1 nanosecond or less than 500 picoseconds may be achieved.
US11600965B2
A method (900) includes a gain current (IGAIN) to an anode of a gain-section diode (D0) disposed on a shared substrate of a tunable laser (310), delivering a modulation signal to an anode of an Electro-absorption section diode (D2) disposed on the shared substrate of the tunable laser, and receiving a burst mode signal (330) indicative of a burst-on state or a burst-off state. When the burst mode signal is indicative of the burst-off state, the method includes sinking a sink current (ISINK) away from the gain current at the anode of the gain-section diode. When the burst mode signal transitions to be indicative of the burst-on state from the burst-off state, the method includes ceasing the sinking of the sink current away from the gain current and delivering an overshoot current (IOVER) to the anode of the gain-section diode.
US11600955B2
A plug-in connector for a two- or multi-wire cable includes a male and female contact. The male and female contacts are configured to be coupled to first and second wires, respectively, and are elongated in a plug-in direction. A carrier element is configured to position and receive the male and female contacts in first and second receiving spaces, respectively, each at a predefined angle with respect to the plug-in direction, and to electrically insulate the male and female contacts from one another. A shielding element includes first and second channels for receiving the first and second wires, respectively. The channels each penetrate the shielding element from its end located counter to the plug-in direction to its end located in the plug-in direction. The shielding element comprises an electrically conducting material, and is arranged at an end of the carrier element located counter to the plug-in direction.
US11600951B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors. Specifically, the methods and systems relate to isolation and compensation techniques for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors for use with high-speed data cabling. A frame can be configured to receive a number of connectors. Shield structures may be positioned to isolate at least a subset of the connectors from one another. The connectors can be positioned to move at least a subset of the connectors away from alignment with a common plane. A signal compensator may be configured to adjust a data signal to compensate for alien crosstalk. The connectors are configured to efficiently and accurately propagate high-speed data signals by, among other functions, minimizing alien crosstalk.
US11600943B2
A plug cap assembly for use on a plug (10) comprises a plug cap (20) configured for releasable arrangement on at least a part of a plug head portion, and comprises a flexible connection member (21) having a first end and a second end, a flexible connection (23) between a cap top portion (26) and said second end, and a connection element (24; 24′) releasably connected to the plug or to a cable (9). The flexible connection member may be moved with respect to the connection element and a suspended length (1) may be adjusted such that it is less than a distance (d) between the suspension structure (25) and an adjacent vehicle body (3).
US11600940B2
A connector with a built-in substrate includes a chain terminal including a chain portion, a first tab portion configured to protrude from the chain portion in a predetermined direction, a second tab portion configured to protrude from the chain portion in a direction different from a protrusion direction of the first tab portion; an inner housing in which the chain terminal is installed such that the first tab portion and the second tab portion protrude; and a substrate connected to the second tab portion protruding from the inner housing.
US11600918B2
An antenna arrangement includes a directional antenna assembly, the directional antenna assembly comprising a directional antenna intended to be mounted on an interface delimited by a stationary support structure, the directional antenna generally extending according to a main axis perpendicular to the plane defined by the interface, wherein the antenna arrangement further comprises a rotatable base mounted on the interface, the rotatable base comprising a pole integral with the rotatable base, the pole extending in the direction of the main axis, the rotatable base being rotatable about the main axis 11, a rotation of the rotatable base actuating the rotation of the pole about the main axis.
US11600907B2
A portable computing device includes an antenna within its housing structure for wireless connectivity, where an upper partition of the housing structure is used to construct an antenna plane, and a ground plane is incorporated into a lower partition of the housing structure. In some cases, the antenna is capable of maintaining wireless connectivity over a wide frequency band. Some embodiments include a device mount external to the upper partition and the lower partition of the housing structure that enables mounting the portable computing device to another entity, such as a user. In some cases, the device mount is external to the antenna used by the portable computing device, and does not include any portions of the antenna.
US11600906B2
The present disclosure relates to a mounting assembly and a mounting kit comprising such a mounting assembly for a base station antenna, wherein the mounting assembly has first and second connection parts, an effective length therebetween is related to the mechanical tilt of the base station antenna, and the effective length is continuously adjustable. The mounting assembly comprises a connecting rod mechanism having a first pair of connecting rods, a second pair of connecting rods, and a threaded connection device, wherein the threaded connection device connects two relatively movable hinged connection parts, the distance between the two hinged connection parts can be continuously adjusted by screwing the threaded connection device, so that the effective length can be continuously adjusted to realize continuous adjustment of the mechanical tilt of the base station antenna.
US11600902B2
A semiconductor device includes: a dielectric substrate; an integrated circuit (IC) die disposed inside an opening of the dielectric substrate, where the IC die is configured to transmit or receive radio frequency (RF) signals; a dielectric material in the opening of the dielectric substrate and around the IC die; a redistribution structure along a first side of the dielectric substrate, where a first conductive feature of the redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the IC die; a second conductive feature along a second side of the dielectric substrate opposing the first side; a via extending through the dielectric substrate, where the via electrically couples the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature; and an antenna at the second side of the dielectric substrate, where the second conductive feature is electrically or electromagnetically coupled to the antenna.
US11600901B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate and an antenna module. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The antenna module is disposed on the first surface of the substrate with a gap. The antenna module has a support and an antenna layer. The support has a first surface facing away from the substrate and a second surface facing the substrate. The antenna layer is disposed on the first surface of the support. The antenna layer has a first antenna pattern and a first dielectric layer.
US11600899B2
The present disclosure relates to an antenna device for a vehicle for optimizing the signal strength or quality from a mobile network having at least one fixed transceiver. The device comprises: at least one directional antenna; at least one turning device, such as an electric motor, for rotating the directional antenna around an axis substantially perpendicular to the antenna boresight; and a microprocessor configured to calculate an azimuthal rotation angle for pointing the directional antenna to at least one selected fixed transceiver. The calculated azimuthal rotational angle is based on: directional and positional data of the vehicle; positional data of the selected fixed transceivers; and a route for navigating the vehicle between a starting point and a destination. The azimuthal rotation angle of the directional antenna is calculated continuously or at intervals, such that the signal strength or quality from the mobile network is continuously optimized along the route. The present disclosure is further related to a directional wireless hotspot device for communication in a mobile network, wherein the device comprises at least two directional antennas. The present disclosure further relates to a method for automatically pointing a directional antenna on a vehicle to a fixed transceiver in a mobile network for optimizing the signal strength or quality, wherein the antenna is pointed to a transceiver based a calculated route for navigating between a starting point and a destination.
US11600896B2
An antenna system includes an antenna and an antenna control apparatus. The antenna control apparatus includes a control circuit, i.e., a control integrated circuit. The control circuit adjusts and boosts an antenna voltage to supply a required current to the antenna. The antenna voltage is maintained so as not to exceed a predetermined upper limit voltage threshold value. The control circuit is configured to determine a disconnection failure on the antenna when the antenna voltage detected by an overvoltage detection circuit reaches the upper limit voltage threshold value, or is boosted beyond the upper limit voltage threshold value.
US11600891B1
Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first circuit board characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface may include a conductive layer. The batteries may include a battery stack overlying the first circuit board and electrically coupled with the second surface of the first circuit board. The battery stack may include a plurality of battery cells. The batteries may include a second circuit board overlying the battery stack. The second circuit board may be characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface may include a conductive layer, and the battery stack may be electrically coupled with the second surface of the second circuit board. The batteries may include a power distribution block electrically coupled with the first and second circuit boards.
US11600887B2
The present invention relates to a pressure relief element (11) to be used as an overpressure safety means in devices where a gaseous medium must be rapidly released in case of overpressure, wherein the pressure relief element (11) has at least one notch (9) which is designed as a predetermined breaking point where the pressure relief element (11) breaks at a certain level of overpressure, thereby irreversibly opening an exhaust path for the gaseous medium. The present invention also relates to a pressure relief device of an electrochemical battery, comprising such a pressure relief element and a battery comprising such a pressure relief device.
US11600880B2
A system for rapid securement and disengagement of a battery assembly-type power source element is provided herein. The system can include a battery assembly that includes a battery element having opposite, opposing surfaces and configured to provide power to at least a portion of a vehicle. On the surface of the battery assembly a pin element can be disposed. The system also includes a receiver assembly configured to mechanically couple the battery assembly. The receiver assembly can include an insertion opening having a size configured to receive the battery assembly and a hook assembly. The hook assembly can include a hook configured to mechanically couple to the pin element of the battery assembly and shaft configured to drive the hook such that a distance between the insertion opening and the battery assembly is changed.
US11600875B2
A traction battery cell assembly including a battery cell and a cell case is provided. The cell case defines a cavity sized for receiving the battery cell and includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and a plurality of support chambers disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall. Each of the support chambers defines a polygon having multiple sides. The sides are arranged with one another to define an agent cavity to house neutralizing agent. The plurality of support chambers is arranged with the inner wall and the outer wall such that an impact to one of the walls causes a puncture to one of the sides of the support chambers releasing the neutralizing agent. Each of the support chambers may include five or more sides and adjacent sides may define an angle therebetween greater than ninety degrees.
US11600862B2
The present invention relates to an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an organic solvent, a lithium salt and a compound of Chemical Formula 1, wherein the compound of Chemical Formula 1 is contained in an amount of 0.001 wt % or more and less than 0.1 wt %. In Chemical Formula 1, n is one of the integers 3 to 10.
US11600859B2
Localized superconcentrated electrolytes (LSEs) and electrochemical devices including the LSEs are disclosed. The LSE includes an active salt, a solvent in which the active salt is soluble, and a diluent in which the active salt is insoluble or poorly soluble, wherein the diluent includes a fluorinated orthoformate.
US11600854B2
A positive electrode material contains a positive electrode active material and a first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material is represented by Chemical Formula (1): LiαMβXγ. In Chemical Formula (1), α, β, and γ each represent a value larger than 0, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal elements other than lithium and of metalloid elements, and X represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. The ratio of the volume of the positive electrode active material to the sum of the volume of the positive electrode active material and the volume of the solid electrolyte material is not less than 0.55 and not more than 0.85.
US11600853B1
A container assembly includes a container defining a sealed chamber, a solid state electrolyte disposed in the chamber, and a hydrophobic substance protecting the solid state electrolyte. A method for preparing a solid state electrolyte includes positioning a solid state electrolyte in a chamber of a container, protecting the solid state electrolyte using a hydrophobic substance, and sealing the chamber. A method for extracting a solid state electrolyte includes positioning the container assembly of in a dry atmosphere, unsealing the chamber, and removing the solid state electrolyte from the chamber to the dry atmosphere.
US11600849B2
A method includes applying to a substrate a solution including a polymeric compound to form a release layer on the substrate; applying ion-conducting elements on the release layer; applying a matrix polymer on the release layer, wherein the matrix polymer surrounds at least some of the ion-conducting elements; and removing the release layer to separate the matrix polymer from the substrate such that the ion-conducting elements remain embedded in a carrier layer of the matrix polymer and form an ion-conducting membrane.
US11600847B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including an anode including a silicon-based anode active material; a cathode; and an electrolyte, the electrolyte including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a conjugated diene compound.
US11600844B2
The present invention provides a solid-state battery cell and a solid-state battery module including the same. The solid-state battery cell includes: a laminate including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer present between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; a positive electrode tab connected to the positive electrode layer; a negative electrode tab connected to the negative electrode layer; and a pair of conductive clamping plates clamping the laminate from both sides in a laminating direction of the laminate. One of the pair of clamping plates is electrically connected to the positive electrode tab, and the other clamping plate is electrically connected to the negative electrode tab.
US11600842B2
Multistage plunger press systems and methods with interlocking fingers for forming battery cell tabs
Presented are metalworking systems for forming metallic workpieces, methods for making such workpieces and methods for operating such systems, and battery cell tabs bent by a multistage plunger press. A metalworking system includes a plunger fixture that mounts adjacent metallic workpieces, and a plunger head movably mounted to the plunger fixture to move between activated and deactivated positions. A first row of plunger fingers is mounted to the plunger head and moves in one direction to press against and bend one metallic workpiece a predefined bend angle. Likewise, a second row of plunger fingers is mounted to the plunger head and moves in an opposite direction to press against and bend another metallic workpiece another predefined bend angle. The plunger head then moves to the activated position, in tandem with the plunger fingers bending the metallic workpieces, to cause the plunger fingers to bend the workpieces additional respective bend angles.
US11600837B2
Crosslinked membranes for anion exchange applications, and methods of making and using the same, are described.
US11600836B2
Supported nickel catalysts used as direct internal reforming catalyst in molten carbonate fuel cells
Disclosed here is a supported catalyst comprising a thermally stable core, wherein the thermally stable core comprises a metal oxide support and nickel disposed in the metal oxide support, wherein the metal oxide support comprises at least one base metal oxide and at least one transition metal oxide or rare earth metal oxide mixed with or dispersed in the base metal oxide. Optionally the supported catalyst can further comprise an electrolyte removing layer coating the thermally stable core and/or an electrolyte repelling layer coating the electrolyte removing layer, wherein the electrolyte removing layer comprises at least one metal oxide, and wherein the electrolyte repelling layer comprises at least one of graphite, metal carbide and metal nitride. Also disclosed is a molten carbonate fuel cell comprising the supported catalyst as a direct internal reforming catalyst.
US11600834B2
A fuel gas injection apparatus includes a chamber, a heat exchanger, a supply manifold, injectors, and a mount body. The chamber is in communication with a fuel gas tank, and the heat exchanger is in communication with the chamber. The supply manifold is in communication with the heat exchanger and has a plurality of branched flow channels for flowing a fuel gas. The plurality of injectors detachably communicate with the branched flow channels of the supply manifold. The mount body is in communication with the plurality of injectors and guides the fuel gas injected from plurality of injectors to a fuel cell stack. The chamber and the heat exchanger are attached to the mount body.
US11600830B2
A plate member for a cell stack, a cell stack assembly, a method of forming a plate member for a cell stack and a method of assembling a cell stack may be provided, and the plate member includes a channel sheet with at least one peak and one trough for forming fluid flow channels; two alignment parts, each alignment part including a main body and one or more alignment members or holes, the main body having a through hole provided within the main body; and wherein the alignment part is capable of aligning the channel sheet parallel to a plane of the main body and the alignment member is capable of aligning the alignment member to another corresponding alignment member along an axis passing through the alignment member; and further wherein the channel sheet is disposed between the two alignment parts.
US11600826B2
An all-solid-state battery positive electrode 20 includes a positive electrode current collector 21 and a positive electrode active material layer 22 laminated on the positive electrode current collector 21. The positive electrode active material layer 22 includes an inclined portion 50 (a first inclined portion 50A) provided on an outer circumference thereof.
US11600820B2
A positive electrode active material contains a lithium-rich lithium manganese-based oxide, wherein the lithium manganese-based oxide has a composition of the following chemical formula (1), and wherein a lithium ion conductive glass-ceramic solid electrolyte layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of thio-LISICON(thio-lithium super ionic conductor), LISICON(lithium super ionic conductor), Li2S—SiS2—Li4SiO4, and Li2S—SiS2—P2S5—Lil is formed on the surface of the lithium manganese-based oxide particle: Li1−xMyMn1−x−yO2−zQz (1) wherein, 0
US11600816B2
The present application discloses a negative electrode, a secondary battery and a device comprising the same. The negative electrode includes: a current collector; a first active material layer close to the current collector, the first active material layer including a first active material; and a second active material layer disposed on a surface of the first active material layer away from the current collector, the second active material layer including a second active material; wherein the first active material and the second active material are independently oval-like particles with through holes and/or blind holes, and the first active material has an average pore size greater than that of the second active material.
