US11638601B2
Bone compression systems for internal fixation of bone portions include one or more spring washers having ultra high load capacity and ultra low displacement to close diminution gaps that develop in a discontinuity between the bone portions after fixation. The spring washers may be included in implant systems with bone screws and/or bone plates.
US11638596B2
Reamer instruments and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for reaming bone to facilitate in situ assembly of a bone anchor. In some embodiments, the instrument can include a feedback mechanism configured to alert the user when sufficient bone has been removed to facilitate assembly of the bone anchor. The feedback mechanism can be triggered by a movable shaft of the instrument that is displaced by the shank portion of the bone anchor as the surrounding bone is reamed.
US11638595B2
A gold marker recovery device for radiotherapy positioning and its using method comprises a positioning gold marker and a recovery clamp, the positioning gold marker comprises a gold marker body and an elastic fixed structure, the elastic fixed structure comprises a fixed segment, an extending segment and a spiral segment connected in sequence; the fixed segment is embedded in the gold marker body so that the fixed segment is closely connected with the gold marker body, A magnetic ball is arranged at one end of the gold marker body away from the extending segment; the recovery clamp comprises an operating handle, the rear end of the operating handle is connected with an outer sheath tube in a hollow structure, and the outer sheath tube is connected with a zipper for driving the clamp to open and close.
US11638590B2
An articulating mechanism capable of transmitting torque for remote manipulation of a surgical or diagnostic tool comprises at least two adjacent links. A first adjacent link of the adjacent links has a ball and a second adjacent link of the adjacent links has a socket for receiving the ball to form a ball and socket joint. The ball and socket joint includes at least one engaging pin and reciprocal slot that provides for torque transmission between the adjacent links while also allowing for pivoting movement of the first adjacent link relative to the second adjacent link. The articulating mechanism also comprises at least one set of cables connecting the first adjacent link and the second adjacent link to one another such that movement of the first adjacent link causes corresponding relative movement of the second adjacent link.
US11638564B2
A medical monitoring system for use in residential facilities, nursing homes, or home environments is disclosed. The system utilizes a variety of modules and wearable medical devices that convey vital patient information to a series of smart hubs which are connected to the cloud. In the event a change in medical status of a patient occurs, the health care workers receive an Alert notifying them of which specific patient needs attention. The system is monitored using a specialized dashboard.
US11638562B2
The present invention discloses a brain activity analysis method and apparatus, which is based on a nonlinear waveform decomposition technology, wherein the changes of the intrinsic features in brain waves are decomposed and demodulated to extract the modulation signals of the components, including the frequency-modulation signals and the amplitude-modulation signals. The present invention further uses a feature mask to determine whether to proceed further decomposition and demodulation of the extracted modulation signals. If not, the multidimensional changes of the intrinsic features are obtained according to the feature mask. Then, quantitation and identification is performed to obtain the status of brain function. The present invention not only effectively increases the accuracy of the identification but also uses the feature mask to obviously reduce the complexity and the load of computation.
US11638560B2
A monitoring device configured to be attached to a body of a subject includes a sensor having at least one optical emitter and at least one optical detector, and a processor coupled to the sensor. The processor is configured to instruct the at least one optical emitter to emit a different wavelength of light into the body of the subject during each of a series of respective time intervals. The processor is configured to measure a respective different physiological parameter from signals produced by the at least one optical detector upon receiving light from the body of the subject during each of the respective time intervals.
US11638558B2
The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein for an intravenous drip, blood test, and the like. The Miniature projection head may have a cavity for a power source or it may have a power source located in a body portion of the Miniature Vein Enhancer. The Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to one of several improved needle protectors, or the Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to a body similar to a flashlight for hand held use. The Miniature Vein Enhancer of the present invention may also be attached to a magnifying glass, a flat panel display, and the like.
US11638557B2
A wearable device measures heart rate recovery of a user in a non-clinical setting. The wearable device comprises a heart rate detector configured to detect heart rate data of the user, an activity sensor configured to detect motion of the user, and a processor. The processor is configured to identify a start of an activity by the user using the motion detected by the activity sensor. Responsive to detecting the start of the activity, the processor monitors the motion detected by the activity sensor to identify an end of the activity. A regression analysis is performed on heart rate data detected by the heart rate detector during a period of time after the end of the activity, and the heart rate recovery of the user is determined using the regression analysis.
US11638553B1
The present invention relates to a device for skin condition analysis and skin disease diagnosis. The skin condition analysis and skin disease diagnosis device according to the present invention is an all-in-one type device that can perform not only cosmetic skin condition analysis but also diagnosis of medical skin disease items.
US11638548B2
Methods and kits for treating a cardiac arrhythmia using a platelet rich plasma (PRP) composition are provided. Any type of arrhythmia may be treated using the PRP composition. The PRP composition may comprise PRP developed using blood collected from a patient suffering the cardiac arrhythmia. The PRP composition may be buffered to a physiological pH and may include one or more anti-arrhythmic agents, anti-coagulants, or other drugs. The PRP composition may be delivered using a nebulizer, minimally invasively, or surgically.
