US11612298B2
A dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, the dishwasher comprising a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a dish rack received within the treating chamber and configured for receiving dishes for treatment during the cycle of operation, a sprayer located within the treating chamber and above the dish rack, and emitting a liquid onto the dish rack to form a high-speed spray.
US11612295B2
An autonomous cleaning device, includes: a mobile platform, configured to move autonomously on a cleaning surface; and a cleaning module, disposed on the mobile platform and including: a wet cleaning module, configured to clean at least part of the cleaning surface in a wet cleaning mode; and a lifting structure, connected to the wet cleaning module and configured to enable the wet cleaning module to move upward or downward with respect to the mobile platform; wherein the wet cleaning module includes: a cleaning head configured to clean the cleaning surface; and a driving unit configured to drive the cleaning head to conduct reciprocating movement on a target surface which indicates a part of the cleaning surface.
US11612280B2
Exemplary embodiments of wipes dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary wipes dispenser having a self-centering nozzle includes a container, a plurality of wipes contained within the container, a fluid for wetting the plurality of wipes, a receiving member connected to the container, and an outlet nozzle housing for holding an elastomeric outlet nozzle. The nozzle housing is connected to the receiving member so that the nozzle housing is movable between two or more positions. A biasing member is connected to one of the receiving member, the nozzle housing and the elastomeric outlet nozzle. The elastomeric outlet nozzle moves from a centered upright position, the biasing member deflects and biases the outlet nozzle toward a centered position.
US11612278B2
A power management system for a dispenser that includes a passive infrared radiation sensor arranged along the dispenser and configured to detect infrared radiation emitted by one or more users within a prescribed detection range, area, or zone of the dispenser. When the passive infrared radiation sensor does not capture infrared radiation within the prescribed detection range, area, or zone, the dispenser is placed in a low power state with the passive infrared sensor remaining connected to a power source and a controller, a dispensing mechanism, and/or the proximity sensor being disconnected from the power source. Other aspects also are described.
US11612265B2
A device (2) for preparing foods held in a vessel includes a preparation chamber (4) for holding the vessel, a steam-generating assembly (10), including at least one first steam-conducting path (18) and at least one cold-fluid-conducting path (54), a steam supply unit (62) having at least one steam dispensing opening into the preparation chamber (4), which steam supply unit is connected to the at least one steam-conducting path (18) for steam conduction, and a condensate supply unit (60) having at least one condensate dispensing opening into the preparation chamber (4), which condensate supply unit is connected to the steam-conducting path (18) and to the cold-fluid-conducting path (54). The device (2) can carry out preparation in which food held in the vessel can be prepared by the steam supply unit (62), and to carry out a rinsing operation, in which the preparation chamber (4) can be cleaned by the condensate supply unit (60).
US11612260B1
A modular bowl holder for holding bowls includes at least one top flat plate like structure, a longitudinal supporting base, and a first locking mechanism. The top flat plate like structure includes one or more recesses to hold bowls. The longitudinal supporting base includes a first end portion and a second end portion, opposite to the first end portion. The first end portion includes a tapered orientation. The first locking mechanism is adapted to couple the top flat plate like structure and the longitudinal supporting base along the first end portion such that the top flat plate like structure is taperedly aligned at a predetermined angle. The first locking mechanism may include a first locking member and a second locking member be removably attached to each other to couple the top flat plate like structure to the longitudinal supporting base.
US11612256B2
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for a modular headboard that is assembled by magnetically coupling of a plurality of magnetic mounting units to one or more magnetic base boards. The present disclosure also describes a set of pre-formed liners designed to maintain the cleanliness of the floor of an automobile, the sheets comprising adhesive regions and, in some embodiments, a textured region on the top surface of the sheets.
US11612254B2
A convertible lounge sofa system for seating, lounging, and working having a sofa seat bottom having a dual armrest/headrest positioned on one end, sofa seat bottom is configurable thereto a side facing chaise lounge seat having a back support segment, a center segment, a seat pan segment, and a lower leg support segment, and a sofa seat back configured to be opened, with deployable working surface, a storage feature, a power/data feature, and a lighting feature, and, thus, functions to enable seating configurations that utilize reduced floor space with smaller foot prints, and enable multi-person seating as in 1-2 or more and then conversion into a single person lounge or work seating by rotating 90 degrees.
US11612244B2
A portable structure includes a main body, a ridge coupled or formed with the main body and a supporting assembly with a mounting bar disposed adjacent to the ridge. The portable structure also includes a handle coupled to one or more of the ridge, main body and mounting bar by first and second connectors. Each connector includes a first connecting piece connected to the ridge and a second connecting piece coupled or formed with the first connecting piece. The handle includes first and second attachment portions connected to the first and second connectors, respectively, and a gripping portion between the first and second attachment portions to facilitate grasping of the handle.
US11612242B2
The present invention relates to a ‘prop up’ or support device for supporting counters or sinks during renovation, restoration, mitigation, or other similar situations. More specifically, the prop up device is a rectilinear shaped telescoping device having telescoping arms that can extend to different heights to support kitchen counters, bars, or sinks of different heights, and ensures the kitchen remains functional during repairs, renovations, or the like. The prop up device enables the telescoping arms to easily collapse, fold, and store when the support device is in the storage orientation (i.e. not in use).
US11612240B1
A monitor support assembly includes a base designed to rest on an ambient floor surface. An upright frame structure is spaced forward to the rear of the base and extends vertically upward from the base. The frame structure includes first and second vertical members and a top frame member that extends horizontally between the vertical members, A shroud assembly is mounted to the upright frame structure and includes a first central wall member and first and second additional wall members extending from the first and second lateral edges in the same direction. The first central wall member and the additional wall members form a receiving space. A mounting plate mountable to the rear surface of a displays screen is releasably supported by the upright frame structure within the receiving space. A depth dimension of the receiving space is sufficient to accommodate a display screen mounted via the mounting plate.
US11612235B2
An interdental cleaning tool capable of reducing possibility of a cleaning portion being detached from a shaft portion includes a base portion including a shaft portion (20) having a shape insertable in an interdental space, and a cleaning portion (50) that covers at least a portion of the shaft portion and is capable of cleaning an interdental space. The base portion further includes a protruding portion (40) that protrudes from a covered portion (22) in a direction intersecting the shaft portion (20), the covered portion (22) being a portion of the shaft portion (20) and covered by the cleaning portion (50).
US11612229B1
A toenail trimmer is configured to aid elderly and flexibility-challenged individuals, and includes: a housing with an opening; a cutting member mounted within the housing with a portion proximate to the opening; a motor to drive the cutting member to remove a portion of a toenail inserted through the housing opening; and a shaft, with the housing positioned proximate to a first end of the shaft. The shaft includes a support member, such as a cuff, that is configured to releasably secure a first portion of the shaft to the user's upper arm, and an ergonomic handle portion configured for grasping by the user's hand. The ergonomic handle portion and the support member provide stable support for the toe nail trimmer at two positions with respect to the user's arm during use of the toe nail trimmer. The handle may cooperate with a base to provide support/guidance thereto.
US11612228B2
A hair dryer include a housing having a handle portion, a head portion located an upper end of the handle, and a nozzle portion extending from the head portion, and at least one side switch located on a side of the head portion or the nozzle portion. The at least one switch is actuatable to effect a momentary deactivation of the hair dryer.
US11612226B1
A case for a round electronic device may have a device holding portion and an attachment portion for attaching the case to an item such as a suitcase or a key chain. The case may include upper and lower case portions that form a pocket. On a first side of the pocket, the upper and lower case portions may be stitched together or may be integrally formed. On a second side of the pocket, a snap may attach the upper case portion to the lower case portion and may be opened to provide access to the pocket. The attachment portion may have an opening for attaching the case to a key ring, suitcase, or other item. The case may include leather, polymer, and/or fabric. Openings may be surrounded by reinforcement material such as strands of non-elastic material. Snaps may be flush with surrounding portions of the case.
US11612223B1
Umbrella devices, assemblies, and systems are shown and described. In one embodiment an umbrella assembly includes an umbrella having an aperture along a distal portion of a canopy, and a flagstaff to removably mate within the umbrella.
US11612218B2
An article of footwear formed from a flat pattern to include a side seam and/or utilizing aperture alignment of multiple flat pattern pieces is disclosed. In aspects, an article of footwear, such as an upper, is formed from a flat pattern and modified into a dimensional article of footwear that includes a side closing. The side closing may comprise adjoined side edges of the flat pattern upper that are secured to each other with a securing element to maintain the dimensional article of footwear in its shape. Alignment of the parts may be provided through at least partial alignment of apertures in the flat pattern upper and apertures in a securing element and/or other flat pattern pieces, including using multi-purpose apertures, allowing streamlined processing and manufacturing of footwear.
US11612212B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes an outer sole element, an inner sole element, and a membrane. The outer sole element has a first top surface and a recess formed in the first top surface. The recess is defined by an inner peripheral surface extending from the first top surface. The inner sole element is disposed within the recess and has a second top surface and an outer peripheral surface extending from the second top surface. The outer peripheral surface is spaced apart from and opposing the inner peripheral surface of the outer sole element to form a channel between the inner sole element and the outer sole element. The membrane is joined to the first top surface of the outer sole element to sealingly enclose the channel and define a chamber.
US11612206B2
A detachable pad fastening structure of a helmet includes a first fastening unit, which includes a first fastening member having a fastening hole formed therein and is disposed at an inner surface of a helmet main body. A second fastening unit includes a through-hole in the form of a slot in a detachable pad and a second fastening member formed to be movable relative to the through-hole, having at least a part protruding toward the outside of the detachable pad so as to be inserted into the fastening hole when the second fastening member is located at one side of the through-hole, and configured to be inserted toward the inside of the detachable pad so as to be removed from the fastening hole when the second fastening member is moved relative to the through-hole toward the other side of the through-hole.
US11612202B2
A hair extension comprising plurality of bands having hair wefts secured thereto with micro loops adhered between the plurality of bands for attachment to the wearer's native hair. A first band has a front side and a back side and an extension weft is attached to either the front side or the backside, or both. micro links are attached with adhesive. A second band has a front side and a back side and may also have an extension weft attached to either the front side or the back side or both. Micro links are secure to either the back side of the first band or the back side of the second band, or both. The back sides of the two bands are sandwiched together with the micro links therebetween and with the extension hair exposed either exteriorly or interiorly. Also provided is a micro link wrapped with a material on which extension hair is secured. The wearer's native hair is pulled through an inner annulus of the micro link, thus concealing the micro link from view.
US11612181B2
An apparatus and method for producing flake-like cereal without the use of a flaking mill.
US11612167B2
A shrimp shell separation and cleaning device for Euphausia superba comprises a hollow main body; a screening cylinder installed rotationally inside the main body and having a bottom installed with a filter screen; a stirring assembly provided rotationally inside the main body and comprising a cylindrical cam installed inside the screening cylinder, wherein a sleeve frame is sleeved over the cylindrical cam, stirring rods are provided on the sleeve frame in an array mode and rotationally installed on the sleeve frame through driving grooves, the driving grooves run through the sleeve frame and each have one end, which penetrates through the sleeve frame, rotationally installed in one driving groove of the cylindrical cam, and the sleeve frame is arranged in self-rotating manner; a feeding port installed fixedly on communicating with the main body; and a spray head arranged fixedly inside the main body for spraying water into the screening cylinder.
US11612156B2
A torque limiting device for a fishing reel for limiting torque between first and second rotating members, the torque limiting device includes an engagement recess, an engagement member and a biasing member. The engagement recess is disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the second rotating member. The engagement member has a head portion that engages the engagement recess and is disposed on the first rotating member so as to be capable of advancing toward or retreating from the second rotating member. The biasing member biases the engagement member toward the second rotating member. The head portion of the engagement member has a straight part at a distal end that extends linearly in a direction of the axis of rotation of the first rotating member.
US11612148B2
A computerized system of performing fish census which otherwise requires high level of domain knowledge and expertise is described. Divers with minimal knowledge of fish can obtain high quality population and species distribution measurements using a stereo camera rig and fish video analyzer software that was developed. The system has two major components: a camera rig and software for fish size, density and biomass estimation. The camera rig consists of a simple stand on which one to four pairs of stereo cameras are mounted to take videos of the benthic floor for a few minutes. The collected videos are uploaded to a server which performs stereo analysis and image recognition. The software produces video clips containing estimates of fish size, density and species biodiversity and a log report containing information about the individual fishes for further end user analysis.
US11612147B1
The embodied invention utilizes an incubation tray that is housed inside an outer assembly that protects incubating fish in the initial stages of their life cycle. The outer assembly is designed to allow water to flow into the incubation tray so there is a more natural environment for growth, and yet provide robust protection against predators. The outer assembly is designed to manage water flow around the incubation tray and prevent silt build up and ensure a stable position in a river. The goal is to re-establish a critical amount of new fish in a river where they have become sparce or extinct.
US11612144B2
An animal individual identification member includes a first base brought into contact with a body of an animal, a second base including an identification portion indicating identification information of the animal by a sequence of mutually different adjacent colors, and an adhesive layer which is located between the first base and the second base and bonds the first base and the second base. The first base, the second base, and the adhesive layer have identical resin skeletons.
US11612141B2
A retractable leash with automatic locking and unlocking function including a housing, a spool with a cord wound therearound, a braking means, a cord opening, a stopping means and a biasing means. A second portion of the stopping means abuts against the cord in such a way that tensioning of the cord by an external force actuates the stopping means to overcome biasing force of the biasing means to rotate to the locking position, and untensioning of the cord by the external force returns the stopping means from the locking position to the unlocking position. The present invention automatically locks the leash when the dog rushes, thus improving safety of the leash.
US11612122B2
Novel lettuce, such as lettuce designated SAWTOOTH is disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to the seeds of lettuce designated SAWTOOTH, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce designated SAWTOOTH, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce designated SAWTOOTH with itself or another lettuce plant. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce plants derived from the lettuce designated SAWTOOTH.
US11612119B2
System and methods for monitoring the growth of an aquatic plant culture and detecting real-time characteristics associated with the aquatic plant culture aquatic plants. The systems and methods may include a control unit configured to perform an analysis of at least one image of an aquatic plant culture. The analysis may include processing at least one collected image to determine at least one physical characteristic or state of an aquatic plant culture. Systems and methods for distributing aquatic plant cultures are also provided. The distribution systems and methods may track and control the distribution of an aquatic plant culture based on information received from various sources. Systems and methods for growing and harvesting aquatic plants in a controlled and compact environment are also provided. The systems may include a bioreactor having a plurality of vertically stacked modules designed to contain the aquatic plants and a liquid growth medium.
US11612118B2
A process of growing a phototrophic biomass in a reaction zone, including a reaction mixture that is operative for effecting photosynthesis upon exposure to photosynthetically active light radiation, is provided. The reaction mixture includes phototrophic biomass that is operative for growth within the reaction zone. In one aspect, the carbon dioxide supply is modulated in response to detected process parameters. In another aspect, inputs to the reaction zone are modulated based on changes to the carbon dioxide supply. In another aspect, dilution of the carbon dioxide-comprising supply is effected. In another aspect, pressure of the carbon dioxide-comprising supply is increased. In another aspect, water is condensed from the carbon dioxide-comprising supply and recovered for re-use. In another aspect, the produced phototrophic biomass is harvested at a rate which approximates a predetermined mass growth rate of the phototrophic biomass.
US11612113B2
In a device a crop is cultivated in an at least substantially daylight-free environment, wherein the crop is exposed in an at least substantially fully conditioned cultivation space (10) to actinic artificial light from an array of artificial light sources (30) present in the cultivation space. During a cultivation cycle a power output of the artificial light sources (30) is adapted to an energy absorption of a part of the crop (50) illuminated thereby such that the crop close to each of the array of artificial light sources is subject to an at least substantially constant and at least substantially mutually equal vapour deficit.
US11612112B2
A vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, while being exposed to controlled lighting, airflow, humidity and nutritional support. The present disclosure describes a reciprocating cam mechanism that provides a cost-efficient mechanism for conveying vertical grow towers in the controlled environment. The reciprocating cam mechanism can be arranged to increase the spacing of the grow towers as they are conveyed through the controlled environment to index the crops growing on the towers. The present disclosure also describes an irrigation system that provides aqueous nutrient solution to the grow towers.
US11612111B1
The disclosed container defines (i) an “interior” configured to interact with a fluid and/or developing plants, and (ii) an “exterior” that at least partially defines a perimeter around the interior. The disclosed container may further include stacking features/elements which allow one container to be stacked/nested one upon the other. The disclosed container may further include features/elements which enable one container to be connected adjacent to the other. The disclosed container may further include (i) features/elements for delivering fluid, (ii) features/elements for draining fluid, and (iii) features/elements for supporting developing plants that are conducive to their growing within the disclosed container.
US11612110B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include a method of illuminating plants in an indoor farming environment, including illuminating one or more plants using one or more lighting fixtures at a light intensity of approximately 1500 μmol/m2/s during a daytime period, wherein each lighting fixtures comprises one or more LEDs, determining whether a daytime temperature of the indoor farming environment is within a daytime temperature range, adjusting the daytime temperature to be within the daytime temperature range in response to determining that the daytime temperature of the indoor farming environment is outside of the daytime temperature range, determining whether a daytime humidity of the indoor farming environment is within a daytime humidity range, and adjusting the daytime humidity to be within the daytime humidity range in response to determining that the daytime humidity of the indoor farming environment is outside of the daytime humidity range.
US11612108B2
An agricultural baler towable by a vehicle that includes a frame and a baler hydraulic system. The baler hydraulic system includes a plurality of hydraulically operated subsystems, a plurality of hydraulic subsystem lines being fluidly connected to the plurality of hydraulically operated subsystems, and a hydraulic manifold fluidly connected to the plurality of hydraulic subsystem lines and configured for connecting to the vehicle hydraulic system. The agricultural baler also includes an electrical processing circuit operably connected to the hydraulic manifold and configured for switching the hydraulic manifold for connecting at least one hydraulic subsystem line of the plurality of hydraulic subsystem lines to the vehicle hydraulic system.
US11612102B2
A harvester comprising: a drive engine connected via a first drive train to ground engagement equipment of the harvester and via a second drive train to crop processing equipment of the harvester; an actuator configured to adjust the transmission ratio of the first drive train to control the propulsion speed of the harvester; and a controller configured to receive setpoint and actual values dependent on the crop throughput of the harvester, the controller configured to calculate an acceleration signal based on the setpoint and actual values, the acceleration signal representing an acceleration of the harvester suitable for minimizing the difference between the setpoint and actual values, and to determine a control signal for controlling the actuator based on the acceleration signal.
US11612098B2
A soil apparatus (e.g., seed firmer) having a locking system is described herein. In one embodiment, the soil apparatus includes a lower base portion for engaging in soil of an agricultural field, an upper base portion, and a neck portion having protrusions to insert into the lower base portion of a base and then lock when a region of the upper base portion is inserted into the lower base portion and this region of the upper base portion presses the protrusions to lock the neck portion to the upper base portion.
US11617291B2
An apparatus and method perform supersonic cold-spraying to deposit N and P-type thermoelectric semiconductor, and other polycrystalline materials on other materials of varying complex shapes. The process developed has been demonstrated for bismuth and antimony telluride formulations as well as Tetrahedrite type copper sulfosalt materials. Both thick and thin layer thermoelectric semiconductor material is deposited over small or large areas to flat and highly complex shaped surfaces and will therefore help create a far greater application set for thermoelectric generator (TEG) systems. This process when combined with other manufacturing processes allows the total additive manufacturing of complete thermoelectric generator based waste heat recovery systems. The processes also directly apply to both thermoelectric cooler (TEC) systems, thermopile devices, and other polycrystalline functional material applications.
US11617289B2
A display device includes a pixel including a pixel driving transistor and a pixel switching transistor, the pixel driving transistor including a first active layer including a first channel area having a first length, a first gate insulating layer on the first active layer, a first gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode above the first gate electrode, the pixel switching transistor including a second active layer including a second channel area having a second length that is shorter than the first length, a second gate insulating layer on the second active layer, a second gate electrode on the second gate insulating layer, a second source and a second drain electrode above the second gate electrode, and wherein the pixel driving transistor and the pixel switching transistor each include a P-MOS transistor.
US11617286B2
A heat dissipation module includes: a heat dissipation base material layer, provided with a first accommodating slot for accommodating a fingerprint sensor and a second accommodating slot for accommodating a flexible printed circuit, the fingerprint sensor being electrically connected to the flexible printed circuit, the first accommodating slot penetrating through the heat dissipation base material layer; and a light shielding buffer layer, on a side of the heat dissipation base material layer away from an opening of the second accommodating slot and provided with a hollowed-out area, an orthographic projection of the hollowed-out area on the heat dissipation base material layer being in the first accommodating slot, the hollowed-out area being configured to expose a photosensitive area of the fingerprint sensor, and the impedance of a surface of a side of the light shielding buffer layer away from the heat dissipation base material layer being 106Ω-1010Ω.
US11617284B2
Assemblies include at least one substrate, at least one electronic device coupled to the substrate, and heat dissipation elements. The heat dissipation elements comprise at least one heat spreader in communication with the at least one electronic device and at least one heat sink in communication with the at least one heat spreader. Methods of dissipating heat energy include transferring heat energy from memory devices to heat spreaders positioned adjacent to the memory devices and transferring the heat energy from the heat spreaders to a heat sink.
US11617283B2
A heat dissipating plate includes a casing, a capillary structure layer, a support structure, and heat dissipating liquid. The casing includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which is disposed opposite to the first substrate to form a non-vacuum sealed cavity. The capillary structure layer is disposed in a first region of the non-vacuum sealed cavity and defines a first flow space. The support structure is disposed in a second region of the non-vacuum sealed cavity and defines a second flow space. The heat dissipating liquid is disposed in the non-vacuum sealed cavity, the liquid amount of which is more than 50% of the total capacity of the first flow space and the second flow space, and flows between the first flow space and the second flow space. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing the heat dissipation plate and an electronic device having the heat dissipation plate.
US11617281B2
A rack adapted for receiving a component, a system including the rack and the component and a method of delivering power to the component mounted in the rack are disclosed. The rack comprises a backplane, a power panel, and a main controller. Each stage of the backplane includes a backplane power connector and a backplane data connector that are respectively connectable to a component power connector and to a component data connector when the component is inserted in the backplane stage. The main controller detects an insertion of the component in a given backplane stage by receiving a signal emitted by the backplane data connector of that backplane stage, acquires a set of power parameters of the component, and causes the power panel to provide power to the backplane power connector of that backplane stage according to the set of power parameters of the component.
US11617279B2
An assembly is provided for an electronic system. This electronic system includes a base and an electronic component. The base includes a base connector, a bay and a first guide. The first guide is arranged along a first side of the bay. The electronic component is configured to mate with the first guide and to move along the first guide within the bay to an installed position. The electronic component includes a component connector and a brake. The component connector is configured to couple with the base connector when the electronic component is at the installed position. The brake is engageable as the electronic component moves along the first guide to the installed position.
US11617277B2
A hinge mechanism being used for a foldable electronic device is provided. The foldable electronic device comprises a first panel body and a second panel body, which are pivotable with respect to each other The hinge mechanism comprises a central plate, a first pivoting element and a second pivoting element. The central plate comprises a first curved section and a second curved section. The first pivoting element is fixed to the first panel body and grips the first curved section. The second pivoting element is fixed to the second panel body and grips the second curved section. When the first pivoting element and the second pivoting element switch between a retracted position and a stretched position, the first panel body and the second panel body change between an unfolded status and a folded status correspondingly.
US11617272B2
A multilayer circuit board structure includes superconducting connections to internal layers thereof, for example by inclusion of superconducting vias. Two or more panels can each comprise respective electrically insulative substrates, each have one or more through-holes, and also include a respective bimetal foil on at least a portion of a respective surface thereof, which is patterned to form traces. The bimetal foil includes a first metal that is non-superconductive in a first temperature range and a second metal that is superconductive in the first temperature range. The panels are plated to deposit a third metal on exposed traces of the second metal, the third metal superconductive in the first temperature range. Panels are join (e.g., laminated) to form at least a three-layer superconducting printed circuit board with an inner layer, two outer layers, and superconducting vias between the inner layer and at least one of the two outer layers.
US11617271B2
A circuit arrangement (1), in particular for an electrically driven motor vehicle, has at least one bus bar (5) which is connected electrically to a supplier (2) and which is connected to a first consumer (3) at a first transfer point (6) and to a second consumer (4) at a second transfer point (7). Both the first and the second transfer point (6, 7) are formed as flexible contact points.
US11617263B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board embeds a portion of an outer circuit layer in an outer dielectric layer which increases contact area between the outer circuit layer and the outer dielectric layer, improving adhesion between the outer circuit layer and the outer dielectric layer, and reducing a thickness of the outer circuit substrate, thereby reducing the overall thickness of the finished circuit board.
US11617262B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer, a second insulating layer, a second conductor layer, a connection conductor, and a coating film. The first conductor layer includes a conductor pad and a wiring pattern such that the conductor pad is formed in contact with the connection conductor and that the wiring pattern is covered by the coating film, the conductor pad has a surface facing the second insulating layer and having first surface roughness higher than surface roughness of a surface of the wiring pattern, and the coating film has opening exposing a portion of the surface of the conductor pad from the coating film and having area larger than area of interface between the conductor pad and the connection conductor and that the connection conductor is formed on the portion of the surface of the conductor pad and is separated from the coating film.
US11617261B2
A resin composition includes: a resin as Component (A); and an inorganic filler as Component (B). The Component (B) includes anhydrous magnesium carbonate as Component (b1) and aluminum oxide as Component (b2). Content of the Component (b1) falls within a range from 35% by volume to 65% by volume relative to 100% by volume of the Components (b1) and (b2) combined. Content of the Component (B) falls within a range from 60% by volume to 75% by volume relative to 100% by volume of the resin composition.
US11617253B2
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 a functional group designation for the device, and that controls the device according to 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.
US11617250B2
An illumination control system and method and an illumination device are provided. The illumination control system includes a plurality of illumination nodes which are capable of communicating with each other. The illumination node is provided therein with a wireless master control apparatus, a drive apparatus connected with the wireless master control apparatus, and at least one illumination unit controlled by the drive apparatus. The wireless master control apparatus is configured to detect a brightness of a current environment; define an illumination scenario for the illumination node; adjust an output parameter of the drive apparatus in the illumination node according to the brightness and the illumination scenario; and send a lighting instruction to a remaining illumination node of the illumination control system. The wireless master control apparatus is further configured to receive the lighting instruction.
US11617248B2
A dimming control method and a dimming circuit are used to control the brightness of a LED. The dimming circuit includes a power conversion unit having an input end, an output end, an inductor, and a switch. When the dimming current signal is higher than or equal to a first current threshold, the switch is controlled such that the power conversion unit operates in a continuous Conduction mode or a boundary Conduction mode; when the dimming current signal is lower than the first current threshold, the switch is controlled such that the power conversion unit operates in a discontinuous Conduction mode; and when the dimming current signal is lower than a second current threshold, the switch is controlled such that the power conversion unit operates in a chopping control mode.
US11617244B2
A light apparatus includes at least one elongated substrate mounted with a first light emitted diode covered with a first fluorescent layer and a second light emitted diode not covered with fluorescent layer. The light apparatus also has a driver circuit supplying a driving current to the first light emitted diode and the second light emitted diode and a control circuit.
US11617242B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light source, a rectifier circuit, a DC-DC converter, an adjustment circuit and a controller. The rectifier circuit converts an AC power to a raw direct current. The adjustment circuit provides an adjustment signal corresponding a light intensity setting of the light source. The controller is coupled to the DC-DC converter and the adjustment circuit. The controller receives the adjustment signal for generating a first PWM signal. The DC-DC converter receives the first PWM signal. The DC-DC converter converts the raw direct current to an output current according to a first duty ratio of the first PWM signal. The output current is supplied to the light source corresponding to the light intensity setting.
US11617234B2
An induction cooking hob and a method for heating food as well as a computer program product are disclosed. Based on information of a micro-electromechanical system (1500) in combination with a temperature sensor associated to a heating zone, vibrations can be detected and a heating zone associated with the boiling substance can be properly discriminated from one supporting a pot having a non-boiling substance in it. Subsequent simmering of the substance can be automatically effected. An indication will be provided to a user (1680), and an automated function can be started (1610) including boiling and subsequent simmering, respectively indication of a boiling substance on any of the heating zones on an induction hob (1000).
US11617233B2
A thermal insulation structure for a vehicle window device is provided with a heater is disposed on a vehicle interior side, a heat-receiving component that is provided between the window and the heater, and that, by receiving heat from the heater, imparts radiant heat to the window, and a thermal insulation layer that is provided at a surface of the heater on an opposite side from the heat-receiving component, wherein the thermal insulation layer is formed by mutually superimposing a plurality of thermal insulation materials, and of the plurality of thermal insulation materials, a thermal insulation material on a closest side to the heater has greater heat resistance than a thermal insulation material on a furthest side from the heater, and the thermal insulation material on the furthest side from the heater has a lower thermal conductivity than the thermal insulation material on the closest side to the heater.
US11617231B2
A device for heating a target with IR radiation, a process for heat treating a target, a process for making a composite, a use of an IR source, a use of an array of IR sources and a use of the device. Also disclosed is a device for treating a target, comprising an IR source that emits IR radiation from an emitter surface having a first surface area; and a set of elongate bodies consisting of one or more elongate bodies, each elongate body having an inlet, collectively called the inlets, and each elongate body having an outlet, collectively called the outlets; wherein the emitted IR radiation is coupled into the set of elongate bodies via the inlets and decoupled from the elongate body via the outlets over an outlet surface having a second surface area; and wherein the first surface area is greater than the second surface area.
US11617223B2
A method and a User Equipment (UE) for small data transmission are provided. The method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message; measuring at least one Downlink (DL) Reference Signal (RS) to obtain a measurement result; selecting a particular Configure Grant (CG) resource for small data transmission according to the measurement result; determining whether a Timing Advance (TA) value for the particular CG resource is valid for small data transmission according to (i) an amount of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) change of a DL RS associated with the particular CG resource and (ii) whether a TA-related timer is running; and performing small data transmission on the particular CG resource after determining that the TA value is valid.