US11600814B2
An electrode precursor or slurry according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes a blended electroactive material and a binder solution. The blended electroactive material includes a first electroactive material and a second electroactive material. The first electroactive material includes nickel. The first electroactive material is selected from the group consisting of LiNixCoyMnzO2 where x is greater than 0.6, LiNixCoyAlzO2 where x is greater than 0.6, LiNixCoyMnzAlαO2 where x is greater than 0.6, or any combination thereof. The second electroactive material includes a phosphor-olivine compound at less than or equal to about 30 weight percent of the blended electroactive material. The binder solution including a polymeric binder and a solvent including N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone. In various aspects, the present disclosure provides a high-nickel-content positive electrode formed from the slurry. In various aspects, the present disclosure provides an electrochemical cell including the positive electrode and a lithium metal negative electrode.
US11600813B2
An electrode plate of a rechargeable electrochemical battery. The electrode plate comprises a substantially flat lead grid having a plurality of grid bars and a plurality of window-like cutouts formed between the grid bars. The electrode plate further comprises an active material introduced into the cutouts and/or onto the grid bars of the lead grid. The active material has an artificially produced pattern of slot-shaped depressions on its surface. The depressions extend to a depth from the outer surface of the active material. Also disclosed is a rechargeable electrochemical battery comprising the at least one electrode.
US11600812B2
The disclosure relates to a carbon-based electrode material that has been graphitized to hold ions in the electrode of a battery and more particularly include carbide or carbide and nitride surfaces that protect the graphite core. The preferred batteries include metal ion such as lithium ion batteries where the carbon-based electrode is the anode although the carbon-based electrode may also serve in dual ion batteries where both electrodes may comprise the graphitized carbon-based electrodes. The electrodes are more amorphous than conventional graphite electrodes and include a carbide or nitride containing surface treatment.
US11600809B2
Systems and methods for thermal gradient during electrode pyrolysis may include fabricating the battery electrode by pyrolyzing an active material on a metal current collector, wherein the active material comprises silicon particles in a binder material, the binder material being pyrolyzed such that a resistance at an inner surface of the active material in contact with the current collector is at least 50% higher than a resistance at an outer surface of the active material. The active material may be pyrolyzed by electromagnetic radiation, which may be provided by one or more lasers, which may include one or more CO2 lasers. The electromagnetic radiation may be provided by one or more infrared lamps. An outer edge of the current collector may be gripped using a thermal transfer block that removes heat from the current collector during pyrolysis of the active material and subsequent cool down.
US11600806B2
The application discloses an auxiliary method and device for one time programmable (OTP) adjustment of a display panel. The auxiliary method includes: crimping and conducting a flexible circuit board to a display panel bonded with a chip by means of pre-bonding, to lead a crimping impedance by the flexible circuit board; detecting the crimping impedance led by the flexible circuit board; and screening a detected crimping impedance value to determine whether the OTP adjustment is enabled, wherein when the crimping impedance value meets a preset condition, the OTP adjustment is enabled, and when the crimping impedance value does not meet the preset condition, the OTP adjustment is disabled.
US11600791B2
Organometallic compounds comprising an imidazole carbene ligand having a N-containing ring fused to the imidazole ring are provided. In particular, the N-containing ring fused to the imidazole ring may contain one nitrogen atom or more than one nitrogen atom. These compounds may demonstrate high photoluminescent (PL) efficiency, Gaussian emission spectra, and/or short excited state lifetimes. These materials may be especially useful as blue phosphorescent emitters.
US11600787B2
Provided is a new composition of matter for boron containing organic molecules which can be used as hosts or emitters in OLED devices. The compound can have a structure of Formula I
US11600782B2
Novel host compounds consisting of carbazole and nitrile groups are disclosed. These compounds are useful in phosphorescent OLEDs.
US11600781B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes a monoamine compound including a condensed three ring hetero compound and a condensed four ring hetero compound as substituents, and wherein the condensed four ring hetero compound includes two of at least one atom of an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.
US11600778B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising a substrate; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed on the organic light emitting element; and an adhesive layer formed on the substrate, covering the organic light emitting element, and bonding the substrate on which the organic light emitting element is formed with the encapsulation substrate.
US11600768B2
A magnetic memory including a plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements that hold information, each including a first ferromagnetic metal layer with a fixed magnetization direction, a second ferromagnetic metal layer with a varying magnetization direction, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers; a plurality of first control elements that control reading of the information, wherein each of the plurality of first ferromagnetic metal layers is connected to a first control element; a plurality of spin-orbit torque wiring lines that extend in a second direction intersecting with a first direction which is a stacking direction of the magnetoresistance effect elements, wherein each of the second ferromagnetic metal layers is joined to one spin-orbit torque wiring line; a plurality of second control elements that control electric current flowing through the spin-orbit torque wiring lines.
US11600762B2
This disclosure teaches methods for making high-temperature superconducting striated tape combinations and the product high-temperature superconducting striated tape combinations. This disclosure describes an efficient and scalable method for aligning and bonding two superimposed high-temperature superconducting (HTS) filamentary tapes to form a single integrated tape structure. This invention aligns a bottom and top HTS tape with a thin intervening insulator layer with microscopic precision, and electrically connects the two sets of tape filaments with each other. The insulating layer also reinforces adhesion of the top and bottom tapes, mitigating mechanical stress at the electrical connections. The ability of this method to precisely align separate tapes to form a single tape structure makes it compatible with a reel-to-reel production process.
US11600749B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting stack having a length, a width, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer are stacked in a stacking direction. A first electrode is coupled to the first semiconductor layer and extended in a direction parallel to the stacking direction and a second electrode is coupled to the second semiconductor layer and extended in a direction parallel to the stacking direction. A dielectric layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11600748B2
Provided is a display substrate including: a base substrate, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes and a plurality of touch electrodes; wherein the micro light-emitting diode comprises: a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode that are sequentially arranged in a direction distal from the base substrate; and the touch electrode is disposed on a side of the micro LED distal from the base substrate. A manufacturing method of manufacturing a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device are also provided.
US11600747B2
A display backplane includes a base, a plurality of driving electrodes disposed above the base, and a connection structure disposed on at least one of the plurality of driving electrodes. An orthographic projection of the connection structure on the base is within an orthographic projection of a corresponding driving electrode on the base; and the connection structure includes at least one conductive portion disposed at a first included angle with the corresponding driving electrode.
US11600745B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a substrate, an epitaxial layer structure disposed on the substrate, a first current blocking layer disposed on the epitaxial layer structure, a second current blocking layer disposed on the epitaxial layer structure, a current spreading layer disposed on the epitaxial layer structure and covering the first current blocking layer; a first electrode disposed on a side of the current spreading layer facing away from the epitaxial layer structure, and a second electrode disposed on the epitaxial layer structure and covering the second current blocking layer. The first current blocking layer includes a first main blocking portion and a first extended blocking portion. The second current blocking layer includes a second main blocking portion and a second extended blocking portion. The second extended blocking portion includes spacings. The first extended blocking portion is formed with convex structures. The convex structures are aligned with the spacings.
US11600742B2
An optical semiconductor element includes a single crystal AlN substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer having an AlGaN layer, the AlGaN layer being grown on the AlN substrate and being pseudomorphic with the AlN substrate, an Al composition of the AlGaN layer being reduced with an increase in distance from the AlN substrate; an active layer grown on the n-type semiconductor layer and having a multiple quantum well structure which includes a plurality of well layers and barrier layers; and a p-type semiconductor layer which is grown on the active layer. The single crystal AlN substrate has a dislocation density being 106 cm−2 or less.
US11600741B2
The present disclosure provides a support device for conveying at least one solar cell element in a transport direction, wherein the support device comprises a support element configured for supporting the at least one solar cell element and an electric arrangement configured for providing an electrostatic force for holding the at least one solar cell element on the support element.
US11600736B2
A cytometer includes an avalanche photodiode, a switching power supply, a filter, and voltage adjustment circuitry. The switching power supply includes a feedback loop. The filter is electrically connected between the switching power supply and the avalanche photodiode. The voltage adjustment circuitry adjusts a voltage on the feedback loop based at least in part on a voltage measured between the filter and the avalanche photodiode.
US11600735B2
A method is provided for fabricating an avalanche photodiode (APD) device, in particular, a separate absorption charge multiplication (SACM) APD device. The method includes forming a first contact region and a second contact region in a semiconductor layer. Further, the method includes forming a first mask layer above at least a first contact region of the semiconductor layer adjacent to the first contact region, and forming a second mask layer above and laterally overlapping the first mask layer. Thereby, a mask window is defined by the first mask layer and the second mask layer, and the first mask layer and/or the second mask layer are formed above a second contact region of the semiconductor layer adjacent to the second contact region. Further, the method includes forming a charge region in the semiconductor layer through the mask window, wherein the charge region is formed between the first contact region and the second contact region, and comprises forming an absorption region on the first contact region using the first mask layer. An APD fabricated by the disclosed method is also provided.
US11600729B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor material layer separated from a second semiconductor material layer by an insulating layer. A source region and a drain region are disposed in the first semiconductor material layer and spaced apart. A gate electrode is disposed over the first semiconductor material layer between the source region and the drain region. A first doped region having a first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the gate electrode directly overlies the first doped region. A second doped region having a second doping type different than the first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the second doped region extends beneath the first doped region and contacts opposing sides of the first doped region.
US11600726B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes: a base; bit lines, located on the base, and a material of the bit line including a metal semiconductor compound; semiconductor channels, each including a first doped region, a channel region and a second doped region arranged in sequence, and the first doped region being in contact with the bit line; a first dielectric layer, covering sidewall surfaces of the first doped regions, and a first interval being provided between parts of the first dielectric layer covering sidewalls of adjacent first doped regions on a same bit line; an insulating layer, covering sidewall surfaces of the channel regions; word lines, covering a sidewall surface of the insulating layer away from the channel regions, and a second interval being provided between adjacent word lines.
US11600720B2
A process is provided to fabricate a finFET device having a semiconductor layer of a two-dimensional “2D” semiconductor material. The semiconductor layer of the 2D semiconductor material is a thin film layer formed over a dielectric fin-shaped structure. The 2D semiconductor layer extends over at least three surfaces of the dielectric fin structure, e.g., the upper surface and two sidewall surfaces. A vertical protrusion metal structure, referred to as “metal fin structure”, is formed about an edge of the dielectric fin structure and is used as a seed to grow the 2D semiconductor material.
US11600719B2
The present disclosure provides embodiments of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structures. A BJT according to the present disclosure includes a first epitaxial feature disposed over a well region, a second epitaxial feature disposed over the well region, a vertical stack of channel members each extending lengthwise between the first epitaxial feature and the second epitaxial feature, a gate structure wrapping around each of the vertical stack of channel members, a first electrode coupled to the well region, an emitter electrode disposed over and coupled to the first epitaxial feature, and a second electrode disposed over and coupled to the second epitaxial feature.
US11600711B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes an active fin protruding upwardly from a substrate and extending in a first direction and a gate structure extending in a second direction intersecting to cross the active fin, where a first width of a lower portion of the gate structure that contacts the active fin is greater than a second width of the lower portion of the gate structure that is spaced apart from the active fin.
US11600710B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device for improving a gate induced drain leakage and a method for fabricating the same, and the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first doped region and a second doped region formed to be spaced apart from each other by a trench in the substrate, a first gate dielectric layer over the trench, a lower gate over the first gate dielectric layer, an upper gate over the lower gate and having a smaller width than the lower gate, and a second gate dielectric layer between the upper gate and the first gate dielectric layer.
US11600705B2
A semiconductor device in which a transistor has the characteristic of low off-state current is provided. The transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor layer having a channel region whose channel width is smaller than 70 nm. A temporal change in off-state current of the transistor over time can be represented by Formula (a2). In Formula (a2), IOFF represents the off-state current, t represents time during which the transistor is off, α and τ are constants, β is a constant that satisfies 0<β≤1, and CS is a constant that represents load capacitance of a source or a drain. I OFF ( t ) = C S × α × β τ β × t β - 1 × e - ( t τ ) β ( a2 )
US11600703B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, and a stacked fin structure on the buffer layer. The buffer layer can include germanium, and the stacked fin structure can include a semiconductor layer with germanium and tin. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure wrapped around a portion of the semiconductor layer and an epitaxial structure on the buffer layer and in contact with the semiconductor layer. The epitaxial structure includes germanium and tin.
US11600702B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, trenches, a gate insulating film, gate electrodes, and an interlayer insulating film. The gate insulating film is formed by performing nitriding and oxidation by at least two sessions of a heat treatment by a mixed gas containing nitric oxide and nitrogen, the gate insulating film being configured by a first gate insulating film that is a silicon nitride layer, a second gate insulating film that is a silicon oxide film, and a third gate insulating film that is a silicon oxide film having a nitrogen area density lower than that of the second gate insulating film.
US11600700B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin over a substrate, and a gate structure along sidewalls and the top surface of the semiconductor fin. The gate structure covers the first portion of the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device also includes a source/drain feature adjacent to the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a source/drain contact connected to the source/drain feature. The source/drain contact extends downwards to a position that is lower than the top surface of the first portion of the semiconductor fin.
US11600694B2
An integrated circuit device includes an active area extending in a first direction on a substrate and a gate line extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction to intersect with the active area. The gate line comprises a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other. The first sidewall has a convex shape. The second sidewall has a concave shape.
US11600692B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device has a cell region and an end region adjacent to the cell region in a first direction and surrounding the cell region. A first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type is in the cell region and the end region. Guard rings of a second conductivity type are at a first surface in the end region. The guard rings surround the cell region. An insulating film is on the first surface in the end region. Conductive members are on the insulating film and separated from the guard rings in a second direction. A first conductive member has a cell-region-side edge above a central portion of a first guard ring. The first guard ring has an end-region-side edge below a central portion of the first conductive member.
US11600685B2
A display panel includes an active area including pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other and data lines and gate lines arranged to be intersected; and shift registers supplying a gate pulse to each of the gate lines, wherein each of the shift registers includes GIP circuit portions dispersedly disposed in the active area; and GIP lines supplying a predetermined signal to the GIP circuit portions or connecting the GIP circuit portions with each other, the GIP lines being located between neighboring pixels along the second direction.
US11600681B2
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a base substrate and at least one pixel circuit provided on the base substrate. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a first transistor, and a second transistor; the base substrate includes a semiconductor body that can be doped, and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that are on the semiconductor body; the first transistor includes a first doped region in contact with the first electrode of the first transistor, and a second doped region in contact with a second electrode of the first transistor, and the first doped region of the first transistor and the second doped region of the first transistor are spaced apart from each other, have a same doping type, and are both in the semiconductor body.
US11600679B2
A display apparatus includes a first transistor, a first data line, a second data line, a driving voltage line, and a first insulating layer. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode. The first semiconductor layer includes a source region and a drain region. The first data line is disposed at a left side of the first transistor, and the second data line is disposed at a right side of the first transistor. The driving voltage line at least partially overlaps the first data line and the second data line. The first insulating layer is disposed between the first data line and the driving voltage line and between the second data line and the driving voltage line.
US11600674B2
The present application provides a method for manufacturing a pixel structure and a display panel. The pixel structure includes a substrate, a plurality of first pixel banks, and a plurality of second pixel banks. The first pixel banks intersect a long side direction of the substrate. The second pixel banks are parallel to the long side direction of the substrate. Light emitting materials with a same color are disposed between two adjacent second pixel banks, so that this pixel design can be compatible with MMG line-bank printing, which alleviates a problem that existing MMG pixel arrangement mode restricts a printing mode.
US11600673B2
An organic light emitting device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, and a dummy metal layer disposed on the first substrate in the non-display area. The dummy metal layer includes a first dummy metal layer and a second dummy metal layer that overlap each other. The organic light emitting device further includes an insulating layer disposed between the first dummy metal layer and the second dummy metal layer in a cross-sectional view, a second substrate covering the first substrate, and a sealant disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and overlapping the dummy metal layer. The first dummy metal layer is electrically connected to the second dummy metal layer, and the sealant contacts the second dummy metal layer.