US11638538B2
A system for fall prevention includes a platform for supporting a patient, the platform including rails and rail sensors, an image capturing device for capturing images of the patient, a patient monitor for interactive communication with the patient, a health monitoring station for receiving rail sensor data and communicating with the patient monitor, and an edge network device co-located with the platform and communicating with the station and the image capturing device. The edge network device receives image data from the image capturing device when the rail sensors indicate that the rail is down and the patient is at risk to themselves, anonymizes the image data to generate a skeleton image, determines a posture associated with the skeleton image, triggers alerts at the station when the patient is predicted to be sitting, and triggers escalated alerts at the station when the patient is predicted to be standing.
US11638532B2
The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.
US11638524B2
For localizing gingival inflammation within a user's mouth the following steps are carried out using an oral care device (10): (i) sequentially emitting (520) light by a plurality of light sources (48) in a first sequential pattern, wherein at least some of the plurality of light sources are configured to emit light of different wavelengths; (ii) sequentially emitting (530) light in a second sequential pattern which is the reverse of the first sequential pattern; (iii) obtaining (540), by a light detector (40), reflectance measurements to generate first reflectance data from light emitted in the first sequential pattern, and to generate second reflectance data from light emitted in the second sequential pattern; (iv) averaging (550), by a controller (30), first reflectance data and second reflectance data for each wavelength to generate averaged reflectance data; and (v) determining (570), using the averaged reflectance data, whether gingiva at the location is inflamed.
US11638522B2
The methods and systems provided can automatically determine an Arteriolar-to-Venular diameter Ratio, AVR, in blood vessels, such as retinal blood vessels and other blood vessels in vertebrates. The AVR is an important predictor of increases in the risk for stroke, cerebral atrophy, cognitive decline, and myocardial infarct.
US11638513B2
A dishwasher having a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber that receives dishes for treatment, a dish rack located in the tub and having a bottom wall and at least a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, the side wall including a set of vertical tines and a shelf having a planar body extending along a length and operably coupled to the set of vertical tines and rotatable between a stowed position that is substantially vertical and a deployed position that is substantially horizontal.
US11638510B2
An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data representing an editable mission timeline including data representing a sequence of rooms to be cleaned, navigate the cleaning robot to clean the rooms following the sequence, track operational events occurring in each of the rooms, and transmit data about time spent navigating each room included in the sequence.
US11638509B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a body having a space that allows air to flow therethrough. The vacuum cleaner includes a suction inlet that introduces the air into the body and a first cyclone in the body. The first cyclone separates foreign substances from the air introduced into the suction inlet. The vacuum cleaner includes a dust separation module having a filter unit that separates foreign substances from the air introduced from the first cyclone. The dust separation module also includes a second cyclone arranged within and separated from the filter unit. The second cyclone includes a cyclone base, a storage unit arranged adjacent to a lower portion of the second cyclone, and a cyclone array coupled to the cyclone base. The cyclone array allows the air to pass through an upper portion of the second cyclone and discharge the foreign substances collected by the second cyclone to the storage unit.
US11638503B1
A dispenser comprising a cover housing, main housing, and base housing is provided. The cover housing includes an upper housing including a dispensing mechanism for dispensing cleaning solution from a holding reservoir. The main housing includes a cleaning solution storage reservoir, and a positive-displacement mechanism for electromechanically transporting cleaning solution from the storage reservoir to the holding reservoir. The base housing includes a ratcheting mechanism for causing the positive-displacement mechanism to rotate, and a power-spring mechanism for generating resistance against the ratcheting mechanism. The dispenser further includes a microprocessor configured to receive a signal indicating a sensing system has identified a dispense trigger, relay a signal to a pump motor to operate accordingly, determine that the holding reservoir is to be refilled, and actuate the positive-displacement mechanism to refill the holding reservoir. The dispenser further includes an electrical power system for supplying electrical power to electrical components of the dispenser.
US11638490B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for identifying a product purchased by a user and intelligent shelf system. The method includes acquiring a weight of products carried in a container, acquiring a first monitoring image acquired in a monitoring area corresponding to the container, identifying the first monitoring image, and obtaining an identification result, wherein the identification result comprises user identity information when it is determined that the weight of the products is reduced, acquiring a time when at least one product carried in the container is picked up, and determining information of at least one picked-up product, obtaining the user identity information corresponding to the at least one picked-up product, and associating the user identity information with the information of the at least one picked-up product.
US11638488B2
A cushioning structure includes a first layer of a three-dimensional structured mat of extruded entangled filaments, the cushioning structure includes a second layer of a three-dimensional structured mat of extruded entangled filaments, and the cushioning structure includes an intermediate layer between the first layer of the three-dimensional structured mat and the second layer of the three-dimensional structured mat.
US11638486B2
A furniture object, configured to store a foldable bed, may include a fixed panel and a foldable support platform including distal and proximate support panels. The fixed panel may include a bottom panel, an upper surface of the bottom panel at least partially defining a bottom inner surface of a compartment within an interior of the furniture object. The proximate support panel may be hingeably connected at opposite edges to the distal support panel and the one or more fixed panels via separate hingeable connections. The foldable support platform may between a folded position and a deployed position via a scissors-type motion. In the folded position, the foldable support platform may partially enclose the compartment. In the deployed position, the foldable support platform and bottom panel may collectively define a sleeping platform that structurally supports a bed resting on the proximate and distal support panels and the bottom panel.