US11617219B2
This disclosure provides a bearer configuration method for RRC connection reestablishment, a terminal, and a network device. The method in this disclosure includes: when receiving an RRC reestablishment complete message sent by a terminal, determining a Packet Data Convergence Protocol PDCP type supported by a target network to be accessed by the terminal, where the PDCP type includes type-1 PDCP supporting a first network or type-2 PDCP supporting a second network; and reconfiguring bearers in a subsequent RRC process based on the determined PDCP type.
US11617216B2
According to one configuration, a system includes resources in which to configure a base-band manager, a first virtual radio, a second virtual radio, and a third virtual radio. The first virtual radio is coupled to a first set of antenna elements of antenna hardware, which provide wireless connectivity to first communication devices in a first wireless coverage region. The second virtual radio is coupled to a second set of antenna elements of the antenna hardware, which provide wireless connectivity to second communication devices in a second wireless coverage region. The third radio communication hardware is coupled through a third set of antenna elements of the antenna hardware to a primary backhaul in communication with a remote network. The base-band manager couples the first virtual radio and the second communication resource to the third virtual radio, providing the first communication devices and the second communication devices access to a remote network.
US11617215B2
Various aspects described herein relate to dynamically controlling a time when random access initiated in a target cell of a non-terrestrial network. For example, when a user equipment (UE) detects an event that triggers a random access procedure in the target cell, the UE may monitor a control channel from the target cell for a control signal during a target cell monitoring window prior to initiating random access in the target cell. For example, the control signal may include a dynamic indication to identify UEs allowed to initiate random access, whereby a UE is not permitted to autonomously start contention-based random access in the target cell during the target cell monitoring window unless the UE has received the control signal. In this way, the target cell may regulate a rate at which UEs initiate the RACH procedure in order to manage congestion in the target cell.
US11617214B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for RACH re-attempt, a user equipment and a base station. The method comprises the steps of: by a base station, determining system configuration information and transmitting the system configuration information to a user equipment; and then, by the user equipment, transmitting a preamble sequence to perform random access, and if the random access is failed, performing RACH attempt according to the received RACH re-attempt configuration information to perform random access until a preset decision condition is satisfied. The embodiment of the present invention is used for RACH re-attempt when random access fails.
US11617213B2
Disclosed are a method for random access, and a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: where the random access of a first terminal device fails, the first terminal device determining, according to a trigger condition of the random access, the length of a waiting time before the random access is initiated again; and the first terminal device re-initiating the random access according to the length of the waiting time. The method, the terminal device and the network device provided in the embodiments of the present applicant can improve the flexibility and system performance of a communication system.
US11617212B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficiently transmitting a scheduling request. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network. The processor initiates a random-access procedure for an uplink SR in response to a triggered SR and receives an uplink grant while the random-access procedure is ongoing. The processor prepares a buffer status report indicating a current buffer status and terminates the random-access procedure in response to transmitting the buffer status report.
US11617208B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides method and apparatus of performing random access procedure.
US11617200B2
To provide a more robust connection and better coverage, a UE may be configured to receive an SFN PDSCH through a plurality of beams from a plurality of TRPs including a first TRP and a second TRP, the plurality of beams being based on configured DL TCI states. The UE may be further configured to transmit a same PUSCH through each of the plurality of beams. In addition, the same PUSCH may be transmitted through a first beam of the plurality of beams n times, and transmitted through a second bream of the plurality of beams m times, where n and m are integers greater than or equal to one.
US11617199B2
In an example, a User Equipment (UE) operates with shared spectrum channel access on a carrier and/or a cell. The UE receives a configuration for configuring configured grants for uplink transmission in a bandwidth part (BWP). The configured grants include a first configured grant and a second configured grant. The UE configures a first minimum Downlink Feedback Indication (DFI) time delay for the first configured grant according to the configuration. The first minimum DFI time delay is for validation of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information in response to one or more first uplink transmissions. The UE configures a second minimum DFI time delay for the second configured grant according to the configuration. The second minimum DFI time delay is for validation of HARQ information in response to one or more second uplink transmissions. The UE does not expect the second minimum DFI time delay to have a different value than the first minimum DFI time delay.
US11617198B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition based on support signaling, such as an uplink grant that includes a time domain resource assignment for transmitting one or more data repetitions that may cross a slot boundary. The UE may identify directions (for example, uplink, downlink, flexible) for one or more symbols spanning a transmission duration of the time domain resource assignment. The directions may be determined using a dynamic slot format indication (SFI), or semi-static SFIs may be used as a fallback (when dynamic slot format indications do not meet a target reliability). The uplink grant may include an indication of which symbol directions can be used for the one or more data repetitions. A subset of the one or more symbols for scheduling the one or more data repetitions may be determined based on the identified directions.
US11617192B2
In a particular implementation, a method includes receiving, at a first base station from a second base station via a backhaul communication, a scheduling message indicating one or more beams of the second base station that are scheduled for use in upcoming transmissions. The second base station is a neighboring base station of the first base station. The method further includes transmitting, from the first base station to a user equipment (UE), the scheduling message.
US11617191B2
Included are a receiver receiving a PDCCH and a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH, and a transmitter transmitting, on a PUCCH, one or multiple HARQ-ACKs including at least a HARQ-ACK corresponding to a TB included in the PDSCH and an SR. For the HARQ-ACK of two or less bits, a resource of the PUCCH is, from one or multiple PUCCH resources in a PUCCH resource set, based at least on a first value based at least on the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs transmitted in the PUCCH, regardless of the number of resources of the SR overlapping with the PUCCH. For the HARQ-ACK of more than two bits, the resource of the PUCCH is, from the one or multiple PUCCH resources in the PUCCH resource set, based at least on a sum of the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs and the SR.
US11617189B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a number of uplink grants from a base station. The method further includes estimating a payload size for data to be transmitted from a UE buffer for a number of logical channels. The payload size corresponds to a sum of a number of data bytes to be transmitted and an amount of overhead bytes to be transmitted. The method still further includes determining a subset of the number of uplink grants to use for uplink transmission based on reducing a total padding size associated with transmitting the payload size, for each combination of the number of uplink grants. The method also includes transmitting the data from the UE buffer within a number of transport blocks, to the base station. The number of transport blocks corresponds to the subset of the number of uplink grants.
US11617187B2
Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) traffic. In particular, frames associated with Quality of Service (QoS}-sensitive traffic flows to be transmitted in a first direction are prioritized commensurate with frames to be transmitted in a second direction, different/opposite to that of the first direction. For example, UL traffic flows can be prioritized based on DL traffic flows, where the traffic flows belong to the same application flow, and vice versa, where DL traffic flows can be prioritized based on UL traffic flows for the same application flow. In this way, end-to-end QoS can be achieved.
US11617185B2
A system for scheduling wireless data transmissions divides a band allocated to the mobile service carrier into two overlapping bands. Then each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs that connects to the ground-based network of the mobile service carrier is assigned to one of the two overlapping bands. The system allocates at a given scheduling time, physical resource blocks (PRBs) to UEs up to a maximum number of PRBs available for the particular overlapping frequency band to which the UE is assigned based on a metric for the UE that is a ratio of a downlink channel quality indicator for the UE to the average data rate of the UE at the given time, giving higher priority for PRB allocation to UEs that have a larger metric than other UEs of the plurality of UEs.
US11617184B2
A configuration to avoid compromised frequencies to enhance frequency resource allocation. The apparatus determines one or more narrowband isolated frequencies from a set of frequencies, wherein the one or more narrowband isolated frequencies have a degraded quality. The apparatus allocates frequency resources based on a determination of the one or more narrowband isolated frequencies from the set of frequencies. The apparatus provides, to a UE, the frequency resources for communication with the base station.
US11617182B2
In a (e.g., 5G CBRS) radio system, a processor (e.g., a SAS) receives, from (e.g., CBSD) base stations, beam-level information about beams used by the base stations to communicate with UEs, uses the information to assess interference associated with the beams, and instructs the base stations to modify one or more specified beams in order to reduce the interference. In addition to powering down one or more specified beams, a base station may create new beams to attempt to satisfy UE bandwidth needs without creating unacceptable levels of interference.
US11617181B2
Aspects of a multi-stage multi-PDSCH grant are provided which allow a UE to obtain data in a downlink data burst with more scheduling flexibility than single-stage multi-PDSCH grants. A base station provides the UE in a downlink control channel a first portion of downlink control information which indicates a plurality of downlink data transmissions. The UE monitors the downlink control channel for the first portion of downlink control information. Afterwards, the base station sends to the UE a second portion of the downlink control information including parameters for one of the downlink data transmissions. The base station may also send the UE a third portion of the downlink control information including additional parameters for the downlink data transmission. After the UE obtains the portions, the UE decodes the one of the downlink data transmissions indicated at least in part by the first and second portion of the downlink control information.
US11617179B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support enhanced methods for indicating random access transmission beams. For example, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a set of uplink reference signals to a base station, each uplink reference signal corresponding to a respective uplink beam. The base station may receive the uplink reference signals and may determine signal qualities for the uplink beams. The base station may identify one or more uplink beams for the UE to use in subsequent random access procedures and may transmit control signaling to the UE indicating one or more beams for random access procedure transmissions. The UE may transmit random access messages to the base station using an uplink beam selected based on the control signaling received from the base station.
US11617176B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication and more particularly, to techniques for bandwidth part adaptation for extended reality (XR) power saving. A method that may be performed by a UE generally includes receiving a first configuration of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second configuration of a second BWP, wherein the first BWP is configured for a lower traffic rate and the second BWP is configured for a higher traffic rate; obtaining an indication to switch from the first BWP to the second BWP; and switching from the first BWP to the second BWP in response to obtaining the indication.
US11617175B2
An access system for a wireless local area network is provided. The access system initiates operation in a first frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands of the wireless local area network to provide one or more wireless client devices of the wireless local area network with access to a wireless wide area network. The access system also processes one or more association requests received in the first frequency band to identify one or more associated wireless client device. The access system also determines whether each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports a second frequency band. The access system also sends a request to the one or more associated wireless client devices to transition from the first frequency band to the second frequency band based on determining that each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports the second frequency band.
US11617166B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may separately encode lower priority uplink control information (UCI) and higher priority UCI, and multiplex the encoded lower priority UCI and the encoded higher priority UCI on the same physical uplink channel (e.g., a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)). The UE may be configured with multiple coding rates, which the UE may select from based on a payload size associated with each of the lower priority UCI and the higher priority UCI. Alternatively, the UE may be configured with a separate set of coding rates for the lower priority UCI and a separate set of coding rates for the higher priority UCI. The UE may multiplex the lower priority UCI and the higher priority UCI by mapping to physical uplink channel resources based on an order (e.g., mapping higher priority UCI followed by mapping lower priority UCI).
US11617162B2
The present disclosure provides a method by which a terminal for supporting bundling of a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) performs a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) operation in a wireless communication system, wherein the V2X operation is performed on a specific resource on the basis of multiplexing when sensing is performed in a sensing section and the result thereof shows no available resources.
US11617153B1
A method includes receiving call records from a control plane, each call record including a cell list identifying the server cell for the UE call session at the time the call record was generated and an ordered set of neighbor cells, ordered based on a characteristic of signals from the neighbor cells. Call records having truth data are selected, wherein the truth data includes geolocation (GL) data reported to be a GL associated with the call record. GL data of the selected call records is stored in association with the cell list for the selected call records. A centroid is determined as a function of the GL data associated with each of the selected call records that includes the associated cell list. The centroids are stored in association with the corresponding cell list, and can be retrieved as a prediction for a GL based on submission of a cell list.
US11617144B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a network node in a radio access network. The method includes determining an identity associated to a second network node based on received SS/PBCH block transmission received from the second network node and based on a determined time shift of the SS/PBCH block transmission relative to a slot structure. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11617142B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization broadcast transmission. At least one candidate transmission location corresponding to at least one synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) to be transmitted, is determined, where a number of the at least one candidate transmission location is greater than a number of SSBs in one time interval. Further, synchronization broadcast transmission including the at least one SSB is generated, and the generated synchronization broadcast transmission is transmitted at the at least one candidate transmission location in a beam sweeping manner.
US11617141B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for identifying synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block occasions. One method includes identifying a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block occasions configured to enable reception of a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks. A first number of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block occasions of the plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block occasions is greater than a maximum allowed number of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks of the plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks. The method includes receiving the plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks on a portion of the plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block occasions.
US11617140B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) operation in dual SIM dual active (DSDA) deployments. In some aspects, the UE may receive, via an antenna of the UE, a first signal associated with a first network subscription on a first receive path of the antenna and a second signal associated with a second network subscription on a second receive path of the antenna. The UE may determine a signal strength for each of the first signal and the second signal, determine a first gain for the first receive path and a gain for a low noise amplifier (LNA) coupled with the antenna based on the signal strength of the first signal, and determine a gain for the second receive path based on the signal strength of the second signal and the gain of the LNA.
US11617133B2
A power control method of a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is provided for reducing power consumption by turning off the bias of the power amplifier for the duration of a symbol carrying no user data. The method includes checking scheduling information of radio resources, detecting a symbol carrying no user data, based on the scheduling information, and turning off a bias of the power amplifier for a symbol duration of the symbol carrying no user data. The transmission power control method is capable of reducing power consumption of the base station by turning off the bias of the power amplifier of the base station for the symbol duration in which no user data is transmitted.
US11617131B2
Inventive concepts and embodiments associated therewith are provided wherein an auxiliary device, that is attached to a person, is configured to function in cooperation with a destination device that is on the person. In some embodiments, the auxiliary device is uniquely associated with specific information that is to be conveyed to the destination device following reception of a signal by the auxiliary device. Embodiments are disclosed wherein, following reception of the signal by the auxiliary device, the auxiliary device processes the signal and then conveys the specific information that is uniquely associated therewith to the destination device without direct human interaction with the auxiliary device. In some embodiments, the auxiliary device comprises a personal wearable device and the destination device comprises a smartphone.
US11617129B2
A method for transmitting system information, includes: determining identifiers of a plurality of pieces of second system information from first system information, wherein the first system information is system information that is periodically broadcast by a base station, and the plurality of pieces of second system information are system information other than the system information included by the first system information; determining transmission status of the plurality of pieces of second system information based on the identifiers of the plurality of pieces of second system information, and broadcasting the first system information, wherein the first system information includes the identifiers and the transmission status of the plurality of pieces of second system information.
US11617125B2
A device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided for access control barring (ACB) based on cell quality. In one example, a network device determines a set of metrics related to quality of service (QoS) performance for a plurality of services in a cell in a measurement period. The network device determines ACB configuration in the cell based on comparison of the set of metrics with a set of thresholds.
US11617122B2
A method may include assigning each node of a network to a single first node cluster and selecting nodes of the network as a first set of nodes. The method may further include solving an optimization problem by reassigning one or more of the nodes of the first set of nodes to a second node cluster while maintaining the nodes that are not part of the first set of nodes in the first node cluster. The method may also include after solving the optimization problem, selecting other nodes of the network as another set of nodes and resolving the optimization problem by reassigning one or more of the nodes of the other set of nodes to a third node cluster while maintaining the node cluster assignment of the nodes that are not part of the other set of nodes.
US11617116B2
Methods are provided in which devices vulnerable to performance degradation during a network offload process are identified and handled accordingly. In these methods, a network controller obtains data associated with operational performance of devices in a radio network during one or more offload procedures in which the devices are to be transitioned off of the radio network. The network controller further analyzes the data to determine impact to at least one performance parameter of the devices during the one or more offload procedures, and during a subsequent offload procedure, the network controller orchestrates offloading of the devices according to the impact determined to the at least one performance parameter based on the analyzing.
US11617107B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network coverage management of a network deployed at a customer site involves at a cloud server connected to the network, receiving network coverage information of the network deployed at the customer site from wireless sensors deployed at the customer site and at the cloud server, automatically determining a service-level agreement (SLA) network coverage metric based on the network coverage information.
US11617104B2
A node in a wireless mesh network determines that a threshold level of duplicate network protocol data units (PDUs) are received. Further, the node receives one or more network PDUs comprising respective segments of transport data in a transport PDU. The node relays a subset of the received one or more network PDUs comprising respective segments to one or more neighboring nodes. The subset is relayed based on determination that the node has received a threshold level of duplicate network PDUs.
US11617100B2
Systems and methods for Wi-Fi sensing are provided. Wi-Fi sensing systems include sensing devices and remote devices configured to communicate through radio-frequency signals. Sensing devices and remote devices are configured to communicate with one another to establish sensing transmission configurations through established protocols. Sensing devices described herein are configured to provide Wi-Fi sensing measurements based on the reception of messages transmitted from remote devices according to established configurations.
US11617092B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data analytics method and data analytics apparatus. The method includes obtaining, by a user plane data processing network element, at least one matching condition that is from a data analytics network element, where each of the at least one matching condition corresponds to at least one service type or at least one execution rule. The method further includes obtaining, by the user plane data processing network element based on the at least one matching condition, a service type associated with user plane data or an execution rule associated with the user plane data. Embodiments of this application implement data analytics by using the data analytics network element in a communications network.
US11617088B2
A real-time spectrum optimization and allocation is provided within multifunction, co-located, interacting heterogeneous networks. Quantum statistical allocation techniques may be adapted to networks with nodes that behave indistinguishably and distinguishably, within a common geographic locational area. If the network nodes are indistinguishable, their statistical behavior may be Fermionic or Bosonic. Fermionic nodes occupy a single or the same state with some form of degeneracy. Bosonic nodes may occupy a single or the same state, with or without degeneracy. If the nodes are distinguishable, then their statistical behavior is Boltzmann-like, and they may occupy the same state provided there is degeneracy to the overall bandwidth allowing information to be transferred.
US11617086B2
An approach for providing security information to a device to enable the device to secure end-to-end data communication with an end server. The security information is downloaded to a SIM of the device in response to an authentication message issued by the device. The security information is secured within the SIM so that it can only be accessed/interpreted using a first key associated with the device. The securing is performed based on identity data, identifying the device or components thereof, contained in the authentication message.
US11617085B2
A pairing apparatus according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention comprises a position measurer for measuring position changes of a first direction and a second direction; and a processor for generating a secret key using the measured position change of the first direction and the measured position change of the second direction and performing a pairing with a pairing target apparatus using the secret key.
US11617084B2
When a user attempts to execute a procedure for transfer or the like from an app, user authentication is first required by a PIN code or the like. When the user authentication is successful, function limitation of an IC chip is released and a mode in which a function provided by the IC chip can be used is set. The app encrypts a procedure message describing procedure content with a private key using the function of the IC chip and creates electronic signature. The electronic signature and the procedure message are transmitted to a server of an online service via an intermediate server. The server executes a procedure of transfer or the like in accordance with the content of the procedure message.
US11617064B2
Implementing communication barriers in a group-based communication system is described. In an example, a privacy setting associated with a communication privilege for communicating with a user of a group-based communication system can be stored, wherein the privacy setting permits the user to transmit communications via the group-based communication and restricts another user of the group-based communication system from communicating with the user. The group-based communication system can deny a communication privilege of the other user based at least in part on the privacy setting, wherein denying the communication privilege prohibits the other user from at least one of initiating a message associated with a user identifier of the user or transmitting the message to a client device associated with the user identifier.
US11617063B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for changing an association relationship between an MCPTT user and an MCPTT group. A method for changing an association relationship between an MCPTT user and an MCPTT group is performed by a first network element device, including: receiving an association change request sent by first UE, where the association change request includes request information, the request information is used to indicate that a first MCPTT user requests to change an association relationship between a second MCPTT user and a first MCPTT group, and the first MCPTT user is an MCPTT user using the first UE; and setting the association relationship between the second MCPTT user and the first MCPTT group according to the association change request.
US11617061B2
The present disclosure is directed to acquisition and exchange of location data with an emergency call center using a private cellular network. A private cellular network includes a location engine configured to store specific location information of user equipment connected to the private cellular network via an access point; and at least one network element configured to receive a request for placing an emergency call from an endpoint communicatively coupled to the private cellular network; determine endpoint specific location information for the endpoint by communicating with the location engine of the private cellular network that identifies location of the endpoint within a confined space in which the private cellular network is deployed; and send the endpoint specific location information of the endpoint to an emergency service provider for dispatching to a location of the endpoint based at least in part on the endpoint specific location information.
US11617059B1
Systems and methods for providing timely location estimates when a user equipment initiates a call to an emergency number are disclosed. The system enables a user equipment and network nodes (e.g., eSMLC/LMF) to send multiple location responses instead of just one so that the PSAP can benefit from accurate location techniques in a timely manner. For example, when a user equipment is located in an outdoor environment, it can immediately send its A-GNSS location after meeting quality-of-service (QoS) criteria, and the eSMLC/LMF can forward the location estimate to the PSAP immediately without first waiting for all of the other location estimates. When location estimates become available from other technologies (e.g., E-CID, or DBH, or both), the eSMLC/LMF can send to the PSAP another location response for that technology. As a result, the PSAP can always have the most accurate and up-to-date location information available to timely and accurately respond to emergency calls.
US11617056B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.
US11617055B2
A communication device identifies presence of a user in proximity to the device. The communication device includes: at least one input device that captures biometric data associated with at least one user; a network interface device that connects the communication device to at least one second device via an external network; and a processor communicatively coupled to the other devices/components. The processor executes a messaging module to: receive biometric data from the at least one input device; determine if the biometric data matches reference biometric data associated with the at least one user. The processor further, in response to determining that the biometric data matches the reference biometric data associated with the at least one user: generates user presence data, the user presence data indicating that the at least one user is within a vicinity of the first communication device; and transmits the user presence data to the second device.
US11617046B2
An amplifier stage uses a loaded transistor amplifier circuit including a load that causes greater second order harmonic distortion energy than third order harmonic distortion energy to be produced in said loaded transistor amplifier circuit for amplifying a source audio signal to produce an audio output signal. The spectrum of the fundamental orders of harmonic distortion is adjusted to improve perceived sound quality or listening enjoyment.
US11617045B2
A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
US11617039B2
A planar magnetic driver including a radiating surface having a trace-free central region is described. The driver has a magnet defining an acoustic opening on a central axis. A diaphragm of the planar magnetic driver is held by mounts having a mounting profile around the central axis, and the diaphragm includes a radiating surface facing the acoustic opening. An innermost conductive trace on the diaphragm extends around a central region of the radiating surface within a magnetic flux of the magnet such that no conductive traces are on the central region. A radial distance between the innermost conductive trace and the mounting profile is less than another radial distance between the innermost conductive trace and the central axis. Accordingly, an excursion range of the diaphragm along the central axis is greater than a gap distance between the conductive trace and the magnet. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11617032B2
A speaker includes: a diaphragm; a coil directly or indirectly attached to the diaphragm; a pair of conducting lines connecting electrically with the coil; a yoke having one pair of longer side portions, and another pair of shorter side portions; a frame disposed between the coil and the yoke; and an inner terminal provided on an area on a straight line extended from the longer side portion of the yoke, and electrically connected to the coil.
US11617031B2
An articulated vehicle speaker system includes a vehicle mount adapted to be mounted on a vehicle and a speaker assembly including front and back injection molded panels which, when joined together, define a speaker compartment at first and second ends of the panels to house a speaker unit and a central compartment which separates the speaker compartments. A pair of spaced, powered hinge assemblies are disposed within the central compartment and hingedly connect the speaker assembly to the vehicle mount to allow limited swinging movement of the speaker assembly between different positions on the vehicle. Each hinge assembly includes a bidirectional, electrically-powered actuator and transmission subassembly. Each subassembly including a rotary output shaft and a set of interconnected transmission elements coupled to the output shaft and to the speaker assembly to automatically swing the speaker assembly based on a command signal.
US11617030B2
An apparatus includes a first communication interface configured to be communicatively coupled, via an optical line, to a network device that is disposed in an optical network using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The apparatus also includes a second communication interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a router via an Ethernet connection. The apparatus also includes a signal generator operatively coupled to the first communication interface and the second communication interface. The signal generator is configured to generate an Ethernet signal representing at least one attribute of the optical line between the first communication interface and the network device. The second communication interface is configured to transmit the Ethernet signal to the router.
US11617026B1
Embodiments relate to processing of pixels captured by a quadra image sensor. A quadra image sensor includes a plurality of pixel tiles, each having a plurality of pixels corresponding to the same color. A lens shading correction (LSC) circuit receives, for each of a plurality of colors, a set of gain tables. Each gain table corresponds to a different channel associated with the color. Each gain table includes a set of gain values, each associated with a location. The LSC circuit determines a pixel gain value for each pixel in a pixel tile and scales the pixels in the pixel tile based on the determined pixel gain values.
US11617018B2
A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit (144) computes main fingerprints from the successive content elements. A reference stream is received having a second data rate lower than the first data rate. The reference stream defines a sequence of the reference fingerprints. A comparator unit (144) compares the main fingerprints with the reference fingerprints. The main stream is monitored for the presence of inserted content elements between original content elements, where the original content elements have main fingerprints that match successive reference fingerprints and the inserted content elements have main fingerprints that do not match reference fingerprints. Rendering of inserted content elements to be skipped. In an embodiment when more than one content element matches only one is rendered. In another embodiment matching is used to control zapping to or from the main stream. In another embodiment matching is used to control linking of separately received mark-up information such as subtitles to points in the main stream.
US11617015B2
A method for identifying a product which appears in a video stream. The method includes playing the video stream on a video playback device, identifying key scenes in the video stream containing product images, selecting product images identified by predetermined categories of trained neural-network object identifiers stored in training datasets. Object identifiers of identified product images are stored in a database. Edge detection and masking is then performed based on at least one of shape, color and perspective of the object identifiers. A polygon annotation of the object identifiers is created using the edge detection and masking. The polygon annotation is annotated to provide correct object identifier content, accuracy of polygon shape, title, description and URL of the object identifier for each identified product image corresponding to the stored object identifiers. Also disclosed is a method for an end user to select and interact with an identified product.
US11617008B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for media classification using local and global audio features are disclosed. A media classification system determines local features of an audio input using an audio event detector model that is trained to detect a plurality of audio event classes descriptive of objectionable content. The local features are extracted using maximum values of audio event scores for individual audio event classes. The media classification system determines one or more global features of the audio input using the audio event detector model. The global feature(s) are extracted using averaging of clip-level descriptors of a plurality of clips of the audio input. The media classification system determines a content-based rating for media comprising the audio input based (at least in part) on the local features of the audio input and based (at least in part) on the global feature(s) of the audio input.
US11616997B2
A method, system, and computer program product for trick play using partial video file chunks includes a processor to retrieve the selected video file from an HLS server, the video file having a plurality of video chunks, and each one of the video chunks beginning with an I-frame. The processor may determine an average size of the plurality of I-frames. The average I-frame size may be based on a bitrate speed of the video file. The processor may retrieve a portion equal to the average I-frame size of from the beginning of each one of the plurality of chunks of the video. The processor may receive a begin trick play request of the selected video and initiate trick play of the selected video. The trick play of the video includes displaying each portion of each one of the plurality of chunks of the video.
US11616990B2
Provided is a method for controlling delivery of a video stream of a live-stream room, and corresponding server and mobile terminal. The method includes steps of: receiving a connection request initiated by an anchor user of the live-stream room from a first terminal and including pre-protocol information outputted by a second terminal; sending, in response to the connection request, a first live video stream uploaded by the first terminal down to the second terminal; and receiving a third live video stream uploaded by the second terminal and formed by combining at least one of a second live video stream and the first live video stream, and delivering the third live video stream to a member user in the live-stream room.
US11616989B2
The present invention relates to an entropy encoding method, an entropy decoding method and to an apparatus using same. The entropy decoding method includes: a step of decoding a bin of a syntax element; and a step of acquiring information on the syntax element based on the decoded bin. In the step of decoding the bin, context-based decoding or bypass decoding is performed for each bin of the syntax element.
US11616987B2
Disclosed is an encoding/decoding method and apparatus related to adaptive deblocking filtering. There is provided an image decoding method performing adaptive filtering in inter-prediction, the method including: reconstructing, from a bitstream, an image signal including a reference block on which block matching is performed in inter-prediction of a current block to be encoded; obtaining, from the bitstream, a flag indicating whether the reference block exists within a current picture where the current block is positioned; reconstructing the current block by using the reference block; adaptively applying an in-loop filter for the reconstructed current block based on the obtained flag; and storing the current block to which the in-loop filter is or is not applied in a decoded picture buffer (DPB).
US11616986B2
A reference-order AL-FEC system for recovering network video data packet loss during real-time video communication includes a packetizer, a reference-order AL-FEC encoder, a reference-order AL-FEC decoder and a depacketizer. The packetizer constructs source symbols from source packets of a current frame. The encoder generates a repair symbol from the source symbols of the current frame and other reference frames based on the reference-order, not time-order, between the frames within an encoding window. The encoder also generates a repair packet based on the repair symbol. The decoder recovers a lost source symbol based on the source symbols of the frames of the encoding window and the repair symbol by decoding the repair packet. The decoding is achieved by solving a linear system of the repair symbol.
US11616981B2
A system, method, and/or instrumentality may be provided for coding a 360-degree video. A picture of the 360-degree video may be received. The picture may include one or more faces associated with one or more projection formats. A first projection format indication may be received that indicates a first projection format may be associated with a first face. A second projection format indication may be received that indicates a second projection format may be associated with a second face. Based on the first projection format, a first transform function associated with the first face may be determined. Based on the second projection format, a second transform function associated with the second face may be determined. At least one decoding process may be performed on the first face using the first transform function and/or at least one decoding process may be performed on the second face using the second transform function.
US11616978B2
Methods, systems and device for hash-based motion estimation in video coding are described. An exemplary method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, motion information associated with the current block using a hash-based motion search, a size of the current block being M×N, M and N being positive integers and M being not equal to N, applying, based on the motion information and a video picture comprising the current block, a prediction for the current block, and performing, based on the prediction, the conversion.
US11616977B2
An encoder includes memory and circuitry. The circuitry: derives a first motion vector in a unit of a prediction block using a first inter frame prediction mode that uses a degree of matching between two reconstructed images of two regions in two difference pictures, the prediction block being obtained by splitting an image included in a video; and performs, in the unit of the prediction block, a first motion compensation process that generates a prediction image by referring to a spatial gradient of luminance in an image generated by performing motion compensation using the first motion vector derived.
US11616973B2
Methods, devices and systems for intra-block coding based decoding or encoding of video while using block vector signaling and/or merge candidates are disclosed. An example method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a video region of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, wherein the bitstream representation selectively includes motion vector difference (MVD) related syntax elements for an intra block copy (IBC) advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode based on a maximum number of a first type of IBC candidates used during the conversion of the video region, wherein, when an IBC mode is applied, samples of the video region are predicted from other samples in a video picture corresponding to the video region.