US11600663B2
A semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) with increased on-state current obtained through a parasitic bipolar junction transistor (BJT) of the MOSFET. Methods of operating the MOSFET as a memory cell or a memory array select transistor are provided.
US11600656B2
Described are light emitting diode (LED) devices including a combination of electroluminescent and photo-luminescent active regions in the same wafer to provide LEDs with emission spectra that are adjustable after epitaxial growth. The LED device includes a multilayer anode contact comprising a reflecting metal and at least one transparent conducting oxide layer in between the metal and the p-type layer surface. The thickness of the transparent conducting oxide layer may vary for LEDs fabricated with different emission spectra.
US11600643B2
An assembly for optical to electrical power conversion including a photodiode assembly having a substrate layer and an internal side, an antireflective layer, a heterojunction buffer layer adjacent the internal side; an active area positioned adjacent the heterojunction buffer layer, a plurality of n+ electrode regions and p+ electrode regions positioned adjacent the active area, and back-contacts configured to align with the n+ and p+ electrode regions. The active area converts photons from incoming light into liberated electron hole pairs. The heterojunction buffer layer prevents electrons and holes of the liberated electron hole pairs from moving toward the substrate layer. The plurality of electrode regions are configured in an alternating pattern with gaps between each n+ and p+ electrode region. The electrode regions receive and generate electrical current from migration of the electrons and the holes, provide electrical pathways for the electrical current, and provide thermal pathways to dissipate heat.
US11600642B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a layer stack including a high K dielectric layer formed over a first dielectric layer and a metal electrode. The high K dielectric layer has a K value of 20 or higher and may be formed as a part of a capacitor, a gate insulating layer, or any suitable insulating layer in electronic devices, such as display devices. The layer stack includes a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and the metal layer, and the high K dielectric layer containing zirconium dioxide or hafnium dioxide disposed on the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer provides a homogenous surface on which the high K dielectric layer is formed. The homogeneous surface enables the high K dielectric material to be deposited uniformly thereover, resulting in a uniform thickness profile.
US11600634B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes a source contact layer overlying a substrate, an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located overlying the source contact layer, and a memory opening fill structure located within a memory opening extending through the alternating stack and the source contact layer. The memory opening fill structure includes a composite semiconductor channel and a memory film laterally surrounding the composite semiconductor channel. The composite semiconductor channel includes a pedestal channel portion having controlled distribution of n-type dopants that diffuse from the source contact layer with a lower diffusion rate provided by carbon doping and smaller grain sizes, or has arsenic doping providing limited diffusion into the vertical semiconductor channel. The vertical semiconductor channel has large grain sizes to provide high charge carrier mobility, and is free of or includes only a low concentration of carbon atoms and n-type dopants therein.
US11600618B2
A includes depositing a gate electrode layer over a semiconductor substrate; patterning the gate electrode layer into a first gate electrode and a gate electrode extending portion; forming a first gate spacer alongside the first gate electrode; patterning the gate electrode extending portion into a second gate electrode after forming the first gate spacer; and forming a second gate spacer alongside the second gate electrode and a third gate spacer around the first spacer.
US11600616B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure protruding from a first isolation insulating layer is formed. A second isolation insulating layer made of different material than the first isolation insulating layer is formed so that a first upper portion of the fin structure is exposed. A dummy gate structure is formed over the exposed first upper portion of the first fin structure. The second isolation insulating layer is etched by using the dummy gate structure as an etching mask. The dummy gate structure is removed so that a gate space is formed. The second isolation insulating layer is etched in the gate space so that a second upper portion of the fin structure is exposed from the first isolation insulating layer. A gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer are formed over the exposed second portion of the fin structure.
US11600614B2
Various integrated circuits formed using gallium nitride and other materials are described. In one example, an integrated circuit includes a first integrated device formed over a first semiconductor structure in a first region of the integrated circuit, a second integrated device formed over a second semiconductor structure in a second region of the integrated circuit, and a passive component formed over a third region of the integrated circuit, between the first region and the second region. The third region comprises an insulating material, which can be glass in some cases. Further, the passive component can be formed over the glass in the third region. The integrated circuit is designed to avoid electromagnetic coupling between the passive component, during operation of the integrated circuit, and interfacial parasitic conductive layers existing in the first and second semiconductor structures, to improve performance.
US11600611B2
An electronic device can include a drain terminal, a control terminal, and a source terminal, a first HEMT, and a second HEMT. The first HEMT can include a drain electrode coupled to the drain terminal, a gate electrode coupled to the first control terminal, and a source electrode coupled to the source terminal. The second HEMT can include a drain electrode, a gate electrode, and a source electrode. The drain electrode can be coupled to the drain terminal, and the source electrode can be coupled to the source terminal. In an embodiment, a resistor can be coupled between the gate and source electrodes of the second HEMT, and in another embodiment, the gate electrode of the second HEMT can electrically float. During or after a triggering event, the second HEMT can turn on temporarily to divert some of the charging from the triggering event into the second HEMT.
US11600610B2
Clamping circuit integrated on gallium nitride semiconductor device and related semiconductor device
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device and a clamping circuit including a substrate; a first semiconductor layer, arranged on the substrate and composed of a III-nitride semiconductor material; a second semiconductor layer, arranged on the first semiconductor layer and composed of a III-nitride semiconductor material; a power transistor structure, including a gate structure, a drain structure and a source structure arranged on the second semiconductor layer; the first transistor structures, arranged on the second semiconductor layer; and the second transistor structures, arranged on the second semiconductor layer in series. One end of the first transistor structures and one end of the second transistor structures are jointly electrically connected to the drain structure of the power transistor structure, and the other end of the first transistor structures and the other end of the second transistor structures are jointly electrically connected to the source structure of the power transistor structure.
US11600607B2
A semiconductor module may include a system board including a top surface and a bottom surface, a module substrate provided on the top surface of the system board, a system semiconductor package mounted on the module substrate, and first and second power management semiconductor packages mounted on the module substrate. The first and second power management semiconductor packages may be spaced apart from each other in a first direction, which is parallel to a top surface of the module substrate, with the system semiconductor package interposed therebetween.
US11600598B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a cell chip including a first substrate, a source layer on the first substrate, a stacked structure on the source layer, and a channel layer passing through the stacked structure and coupled to the source layer, flipping the cell chip, exposing a rear surface of the source layer by removing the first substrate from the cell chip, performing surface treatment on the rear surface of the source layer to reduce a resistance of the source layer, forming a peripheral circuit chip including a second substrate and a circuit on the second substrate, and bonding the cell chip including the source layer with a reduced resistance to the peripheral circuit chip.
US11600595B2
A semiconductor package includes semiconductor bridge, first and second multilayered structures, first encapsulant, and a pair of semiconductor dies. Semiconductor dies of the pair include semiconductor substrate and conductive pads disposed at front surface of semiconductor substrate. Semiconductor bridge electrically interconnects the pair of semiconductor dies. First multilayered structure is disposed on rear surface of one semiconductor die. Second multilayered structure is disposed on rear surface of the other semiconductor die. First encapsulant laterally wraps first multilayered structure, second multilayered structure and the pair of semiconductor dies. Each one of first multilayered structure and second multilayered structure includes a top metal layer, a bottom metal layer, and an intermetallic layer. Each one of first multilayered structure and second multilayered structure has surface coplanar with surface of first encapsulant. The top metal layers, the bottom metal layers, and the intermetallic layers are in contact with the first encapsulant.
US11600572B2
A routing structure between dies is provided, including a trace layer, disposed on a substrate, wherein a plurality of routing paths is embedded in the trace layer. In addition, a first die and a second die are disposed on the trace layer and connected by the routing paths. A spacing gap between the first die and the second die is along a first direction and interfacing edges of the first die and the second die are extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the routing paths includes a first straight portion in parallel to connect to the interfacing edges. The first straight portion has a slant angle with respect to the first direction other than 0° and 90°.
US11600554B2
A device including a stack of dies. Each of the dies can have unit stair-step conductive paths of connection features which include through-die via structures and routing structures. The unit stair-step conductive paths of one of the dies can be interconnected to another one of the unit stair-step conductive paths of another one of the dies to form one of a plurality conductive stair-case structures through two or more of the dies. The unit stair-step conductive paths can be connected to reduce signal cross talk between the conductive stair-case structures whereby at least some of the conductive stair-case structures are connected to transmit a same polarity of electrical signals are spatially separated in a dimension that is perpendicular to a major surface of the dies. A method of manufacturing the device is also disclosed.
US11600553B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first through substrate via configured to penetrate at least partially through the substrate, the first through substrate via having a first aspect ratio, and a second through substrate via configured to penetrate at least partially through the substrate. The second through substrate via has a second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio, and each of the first through substrate via and the second through substrate via includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. A thickness in a vertical direction of the first conductive layer of the first through substrate via is less than a thickness in the vertical direction of the first conductive layer of the second through substrate via.
US11600544B2
A PCB having a first surface and a second surface includes a trench extending through the PCB, a plurality of conductive traces on one or more sidewalls of the trench. The plurality of conductive traces extends through the PCB and may be arranged in pairs across from one another along at least a portion of the length of the trench. A first set of conductive contacts are arranged in a first zig-zag pattern around a perimeter of the trench. A second set of conductive contacts are arranged in a second zig-zag pattern around the perimeter of the trench. In some cases, the first and second zig-zag patterns are arranged with respect to one another around the perimeter of the trench in an alternating fashion. A chip package is also disclosed having a pin arrangement that couples to the corresponding arrangement of conductive contacts on the PCB.
US11600542B2
An integrated device package is disclosed. The integrated device package can include an integrated device die, an element, a cavity, and an electrical interconnect. The element can have an antenna structure. The element can be attached to a surface of the integrated device. The cavity can be disposed between the integrated device die and the antenna structure. The electrical interconnect can connect the integrated device die and the antenna structure.
US11600540B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of first-conductivity-type that has a main surface and that includes an active region set at the main surface, a current detection region set at the main surface away from the active region, and a boundary region set in a region between the active region and the current detection region at the main surface, a first body region of second-conductivity-type formed in a surface layer portion of the main surface at the active region, a first trench gate structure formed in the main surface at the active region, a second body region of second-conductivity-type formed in the surface layer portion of the main surface at the current detection region, a second trench gate structure formed in the main surface at the current detection region, a well region of second-conductivity-type formed in the surface layer portion of the main surface at the boundary region, and a dummy trench gate structure formed in an electrically floating state in the main surface at the boundary region.
US11600535B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having an array of vertically-extending active regions. Each of the active regions is contained within a four-sided area. Conductive gate material is configured as first conductive structures. Each of the first conductive structures extends along a row of the array. The first conductive structures include segments along three of the four sides of each of the four-sided areas. Second conductive structures are under the active regions and extend along columns of the array. Third conductive structures extend along the rows of the array and are adjacent the fourth sides of the four-sided areas. Storage-elements are coupled with the active regions. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11600527B2
A lift-off method includes a dividing step of dividing a buffer layer and an optical device layer stacked on a front side of a substrate to thereby form separate buffer layers and separate optical device layers, a transfer member bonding step of bonding a transfer member to a front side of the separate optical device layers, a buffer layer breaking step of applying a pulsed laser beam to the separate buffer layers to thereby break the separate buffer layers, and an optical device layer transferring step of transferring the separate optical device layers from the substrate to the transfer member. An energy density of each pulse of the pulsed laser beam is set to 1.0 to 5.0 mJ/mm2.
US11600524B2
A transistor comprises a substrate, a pair of spacers on the substrate, a gate dielectric layer on the substrate and between the pair of spacers, a gate electrode layer on the gate dielectric layer and between the pair of spacers, an insulating cap layer on the gate electrode layer and between the pair of spacers, and a pair of diffusion regions adjacent to the pair of spacers. The insulating cap layer forms an etch stop structure that is self aligned to the gate and prevents the contact etch from exposing the gate electrode, thereby preventing a short between the gate and contact. The insulator-cap layer enables self-aligned contacts, allowing initial patterning of wider contacts that are more robust to patterning limitations.
US11600522B2
For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed thereover as a mask, and interconnect trenches are formed by terminating etching at the surface of a stopper film formed in the interlayer insulating film. The stopper film is made of an SiCN film having a low optical reflectance, thereby causing it to serve as an antireflective film when the photoresist film is exposed.
US11600517B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a gas distributor assembly configured to dispense gas into a chamber; and a chuck assembly configured to secure a wafer within the chamber, wherein at least one of the gas distributor assembly and the chuck assembly includes: a first portion comprising a convex protrusion, and a second portion comprising a concave opening, wherein the convex protrusion is configured to engage the concave opening.
US11600512B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a disk including a plurality of electrostatic chucks periodically disposed at a constant radius from a central axis; a disk support supporting the disk; a DC line electrically connected to the plurality of electrostatic chucks through the disk support; and a power supply configured to supply power to the DC line. The DC line includes: a first DC line penetrating through the disk support from the power supply; a power distribution unit configured to distribute the first DC line to connect the first DC line to each of the plurality of electrostatic chucks; and a plurality of second DC lines respectively connected to the plurality of electrostatic chucks in the power distribution unit.
US11600506B2
A wafer pod transfer assembly includes a wafer pod port to receive a wafer pod, a transfer axle coupled to the wafer pod port, a shaft receiver, a shaft coupled to the transfer axle and to the shaft receiver, a pin through the shaft receiver and through the shaft, wherein the pin comprises a first end and a second end, opposite the first end, and a pin buckle including a first loop and a second loop. The pin buckle is coupled to the pin, the first loop encircles the first end of the pin, and the second loop encircles the second end of the pin.
US11600502B2
A substrate liquid processing apparatus includes a processing tub configured to store a processing liquid therein; a processing liquid supply configured to supply the processing liquid into the processing tub; a processing liquid drain device configured to drain the processing liquid from the processing tub; and a controller configured to control the processing liquid supply and the processing liquid drain device. The controller calculates, in response to an instruction to change a concentration of a preset component of the processing liquid stored in the processing tub, a drain amount and a feed amount of the processing liquid from/into the processing tub based on information upon a current concentration of the preset component, information upon a concentration increment thereof per unit time and information upon the changed concentration thereof, and controls the processing liquid supply and the processing liquid drain device based on the calculation result.
US11600495B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate in which a main area including a first cell area and a first peripheral area, and an edge area including a second cell area and a second peripheral area are defined, sequentially forming a mold layer, a supporter layer, a mask layer, and a preliminary pattern layer on the substrate, exposing the preliminary pattern layer to light to simultaneously form a first pattern and a second pattern on the mask layer of the first cell area and the second cell area, respectively, forming an etch stop layer on the second pattern and etching the mask layer using the etch stop layer and the first pattern to form a hole pattern in the mold layer and the supporter layer of the first cell area.
US11600481B2
In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, the disclosure, in one aspect, relates to a vibrating sharp edge spray ionization (VSSI) method suitable for coupling with a mass spectrometer, a VSSI method modified with a capillary suitable for use with continuous-flow separation methods such as liquid chromatography, and a VSSI method suitable for coupling with a capillary electrophoresis (CE) device in order to introduce the CE sample flow into a mass spectrometer. Also disclosed herein are devices for carrying out these methods and methods of making the same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11600474B2
A radio frequency (RF) system includes a RF power source configured to power a load with an RF signal; an RF pipe including an inner conductor and an outer conductor connected to ground coupling the RF power source to the load; and a current sensor aligned to a central axis of the RF pipe carrying the RF signal. A sensor casing is disposed around the RF pipe, where the sensor casing includes a conductive material connected to the outer conductor of the RF pipe. A gallery is disposed within the sensor casing and outside the outer conductor of the RF pipe, where the current sensor is disposed in the gallery. A slit in the outer conductor of the RF pipe exposes the current sensor to a magnetic field due to the current of the RF signal in the inner conductor of the RF pipe.