US11638479B2
A collapsible structure with opposite support panels and tab panels, comprising: two structure panels; at least two support panels, each connected to the structure panels via two folding lines at opposite; and at least two tab panels, each connected to the structure panels via two folding lines at opposite sides, each contains at least two internal folding lines perpendicular to the tab folding lines; wherein when the structure is in a collapsed position, the panels are adjacent and generally parallel to each other, the structure panels are folded; and wherein when the structure is in an erected position, the support panels are perpendicular to the structure panels and the tab panels are folded by the internal folding lines, each tab panel partially adjacent to one of the support panels to shape a fixed rod supporting the internal folding lines and inserted to support a rigid distance between the structure panels.
US11638477B2
In one embodiment, the invention can be a system for determining toothbrush effectiveness, the system comprising a data capture subsystem comprising at least one sensor and configured to generate brushing data during a participant brushing session directed entirely by the participant, and at least one processor configured to receive the brushing data from the data capture subsystem. A brushing simulation subsystem includes artificial teeth; and a robotic arm configured to: hold a toothbrush; and receive from the at least one processor instructions for a motion to be carried out by the robotic arm, the motion of the robotic arm causing the toothbrush to carry out an automated brushing session upon the artificial teeth, the motion of the robotic arm being based on the brushing data captured during the participant brushing session.
US11638459B2
Protective goggles for human use including a pair of protective goggles for human use with at least one lens, an upper edge that is positioned against the user's forehead and a lower edge that is positioned against the user's cheek. Each of the user's eyes are covered by a separate section of lens and each of these sections extends along at least one line of curvature. It is intended that each lens section has a first and a second line of curvature that, at least in substantial part, are positioned transversely to one another, and along which the individual sections of lens extend; furthermore, that the lines of curvature of one lens section are inclined towards the lines of curvature of the other lens section in terms of their positioning.
US11638457B2
A protective helmet having a protective shell, a low friction layer, and a comfort liner is disclosed. The protective shell includes an energy absorbing material and an inner surface. The low friction layer is coupled to the inner surface of the protective shell. The low friction layer may be plastic having a thickness of less than approximately 3 mm. The comfort liner is removably coupled to the low friction layer opposite the protective shell, and includes a low friction material, such as brushed nylon, adjacent the low friction liner. The comfort liner may be removably coupled protective shell with either clips that removably couple to receivers embedded in the brow of the helmet, with elastically deformable couplings that extend from the comfort liner to the protective shell, or both.
US11638456B1
A system and method for a protection helmet which has exterior moveable tiles to move upon impact and then retract to their original placements. The system prolongs the impact time by de-accelerating it and minimizing its damaging effects by spreading out the impact force over a larger surface area. A system and method for a helmet's face mask to absorb impact and return back to its original state whether impacted on its bars, interior/exterior assembly, or any part of the face mask. A system and method for a football helmet's padding to be multi-layered and have multiple ancillary cavities that compress and retract back to their original state.
US11638453B2
Aspects herein are directed to a sleeve having a first length in a retracted state and a second length in an extended state. The sleeve may have a third opening positioned between first and second openings of a cylindrical tube. A releasable fastener may be affixed proximate the third opening and hold the sleeve in the retracted state when fastened and may allow the sleeve to move to the extended state when unfastened. An insert may be affixed around a perimeter of the third opening. The insert may include a thumb receiving portion. The thumb receiving portion may have a thumb opening. The insert may be retained interior to the cylindrical tube when the sleeve is in the retracted state.
US11638452B2
A composite item of footwear and handwear having a main body to accommodate the hand/foot of a wearer of the item, the main body comprising an outer layer, an inner layer and a waterproof and breathable intermediate layer between the outer and inner layers, and an opening through which a foot/hand can be inserted, the opening defined by a cuff arrangement comprising a cuff region that comprises an end region of each of the inner and intermediate layers and a cuff inner portion of the outer layer that extends beyond the said end regions, the cuff arrangement further comprising a waterproof cuff band fixed to one or both of the cuff inner portion and end region of the inner layer to lie over and be fixed to the outside of the outer layer, the location at which the waterproof cuff band is fixed to the outer layer is at a distance from the opening that is greater than the distance between the opening and the location at which the waterproof cuff band is fixed to the cuff inner portion or end region of the inner layer.
US11638445B2
A smoking apparatus for attachment to a bottle includes a main base, a downstem element, and a mouthpiece assembly. The main base includes an upper and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a bowl receiving port configured to be attached to a bowl for containing smokable material, a smoke inlet conduit for providing passage of smoke between the bowl receiving port and a downstem element insertion port formed within the main base, a mouthpiece receiving port configured to be attached to a mouthpiece assembly, and a smoke outlet conduit for providing passage of smoke from an upper section of the bottle to the mouthpiece receiving port. The lower portion includes a flexible material configured to provide a force fit relationship with a bottle. The downstem element is configured to be attached within the downstem element insertion port. The downstem element is configured to extend into the bottle during use.