US11616954B2
A spectrum coding method includes quantizing spectral data of a current band based on a first quantization scheme, generating a lower bit of the current band using the spectral data and the quantized spectral data, quantizing a sequence of lower bits including the lower bit of the current band based on a second quantization scheme, and generating a bitstream based on a upper bit excluding N bits, where N is 1 or greater, from the quantized spectral data and the quantized sequence of lower bits.
US11616943B2
Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.
US11616938B2
Disclosed herein is an immersive video processing method. The immersive video processing method includes: determining a priority order of pruning for input videos; extracting patches from the input videos based on the priority order of pruning; generating at least one atlas based on the extracted patches; and encoding metadata. Herein, the metadata may include information on a priority order of pruning among input videos.
US11616933B1
Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. Optical sensors are integrated into the in-cab monitor as well as the onboard computer, digital video recorder and other external devices.
US11616930B2
Disclosed are a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a quality calculator configured to calculate an source quality of an image signal received from an external settop box or a network; an image quality setter configured to set an image quality of the image signal based on the calculated source quality; and an image quality processor configured to perform image quality processing on the image signal based on the set image quality, wherein in response to the source quality of the received image signal being changed at a first time point, the image quality setter changes an image quality setting sequentially from a first setting to a second setting; and based on the image quality setting, the image quality processor performs image quality processing. Accordingly, flicker may be reduced when an image quality is changed due to a change in the source quality of the received image signal.
US11616928B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel including: a display area configured to display an image, and a non-display area, at least one first sound generator in the display area, and at least one second sound generator in the non-display area, wherein each of the at least one first sound generator and the at least one second sound generator is configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound toward a front of the display panel.
US11616925B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises a first substrate having a light-receiving array and a plurality of driving lines for supplying control signals to the array and a second substrate having a first circuit that includes a driver circuit group configured to generate the control signals and is configured to function as a vertical scanning circuit which supplies the control signals to at least some of the driving lines and a second circuit including a circuit group having the same arrangement as that of the driver circuit group. The second circuit overlaps the at least some driving lines. The at least some driving lines include a driving line not electrically connected to the second circuit. The second substrate includes, at a position overlapping the second circuit, an electrically conductive line used for power supply or transfer of a signal different from the control signals.
US11616924B2
An image sensor has an image sensor array and circuit design employing a method of black level compensation to address image shading related to global exposure image capture and rolling row by row readout schemes. An image sensor including the invented black level compensation pixel array and method may be incorporated within a digital camera.
US11616921B2
An image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels divided into a plurality of binning areas; a readout circuit configured to, from the plurality of binning areas, receive a plurality of pixel signals including a first sensing signal of first pixels and a second sensing signal of second pixels during a single frame period and output a first pixel value corresponding to the first pixels and a second pixel value corresponding to the second pixels based on the plurality of pixel signals; and an image signal processor configured to generate first image data based on a plurality of first pixel values corresponding to the plurality of binning areas, generate second image data based on a plurality of second pixel values corresponding to the plurality of binning areas, and generate output image data by merging the first image data with the second image data.
US11616914B2
An example apparatus for tracking objects includes a controller to receive a depth map, a focus distance, and an image frame of an object to be tracked. The controller is to detect the object to be tracked in the image frame and generate an object position for the object in the image frame. The controller is to calculate a deflection angle for the object based on the depth map, the focus distance, and the object position. The controller is to further rotate an imaging sensor based on the deflection angle.
US11616911B2
A virtual or augmented reality display system that controls power inputs to the display system as a function of image data. Image data itself is made of a plurality of image data frames, each with constituent color components of, and depth planes for displaying on, rendered content. Light sources or spatial light modulators to relay illumination from the light sources may receive signals from a display controlled to adjust a power setting to the light source or spatial light modulator based on control information embedded in an image data frame.
US11616907B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensing unit including an image sensor and configured to capture an image by photoelectric converting an optical image formed on an imaging surface and output an image signal, and a setting unit configured to set shooting parameters to be used at a time of capturing the image by the image sensing unit. The setting unit sets different shooting parameters to be used at the time of capturing the image by the image sensing unit between in a case where it is possible to perform image processing on the image signal by an external image processing apparatus and in a case where it is not possible to perform image processing on the image signal by the external image processing apparatus.
US11616904B2
Disclosed herein are electronic device display interface embodiments for controlling a camera and for reviewing images captured in the device from the camera. For example, in some embodiments, a device is provided with a display for viewing images to be captured by the camera and to provide a display interface for controlling camera operation, wherein the display interface, when in an image capture mode, is to provide an image capture button with two or more smaller image mode buttons disposed adjacent to the image capture button.
US11616902B2
An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to detect a feature amount from each of a plurality of images different in in-focus position in an optical axis direction, and align the plurality of images by using the feature amount. The at least one processor further executes instructions to detect the feature amount by preferentially using a focusing area of each of the plurality of images.
US11616897B2
A camera module includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) installed with an image sensor, a base mounted on the PCB, and a bobbin reciprocatingly mounted above the base. A bottom elastic member is fixed to the base to support the bobbin, and a terminal is installed at the base, one end of which is conductively connected to the PCB and the other end of which is conductively connected to the bottom elastic member at a solder part. A solder cut-off part is formed at the base to cut off movement of overflowing solder from the solder part.
US11616894B1
A multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a communication interface to establish a communication path with an authentication server, a user interface to receive document control information for a document to be generated, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to generate a machine readable code that contains the document control information for the document and print the machine readable code onto the document that is printed by the MFD.
US11616887B2
An image processing device includes: a processor configured to obtain a positional deviation amount of an actual folding line from an expected folding line on a test sheet, and generate, based on the positional deviation amount, sheet image information including image data representing an image to be formed on a sheet, so as to change a position of the image.
US11616886B2
An image formation apparatus to form an image on a sheet having a width direction includes a separation and feed roller pair having a feed roller, a conveyance roller pair having a driving roller, and a pair of conveyance guides having inner and outer guides. A part of the inner guide overhangs toward an outer guide side from an external common tangent of the feed roller and the driving roller. Points of intersection with the feed roller on the external common tangent are designated as first intersection points and points of intersection with the driving roller on the external common tangent are designated as second intersection points. When ends of the feed and driving rollers serve as vertexes, a guide surface of the inner guide is linearly continuous in the width direction in an inner region on the guide surface of the inner guide formed by connecting the vertexes.
US11616879B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for handling unwanted telephone calls through a branching node. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, intercepting a call request from a terminal device of a calling party to a terminal device of a called party, establishing a connection through the branching node via two different communication channels, a first communication channel being with the terminal device of the called party and a second communication channel being with a call recorder; duplicating media data between the terminal devices such that one data stream is directed towards a receiving device of the media data and a second data stream is directed towards the call recorder; recording and sending the recorded call to an automatic speech recognizer for converting the media file to digital information suitable for analysis; and when the call is unwanted, handling the call based on classification of the call.
US11616877B2
A network device for an intercom network for duplex audio communication between users of the intercom network has a housing and a communication module in or at the housing and that can establish a radio link for transmitting audio signals to and receiving audio signals from another user. The radio link is subject to the DECT protocol or another protocol, and the audio signals to the communication module is broken by reflection into a plurality of radio paths. Multipath interference is prevented or reduced by electronic elements including at least one equalizer for processing a plurality of audio signals received along the plurality of radio paths and performing a signal correction.
US11616876B2
Techniques for automatically prompting a calling user to send a message to a called user, the calling user using a calling device and the called user using a called device, the method including receiving, at a processor in the calling device, an indication that a call from the calling device to the called device has disconnected, determining, at the processor in the calling device, whether the call connected before receiving the indication that the call has disconnected, and in response to determining that the call did not connect before receiving the indication that the call has disconnected, determining that the call was a missed call. Methods and devices for automatically prompting a user with predictive message response options are also disclosed.
US11616875B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, with a messaging application implemented by one or more processors of a user device, a communication from a given application representing a first user interaction with the given application; generating, with the messaging application, a list of graphical elements based on the communication received from the given application; displaying, with the messaging application, the list of graphical elements; receiving, with the messaging application, a user selection of a first graphical element from the list of graphical elements; and incorporating, with the messaging application, the graphical element selected by the user into a message for transmission to another user.
US11616874B2
A computing device is described that receives input from a distressed user that indicates the user is in a state of distress. The computing device references a profiles database that stores attribute information that indicates preferred attributes of a potential responder. The communication is sent to a plurality of responding devices and includes an alert indication, at some of the preferred attributes, and a location of the first computing device. Incident to sending the alert, the computing device receives an acknowledgement that indicates that at least one responsive computing device received the alert, which is associated with a responsive user who has attributes matching the preferred attributes. Presenting a map on the computing device that is useable to help locate the first computing device.
US11616870B2
A wireless communication system comprising a smartphone comprising antenna system, and an add-on device that is configured to be attached to the smartphone, wherein, the add-on device comprises, a wireless communication module configured to transmit and receive RF communication signals, and an antenna coupling system that couples between the wireless communication module and the smartphone's antenna system in order to at least transmit or receive the RF communication signals by the smartphone's antenna system, the antenna coupling system couples the RF communication signals by at least one of or the combination of (a) conduction with the enclosure of the smartphone, and (b) induction between the add-on device and the smartphone.
US11616868B2
A camera module device includes: a base plate; one or more cameras fixed to and disposed on one surface of the base plate; a plurality of movable cameras movably disposed on the one surface of the base plate and configured to move individually or collectively; a driving gear disposed on the base plate; and a plurality of sub-gears engaged with the driving gear, wherein positions of the plurality of sub-gears are configured to change to selectively transfer power to one or more of the plurality of movable cameras.
US11616865B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention can comprise: a foldable housing, which comprises a hinge structure, a first housing structure connected to the hinge structure and including a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and a first side member that encompasses at least a portion of the space between the first and second surfaces and includes at least one first conductive part, and a second housing structure connected to the hinge structure, including a third surface facing a third direction, a fourth surface facing a fourth direction that is opposite to the third direction, and a second side member that encompasses at least a portion of the space between the third and fourth surfaces and includes at least one second conductive part, and which comes into contact with the first housing structure with the hinge structure as the center thereof, wherein the first surface faces the third surface in a folded state and the third direction is the same as the first direction in an unfolded state; a flexible display extending from the first surface to the third surface; a first communication processor arranged inside the first housing structure; a first wireless communication circuit arranged inside the first housing structure, electrically connected to the first conductive part and the first communication processor, and configured to transmit and/or receive a first signal having a first frequency; and a second wireless communication circuit arranged inside the second housing structure, electrically connected to the second conductive part and the first communication processor, and configured to transmit and/or receive a second signal having a second frequency. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11616858B2
Aspects of present disclosure include devices within a transmission path of streamed content forwarding received data packets of the stream to the next device or “hop” in the path prior to buffering the data packet at the device. In this method, typical buffering of the data stream may therefore occur at the destination device for presentation at a consuming device, while the devices along the transmission path may transmit a received packet before buffering. Further, devices along the path may also buffer the content stream after forwarding to fill subsequent requests for dropped data packets of the content stream. Also, in response to receiving the request for the content stream, a device may first transmit a portion of the contents of the gateway buffer to the requesting device to fill a respective buffer at the receiving device.
US11616852B2
Disclosed is a mobile event streaming system that receives customer application lifecycle and user events including a message, event source and a destination then processes data for consumption by one or more customers, generating a secure data stream and sending the processed data over the generated data stream. An example system for receiving, processing, and delivering customer application lifecycle and user engagement data includes a server system having at least one processor, memory and a network interface where the memory stores program instructions for receiving, storing, processing and transmitting messages via the network interface. The mobile event streaming system may be a distributed content delivery service wherein the content delivered via the service is processed. Processing the data comprises the addition of metadata, one or more identifiers such as user, and event identifiers including predictions of future user engagement to enable real-time data consumption by customers.
US11616850B1
Devices communicating wirelessly may experience temporary disconnections. While disconnected, a device may be unable to notify the other device that an update has occurred and that data previously used for communication may no longer be current. An ephemeral characteristic can be used by a service device that is updated each time a change occurs on the service device that may impact communications. A client device can use cached service data to attempt to write to this ephemeral characteristic. If the write does not complete successfully, it can be determined that the cached data is no longer current and a service request change can be used to cause the client device to flush the cached data and request current data from the service device.
US11616849B2
In an embodiment, application delivery to end-user devices may be handled by a combination of an application device and a distributed set of split edge devices located closer to the end-user device within a network. The split edge devices are instructed by the application device about how to manage traffic to and from the end-user devices. The application device determines whether content is stored to content cache of a split edge device. The application device, when the content is stored to the split edge device, refrains from sending the content and instead sends instructions to the split edge device that include reference to a location of the content, and instruct the split edge device to send the content to an application and/or device. The application device, when the content is not stored to the split edge device, sends the content with instructions to store the content locally.
US11616848B2
A system and method of forming proxy server pools is provided. The method comprises several steps, such as requesting a pool to execute the user's request and retrieving an initial group. The system checks the service history of an initial group, including whether any of the proxy servers in an initial group are exclusive to existing pools. The exclusive proxy servers in an initial group with eligible proxy servers are replaced when needed and new proxy server pools are formed. The system also records the service history of proxy servers and pools before and after the pools are created. The method can also involve predicting the pool health in relation with the thresholds foreseen and replacing the proxy servers below the threshold.
US11616845B2
An electrical panel or an electrical meter may provide improved functionality by interacting with a smart plug. A smart plug may provide a smart-plug power monitoring signal that includes information about power consumption of devices connected to the smart plug. The smart-plug power monitoring signal may be used in conjunction with power monitoring signals from the electrical mains of the building for providing information about the operation of devices in the building. For example, the power monitoring signals may be used to (i) determine the main of the house that provides power to the smart plug, (ii) identify devices receiving power from the smart plug, (iii) improve the accuracy of identifying device state changes, and (iv) train mathematical models for identifying devices and device state changes.
US11616840B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for processing unmanned vehicle data, and a storage medium, where the method includes: receiving data acquisition indication information sent by a cloud server; obtaining, according to the data acquisition indication information, target data from a data set; and storing the target data, and/or sending the target data to the cloud server, which can thereby achieve acquisition and storage of data meets a preset condition, reduce amount of data storage of the unmanned vehicle and amount of data sent to the cloud server, save network resources, and improve data transmission efficiency.
US11616835B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an API description of an external network service and using the API to integrate the external service into a network. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a service provider, a description of an application programming interface (API), transmitting a call to the service provider using the API for creating a new instance of a service and transmitting to the service provider a traffic flow upon which the service will be applied.
US11616834B2
Synchronizing snapshots between storage systems, including: receiving, from a source storage system, an identification of a snapshot to be replicated to a destination storage system, wherein the source storage system and the destination storage system are of different types; identifying, from hint information stored on the destination storage system, a most recent version of the snapshot that is stored on the destination storage system; issuing, to the source storage system, a request for an identification of the differences between the snapshot to be replicated to the destination storage system and the most recent version of the snapshot that is stored on the destination storage system; receiving, from the source storage system, the identification of the differences; and issuing a request to transfer, from the source storage system to the destination storage system, data associated with the differences.
US11616827B2
A method for automated web resource deployment is provided. The method comprises creating web resource publication requests, wherein each web resource publication request comprises a number of configuration changes necessary to publish a web resource, on a network, at a particular uniform resource location. A standard format, validation workflow, and an approval workflow are provided for automation of the web resource publication requests. Once validated and approved, web resource publication requests are automatically converted to API calls which are executed on backend servers to implement the configuration changes required in the environment without further human intervention.
US11616825B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for aggregating and providing health data records to an electronic device. The method is performed by a server that includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium with processor-executable instructions stored thereon. When the instructions are executed by the processor, the server performs the method including: (a) receiving collected data from one or more client devices, the collected data comprising health related data including at least one of step count data, heart rate data, sleep sensor data; (b) extracting metadata from the collected data; (c) pseudonymizing the collected data; (d) categorizing the collected data using the extracted metadata and enterprise ontology of the server; and (e) storing the collected data.
US11616824B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the intercept and manipulation of content requested by a client device. The methods, systems, and apparatuses described herein enable the interception and redirection of packets based upon a set of rules. Intercepted packets may be redirected away from an origin server and may be forwarded to a splicing device. The splicing device may establish a session with a corresponding origin server, and retrieve content that is requested by the intercepted packet. In embodiments, the splicing device may identify alternate content that is associated with the intercepted packet and/or content that is further associated with a device or subscriber associated with the packet. One or more segments of the requested content, or the entirety of the requested content may be replaced with the alternate content, and the modified content may be output to the client device requesting the content.
US11616823B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments that comprise obtaining a data budget associated with a communication session for streaming video content over a communication network from a video content server, determining a first portion of the data budget that is associated with a first segment of the video content, and obtaining quality information associated with the video content from the video content server over the communication network. Further embodiments can include identifying a first group of tracks for the first segment, and determining a first target quality for the first segment based on the first portion of the data budget and the quality information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11616821B1
Providing streaming of one or more applications from streaming servers onto one or more clients. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The applications are contained within one or more isolated environments, and the isolated environments are streamed from the servers onto clients. The system may include authentication of the streaming servers and authentication of clients and credentialing of the isolated environments and applications the clients are configured to run. The system may include encrypted communication between the streaming servers and the clients. The system may further include a management interface where administrators may add, remove and configure isolated environments, configure client policies and credentials, and force upgrades. The streamed isolated environments may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system on the clients and applications within the isolated environments may run without performing an application-installation on the client.
US11616819B2
A method, system and apparatus for applying and synchronizing filter information with a multimedia presentation, such as a movie provided in a video-on-demand context, to suppress objectionable content. In one example, filter information, which includes an indicia of a portion of the multimedia presentation including objectionable content and a type of suppression action, is provided on either a set-top-box or a video-on-demand server. A user selects a particular video-on-demand presentation, and the selection is transmitted to the set-top-box. Filtering may take place at the set-top-box side such that the complete video-on-demand movie is transmitted to the set-top box and then content suppression, such as skipping, muting, cropping, and blurring, takes place at the set-top-box. Alternatively, some or all suppression may take place at the server such that some or all of the objectionable content is not transmitted to the set-top-box. Additionally, whether in a video-on-demand, DVD, or other environment it may be necessary to synchronize filter with the multimedia content so that the proper objectionable content is suppressed.
US11616812B2
Endpoints in a network execute a sensor module that intercepts commands. The sensor module compares a source of commands to a sanctioned list of applications received from a management server. If the source does not match a sanctioned application and the command is a write or delete command, the command is ignored and a simulated acknowledgment is sent. If the command is a read command, deception data is returned instead. In some embodiments, certain data is protected such that commands will be ignored or modified to refer to deception data where the source is not a sanctioned application. The source may be verified to be a sanctioned application by evaluating a certificate, hash, or path of the source. Responses from an active directory server may be intercepted and modified to reference a decoy server when not addressed to a sanctioned application.
US11616811B2
Phishing attacks attempt to solicit valuable information such as personal information, account credentials, and the like from human users by disguising a malicious request for information as a legitimate inquiry, typically in the form of an electronic mail or similar communication. By tracking a combination of outbound web traffic from an endpoint and inbound electronic mail traffic to the endpoint, improved detection of phishing attacks or similar efforts to wrongly obtain sensitive information can be achieved.
US11616808B2
Techniques are provided that facilitate responding to cyberattacks using counter intelligence (CI) bot technology. In one embodiment, a first system is disclosed that comprises a processor and a memory. The memory can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a request from a second system requesting assistance in association with a cyberattack on the second system, wherein the request comprises information indicating a type of the cyberattack. The operations further comprise selecting a counter intelligence bot configured to respond to the type of cyberattack, and directing the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack, wherein the directing comprises enabling the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack by establishing a gateway with the second system and employing the gateway to intercept and respond to traffic associated with the cyberattack on behalf of the second system.
US11616807B2
A computer method and system to determine one or more sub-groups of protected network servers for receiving common network filter settings for mitigating Denial of Services (Dos) attacks. Network traffic associated with the plurality of network servers is captured and collated for each of the plurality of network servers. The collated network traffic is then analyzed to determine a profile of one or more network services provided by each of the plurality of network servers. Each of the plurality of network servers is then tagged with one or more network services determined provided by each network server based upon analysis of the collated network traffic. Metadata is then determined from the collated network traffic that is associated with each of the plurality of network servers. A determination of sub-group clustering is made of one or more of the plurality of network servers contingent upon the one or more determined network service tags and the determined meta data associated with each of the plurality of network servers. Common DoS mitigation actions may then be prescribed for each of the determined sub-group clusters of network servers.
US11616805B2
A computer-implemented method at a data management system comprises receiving, at the system, a write made to a virtual machine from a virtual machine host; computing, at the system, a fingerprint of the transmitted write; comparing, at the system, the computed fingerprint to malware fingerprints in a malware catalog; repeating the computing and comparing; and disabling the virtual machine if a number of matches from the comparing breaches a predetermined threshold over a predetermined amount of time.
US11616798B2
An anomaly detection model is trained to detect malicious traffic sessions with a low rate of false positives. A sample feature extractor extracts tokens corresponding to human-readable substrings of incoming unstructured payloads in a traffic session. The tokens are correlated with a list of malicious traffic features and frequent malicious traffic features across the traffic session are aggregated into a feature vector of malicious traffic feature frequencies. An anomaly detection model trained on feature vectors for unstructured malicious traffic samples predicts the traffic session as malicious or unclassified. The anomaly detection model is trained and updated based on its' ongoing false positive rate and malicious traffic features in the list of malicious traffic features that result in a high false positive rate are removed.
US11616796B2
A computing system and related method protect a computer network connection manager's resources from attempted resource attacks by extracting SrcIP and TTL values from received data packet headers. Extracted SrcIP and TTL values are analyzed to determine the probability that a received data packet is malicious. If the probability exceeds a specified threshold, resources are denied, and the packet is dropped. If the specified threshold is not exceeded, resources are allocated to the received data packet. The SrcIP reputation score, TTL value frequency, SrcIP frequency, SrcIP geo-location, and resource occupancy may all be used in computing the probability of a malicious data packet. These factors may be weighted and summed to calculate the probability of a malicious data packet.
US11616789B2
A communication system according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: transmit, to an external communication system, a cryptographic random number obtained by encrypting a random number; receive verification information for verifying the external communication system, the verification information being generated by the external communication system with the cryptographic random number and attribute information of the external communication system; and perform, by using a cryptographic key based on the random number, communication with the external communication system having been verified with the verification information.
US11616788B2
One or more DNS services are provided that are configured to not only tolerate some commonly observed DNSSEC misconfigurations (while still providing DNSSEC's security guarantees), but also provide a more intelligent DNS resolution process informed by DNSSEC.
US11616785B2
Systems and methods for concurrent modification of content are provided. In response to a verified request received from a user content is copied to a first storage media as a first version of the content uniquely identified by a first identifier, the verified request being based on verification of the user's credentials. In response to the user editing the first version of the content, the edited copy of the content is stored in the content management system in association with a second identifier uniquely identifying the edited copy of the content as a second version of the content. In response to receiving a notification that a plurality of users no longer request access to the content stored in the content management system, the first version of the content is deleted from the first storage media.
US11616782B2
As a default, a global permissions model is established. The global permissions model serves for applying a first set of resource access permissions to shared content objects. Additionally, a set of context-aware access policies that govern user interactions over the shared content object is established. When a particular user requests an interaction over a shared content object, then interaction attributes associated with the request are gathered. The context-aware access policies are applied to the request by determining a set of extensible access permissions that are derived from the interaction attributes. The context-aware access policies are enforced by overriding the first set of resource access permissions with dynamically-determined access permissions. When a particular access request is denied, a response is generated in accordance with the set of extensible access permissions and the user is notified. In some cases, the access request is permitted, but only after the user provides a justification.
US11616776B2
In an authority management method for providing interoperability across different locations and networks, an identity information database and an authority information database are established. Biological image information is obtained from users and registered in the database or an associated database. Biometric image information and an access request of a user are obtained. If there is certain identity information matching the biometric image information of the user in the identity information database, information as to authority and extent of authority are certain identity information queried from the authority information database. The access request is determined to be allowed or not allowed according to the certain authority information. If the access request is to be granted, and allowed in respect of a desired activity, an operation instruction is generated accordingly. A system for administering such method and device applying method are also disclosed.
US11616775B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a network access authentication method, apparatus, and system. The network access authentication method mainly comprises: obtaining a user name by a network access management client through encryption using a device ID of a terminal device, and obtaining a dynamic password through encryption using the device ID and a time value within a time step, so that the terminal device performs network access authentication using the user name and the dynamic password. The device ID is uniquely assigned by an authentication server to the terminal device, and thus functions to identify the identity of the terminal device, so that network access authentication can be independent of digital certificates, thereby solving the problem that the terminal device cannot accomplish network access authentication for unsupported use of or unavailability of a digital certificate, while meeting network access security requirements.
US11616774B2
Described are methods and systems to identify unauthorized attempts to access an account in a computer system, the account having an authorized user. The methods and systems include determining that a count of failed attempts to access the account exceeds a maximum. Based on the count exceeding the maximum, one or more peer contacts associated with the authorized user are retrieved from stored user data. A failure attribution request is transmitted to the one or more peer contacts and a response is received from at least one of the one or more peer contacts. If the response denies that the authorized user caused the failed attempts, then a security action is taken with respect to the account. The method may include first confirming that the number of failure attributions requests sent has not exceeded an abuse threshold to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
US11616767B2
Systems and methods for encrypted storage device telemetry data are described. Storage device telemetry data may be collected for a telemetry message, such as a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) telemetry command, and encrypted using a first encryption key. The first encryption key may be encrypted using one or multiple second encryption keys and the encrypted first encryption key may be added to the telemetry message. A client system may receive the telemetry message, decrypt the encrypted first encryption key, and use the first encryption key to decrypt the encrypted storage device telemetry data.
US11616765B2
Embodiments described herein provide a privacy mechanism to protect user data when transmitting the data to a server that estimates a p-th frequency moment, Fp for p∈[1, 2] and p low-rank approximation for p∈[1, 2). The privacy mechanism uses an encode-shuffle then analyze (ESA) framework that provides a compromise between the central and local model of privacy.
US11616758B2
A network address translation device or similarly situated network device can cooperate with endpoints on a subnet of an enterprise network to secure endpoints within the subnet. For example, the network address translation device may be configured, either alone or in cooperation with other network devices, to block traffic from a compromised endpoint to destinations outside the subnet, and to direct other endpoints within the subnet to stop network communications with the compromised endpoint.
US11616749B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting chat highlights. The program and method include generating a group profile for a plurality of users that includes a plurality of conversation segments; identifying a group of consecutively exchanged messages in a first of the plurality of conversation segments for which a difference between a starting time stamp of a first message in the group of consecutive messages and an ending time stamp of a last message in the group of consecutive messages is less than a threshold time interval representing consecutively exchanged messages; generating for display an interactive visual representation of the identified group of consecutive messages; and in response to receiving a user input that selects the interactive visual representation, generating for display a portion of the identified group of consecutive messages.
US11616746B1
In some embodiments, techniques for generating personalized unsubscribe options for emails are provided. For example, a subscription management system can access information associated with an active email subscription and a user profile for a user. The subscription management system can determine a temporary unsubscribe time period for the user based on the information associated with the active email subscription and the profile of the user. The subscription management system can embed multiple unsubscribe options in an email to be sent to the user. The multiple unsubscribe options can represent respective unsubscribe time periods including the temporary unsubscribe time period. The subscription management system can cause the email to be sent to the user and receiving a selection among the multiple unsubscribe options indicating a selected unsubscribe time period. The subscription management system can change the active email subscription to a suppressed email subscription associated with the unselected unsubscribe time period.
US11616740B2
A chatbot may be invoked in an online communication session between two or more human users to share additional content in the communication session. To determine when to invoke the chatbot, e.g., at which point during their conversation, an interaction model may be trained on past conversation data between participants to determine so-termed interaction points in the past conversation data which are predictive of a subsequent sharing of additional content by one of the participants. Having generated the interaction model, the interaction model may be applied to an online communication session to detect such interaction points in a real-time or near real-time conversation between users and to invoke the chatbot to participate in the communication session in response to a detection.
US11616734B2
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to a method, comprising: receiving a plurality of traffic flows transmitted by a plurality of user devices; determining, at a modem, a user device of the user devices that is associated with each of the traffic flows; classifying, at the modem, each of the traffic flows according to a class of service associated with a traffic class; and allocating, at the modem, bandwidth to each of the traffic flows based on the traffic flow's class of service and the user device associated with the traffic flow. A total available bandwidth may be allocated to the traffic flows as a function of traffic classes associated with the traffic flows, the classes of services associated with the traffic flows, and the user devices that transmitted the traffic flows.
US11616731B1
A Time-To-Live budget can be determined for network packets and used to understand an impact of network expansion on dropped packets. Additionally, the TTL budget can be used to determine how network expansion impacts services provided in the data center. In one embodiment, agents executing on data center routers are used to transmit packet header data including a TTL budget to a collector server computer. The collector server computer can discern signal (production flows) from noise (traceroutes and probing traffic) to detect packets that are at risk of being dropped or have been dropped due to TTL expiration. Alerts can be generated for packet flows with dangerously low remaining TTL budget or no remaining budget, which are at high risk of expiring due to operational events resulting in traffic temporarily traversing slightly longer paths. A dashboard can be provided with historic TTL budget data and trends.
US11616723B2
At a network-connected device, congestion at an egress queue can be detected. A potential source of congestion can be identified based on characteristics of a packet that caused the egress queue to become congested. The source of congestion can be a congestion group of transmitters. A group congestion message can be sent to the group of transmitters. The message can identify the packet that caused the egress queue to become congested. Transmitters can respond to the message by reducing their peak transmission rate.
US11616717B2
The disclosed technology relates to forwarding a packet in a network. The packet is received at a node, where the packet is encapsulated by a network service header (NSH) including a service path header that identifies a service path. The service path is associated with a treatment value that directs subsequent nodes to treat the encapsulated NSH packet with a quality of service treatment. A forwarding table stored in the node is evaluated to identify the service path and the treatment value of the encapsulated NSH packet and a quality of service treatment is determined for the encapsulated NSH packet. The encapsulated NSH packet is forwarded to the subsequent nodes based on the service path indicated in the forwarding table and in accordance with the quality of service treatment corresponding to the treatment value identified in the forwarding table.