US11600473B2
An ion source having an electrically isolated extraction plate is disclosed. By isolating the extraction plate, a different voltage can be applied to the extraction plate than to the body of the arc chamber. By applying a more positive voltage to the extraction plate, more efficient ion source operation with higher plasma density can be achieved. In this mode the plasma potential is increased, and the electrostatic sheath reduces losses of electrons to the chamber walls. By applying a more negative voltage, an ion rich sheath adjacent to the extraction aperture can be created. In this mode, conditioning and cleaning of the extraction plate is achieved via ion bombardment. Further, in certain embodiments, the voltage applied to the extraction plate can be pulsed to allow ion extraction and cleaning to occur simultaneously.
US11600471B2
A substrate support for a plasma processing apparatus includes a first support area configured to support a substrate placed thereon; a second support area configured to support a focus ring placed thereon, and extending in a circumferential direction outward in a radial direction with respect to the first support area; a conductive structure configured to be connected to the focus ring; and a holder configured to hold the connection member to press the connection member downward, and also to cause the connection member to press the surface of the focus ring. The conductive structure includes a first conductive path which provides a terminal area outward in the radial direction with respect to the second support area, and a connection member configured to electrically connect the focus ring and the terminal area, and disposed on the terminal area to face a surface of the focus ring.
US11600454B2
A contact assembly for an electrical device and a method for making such an assembly are presented. The contact assembly comprises a substrate and a contact material disposed on the substrate. The contact material comprises a composite material comprising a refractory material and a matrix material. The matrix material has a higher ductility than the refractory material. The composite material further comprises a core region and an outer region bounding the core region, the core region having a higher concentration of the refractory material than the outer region. The method applies cold spraying a blended feedstock to produce a layer that includes the composite material described above.
US11600452B2
An apparatus and associated method for an energy-storage device (e.g., a capacitor) having a plurality of electrically conducting electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode separated by a non-electrically conducting region, and wherein the non-electrically conducting region further includes a non-uniform permittivity (K) value. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a substrate; fabricating a first electrode on the substrate; and fabricating a second electrode such that the second electrode is separated from the first electrode by a non-electrically conducting region, wherein the non-electrically conducting region has a non-uniform permittivity (K) value. The capacitor devices will find benefit for use in electric vehicles, of all kinds, uninterruptible power supplies, wind turbines, mobile phones, and the like requiring wide temperature ranges from several hundreds of degrees C. down to absolute zero, consumer electronics operating in a temperature range of −55 degrees C. to 125 degrees C.
US11600446B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a second alloy portion including one metal element provided in a greatest amount among metal elements of an internal electrode layer, and one or more metal elements among a metal group including Sn, In, Ga, Zn, Bi, Pb, Cu, Ag, Pd, Pt, Ph, Ir, Ru, Os, Fe, V, and Y is provided between a second dielectric ceramic layer and a first internal electrode layer, and between a second dielectric ceramic layer and a second internal electrode layer, respectively.
US11600439B2
Method for manufacturing a thin strip in a soft magnetic alloy and strip obtained A method for manufacturing a strip in a soft magnetic alloy capable of being cut out mechanically, the chemical composition of which comprises by weight: 18% ≤ Co ≤ 55% 0% ≤ V + W ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Cr ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Si ≤ 3% 0% ≤ Nb ≤ 0.5% 0% ≤ B ≤ 0.05% 0% ≤ C ≤ 0.1% 0% ≤ Zr + Ta ≤ 0.5% 0% ≤ Ni ≤ 5% 0% ≤ Mn ≤ 2% The remainder being iron and impurities resulting from the elaboration, according to which a strip obtained by hot rolling is cold-rolled in order to obtain a cold-rolled strip with a thickness of less than 0.6 mm. After cold rolling, a continuous annealing treatment is carried out by passing into a continuous oven, at a temperature comprised between the order/disorder transition temperature of the alloy and the onset temperature of ferritic/austenitic transformation of the alloy, followed by rapid cooling down to a temperature below 200° C. Strip obtained.
US11600436B2
An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is provided. The ignition coil includes: a primary coil and a secondary coil magnetically coupled to each other; a second spool which the secondary coil is wound around; and a connection terminal connected to a high voltage side of the secondary coil and supported by a terminal support portion provided at the second spool. The terminal support portion includes an insertion hole portion allowing the connection terminal to be inserted in an insertion direction as a coil radial direction. The connection terminal includes a protrusion protruding outside the connection terminal in a direction orthogonally crossing the insertion direction. The protrusion is engaged to the insertion hole portion from inward in the coil radial direction.
US11600430B2
There are provided an inductor and a method of manufacturing the same. The inductor includes: a body including a plurality of coil layers and high-rigidity insulating layers disposed on and beneath the plurality of coil layers; and external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body and connected to the coil layers. Build-up insulating layers are disposed between the high-rigidity insulating layers to cover the coil layers, and the high-rigidity insulating layers have a Young's modulus greater than that of the build-up insulating layers.
US11600415B2
A superconducting magnet system and a cyclotron using the same. The superconducting magnet system includes a cryogenic device, a superconducting device and a protecting module. The cryogenic device includes a refrigerating machine and a cryogenic container assembly. The cryogenic container assembly includes a first container end, a connecting tube and a second container end. The first container end is communicated with the second container end through the connecting tube. The superconducting device includes a superconducting coil arranged in the first container end and immersed in a liquid or gaseous cooling medium. The protecting module is connected to the superconducting coil and is configured to protect the superconducting coil if the superconducting coil suffers a quench.
US11600413B2
R—Fe—B sintered magnet has a main phase containing R2(Fe,(Co))14B intermetallic compound and a grain boundary phase. The inter-particle grain boundary includes an expanded width part that is surrounded by a narrow width part at which the inter-particle width is 10 nm or less and that has a structure distended in the inter-particle width direction as compared with the grain boundary width of the narrow width part; the inter-particle width at the expanded width part is at least 30 nm; Fe/R ratio in the expanded width part is 0.01-2.5; the main phase includes, in the surface part thereof, an HR-rich phase represented by (R′,HR)2(Fe,(Co))14B (R′ represents rare-earth elements excluding Dy, Tb, and Ho, and that essentially include Nd; and HR represents Dy, Tb, and Ho); the contained amount of HR in the HR-rich phase is higher than that in the central part of the main phase.
US11600406B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique that can prevent, in a wire harness including a fixing member, the fixing member from being attached in a deviated orientation. A wire harness includes: a wiring member; a fixing member provided on the wiring member; and a first reference mark and a second reference mark that are each provided at a position of the wiring member that corresponds to the fixing member. The first reference mark and the second reference mark each have a distinctive external appearance in a circumferential direction of the wiring member. The first reference mark indicates a reference position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, and the second reference mark indicates a position of the wiring member in the circumferential direction, the position serving as a reference for an attachment orientation of the fixing member.
US11600404B2
An electric cable has at least one elongated electrical conductor (1), at least one electrically insulating layer (2) surrounding the elongated electrical conductor (1), and at least one metal layer (3) surrounding electrically insulating layer (2). The metal layer (3) has metal nanowires.
US11600403B2
The cable according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: one or a plurality of core members, each having a conductor and an insulation cover material covering the conductor; and a sheath layer covering the one or the plurality of core members. The sheath layer comprises an inner sheath layer, and an outer sheath layer covering the inner sheath layer. The inner sheath layer comprises a crosslinked very low density polyethylene. The main component of the outer sheath layer is polyurethane. Relative to 100 parts by mass of resin component in the inner sheath layer, the very low density polyethylene content is between 20 parts by mass and 100 parts by mass inclusive. The elastic modulus of the inner sheath layer at 25° C. is between 5 MPa and 30 MPa inclusive.
US11600389B2
The present disclosure relates to a question generating method and apparatus, an inquiring diagnosis system, and a computer readable storage medium. The question generating apparatus includes at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to: acquire a candidate question set Q; calculate an information value of each candidate question in the candidate question set Q; and generate at least one question according to the information value of each candidate question.
US11600380B2
A decision support tool is provided for predicting a patient's length of stay within a healthcare unit, such as the emergency department. The predicted length of stay may be determined using patient information and facility information, which includes information about the department and the facility in which the department is located. The patient information and the facility information may be used to determine feature values input into a plurality of machine learning models. The models may be used sequentially such that initial models are used to predict variables relating to the patient's length of stay and output of such models is used with a length-of-stay model to determine the predicted length of stay. One or more response actions may be automatically initiated based on the predicted length of stay. Such response actions may include resource management actions to allocate resources within the healthcare unit.
US11600369B2
A system, including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions is provided. The instructions executed by the processor cause the system to retrieve a diagnostic information for a patient, to retrieve a physician information for a physician in charge of the patient, and to determine an anticipated medication prescription for the patient based on the diagnostic information, the physician information, and a medication prescribing pattern stored in the memory. A method for using the system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium including the instructions are also provided.
US11600368B2
Methods and devices for implementation of a health care prescription. Some devices may dynamically monitor information from a patient device. Some embodiments may dynamically provide instructions to patient devices to treat and for treating patients through the use of medical devices based on the information from a patient device. Some embodiments treat musculoskeletal conditions by providing for alignment of bones by use of bone alignment devices in accordance with instructions provided through a prescription. Other embodiments may facilitate or provide revised prescriptions in response to treatment conditions. Embodiments may also provide effective ways of communicating prescription and compliance information between patients and health care providers.
US11600365B2
An apparatus having a support structure, including two nasal flow passages aligned with one another and with respect to a nasal respiratory flow direction, and an oral flow passage disposed transverse to the two nasal flow passages, along an oral respiratory flow direction, the nasal flow passages and oral flow passages having thermistors to monitor a patient's respiration, and the apparatus having a thermistor for monitoring ambient conditions and an accelerometer for monitoring movement of the apparatus. The apparatus also detecting and distinguishing between oral and individual nasal air flows, and integration of the apparatus and monitored data with a network.
US11600363B2
Provided is a pedo-transfer function (PTF)-based method for predicting a target soil property. Based on the collection of a multi-source soil dataset and environmental variables, a dataset containing all measured information is divided. Second-level regions are obtained by zoning according to the spatial variation in soil properties. An optimal independent variable set of PTFs in different regions is obtained by screening. Then, linear fitting and nonlinear fitting of the PTFs are performed for different zones separately. By comparing the accuracy of different functions between different zones, optimal PTFs oriented toward sampling sites are selected, so as to build a database including soil sampling sites. Further, regional independent variable layers are constructed by means of machine learning, to establish region-oriented PTFs; and a spatial distribution map of the target soil property and content for a target region is produced.
US11600360B2
Polynucleotide sequencing generates multiple reads of a polynucleotide molecule. Many or all of the reads contain errors. Trace reconstruction takes multiple reads generated by a polynucleotide sequencer and uses those multiple reads to reconstruct accurately the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide molecule. Some reads may contain errors that cannot be corrected. Thus, there may be reads that can be used throughout their entire length and other reads that have indeterminant errors which cannot be corrected. Rather than discarding the entire read when an indeterminant error is found, the portion of the read with the error is skipped and the sequence of the read following the error is used to reconstruct the trace. The amount of the read skipped is determined by the location of subsequence after the error that matches a consensus sequence of the other reads. Analysis resumes at a location determined by the location of the match.
US11600352B2
A storage device includes a memory, a write circuit, a read circuit, and a debug information register. The memory includes a data area and a redundant area that corresponds to the data area. The write circuit writes first data specified in a write command to the data area, and first information about a transmission source which has transmitted the write command, to the redundant area. The read circuit reads the first data as second data from the data area, and reads the first information as second information from the redundant area, in response to a read command. The debug information register stores the second information read by the read circuit.
US11600349B2
Embodiments generally relate to integrated circuit devices having through silicon vias (TSVs). In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) device includes a field of TSVs and an address decoder that selectably couples at least one of the TSVs to at least one of a test input and a test evaluation circuit. In another embodiment, a method includes selecting one or more TSVs from a field of TSVs in at least one IC device, and coupling each selected TSV to at least one of a test input and a test evaluation circuit.
US11600343B2
Technology is disclosed for an efficient read NAND memory cells while mitigating read disturb. In an aspect, a read sequence includes a read spike that removes residual electrons from the NAND channels, followed by reading multiple different groups of memory cells, followed by a channel clean operation. The read spike and channel clean mitigate read disturb. The read spike and channel clean each take a significant amount of time to perform. However, since multiple groups of memory cells are read between the read spike and channel clean this time is essentially spread over the reading of multiple groups, thereby improving the average time to read a single group of memory cells. In one aspect, reading the multiple different groups of memory cells includes reading one or more pages from each of the groups of memory cells. In one aspect, each group is in a different sub-block.
US11600338B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device configured to perform a sensing operation based on a charge degree of a sensing node includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit including a page buffer connected to a selected memory cell among the plurality of memory cells through a bit line, and configured to perform a sensing operation on the selected memory cell, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to precharge a source line among lines connected to the memory cell array and perform the sensing operation based on a degree at which a sensing node in the page buffer is charged, during the sensing operation.
US11600335B2
A memory device includes bit lines coupled to a memory block, a page buffer group selecting the bit lines in response to page buffer signals, applying a precharge voltage to selected bit lines from among the bit lines, and applying a ground voltage to unselected bit lines during a program verify operation, and a page buffer controller outputting the page buffer signals to selectively apply the precharge voltage to the bit lines according to an order of read operations on a logical page during the program verify operation.
US11600329B1
A system performs analog memory sanitization by forcing voltage levels in memory cells to substantially the same voltage level so that they are indistinguishable regardless of the data that has been previously stored in the cells. In some embodiments, a special programming operation for sanitizing a plurality of memory cells forces the charge in the cells to approximately the same voltage level by increasing the voltage level of all cells regardless of the data currently stored in the cells. As an example, each cell may be programmed to a logical high bit value (e.g., a “0”) by increasing the charge in each cell to a voltage level that is greater than the voltage level for writing the same logical bit value in a normal programming operation. Thus, after the programming operation is performed, the voltage levels of cells storing one logical bit value (e.g., a “0”) prior to the programming operation may be indistinguishable from voltage levels of cells storing a different logical bit value (e.g., a “1”) prior to the programming operation.
US11600325B2
A resistance switching RAM logic device is presented. The device includes a pair of resistance switching RAM cells that may be independently programed into at least a low resistance state (LRS) or a high resistance state (HRS). The resistance switching RAM logic device may further include a shared output node electrically connected to the pair of resistance switching RAM cells. A logical output may be determined from the programmed resistance state of each of the resistance switching RAM cells.
US11600320B2
An in-memory digital processor, Perpetual Digital Perceptron (PDP), is disclosed. The digital in-memory processor of the invention processes the input digital information according to a database of the digital content data stored/hardwired in the Content Read Only Memory (CROM) array and outputs the correspondent digital response data stored/hardwired in the Response Read Only Memory (RROM) array. The PDP is the hardwired digital in-memory processor without re-configuration capability and similar to the instinct functions of biological hardwired brains without re-shaping their neuromorphic structures from training and learning.
US11600319B2
A memory system includes a plurality of first memory units, a plurality of read word lines, and a plurality of read bit lines. Each first memory unit of the plurality of first memory units includes a second memory unit, a first transistor coupled to the second memory unit, and a second transistor coupled to the second memory unit and the first transistor. Each read word line of the plurality of read word lines is coupled to a plurality of first transistors disposed along a corresponding row. Each read bit line of the plurality of read bit lines is coupled to a plurality of second transistors disposed along a corresponding column.