US11638438B2
The invention relates to improved liver health and lipid metabolism later in life upon ingestion of synbiotics early in life.
US11638432B2
The present invention relates to a feed additive comprising a Bacillus subtilis strain and a Bacillus licheniformis strain, a feed composition comprising the feed additive, and a method for producing the feed additive.
US11638430B2
An apparatus, configured and adapted for scalding slaughtered poultry, includes a scalding tank, which is open at the top, for receiving and for holding a liquid scalding medium, and a transport means, arranged above the scalding tank, for transporting the poultry in a hanging manner within the scalding tank along a scalding channel formed of a plurality of scalding channel sections from an input region to an output region. There is formed beneath the scalding channel a receiving compartment for scalding medium. There is arranged inside the receiving compartment at least one pump device as a turbulence-generating body for forming a pressure chamber which acts along the entire scalding channel. A corresponding method is also provided.
US11638428B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formulae 1, 1a, 1b and 2, wherein R1, R1a, R1b, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formulae 1, 1a and 1b, and methods for controlling a parasitic nematode comprising contacting the parasitic nematode or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or composition of Formulae 1, 1a, 1b and 2.
US11638425B2
A plant stress tolerance-inducing agent is provided that contains, as an active ingredient, a compound having a specific quinone skeleton. Alternatively, a plant stress tolerance-inducing agent is provided that contains, as an active ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,4-naphthoquinone, 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2,3-dichloro-5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2,3-dichloro-5-nitro-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2,3-dichloro-6-nitro-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2-methoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2-amino-3-chloro-1,4-naphthoquinone, a shikonin compound, and an alkannin compound.
US11638424B2
There is herein provided a mosquito attractant formulation comprising: (a) an aldehyde component; (b) a first monoterpene component; and (c) a second monoterpene component, wherein components (a) to (c) are defined in the description provided herein, 5 and products, uses and methods relating to the same. There is also herein provided the use of the compound HMBPP as a phagostimulant, and products and methods relating to the same.
US11638411B2
A deployable corral system for any upright wall, including a wall of a transport trailer, provides a readily deployable corral along the trailer, and is readily stowable along the trailer in a retracted configuration for travel. The corral includes a pair of spaced-apart and extendable corral rails with a pivoting cross-rail extending from the distal end of each extendable corral rail. When the extendable corral rails are extended the cross-rails are spaced from an exterior side of the livestock trailer, and when the extendable corral rails are retracted the cross-rail is positioned near an upright wall of the trailer. The deployable corral system optionally includes a manual deployment assist system to assist a user during deployment and stowage of the corral. Additional features may include a deployable shade awning, a deployable trough, and extendable vertical support stands.
US11638404B2
Machine suitable for driving posts into the ground, in particular for a vineyard or orchard trellising structure, at predefined locations, with centimetric precision, the machine comprising: an electronic control unit, a GPS sensor, a driving column mounted on a vehicle chassis, via an articulated positioning adjustment system, the column comprising a pole and a slide mounted so as to be able to slide substantially vertically, a driving bell mounted on the slide, a post guiding device, which comprises a gripper mounted on the slide and a guide shoe mounted at the base of the pole, the guide shoe being able to move between a working position and a retracted position, the articulated positioning adjustment system allowing the driving bell and the guiding device to be positioned directly above one of the predefined locations and to drive the post in vertically there.
US11638401B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for increasing tolerance to abiotic stress and/or for reducing the consequence of abiotic stress in a plant and/or part thereof. In some aspects, the method comprises contacting a plant and/or part thereof with a first composition comprising one or more of aminoguanidine, L-nitroarginine, L-nitroarginine methyl ester, 2,2′-bipyridine, 4-methylpyrazole, 8-hydroxyquiniline, caprylic acid, pyrazole, naringenin, kaempferol, quercetin, dodecanoic acid, and/or undecanoic acid, and/or a salt thereof; and a second composition comprising at least one dicarboxylic acid and/or a salt thereof.
US11638392B2
An agricultural implement comprising: a ground engaging tool; and an actuator mechanism (366; 466; 566). The actuator mechanism is configured to provide a bias force to the ground engaging tool such that it is biased towards a working position. The agricultural implement also includes a controller that is configured to automatically set the level of the bias force that is provided by the actuator mechanism based on control-data.
US11641785B2
A method of modifying a resonant frequency of a quantum device includes generating an ion beam having a beam energy and exposing a surface of the quantum device to the ion beam for an exposure time. The ion beam is incident onto the quantum device at an oblique angle that is less than 90 degrees as measured from the surface of the quantum device. The quantum device includes a Josephson junction, the ion beam exposing the quantum device proximate to the Josephson junction to modify a property of the Josephson junction, the property being associated with the resonant frequency of the quantum device.
US11641781B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a piezoelectric vibration unit attached to a rear surface of the display panel, and a member attached to at least one of a rear surface of the piezoelectric vibration unit and a portion of the rear surface of the display panel that surrounds the piezoelectric vibration unit. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a damping member attached to a rear surface of the display panel, and a piezoelectric vibration unit attached to a rear surface of the damping member.