US11616712B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains performance data regarding failures of a tunnel in a network. The device generates a failure profile for the tunnel by applying machine learning to the performance data regarding the failures of the tunnel. The device determines, based on the failure profile for the tunnel, whether the tunnel exhibits failure flapping behavior. The device adjusts one or more Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) probing timers used to detect failures of the tunnel, based on the determination as to whether the tunnel exhibits failure flapping behavior.
US11616708B1
Packet transmission rate and packet drop rate for discrete network devices in a network are used to estimate end-to-end traffic demand and loss in the network. Data regarding the packet transmission rate and drop rate are passively collected for each network device and transmitted to a network monitoring unit. The network monitoring unit compiles the data and generates a series of simultaneous equations that represent traffic demand and loss between the discrete network devices along the paths connecting respective source-destination pairs. By determining an optimal solution to the simultaneous equations, an estimate of end-to-end traffic loss and corresponding traffic demand, which takes into account packet loss at each network device, can be generated for each source-destination pair. The optimal solution can be formed as a traffic matrix, which aggregates source-to-destination traffic demands, and a loss matrix, which aggregates source-to-destination traffic losses.
US11616705B2
A method for managing network slices for the benefit of users monitors and obtains key performance indicators configured by a user, the indicator values being collected in real time and visually presented. When a user wants to optimize the network slices, weightings, value intervals, and variables are applied by the user to target key performance indicators. The network slices are optimized by a particle swarm algorithm configured by the user. A device and a computer readable and permanent storage medium for executing the network slices management method are also disclosed.
US11616701B2
Techniques for utilizing a communication system that provides access to a representation of a virtual environment to participants. The communication system may establish connections between personal communication bridge(s) associated with participant(s) interacting within a virtual proximity radius of one another's virtual indicator in the virtual environment. The communication system may cause conversation data to be sent each personal communication bridge associated with a participant that is within the virtual proximity radius of the sender, and cause conversation data to be received via the personal communication bridge of a participant that is within the virtual proximity radius of the sender. The communication system may also analyze data associated with the participant profile(s) and transcribed conversation data from the communication bridges(s) to recommend potential conversations of interest to participant(s).
US11616696B2
A system for negotiating Ethernet link settings between interconnected nodes in a network having an Ethernet protocol stack that includes a PCS sub-layer with an auto-negotiation function. The system comprises connecting an intermediate device coupled between two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces, with the link settings between each node and the connected intermediate device being the same, thereby bypassing the auto-negotiation of the PCS sub-layer in the intermediate device. The intermediate device may transparently send negotiation messages from each node to the other during the link negotiation phase without interacting with those messages. Instead of the intermediate device, a single form pluggable (SFP) device may be connected between the two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces on the network side and via an SFP slot on the device side.
US11616689B2
A system and method for an adaptive network of network access nodes comprises a global network operations center (GNOC) receiving operator inputs and generating a global policy according to the operator inputs. The GNOC and/or a distributed network gateway (GW) generate configuration commands for configurations for at least one of the network access nodes based on the global policy, transmit the configuration commands to at least one of the network access nodes, and receive telemetry from at least one of the network access nodes. The distributed network GW transmits a summary of key performance indicators (KPIs) to the GNOC and the GNOC revises the global policy according to the summary of KPIs.
US11616686B1
In response to receiving a parallel processing job from a customer, a system operated by a computing resource service provider allocates and configures a cluster of computer systems capable of executing the job. In an embodiment, each computer system is configured with a first network stack that allows access to resources of the computing resource service provider and a second network stack that allows access to resources of the customer. In an embodiment, the state of the cluster is monitored by the system via the first network stack. In an embodiment, the system deploys a set of tasks on the cluster for fulfilling the processing job. In an embodiment, the tasks have access to the second network stack so that each task can access resources of the customer.
US11616685B2
A data link error feedback signaling system includes a transmitting network device and a receiving network device. The receiving network device may be operable to receive a network data unit from the transmitting network device over a data link, detect an error in the network data unit, and provide data link integrity information based on the error to the transmitting network device. The receiving network device may provide the data link integrity information by marking the data link flawed in a routing protocol, transmitting the data link integrity information via an informational protocol, and so on. The transmitting network device may respond to the data link integrity information, such as by marking the data link less preferred, marking the data link down, transmitting an alarm regarding the data link to a network operator, omitting taking an action upon determining that errors are below an error threshold, and so on.
US11616684B2
According to a first aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for monitoring a beam transmitted by a base station in a radio communications network. The base station is serving the UE. The UE monitors a reference signal related to the beam, from the base station. Each time a quality of the reference signal is below a first threshold, the UE generates an Out-Of-Synchronization (OOS) event. When the number of OOS events reaches an OOS Beam Failure Detection (BFD) threshold, the UE triggers a beam recovery preparation procedure, and when the number of OOS events reaches an OOS Radio Link Monitoring (RLM), threshold, the UE starts an RLF timer.
US11616682B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service that monitors a network maps time series of values of key performance indicator (KPIs) measured from the network to lists of unique values from the time series. The service sets a target alarm rate for anomaly detection alarms raised by the network assurance service. The service uses an optimization function to identify a set of thresholds for the KPIs. The optimization function is based on: a comparison between the target alarm rate and a fraction of network issues flagged by the service as outliers, KPI thresholds selected based on the lists of unique values from the time series, and a number of thresholds that the KPIs must cross for the service to raise an alarm. The service raises an anomaly detection alarm for the monitored network based on the identified set of thresholds for the KPIs.
US11616681B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to tone mapping techniques and packet designs that support duplicate (or “DUP mode”) transmissions to multiple users. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may transmit a PPDU that includes first user data and second user data, where at least the first user data is transmitted in a DUP mode. As such, the first user data may be mapped to a number (N) of tones spanning a first RU in accordance with a dual carrier modulation (DCM) scheme, and a duplicate copy of the first user data may be mapped to N tones spanning a second RU in accordance with the DCM scheme. In some implementations, the second user data also may be transmitted in a DUP mode.
US11616678B2
The data recovery from sub-carriers gradients (DRSG) of a received OFDM signal affected by deterministic and random distortions introduced by a transmission link, contributes a method and a circuit for utilizing gradients characterizing shapes of OFDM sub-carriers comprised in such OFDM signal for recovering data symbols transmitted originally.
US11616671B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) or base station may generate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on a permutation matrix (P) that permutes guard interval (GI) samples and data samples such that the OFDM symbols have power values across the symbols that are supportable by a transmitting device. The permutation matrix may map GI inputs to a subset of subcarriers for an OFDM communication, where the permutation matrix determined based at least in part on a first number of columns of a sub-matrix of a first matrix. The first matrix may be an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) matrix, or may be a product of the IFFT matrix and a subcarrier mapping matrix. The first number of columns may correspond to a number of subcarriers that carry time-domain GI samples.
US11616666B2
A method performed by a communication device includes generating an initial channel estimate of a channel for a current time step with a Kalman filter based on a first signal received at the communication device. The method also includes inferring, with a neural network, a residual of the initial channel estimate of the current time step. The method further includes updating the initial channel estimate of the current time step based on the residual.
US11616659B2
A system comprises premises equipment including premises devices located at a premises. The system includes a partner device located at the premises and configured to use a partner protocol different from a protocol of the premises equipment. The system includes a system server configured to interact with the premises devices. The system server is configured to interact with the partner device via a partner proxy corresponding to the partner device. The system includes automation rules coupled to the system server. The automation rules include actions and triggers for controlling interactions between at least one of the partner device and the premises devices. The system includes a user interface coupled to the system server and configured to interact with the premises devices and the partner device.
US11616658B2
A transcript of a conference (e.g., a video conference, an audio conference, or a telephone call with two or more participants) is processed to extract a conference summary. A graphical user interface is presented that enables a user to edit highlighting to select portions of a conference recording for inclusion in the conference summary. The user can edit highlighting on strings of a transcript and/or on a playback slide bar and the highlighting edits are propagated to both of these interfaces. Video clips selected for inclusion in a summary based on timestamps of strings in a transcript may be extended forward in time to incorporate a nearest I-frame of video. The short video or audio summary may be presented to users along with a text summary of the conference to enable efficient storage and transmission of information from the conference within a unified communications system.
US11616657B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving a plurality of the interaction inputs for one or more of a plurality of time slices of a virtual meeting or presentation from one or more participants of the virtual meeting or presentation; determining one or more significant time slices of the virtual meeting or presentation based, at least partially, on one or more of the plurality of interaction inputs; and generating a summary of the virtual meeting or presentation, wherein the summary comprises audio data corresponding to at least some of the one or more significant time slices.
US11616653B2
A method for use in a distributed storage network includes determining storage parameters associated with error-encoded data slices generated from data to be stored in the distributed storage network. The storage parameters include information indicating a read threshold number of error-encoded data slices required to recover the data. Storage requirements of a storage unit included in the distributed storage network are also determined. The storage unit includes multiple memory devices configured to store one or more error-encoded data slices of the read threshold number of error-encoded data slices. A number of the one or more error-encoded data slices are stored in the storage unit based on the storage requirements of the storage unit and the storage parameters.
US11616652B2
Systems and methods for data security using a blockchain ledger. The system receives request associated with a product from a user. The system further obtains data associated with the product upon receiving the request. Further, the system analyses the data to using predefined parameters identify valid data and invalid data. Upon identification, the system uploads the valid data in the blockchain ledger. Further, the valid data may be displayed to the user through a channel, associated with the user, in the blockchain ledger, thereby providing the data security.
US11616649B2
There may be provided a computer-implemented method. The computer-implemented method includes: i) after a proof-of-stake token is transferred to an address of a determined type on a proof-of-stake blockchain, adding a record of the transfer of the proof-of-stake token to the proof-of-work blockchain; ii) identifying a node, from a group of nodes, to participate in adding a block to the proof-of-stake blockchain, the identifying based on the proof-of-work blockchain; and iii) including a block submitted by the identified node in the proof-of-stake blockchain.
US11616643B2
Systems and methods of managing a shared cryptographic account for a first user and at least one second user in a blockchain based computer network, including: generating, by a first computing device of the first user, a first share of a cryptographic key, generating, by a server, a corresponding second share of the cryptographic key, wherein the cryptographic key corresponds to a public key and private key pair, and wherein the private key is configured to decrypt shares of the cryptographic key that are encrypted by the public key, generating a group ID for a group of users of the shared cryptographic account, distributing, by the server, the first share among each of the at least one second user, and enforcing a signing logic scheme for users of the group when signing with the shared cryptographic account.
US11616641B2
A method of sharing a first common secret among a plurality of nodes for enabling secure communication for blockchain transactions. The method comprises determining, for at least one first node a plurality of second common secrets, wherein each second common secret is common to the first node and a respective second node, is determined at the first node based on a first private key of the first node and a first public key of the second node and is determined at the second node based on the first private key of the second node and the first public key of the first node. The method further comprises exchanging encrypted shares of the first common secret among the plurality of nodes to enable each of the plurality of nodes to reach a threshold number of shares of the first common secret to access the first common secret.
US11616636B2
A cryptographic acceleration card included in a blockchain integrated station sends negotiation information to a provider of a new disk image, where the negotiation information is used by the provider to determine a deployment key, and where the new disk image is used to update an old disk image included in the blockchain integrated station. The cryptographic acceleration card receives a new hash value encrypted by the provider using the deployment key, where the new hash value corresponds to the new disk image. The cryptographic acceleration card replaces an old hash value corresponding to the old disk image with the new hash value, where the new hash value is compared with a current hash value of a disk image included in the blockchain integrated station to determine whether the disk image matches the new disk image.
US11616632B2
In one embodiment, a method receives a downstream signal and an upstream signal in a same frequency band. The downstream signal and the upstream signal are separated into a first path and a second path. The downstream signal using the first path and the upstream signal using the second path are amplified in an analog domain. The method isolates the downstream signal and the upstream signal from one another and sends the downstream signal downstream to a subscriber device and sends the upstream signal towards a full duplex node.
US11616630B2
A method for communication between user equipments includes: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a physical control channel resource of a first frequency; and transmitting, by the UE, first control information on a physical control channel of the first frequency; wherein the first control information includes frequency indication information and/or resource indication information of a second frequency, the frequency indication information of the second frequency is used to indicate the second frequency, and the resource indication information of the second frequency is used to indicate an allocated/reserved resource of the second frequency.
US11616628B2
The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for beam search pilots for paging channel communications. In some aspects, a user device receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a beam search pilot on a beam. The user device determines that a signal quality of the beam search pilot meets a signal quality threshold. Based on this determination, the user device transmits, to the base station, an indication that the beam search pilot meets the signal quality threshold. The user device then receives a paging channel communication on the beam provided by the base station.
US11616627B2
A communication system, a data transmission method thereof, and a user device thereof are provided. The data transmission method includes the following steps. A first transmitting Radio Link Control (Tx RLC) entity of a first base station transmits a first Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to a first receiving Radio Link Control (Rx RLC) entity of a user equipment via a first leg. A second Tx RLC entity of a second base station transmits a second PDU to a second Rx RLC entity of the user equipment via a second leg. If the first Rx RLC entity successfully receives the first PDU or the second Rx RLC entity successfully receives the second PDU, the first Rx RLC entity and the second RLC entity return Acknowledgement (ACK) messages.
US11616614B2
A base station may determine an SS block index associated with an SS block for transmission, and may scramble information based on at least a portion of the determined SS block index. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The base station may transmit the SS block and scrambled information to a UE. A UE may receive an SS block and information scrambled based on at least a portion of an SS block index associated with the SS block. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The UE may descramble the scrambled information based on the at least the portion of the SS block index.
US11616609B2
Embodiments herein describe assigning different linearity operating points of a front end of a radio to groups of user devices when transmitting data using OFDMA. That is, when transmitting a PPDU to a first group of user devices, an access point (AP) may set the front end of the radio to a lower linearity operating point than when transmitting a PPDU to a second group of user devices. Using a higher linearity operating point can increase the data rate used to transmit the PPDU—e.g., the AP can use a higher modulation coding scheme (MCS). This can reduce the time the PPDUs have to wait in a queue before being transmitted.
US11616607B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink data from a base station. The UE may transmit, to the base station via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 1 and based at least in part on the downlink data, a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bit associated with a high priority using a first quantity of symbols. The UE may transmit, to the base station via the PUCCH format 1 and based at least in part on the downlink data, a second HARQ-ACK bit associated with a low priority using a second quantity of symbols that is less than the first quantity of symbols. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11616605B2
The apparatus may be a first device at a first RU (e.g., UE, base station, etc.). The first RU may be configured to receive, from a control unit, a configuration for relaying or repeating data received from a second RU to a receiving unit. The first RU may further be configured to determine whether first feedback associated with the data is received from the second RU. The first RU may also be configured to transmit second feedback to the receiving unit or the control unit, the second feedback including first information indicating at least one of the first feedback or whether the first feedback was received.
US11616597B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications system, a wireless device may append, during a first encoding stage, a first set of cyclic redundancy check bits having a first size to each code block of a plurality of code blocks and may concatenate two or more code blocks from the plurality of code blocks into a first set of code blocks, each code block of the two or more code blocks including the appended first set of cyclic redundancy check bits. The wireless device may further append, during a second encoding stage, a second set of cyclic redundancy check bits having a second size to the first set of code blocks, and may transmit a message comprising the plurality of code blocks including the appended first set of cyclic redundancy check bits and the appended second set of cyclic redundancy check bits.
US11616596B1
A cellular modem processor can include dedicated processing engines that implement specific, complex data processing operations. To implement physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) decoding, a cellular modem can include a pipeline having multiple processing engines, with the processing engine including functional units that execute instructions corresponding to different stages in the PDSCH decoding process. Flow control and data synchronization between instructions can be provided using a hybrid of firmware-based flow control and hardware-based data dependency management.
US11616592B2
A method may include determining a number of categories associated with optical network units (ONUs) in a system and assigning an allocation identifier to each of the respective categories. The method may also include transmitting the assigned allocation identifiers to the ONUs and transmitting a contention-based allocation to the ONUs, wherein the contention-based allocation includes a first one of the allocation identifiers.
US11616587B1
A reference time associated with a satellite signal received at a clock synchronization source is determined, wherein the reference time is from a master reference clock. A recorded time associated with a corresponding satellite signal received at a remote clock synchronization destination is received from the remote clock synchronization destination via a network, wherein the received recorded time is from a remote clock to be synchronized with the master reference clock. A clock adjustment value is calculated based on a comparison of the determined reference time and the received recorded time. The clock adjustment value is provided to the remote clock synchronization destination, wherein the clock adjustment value is able to be utilized by the remote clock synchronization destination to adjust the remote clock to increase synchronization with the master reference clock.
US11616580B1
A system receives audio data in a frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz. The received audio data is encoded by the system into ultrasonic data in frequencies that are greater than 20 kHz, and transmitted into a local area that is proximal to the transmitting device, i.e., within the transmission range of the transmitting device. An ultrasonic communication device that is located in the transmission range of the transmitting device may receive the ultrasonic data. The received ultrasonic data is decoded by the ultrasonic communication system in the receiving device into audio data in a frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz, and subsequently presented to a user of the receiving ultrasonic communication device.
US11616579B2
A communication device is provided that estimates one or more disturbance values associated with one or more components of the communication device, and adjusts the communication device to change a received power of the output signal. The communication device includes a transmitter having a seed laser configured to provide an amount of bandwidth for an output signal, an Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) configured to increase an amplitude of the output signal, and a single mode variable optical attenuator (SMVOA) configured to decrease the amplitude of the output signal.
US11616577B2
An optical signal transceiver in a transistor outline package includes a component base, a laser device, a first wavelength division multiplexing prism and a second wavelength division multiplexing prism, a first photodetector, and a second photodetector. The component base is inside the transistor outline package and supports the laser device, the laser device emitting light to the outside of the transistor outline package. The first and second prisms and the first photodetector and the second photodetector are also located on the component base. Light output as optical signals sequentially pass through the first and second multiplexing prisms. The first input optical signal is transmitted to the first photodetector through the first prism, and the second input optical signal passes through the first prism and is passed on to the second photodetector via the second prism.
US11616572B2
Transmitting at least two optical signals to at least two receivers, using a source, an alignment module, and a telescope. The telescope has a field of view in which the at least two receivers are located, and at least a first beam path and a second beam path are aligned in the alignment module in order to respectively steer the first optical signal via the telescope to the first receiver and the second optical signal via the telescope to the second receiver.
US11616567B2
A satellite communication method and a network device are disclosed. A first network device learns of traffics of a plurality of satellite communications link or air interface resources allocated to a plurality of satellite base stations. The first network device sends identification information to a second network device, where the identification information indicates that a traffic of a satellite communications link reaches a specified threshold, or that an air interface resource allocated by a ground station to a satellite base station reaches a specified threshold. The second network device receives an identifier message, determines a to-be-linked satellite base station that has an idle resource, and sends, to the to-be-linked satellite base station, a second message including information about a generated beam of the to-be-linked satellite base station.
US11616564B2
A device includes a primary sector and secondary sectors communicatively coupled to the primary sector. The processor included in the primary sector is configured to down convert a Radio Frequency (RF) signals with a first frequency to an analog baseband (IQ) signal with a second frequency, and receive a second digital baseband signal that comprises a first digital baseband signal and a digital echo signal. The first digital baseband signal comprises a training sequence signal. Further, the processor estimates a plurality of filter taps of the FIR filter based on the digital echo signal and estimate the digital echo signal in the received second digital baseband signal based on the first digital baseband signal and the plurality of filter taps of the FIR filter. The estimated digital echo signal is removed from at least one current digital baseband signal based on the down conversion of the RF signals.
US11616551B2
A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a time-variant, frequency-selective MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration including a number of antenna ports, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration; and a processor. The processor estimates an explicit CSI in the frequency domain using measurements on the downlink reference signals on the radio channel, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix (W) for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates either one or more of a channel quality indicator, CQI, and/or a precoder matrix indicator, PMI, and/or a rank indicator, RI, and reports to the transmitter the CSI feedback including either one or more of the CQI, and/or the PMI and/or the RI.
US11616548B2
A first device and second device communicate using mmWave communication with antenna alignment based on processing of ultra wide band (UWB) pulses. A limit on angle resolution due to a small number of antennas on either of the devices is relieved by using two or more carrier frequencies in the UWB pulses. A limit on angle resolution is further overcome in some situations by use of a neural network to refine angle estimates. In some situations, received power values are further used to select an angle for beam alignment.
US11616546B2
Disclosed is a high frequency beam forming device. The high frequency beam forming device includes a 2D radiation array structure unit in which oscillators coupled to antennas are arranged in 2D; and a plurality of phase difference detectors coupled between the oscillators formed in the 2D radiation array structure unit to detect a phase difference between the coupled oscillators.
US11616543B2
A method for determining uplink transmission parameters and a method for transmitting configuration information. The method includes: receiving indication information transmitted from a network side; and determining uplink transmission parameters on the basis of the indication information. Also provided in the disclosure are a device for determining uplink transmission parameters and a device for transmitting configuration information, and a storage medium. The disclosure solves the problem in which a terminal cannot determine uplink transmission parameters in a variety of complicated antenna configurations, thus achieving the effect of effectively reduced overhead.
US11616531B2
An echo cancelling system includes a data transmitter circuit and an echo canceller circuit. The data transmitter circuit is configured to receive a first transmitted signal. The first transmitted signal has a first sampling rate. The echo canceller circuit is configured to generate a second transmitted signal according to the first transmitted signal. The second transmitted signal has a second sampling rate. The second sampling rate is greater than the first sampling rate. The echo canceller circuit is further configured to generate an echo cancelling signal according to the second transmitted signal. The data transmitter circuit is further configured to generate an output signal according to a received signal and the echo cancelling signal.
US11616528B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support techniques for wireless communications using preconfigured uplink resources. Generally, the described techniques provide for enhancement of communication features including frequency hopping, an uplink control channel, coverage enhancement, timing advance, uplink power control, reconfiguration, a downlink control channel, a downlink data channel, retransmissions, or subcarrier spacing for a UE in idle mode. The UE may receive an uplink resource configuration for uplink communications in idle mode, the uplink resource configuration comprising an indicator associated with allocated resources for the uplink communications in idle mode and a set of parameters. The UE may transmit, while in idle mode, a first uplink transmission associated with a transport block on the allocated resources and according to one or more of the parameters, and monitor for a response to the first uplink transmission.
US11616526B2
In some embodiments, a surface-mountable device can include an electrical element and a plurality of terminals connected to the electrical element. The surface-mountable device can further include a body configured to support the electrical element and the plurality of terminals. The body can have a rectangular cuboid shape with a length, a width, and a height that is greater than the width. The body can include a base plane configured to allow surface mounting of the device.
US11616525B2
One variation of a device case includes a device case body: configured to accept and retain a mobile device; defining a strap receptacle; and including a first set of magnetic features arranged across a base surface of the strap receptacle. The device case further includes a strap: coupled to the device case body; configured to seat within the strap receptacle in a retracted position; configured to accept a finger of a user in a deployed position; and including a second set of magnetic features configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic features to drive the strap from the deployed position to the retracted position and to retain the strap within the strap receptacle in the retracted position.
US11616521B2
A radio-frequency module includes an integrated circuit (IC) device and an external inductor provided outside the IC device. The IC device includes a plurality of low-noise amplifiers, one or more inductors, and a switching circuit. The plurality of low-noise amplifiers includes a plurality of transistors in one to one correspondence. The one or more inductors are coupled to one or more of the plurality of transistors. Each inductor is coupled to the emitter or source of a corresponding one of the plurality of transistors. The switching circuit is coupled between the emitter or source of each of the plurality of transistors and the external inductor. The external inductor is coupled between the switching circuit and ground in series with each of the one or more inductors via the switching circuit.
US11616517B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed regarding a multiband transmitter. In an example aspect, an apparatus for processing signals for wireless transmission includes a wireless interface device. The wireless interface device includes an upconverter, a tunable filter, and a driver amplifier. The upconverter has an output and is configured to upconvert a baseband frequency to a radio frequency based on a local oscillator signal. The tunable filter has an input and an output; the input of the tunable filter is coupled to the output of the upconverter. The driver amplifier has an input; the input of the driver amplifier is coupled to the output of the tunable filter.
US11616516B2
According to one aspect, an embodiment radio frequency receiver device comprises an input interface configured to receive a radio frequency signal of a given type and convert same into an electric signal, a detector configured to detect at least one voltage level in the electric signal, a pulse generator configured to generate at least one pulse train representative of the voltage levels detected, and a processing unit configured to determine the type of the radio frequency signal from the at least one pulse train.
US11616504B2
An amplifier overload power limit circuit, system, and a method thereof comprising a monitoring of a current gain of a BJT based on a current detector and limiting power to the BJT based on the monitored current gain to prevent the BJT from driven into a saturation mode and the amplifier overdrive.
US11616500B2
A delay interpolator includes pull-up devices coupled between a supply rail and a node, pull-down devices coupled between the node and a ground, and a first control circuit coupled to the pull-up devices, wherein the first control circuit is configured to receive a first signal, a second signal, and a first delay code, input the first signal to a programmable number of the pull-up devices based on the first delay code, and input the second signal to remaining ones of the pull-up devices. The delay interpolator also includes a second control circuit coupled to the pull-down devices, wherein the second control circuit is configured to receive the first signal, the second signal, and a second delay code, input the first signal to a programmable number of the pull-down devices based on the second delay code, and input the second signal to remaining ones of the pull-down devices.
US11616497B2
A system comprises pulse program compiler circuitry operable to analyze a pulse program that includes a pulse operation statement, and to generate, based on the pulse program, machine code that, if loaded into a pulse generation and measurement circuit, configures the pulse generation and measurement circuit to generate one or more pulses and/or process one or more received pulses. The pulse operation statement may specify a first pulse to be generated, and a target of the first pulse. The pulse operation statement may specify parameters to be used for processing of a return signal resulting from transmission of the first pulse. The pulse operation statement may specify an expression to be used for processing of the first pulse by the pulse generation and measurement circuit before the pulse generation and measurement circuit sends the first pulse to the target.
US11616494B1
First and second switches are connected in series between first and second terminals. A third switch is provided between a first node between the first terminal and the first switch, and a first resistive-element. A fourth switch is provided between a second node between the first and second switches, and the reference power-source. A controller switches the first to fourth switches between conduction and non-conduction states. First, third, fifth, and seventh delay-circuits are provided between the first to fourth switches and the controller and delay first, second, third, fourth control signals for switching the first to fourth switches from a conduction state to a non-conduction state, respectively. Second, fourth, sixth, and eighth delay-circuits are provided between the first to fourth switches and the controller and delay the first, second, third, fourth control signals for switching the first to fourth switches to a non-conduction state to a conduction state, respectively.
US11616490B2
An RF circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The devices can include four resonator devices and four shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the resonator devices are connected in series from an input port to an output port while shunt resonator devices are coupled the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a pair of resonator devices that are coupled to differential input and output ports. A pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. These topologies may be applied using single crystal or polycrystalline bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.
US11616487B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave devices on stacked die. A first die can include first acoustic wave device configured to generate a boundary acoustic wave. A second die can include a second acoustic wave device configured to generate a second boundary acoustic wave, in which the second die is stacked with the first die. The first acoustic wave resonator can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer, and high acoustic velocity layers on opposing sides of the piezoelectric layer. The high acoustic velocity layers can each have an acoustic velocity that is greater than a velocity of the boundary acoustic wave.
US11616482B2
In some embodiments, a method for performing at least one of enhancement, decoding, or rendering of a multichannel audio signal in response to compression feedback or feedback from a smart amplifier. For example, the compression feedback may be indicative of amount of compression applied to each of multiple frequency bands, of the audio signal or an enhanced audio signal generated in response thereto. The enhancement (e.g., bass enhancement) may include dynamic routing of audio content of the input audio signal between channels of an enhanced audio signal generated in response thereto. The enhancement and compression may be performed on a per speaker class basis. Other aspects are systems (e.g., programmed processors) and devices (e.g., devices having physically-limited bass reproduction capabilities, such as, for example, a notebook or laptop computer, tablet, soundbar, mobile phone, or other device with small speakers) configured to perform any embodiment of the method.
US11616473B2
A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit generating an oscillation signal by oscillating a vibrator, a temperature sensor circuit performing an intermittent operation, a logic circuit performing temperature compensation processing based on an output of the temperature sensor circuit, and a power supply circuit supplying power to the oscillation circuit. The oscillation circuit is disposed in a circuit region, the temperature sensor circuit and the logic circuit are disposed in a circuit region, and the power supply circuit is disposed in a circuit region, which is positioned between the circuit region and the circuit region.
US11616472B2
A fault identification may be triggered by a component of a power generation system (PGS), such as a hardware component, a controller of a hardware component, a device of the PGS, a computer connected to the PGS, a computer configured to monitor the PGS, and/or the like. The fault identification may be the result of a failure of a component of the PGS, a future failure of a component of the PGS, a routine maintenance of the PGS, and/or the like. The fault is converted to a notification on a user interface using a mapping of faults, root-causes, notification rules, and/or the like. The conversion may use one or more lookup tables and/or formulas for determining the impact of the fault on the PGS, and/or the like.
US11616466B2
A current sensor state determination device determines that an abnormality is caused in a current sensor when a sum of phase currents based on current detection values from each of the current sensors in three phases is greater than a first determination value, and determines that no abnormality is caused in the current sensor when the sum of phase currents is equal to or less than the first determination value. The state determination device determines that the current sensor is normal when it is determined that (i) no abnormality is caused in a preset electric angle range equal to or less than one electric-angle cycle of the rotating electric machine and (ii) a value of an electric current flowing in the rotating electric machine in a rotating coordinates system calculated based on the current detection value is equal to or greater than a second determination value.
US11616462B1
A motor parameter estimation method includes obtaining an operation signal of a motor, wherein the operation signal includes an encoder signal, a phase current and a driving voltage, obtaining a number of poles according to the encoder signal and the phase current, performing a simulation procedure according to the driving voltage, the number of poles and an initial random parameter set, wherein the simulation procedure is calculating a simulation response current, calculating an error value between the simulation response current and the phase current, determining whether the error value falls into a threshold range, if the error value falls outside of the threshold range, performing the simulation procedure according to the driving voltage, the number of poles and an update random parameter set, and if the error value falls into of the threshold range, outputting the number of poles and the initial random parameter set.