US11600314B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sketch circuits for refresh binning. The rows of a memory may have different information retention times. The row addresses may be sorted into different bins based on these information retention times. In order to store information about which row addresses are associated with which bins a sketch circuit may be used. When an address is generated as part of a refresh operation, it may be used to generate a number of different hash values, which may be used to index entries in a storage structure. The entries may indicate which bin the address is associated with. Based on the binning information, the memory may refresh the address at different rates (e.g., by determining whether to provide the address as a refresh address or not).
US11600311B2
A memory controller may control a memory device. The memory device may be coupled to the memory controller through a channel. The memory controller may include an idle time monitor and a clock signal generator. The idle time monitor may output an idle time interval of the memory device. The idle time interval may be between an end time of a previous operation of the memory device and a start time of a current operation. The clock signal generator may generate a clock signal based on the idle time interval and output the clock signal to the memory device through the channel to perform a current operation.
US11600310B2
A lateral transfer path within an adjustable-width signaling interface of an integrated circuit component is formed by a chain of logic segments that may be intercoupled in different groups to effect the lateral data transfer required in different interface width configurations, avoiding the need for a dedicated transfer path per width configuration and thereby substantially reducing number of interconnects (and thus the area) required to implement the lateral transfer structure.
US11600308B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of memory cells wherein identifiers may be provided to the memory cells. The semiconductor memory device may include a first circuit, a second circuit and a power control circuit. The first circuit may include a first power terminal and a second power terminal. The second circuit may include a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The power control circuit may be configured to apply a first power voltage or a ground voltage to the first power terminal and to apply the ground voltage to the second power terminal based on the identifiers.
US11600303B1
A source video of a scene showing moving objects, undergoing periodic motion in a field of view which may be located in a region of interest, is filtered and processed by constructing a representation such as a frequency spectrum plot of some of the frequencies of motion in the scene or region of interest and enabling a selection of frequency peaks representing one or more pixels in the field of view from which to generate reconstructed waveforms, then applying the reconstructed waveform at each pixel to a reference frame to produce a modified video recording.
US11600300B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for generating a dynamic image, an electronic device for the same and a storage medium for the same. The electronic device obtains a video based on a trigger operation. The electronic device obtains images of the video by separating the images an audio data of the video. The images include first images and second images. The electronic device obtains target images by processing the first images. Each of the target images does not contain the target object. The electronic device generates the dynamic image based on the images and the target images.
US11600295B2
A vacuum process method for a magnetic recording medium having a surface protective layer for protecting a magnetic recording layer formed on a substrate includes a ta-C film forming step of forming a ta-C film on the magnetic recording layer, a transportation step of transporting a substrate on which the ta-C film is formed, a radical generation step of generating radicals by exciting a process gas, and a radical process step of irradiating a surface of the ta-C film with the radicals.
US11600292B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a monitoring unit, and a control unit. When carrying out write of data to a first track, if an absolute difference between a light output monitored by the monitoring unit at the time of write and a light output monitored last time by the monitoring unit exceeds a predetermined value, the control unit controls a position of a write head and writes data again to the first track or a second track one track before the first track.
US11600289B2
The present document discloses a method for fading discontinued audio feeds for replay by a speaker. In particular, the method may first comprise receiving an input audio feed comprising a plurality of samples. The method may further comprise determining whether the input audio feed is discontinued. And, when discontinuity of the input audio feed is detected, the method may comprise generating an intermediate audio signal comprising a plurality of samples based on the discontinued input audio feed. In particular, the intermediate audio signal may be generated based on a last portion of the discontinued input audio feed that has been output for replay. In addition, the method may further comprise applying a fadeout function to the intermediate audio signal to generate a fadeout audio signal. Finally, the method may comprise outputting the fadeout audio signal for replay by the speaker.
US11600288B2
A sound signal processing device that acquires a collected-sound signal obtained by sampling a sound collected by a microphone at a first sampling frequency, and receives a reproduced-sound signal obtained by sampling a sound for reproduction at a second sampling frequency different from the first sampling frequency, and then converts the sampling frequency of the reproduced-sound signal into the first sampling frequency so as to remove an acoustic echo from the collected-sound signal by using the reproduced-sound signal whose sampling frequency has been converted.
US11600285B2
A method for speech equalization, comprising the steps of receiving an input audio signal, processing said input audio signal in dependence on frequency and to providing an equalized electric audio signal according to an equalization function, wherein said equalization function comprises at least an actuator part configured to dynamically applying a compensation filter to the received input signal and dynamically applying a transparent filter to the received input signal, and further transmitting an output signal perceivable by a user as sound representative of said electric acoustic input signal or a processed version thereof.
US11600281B2
There is disclosed inter alia an apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding comprising means for receiving for each time frequency block of a sub band of an audio frame a spatial audio parameter comprising an azimuth and an elevation; determining a first distortion measure for the audio frame by determining a first distance measure for each time frequency block and summing the first distance measure for each time frequency block; determining a second distortion measure for the audio frame by determining a second distance measure for each time frequency block and summing the second distance measure for each time frequency block, and selecting either the first quantization scheme or the second quantization scheme for quantising the elevation and the azimuth for all time frequency blocks of the sub band of the audio frame, wherein the selecting is dependent on the first and second distortion measures.
US11600275B2
An electronic device performing voice recognition on user utterance based on first voice assistance. The electronic device may receive information on recognition characteristic of second voice assistance for user utterance from an external device and adjust recognition characteristic of the first voice assistance based on the information on the recognition characteristic of the second voice assistance.
US11600271B2
A speech-based audio device may be configured to detect a user-uttered wake expression. For example, the audio device may generate a parameter indicating whether output audio is currently being produced by an audio speaker, whether the output audio contains speech, whether the output audio contains a predefined expression, loudness of the output audio, loudness of input audio, and/or an echo characteristic. Based on the parameter, the audio device may determine whether an occurrence of the predefined expression in the input audio is a result of an utterance of the predefined expression by a user.
US11600269B2
A system for detection of at least one designated wake-up word for at least one speech-enabled application. The system comprises at least one microphone; and at least one computer hardware processor configured to perform: receiving an acoustic signal generated by the at least one microphone at least in part as a result of receiving an utterance spoken by a speaker; obtaining information indicative of the speaker's identity; interpreting the acoustic signal at least in part by determining, using the information indicative of the speaker's identity and automated speech recognition, whether the utterance spoken by the speaker includes the at least one designated wake-up word; and interacting with the speaker based, at least in part, on results of the interpreting.
US11600266B2
Systems and methods of network-based learning models for natural language processing are provided. Information may be stored information in memory regarding user interaction with network content. Further, a digital recording of a vocal utterance made by a user may be captured. The vocal utterance may be interpreted based on the stored user interaction information. An intent of the user may be identified based on the interpretation, and a prediction may be made based on the identified intent. The prediction may further correspond to a selected workflow.
US11600258B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with mode conversion for ultrasound and acoustic radiation devices. A method is disclosed for manufacturing a mode converting structure comprising a holographic metamaterial that, when positioned relative to an acoustic radiation device (AR), modifies an acoustic field profile of the AR device from an input mode to an output mode, the method including identifying a volumetric distribution of acoustic material properties within the mode converting structure to transform an input pressure field distribution of acoustic radiation in the input mode to an output field distribution of acoustic radiation that approximates the target radiation pattern in the output mode and manufacturing the mode converting structure using the identified volumetric distribution of acoustic material properties.
US11600251B2
A musicality information provision method includes acquiring first performance data from a performance of a given composition, calculating, with respect to a combination of a plurality of parameters indicating musicality, which are included in the first performance data, respective distances between the first performance data and a plurality of sets of second performance data that are acquired from performances of the given composition and that are compared with the first performance data, and outputting determination information for determining the musicality of the first performance data, the determination information including information indicating the distances.
US11600246B2
In the use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter, the converter having an address code switch, in particular on its housing, and in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time, a respective value corresponding to the respective switch position of the address code switch is displayed by the display. Operating information of the converter is displayed in all other cases.
US11600239B2
A method of controlling a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display panel for image displays. The method of controlling the display panel includes obtaining a target grayscale area in the display area, and driving grayscales of the target grayscale area based on a desired voltage. The desired voltage is obtained by at least two times of adjustments according to historical display data of the target grayscale area. The present application is provided to improve display effects of the display panel.
US11600234B2
A display substrate and a driving method thereof are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate containing a monocrystalline silicon layer, a thickness of the monocrystalline silicon layer being less than that of the base substrate; an array circuit layer, disposed on the base substrate and including a plurality of transistors, each of which has an active layer inside the monocrystalline silicon layer; and a plurality of light-emitting elements, located at a side of the array circuit layer away from the base substrate. The array circuit layer includes a scan driving circuit, a data driving circuit and a plurality of pixel sub-circuits, and the plurality of pixel sub-circuits are connected to the plurality of light-emitting elements, respectively, to form a plurality of sub-pixels.
US11600230B2
A display substrate, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a first display sub-region including a plurality of first repeating regions each including a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit disposed adjacently, the first pixel unit including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and the second pixel unit including a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; and a second display sub-region including a plurality of second repeating regions each including a third pixel unit and a first transparent pixel, the third pixel unit including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; the first transparent pixel is configured such that a pixel density of the second display sub-region is less than a pixel density of the first display sub-region, and a light transmittance of the second display sub-region is greater than a light transmittance of the first display sub-region.
US11600225B2
A display panel and a driving method are provided. The pixel driver circuit includes a drive transistor, at least two data write modules, and a light emission control module. The at least two data write modules are configured to provide data signals for the drive transistor in a time-sharing manner, and the light emission control module is connected in series respectively with the drive transistor and the light-emitting element and is configured to control whether a drive current flows through the light-emitting element.
US11600222B2
A light-emitting circuit is provided herein, which includes a light-emitting unit, a driving transistor, and a bypass transistor. The driving transistor is configured to drive the light-emitting unit. The bypass circuit diverts the current flowing from the driving transistor to the light-emitting unit for reducing the possibility of the light-emitting unit illuminating in the dark state.
US11600218B2
A light emitter board includes a substrate having a mount surface on which first and second light emitters are mountable, and at least one pixel unit on the mount surface, including a drive circuit and first and second drive lines. The first drive line as a primary line and the second drive line as a redundant line are connected in parallel to the drive circuit. The pixel unit includes, on the mount surface, first positive and negative electrode pads connectable to the first light emitter, and second positive and negative electrode pads to the second light emitter. The first positive or negative electrode pad is connected to the first drive line, and the second positive or negative electrode pad to the second drive line.
US11600215B2
An image adjusting method of a display apparatus includes steps as follows: A plurality of preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves are determined corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day, respectively. A reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve is selected from the preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves according to an acquisition time of an image data, corresponding to one of the time periods. A real-time ambient light is acquired, and it is compared with at least one of a reference contrast and a reference ambient light brightness corresponding to the reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve. At least one other grayscale-brightness relationship curve is selected from the preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves according to a comparison result to at least partially replace the reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve for adjusting the image data. The adjusted image data is then displayed.
US11600213B2
A display device includes a level shifter and a gate driving circuit that can reduce differences in characteristics among gate signals to improve image quality by controlling a signal waveform of a first clock signal of the m number of clock signals different from a signal waveform of an m-th clock signal when m number of gate signals is output by using m number of clock signals.
US11600212B2
Provided is a flexible display screen, including: a flexible substrate provided with a foldable portion; pixel units disposed on a first surface of the flexible substrate; and a fold detection device including a reflective grating structure, an optical waveguide structure and a photoelectric sensor, wherein the optical waveguide structure and the reflective grating structure are sequentially laminated on the first surface of the flexible substrate and both disposed in the foldable portion, an orthographic projection of the optical waveguide structure onto the flexible substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the reflective grating structure onto the flexible substrate, and the optical waveguide structure is connected to the photoelectric sensor.
US11600197B2
Systems and techniques for personalized assessment and/or learning are provided. The system may select tasks and task content for a user consistent with an administrator's suggested learning regimen for the user, while also adapting the selection of tasks and task content based on the user's performance and/or context when the user is not being supervised by an administrator.
US11600185B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for flight planning for an autonomous aerial vehicle. The systems and methods perform a processor executed process of receiving a request for flight planning and retrieving a model for the structure or the feature of interest from one or more databases. The request identifies a structure or a feature of interest to be surveyed by the autonomous aerial vehicle. The one or more databases include a database including models of terrain, airports and obstacles or a database including models of manufactured articles based on original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specifications or computer aided design (CAD) models. The process includes computing a flight plan that completely surveys the structure or completely surveys the feature of interest based on the retrieved model. The flight plan defines a search pattern with position values. The process includes uplinking the flight plan to the autonomous aerial vehicle.
US11600177B1
Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A computing device may receive data for the same road segment from autonomous vehicles, including (i) an indication of a location within the road segment, and (ii) an indication of a condition of the road segment. The computing device may generate, from the data for the same road segment, an overall indication of the condition of the road segment, which may include a recommendation to vehicles approaching the road segment. Additionally, the computing device may receive a request from a computing device within a vehicle approaching the road segment to display vehicle data. The overall indication for the road segment may then be displayed on a user interface of the computing device.
US11600176B2
A communication system includes a motor vehicle, a portable communication adapter separate from the motor vehicle and able to be coupled reversibly to a control device of the motor vehicle via a communication interface, and a vehicle-external coordination device. The communication adapter receives motor vehicle data describing a traffic behavior and/or a traffic environment of the motor vehicle from the control device. The communication adapter includes a transmission/reception unit and transmits the motor vehicle data to the vehicle-external coordination device via the transmission/reception unit and receives warning data generated by the vehicle-external coordination device which describes a traffic behavior and/or a traffic environment of another motor vehicle. The communication adapter initiates a traffic-coordinating measure based on the warning data.
US11600171B2
A crosswalk warning light is provided, the crosswalk warning light comprising: a housing which includes a front, the front including a first end and a second end, at least one end including at least one slot, a face with at least one aperture, the aperture defining an outside edge, a step with a riser, the step including or housing at least one optical element, the riser adjacent the outside edge, a top shaped to conform to the front, a bottom shaped to conform to the top, and a back; and at least one bank of light emitting diode (LED) lights positioned such that a portion of the bank of light emitting diodes is aligned with the aperture and a portion of the bank of light emitting diodes is aligned with the step, wherein the at least one optical element is configured to deviate an incident optical path by ninety degrees to provide a deviated optical path that is aligned with the at least one slot.
US11600153B1
A wrist band including a computer processor; a computer memory; an audio speaker in communication with the computer processor of the wrist band; and a wireless transmitter/receiver in communication with the computer processor of the wrist band; and a dashboard apparatus on a vehicle. The computer memory of the wrist band having computer programming for causing the computer processor of the wrist band to play an audio message when instructed to by the dashboard apparatus. The dashboard apparatus having a computer processor; a computer memory; an audio speaker in communication with the computer processor of the dashboard apparatus; and a wireless transmitter/receiver in communication with the computer processor of the dashboard apparatus. The computer memory of the dashboard apparatus includes computer programming for causing the dashboard apparatus to cause an audio message to be played when the wrist band is within a predetermined range of the dashboard apparatus.
US11600152B2
According to at least one embodiment, a reading device includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes an imaging unit, a first recognition unit configured to recognize a commodity from a captured image of the imaging unit, and a voice output unit configured to emit a voice if the first recognition unit recognizes the commodity. The second device is separate from the first device, and includes a second recognition unit configured to recognize a commodity from the captured image by a method different from that of the first recognition unit and a second voice generation unit configured to output voice data for sounding the voice output unit if the second recognition unit recognizes the commodity. The first device includes a first voice generation unit configured to output voice data for sounding the voice output unit if the first recognition unit recognizes the commodity, an input unit configured to take in voice data output by the second voice generation unit into the first device, and a voice mixer configured to input the voice data taken in by the input unit and the voice data output by the first voice generation unit to the voice output unit.