US11641776B2
Organic compound, organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting device having the compound
Discussed is an organic compound having a benzofluorenocarbazole core and an aromatic or hetero aromatic groups bonded to a specific positions of the benzofluorenocarbazole core, and an organic light emitting diode and an organic light emitting device including the compound. The organic compound has a narrow Stokes Shift between an absorption spectrum peak and an emission spectrum peak, it has a broad spectral overlapping area between its absorption wavelength range and an emission wavelength range of another luminous material. Therefore, it can emit light having high color purity and exhibit excellent luminous efficiency.
US11641775B2
The present invention relates to certain fluorenes, to the use of the compounds in an electronic device, and to an electronic device comprising at least one of these compounds. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds and to a formulation and composition comprising one or more of the compounds.
US11641771B2
An electro-optical device includes a first light-emitting element including a first light-emitting region, a second light-emitting element including a second light-emitting region, a first filter, and a second filter. The area of the first light-emitting region is smaller than the area of the second light-emitting region, and a relationship (Lf11−Le11)>(Lf21−Le21) is satisfied when the length of the first light-emitting region is Le11, the length of the second light-emitting region is Le21, the length of the first filter is Lf11, and the length of the second filter is Lf21.
US11641759B2
Disclosed are a manufacturing method of a display panel, a display panel and a display device. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: providing a base substrate; forming a planarization layer on a side of the base substrate; forming a first film layer on a side of the planarization layer facing away from the base substrate; forming an anode via penetrating through the first film layer and the planarization layer; forming an anode layer on a side of the first film layer facing away from the base substrate; patterning the anode layer to form a first opening on the anode layer; and after patterning the anode layer, patterning the first film layer to form a second opening on the first film layer. A material of the first film layer includes a non-metallic material.
US11641758B2
A display device may include a hole, a display element, a switching element, a groove, a planarization layer, and a cover layer. The switching element may be electrically connected to the display element. The encapsulation layer may cover the display element. The groove may be located between the hole and the display element. A portion of the planarization layer may be located between a first edge of the planarization layer and a second edge of the planarization and may be located in the groove. The first edge of the planarization layer may be located closer to the display element than the second edge of the planarization layer. The cover layer may at least partially cover the first edge of the planarization layer.
US11641756B2
A display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed, in which a cathode electrode is not separated from an organic light emitting layer. The method includes forming pixels on a display area on a first substrate, forming an encapsulation film to cover the display area, attaching a protective film onto the encapsulation film, and removing the protective film. The protective film includes a substrate layer and an adhesive layer formed at an edge area of at least one side of the substrate layer.
US11641755B2
A top-emission type organic electroluminescent (EL) element and a top-emission type organic EL device are provided. The top-emission type organic EL element includes a first electrode, an organic functional layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on a side of the organic functional layer facing away from the first electrode. The second electrode includes a work-function adjustment layer and a transparent metal oxide layer. The work-function adjustment layer is disposed on the side of the organic functional layer facing away from the first electrode, and the transparent metal oxide layer is disposed on a side of the work-function adjustment layer facing away from the organic functional layer. The top-emission type organic EL element and the top-emission type organic EL device can improve the luminous efficiency and prolong the service life.
US11641753B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes an electron transport host, a hole transport host, and a dopant, wherein the dopant includes an organometallic compound, and wherein the organometallic compound does not comprise iridium, wherein the organic light-emitting device satisfies predetermined parameters described in the specification.
US11641744B2
A memory device and a method for fabricating the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a substrate having an upper surface; a stacked structure disposed on the upper surface of the substrate, wherein the stacked structure includes a first insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a second insulating layer, a second conductive layer and a third insulating layer sequentially stacked on the substrate; a plurality of channel structures penetrating the stacked structure and electrically connected to the substrate, wherein each of the channel structures includes an upper portion corresponding to the second conductive layer and a lower portion corresponding to the first conductive layer; a memory layer disposed between the second conductive layer and the upper portion; and a plurality of isolation structures penetrating the stacked structure to separate the stacked structure into a plurality of sub-stacks.
US11641740B2
A device includes conductor layers and a first pillar, extending through the conductor layers, that includes a first columnar portion, a second columnar portion, and a middle portion between the first and second columnar portions. A diameter of the middle portion is larger than a diameter of the first columnar portion and larger than a diameter of the second columnar portion. The first columnar portion includes a first semiconductor layer and a first charge storage layer. The second columnar portion includes a second semiconductor layer and a second charge storage layer. The middle portion includes a third semiconductor layer. The first and second semiconductor layers are in contact with the third semiconductor layer on a first side and a second side of the third semiconductor layer, respectively. The first charge storage layer is spaced from the second charge storage layer.
US11641726B1
A fan tray, for a fan module of a network device chassis, may include an inner assembly that includes an inner cassette, one or more fans connected to the inner cassette, a first latch connected to the inner cassette and configured to removably connect to an outer assembly of the fan tray, and a fan controller connected to the inner cassette and configured to control operation of the one or more fans. The outer assembly may be configured to receive and retain the inner assembly, and may include an outer cassette with one or more openings configured to communicate with the one or more fans, a second latch connected to the outer cassette and configured to removably connect to a rear portion of the network device chassis, and an adaptor connected to the outer cassette and configured to connect and provide power to the fan controller.