US11616457B2
A method of controlling operation of an electric machine includes: determining a voltage-based torque limit based on a voltage constraint of a direct current (DC) bus supplying power to an inverter for powering the electric machine; determining a motor current-based torque limit based on a motor current limit; determining a final torque limit based on the voltage-based torque limit and the motor current-based torque limit; determining a limited command torque based on a torque command and the final torque limit; determining an initial current command corresponding to the inverter satisfying a regenerative current limit of the DC bus; and calculating a final current command based on, at least, the limited command torque and the initial current command. The method includes the final current command exceeding the initial current command to cause the electric machine to produce a torque corresponding to the limited torque command.
US11616456B2
A micro-displacement amplifying apparatus comprises two sets of asymmetrical amplifying structures; each set of asymmetrical amplifying structure comprises a plurality of asymmetrical amplifying units connected in series by flexible hinges; the asymmetrical amplifying unit is used for amplifying a micro-displacement; the two sets of asymmetrical amplifying structures are in opposite positions and overlap with each other; the input end and output end are coupled to the asymmetrical amplifying unit by a flexible hinge, respectively; the input end is used for inputting the micro-displacement to the asymmetrical amplifying unit, and the output end is used for outputting the amplified displacement; the two contacting input ends are fixed and coupled to each other, and the two contacting output ends are fixed and coupled to each other. The present disclosure further discloses an amplification method of the micro-displacement amplifying apparatus.
US11616447B2
A flyback power converter converts an input power on a primary side into an output power on a secondary side. On the secondary side, the output power is monitored to provide a representative signal representing a characteristic of the output power. A count is kept unchanged when a clock ticks if the representative signal is within a first range defined in accordance with a target value, that the representative signal is going to be regulated at. The count is changed in response to the clock if the representative signal is within a second range different from the first range. In response to the count, a driving current is generated to control a coupler, which generates a compensation signal on the primary side that controls power transmitted from the primary side to the secondary side.
US11616435B2
The present application provides a controller for a switching power supply such as a DC-DC converter which provides an output voltage and an output current. The controller is configured to provide at least one control signal to operate the switching power supply to maintain the output voltage at a first reference voltage. The controller employs a load line compensator responsive to output current for adjusting the reference voltage employed by the compensator. The load line compensator employs one or either or both of a high pass filter or saturating element to provide a filtered/saturated value which is the value employed in adjusting the reference voltage.
US11616429B2
A driving assembly is provided, including a transmission element and a first driving source. The transmission element has a first connecting point. The first driving source outputs a first driving force to the transmission element. The first driving source is at least partially fixedly connected to the transmission element at the first connecting point.
US11616427B2
A motor comprising: (a) a stator having a plurality of ferrous cores surrounded by a plurality of windings; (b) a pair of rotors positioned on opposing sides of the stator, each rotor including a ring gear; and (c) a drive shaft extending through a cutout of the stator, the drive shaft having a pinion gear positioned near an end of the drive shaft in communication with the ring gears of the rotors; wherein the rotors rotate in opposing directions so that the ring gears translate a movement of the rotors to the drive shaft through the pinion gear to rotate the drive shaft in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of rotation of the rotors.
US11616426B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for manufacturing a stator with a plurality of hairpin conductors. For inserting the hairpin conductors (15, 15) into the slots (11) of a stator core (12) a stator core template (22) is provided. Hairpin conductors (15) are axially inserted into slots (21) of the stator core template (22) such that the hairpin conductor (15) is arranged at a first position (P1) within said slot (21). The hairpin conductor (15) is then moved within said slot (21) to a different position (P2). A complete nest (20) of hairpin conductors (15) formed within the stator core template (22) is then transferred to the stator core (12).
US11616413B2
Example brush holder assemblies of an electric machine are disclosed. An example brush holder assembly of an electric machine includes a carbon brush including an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. The brush holder assembly also includes one or more lead wires extending out of the carbon brush at an insertion point on the upper surface and a first cavity extending into the carbon brush from the upper surface at a location spaced away from the insertion point of the one or more lead wires and unobstructed by the one or more lead wires.
US11616409B2
An electric machine rotor includes a plurality of plates stacked along an axis of rotation. Each of the plates defines a plurality of cavities. Each cavity defines a pole arc angle, has at least one permanent magnet pocket, and has magnetic field guide chambers extending outward from the at least one permanent magnet pocket. Offset angles between the magnetic field guide chambers and the at least one permanent magnet pockets vary between at least two of the cavities of the plurality of cavities within each plate such that each plate defines at least two different pole arc angles. The plates are stacked such that the at least one permanent magnet pockets between adjacent plates are axially aligned and such that the magnetic field guide chambers between adjacent plates are axially offset.
US11616400B2
An electric device provided by the disclosure includes: a battery; at least two charging circuits respectively connected with the battery; a charging port, connected with the at least two charging circuits; and at least two wireless receiving circuits, connected with the at least two charging circuits by one-to-one correspondence; wherein the at least two charging circuits are configured for processing a voltage and a current output by the charging port or each wireless receiving circuits, and providing the processed voltage and current to charge the battery. The electric device charges the battery by using multiple charging circuits, which may improve the charging power of the battery and accelerate the charging rate.
US11616391B2
An energy management device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a communication unit for receiving energy information of a system to which the energy management device belongs; a display unit for displaying any one energy information icon on the basis of the received energy information; and a control unit for displaying at least one energy information icon corresponding to a lower level of the energy information icon upon receiving a command to select an expansion icon corresponding to the energy information icon, and connecting the energy information icon having the selected expansion icon and the energy information icon corresponding to the lower level to energy nodes having different thickness according to the amount of energy.
US11616389B2
A method recognizes topology in low-voltage networks including local substations each having a plurality of output lines connected to a controllable electrical resource, and a control apparatus of each local substation. The method uses a computer arrangement assigning resources to the control apparatuses based on geographical proximity, selecting an assigned resource, transmitting a test control command specific to the selected resource from the control apparatus to the assigned resources, the test control command configured to trigger a change in power consumption or power output of the selected resource, measuring a change in an electrical variable on the output lines of the local substation by using a measuring apparatus, and assigning the selected electrical resource to that output line of that local substation on which a correlation between test control command and change is recognized. An arrangement for recognizing a topology in a low-voltage network is also provided.
US11616385B2
A vehicle battery system configured to appropriately control a battery installed in a vehicle includes a controller and a rechargeable battery installed in the vehicle in a replaceable manner, charged by an electric power generator, and supplies electric power to auxiliary equipment of the vehicle. The controller determines whether a first battery or a second battery with charging efficiency lower than the first battery is installed in the vehicle as the rechargeable battery and, when determining that the second battery is installed as the rechargeable battery, makes the maximum generated power voltage that is the maximum value of the generated power voltage of the electric power generator higher than when determining that the first battery is installed.
US11616381B2
An electronic device includes a first battery, a second battery, a power management integrated circuit, a memory, and a processor. The memory is configured to store information on a first full-charging voltage value of the first battery and a second full-charging voltage value of the second battery. The processor is configured to detect whether the electronic device is connected to an external electronic device for supplying power to the first battery or the second battery. When the first full-charging voltage value is higher than the second full-charging voltage value the processor is configured to, electrically connect the first battery to the power management integrated circuit and electrically disconnect the second battery from the power management integrated circuit. The processor is further configured to charge the first battery electrically connected to the power management integrated circuit based on power obtained from the external electronic device.
US11616373B2
A software and hardware architecture framework utilize the specifications of Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C and Power Deliver (PD) to provide fine grain throttling of a processor (e.g., system-on-chip (SoC)). Based on an external charger connection or disconnection, a low latency fine grain power budget loss or gain indication to the processor is delivered. The mechanism of various embodiments is also applicable to connection or disconnection of VBUS powered peripheral devices to the system. The net power loss or gain available to the SoC and System is proportionally used to scale the processor throttling.
US11616371B2
The disclosure provides a method for calculating a parameter changing domain of loads under a case that guarantees a constant locational marginal price in an electricity market, which relates to the electricity market field of the power system. With the method in the disclosure, the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form is established, and the safe changing domain of the locational marginal price with respect to the loads may be derived and calculated based on the first-order KKT condition expansion of the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form. When the increment of the nodal loads is subordinate to the changing domain, the locational marginal price may remain unchanged. The parameter changing domain of loads in the power system may be used for the comprehensive evaluation of power market clearing results and assisting the operation of the power market.
US11616370B2
The present disclosure relates to a recloser control that provides autosynchronization of a microgrid to an area electric power system (EPS). For example, a recloser control may include an output connector that is communicatively coupled to a recloser at a point of common coupling (PCC) between the area EPS and the microgrid. The recloser control may include a processor that acquires a first set of measurements indicating electrical characteristics of the area EPS and acquires a second set of measurements indicating electrical characteristics of the microgrid. The recloser control may send synchronization signals to one or more distributed energy resource (DER) controllers to synchronize one or more DERs to the area EPS based on the first set of measurements and the second set of measurements.
US11616369B2
Provided is a control method for a parallel MMC unit of a LCC-MMC hybrid cascade converter station. The control strategy includes: 1) numbering all MMC units connected in parallel in a MMC valve manifold; (2) for a MMC unit using a constant direct-current voltage control manner, calculating a direct-current instruction value of the MMC unit according to a direct-current measurement value; (3) for a MMC unit using a constant active power control manner, calculating an active power instruction value of the MMC unit according to the rated capacity of the MMC unit and a direct-current instruction value of a system rectifier station; (4) for the MMC unit using the constant direct-current voltage control manner, correcting a direct-current voltage instruction value of the MMC unit by using the direct-current instruction value and the direct-current measurement value, and controlling the MMC unit according to the corrected direct-current voltage instruction value.
US11616367B2
An energy storage system includes a plurality of physical devices and an integration engine. The physical devices include at least a battery and a power inverter operable to charge and discharge the battery. Each of the physical devices stores one or more data points. The integration engine includes a processing circuit having a processor and memory. The memory stores a virtual device network including a plurality of virtual devices and a virtual device manager. Each of the virtual devices includes one or more attributes. The virtual device manager is configured to map the attributes of the virtual devices to corresponding data points stored by the physical devices and update the attributes of the virtual devices in response to detecting changes in value of the corresponding data points stored by the physical devices.
US11616363B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus connectable to a partial power system which is a part of a power system and comprises a first power source apparatus, power supply of the first power source apparatus stopped in response to detecting an islanding of the partial power system, includes: controlling circuitry configured to output to the partial power system a first signal to disable detecting the islanding of the partial power system by the first power source apparatus during at least part of a period during which the partial power system is electrically separated from the power system.
US11616358B2
A system and method for fault location and isolation in an electrical power distribution network, where the network includes a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder. The method includes detecting an overcurrent event in the network from the fault and interrupting the overcurrent event by opening and then immediately locking out or subsequently reclosing and testing the fault. A count value is increased in each switching device that detected the overcurrent event. A count and current (C&I) message is sent from each of the switching devices that detected the overcurrent event and then detected the loss of voltage upstream to an upstream neighbor switching device. Current measurements in the C&I messages, measured current by the devices and the counts values in the devices determine what devices are opened to isolate the fault.
US11616357B2
An apparatus includes at least one fuse clearing switch operable to create a fault on at least one AC line between a fuse and a transformer of a substation. The apparatus further includes a control system configured to be coupled to an arc detector and to operate the at least one fuse clearing switch responsive to a control signal produced by the arc detector.
US11616351B2
An electrical box having an enclosure and a conduit hub adapter that is configured to engage a portion of the enclosure. The enclosure defines an opening that is configured to receive an electrical power conductor. The conduit hub adapter is movable with respect to the enclosure from a disengaged position to an engaged position. A retainer may be positioned adjacent the opening to engage the conduit hub adapter when in the engaged position and secure the conduit hub adapter to the enclosure. The conduit hub adapter may be configured for engagement with the enclosure in a single orientation. The retainer may be configured so that it may only be disengaged from the conduit hub adapter from within an interior space of the enclosure. The enclosure may have a second opening with a second conduit hub adapter configured to engage the enclosure adjacent the second opening.
US11616348B2
There is provided a method of installing spiral hangers about a messenger line installed between first and second utility poles with a cable being lashed to the messenger line with a lashing wire. The method includes attaching a first and second spiral hangers to the messenger line between first and second utility poles with the first spiral hanger disposed about the messenger line and the cable. The method includes removing the lashing wire from being around the messenger line and the cable adjacent the second spiral hanger. The method includes moving the second spiral hanger towards the second utility pole. The method includes attaching a successive spiral hanger to the messenger line between the spiral hangers, and repeating the moving of the second spiral hanger and attaching another successive spiral hanger.
US11616343B2
A VCSEL may include an n-type substrate layer and an n-type bottom mirror on a surface of the n-type substrate layer. The VCSEL may include an active region on the n-type bottom mirror and a p-type layer on the active region. The VCSEL may include an oxidation layer over the active region to provide optical and electrical confinement of the VCSEL. The VCSEL may include a tunnel junction over the p-type layer to reverse a carrier type of an n-type top mirror. Either the oxidation layer is on or in the p-type layer and the tunnel junction is on the oxidation layer, or the tunnel junction is on the p-type layer and the oxidation layer is on the tunnel junction. The VCSEL may include the n-type top mirror over the tunnel junction, a top contact layer over the n-type top mirror, and a top metal on the top contact layer.
US11616340B2
There is provided a method of operating a laser. The method comprises receiving a target power and calculating an operating power of a lasing module of the laser. The operating power may be calculated based on the target power and a minimum lasing power of the lasing module. The method also comprises determining an operating current for the lasing module based on the operating power, and driving the lasing module at the operating current to produce an output light having the operating power. In addition, the method comprises providing the output light to an optical modulator of the laser, and operating the optical modulator to modulate the output light to have an output power corresponding to the target power.
US11616335B2
A method for assembling a cable connector which has an outer conductor part, and insulating part and an electrical cable that is prefabricated with an inner conductor part. In a first method step, the insulating part is introduced into the outer conductor part by relative movement between the insulating part and the outer conductor part. In a second method step, before or at least partially during the first method step, the electrical cable is prefabricated to have an inner conductor part secured on an inner conductor of the cable. In a third method step, during or after the first method step, the prefabricated cable is introduced into the insulating part up to a defined axial terminal position. The positions of the inner conductor part, the outer conductor part and/or the insulating part are fixed relative to each other by compressing the outer conductor part at least partly.
US11616331B2
An adapter assembly including a power box that has a housing containing internal components, a longitudinal axis and a storage portion. The adapter assembly also includes a first cord coupled to and extending from the housing, an adapter including an engagement portion that is removably coupled to the storage portion of the housing and that selectively engages a power source-receiving portion of a tool, and a second cord having a first end coupled to the adapter and a second end coupled to the housing.
US11616327B2
A contact assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and ground contacts including intermediate portions extends between mating ends and terminating ends. The contact assembly includes a contact holder holding the intermediate portions. The contact assembly includes cables terminated to the leadframe having signal conductors held by insulators and ground shields surrounding the signal conductors to provide electrical shielding and drain wires electrically connected to the ground shields. The signal conductors are terminated to terminating ends of corresponding signal contacts. The drain wires are terminated to terminating ends of ground contacts to electrically common the ground shields and the ground contacts of the leadframe. The contact assembly includes a ground bus separate and discrete from the leadframe terminated to each of the ground contacts to electrically common the ground contacts.
US11616317B2
A power pin alignment and crimping fixture having a fixture body. The fixture body includes a plurality of channels each having a first open end and a second open end. The plurality of channels are disposed at an angle diverging away from one another in a direction from the first open end to the second open end such that each of the plurality of channels are disposed along a corresponding side edge of a symmetrical shape.
US11616316B2
The invention relates to a socket contact element for establishing an electrically conductive connection including a crimp section for establishing an electrically conductive connection to a line and a contact box for establishing a detachable electrically conductive connection to a contact box plug, wherein the socket contact element is constructed in one piece and includes a plurality of integrally implemented functions based on geometrical designs. Furthermore, the invention relates to a sheet-shaped semifinished product for producing a socket contact element and the production method by forming.
US11616315B2
A connector for a networking cable assembly includes a substrate, a first set of contacts on a first surface of the substrate that electrically connect to leads of a first cable, and a second set of contacts on the first surface of the substrate that electrically connect to leads of a second cable. The first set of contacts are spaced apart from the second set of contacts in a first direction by an amount that enables the second cable to be stacked on the first cable and passed over the first set of contacts to electrically connect to the leads of the second cable.
US11616309B2
A dual-mode polarizer for selectively switching between linear polarization and circular polarization includes a first meander-line polarizer, and a second meander-line polarizer spaced apart from the first meander-line polarizer to define a first gap therebetween. A first angular orientation between the first and second meander-line polarizers produces variably-oriented linear polarization of a signal passing through the first and second meander-line polarizers, and a second angular orientation between the first and second meander-line polarizers produces variably-oriented circular polarization of a signal passing through the first and second meander-line polarizers.
US11616308B2
A reflector structure is configured to connect an antenna. The antenna has an excitation source. The reflector structure includes a metal substrate, at least one first flat plate and a second flat plate. The metal substrate is configured to reflect the radiation of the antenna. The at least one first flat plate is disposed on the metal substrate. The second flat plate is floated to the metal substrate along a virtual normal and completely separated from the at least one first flat plate to form a closed slot. A cavity is formed by the metal substrate, the at least one first flat plate and the second flat plate and communicated with the closed slot. The excitation source is projected onto a plane to form an excitation source region. The excitation source region is located in the second flat plate.
US11616300B1
The teachings of the present application generally provide a solution to one or more of the aforementioned needs by providing for a ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna assembly which provides for a smaller package size with the same or better efficiency as a much larger antenna, particularly at 100 MHz to 500 MHz. Particularly, through the combination of components and structures for implementing frequency selective surfaces (FSS) and high impedance structures (HIS) in combination with an anisotropic magneto-dielectric material, the present teachings provide for the use of both lower and higher frequency techniques at 200 MHz to 400 MHz frequency range and miniaturization, accurately improving the performance of UHF satellite communication antennas. Specifically improving performance in narrowband, with increases in efficiency, bandwidth, and lowered elevation angle radiation characteristics.
US11616290B2
Disclosed is a radio antenna comprising a substrate of dielectric material; a ground plane of electrically conductive material on a first face of the substrate; a resonator for converting an incident electrical signal into an electromagnetic wave and for resonating at at least two different resonant frequencies. The resonator comprises at least three elements, each in the form of strips of conductive material and arranged on a second face of the substrate opposite the first face. A second element is electrically connected to the ground plane by means of a via passing through the substrate at a first end of the corresponding strip, forms an extension of the first element, and is electrically connected directly to the first element at a second end of said strip which is opposite the first end.
US11616289B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a front surface plate, a rear surface plate facing a direction opposite the front surface plate, and a side surface member surrounding a space between the front surface plate and the rear surface plate; at least one attachment member coupled to the side surface member, and removably fastened to a human body, the at least one attachment member including a first attachment member coupled to at least part of the side surface member, and a second attachment member coupled to a position of the side surface member facing the first attachment member; a substrate arranged in the space in parallel with the front surface plate; at least one wireless communication circuit arranged on the substrate; a first conductive pattern electrically connected with the wireless communication circuit, and arranged on the side surface member in proximity to the first attachment member; a second conductive pattern arranged on the side surface member in proximity to the second attachment member; a first conductive member arranged in the first attachment member in proximity to the first conductive pattern to be capacitively coupled with the first conductive pattern; and a second conductive member arranged in the second attachment member in proximity to the second conductive pattern to be capacitively coupled with the second conductive pattern.
US11616286B2
An RFID-enabled storage container and systems and methods for assembly and use thereof. The RFID-enabled storage container may include adjustable shelving with built-in antennas, such that the shelving may be customized as may be needed. The system may include a storage container, an inventory management system, and one or more point of use terminals. The storage container may identify and check inventory stored thereon, and provide such information to the inventory management system. The storage container may notify the inventory management system when a product is no longer detected within its inventory, and the inventory management system may monitor the one or more point of use terminals to determine if the undetected product has been used at one of the point of use terminals. The inventory management system may also predict inventory needs as well as maintain age and other data for inventory and provide feedback via an illumination indication.
US11616280B2
A microwave transmission line assembly operated in vacuum for satellite antennas and beamforming networks comprising a first ground plane and a conductor strip positioned a distance from the first ground plane. The conductor strip comprises a first strip portion and a second strip portion (6). The first strip portion is positioned at a first distance from the first ground plane and wherein the second strip portion is positioned at a second distance from the first ground plane. The first distance is smaller than the second distance, wherein the first distance is chosen to avoid multipaction.
US11616269B2
A secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention for solving the above problems includes: an electrode assembly formed by alternately stacking an electrode and a separator; a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly within a cup part of the battery case; a piezoelectric element disposed outside the cup part, the piezoelectric element being configured to receive a pressure when the battery case expands in volume, thereby supplying power to the piezoelectric element; and a punching part that has a sharp end that extends toward a target location on the battery case, the punching part being configured to punch a hole in the target location of the battery case when the power is applied to the piezoelectric element.
US11616267B2
A modular system for traction batteries of motor vehicles, having multiple battery modules includes respective battery cells, which can be electrically connected to one another in modular manner to produce different variants of traction batteries, wherein the battery modules each have a modular housing, in which the respective battery cells are arranged in fluid-tight manner; the battery modules each have a mechanical interface by means of which the battery modules can be attached to an underside of a motor vehicle.
US11616265B2
A battery module includes first and second modules each including a series of cell stacks, each including a series of unit cells arranged in a first direction, and an insulation member insulating at least one unit cell. The battery module also includes a module housing, a coupling part on the module housing configured to couple the module housings of the first and second modules together, and a series of receiving parts in the module housing accommodating the cell stacks. Each receiving part includes a fixed wall around a respective cell stack and having at least a portion that is in contact with the respective cell stack. The coupling part includes a connector configured to electrically connect the module housings of the first and second modules together.
US11616262B2
A battery and capacitor assembly for a hybrid vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of capacitor cells, a cooling plate, a pair of end brackets, and a housing. The plurality of capacitor cells are arranged adjacent to the plurality of battery cells such that the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of capacitor cells form a cell stack. The pair of end brackets are disposed at opposite ends of the cell stack and are attached to the cooling plate. The pair of end brackets compress the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of capacitor cells. The housing is attached to the cooling plate and encloses the cell stack and the pair of end brackets.
US11616260B2
Disclosed is a cartridge for battery cells, which includes: an upper cooling plate and a lower cooling plate having a plate shape and spaced to face each other, a cooling channel is formed between the upper cooling plate and the lower cooling plate; a main frame surrounding an outer circumference of the upper cooling plate and an outer circumference of the lower cooling plate with battery cells placed on an upper portion and a lower portion of the main frame; and a support portion disposed at the cooling channel and having at least one support rib protruding in at least one of an upper direction and a lower direction, the at least one support rib supporting the upper cooling plate and the lower cooling plate.
US11616254B2
A monolithic ceramic electrochemical cell housing is provided. The housing includes two or more electrochemical sub cell housings. Each of the electrochemical sub cell housing includes an anode receptive space, a cathode receptive space, a separator between the anode receptive space and the cathode receptive space, and integrated electron conductive circuits. A first integrated electron conductive circuit is configured as an anode current collector within the anode receptive space. A second integrated electron conductive circuit is disposed as a cathode current collector within the cathode receptive space.
US11616253B2
An object is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery which have excellent discharge load characteristics and are excellent in high-temperature storability, cycle characteristics, high capacity, continuous-charge characteristics, storability, gas evolution inhibition during continuous charge, high-current-density charge/discharge characteristics, discharge load characteristics, etc. The object has been accomplished with a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises: a monofluorophosphate and/or a difluorophosphate; and further a compound having a specific chemical structure or specific properties.
US11616247B2
A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly having: a proton exchange membrane, an anode catalyst coating on one side of the membrane, and a cathode catalyst coating on the other side of the membrane. The cathode catalyst coating has at least two carbon catalyst layers, with a low porosity layer adjacent to a high porosity layer. The high porosity layers have a volume fraction that is higher than the volume fraction of the low porosity layers.
US11616246B2
Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of method of inducing or providing a pH gradient in electrochemical or chemical systems. Briefly, the pH gradient is induced by use of coated particles or films with an ion exchange ionomer.
US11616243B2
A temperature control method for a vehicular proton exchange membrane fuel cell system comprises the following steps: detecting a cooling loop inlet temperature of a fuel cell stack by using a temperature sensor, and inputting the temperature into a controller to achieve cooling fan control based on the controller, wherein the cooling fan control comprises fuzzy logic self-adaptive proportional integral control and feedforward compensation control, gain parameters of the proportional integral control are self-adaptively updated by a fuzzy logic algorithm, a load current of the fuel cell serves as disturbance and is used for feedforward compensation, and meanwhile, the opening degree of the fan is determined by the total cooling capacity requirement and the number of cooling fans; and finally, inputting a control signal output by the controller into an actuator of a thermal management subsystem, and conducting cooling inlet temperature control of the fuel cell stack.
US11616238B2
An electrode for use in an electrical energy storage apparatus includes: a carrier structure including a plurality of vacancies thereon; and an active material arranged to undergo chemical reaction during charging and/or discharging of the electrical energy storage apparatus; wherein the active material occupies the plurality of vacancies on the carrier structure.
US11616237B2
A battery plate having a substrate with opposing surfaces and one or more nonplanar structures and one or more active materials disposed on at least one of the opposing surfaces; wherein the battery plate includes one or more of: i) one or more projections disposed within but do not extend beyond the active material; ii) one or more projections which project beyond the active material and substantially free of the active material or dust formed from the active material; and/or iii) a frame about the periphery of the substrate which projects beyond the active material and is substantially free of the active material or dust formed from the active material; and wherein the battery plate is adapted to form part of one or more electrochemical cells in a battery assembly.
US11616234B2
Disclosed is a rapidly rechargeable lithium secondary battery. The present invention provides a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, the negative electrode being characterized by including: a current collector; a negative electrode material layer which is formed on the current collector and includes negative electrode active material particles, conductive material particles, and a binder; and a surface layer which is formed on the surface of the negative electrode material layer, is formed of insulating particles that are inert with respect to lithium, and partially shields the negative electrode material layer. According to the present invention, a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery having a high charging speed without lifetime degradation can be provided.
US11616230B2
A method of forming an improved calcined lithium metal oxide is provided wherein the metal comprises at least one of nickel, manganese and cobalt. The method comprises forming a first solution in a first reactor wherein the first solution comprises at least one first salt of at least one of lithium, nickel, manganese or cobalt in a first solvent. A second solution is formed wherein the second solution comprises a second salt of at least one of lithium, nickel, manganese or cobalt in a second solvent wherein the second salt is not present in the first solution. A gas in introduced into said first solution to form a gas saturated first solution. A second solution is added to the gas saturated first solution without bubbling to form a lithium metal salt. The lithium metal salt dried and calcined to form the calcined lithium metal oxide.
US11616229B2
A compound of the general formula: (i) wherein x has a value greater than 0.06 and equal to or less than 0.4. The compound is also formulated into a positive electrode for use in an electrochemical cell.
US11616223B2
The present application relates to an electrochemical device and an electronic device including the same. The electrochemical device includes a cathode, a separator and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a cathode current collector; a first cathode active material layer including a first cathode active material; a second cathode active material layer including a second cathode active material, wherein the first cathode active material layer is disposed between the cathode current collector and the second cathode active material layer, and the first cathode active material layer is disposed on a first surface, facing the anode, of the cathode current collector; and an insulating layer, wherein the insulating layer is disposed on a second surface, that is not facing the anode, of the cathode current collector. According to the present application, arranging the cathode by combining the double cathode active material layers with an insulating layer in the electrochemical device, the electrochemical device will not catch on fire or fail when being pierced, so that the mechanical safety performance of the electrochemical device is ensured.
US11616214B2
A display device includes a display layer including an active area including a plurality of pixel areas, and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, an insulating layer disposed on the display layer, the insulating layer including at least one first opening overlapping the plurality of pixel areas, and at least one second opening in the peripheral area, a refractive index layer disposed on the insulating layer, having a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the insulating layer, and spaced apart from the at least one second opening, and a polarizing layer overlapping the refractive index layer. At least a portion of the polarizing layer overlaps the at least one second opening.
US11616213B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, light-emitting units, a first organic layer, and light extraction structures located between the light-emitting units and the first organic layer. The first light extraction layer has a first central axis and is symmetrical about the first central axis, the second light extraction layer has a second central axis and is symmetrical about the second central axis, and the first central axis and the second central axis are perpendicular to the substrate. A surface of the second light extraction layer connecting the first light extraction layer is a first surface, a surface of the second light extraction layer facing away from the first light extraction layer is a second surface, and at least one of the first surface and the second surface comprises straight lines in a cross-section perpendicular to the substrate.
US11616203B2
An organic light emitting device (OLED) that includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic layer includes a metal compound that comprises a ligand LA of Formula I, wherein the dashed lines represent coordination to a metal M. The metal M is selected from the groups consisting of Os, Ru, Ir, Rh, Pt, Pd, and Cu, and the metal is further coordinated to one or more ligand(s) LB, wherein the ligand(s) LB can be the same or different if more than one ligand LB is present. Optionally one or two of the ligand(s) LB can independently link to the ligand LA through one of R1 to R5. The invention is also directed to a consumer product that includes an OLED, and the OLED includes an organic layer that includes a metal compound that comprises a ligand LA of Formula I.
US11616194B2
An etching method includes: preparing a workpiece including a metal multilayer film having a magnetic tunnel junction and a mask formed by an inorganic material on the metal multilayer film; and etching the metal multilayer film by plasma of a mixed gas of ethylene gas and oxygen gas using the mask.
US11616185B2
A device that includes a region comprising a heat generating device, and an energy harvesting device coupled to the region comprising the heat generating device. The energy harvesting device includes a first thermal conductive layer, a thermoelectric generator (TEG) coupled to the first thermal conductive layer, and a second thermal conductive layer coupled the thermoelectric generator (TEG) such that the thermoelectric generator (TEG) is between the first thermal conductive layer and the second thermal conductive layer. In some implementations, the energy harvesting device includes an insulation layer.
US11616182B2
A semiconductor sintered body comprising a polycrystalline body, wherein the polycrystalline body includes silicon or a silicon alloy, wherein the average grain size of the crystal grains forming the polycrystalline body is 1 μm or less, and wherein nanoparticles including one or more of a carbide of silicon, a nitride of silicon, and an oxide of silicon are present at a grain boundary of the grains.