US11600151B2
An ATM pre-registration tool allows a user to request an amount of cash from an ATM before traveling to that ATM. The pre-registration tool receivers a user's request and determines whether a specified ATM contains the requested cash. If the ATM does not contain the requested cash, the pre-registration tool informs the user that the ATM does not contain sufficient funds to fulfill the user's request. If the ATM contains the requested cash, the pre-registration tool instructs the ATM to reserve that cash for the user.
US11600146B2
A method for wagering on a skills-based digital gaming competition, the method executing on a computing device including storage storing a peer-wagering module that is external and distinct from at least one game stored on the storage device or another storage device, the method including: receiving potential game and competitor player data; receiving game competition selection information from the player that includes at least one selected game instance and at least one wager amount; receiving game instance match ID data generated by the transactional server, wherein the game instance match ID data includes at least one of: credential data associated with the player, player wager amount or a board, level, or difficulty setting associated with the selected game instance; and transmitting the game instance match ID data and game initiation data to the game, thereby activating the at least one selected game instance on the computing device.
US11600129B2
Disclosed are an electronic voting system based on homogeneous cryptography and a method thereof. An electronic voting method includes the steps of: (a) generating a serial number sn by using election identification information eid and a his/her secret key, wherein the election identification information eid is shared through a block chain; (b) encrypting a voting message M through verifiable homogeneous cryptography to generate a ciphertext CT, and generating a zero-knowledge proof key π for the voting message; and (c) transmitting an electronic ballot including the serial number sn, the ciphertext CT, and the zero-knowledge proof key π to a block chain network as a transaction.
US11600126B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing and controlling movable barrier operator systems are described herein. A method for controlling a movable barrier operator system comprises receiving a credential associated with a first user account from a first user device, storing the credential in a memory of the movable barrier operator system, communicating the credential and an identifier of the movable barrier operator system to a remote computer to register the movable barrier operator system with the remote computer, and configuring the movable barrier operator system to change a state of a movable barrier in response to the movable barrier operator system receiving a state change request from a second user device associated with a second user account, the state change request from the second user device including the credential or a derivative of the credential received from the first user device.
US11600116B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for recognizing a gesture, an electronic device and a storage medium. In one or more embodiments, the method includes: detecting at least one hand region from a video image and obtaining hand image information of each of the at least one hand region; obtaining hand motion information of each of the at least one hand region by tracking the at least one hand region; determining a gesture corresponding to each of the at least one hand region according to the hand image information and/or the hand motion information of each of the at least one hand region; wherein the gesture comprises at least one of a single-hand static gesture, a single-hand dynamic gesture, a double-hand static gesture or a double-hand dynamic gesture.
US11600115B2
A system for decoding a barcode based on gesture detection and analysis is disclosed herein. The system may receive an image stream of an environment. The system may determine, based on processing images of the image stream, a gesture region of the image stream. The system may detect a gesture, by a user, based on analyzing the gesture region. The system may determine a barcode region of the image stream based on a position of the user when performing the gesture. The system may identify a barcode in the environment based on analyzing the barcode region. The system may decode the barcode based on a format of the barcode.
US11600113B2
A computer-implemented method for implementing face recognition includes obtaining a face recognition model trained on labeled face data, separating, using a mixture of probability distributions, a plurality of unlabeled faces corresponding to unlabeled face data into a set of one or more overlapping unlabeled faces that include overlapping identities to those in the labeled face data and a set of one or more disjoint unlabeled faces that include disjoint identities to those in the labeled face data, clustering the one or more disjoint unlabeled faces using a graph convolutional network to generate one or more cluster assignments, generating a clustering uncertainty associated with the one or more cluster assignments, and retraining the face recognition model on the labeled face data and the unlabeled face data to improve face recognition performance by incorporating the clustering uncertainty.
US11600107B2
One or more sensors of an electronic device detect a geometric form factor of the electronic device. A fingerprint sensor situated beneath a first display of the electronic device receives fingerprint data. One or more processors authenticate an authorized user of the electronic device using the fingerprint data with one or more processors. The one or more processors select between the first display and a second display of the electronic device as a function of the geometric form factor and unlock the selected display in response to authenticating the authorized user of the electronic device.
US11600092B1
A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product that enhances the efficiency and quality of matches between intellectual content generated by authors and published by peer-reviewed journals. Stable matches between works and stakeholders are modelled, in a nonbinding manner, via a stable-matching problem (Gale-Shapley) algorithm. Via bulletin-board systems acting upon deidentified data, the LONGITUDE function enables journal editors to proactively and reliably commit time and other resources to manuscripts that are most mature and otherwise meritorious. Via the SCRIMSHAW function, COMPASS assists authors in drafting and editing papers that are based on quality-control and journal author guidelines and hence more likely to be accepted by journals. Functions of COMPASS are divisible into two major domains: “matching” and “dispatching.” The “matching” is fulfilled by three subfunctions: LONGITUDE, DECK WEDDING, and FATHOM. “Dispatching” is fulfilled via SCRIMSHAW, which promotes journal-ready manuscript quality via an intuitive 0 to 100% quality scoring system.
US11600091B2
Techniques for document segmentation. In an example, a document processing application segments an electronic document image into strips. A first strip overlaps a second strip. The application generates a first mask indicating one or more elements and element types in the first strip by applying a predictive model network to image content in the first strip and a prior mask generated from image content of the first strip. The application generates a second mask indicating one or more elements and element types in the second strip by applying the predictive model network to image content in the second strip and the first mask. The application computes, from a combined mask derived from the first mask and the second mask, an output electronic document that identifies elements in the electronic document and the respective element types.
US11600090B2
An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition processing unit configured to execute character recognition processing on the image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more character string blocks included in the image data, from the image data, a selection unit configured to select a character string block to be used for setting of a file name, from among the one or more character string blocks acquired by the acquisition unit, and a setting unit configured to set the file name of image data by using a character recognition result of the character recognition processing unit for the character string block selected by the selection unit.
US11600087B2
Convolutional neural networks for detecting objects of interest within images of biological specimens are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and methods of training and using such networks, one method including: obtaining a sample image and at least one of a set of positive points and a set of negative points, wherein each positive point identifies a location of one object of interest within the sample image, and each negative point identifies a location of one object of no-interest within the sample image; obtaining one or more predefined characteristics of objects of interest and/or objects of no-interest, and based on the predefined characteristics, generating a boundary map comprising a positive area around each positive point the set of positive points, and/or a negative area around each negative point in the set of negative points; and training the convolutional neural network using the sample image and the boundary map.
US11600085B2
A method, system, and computer program product for automated collection of training data and training object detection models is provided. The method generates a set of reference images for a first set of products. Based on the set of reference images, the method identifies a subset of products within an image stream. Based on the subset of products, a second set of products is determined within the image stream. The method identifies a set of product gaps based on the subset of products and the second set of products. The method generates a product detection model based on the set of reference images, the subset of products, the second set of products, and the product gaps.
US11600078B2
An information processing apparatus recognizes a target within an actual image by executing processing of a neural network. The information processing apparatus obtains intermediate outputs which correspond to the actual image and a computer graphics (CG) image and which are from a hidden layer when each of the actual image and the CG image has been separately input to the neural network, and causes the neural network to perform learning with use of an evaluation values based on a first evaluation function and a second evaluation function, the first evaluation function causing the evaluation value to decrease as a difference between a recognition result and training data decreases, the second evaluation function causing the evaluation value to decrease as a difference between the intermediate outputs corresponding to the actual image and the CG image decreases.
US11600068B2
Systems, methods, and storage media for processing digital video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive digital video data at one or more digital video inputs; identify each of the plurality of video frames as one of a keyframe and an intermediate frame; use one or more first sets of software instructions to send at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames to one or more processing scripts; use the one or more processing scripts to implement an asynchronous batch processing system on at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames by applying one or more second sets of software instructions; and receive an output from the one or more second sets of software instructions.
US11600062B1
A camera system for defining an inspection space including one or more cameras placed in proximity to a sink or wash station. The camera system is configured such that points within the defined inspection space are visible and may be recorded, but objects outside the defined inspection space are blurred or invisible. This is accomplished by selecting depth of field or by attaching a computing device that is programmed to not record or save information from parts of the image.
US11600060B2
The present disclosure discloses a nonlinear all-optical deep-learning system and method with multistage space-frequency domain modulation. The system includes an optical input module, configured to convert input information to optical information, a multistage space-frequency domain modulation module, configured to perform multistage space-frequency domain modulation on the optical information generated by the optical input module so as to generate modulated optical information, and an information acquisition module, configured to transform the modulated optical information onto a Fourier plane or an image plane, and to acquire the transformed optical information so as to generate processed optical information.
US11600042B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery using deep learning, said method comprising providing (101) at least two overlapping 2D satellite images, providing (102) imaging device parameters for the at least two overlapping 2D satellite images, providing (103) at least one trained Machine Learning Network, MLN, able to predict depth maps, said trained MLN being trained on a training set comprising multi-view geocoded 3D ground truth data and predicting (104) a depth map of the at provided at least two 2D satellite images using the trained at least one MLN and based on the corresponding imaging device parameters.
US11600040B2
An illumination rendering method and apparatus includes obtaining a first picture at a target viewing angle from a virtual three-dimensional (3D) scene. The first picture includes a virtual object to be subject to illumination rendering in the virtual 3D scene at the target viewing angle. A target virtual light source point set is determined that performs illumination rendering on the virtual object in the first picture. Illumination rendering is performed on the virtual object in the first picture by using the target virtual light source point set. This illumination rendering improves efficiency in rendering on the virtual object in the virtual 3D scene.
US11600039B2
Techniques and systems are provided for light estimation. In some examples, a system receives a plurality of frames associated with a scene. The plurality of frames includes a first frame and a second frame occurring after the first frame. The system determines, based on image data of the first frame, a first light estimate associated with the scene. The system also determines, based on image data of the second frame, a second light estimate associated with the scene. The system further generates an aggregate light estimate associated with the scene based on combining the second light estimate with at least the first light estimate.
US11600034B2
Methods and control stream generators for generating a control stream for a tile group comprising at least two tiles, the control stream identifying primitive blocks that are relevant to rendering at least one tile in the tile group. The method includes: receiving information identifying one or more primitive blocks relevant to rendering at least one tile in the tile group, each primitive block comprising one or more primitives; generating a primitive block entry for each of the identified primitive blocks; and adding each primitive block entry to the control stream; wherein generating the primitive block entry for at least one of the identified primitive blocks comprises: (i) identifying a bounding box encompassing the one or more primitives of the primitive block; (ii) generating a coverage mask that indicates which tiles of the tile group that intersect the bounding box for the primitive block are valid for the primitive block, a tile being valid for a primitive block if at least one primitive of the primitive blocks falls, at least partially, within the bounds of the tile; and (iii) including the coverage mask in the primitive block entry.
US11600029B2
A method for distributing information includes producing a symbol to be overlaid on at least one primary image presented on a first display screen, the symbol encoding a specified digital value in a set of color elements having different, respective colors. A message is received from a client device containing an indication of the specified digital value decoded by the client device upon capturing and analyzing a secondary image of the first display screen. In response to the message, an item of information relating to the primary image is transmitted to the client device, for presentation on a second display screen associated with the client device.
US11600028B1
A computing device generates an initial data visualization according to a visual specification that specifies a data source, a plurality of visual variables, and a plurality of data fields from the data source. The device determines a visualization region based on a display size of the initial data visualization. The device generates a modified data visualization from the initial data visualization according to the determined visualization region, including: (i) identifying a plurality of elements of the initial data visualization, (ii) for each element of the plurality of identified elements, determining a respective semantic weight for the respective element, (iii) grouping the elements into one or more element layers according to the determined semantic weights, (iv) computing spatial metrics for the elements, and (v) executing one or more generalization operations on the elements in accordance with the one or more computed spatial metrics. The computing device displays the modified data visualization.
US11600019B2
In an approach to estimating product inventory count, one or more computer processors receive one or more images of one or more products residing on a product storage location from an image capturing device. Based on the received images, one or more computer processors determine a count of the one or more products. One or more computer processors determine a confidence in the count of the one or more products. In response to determining the confidence is below a threshold, one or more computer processors calculate a recommended position of the image capturing device to produce an improved image of the one or more products. One or more computer processors transmit instructions to the image capturing device to move to the recommended position. One or more computer processors determine whether the image capturing device is in the recommended position.
US11600018B2
A system or method can analyze symbols on a set of objects having different sizes. The system can identify a characteristic object dimension corresponding to the set of objects. An image of a first object can be received, and, a first virtual object boundary feature (e.g., edge) in the image can be identified for the first object based on the characteristic object dimension. A first symbol can be identified in the image, and whether the first symbol is positioned on the first object can be determined, based on the first virtual object boundary feature.
US11600014B2
The present invention relates to a pose estimation method of an interventional medical device using a single-view X-ray image which is captured using a bendable interventional medical device equipped with a plurality of radiopaque markers and using an X-ray source. The pose estimation method includes an operation (a) of defining a circle assuming that the interventional medical device is bent at a constant curvature, an operation (b) of extracting a position value of the marker from an X-ray image obtained by the X-ray source projecting X-rays onto the markers, and an operation (c) of setting a projection plane and estimating a shape of the circle using a position value of the marker extracted from a projected image obtained by perspective-projecting the circle onto the projection plane and using the position value of the marker extracted from the X-ray image.
US11600009B2
Techniques are disclosed for aligning fiducial markers that commonly exist in each of multiple different N-dimensional (N-D) data sets. Notably, the N-D data sets are at least three-dimensional (3D) data sets. A first set and a second set of N-D data are accessed. A set of one or more fiducial markers that commonly exist in both those sets are identified. Based on the fiducial markers, one or more transformations are performed to align the two sets. Performing this alignment process results in at least a selected number of the common fiducial markers that exist in the two sets being within a threshold alignment relative to one another.
US11600005B2
Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate to generating a decision tree based on data pre-statistics. A plurality of data samples for a node of the decision tree are obtained, and the plurality of data samples have corresponding feature values with respect to a first feature. A target range is determined from a plurality of predefined numerical ranges so that the number of feature values falling into the target range is greater than a predetermined threshold number. Then, the remaining of the feature values other than the feature values falling into the target range are assigned to the respective numerical ranges, and the feature values falling into all the numerical ranges are counted based on the assignment of the remaining of the feature values, for allocation of the plurality of data samples to child nodes of the node. Accordingly, the data processing efficiency is substantially improved.
US11600002B2
Methods, systems, and devices for graphics processing are described. A device may receive an image including a set of pixels. The device may render a first subset of pixels in each bin of a set of bins during a first rendering pass, and defer rendering a second subset of pixels and a third subset of pixels in each bin of the set of bins during the first rendering pass. The second subset of pixels may include edge pixels and the third subset of pixels may be between the first subset of pixels and the second subset of pixels. The device may render the second subset of pixels and the third subset of pixels in each bin of the set of bins during a second rendering pass based on rendering the first subset of pixels. The device may then output the image based on the first and second rendering pass.
US11599997B2
A method to acquire dental images of a patient with a support defining a chamber that is in communication with an outside of said chamber via a first opening and via a second opening. The method includes the following steps: fixing a mobile phone in front of the second opening; positioning the first opening in front of a mouth of the patient; and acquiring at least one dental image by means of the mobile phone.
US11599996B2
Methods and systems are described for assessing a vessel obstruction. The methods and systems obtain a volumetric image dataset of a myocardium and at least one coronary vessel, wherein the myocardium comprises muscular tissue of the heart. A three-dimensional (3D) image corresponding to a coronary vessel of interest is created from the volumetric image dataset. Feature data that represents features of both the myocardium and the coronary vessel of interest is generated. At least some of the feature data is determined by a first machine learning-based model based on the 3D image. A second machine learning-based model is used to determine at least one parameter based on the feature data, wherein the at least one parameter represents functionally significant coronary lesion severity of the coronary vessel of interest.