US11641725B2
Embodiments of this application relate to a heat dissipator including a cover plate, an orifice plate, and a base plate that are stacked in sequence. A distribution cavity is disposed between the orifice plate and the cover plate, a heat exchange cavity is disposed between the orifice plate and the base plate, and the distribution cavity communicates with the heat exchange cavity by using through holes disposed on the orifice plate. A plurality of pin fins facing the orifice plate are disposed on a surface of the base plate in the heat exchange cavity, gaps between the plurality of pin fins constitute a fluid passage, and the pin fins include a combination pin fin in contact with the orifice plate, and a flow guiding pin fin that corresponds to the through hole and that has a gap with the through hole.
US11641715B2
A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer; a protective filler layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer; a first wiring layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer and having a pad protruding with respect to the protective filler layer; a first via passing through the first insulating layer and contacting the pad; and a second insulating layer disposed on the first wiring layer and the protective filler layer, and having a cavity exposing the pad and at least a portion of the protective filler layer, respectively.
US11641712B2
A ceramic electronic component that includes an electronic component body having a superficial base ceramic layer; a surface electrode on a surface of the electronic component body; and a covering ceramic layer covering a peripheral section of the surface electrode. The peripheral section of the surface electrode that is covered by the covering ceramic layer has a thin portion located on a central side of the surface electrode and which is thinner than a central section of the surface electrode, and a width of the thin portion is 20% or more of a width of the peripheral section of the surface electrode that is covered by the covering ceramic layer.
US11641700B2
An induction heating device for heating and/or melting a heat affected product zone of shaving or cosmetic products stored in a product container which consists of a layer of the product heated by an electrically conductive metallic target member having through-passages overlying the top product surface and energized by an induction coil into which an electromagnet field is generated by electronic circuitry for a predetermined time period into the product container, thereby permitting the heated and or melted product to flow through the through-passages onto the top surface of the target member to be collected by a user for shaving or cosmetic purposes.
US11641680B2
Methods and systems for handling UE associated information in non-terrestrial networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a satellite head station, includes: translating a first uplink (UL) tunnel address associated with a core network to a second UL tunnel address associated with the satellite head station, wherein the first and second UL tunnel addresses are each associated with a packet data unit (PDU) session established between the core network and a user equipment device (UE); transmitting the second UL tunnel address to a first satellite base station; and receiving UL data associated with the PDU session from the first satellite base station, wherein a UL tunnel address destination associated with the received UL data is set as the second UL tunnel address.
US11641674B2
A random access method includes: determining whether a currently selected beam for transmitting a preamble is identical to one of at least one recorded beam, clearing all previously recorded beams, recording the currently selected beam, and transmitting the preamble at a boosted pilot transmission power when it is determined that a value of a pilot power boost counter does not reach a maximum value.
US11641672B2
Adaptive energy detection (ED) threshold medium access is discussed based on deployment and traffic type. The network nodes sharing a shared communication network are configured with multiple discrete ED thresholds or a range of ED values. As a transmitting node prepares to attempt access to the shared communication spectrum, it identifies an access trigger condition within the network. Such a condition may include traffic type, deployment, or access conditions. In response to detecting an access trigger condition, the transmitting node may select an ED threshold associated with the access trigger condition. Alternatively, upon detection of the access trigger condition, the transmitting node may implement a random ED threshold from the candidate range of ED threshold values.
US11641668B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to uplink (UL) designs for New Radio (NR) unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) operation in mobile communications are described. An apparatus as a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network node, a scheduling of a plurality of starting slots for an UL transmission by the apparatus. The apparatus performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure and, based on a result of the LBT procedure, the apparatus performs the UL transmission with an initial slot of the UL transmission in one of the plurality of starting slots.
US11641666B2
An uplink transmission method and a device are provided. The method includes: determining, in a case that transmissions of at least two uplink channels conflict in a time domain, priorities of the at least two uplink channels according to at least one of a transmission-related time duration, a transmission start time or carried information; and performing uplink transmission according to the priorities of the at least two uplink channels.
US11641649B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect beam failure on a secondary cell (SCell), wherein the UE is configured with a primary cell (PCell) and the SCell for carrier aggregation with a base station; identify one or more resources for transmission of a beam failure recovery request based at least in part on detecting the beam failure, wherein the one or more resources are on one or more SCells configured for the UE; and transmit the beam failure recovery request to the base station using the one or more resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11641646B2
A configured-grant configuration can be transmitted. The configured-grant configuration can configure periodic plurality of UL repetition bundles, each UL repetition bundle including a number of PUSCH repetitions. The periodic plurality of UL repetition bundles can include a plurality of transmission occasions. A first TB can be received in UL resources corresponding to at least a portion of an UL repetition bundle of the periodic plurality of UL repetition bundles. An indication can be determined and transmitted. A second TB can be received in a transmission occasion. The second TB can include different data from the first TB. The transmission occasion can be determined based on the indication and among the plurality of transmission occasions of the periodic plurality of uplink repetition bundles.