US11616179B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device that comprises a first cover member and a second cover member, includes: providing a package that comprises a substrate, a plurality of resin walls, and a recessed part defined by an upper surface of the substrate and lateral surfaces of the plurality of resin walls, wherein the substrate includes a grooved part surrounding a first region; mounting a light emitting element in the first region; forming the second cover member in a region between the lateral surfaces defining the recessed part to an upper edge of an outer perimeter of the grooved part; forming the first cover member, which comprises depositing an uncured resin on the second cover member, and allowing the uncured resin to flow into a groove of the grooved part; and forming a light transmitting member on the first cover member and the light emitting element.
US11616175B2
The invention relates to a luminophore mixture which comprises at least one quantum dot luminophore and at least one functional material, the functional material is formed such that it scatters electromagnetic radiation and/or has a high density.
US11616168B2
A micro light-emitting diode display includes a first-type semiconductor base layer, a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting mesas dispersedly disposed on the first-type semiconductor base layer, a semiconductor heightening portion disposed on the first-type semiconductor base layer, a first bonding metal layer disposed on the semiconductor heightening portion, and a plurality of second bonding metal layers respectively disposed on the semiconductor light-emitting mesas. A top surface of the semiconductor heightening portion and a plurality of top surfaces of the semiconductor light-emitting mesas facing away from the first-type semiconductor base layer are coplanar. The top surface of the semiconductor heightening portion forms a first bonding surface adjacent to the first bonding metal layer. The top surfaces of the semiconductor light-emitting mesas respectively form a plurality of second bonding surfaces adjacent to the second bonding metal layers, and the first bonding surface and the second bonding surfaces are coplanar.
US11616166B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes the steps of providing a conductive carrier with at least one electronic element disposed thereon, picking up the at least one electronic element, setting the conductive carrier to have a ground voltage at least in the step of picking up the at least one electronic element, and transferring the at least one electronic element to a target substrate.
US11616165B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an electronic device. First, a plurality of light-emitting elements is provided on a first substrate. Then, at least one of the plurality of light-emitting elements is transferred from the first substrate to a second substrate by a transferring head. The transferring head includes an electrode and a cantilever supporting the electrode, and the cantilever includes a U-shaped portion.
US11616162B2
An energy harvesting electro-optic display is disclosed comprising a photovoltaic cell that converts part of the incident light to electric current or voltage, wherein the electric current or voltage is used for the operation of the electro-optic display upon the conversion or stored in a storage component to be used for the operation of the display.
US11616161B2
A photodetector comprising an optical waveguide structure comprising at least three stripes spaced from one another such that a slot is present between each two adjacent stripes of the at least three stripes. A graphene absorption layer is provided over or underneath the at least three stripes. There is an electrode for each stripe, over or underneath the graphene absorption layer. The photodetector is configured such that two adjacent electrodes are biased using opposite polarities to create a p-n junction effect in a portion of the graphene absorption layer. In particular the portion of the graphene absorption layer is located over or underneath each respective slot between said each two adjacent stripes.
US11616160B2
A tandem solar cell includes a perovskite solar cell including a perovskite absorption layer, a silicon solar cell placed under the perovskite solar cell, a junction layer placed between the perovskite solar cell and the silicon solar cell, an upper electrode placed on the perovskite solar cell, and a lower electrode placed under the silicon solar cell.
US11616158B2
Methods are described that include contacting an alkyl ammonium metal halide film with an alkyl ammonium halide, where the alkyl ammonium metal halide film includes a first halogen and a metal, the alkyl ammonium halide includes a second halogen, such that the contacting forms an alkyl ammonium metal mixed-halide film that interfaces with the alkyl ammonium metal halide film, where the alkyl ammonium metal mixed-halide film includes the first halogen, the second halogen, and the metal.
US11616153B2
A solar cell can include a silicon semiconductor substrate; an oxide layer on a first surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a polysilicon layer on the oxide layer; a diffusion region at a second surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a dielectric film on the polysilicon layer; a first electrode connected to the polysilicon layer through the dielectric film; a passivation film on the diffusion region; and a second electrode connected to the diffusion region through the passivation film.
US11616140B2
A vertical field effect transistor structure having at least two vertically oriented fins extending from a substrate. The vertical field effect transistor structure further includes a first source/drain region disposed in the substrate between the two vertically oriented fins and under each of the fins. The outer ends of the first source/drain region are in contact with outer ends of the fins. A portion of the first source/drain region extends beyond the fins.
US11616130B2
Techniques and mechanisms to provide electrical insulation between a gate and a channel region of a non-planar circuit device. In an embodiment, the gate structure, and insulation spacers at opposite respective sides of the gate structure, each extend over a semiconductor fin structure. In a region between the insulation spacers, a first dielectric layer extends conformally over the fin, and a second dielectric layer adjoins and extends conformally over the first dielectric layer. A third dielectric layer, adjoining the second dielectric layer and the insulation spacers, extends under the gate structure. Of the first, second and third dielectric layers, the third dielectric layer is conformal to respective sidewalls of the insulation spacers. In another embodiment, the second dielectric layer is of dielectric constant which is greater than that of the first dielectric layer, and equal to or less than that of the third dielectric layer.
US11616125B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device includes: doping a substrate with a first type dopant to form a well region; forming a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin wider than the first semiconductor fin over the well region; forming a first source/drain region of a second type dopant on the first semiconductor fin, the second type dopant is of a different conductivity type than the first type dopant; forming a second source/drain region of the first type dopant on the second semiconductor fin.
US11616122B2
Provided herein are tapered nanowires that comprise germanium and gallium, as well as methods of forming the same. The described nanowires may also include one or more sections of a second semiconductor material. Methods of the disclosure may include vapor-liquid-solid epitaxy with a gallium catalyst. The described methods may also include depositing a gallium seed on a surface of a substrate by charging an area of the substrate using an electron beam, and directing a gallium ion beam across the surface of the substrate.
US11616117B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate comprising a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area; a main pixel electrode at the main display area of the substrate; a main thin-film transistor at the main display area of the substrate and electrically connected to the main pixel electrode; an auxiliary pixel electrode at the component area of the substrate; an auxiliary thin-film transistor at the peripheral area of the substrate; and a connecting wire connected to the auxiliary pixel electrode and including a thin portion having a thickness less than a thickness of the auxiliary pixel electrode, wherein the connecting wire electrically connects the auxiliary thin-film transistor to the auxiliary pixel electrode.
US11616111B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate on which a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area are defined, the display area includes a main area and at least one protruding area, and a plurality of pixels is in the display area; a first signal line on the substrate in the main area to provide signals to the plurality of pixels; a second signal line on the substrate in the protruding area to provide signals to the plurality of pixels; a compensation line on the substrate in the non-display area and electrically connected to the second signal line; and a bridge pattern over the second signal line and the compensation line in the non-display area and electrically connecting the second signal line with the compensation line, the bridge pattern including a double-bridge structure.
US11616083B2
The present invention provides a display including: a substrate; a plurality of data lines disposed above the substrate; and a pixel electrode disposed above the plurality of data lines, and including: at least one first trunk and a plurality of second trunks extending along a first direction; a plurality of first branches; and a plurality of second branches, wherein distal ends of the plurality of first branches and distal ends of the plurality of second branches are staggered and connected to each other at positions corresponding to the plurality of data lines.
US11616074B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device comprising: a block separator including a semiconductor film and a multi-layered insulating film, wherein the multi-layered insulating film surrounds the semiconductor film; memory block stacks divided from each other by the block separator, each memory block stack including interlayer insulating films and conductive patterns alternately stacked, wherein the conductive patterns are coupled to memory cells; and channel structures passing through the memory block stacks and electrically coupled to the memory cells.
US11616073B1
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a first transistor including a first channel region, and a charge storage structure separated from the first channel region; a second transistor including a second channel region formed over the charge storage structure; and a data line formed over and contacting the first channel region and the second channel region, the data line including a portion adjacent the first channel region and separated from the first channel region by a dielectric material.
US11616058B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device containing MOS transistors both with and without source/drain extension regions in a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material on either side of a gate structure including a gate electrode on a gate dielectric formed in a semiconductor material. In devices with source/drain extensions, a diffusion suppression species of one or more of indium, carbon and a halogen are used. The diffusion suppression implant can be selectively provided only to the semiconductor devices with drain extensions while devices without drain extensions remain diffusion suppression implant free.
US11616050B2
A method for manufacturing a micro light emitting diode device is provided. A plurality of first type epitaxial structures are formed on a first substrate and the first type epitaxial structures are separated from each other. A first connection layer and a first adhesive layer are configured between the first type epitaxial structures and the first substrate. The first connection layer is connected to the first type epitaxial structures. The first adhesive layer is located between the first connection layer and the first type epitaxial substrate. The Young's modulus of the first connection layer is larger than the Young's modulus of the first adhesive layer. The first connection layer located between any two adjacent first type epitaxial structures is removed so as to form a plurality of first connection portions separated from each other. Each of the first connection portions is connected to the corresponding first type epitaxial structure.
US11616047B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface; a first die having a first surface and an opposing second surface embedded in a first dielectric layer, where the first surface of the first die is coupled to the second surface of the package substrate by first interconnects; a second die having a first surface and an opposing second surface embedded in a second dielectric layer, where the first surface of the second die is coupled to the second surface of the first die by second interconnects; and a third die having a first surface and an opposing second surface embedded in a third dielectric layer, where the first surface of the third die is coupled to the second surface of the second die by third interconnects.
US11616041B2
A mounting apparatus includes: a bonding stage; a base; a mounting head for performing a temporary press-attachment process in which semiconductor chips are suction-held and temporarily press-attached to a mounted object and a final press-attachment process in which the temporarily press-attached semiconductor chips are finally press-attached; a film arrangement mechanism arranged on the bonding stage or the base; and a controller which controls driving of the mounting head and the film arrangement mechanism. The film arrangement mechanism includes: a film feed-out mechanism which has a pair of feed rollers with a cover film extended there-between and successively feeds out a new cover film; and a film movement mechanism which moves the cover film in a horizontal direction with respect to a substrate.
US11616040B2
Semiconductor dies including ultra-thin wafer backmetal systems, microelectronic devices containing such semiconductor dies, and associated fabrication methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for processing a device wafer includes obtaining a device wafer having a wafer frontside and a wafer backside opposite the wafer frontside. A wafer-level gold-based ohmic bond layer, which has a first average grain size and which is predominately composed of gold, by weight, is sputter deposited onto the wafer backside. An electroplating process is utilized to deposit a wafer-level silicon ingress-resistant plated layer over the wafer-level Au-based ohmic bond layer, while imparting the plated layer with a second average grain size exceeding the first average grain size. The device wafer is singulated to separate the device wafer into a plurality of semiconductor die each having a die frontside, an Au-based ohmic bond layer, and a silicon ingress-resistant plated layer.
US11616039B2
A semiconductor package including a first stack; a plurality of TSVs passing through the first stack; a second stack on the first stack and including a second surface facing a first surface of the first stack; a first pad on the first stack and in contact with the TSVs; a second pad on the second stack; a bump connecting the first and second pads; a first redundancy pad on the first surface of the first stack, spaced apart from the first pad, and not in contact with the TSVs; a second redundancy pad on the second surface of the second stack and spaced apart from the second pad; and a redundancy bump connecting the first redundancy pad and the second redundancy pad, wherein the first pad and first redundancy pad are electrically connected to each other, and the second pad and second redundancy pad are electrically connected to each other.
US11616020B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor stack. The transistor stack has a plurality of transistors that are stacked over a substrate. Each of the plurality of transistors includes a channel region stacked over the substrate and extending in a direction parallel to the substrate, a gate structure stacked over the substrate and surrounding the channel region of each of the plurality of transistors, and source/drain (S/D) regions stacked over the substrate and further positioned at two ends of the channel region of each of the plurality of transistors. The semiconductor device also includes one or more conductive planes formed over the substrate. The one or more conductive planes are positioned adjacent to the transistor stack, span a height of the transistor stack, and are electrically coupled to the transistor stack.
US11616019B2
A semiconductor assembly is described that includes a substrate having top and bottom sides. An integrated circuit die coupled to the substrate includes first and second distinct sets of ground pads. In some embodiments, the first and second sets of ground pads are configured to have distinct ground return paths to a host system. In further embodiments, one of the ground return paths may include a metal plate coupled between ground contacts on the top side of the substrate and ground contacts on a printed circuit board of the host system.
US11616017B2
An IC package structure and an IC package unit are disclosed. The IC package includes an array of metal wall grids formed into a panel, each one of the metal wall grids having a continuous and closed metal wall to surround an IC package unit with at least one IC chip/IC die disposed therein. Each IC chip/IC die has a top surface with a plurality of metal pads formed thereon. A panel-shaped metal layer is formed on entire back side of the panel of the array of metal wall grids and bonded to the metal wall of each metal wall grid. A panel-shaped rewiring substrate having a plurality of metal pillars is connected to each IC chip/IC die with each one of the plurality of metal pillars soldered with a corresponding one of the plurality of metal pads.
US11616007B2
An electronic package and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic package includes a substrate and a wetting layer. The substrate includes a plurality of conductive step structures each including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first bottom surface, a first outer surface and a first inner surface. The second portion has a second bottom surface, a second outer surface and a second inner surface, wherein the second portion partially exposes the first bottom surface. The wetting layer at least covers the second bottom surface, the second outer surface and the second inner surface of the second portion of each of the conductive step structures.
US11616006B2
According to an aspect, a semiconductor package includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a semiconductor die coupled to the second surface of the substrate, and a molding encapsulating the semiconductor die and a majority of the substrate, where at least a portion of the first surface is exposed through the molding such that the substrate is configured to function as a heat sink.
US11615998B2
An integrated circuit structure may be formed having a substrate, at least one integrated circuit device embedded in and electrically attached to the substrate, and a heat dissipation device in thermal contact with the integrated circuit device, wherein a first portion of the heat dissipation device extends into the substrate and wherein a second portion of the heat dissipation device extends over the substrate. In one embodiment, the heat dissipation device may comprise the first portion of the heat dissipation device formed from metallization within the substrate.
US11615996B2
A foil package includes a first foil substrate with a first and a second main surface, a second foil substrate with a first and a second main surface, wherein its first main surface is arranged facing the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The foil package includes at least one electronic device arranged between the first foil substrate and the second foil substrate and a first electrically conductive layer structure structured into a plurality of first partial areas arranged on the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The plurality of partial areas incompletely cover the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The at least one electronic device includes a terminal side and a side opposite to the terminal side.
US11615995B2
A sensor device includes: a first sensor element; a second sensor element; and a processing chip that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first processor that receives a first detection signal and processes the first detection signal, a second processor that receives the second detection signal and processes the second detection signal, and an isolation portion that electrically isolates the first processor the second processor. The first processor includes a first diagnosis unit that self-diagnoses a presence or absence of a failure. The second processor includes a second diagnosis unit that self-diagnoses a presence or absence of a failure. The processing chip identifiably outputs a first output of the first processor and a second output of the second processor.
US11615989B2
A semiconductor device includes etch stop films formed on the first gate electrode, the first source region, the first drain region, and the shallow trench isolation regions, respectively. First interlayer insulating films are formed on the etch stop film, respectively. Deep trenches are formed in the substrate between adjacent ones of the first interlayer insulating films to overlap the shallow trench isolation regions. Sidewall insulating films are formed in the deep trenches, respectively. A gap-fill insulating film is formed on the sidewall insulating film. A second interlayer insulating film is formed on the gap-fill insulating film. A top surface of the second interlayer insulating film is substantially planar and a bottom surface of the second interlayer insulating film is undulating.
US11615988B2
FinFET devices and processes to prevent fin or gate collapse (e.g., flopover) in finFET devices are provided. The method includes forming a first set of trenches in a semiconductor material and filling the first set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes forming a second set of trenches in the semiconductor material, alternating with the first set of trenches that are filled. The second set of trenches form semiconductor structures which have a dimension of fin structures. The method further includes filling the second set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes recessing the insulator material within the first set of trenches and the second set of trenches to form the fin structures.
US11615986B2
Methods and apparatuses for processing substrates, such as during metal silicide applications, are provided. In one or more embodiments, a method of processing a substrate includes depositing an epitaxial layer on the substrate, depositing a metal silicide seed layer on the epitaxial layer, and exposing the metal silicide seed layer to a nitridation process to produce a metal silicide nitride layer from at least a portion of the metal silicide seed layer. The method also includes depositing a metal silicide bulk layer on the metal silicide nitride layer and forming or depositing a nitride capping layer on the metal silicide bulk layer, where the nitride capping layer contains a metal nitride, a silicon nitride, a metal silicide nitride, or a combination thereof.
US11615985B2
A semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer over a device base layer, the first dielectric layer having a first opening with a first sidewall; a first interconnect segment extending through the first opening; and a cap layer over a top surface of the first interconnect segment, wherein the cap layer comprises a first metal, carbon, and nitrogen.
US11615984B2
Embodiments herein provide for oxygen based treatment of low-k dielectric layers deposited using a flowable chemical vapor deposition (FCVD) process. Oxygen based treatment of the FCVD deposited low-k dielectric layers desirably increases the Ebd to capacitance and reliability of the devices while removing voids. Embodiments include methods and apparatus for making a semiconductor device including: etching a metal layer disposed atop a substrate to form one or more metal lines having a top surface, a first side, and a second side; depositing a passivation layer atop the top surface, the first side, and the second side under conditions sufficient to reduce or eliminate oxygen contact with the one or more metal lines; depositing a flowable layer of low-k dielectric material atop the passivation layer in a thickness sufficient to cover the one or more metal lines; and contacting the flowable layer of low-k dielectric material with oxygen under conditions sufficient to anneal and increase a density of the low-k dielectric material.
US11615972B2
A system for transfer of a plurality of die from a die source to a receive substrate is provided. The system includes a die source including a plurality of die, the plurality of die being coupled to a carrier. The system also includes a receive substrate to receive the plurality of die from the die source. The receive substrate includes a die catch material for receiving the plurality of die from the die source, the die catch material being reusable. The system also includes a laser source for providing energy to interact with a die release material to transfer the plurality of die from the die source to the receive substrate.
US11615967B2
A method can include coupling a semiconductor chip and an electrode with a substrate. Bottom and top mold die can be use, where the top mold die define a first space and a second space that is separated from the first space. The method can include injecting encapsulation material to form an encapsulation member coupled to and covering at least a portion of the substrate. The encapsulation member can include a housing unit housing the electrode. The electrode can have a conductive sidewall exposed to, and not in contact with the encapsulation member, such that there is open space between the conductive sidewall of the electrode and the encapsulation member from an uppermost surface to a bottommost surface of the encapsulation member, the substrate can having a portion exposed within the open space, and the encapsulation member can have an open cross-section perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate.
US11615953B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate having a SiC epitaxial layer disposed over a surface of the SiC substrate, the SiC substrate having a first conductivity and the SiC epitaxial layer having the first conductivity. A contact region and a well region are formed in the SiC epitaxial layer, the contact region and the well region have a doping level of a second conductivity opposite the first conductivity. The contact region lies completely within the well region, is not in contact with a region having the first conductivity and has edges recessed from edges of the well region.
US11615951B2
This disclosure presents inventions for ionization, for example, for use in mass spectrometer devices and methods. In an embodiment, a device is provided for introduction of pulses of a first carrier gas into an ionization chamber and introduction of a second carrier gas into the ionization chamber. Electrodes in the chamber ionize the carrier gas and direct the ionized gas toward a sample for analysis. The second carrier gas can either assist in washing out the first carrier gas or may become ionized along with the first carrier gas to improve ionization of an analyte. In an embodiment, a method for producing ionized carrier gasses is provided.
US11615943B2
A generator produces output such as delivered power, voltage, current, forward power etc. that follows a prescribed pattern of output versus time where the pattern repeats with a repetition period by controlling sections of the pattern based on measurements taken one or more repetition periods in the past. A variable impedance match network may control the impedance presented to a radio frequency generator while the generator produces the output that follows the prescribed pattern of output versus time where the pattern repeats with a repetition period by controlling variable impedance elements in the match during sections of the pattern based on measurements taken one or more repetition periods in the past.
US11615921B2
A capacitor includes: a substrate; a first trench entering the substrate downward from the upper surface of the substrate; a laminated structure provided in the first trench and including m dielectric layers and n conductive layers, the m dielectric layers and the n conductive layers forming a structure that a conductive layer and a dielectric layer are adjacent to each other, each dielectric layer of the m dielectric layers including at least one high-k insulating material with a relative dielectric constant k greater than a first threshold value, and each conductive layer of the n conductive layers including at least one high work function conductive material with a work function greater than a second threshold value, where m and n are positive integers; and a first electrode electrically connected to all odd-numbered conductive layers, and a second electrode electrically connected to all even-numbered conductive layers.
US11615920B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a ceramic element body, a terminal electrode, and a lead terminal. The ceramic element body has an end surface and a lateral surface. The terminal electrode is formed on from the end surface to a part of the lateral surface of the ceramic element body. The lead terminal is connected to the terminal electrode by a connection member. The lead terminal includes an electrode facing portion disposed correspondingly to an end-surface electrode of the terminal electrode, an extension unit extending downward from a lower end of the electrode facing portion, and a step surface located between the electrode facing portion and the extension unit. The electrode facing portion has a recess dented in a direction away from the terminal electrode. A center of the recess is located below a center of the electrode facing portion in a height direction.
US11615910B2
A transformer structure includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor has first turns. The second inductor has second turns. The first inductor and the second inductor are disposed in an interlaced manner. Except jump wires, the first and the second inductors are substantially disposed on a first layer. At least one of the first turns is substantially disposed between another first turn and one of the second turns.
US11615909B2
A coil component includes a first core having a leg portion, a second core joined to the first core with the leg portion therebetween, and a magnet disposed between the leg portion and the second core. Movement of the magnet in a first direction intersecting a direction in which the first core and the second core face each other is at least restricted by an uneven structure provided on a junction surface between the magnet and at least one of the first core and the second core.
US11615906B2
A transformer includes an outer cabinet and an inner tank. The outer cabinet includes a base configured to be installed below ground level, a housing wall configured to be installed at least partially below ground level, and a sill coupled to the housing wall and configured to be installed above ground level. The sill includes a top access opening between an interior space of the outer cabinet and an exterior of the outer cabinet. The inner tank is disposed on the base at least partially below ground level and includes an active part including a transformer circuit. The inner tank includes a plurality of terminals electrically coupled to the active part, each terminal extending from the inner tank into the interior space of the outer cabinet along a respective terminal axis that passes through the top access opening at a respective upward angle with respect to ground level.
US11615905B2
A shielded inductor and a method of making a shielded inductor are provided. The shielded inductor includes a core body surrounding a conductive coil, leads in electrical communication with the coil, and a shield covering at least parts of the outer surface of the core body. An insulating material may be provided between parts of the core body and parts of the shield. A method of making a shielded inductor is also provided.
US11615902B2
A soft magnetic alloy powder contains Fe, Si, and at least one of Cr and Al, as constituent elements, wherein, on the surface of each grain constituting the alloy powder, an oxide film is provided which is such that: it contains Si, as well as at least one of Cr and Al, as constituent elements; these elements are contained at higher percentages by mass than those in the alloy part inside the grain; and the content of Si, expressed in percentage by mass, is higher than the total content of Cr and Al. The soft magnetic metal powder can achieve a higher filling rate.
US11615899B2
The present invention relates to a polymer voltage-dependent resistor (PVDR) in various physical forms and methods for manufacturing the varistor. The body of the PVDR is composed of a polymer matrix having a filler composed of doped zinc oxide particles, other semi conductive particles or metal particles uniformly distributed therein. Conductive electrodes may be affixed to the polymer matrix and electrical leads attached to the electrodes.
US11615893B2
A method for evaluating an infection risk includes calculating a first infection risk value, which indicates a degree of an infection risk that a child is infected with an infectious disease, on the basis of infection information regarding family members, prevalence information regarding the infectious disease in organizations to which the family members belong, and one or more first infection risk coefficients, calculating, on the basis of the first infection risk value, a second infection risk value, which indicates a degree of the child's infection risk of being infected in a group at a children's facility, and performing first evaluation, in which the infection risk that the child is infected is evaluated on the basis of the first infection risk value, and second evaluation, in which the child's infection risk of being infected in the group is evaluated on the basis of the second infection risk value.
US11615881B2
Methods and systems for determining a tumor volume from image data obtained from a functional scanner. The methods and systems can include identifying a portion within a region of interest corresponding to a liver that varies in intensity with its corresponding neighboring portion by a threshold. The method and systems can further include determining a volume of the portion without identifying a boundary of the portion. The portion can also be tracked over time. The image data can include a scan from a SPECT scanner.
US11615878B2
Systems for delivering one or more studies, where each of the one or more studies has a series of digital images associated with only one person and generated by an imaging modality, is disclosed. The systems include a syncing application that is configured to execute within a local area network and that is in data communication with imaging modalities and/or computing devices configured to display images generated by each of the imaging modalities. The systems also include a server adapted to be external to the local area network and in data communication with the syncing application and a client-side viewing application installed on one or more of the computing devices. The client-side viewing application is configured to acquire the studies, including unrendered data representative of the digital images of the series, locally render the unrendered data, and enable a user to manipulate the digital images.
US11615875B2
A secure dispensing unit includes a housing comprising a first end and a second end and a number of storage assemblies. The number of storage assemblies are arranged in parallel with one another within the housing. Each storage assembly includes a number of compartments arranged linearly along an axis of the housing with each of the compartments being configured to store an item. A cover is coupled with the housing and extends between the first end and the second end such that the cover is positioned over the compartments. An actuator is coupled with the cover, the actuator being configured to retract the cover to draw a distal end of the cover from the first end toward the second end to expose a selected number of compartments.
US11615874B1
Disclosed are devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for managing the development and treatment supply chain in delivering personalized medicine therapies. In some aspects, a unified configuration system (UCS) for an enterprise software platform is described that enables and facilitates individual stakeholders of the personalized medicine development and treatment supply chain to create and manage independent configurations of their supply chain management software for an enterprise software platform.
US11615873B2
A method and system for generating a treatment plan are disclosed herein. A computing system receives a plurality of dose volume histograms for a plurality of patients and a plurality of volumetric dose distributions corresponding to the plurality of dose volume histograms. The computing system generates a volumetric dose prediction model using a neural network by learning, by the neural network, a relationship between a plurality of dose volume histograms for the plurality of patients and the corresponding plurality of volumetric dose distributions. The computing system receives a candidate dose volume histogram for a target patient. The computing system infers, via the volumetric dose prediction module, a volumetric dose prediction distribution matching the candidate dose volume histogram. The computing system generates a recommendation based on the inferred volumetric dose prediction distribution.
US11615855B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes at least one memory block and a control circuit. The at least one memory block includes a plurality of cell strings, each including a string selection transistor, a plurality of memory cells and a ground selection transistor. The control circuit controls a program operation by precharging channels of the plurality of cell strings to a first voltage during a bit-line set-up period of a program loop, applying a program voltage to a selected word-line of the plurality of cell strings during a program execution period of the program loop and after recovering voltages of the selected word-line and unselected word-lines of the plurality of cell strings to a negative voltage smaller than a ground voltage, recovering the voltages of the selected word-line and the unselected word-lines to a second voltage greater than the ground voltage during a recovery period of the program loop.
US11615854B2
Systems, methods and apparatus to determine a programming mode of a set of memory cells that store an indicator of the programming mode. In response to a command to read the memory cells in a memory device, a first read voltage is applied to the memory cells to identify a first subset of the memory cells that become conductive under the first read voltage. The determination of the first subset is configured as an operation common to different programming modes. Based on whether the first subset of the memory cell includes one or more predefined memory cells, the memory device determines a programming mode of memory cells. Once the programming mode is identified from the common operation, the memory device can further execute the command to determine a data item stored, via the programming mode, in the memory cells.
US11615848B2
A memory control method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The memory control method includes: programming multiple first memory cells in a first physical erasing unit in a rewritable non-volatile memory module; and applying an electronic pulse to at least one word line in the rewritable non-volatile memory module. The at least one word line is coupled to multiple second memory cells in the first physical erasing unit. The second memory cells include the first memory cells. The electronic pulse is not configured to read, program, or erase the second memory cells.
US11615841B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, each including a switching device and an information storage device connected to the switching device and having a phase change material, the plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines, a decoder circuit determining at least one of the plurality of memory cells to be a selected memory cell, and a program circuit configured to input a programming current to the selected memory cell to perform a programming operation and configured to detect a resistance of the selected memory cell to adjust a magnitude of the programming current.
US11615836B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of volatile memory (VM) blocks, and a power gate control circuit configured to control power gating for each VM block of a plurality of VM blocks. The IC includes a power mode controller circuit configured to select a power mode, and in response to selecting a retention mode as the power mode, the power mode controller circuit gates a supply voltage from each block of a selected subset of the plurality of VM blocks and allows a retention voltage to power each VM block of a remaining subset of the plurality of VM blocks outside the selected subset. The IC includes a voltage controller circuit configured to determine a voltage level of the retention voltage based on a minimum retention voltage required for each VM block of the remaining subset.
US11615835B2
A memory device includes an open-for-contact region located between the memory blocks, and a row decoder disposed between global lines to which an operating voltage is supplied and the local lines and configured to transfer the operating voltage to one memory block among the memory blocks in response to a row address, wherein a plurality of contacts are formed in the open-for-contact region and configured to transmit a voltage between the bit lines and a peripheral circuit, wherein a dummy region is included in the row decoder and disposed paced apart from the open-for-contact region in the second direction, and wherein a discharge switch is included in the dummy region and configured to discharge the global lines in response to a discharge signal.
US11615827B2
Examples described herein relate to a decision tree computation system in which a hardware accelerator for a decision tree is implemented in the form of an analog Content Addressable Memory (a-CAM) array. The hardware accelerator accesses a decision tree. The decision tree comprises of multiple paths and each path of the multiple paths includes a set of nodes. Each node of the decision tree is associated with a feature variable of multiple feature variables of the decision tree. The hardware accelerator combines multiple nodes among the set of nodes with a same feature variable into a combined single node. Wildcard values are replaced for feature variables not being evaluated in each path. Each combined single node associated with each feature variable is mapped to a corresponding column in the a-CAM array and the multiple paths of the decision tree to rows of the a-CAM array.