US11599993B2
At least one processor of an apparatus functions as a generation unit that identifies at least an outer edge of a specific region in a surface layer of an object and that generates outer edge candidates, and a control unit that selects an outer edge candidate based on an instruction from a user among the generated outer edge candidates.
US11599991B2
Some embodiments are directed to a process for quantifying changes in the intestinal mucosa caused by a chronic inflammatory intestinal disease in individuals, an ex vivo process for diagnosing a chronic inflammatory intestinal disease in individuals, and an ex vivo process for the differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease versus ulcerative colitis in individuals.
US11599990B2
A deterioration determination method in a deterioration determination device configured to determine deterioration of an X-ray detector of an industrial X-ray imaging apparatus, the deterioration determination method including: an acquisition step of acquiring a captured image generated by the X-ray detector; a statistical processing step of generating statistical processing information of the captured image; and a determination step of determining whether or not the X-ray detector has been deteriorated, based on the statistical processing information.
US11599988B2
A target image of a target circuit board and a gold image of a gold circuit board are taken by an image acquisition system. Fiducial points are located on the target image and on the gold image. Perspective transformation is performed on the target image using the fiducial points on the target image for reference and on the gold image using the fiducial points on the gold image for reference. After perspective transformation, an anomalous section of the target image is identified by identifying pixels that have different intensities between the target image and the gold image, the anomalous section being indicative of an unauthorized modification to the target circuit board.
US11599985B2
An automated analysis instrument operates to detect inadequate dispensation of a fluidic substance on a tray. The instrument includes an image capturing device to capture an image of at least a portion of the tray including a receptacle portion and a surrounding portion around the receptacle portion. The instrument then identifies the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray in the image, evaluates color components of the image corresponding to the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray, and determines whether the fluidic substance is present on the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray based on at least one of the color components.
US11599982B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image processing. The method may include receiving an original image including a plurality of pixels; determining a plurality of smoothed images by applying a plurality of filtering kernels to the plurality of pixels of the original image, wherein each of the plurality of filtering kernels may be associated with a respective kernel size; determining a plurality of enhanced images by comparing the original image with the plurality of smoothed images; and generating a target image based on at least one of the plurality of enhanced images and at least one of: the original image or at least one of the plurality of smoothed images.
US11599978B2
This invention provides a system and method for finding multiple line features in an image. Two related steps are used to identify line features. First, the process computes x and y-components of the gradient field at each image location, projects the gradient field over a plurality subregions, and detects a plurality of gradient extrema, yielding a plurality of edge points with position and gradient. Next, the process iteratively chooses two edge points, fits a model line to them, and if edge point gradients are consistent with the model, computes the full set of inlier points whose position and gradient are consistent with that model. The candidate line with greatest inlier count is retained and the set of remaining outlier points is derived. The process then repeatedly applies the line fitting operation on this and subsequent outlier sets to find a plurality of line results. The process can be exhaustive RANSAC-based.
US11599973B2
An image processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first optical information outside an image circle of an imaging optical system, and a processing unit configured to perform sharpening processing, based on the first optical information, for an input image generated by imaging using the imaging optical system. The first optical information is optical information generated based on second optical information within the image circle of the imaging optical system.
US11599960B2
An automated system tracks digital service providers (DSP) data management agreements, DSP behavior, and user behavior, individually and in aggregate, to determine recommended alternatives for content/service sites/providers than those used by a user. The alternatives are selected based on their scoring and congruency or compliance with a user's target privacy data treatment parameters.
US11599955B2
In an example method, a system obtains first data indicating a plurality of properties of a wellbore, and determines a plurality of types of completion equipment available for deployment at the wellbore. Further, the system determines, using a computerized neural network, a plurality of quality metrics based on the first data. Each of the quality metrics represents an estimated likelihood of success of operating a respective one of the types of completion equipment at the wellbore. Further, the system causes a graphical user interface to be displayed to a user. The graphical user interface includes a concurrent presentation of an indication of each of the types of completion equipment, and an indication of each of the quality metrics.
US11599954B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for the recognition and allocation of revenue generated by a subscription based pricing model or plan that is applied to a product or service. Embodiments respond to customer needs for a flexible and powerful revenue allocation engine to permit correct revenue distribution within a subscription economy and effectively trace changes to a revenue schedule and the resulting revenue recognition. Embodiments can efficiently react to changes to a subscription agreement and calculate a new distribution for a revenue schedule and its impact on revenue recognition and future revenue projections. In one embodiment, the systems and methods includes a revenue recognition/allocation engine that operates to evaluate the impact of “charge events” on revenue generation, taking into account relevant business rules and revenue recognition principles.
US11599953B1
Systems and methods are provided for the problem of automatic, algorithm-guided estimation of insurance loss ratio, claims frequency, the probability of excess claims, and other insurance policy performance characteristics for an individual insured or for groups of insured individuals. A time-series-derived Bayesian power spectrum weight is calculated from the frequency of temporal pattern-specific values in terms of intensities at various frequencies of the power spectrum computed from credit utilization ratio (CUR; outstanding balance of debt, as a percentage of credit line available) time-series obtained by the insurer by ‘soft pull’ inquiries submitted periodically to credit-rating agencies, and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative magnitude of frequent or unexpected changes in consumer liquidity. The present technology provides a system and method for classifying insurance risk, for insurance risk scoring, or for incorporating a power-spectrum-based temporal pattern-specific weight into an actuarial method to enhance the loss ratio estimation accuracy and statistical financial performance of insurance products and health plans.
US11599950B2
A structural analysis computing device for determining structural characteristics of an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image may be provided. The structural analysis computing device may include a memory, a user interface, an object sensor configured to capture the 3D image of the object, and at least one processor in communication with the memory and the object sensor. The processor may be configured to access the 3D image including the object, automatically determine a first plurality of measurements of the object from the 3D image, and display the 3D image on the user interface. The processor may be further configured to generate a data file including the 3D image and the first plurality of measurements, and store the data file within the memory. The processor may also be configured to transmit the data file to an insurance server computing device for generation of an associated insurance claim form.
US11599944B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide real-time pre-trade risk assessments for multiple parties. In one embodiment, a Programmable Logic Device (PLD) may be embedded within an Automated Trading Systems (ATS) architecture by utilizing the Intel socket G or the PCIe interface to provide pre-trade risk functionality. The system may also provide a method for interacting with the ATS DRAM or L1 cache to provide faster access to orders in ATS memory for PLDs. The system may use the Quick Path Interconnect between an embedded processor and a PLD to transfer memory maps. The system may also add additional libraries to an ATS processor to accelerate the transfer or memory maps to a PLD. The system also may use system interrupts to cancel erroneous orders within an ATS processor from a PLD housed within the same physical architecture.
US11599926B2
Systems and methods for a product driven approach to technology provisioning, operations, and billing are provided. Some embodiments provide an Information Technology (IT) business architecture built around the product driven methodology. This architecture can be designed to optimize the demand side provisioning of technology products to meet business intent and the execution of supply side assembly and implementation lifecycle. A technology model can be used that recursively decomposes services and products into various components. As a result, the technology model allows for effective and efficient provisioning, pricing, and impact assessment of the organization's technology to thereby drive the efficiency of scale and the automation of the provisioning, the finance, and the operation businesses. Moreover, by representing everything in technologies and products, including people, within the technology model, then determining the cost of the product and tracking usage provides an effective consumption-based Bill of IT.
US11599924B2
Method and system for interactive virtual customized vehicle design, purchase, and final acquisition
An electronic system for the customization, visualization, integration, purchase, and acquisition of a vehicle from a vehicle manufacturer. The system is implemented on a computer server or equivalent device, where the server, operated by the manufacturer, is accessible over the internet via a suitable end-user operated computing device, the server generating a menu driven visual interface viewable on the computing device. The system allows for all aspects of a customized vehicle purchase to be performed by the user, substantially streamlining the selection and acquisition process. The system can be interfaced with third party parts databases, allowing for incorporation of parts from a variety of manufacturers.
US11599916B2
A system and method for omnichannel text-based routing and customer-to-enterprise communications. The system comprises an interaction control system, an interaction routing system, and a media translation system. The system takes in requests from customers to text, email, or chat with a businessperson and facilitates the interaction by routing, masking, and converting where necessary. The routing is selected from a list of various algorithms and methods to determine the best businessperson to route the customer to. Masking by the system holds anonymity between the customer and businessperson, while conversion happens when the customer and businessperson are using two different communication vehicles such as from text messaging to email.
US11599895B2
A mechanism is provided to proactively forecast gross margin for a business unit of an organization utilizing machine learning techniques. Embodiments provide a cascading-architecture machine-learning model to predict gross margin for a period (e.g., an upcoming quarter), utilizing metrics both internal and external to the organization. Internal metrics can include list price change, discounting change, cost impact, and the like. External metrics can include customer information such as propensity to purchase and purchase consumption.
US11599894B2
A method and system for generating Customer Decision Tree (CDT) for an entity in accordance with an attribute value (AV) based demand transfer estimation for a product category using machine learning, is disclosed. The method includes aggregating very high volume of data associated with a plurality of AVs of a product category at a plurality of aggregation levels. Further, generating a data matrix, which represents data is a structured format for machine learning, at a predefined aggregation level for the product category and generating a prediction model with the data matrix to determine predicted AV sales for each AV at the predefined aggregation level. Further, optimizing the trained prediction model. Thereafter, generate the CDT utilizing the optimized prediction model, a Demand Transfer (DT) estimator, a scenario generator and a hierarchy generator. Machine learning based DT is more accurate, effectively generating more accurate CDT tree.
US11599891B2
A system providing self-service access to locked merchandise comprising: (a) providing a fixture that restricts access to the locked merchandise, wherein the fixture can automatically lock or unlock, allowing or restricting access to the locked merchandise; (b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the merchandise; (c) measuring a set of behaviors of the individual during any time the fixture is an open mode; (d) assessing whether the set of behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; (e) storing the individual and their set of behaviors as accessible records in at least one database; and (f) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the enclosure based on a set of variables.
US11599886B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for integration with a wearable device for impetus resource distribution process confirmation and authentication. In this way, the invention coordinates with a wearable device and resource distribution vehicles of a user. Upon activation of a resource distribution vehicle, the system reviews metrics from the wearable device to identify discrepancies between the real-time metrics and a baseline for the user. The invention triggers tiered confirmation requests for authentication prior to allowing processing of the resource distribution for impetus distribution prevention.
US11599885B1
Like many credit card payments, virtual card payments are subject to fraudulent transactions. To lower this possibility, data collected from a settlement transaction is stored including a merchant category code, a tax identification number, a merchant identification and an IP address of the processing terminal. Subsequent payments from the same payor to the same payee are verified against the previous settlement transaction data to minimize the possibility of fraud.
US11599883B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods, systems, and devices for the use of portable devices, such as a vehicle driven by a user, that are distinctive physical objects and can be presented to an authentication system for authentication purposes. More specifically, the portable device may be used as a source of information for the authentication system that can be verified. Images may be captured of the portable devices in order to determine their distinctive features for comparison to other physical objects registered to the user. The portable devices may also be a source of metadata, or additional contextual information associated with those portable devices or their interaction with the authentication system. The image data and/or the metadata associated with a portable device can be verified for fraud or risk analysis.
US11599865B2
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US11599862B1
A computing device includes a processing resource, a memory resource, and computer-executable instructions stored thereon and embodied in a biller exchange bill pay application. The instructions, when executed by the processing resource, cause the computing device to receive, from a remote computing system, a data set comprising a plurality of billers. Each of the plurality of billers is subscribed to a biller exchange structured to allow each of the plurality of billers to deliver and receive payment on customer bills via a biller exchange computing system. A user-interactive page comprising at least one user-interactive control is generated and displayed on the computing device. The user-interactive control includes at least one property dynamically populated based on the data set comprising the plurality of billers (such as, for example, a property binding the user-interactive control to the data set). Responsive to detecting a user interaction with the user-interactive control, computing operations can be performed. The computing operations can be specified at least in part using the at least one property of the user-interactive control (such as, for example, performing a particular operation for a particular biller from the data set).
US11599858B2
An example operation includes one or more of transferring, via a blockchain, a digital value from a sender to a receiver, the digital value representing an off-chain transfer of value, monitoring a message flow between the sender and the receiver, detecting a settlement of the off-chain transfer of value based on message content within messages of the message flow, and returning, via the blockchain, the transferred digital value from the receiver to the sender based on the detected settlement.
US11599856B1
Aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for parsing and comparing resume video duplications. An exemplary apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a plurality of video elements from a target video resume, wherein the target video resume includes at least an image component, compare at least an existing video resume and the target video resume to obtain a comparison result, and determine, as a function of the comparison result, a duplication coefficient for the target resume video, wherein the duplication coefficient relates to a similarity between the target video and at least and existing resume video.
US11599854B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for a graphical interface including a graphical representation of medical data. The graphical interface platform may receive medical data and provide medical safety reporting capabilities including reporting of history data and real-time visual monitoring data. The graphical interface platform may be configured to identify potential problems and corrections to medical devices in operation while a reporting cycle is underway through visual representation of performance metrics.
US11599852B1
A system, including, associating a wireless tracker with an asset, wherein the wireless tracker emits a tracker identification and a sensor payload including a fixed identification, receiving by at least one of a plurality of mobile devices the tracker identification, the sensor payload and an associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices and monitoring the tracker identification and the associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices.
US11599849B2
A self-service operating system and method, and an operation door. The system comprises: a control server, one or more operation doors, at least one robot, and one or more storage containers, wherein the control server is configured to respond to an item operation instruction, determine a target storage container and a target operation door which corresponds to an item to be operated, and send a carrying instruction to the robot; the robot is configured to respond to the carrying instruction to carry the target storage container to the target operation door, and a plurality of box openings on the target storage container respectively correspond to a plurality of box openings on the target operation door on a one-to-one basis; and the control server is further configured to control a box opening door of a target box opening on the target operation door to open.
US11599843B2
In a method of managing emergency management information within an observation platform an emergency management and response application is provisioned at an observation platform. The provisioning is administered by a cloud services platform and includes configuration and deployment of the emergency management and response application within the observation platform. A communicative connection is established, via a gateway of the cloud services platform, between the emergency management and response application and a system external to the observation platform. In response to receipt at the observation platform of a report of an emergency, operation of the emergency management and response application is triggered within the observation platform. Emergency management information is sent, via the emergency management and response application, to a group of users of the observation platform. The emergency management information includes at least one of an alert related to the emergency and instructions related to the emergency.
US11599830B1
A machine learning system passively monitors sensor data from the living space of a patient. The sensor data may include audio data. Audio features are generated. A trained machine learning model is used to detect a change in condition. In some implementations, the machine learning model is trained in a learning phase based on training data that includes questionnaires completed by caregivers and identified audio features.
US11599814B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving an exception generated based on programming code, generating exception features from the received exception, the generated exception features being generated based on a set exception features derived from search logs, and executing a machine learning model on the received exception and generated exception features to provide information from the search logs identified as most helpful to resolve the received exception, wherein the machine learning model was trained on training data comprising extracted exceptions and the set of exception features derived from the search logs.
US11599811B1
This disclosure describes systems and techniques for detecting events, determining a result of each respective event using a first hypothesis source, and calculating a likelihood that a second (and/or additional) hypothesis source would determine the same result of the respective event. The calculated likelihood may then be used to be determine whether to request that the second hypothesis source determine the result of the event, determine an amount of resources of the second hypothesis source to use to make this determination, and/or like.
US11599798B2
A method operating a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) memory can be provided by accessing specified training parameters used to train a Deep Neural Network (DNN) using a GPU with a local GPU memory, the specified training parameters including at least a specified batch size of samples configured to train the DNN. A sub-batch size of the samples can be defined that is less than or equal to the specified batch size of samples in response to determining that an available size of the local GPU memory is insufficient to store all data associated with training the DNN using one batch of the samples. Instructions configured to train the DNN using the sub-batch size can be defined so that an accuracy of the DNN trained using the sub-batch size is about equal to an accuracy of the DNN trained using the specified batch size of the samples.