US11641642B2
In embodiments, a base station may send to a user equipment (UE) a P3 beam management (BM) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) having two ports, and may receive from the UE a P3 BM report in response. The P3 BM report may include a proactive UE beam switch indication and a CSF report corresponding to the best UE beam determined by a UE based on the P3 BM CSI-RS. The base station may determine whether the P3 BM report includes an indication that the UE will perform a beam switch from a first UE beam to a second UE beam, and may determine a UE beam switch slot during which the UE will perform the beam switch. Starting at the beam switch slot, the base station may send a physical downlink shared data channel (PDSCH) transmission to the UE using the adjusted downlink transmission parameters.
US11641639B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node first receives first information, the first information being used to determine a target time-frequency resource pool; and then monitors a first signaling; after that, when the first signaling is detected, the communication node receives a first radio signal; a first code block is used to generated the first radio signal; time-frequency resources occupied by the first signaling comprise a first time-frequency resource, while time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal comprise a second time-frequency resource; whether the first radio signal can be excluded from being used for combined decoding for the first code block is dependent on whether the first time-frequency resource belongs to the target time-frequency resource pool. The present disclosure manages to improve the flexibility of buffer configurations.
US11641630B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device node, such as an end station or a user equipment (UE) associated with the end station, may receive, from a controller node of a time-sensitive network (TSN), a configuration for communicating over the TSN. The TSN may include a plurality of nodes that are synchronized according to a common synchronization configuration and that are configured for transmitting messages between the controller node and the first device node within a latency threshold condition configured for the TSN. The first device node may identifying data to transmit to a second device node of the plurality of nodes and may communicating with the second device node via a sidelink connection associated with the wireless radio access network.
US11641623B2
Disclosed are a baseband processing combination (BPC) capability configuration method and device, a base station and a computer storage medium. The base station includes a network element and a second network element connected to the first network element. The first network element and the second network element are separately deployed, the first network element is responsible for radio resource management, and the second network element is responsible for underlying radio transmission management. In the process of a UE accessing the second network element of the base station, the second network element of the base station selects a BPC for the UE, and the base station can then schedule the UE according to the BPC selected by the second network element for the UE and perform necessary radio resource configuration.
US11641617B2
There is provided mechanisms for initial access to a radio access network. The method is performed by a wireless device. The wireless device is configured for accessing the radio access network using at least a first cellular RAT and a second cellular RAT. The method comprises obtaining system information using a first carrier frequency and the first RAT. The system information comprises inter-frequency cell information of the second RAT. The method comprises synchronizing with the second RAT using a second carrier frequency based on the obtained system information in order to establish initial access to the radio access network. The second carrier frequency is higher than the first carrier frequency.
US11641614B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and a data transmission device. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, a first message sent by a second terminal, where a target terminal of the first message is a third terminal; and determining, by the first terminal, whether to relay the first message to the third terminal according to indication information.
US11641610B2
An electronic apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium implement a dynamic channel selection function at an access point device so as to establish a backhaul connection between the access point device and an extender access point device. Once initiated either by the access point device or an application, the dynamic channel selection function iterates or loops through channels based on one or more factors to select a channel for establishment of the backhaul connection. The dynamic channel selection function provides ease of installation of configuration of devices on a network without requiring relocation of the device to establish the backhaul connection.
US11641602B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for maintaining and transferring context information for a Dual Connectivity (“DC”)-capable User Equipment (“UE”) and a secondary Next Generation Node B (“gNB”) in situations where the UE is connected to a primary gNB and the secondary gNB and is handed over to an evolved Node B (“eNB”). The context information may be provided to the eNB without releasing resources or tearing down bearers at the secondary gNB, such that the UE may seamlessly continue communicating with the secondary gNB while a primary connection associated with the UE is handed over from the primary gNB to the eNB.
US11641601B2
Provided are a method, apparatus and device for a terminal moving between a 4G network and a 5G network. The method includes: transmitting, by a management device corresponding to a target network, an access accept message, where the access accept message carries an activation indication; and the activation indication is used for indicating a terminal to reactivate a public data network (PDN) connection or a protocol data unit (PDU) session in a source network in the target network, or indicating the terminal that the PDN connection or the PDU session has been activated in the target network.
US11641600B2
Systems, methods, and software of managing bandwidth allocated to User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, a bandwidth management system collects cell load information for a plurality of cells within a Radio Access Network (RAN), and processes the cell load information to determine a cell load status for each of the cells. The system performs bandwidth throttling for the UE by determining a location of the UE, identifying the cell load status for one or more cells in a region of the RAN corresponding with the location of the UE, determining whether the region of the RAN is overloaded based on the cell load status, and controlling a downgrade of bandwidth allocated to the UE in the RAN responsive to a determination that the region is overloaded.
US11641599B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a buffer status reporting in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of sidelink logical channels, wherein each of the plurality of sidelink logical channels has an associated priority and belongs to a LCG, and one or more of LCGs belong to a ProSe Destination; generating a SL BSR MAC CE including buffer sizes of LCGs in decreasing order of a LCG priority, wherein the LCG priority of a LCG is determined as a highest priority of a logical channel among priorities of logical channels belonging to the LCG; and transmitting a MAC PDU including the SL BSR MAC CE.