US11615821B1
A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive a two-cycle command from a host device via multiple command address bits. The memory device also includes a command decoder configured to decode a first portion of the multiple command address bits in a first cycle of the two-cycle command. The command decoder includes mask circuitry. The mask circuitry includes mask generation circuitry configured to generate a mask signal. The mask circuitry also includes multiplexer circuitry configured to apply the mask signal to block the command decoder from decoding a second portion of the multiple command address bits in a second cycle of the two-cycle command.
US11615820B1
A system and method for operating a memory cell is provided. A non-volatile memory storage device includes an array of memory cells of differential or single-ended type. In an embodiment, a regulator is coupled to a sense amplifier. The regulator is configured to generate a voltage to gate terminals of one or two transistors of the sense amplifier. In the differential type, the voltage is generated such that the first bias current and the second bias current have a current value equal to the sum of a maximum current flowing in a memory cell being in a RESET state and a fixed current. In the single-ended type, the regulated voltage is generated such that the first bias current and the second bias current have a current value equal to the sum of a fixed current and the reference current generated by the reference current source across temperature.
US11615808B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first magnetic pole, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and first magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the third and second magnetic layers, and a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the third magnetic layer. A thickness of the first magnetic layer is thicker than a thickness of the second magnetic layer. A thickness of the third magnetic layer is thicker than the second layer thickness.
US11615805B2
A method for performing an operation of a memory arrangement, comprising receiving a command at a layer of a computer system, determining if the command received is one of a first command type or a second command type, determining a type of command that is able to be received and is capable of operation of the memory arrangement, comparing the type of command capable of operation of the memory arrangement and the received command at the layer, and converting the command received at the layer to a command type capable of operation of the memory arrangement when the type of command received at the layer is different than type of command that is able to be received and is capable of operation of the memory arrangement.
US11615803B2
A method for use in a biometric process, comprising: with a headset in a known acoustic environment, applying an acoustic stimulus at a first transducer of the headset; receiving a response signal at a second transducer of the headset, the response signal comprising a component of the acoustic stimulus reflected at an obstacle in the acoustic path of the first transducer; determining a condition of the headset based on the response signal; and performing the biometric process based on the determined condition.
US11615791B2
Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
US11615784B2
The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for speech interaction. The detailed implementation solution of the control method for the speech interaction includes: collecting an audio signal; detecting a wake-up word in the audio signal to obtain a wake-up word result; and playing a prompt tone and/or executing a speech instruction in the audio signal based on the wake-up word result.
US11615782B2
Techniques are described for training neural networks on variable length datasets. The numeric representation of the length of each training sample is randomly perturbed to yield a pseudo-length, and the samples sorted by pseudo-length to achieve lower zero padding rate (ZPR) than completely randomized batching (thus saving computation time) yet higher randomness than strictly sorted batching (thus achieving better model performance than strictly sorted batching).
US11615780B2
A electronic apparatus includes a display, a voice receiver configured to receive a user voice input, and a processor to obtain a first text from the user voice input that is received through the voice receiver based on a function corresponding to a first voice recognition related to a first language, based on an entity name not being included in the first text using the function corresponding to the first voice recognition related to the first language, obtain a second text corresponding to the entity name from of the user voice input based on a function corresponding to a second voice recognition related to a second language, and control the display to display a voice recognition result corresponding to the user voice input based on the first text and the second text.
US11615777B2
A terminal may include a display that is divided into at least two areas, when a real time broadcasting, where a user of the terminal is a host, starts through a broadcasting channel, and of which one area of the at least two areas is allocated to the host; an input/output interface that receives a voice of the host; a communication interface that receives one item selected of at least one or more items and a certain text from a terminal of a certain guest, of at least one or more guests who entered the broadcasting channel; and a processor that generates a voice message converted from the certain text into the voice of the host or a voice of the certain guest.
US11615774B2
A generation system (100) of synthesized sound comprises: a first stage (1), wherein features (F) are extracted from an input raw sound and parameters of said features are evaluated; a second stage (2) wherein the evaluated parameters are used to create a plurality of physical models that are metrically evaluated in order to find the parameters of the best physical model, and a third stage (3) wherein the parameters of the best physical model are perturbed in order to create perturbed physical models and a metric evaluated of the perturbed physical models is performed to find the parameters of the best physical model.
US11615772B2
Musical catalog amplification services that leverage or deploy a computer-based musical composition system are described. The computer-based musical composition system employs algorithms and, optionally, artificial intelligence to generate new music based on analyses of existing music. The new music may be wholly distinctive from, or may include musical variations of, the existing music. Rights in the new music generated by the computer-based musical composition system are granted to the rights holder(s) of the existing music. In this way, the musical catalog(s) of the rights holder(s) is/are amplified to include additional music assets. The computer-based musical composition system may be tuned so that the new music sounds more like, or less like, the existing music of the rights holder(s). Revenues generated from the new music are shared between the musical catalog amplification service provider and the rights holder(s).
US11615753B2
A control circuit applied to a display includes a receiving interface, an image processing circuit, and a backlight control circuit. The receiving interface is arranged to receive an image data from an image source, wherein the image data has an unfixed frame rate. The image processing circuit is arranged to receive the image data from the receiving interface and determine a frame rate of the image data. The backlight control circuit is arranged to generate a control signal to a display panel according to the frame rate, to control brightness of a backlight module of the display panel.
US11615751B1
The present invention discloses a backlight control method having dynamic backlight adjusting mechanism used in a display control circuit is provided and includes the steps outlined below. A frame refresh time length of a former frame is obtained. When a current frame is started to be displayed, a backlight module is controlled to output a strobe backlight in a backlight turn-on time period. When an actual display time reaches the frame refresh time length and a next frame is not started to be displayed, the backlight module is controlled to output a constant backlight until the next frame is started to be displayed. When the actual display time does not reach the frame refresh time length and the next frame is started to be displayed, the backlight module is controlled to output the constant backlight until the frame next to the next frame is started to be displayed.
US11615749B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver outputs a data write gate signal having a corresponding active level and a data initialization gate signal having a corresponding active level to the pixel in a writing frame, outputs the data write gate signal not having the corresponding active level and the data initialization gate signal not having the corresponding active level to the pixel in a holding frame and outputs the data write gate signal having the corresponding active level and the data initialization gate signal not having the corresponding active level to the pixel in a writing compensation frame. The data driver outputs a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver outputs an emission signal to the pixel.
US11615735B1
A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first slew rate and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second slew rate lower than the first slew rate.
US11615727B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device includes an electronic display. The electronic display provides a programmable latency period in response to receiving a first image frame corresponding to first image frame data. The electronic display also displays the first image frame after the programmable latency period and during display of the first image frame, receives a second image frame corresponding to second image frame data. The electronic display also repeats display of the first image frame in response to receiving the second image frame.
US11615720B2
A display device includes a display module including a first non-folding region, a second non-folding region, and a folding region disposed between the first and second non-folding regions, a first body disposed on the first non-folding region, a second body disposed on the second non-folding region, a plurality of rotation pin units connected to the first and second bodies to provide a biaxial rotation axis, which is overlapped with the folding region, to the first and second bodies, and a plurality of gears which rotate in conjunction with the rotation pin units. The plurality of gears is disposed on the rotation pin units.
US11615700B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for updating traffic-related infrastructure. The method includes determining average traffic stream speed and average traffic density over a segment of a highway. The method further includes determining, upon analysis of the determined average traffic stream speed and average traffic density over a segment of a highway, an appropriate action in order to update the infrastructure.
US11615698B1
An emergency responder alert assembly includes an alert housing that is mountable at a location which is associated with a residence such that the alert housing is visible to emergency responders. A plurality of light emitters is provided and each of the light emitters is coupled to the alert housing for visually alerting the emergency responders that the residence is the location to which the emergency responders have been dispatched. A pendant actuate unit is movably integrated into a pendant and each of the light emitters is turned on when the pendant actuate unit is actuated by the user. A desktop actuate unit is in remote communication with the plurality of light emitters and each of the light emitters is turned on when the desktop actuate unit is actuated by the user.
US11615697B2
A premises management system may comprise a gateway device. The gateway device may configured to determine one or more premises devices of a premises management system. The gateway device may be configured to receive an indication of a communication protocol associated with the premises devices. The gateway device may be configured to communicate with the premises devices using the communication protocol.
US11615696B2
An emergency vehicle notification system, including at least one illumination device disposed on at least a portion of a traffic light to illuminate at least one illumination setting, and a control unit removably disposed within and removably connected to an emergency vehicle to change the at least one illumination setting in response to changing an operation status using an alert signal.
US11615685B2
One variation of a method for detecting a fire includes: during a first time period: detecting an increase in ambient light intensity and detecting an increase in ambient humidity; responsive to the increase in ambient light intensity and the increase in ambient humidity, detecting a fire event; during a second time period: correlating a decrease in ambient light intensity with an increase in visual obscuration; detecting an increase in ambient air temperature; in response to a magnitude of the increase in visual obscuration remaining below a high obscuration threshold and a magnitude of the increase in ambient temperature remaining below a high temperature threshold, classifying the fire as an incipient fire; and, in response to the magnitude of the increase in visual obscuration exceeding the high obscuration threshold and the magnitude of the increase in ambient temperature exceeding the high temperature threshold, classifying the fire as a developed fire.
US11615684B2
There is provided a smoke detector including a light source, a reflective surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the light source emits light toward the reflective surface, and generates a reference detection signal when there is no smoke. The processor receives the detection signal from the light sensor, and automatically selects a set of predetermined condition thresholds according to a profile of the detection signal to be compared with the detection signal thereby determining whether to generate an alarm according to the comparison result.
US11615683B2
A smoke detector with a surface mounted emitter configured to emit light substantially vertically and a surface mounted receiver configured to receive light at an angular distance less than 90° reflected by ambient materials, and a method of operating the smoke detector are provided. The angular distance at which the light is reflected by the ambient materials generates a back scatter effect. The smoke detector includes a housing defining a chamber for receiving the ambient materials, a supporting structure (e.g., a printed circuit board (PCB)) disposed adjacent to the housing, an emitter mounted substantially vertically to an upper surface of the supporting structure, and a receiver mounted substantially vertically to the upper surface of the supporting structure. The smoke detector may also include a controller configured to receive output signals from the receiver (to determine whether a current condition of the chamber indicates a need to trigger an alarm).
US11615682B2
A detection system for measuring one or more conditions within an area. At least one fiber optic cable transmits light wherein the at least one fiber optic cable defines a plurality of nodes arranged to measure the one or more conditions. A control system communicates with the at least one fiber optic cable such that scattered light and a time of flight record is transmitted from the at least one fiber optic cable to the control system. The control system includes a detection algorithm operable to identify a portion of the scattered light associated with each of the plurality of nodes. When determining an alert, the control system transmits data associated with a presence and magnitude of the one or more conditions at each of the plurality of nodes to a cloud computing environment and, in return, receives a notification based on the data transmitted.
US11615678B2
A system and method for operating a plurality of games of chance. The gaming system includes a primary game display and a secondary game display. The plurality of games includes at least a plurality of electronic table games including two or more electronic table games from a group of table games including, craps, baccarat, roulette, or blackjack. The processing of the two or more electronic table games includes a separate and discrete game state engine for each of the two or more electronic table games.
US11615663B1
Described are systems and techniques configured to authenticate a user upon entry to a facility. Prior to entry, the user may log in to a secure website with valid credentials, whereupon a login image of the user at the time of login is acquired. In one implementation, optically encoded data is generated which includes data representative of the login image, an acquisition timestamp, and an identifier value. At entry of the user to the facility, an entry image of the user's face, an image of the optically encoded data as presented on a display of a computing device in possession of the user, and an entry timestamp are acquired. By determining the timestamp is within a valid range of time and the data representative of the login image corresponds to the entry image, the user is authenticated to the identifier value.
US11615639B1
A palm vein identification apparatus includes a base to support a first sensor; the first sensor mounted on the base via a multi-axis gimbal, the multi-axis gimbal to provide movement of the sensor such that the sensor can capture one or more images from a plurality of angles; a position control in communication with the first sensor and to correct movement of the first sensor; and a secondary sensor mounted on the base, the secondary sensor to capture an environment around the palm vein identification apparatus to detect a palm; the first sensor is positioned based on information collected from the secondary sensor.
US11615631B2
An apparatus and method for providing a top view image of a parking space are provided. The apparatus includes a steering angle sensor that measures a steering angle of a vehicle, a top view image generator that generates a top view image of a parking space depending on travel of the vehicle, a display that displays the top view image generated by the top view image generator, and a controller that captures the top view image displayed by the display and generates a panorama top view image by connecting the current top view image generated by the top view image generator and the captured previous top view image, based on the steering angle measured by the steering angle sensor.
US11615629B2
A method for estimating time to collision (TTC) of a detected object in a computer vision system is provided that includes determining a three dimensional (3D) position of a camera in the computer vision system, determining a 3D position of the detected object based on a 2D position of the detected object in an image captured by the camera and an estimated ground plane corresponding to the image, computing a relative 3D position of the camera, a velocity of the relative 3D position, and an acceleration of the relative 3D position based on the 3D position of the camera and the 3D position of the detected object, wherein the relative 3D position of the camera is relative to the 3D position of the detected object, and computing the TTC of the detected object based on the relative 3D position, the velocity, and the acceleration.
US11615624B2
A system, method and program storage device are provided for automatically associating evidence recorded by a plurality of cameras with a discrete occurrence, including: receiving occurrence data pertaining to the discrete occurrence and storing at least a portion of the occurrence data in an occurrence record; receiving first evidence data comprising at least a video data portion and a metadata portion of the evidence recorded by a first camera of the plurality of cameras and storing it in an evidence record; receiving second evidence data comprising at least a video data portion and a metadata portion of the evidence recorded by a second camera of the plurality of cameras and storing it in the evidence record; automatically associating information stored in the evidence record with information stored in the occurrence record based on a correspondence of at least two criteria including a first criterion of time; identifying, based on the automatic association, a first image data portion of the evidence recorded by the first camera that is related to the discrete occurrence while excluding a second image data portion of the evidence recorded by the first camera that is unrelated to the discrete occurrence; and identifying, based on the automatic association, a third image data portion of the evidence recorded by the second camera that is related to the discrete occurrence while excluding a fourth image data portion of the evidence recorded by the second camera that is unrelated to the discrete occurrence.
US11615621B2
Metadata for one or more highlights of a video stream may be extracted from one or more card images embedded in the video stream. The highlights may be segments of the video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest. According to one method, video frames of the video stream are stored. One or more information cards embedded in a decoded video frame may be detected by analyzing one or more predetermined video frame regions. Image segmentation, edge detection, and/or closed contour identification may then be performed on identified video frame region(s). Further processing may include obtaining a minimum rectangular perimeter area enclosing all remaining segments, which may then be further processed to determine precise boundaries of information card(s). The card image(s) may be analyzed to obtain metadata, which may be stored in association with at least one of the video frames.
US11615619B2
Described herein are a system and methods for generating a record of objects, as well as respective positions for those objects, with respect to a user. In some embodiments, a user may use a user device to scan an area that includes one or more objects. The one or more objects may be identified from image information obtained from the user device. Positional information for each of the one or more objects may be determined from depth information obtained from a depth sensor installed upon the user device. In some embodiments, the one or more objects may be mapped to object models stored in an object model database. The image information displayed on the user device may be augmented so that it depicts the object models associated with the one or more objects instead of the actual objects.
US11615615B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for extracting mountain landscape buildings based on high-resolution remote sensing images. The method comprises: segmenting a remote sensing image, and extracting non-vegetation areas from the remote sensing image by using NDVI; segmenting the non-vegetation areas, and extracting building areas by using NDBI; segmenting the building areas again, and calculating a normalized difference build shadow index NSBI of each patch; calculating NSBI separator of each patch in the non-vegetation areas and setting a separator threshold, and extracting landscape building areas based on the threshold. In the present invention, by introducing a near infrared band in the remote sensing image spectrum, in which there is a significant difference between shadows and non-shadows, the influence of large shadow areas in mountainous shady areas in the remote sensing image on the result of extraction is reduced.
US11615612B2
This description relates to image feature extraction. In some examples, a system can include a keypoint detector and a feature list generator. The keypoint detector can be configured to upsample a keypoint score map to produce an upsampled keypoint score map. The keypoint score map can include feature scores indicative of a likelihood of at least one feature being present at keypoints in an image. The feature list generator can be configured to identify a subset of keypoints of the keypoints in the image using the feature scores of the up sampled keypoint score map, determine descriptors for the subset of keypoints based on a feature description map, and generate a keypoint descriptor map for the image based on the determined descriptors.
US11615598B2
An augmented reality (AR) display device can display a virtual assistant character that interacts with the user of the AR device. The virtual assistant may be represented by a robot (or other) avatar that assists the user with contextual objects and suggestions depending on what virtual content the user is interacting with. Animated images may be displayed above the robot's head to display its intents to the user. For example, the robot can run up to a menu and suggest an action and show the animated images. The robot can materialize virtual objects that appear on its hands. The user can remove such an object from the robot's hands and place it in the environment. If the user does not interact with the object, the robot can dematerialize it. The robot can rotate its head to keep looking at the user and/or an object that the user has picked up.
US11615597B2
A computer system in communication with one or more input devices displays a first view of a three-dimensional environment, including a representation of a physical environment and a first user interface object having a first surface at a first position in the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first location in the physical environment. While displaying the first view, the computer system detects movement, in the physical environment, of a first person not using the one or more input devices, and in response, in accordance with a determination that the movement of the first person in the physical environment has a first spatial relationship to the first location in the physical environment corresponding to the first user interface object, the computer system moves the first surface of the first user interface object in the first view in accordance with the movement of the first person in the physical environment.
US11615596B2
A computer system, while displaying a view of a computer-generated environment, detects movement of a physical object, and in response: in accordance with a determination that a user is within a threshold distance of a first portion of the physical object and that the physical object meets preset criteria, the computer system changes an appearance of virtual content displayed at a position corresponding to a current location of the physical object's first portion, without changing an appearance of virtual content displayed at a position corresponding to the physical object's second portion; and in accordance with a determination that the user is within the threshold distance and that the physical object does not meet the preset criteria, the computer system changes an appearance of virtual content displayed at a position corresponding to a current location of the physical object's first portion.
US11615586B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating enriched light sources by utilizing surface-centric representations of three-dimensional surfaces. Specifically, the disclosed system utilizes a surface-centric re-parameterization that combines geometric and algebraic components of a sphere to model different light source types in a continuous range of lighting configurations. The disclosed systems utilize a set of intuitive parameters to determine a shape and emission parameters for generating an enriched light source. Additionally, the disclosed system provides a set of interactive light source controls to modify a position, orientation, shape, emittance, and lighting attenuation over distance of a light source within a three-dimensional environment. The disclosed system determines the light source controls based on sets of three-dimensional interaction primitives to control one or more parameters of the light source. The disclosed system provides the light source controls for consistently modifying various light source types within the three-dimensional environment.
US11615583B2
A method, apparatus, and system provide the ability to crop a three-dimensional (3D) scene. The 3D scene is acquired and includes multiple 3D images (with each image from a view angle of an image capture device) and a depth map for each image. The depth values in each depth map are sorted. Multiple initial cutoff depths are determined for the scene based on the view angles of the images (in the scene). A cutoff relaxation depth is determined based on a jump between depth values. A confidence map is generated for each depth map and indicates whether each depth value is above or below the cutoff relaxation depth. The confidence maps are aggregated into an aggregated model. A bounding volume is generated out of the aggregated model. Points are cropped from the scene based on the bounding volume.
US11615582B2
Images may be captured at an image capture device mounted on an image capture device gimbal capable of rotating the image capture device around a nodal point in one or more dimensions. Each of the plurality of images may be captured from a respective rotational position. The images may be captured by a designated camera that is not located at the nodal point in one or more of the respective rotational positions. A designated three-dimensional point cloud may be determined based on the plurality of images. The designated three-dimensional point cloud may include a plurality of points each having a respective position in a virtual three-dimensional space.
US11615581B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for a dynamic, reconfigurable virtual reality environment with in-environment access to external data and resources. Implementations of these systems also provide an external mechanism for modifying other aspects of the virtual reality experience with no need to recode or compile the experience. This can alter the primary flow of the experience, change its behavior based on the specific user accessing it and add branded or customer-specific aspects to the application. The same level or environment can provide drastically different experiences for various users from beginners through experts, even allowing the option of random or ordered events, controllable by an instructor or administrator, through simple configuration.
US11615575B2
An illustrative shader construction system accesses a plurality of instructions based on a shader construction request. The plurality of instructions is associated with a shader component indicated in the shader construction request and includes a first instruction that relates to a selected platform indicated in the shader construction request and a second instruction that relates to a non-selected platform and that is incompatible with the selected platform. The shader construction system assembles a shader based on the plurality of instructions. The assembled shader is configured for use with the selected platform to perform a shader function implemented by the shader component. The shader construction system provides the assembled shader to a graphics rendering system configured to use the assembled shader to perform the shader function as part of rendering an image. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11615574B2
A system for rendering 6 degree-of-freedom virtual reality according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a visibility test module performing a visibility test for determining whether a current point of interest where a main viewpoint is directed is visible for each of a plurality of reference viewpoints and generating visibility information by identifying the number of invisible fragments of each reference viewpoint according to the performance result, a reference viewpoint selection module selecting a final reference viewpoint for a rendering process for a current frame based on the visibility information for each of the plurality of reference viewpoints and a preset selection criterion, and a rendering process module performing an image-based rendering process by using a color image and a depth image corresponding to the final reference viewpoint.
US11615572B2
Systems and methods enabling rendering an avatar attuned to a user. The systems and methods include receiving audio-visual data of user communications of a user. Using the audio-visual data, the systems and methods may determine vocal characteristics of the user, facial action units representative of facial features of the user, and speech of the user based on a speech recognition model and/or natural language understanding model. Based on the vocal characteristics, an acoustic emotion metric can be determined. Based on the speech recognition data, a speech emotion metric may be determined. Based on the facial action units, a facial emotion metric may be determined. An emotional complex signature may be determined to represent an emotional state of the user for rendering the avatar attuned to the emotional state based on a combination of the acoustic emotion metric, the speech emotion metric and the facial emotion metric.
US11615566B2
A multi-camera vehicle vision system and method. In one embodiment a map is generated about a moving vehicle. Frames of image data are provided with a series of cameras extending along a surface of the vehicle. The image data frames are processed to identify an object of interest. An object of interest is classified among a set of object types and location of an identified object of interest is determined. Object type and location information is provided to a control unit spaced apart from the cameras via a data link. Road map data is generated to illustrate changes in position of the moving vehicle along a roadway based on data other than the image data provided by the cameras. A display of the road map data is generated with the object type and location information overlaid on the road map data to indicate object location relative to the vehicle.
US11615564B2
A time series data display device includes a display unit that outputs display data regarding the time series data. The display unit includes a general display generation unit that generates general display data for general display of a general tendency of the time series data and a detailed display generation unit that generates detailed display data for detailed display of detailed individual values of the time series data. The general display displays frequency or density of individual data configuring the time series data at each position of the time series data on a rendering plane, with a visual effect in accordance with the frequency or the density.
US11615558B2
A computer-implemented method for creating a virtual vehicle environment includes: receiving data of a real vehicle environment; generating a first feature vector representing a respective real object by applying a second machine learning algorithm to the respective real object and storing the first feature vector; providing a plurality of stored second feature vectors representing synthetically generated objects; identifying a second feature vector having a greatest degree of similarity to the first feature vector; selecting the identified second feature vector and retrieving a stored synthetic object that is associated with the second feature vector and that corresponds to the real object or procedurally generating the synthetic object that corresponds to the real object, depending on the degree of similarity of the identified second feature vector to the first feature vector; and integrating the synthetic object into a predetermined virtual vehicle environment.
US11615549B2
An image processing method includes the following steps: dividing an object block into a two-dimensional image; identifying at least one view hotspot in a viewing field corresponding to pupil gaze direction; receiving the view hotspot and an indicator signal; wherein the indicator signal is used to remark the object block; and generating a mask block that corresponds to the object block according to the view hotspot; wherein the indicator signal determines the label of the mask block.
US11615548B2
The present disclosure provides a method for distance measurement based on a binocular camera, a system for distance measurement based on a binocular camera, a device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: taking N images of a distance measurement marker placed at each of Z positions in a depth direction of the binocular camera; calculating an average disparity of the distance measurement marker at the middle position, the left side position and the right side position at each of the Z positions; calculating a distance measurement value at each of the Z positions in the depth direction; calculating a distance measurement error value at the middle position, the left side position and the right side position at each of the Z positions, and acquiring a total error cost function; and calculating extrinsic parameters, so as to acquire a distance measurement result in the depth direction.
US11615543B2
A device to determine a height disparity between features of an image includes a memory including instructions and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured by the instructions to obtain an image including a first repetitive feature and a second repetitive feature. The processing circuitry is further configured by the instructions to determine a distribution of pixels in a first area of the image, where the first area includes an occurrence of the repetitive features, and to determine a distribution of pixels in a second area of the image, where the second area includes another occurrence of the repetitive features. The processing circuitry is further configured by the instructions to evaluate the distribution of pixels in the first area and the distribution of pixels in the second area to determine a height difference between the first repetitive feature and the second repetitive feature.
US11615536B2
An image detection device and an image detection method are provided. The image detection method includes: obtaining an image, where the image includes an object; adjusting a first size of the image to generate an adjusted image; generating a first divided image and a second divided image according to the image; and detecting the object in the image based on a plurality of input images, where the plurality of input images includes the first divided image, the second divided image, and the adjusted image.
US11615528B2
A method is for computed tomography imaging. In an embodiment, the method includes provisioning a CT data set of an object, the CT data set being previously recorded via a multispectral recording method; suppressing a contrast, caused by a tissue type, and generating a contrast-suppressed data set from the CT data set provisioned; and analyzing at least the contrast-suppressed data set generated or a data set generated via a machine learning algorithm based on the contrast-suppressed data set, the analyzing being configured to identify at least one change in the tissue type. A corresponding device, a control device for a computed tomography system or a diagnosis system, and a diagnosis system and a computed tomography system are also disclosed.
US11615526B2
The disclosure provides a system that may acquire, via an image sensor, an image of an eye of a person; may determine a location of an iris of the eye from the image; may determine a position of a suction ring from the image; may display, via a display, the image; may display, via the display, a first graphic overlay on the image that indicates the location of the iris of the eye; may display, via the display, a second graphic overlay on the image that indicates the position of the suction ring; may determine multiple iris structures from the image; may determine an orientation of the eye based at least on the multiple iris structures from the image; and may display, via the display, information that indicates the orientation of the eye.
US11615521B2
A light 2 for reflected light that emits visible light for reflected light onto a front side of a veneer 6, a light 32 for invisible light that emits near-infrared light for transmitted light onto a back side of the veneer 6, and an image processing device 1 that detects defects of the veneer 6 by analyzing a captured image generated by a line sensor camera 4 are provided. Defects of the veneer 6 are discriminated on the basis of a set of shading and shapes in an infrared-transmitted-light image based on the transmitted light, and colors in a visible-light image based on the reflected light. Consequently, even if a defect has a small color difference from a normal part in the visible-light image, difference of shading between the defective part and the normal part appears in the infrared-transmitted-light image, and a defect that is difficult to detect by seeing only a color difference in a visible-light image can be relatively easily detected.
US11615517B2
A device includes a digital camera positioned underneath a display of the device that captures images through the display. When capturing images using the digital camera, light emitted by the display can get into the digital camera, interfering with or corrupting the captured images. An enhanced output image is generated from a captured image that mitigates the interference from the display. The enhanced output image is generated, for example, by capturing a different calibration image for each pixel type (e.g., Red, Green, and Blue) included in the display. When an image is subsequently captured, an amount of color emitted by the pixels on the display for the currently displayed image is determined and one or more subtraction images are generated and subtracted from the captured image to mitigate the interference from the display.
US11615516B2
Techniques are provided for computing systems, methods and computer program products to produce efficient image-to-image translation by adapting unpaired datasets for supervised learning. A first model (a powerful model) may be defined and conditioned using unsupervised learning to produce a synthetic paired dataset from the unpaired dataset, translating images from a first domain to a second domain and images from the second domain to the first domain. The synthetic data generated is useful as ground truths in supervised learning. The first model may be conditioned to overfit the unpaired dataset to enhance the quality of the paired dataset (e.g. the synthetic data generated). A run-time model such as for a target device is trained using the synthetic paired dataset and supervised learning. The run-time model is small and fast to meet the processing resources of the target device (e.g. a personal user device such as a smart phone, tablet, etc.)
US11615498B2
A system and method are disclosed for image analysis of supply chain planning problems modeled as a linear programming (LP) problems. Embodiments include receiving an LP matrix representing constraints and variables of at least a portion of a supply chain planning problem, generating a sorted variable index for the variables of the LP matrix, generating a sorted constraint index for the constraints of the LP matrix, identifying functions of the variables and the constraints, selecting one or more colors of pixels of a supply chain problem image based, at least in part, on the identified functions of the variables and constraints, selecting locations of the pixels, and displaying a visualization of the supply chain problem image.
US11615494B2
An intellectual property (IP) recommending method and an IP recommending system are provided. In the method, a plurality of IP portfolios respectively designated for a plurality of product designs are retrieved and usage data of a plurality of IPs included in each of the plurality of IP portfolios are extracted. A machine learning (ML) model is trained by using a portion of the retrieved IP portfolios and the extracted usage data. In response to receiving at least one criterion for a desired product design from a user, a plurality of IPs adapted for the desired product design are predicted based on the ML model and recommended for the user.
US11615489B2
Provided is a system for providing removals simulation using VR and AR and brokering real estate therethrough, and the system includes: a background providing unit which extracts background information inside a real estate object provided by a real estate provider and presents the background information to the real estate customer; and an AR providing unit which overlaps props information of a real estate customer on the background information of the real estate object so as to be arbitrarily arranged by the real estate customer, wherein the real estate customer can simulate by overlapping props information on the background information, when the simulation is determined, the determined information is transmitted to a number of moving service servers, and thus provides an advantage in that a number of moving centers can propose moving costs to the real estate customer in a reverse auction manner based on the props information.
US11615480B2
The present disclosure is directed to conducting electronic transactions via a computer network. A server receives data packets carrying data identifying a merchant category, an electronic account maintained and configured on the server, and a first monetary amount of a first electronic transaction. A first device generates the data packets at the merchant to conduct the electronic transaction. A policy engine selects a first purse of a plurality of purses allocated to the electronic account based on a policy applied to the data. The first purse may be configured as a benefits purse. The server obtains the first monetary amount of the electronic transaction from the first purse. The policy engine applies a second policy to the data to determine a reimbursement amount based on the first monetary amount of the transaction, and electronically provides the reimbursement amount to a different second purse of the electronic account.