US11599797B2
In implementations of the present disclosure, a solution for optimization of a learning network in an equivalent class space is provided. In this solution, base paths running through layers of a learning network are determined. Each node utilizes an activation function with a scaling invariant property to process an input from a node of a previous layer, each base path comprises a single node in each layer, and processing in the base paths is linearly independent from each other. A combined value of parameters associated with nodes in each base path is updated. A parameter associated with a node is used to adjust an input obtained from a node of a previous layer. Values of parameters associated with nodes in the base paths are updated based on updated combined values of parameters. Through this solution, optimization efficiency can be improved and more accurate optimized values of parameters are achieved.
US11599790B2
Embodiments of the subject technology for deep learning based reservoir modelling provides for receiving input data comprising information associated with one or more well logs in a region of interest. The subject technology determines, based at least in part on the input data, an input feature associated with a first deep neural network (DNN) for predicting a value of a property at a location within the region of interest. Further, the subject technology trains, using the input data and based at least in part on the input feature, the first DNN. The subject technology predicts, using the first DNN, the value of the property at the location in the region of interest. The subject technology utilizes a second DNN that classifies facies based on the predicted property in the region of interest.
US11599787B2
A hardware-implemented multi-layer perceptron model calculation unit includes: a processor core to calculate output quantities of a neuron layer based on input quantities of an input vector; a memory that has, for each neuron layer, a respective configuration segment for storing configuration parameters and a respective data storage segment for storing the input quantities of the input vector and the one or more output quantities; and a DMA unit to successively instruct the processor core to: calculate respective neuron layers based on the configuration parameters of each configuration segment, calculate input quantities of the input vector defined thereby, and store respectively resulting output quantities in a data storage segment defined by the corresponding configuration parameters, the configuration parameters of configuration segments successively taken into account indicating a data storage region for the resulting output quantities corresponding to the data storage region for the input quantities for a subsequent neuron layer.
US11599786B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for applying neural networks in resource-constrained environments. A system may include a sensor located in a resource-constrained environment configured to generate sensor data of the resource-constrained environment. The system may also include a first computing device not located in the resource-constrained environment configured to produce a neural network structure based on the sensor data. The system may further include a second computing device located in the resource-constrained environment configured to provide the sensor data as input to the neural network structure. The second computing device may be further configured to determine a state of the resource-constrained environment based on the input of the sensor data to the neural network structure.
US11599782B2
An analog computing method includes the steps of: (a) generating a biasing current (IWi) using a constant gm bias circuit operating in the subthreshold region for ultra-low power consumption, wherein gm is generated by PMOS or NMOS transistors, the circuit including a switched capacitor resistor; and (b) multiplying the biasing current by an input voltage using a differential amplifier multiplication circuit to generate an analog voltage output (VOi). In one or more embodiments, the method is used in a vision application, where the biasing current represents a weight in a convolution filter and the input voltage represents a pixel voltage of an acquired image.
US11599778B2
Disclosed are an artificial neural network device and a method of operating the same. The artificial neural network device includes an operation part performing an artificial neural network operation on an input feature map and a classification part performing a classifying operation on the input feature map based on the artificial neural network operation of the operation part. The operation part includes an XNOR operation circuit performing an XNOR operation on the input feature map and a filter and a binarizing circuit performing a binarization operation based on the result of the XNOR operation of the XNOR operation circuit. Accordingly, the artificial neural network device is miniaturized and performs the operation at high speed.
US11599771B2
Recurrent neural networks, and methods therefor, are provided with diagonal and programming fluctuation to find energy global minima. The method may include storing the matrix of weights in memory cells of a crossbar array of a recursive neural network prior to operation of the recursive neural network; altering the weights according to a probability distribution; setting the weights to non-zero values in at least one of the memory cells in a diagonal of the memory cells in the crossbar array; and operating the recursive neural network.
US11599769B2
The specification discloses a question answer matching method, system and computer storage medium. The method comprises: transforming the user query and one of one or more suggested answers corresponding to the user query by using a pre-trained word vector to obtain vector representations of the user query and the one of one or more suggested answers corresponding to the user query; performing a convolutional operation on the vector representations of the user query and the one of one or more suggested answers, respectively, to extract features; and mapping convolution results of the vector representations of the user query and the vector expression of the one of one or more suggested answers into a sample annotating space, to obtain a matching result of the user query.
US11599767B2
The present disclosure relates to an automotive virtual personal assistant configured to provide intelligent support to a user, mindful of the user environment both in and out of a vehicle. Further, the automotive virtual personal assistant is configured to contextualize user-specific vehicle-based and cloud-based data to intimately interact with the user and predict future user actions. Vehicle-based data may include spoken natural language, visible and infrared camera video, as well as on-board sensors of the type commonly found in vehicles. Cloud-based data may include web searchable content and connectivity to personal user accounts, fully integrated to provide an attentive and predictive user experience. In contextualizing and communicating these data, the automotive virtual personal assistant provides improved safety and an enhanced user experience.
US11599759B2
A passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes: a rectifier circuit that rectifies a signal obtained from an antenna and outputs the rectified signal as a DC voltage. A capacitor is connected to an output line of the rectifier circuit. A first regulator circuit generates a first regulator voltage by stabilizing the output DC voltage from the rectifier circuit. A control circuit starts operating when the first regulator voltage is applied, and the control circuit generates a control signal upon receipt of the modulation signal section of the wireless signal. A second regulator circuit generates a second regulator voltage by stabilizing the output DC voltage from the rectifier circuit in response to the control signal and outputs the second regulator voltage to the outside.
US11599758B2
Sheet-like product and method for authenticating a security tag including a section of the sheet-like product. The sheet-like product includes at least one security feature having optical properties that change with the viewing angle and, and at least one marker, wherein each marker is uniquely attributable to a position on the sheet-like product. The position of the at least one security feature on the sheet-like product is predetermined relative to the position of the at least one marker on the sheet-like product.
US11599757B1
This disclosure relates to technology that provides dynamically configurable access to customized digital content associated with a machine-readable label (“MRL”). A MRL may be designed, printed and distributed to viewers. After distribution, the MRL may be collected by an owner who activates the collectible MRL and associates the MRL with customized content. At a time they are generated, a collectible MRL may be associated with a default scan destination. The default scan destination may be encoded in a data zone of the collectible MRL. The information encoded in a data zone of the collectible MRL may not be changeable after the MRL is distributed or fixed in tangible form. The disclosed technology provides apparatus and methods for customizing content associated with a MRL even after the MRL has been fixed in tangible form.
US11599756B1
A flexible chip card such as a credit card or a debit card that incorporates a protective layer that precludes unauthorized access to the chip in the chip card. The protective layer is a highly conductive layer that shields the chip and prevents electromagnetic waves that may be emitted by an illicit device from accessing the chip. This protective layer thus prevents any unauthorized persons from obtaining confidential information from the chip card that may then be used to consummate fraudulent transactions or conduct other illicit activities. In one embodiment, the flexible chip card includes one or more stiffening structures to provide rigidity to the chip card.
US11599746B2
Techniques for detecting label shift and adjusting training data of predictive models in response are provided. In an embodiment, a first machine-learned model is used to generate a predicted label for each of multiple scoring instances. The first machine-learned model is trained using one or more machine learning techniques based on a plurality of training instances, each of which includes an observed label. In response to detecting a shift in observed labels, for each segment of one or more segments in multiple segments, a portion of training data that corresponds to the segment is identified. For each training instance in a subset of the portion of training data, the training instance is adjusted. The adjusted training instance is added to a final set of training data. The machine learning technique(s) are used to train a second machine-learned model based on the final set of training data.
US11599740B2
Systems and methods include processors for receiving training data for a user activity; receiving bias criteria; determining a set of model parameters for a machine learning model including: (1) applying the machine learning model to the training data; (2) generating model prediction errors; (3) generating a data selection vector to identify non-outlier target variables based on the model prediction errors; (4) utilizing the data selection vector to generate a non-outlier data set; (5) determining updated model parameters based on the non-outlier data set; and (6) repeating steps (1)-(5) until a censoring performance termination criterion is satisfied; training classifier model parameters for an outlier classifier machine learning model; applying the outlier classifier machine learning model to activity-related data to determine non-outlier activity-related data; and applying the machine learning model to the non-outlier activity-related data to predict future activity-related attributes for the user activity.
US11599736B2
A barcode, comprising: a code region, comprising at least bright point and a dark point, comprising code information; and a boundary region, formed as a closed shape surrounding the code region. A decoding direction of the code region is not relative to the boundary region. The code information is represented by at least one of: a color sequence, an intensity sequence and a relation between the bright point and the dark point. The present invention also provides a barcode processing system which can process the barcode to generate a control command, and provides a coffee machine using the barcode processing system. The barcode can be easily aligned by a closed boundary region, without using a frame buffer with a large size.
US11599730B2
Embodiments described in this disclosure illustrate the use of self-/semi supervised approaches for label-efficient DST in task-oriented dialogue systems. Conversational behavior is modeled by next response generation and turn utterance generation tasks. Prediction consistency is strengthened by augmenting data with stochastic word dropout and label guessing. Experimental results show that by exploiting self-supervision the joint goal accuracy can be boosted with limited labeled data.
US11599728B1
Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Topic Engine. The Topic Engine captures a plurality of content identifier sequences. Each respective sequence represents an order at which a corresponding user account accessed content. The Topic Engine generates a plurality of clusters. Each cluster is associated with respective content identifiers appearing within a proximity to each other across the plurality of content identifier sequences of different user accounts. The Topic Engine obtains one or more sample content identifiers from at least one cluster via sampling the cluster. The Topic Engine extracts keywords from content represented by the one or more sampled content identifiers. The Topic Engine identifies a topic for the cluster based on the one or more extracted keywords.
US11599724B2
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention relate to text classification. A text classification system accesses an utterance of text. The utterance includes at least one word. The text classification system generates a parse tree for the utterance. The parse tree includes at least one terminal node with a word type. The terminal node represents a word of the utterance. The text classification system applies one or more rules to the text. The text classification system then classifies the utterance as a question or a request for an autonomous agent to perform an action.
US11599719B2
A system and method for electronic document management including: creating an executable document object, wherein the executable document object comprises at least one programmable element; constructing an interaction schema object, wherein each interaction schema comprises: executable logic and a trigger as part of an inbound interaction schema or an outbound interaction schema that associates an external resource with the executable document object; and bundling the interaction schema object with the executable document object. The method further includes: in response to triggering an inbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the inbound interaction schema, initiating at least one programmable element of the executable document object, and updating the state of the executable document object; and in response to triggering an outbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the outbound interaction schema, and modifying the associated external resource with respect to the state of the executable document object.
US11599713B1
Embodiments are directed to summarizing conversational speech. Conversation segments may be provided based on a conversation stream and segmentation models. Summarization models may be determined based on characteristics of the conversation segments. Summarization information may be generated for each of the conversation segments based on the summarization models such that the summarization information includes a text-based summarization of the conversation segment. Summarization profiles may be generated for the conversation segments based on the summarization information such that each summarization profile is associated with quality scores. Summarization models may be modified based on the summarization profiles and the associated quality scores such that the summarization profiles are updated based on the modified summarization models. Modified summarization models and the updated summarization profiles may be employed to provide reports to a user.
US11599712B2
A cooking support device includes a memory that stores recipe information and processing circuitry which subjects the recipe information stored in the memory to natural language processing, extracts words related to cooking operations therefrom, classifies the words into predetermined categories representing cooking concepts, arranges the words in an order of occurrence of the cooking concepts in an entire cooking process, and generates a summary of the recipe information.
US11599711B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for automatic delineation and extraction of tabular data in portable document format (PDF). The method includes one or more processors extracting metadata corresponding to tabular data in a text-based portable document format (PDF), wherein the metadata is associated with characters and border lines of the tabular data. The method further includes generating a graph structure corresponding to the tabular data in the text-based PDF based at least in part on the metadata. The method further includes generating a vector representation of the graph structure. The method further includes constructing a tree structure corresponding to the tabular data based at least in part on the vector representation.
US11599696B2
A method and apparatus for automatically generating periodic boiler combustion models and aperiodic boiler combustion models through automatic learning are provided. The method of automatically generating a boiler combustion model may include determining whether a specific event has occurred in association with a boiler, changing a training condition according to a result of the determining, generating a boiler combustion model trained on operation data measured in the boiler and stored in a database according to the training condition, and determining a precision of the generated boiler combustion model.
US11599695B2
A system includes a processor for implementing a computer-aided technology (CAx) system. The CAx system includes a graphical-user-interface (GUI) configured to present a computer-aided design (CAD) model that includes at least one part. The system also includes memory storing instructions configured to cause the processor to receive the CAD model and product and manufacturing information (PMI) associated with the CAD model, validate the PMI, and present the CAD model with validated PMI via the GUI.
US11599682B2
The present disclosure relates to a terminal device, a method and apparatus for unlocking a screen of the terminal device. The terminal device comprises a touch and display chip; the method is used on the touch and display chip and comprises: when the terminal device is in a dormant state, displaying a screen unlocking interface on the screen if touch information is detected on the screen; acquiring unlocking information for unlocking the screen via the screen unlocking interface; and unlocking the screen when the unlocking information is consistent with corresponding verification information. The terminal device, the method and apparatus for unlocking the screen of the terminal device according to the present disclosure greatly reduce the power consumption of the terminal device, and save battery power. Furthermore, the touch and display chip enables user verification during unlocking process to be securer.
US11599669B2
Some embodiments enable distributing data (e.g., recorded video, photographs, recorded audio, etc.) to a plurality of users in a manner which preserves the privacy of the respective users. Some embodiments leverage homomorphic encryption and proxy re-encryption techniques to manipulate the respective data so that selected portions of it are revealed according to an identity of the user currently accessing the respective data.
US11599663B2
A computer-implemented method for completing queries propagated across a plurality of datasources that may include receiving a search query comprising a search string via an application user interface. Identity information regarding an end user associated with the search query may also be received. At least one role of the end user may be automatically determined and authorization metadata corresponding to the at least one role may be automatically appended to the search query. A plurality of adapters corresponding to the datasources may be invoked and the appended search query may be passed to the adapters. The appended search query may be translated by the adapters into a plurality of translated search queries according to the syntax and format configurations of the datasources. The translated search queries may be automatically submitted to the corresponding datasources. Responsive results may be automatically received and presented at an end user computing device.
US11599660B2
Entity models are used to evaluate potential risk of entities, either individually or in groups, in order to evaluate suspiciousness within an enterprise network. These individual or aggregated risk assessments can be used to adjust the security policy for compute instances within the enterprise network. A security policy may specify security settings such as network speed, filtering levels, network isolation, levels of privilege, and the like.
US11599657B2
A rights-based system is described in which vouchers are employed for creating, managing, distributing, and redeeming rights in digital contexts. A voucher is a digital, possession-based rights representation. An authorization component of the system validates the vouchers and issues corresponding tokens. Access to digital resources is provided in response to presentation of the tokens which are validated by matching voucher refresh values to corresponding values maintained by the system. New refresh values are generated and inserted in the vouchers each time they are redeemed.
US11599655B1
A first entity having a first set of tagged data and a second entity having a second set of tagged data share data that is selected based on a set of common tags present in both the first and second sets of tagged data. The set of common tags is determined using a private set intersection protocol that, in many examples, preserves the privacy of the two entities. In an embodiment, each entity identifies a set of data objects associated with the set of common tags, and another private set intersection protocol is performed to identify a set of common data objects available to both entities. Each entity provides, to the other entity, those data objects associated with the set of common tags that are not in the set of common data objects available to both entities thereby providing a matching set of data objects to both entities.