US11615479B1
A system allows for a user to notify an insurance provider or other third-party with a button press. The button can notify of an emergency situation. An event determiner may analyze information of events surrounding the button click. This information may include the time of day, location, identifying information for the insured, recent locations of the button, information from similar button presses and information from previous insurance claims. Based on this information, the event determiner may provide a high percentage estimate of an abnormal condition: home break-in, car accident, flat tire, etc. The system may automatically take action, depending on the event, such as contacting the police, sending a tow truck, or starting an insurance claim.
US11615460B1
Described is a system and method for developing and dynamically updating user paths through a materials handling facility. A user path through a materials handling facility may be developed that will route a user past one or more items (e.g., pick list items, recommended items, wish list items, promotional items) planned for the user. If the user does not follow the user path, the user path may be dynamically updated to account for the current location of the user and/or to consider other actions performed by the user.
US11615454B2
Certain example embodiments described herein relate to systems and/or methods for presenting user-interactive, dynamically-generated contextual content for individual articles of clothing. A QR or other code is provided to the article of clothing. The QR or other code is scannable by an electronic device, causing the electronic device to access a webpage or the like. The webpage (or similar information display) includes information typically found on a tag or label, together with additional dynamically-generated and organized content relevant to the article and/or person for whom the article was made. The techniques described herein are usable in connection with mass-produced, small batch/boutique items, as well as custom articles of clothing. Thus, it becomes possible to quickly and easily convey a broad scope of information about an article of clothing directly from that article of clothing, without having to include large and potentially irritating tags or labels.
US11615450B2
A chatbot check-in platform includes a salon application associated with a messenger chatbot, wherein a user requests via the chatbot an appointment for a salon service. The platform includes a location service in communication with the salon application for finding a salon nearby a user; a salon services API in communication with the salon application for finding a requested salon service and time for appointment for the salon; and a database interface responding to a request for making an appointment with the salon. A method of using a chatbot check-in platform includes instructions, when executed by a processor, that cause the processor to execute actions including: receiving, by a first processor, a request received via an associated messenger chatbot for booking an appointment for a service provided by a salon, wherein the first processor is a processor of a device, the device includes machine readable memory accessible by the first processor; finding a salon and service, by the first processor in response the request; prompting, by the first processor, a booking for the salon and service via an associated chatbot; and upon receiving, by the first processor, a confirmation from the user via the chatbot, booking the salon and service.
US11615447B2
Example implementations are directed to eliminating or reducing the invoicing business process by using replicated states as single truth for sub-groups participating in a supply chain network involving a large number of transient partners in a low trust ecosystem. All activities of the business process such as invoicing are shared as single truth of replicated states for the subgroup. The confidential data involving terms of reference for business process is shared separately as single truth of replicated states among such partners. The validations for business process such as invoicing can be derived by executing smart contracts on such replicated states that have single truth about transactions among different sub-groups/channels in supply chain, thereby reducing/eliminating need for invoice generation that need to be manually verified, validated and acknowledged among supplier and customers for payments.
US11615445B2
Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for providing image recommendations are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a set of images; access a context segment graph comprising one or more nodes; identify a subset of images related to a node in the context segment graph; receive one or more user responses for the subset of images; generate one or more models based on the user responses; receive one or more candidate images for a creative campaign; determine, using at least one model, a relatedness value and a responsiveness value for at least a portion of the one or more candidate images; and display a listing of the plurality of candidate images, wherein the listing includes, for each candidate image, a confidence score and one or more of the relatedness and responsiveness values in context to the node.
US11615440B2
Provided herein are methods, apparatus, and computer program products for suppressing content from ranked positioning in electronic correspondence based on rules-based scoring. An example method comprising receiving a set of promotions selected for presentation to the consumer in the electronic correspondence, each promotion respectively associated with a promotion score, determining, using a rules-based filter comprising a set of rules, whether to modify a promotion score, including customer attributes and customer input to a promotion offering system, in an instance in which the promotion score is modified, determining whether to suppress presentation of the associate promotion in the electronic correspondence based at least in part on the modified promotion score, and generating the electronic correspondence to include one or more promotions and one or more ranked positions configured for displaying each of the one or more promotions in the electronic correspondence for presentation on a consumer device associated with the consumer.
US11615439B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products that provide for an improved and more efficient system for transmitting content to client devices. The embodiments disclose an apparatus that clusters user behavior based on platform session records. The platform session records comprise stored data associated with a plurality of user inputs received by the system for the duration of a platform session. The apparatus and methods transform the platform session records into data comprising a form that is usable for identifying clusters of platform sessions. As a result of the clustering methodologies, the apparatus is configured to deliver content specifically optimized for users of client devices. The present disclosure thus provides for an improved networked system that reduces the amount of data transferred via the network and allows for a more efficient system that has reduced infrastructure requirements and improved performance.
US11615428B1
A carbon credit generation methodology that uses a base map and other spatially explicit data to develop a baseline scenario for a forested property. One or more alternate scenarios are compared against the baseline scenario. The alternate scenario may for example include harvest deferral, alternate forest management, and.or reforestation. The effect of implementing the alternate scenario for a future activity period is modeled to determine potential carbon credit production prior to committing the property to the alternate scenario. The state of the property is confirmed at the end of the activity period before verified carbon credits are issued.
US11615424B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for dynamically conducting messaging campaigns, responsive to customer events. A set of parameters for a messaging campaign includes an initial schedule for providing a set of messages from a set of data objects. Responsive to a customer event associated with a first customer, an adjusted schedule is generated for providing the set of messages to the first customer. The adjusted schedule differs from the initial schedule in a timing for providing at least a first message, where the first message is scheduled to be provided at an adjusted timing proportionate to a time period between the customer event and a first milestone event. The first message is generated from a first data object and transmitted to the first customer, in accordance with the adjusted schedule.
US11615414B2
Systems, methods, and non-transient machine-interpretable data representing executable instruction sets and/or other products for the processing of data for the 5 secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in the processing of payment transactions and other secure data processes. In various aspects and embodiments the disclosure provides secure means for the authorization of sensitive and other data processes subject to controlled access. Such processes include, for example the creation, administration, 10 authorization, virtualization, storage, and other manipulation or processing of electronic data representing characteristics of, instructions for, and information associated with consumer, business, and other payment accounts, and other forms of secure payment elements, such as payment tokens; and data useful in processing transactions using such accounts and elements. Information associated with 15 particular payment means, such as accounts or payment tokens, can be stored, for example, in a data set, usually secure, sometimes referred to as a virtual or electronic wallet, or a secure payment token.
US11615409B1
Methods, systems, and devices are described. A battery management system may receive, in accordance with a smart contract in support of a blockchain, an indication of an agreement between a sponsor and a user of a rechargeable battery associated with a battery identifier. The agreement may indicate battery usage conditions and a token release amount for each of the battery usage conditions. The battery management system may receive battery usage information associated with the battery identifier of the rechargeable battery. The battery management system may determine that the battery usage information satisfies the battery usage conditions. The battery management system may cause execution of a token release action responsive to determining that the battery usage information satisfies the battery usage conditions. The token release action may cause transmission of the token release amount of tokens managed by the smart contract to participants set forth in the agreement.
US11615406B2
A system for providing a service at a self-service machine having a device identifier and that does not have internet connectivity or that is in an off-line state includes: a validation server that stores the device identifier, the validation server being in communication with a mobile device of a user, but not with the self-service machine. The self-service machine is configured to: receive a selection of a service; generate a service request identifier for the selected service; add the service request identifier to a list of service requests to be fulfilled; and communicate, to the mobile device by a first direct communication method, service request data including the service request identifier, a terminal identifier of the self-service machine, and an address of a validation server.
US11615403B1
A processor-implemented system and method for dynamically retrieving an attribute value of an identity claim for a user using a digitally signed access token that is digitally signed by a user device, at a relying party device associated with a relying party. The method includes (i) making an API call to retrieve at least one identity claim for the user, (ii) processing each identity claim of the user, with the relying party device, to identify if at least one by-reference identity claim that includes a URL of an endpoint, (iii) obtaining the digitally signed access token that is digitally signed by the user device, (iv) invoking the URL of the endpoint with the at least one by-reference identity claim and the digitally signed access token, and (v) dynamically retrieving the attribute value from the URL of the endpoint from an issuing party device associated with an issuing party.
US11615392B2
Systems and methods for the of use information from application programming interfaces on wearable devices in third party applications are provided. A system comprising a user device, data storage, an application programming interface and an application is provided. In this system, there is a user device that includes a health monitor. The health monitor includes sensors and associated software that enable it to obtain health information about the wearer of the user device. In this system, there is data storage on the user device that stores the health information as user health data. In this system, there is an application programming interface on the user device that enables the health monitor to share the user health data with other applications executing on the user device.
US11615371B2
A system for initiating object transfer, the system comprising a computing device configured to receive a plurality of object transfer requests, generate, using the plurality of object transfer requests, a transfer apparatus interaction platform for a plurality of transfer apparatuses to proffer at least an object transfer request, determine transfer apparatus interaction data via the transfer apparatus interaction platform, wherein transfer apparatus interaction data comprises a proffer of an object transfer request, a proposed window of time for object transfer, and an object transfer compatibility metric, select the proffer from a plurality of proffers from the plurality of transfer apparatuses, wherein selecting comprises calculating a difference between the plurality of object transfer compatibility metrics associated with the plurality of proffers using a pairwise operation, and provide the transfer apparatus corresponding to the selected proffer the object transfer request.
US11615365B1
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for tracking and scoring robot or machine performance. The robot or machine performance may comprise a metric that can be computed based on operational data for the robot or machine.
US11615359B2
Techniques for detecting cycle data can include determining object properties and motion properties in a set of consecutive frames of a sensor stream. The cycle data can be determined from the object properties and motion properties without detecting constituent objects. The object properties and motion properties enable improved detection of cycle data in the presence of different object poses, different positions of the object, partial occlusion of the object, varying illumination, variation in the background, and or the like.
US11615357B2
Systems and techniques for dynamic memoryless demand-supply pegging are described herein. An identification may be received of a demand to be pegged. An inventory may be determined for a material node at a time bucket. A set of other demands may be identified for the material node at the time bucket. A quantity to be pegged may be calculated. A quantity to skip may be calculated based on a sum of demand units corresponding to members of the set of other demands having a lower priority than the demand. A supply set of units may be identified. A pegged subset of the supply set of units may be generated by skipping members of the supply units equal to the quantity to skip. A graphical representation of the supply set of units for the time bucket may be output including identification of members of the pegged subset.
US11615347B2
A method includes training a first machine learning model based on a set of training data and based on the training, determining a first performance metric corresponding to the first machine learning model. The method also includes determining one or more past performance metrics corresponding to one or more machine learning models that were previously trained based on the set of training data. Based on the first performance metric and the one or more past performance metrics, the method includes automatically selecting a second machine learning model to train based on the set of training data.
US11615345B2
A system for optimizing a machine learning model. The machine learning model generates predictions based on at least one input feature vector, each input feature vector having one or more vector values; and an optimization module with a processor and an associated memory, the optimization module being configured to: create at least one slice of the predictions based on at least one vector value, determine at least one optimization metric of the slice that is based on at least a total number of predictions for the vector value, and optimize the machine learning model based on the optimization metric.
US11615341B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for customizable machine learning models. In some implementations, data is received, including (i) example data sets and (ii) data specifying one or more criteria to be assessed. A set of multiple models is trained, where each model in the set of models is trained using a training data set comprising a different subset of the example data sets. Output of the models is obtained for various example data sets, and a combination of n-grams is selected based on the outputs. The example data sets are used to train a classifier to evaluate input data with respect to the specified one or more criteria based on whether the input data includes the n-grams in the selected combination of n-grams.
US11615340B2
An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system. The host device comprises a multi-path input-output driver configured to control delivery of input-output operations from the host device to the storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through the network. The multi-path input-output driver is further configured to collect information characterizing input-output patterns for each of a plurality of different applications executing on the host device, and to provide the collected information to a machine learning system. The machine learning system utilizes the collected information to generate one or more application predictions based at least in part on analysis of observed input-output patterns. The collected information in some embodiments comprises statistical distributions of numbers of input-output operations having payload sizes falling into specified ranges over a given time period.
US11615334B2
Quantum memory management is becoming a pressing problem, especially given the recent research effort to develop new and more complex quantum algorithms. The disclosed technology concerns various example memory management schemes for quantum computing. For example, certain embodiments concern methods for managing quantum memory based on reversible pebbling games constructed from SAT-encodings.
US11615328B2
Effective management of cloud computing service levels (e.g. availability, performance, security) and financial risk is dependent on the cloud service provider's (CSP's) capability and trustworthiness. The invention applies industry cloud service level agreements (SLAs) with statistical and machine learning models for assessing CSPs and cloud services, and predicting performance and compliance against service levels. Cloud SLAs (ISO/IEC, EC, ENISA), cloud security requirements and compliance (CSA CCM, CAIQ), along with CSP performance (SLAs, cloud services) are analyzed via Graph Theory analysis and MCDA AHP to calculate CSP trustworthiness levels. CSP trustworthiness levels are input with CSP SLA content, cloud service performance measurements and configuration parameters into machine learning Regression analysis models to predict CSP cloud service performance and cloud SLA compliance, and enable model analysis and comparison. This can be used to determine which regression variables provide the highest predictive accuracy, enabling cloud service customers (CSCs) and CSPs opportunities for transparency, traceability and effective governance of cloud service levels, cloud services and management of risk.
US11615327B2
Disclosed herein are an artificial intelligence device including a memory configured to store user interest data, a processor configured to generate a keyword combination including at least one of a time keyword, a place keyword, an object keyword or an application type keyword based on the user interest data, and a display configured to display at least one of a time keyword, a place keyword, an object keyword or an application type keyword included in the keyword combination.
US11615325B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for a case-based reasoning using universal ontologies. Embodiments of the systems and methods provide for comparing current and past cases based on the universal ontologies and sorting the past cases based on the comparison, wherein the universal ontology integrates authority information associated with the current and past cases.
US11615323B2
A method for verifying a material data chain (MDC) that is maintained by a creator is disclosed. The method includes receiving an unverified portion of the MDC from the creator including a set of consecutive material data blocks (MDBs). Each respective MDB includes respective material data, respective metadata, and a creator verification value. The method includes modifying a genomic differentiation object assigned to the verification cohort based on first genomic regulation instructions (GRI) that were used by the creator to generate the creator verification value. For each MDB in the unverified portion, the method includes determining a verifier verification value based on the MDB, a preceding MDB in the MDC, and a genomic engagement factor (GEF) determined with respect to the MDB. The GEF corresponding to an MDB is determined by extracting a sequence from the metadata of a MDB and mapping the sequence into the modified genomic differentiation object.
US11615322B1
Some embodiments provide a compiler for optimizing the implementation of a machine-trained network (e.g., a neural network) on an integrated circuit (IC). The compiler of some embodiments receives a specification of a machine-trained network including multiple layers of computation nodes and generates a graph representing options for implementing the machine-trained network in the IC. In some embodiments, the graph includes nodes representing options for implementing each layer of the machine-trained network and edges between nodes for different layers representing different implementations that are compatible. The compiler of some embodiments is also responsible for generating instructions relating to shutting down (and waking up) memory units of cores. In some embodiments, the memory units to shutdown are determined by the compiler based on the data that is stored or will be stored in the particular memory units.
US11615320B1
An approach includes identification of a machine learning model for processing and generating an ordered set of weights with varying precisions and metadata that specifies where those values can be found in order to allow the identification of weights needed during processing. In a first embodiment, the variable precision weights are separated into different memory segments where each segment has weights of only a single precision. In a second embodiment, the variable precision weights are provided in a memory where weights of different precisions are intermingled, and those weights are identified using a sequence of pairs of data representing a number of weights with the same precision and the precision of those weights. In some embodiments, both the first and second embodiments are combined, where some segments contain weights with only a single precision and at least one segment stores weights with different precisions within a respective segment.
US11615318B2
A pattern recognition device comprising: a coupled network of damped, nonlinear, dynamic elements configured to generate an output response in response to at least one environmental condition, wherein each element has an associated multi-stable potential energy function that defines multiple energy states of an individual element, and wherein the elements are tuned such that environmental noise triggers stochastic resonance between energy levels of at least two elements; a processor configured to monitor the output response over time and to determine a probability that the pattern recognition device is in a given state based on the monitored output response; and detecting a pattern in the at least one environmental condition based on the probability.
US11615316B1
A method of training a learning network is described. The method includes generating a first estimate of a gradient for the learning network and generating subsequent estimates of the gradient using a feedback network. The feedback network generates improved perturbations for the subsequent gradient estimates. Gradient estimates include the first estimate of the gradient and the subsequent estimates of the gradient. The method also includes using the gradient estimates to determine weights in the learning network. The improved perturbations may include lower variance perturbations.
US11615311B2
Described herein are embodiments of a unified neural network framework to integrate Topic modeling, Word embedding and Entity Embedding (TWEE) for representation learning of inputs. In one or more embodiments, a novel topic sparse autoencoder is introduced to incorporate discriminative topics into the representation learning of the input. Topic distributions of inputs are generated from a global viewpoint and are utilized to enable autoencoder to learn topical representations. A sparsity constraint may be added to ensure that the most discriminative representations are related to topics. In addition, both words and entity related information may be embedded into the network to help learn a more comprehensive input representation. Extensive empirical experiments show that embodiments of the TWEE framework outperform the state-of-the-art methods on different datasets.
US11615294B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus based on a neural network model. The method includes acquiring a plurality of training samples, each of the training samples comprising an identifier of an input word, an identifier of an output word, and position information, wherein in one of the training samples, the output word is a context of the input word, and the position information indicates a relative position between the output word and the input word; calling a position relation-based Continuous Skip-gram Model (Skip-Gram), with each of the training samples as an input, to obtain an output result, the output result comprising a word matrix embedding of the input word, a word matrix embedding of the output word and a position matrix embedding of the position information; and updating the position relation-based Skip-Gram based on the output result to train the position relation-based Skip-Gram.
US11615286B2
A computing system and a compressing method for neural network parameters are provided. In the method, multiple neural network parameters are obtained. The neural network parameters are used for a neural network algorithm. Every at least two neural network parameters are grouped into an encoding combination. The number of neural network parameters in each encoding combination is the same. The encoding combinations are compressed with the same compression target bit number. Each encoding combination is compressed independently. The compression target bit number is not larger than a bit number of each encoding combination. Thereby, the storage space can be saved and excessive power consumption for accessing the parameters can be prevented.
US11615282B2
A system and method for remote identification of a driver of a vehicle includes a processor, an output device in communication with the processor, an RFID receiver in communication with the processor, and a network access device in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to transmit the received RFID to a database via the network access the device and receive from the database the name of a person or item associated with the RFID device and criminal history of the person or the item associated with the RFID device. The processor is configured to provide to an operator of the law enforcement vehicle the name of a person or item associated with the RFID device and the criminal history of the person or the item associated with the RFID device and provide a warning how to engage the person or the item associated with the RFID device.
US11615281B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for light-based authentication of a payment card. The payment card may include a randomized mix of materials. The materials may include transparent or translucent materials. A light source may shine light on a surface of the payment card. Light passing through the card may generate a light pattern that is unique to the payment card. The light pattern may be captured and compared to a reference light pattern to authenticate the payment card. In some embodiments, photodetectors may detect light patterns generated through interactions with the card materials.
US11615279B1
A radio-frequency system including: a self-complementary antenna characterized by an input impedance substantially independent of signal frequency across an operational frequency band; a passive coupling device characterized by a characteristic impedance and configured to couple the self-complementary antenna to a signal generator and a set of signal processors; a resistive matching network electrically connected between the self-complementary antenna and the passive coupling device configured to match the characteristic impedance of the passive coupling device to the input impedance of the self-complementary antenna; and a back-coupling line characterized by a substantially constant group delay across the operational frequency band configured to electromagnetically couple the signal generator to the set of signal processors.
US11615278B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus that improves the performance when performing image processing accompanying an analysis. An image acquisition unit acquires processing image data for performing processing. A normal image processing unit performs normal image processing for normal output on the processing image data acquired by the image acquisition unit and outputs the normal image data. An analysis image processing unit performs analysis image processing accompanied by analysis in parallel with the normal image processing by the normal image processing unit and outputs the analysis image data. A merge processing unit merges the normal image data output by the normal image processing unit and the analysis image data output by the analysis image processing unit and outputs print data for printing.
US11615271B2
Provided is a process of modeling methods organized in racks of a machine learning pipeline to facilitate optimization of performance using modelling methods for implementation of machine learning design in an object-oriented modeling (OOM) framework, the process including: writing classes using object-oriented modelling of optimization methods, modelling methods, and modelling racks; writing parameters and hyper-parameters of the modeling methods as attributes as the modeling methods; scanning modelling racks classes to determine first class definition information; selecting a collection of rack and selecting modeling method objects; scanning modelling method classes to determine second class definition information; assigning racks and locations within the racks to modeling method objects; and invoking the class definition information to produce object manipulation functions that allow access the methods and attributes of at least some of the modeling method objects, the manipulation functions being configured to effectuate writing locations within racks and attributes of racks.
US11615270B2
A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire medical image data on the basis of tomosynthesis imaging of a test object, and input the acquired medical image data of the test object to a trained model to acquire a two-dimensional image data, the trained model being generated by learning of two-dimensional image data on the basis of X-ray imaging of a person and image data on the basis of tomosynthesis imaging of the person who is subjected to the X-ray imaging.
US11615260B2
There is disclosed a method of and a system for predicting text in an image using one or more constraints. The image is input to a machine learning algorithm (MLA). The MLA outputs a probability distribution. The probability distribution comprises a predicted probability for each of a plurality of pairs, where each pair comprises a class and a next state of the MLA. The states of the probability distribution are added to a set of states to be searched. States that are end states or that fail to satisfy at least one of the constraints are removed from the set of states to be searched. States of the set of states to be searched are input to the MLA. The search is repeated with new states output by the MLA. End states output by the MLA are output as output states that each comprise a sequence of characters.
US11615259B2
The present invention relates to a generation of a signal by executing a waveform dataset comprising waveform descriptive parameters. The execution of the waveform description parameters is limited by target device information specifying one or more specific target devices and time information specifying an execution period of the waveform descriptive parameters. By providing a waveform dataset comprising not only the waveform descriptive parameters, but also further information, in particular time information for limiting the execution period of the waveform descriptive parameters, the generation of the respective waveform signal is controlled.
US11615255B2
Machine classifiers in accordance with embodiments of the invention capture long-term temporal dependencies in the dialogue data better than the existing RNN-based architectures. Additionally, machine classifiers may model the joint distribution of the context and response as opposed to the conditional distribution of the response given the context as employed in sequence-to-sequence frameworks. Machine classifiers in accordance with embodiments further append random paddings before and/or after the input data to reduce the syntactic redundancy in the input data, thereby improving the performance of the machine classifiers for a variety of dialogue-related tasks. The random padding of the input data may further provide regularization during the training of the machine classifier and/or reduce exposure bias. In a variety of embodiments, the input data may be encoded based on subword tokenization.
US11615253B1
Systems and methods for managing a set of electronic assets from a single location are disclosed. The method includes providing a portal with a network security access control. The method includes determining that login credentials input to the access control are associated with a set of electronic assets corresponding to a plurality of third-party computing systems with application programming interface (API) gateways configured to accept API calls directed to changes in functionality of the electronic assets. The method includes presenting, via the portal, a virtual icon to identify a coordinated action with respect to the set of electronic assets and, in response to a selection of the virtual icon, executing a set of API calls that include an asset-specific API call to each third-party computing system in the plurality of third-party computing systems to implement the coordinated action on all electronic assets in the set of electronic assets.
US11615248B2
In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a reminder store comprising one or more reminders for a first user, wherein each reminder is associated with an initial activation-condition, determining a context associated with the first user based on signals from a client system associated with the first user, determining a suppression-condition associated with at least one of the reminders is met based on the context, and suppressing the at least one reminder for the first user.
US11615229B1
An approach includes a new power and ground structure description language (PSDL) will allow the user to describe the desired routing pattern for each layer and on a user defined region by region basis, including how the pattern will be laid out in the design with respect to other patterns from a different layer. The new PSDL also gives the complete picture of the entire power and ground structure, instead of just a layer-by-layer view from a single command. It also allowed flexibility in alignment especially when dealing with track misalignments, thus avoiding the extensive trial-and-error steps needed to calculate offsets and distances to maintain pattern alignment using previous approaches. Additionally, because PSDL is not tightly dependent on the design size and/or floorplan, transferring the desired power and ground structure from one design to another will be very easy with only few adjustments.
US11615227B2
An integrated circuit design method includes receiving an integrated circuit design, and determining a floor plan for the integrated circuit design. The floor plan includes an arrangement of a plurality of functional cells and a plurality of tap cells. Potential latchup locations in the floor plan are determined, and the arrangement of at least one of the functional cells or the tap cells is modified based on the determined potential latchup locations.
US11615224B2
A static matrix model in a viscoelastic body is generated for each environmental temperature condition. A generalized Maxwell model is generated for each environmental temperature condition using a matrix of the static matrix model. A spring coefficient and a damper viscosity coefficient of a material test piece is identified as a function of a strain rate norm based on a measurement result of the material test piece using a temperature-time conversion rule. An average strain rate of a part is identified as a function of a displacement rate vector. A dynamic spring coefficient and a damper viscosity coefficient of the part are identified as a function of a component of the displacement rate vector. A generalized Maxwell model for analysis is generated by applying the dynamic spring coefficient and the damper viscosity coefficient identified as the function of the component of the displacement rate vector to the generalized Maxwell model.
US11615220B2
A method implemented by a computer for the real-time simulation of a force and/or of a moment applied to a wing in a fluid flow, wherein the body is previously modelled by at least two scalar and vector point sources of a velocity field, the method including at least one of the steps: assessing at least one element selected among a force and a moment, through a linear function dependent on the main velocity vector, V, of the flow; at least one flow rate, referred to as the scalar mass flow rate, As; and at least one flow rate, referred to as the vector mass flow rate, AR, associated with the sources, on at least one point corresponding to one of the sources.
US11615219B2
A method of generating an information enhanced model of an industrial plant. The method includes providing a first digitalized topology of a plant by processing a spatial scan of the plant, wherein in course of the processing, plant structural elements and their interconnections are recognized and digitalized, providing a second digitalized topology of the plant, based on a process and instrumentation diagram, the second topology being representative of plant structural elements and their interconnections, and correlating the first and the second digitalized topology by at least semi-automatically identifying and interlinking corresponding structural elements in the first and second digitalized topology.
US11615215B2
An image display method includes displaying, by a terminal, a first image on a display at a first screen refresh rate, where an output frame rate of the first image is a first frame rate, and displaying, by the terminal, a second image on the display after detecting that a preset condition is met. A noise parameter is superimposed on a part of the second image, the part on which the noise parameter is superimposed is displayed at a second screen refresh rate, and an output frame rate of the part is a second frame rate. The second image includes a plurality of frames of noise-added sub-images. The second frame rate is higher than the first frame rate, and the second screen refresh rate is higher than the first screen refresh rate.
US11615204B1
A method of validating the contents of an electronic file. The method comprises requesting an electronic file by an application executing on a computer system by providing a multi-segment filename, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each of the segments of the multi-segment filename and one of the segments of the multi-segment filename is a hash of a content of the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename, receiving by the application the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename, determining a hash over the content of the electronic file by the application, comparing by the application the hash determined by the application to the hash of the content stored in the one of the segments of the multi-segment filename, and, based on the two hashes agreeing, opening by the application the contents of the electronic file for use.
US11615192B2
Aspects of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for identifying data processing activities associated with various data assets based on data discovery results. In accordance various aspects, a method is provided comprising: identifying and scanning data assets to detect a subset of the data assets, wherein each asset of the subset is associated with a particular data element used for target data; generating a prediction for each pair of data assets of the subset on the target data flowing between the pair; identifying a data flow for the target data based on the prediction generated for each pair; and identifying a data processing activity associated with handling the target data based on a correlation identified for the particular data element, the subset, and/or the data flow with a known data element, subset, and/or data flow for the data processing activity.
US11615189B2
In some embodiments, there is provided a method for updating a gateway in a substation. The method includes receiving, at a gateway from a server, an update package assigned with a first identifier, the update package including at least one of: a configuration associated with at least one monitoring device connected to the gateway; and an application configurable to collect data from the at least one monitoring device; in response to receiving the update package, determining whether the first identifier matches a second identifier of the gateway; and in response to determining that the first identifier matches the second identifier of the gateway, updating the gateway with the received update package.
US11615184B2
A system/process/computer program product for building multi-representational learning models for static analysis of source code includes receiving training data, wherein the training data includes a set of source code files for training a multi-representational learning (MRL) model for classifying malicious source code and benign source code based on a static analysis; generating a first feature vector based on a set of characters extracted from the set of source code files; generating a second feature vector based on a set of tokens extracted from the set of source code files; and performing an ensemble of the first feature vector and the second feature vector to form a target feature vector for classifying malicious source code and benign source code based on the static analysis.
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An information processing device includes: a storage that stores determination criterion information indicating a determination criterion for determining whether or not a behavior of an application operating on a device provided to a vehicle is normal; and a detector that obtains behavior information indicating the behavior of the application, and detects an anomaly in the behavior of the application, based on (i) state information that indicates a state of the mobility and is obtained via the mobility network and (ii) the behavior information obtained and the determination criterion information stored in the storage.
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A spammy app detection system may search a database for any new social media application discovered during a recent time period. A spammy app detection algorithm can be executed on the spammy app detection system on an hourly basis to determine whether any of such applications is spammy (i.e., posting to a social media page anomalously). The spammy app detection algorithm has a plurality of stages. When a new social media application fails any of the stages, it is identified as a spammy app. The spammy app detection system can update the database accordingly, ban the spammy application from further posting to a social media page monitored by the spammy app detection system, notify an entity associated with the social media page, further process the spammy application, and so on. In this way, the spammy app detection system can reduce digital risk and spam attacks.
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The disclosed technology relates to verifying and validating a received executable function to be executed on a function as a service platform (FaaS), by applying one or more verification and validation techniques prior to runtime. The verified and validated executable function is temporarily stored. The temporarily stored verified and validated executable function is executed on the FaaS platform at the runtime.