US11641592B1
Systems and methods for managing network connectivity of speech processing-enabled devices are provided. The speech-enabled device may periodically monitor a variety of metrics related to the network connectivity status of the device, and save those metrics in a local events log. The speech-enabled device may then periodically send those metrics to a remote speech processing management system. Users may then use voice commands to request the status of the speech-enabled device, and the speech-enabled device will send that request to the speech processing management system. The speech processing management system can then retrieve the historical metrics for that device and determine one or more inferences regarding the condition of the device. These inferences are used to diagnose potential network connectivity problems being experienced by the speech-enabled device, and to generate recommendations for remediating those problems. These recommendations may then be provided to the user as verbal instructions for troubleshooting and/or resolving those problems.
US11641588B2
A listening method and device are provided. In the method: a sending node, on the basis of a beam direction used by the sending node for sending data to a receiving node, determines at least one listening direction to be listened to; the sending node implements carrier listening in the at least one listening direction; and, on the basis of the listening results in the at least one listening direction, the sending node uses the beam direction to send data to the receiving node.
US11641587B2
An indication is received. The indication is for a wireless communication being made by a computing device. Responsive to receiving the indication, an optimized location to make the wireless communication is determined based on a location of the computing device and an optimized locations list. The optimized location is communicated to the computing device making the wireless communication.
US11641577B2
Disclosed herein is a method of operation of a network node and a network node for executing the method to enable definition of an allowed area in which data services are provided to a wireless device, the allowed area having a size defined by one or more criteria comprising a predefined maximum number of tracking areas within the allowed area, the method comprises: upon attachment of the wireless device, accepting registrations of new tracking areas for the allowed area of the wireless device as long as the one or more criteria that define the size of the allowed area are satisfied.
US11641573B2
A system and method for providing an authentication state of a function execution device to a communication terminal is described. In some examples, the authentication state indicates whether authentication information is needed from the communication terminal before the communication terminal can request performance of one or more functions performable by the function execution device. In other examples, the communication terminal may provide to the communication terminal the authentication information irrespective of whether the function execution terminal has previously provided its authentication state to the communication terminal.
US11641557B2
In at least one embodiment, an audio amplifier system is provided. The system includes a loudspeaker and an audio amplifier. The loudspeaker transmits an audio output into a listening environment. The audio amplifier is programmed to receive an audio input signal and to generate an excursion signal corresponding to a first excursion level of the voice coil based on the audio input signal. The audio amplifier is further programmed to limit the excursion signal to reach a maximum excursion level and to determine a target pressure for an enclosure of the loudspeaker based on the maximum excursion level. The audio amplifier is further programmed to generate a target current signal based at least on the target pressure and to convert the target current signal into a target voltage signal to a target driving signal to drive the voice coil to reach the maximum excursion level.
US11641554B2
A transducer in which electrical connections between electrode sheets and leading wires can be secured via an approach other than soldering or welding is provided. In a sheet body portion, a dielectric layer and a first electrode sheet are joined by a first main fusion layer formed of a fusion material. A first conductive portion of a first leading wire is fixed to the sheet body portion by a first clamp. The first clamp includes a plurality of first leg portions that penetrates the sheet body portion in a thickness direction, a first coupling portion that couples the proximal ends of the plurality of first leg portions and is disposed across the first conductive portion, and a plurality of first bent-back portions that is formed by bending the respective distal ends of the plurality of first leg portions and is locked with a second surface of the sheet body portion.
US11641551B2
The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US11641550B2
Provided is a speaker, including a frame; a vibration unit fixed to the frame; and a magnetic circuit unit driving the vibration unit to vibrate and produce sound. The vibration unit includes a diaphragm and a voice coil; the diaphragm includes a first suspension, a second suspension and a vibrating portion; the magnetic circuit unit is provided with a magnetic gap, and the voice coil is inserted in the magnetic gap; the magnetic circuit unit includes a yoke; and the yoke and the diaphragm are arranged at two opposite sides of the frame; and the vibration unit further includes a fixing ring connected to the magnetic circuit unit; the second suspension surrounds the fixing ring; and an inner peripheral side of the second suspension is fixed to an end of the fixing ring away from the yoke. With this structure, the acoustic performance of the speaker can be improved.
US11641540B2
Ear-fitting headphone attachment apparatus, systems that utilize the aforementioned attachment apparatus, and methods of its manufacture and use. In one aspect, an attachment apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes a coiled wire having an interference dimension. The coiled wire includes an attachment point for the attachment of a decorative item. In another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes an extruded or injection molded tube of material. A pair of wires wraps around the tube of material in opposite direction, the pair of wires residing around an outside perimeter of the tube of material and entering into the tube of material where it exits at a bottom portion of the tube of material. In yet another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes a woven textile having a crosshatch pattern associated therewith. In yet another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes thin metal strips that collectively have a crosshatch pattern associated therewith.
US11641539B2
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction. An implementation may include while headphones are disconnected from a control device, the control device receiving an indication of particular audio content being played back by a first zone of the media playback system. While the particular audio content is being played back by the one or more playback devices of the media playback system, detecting that headphones have been connected to the first control device. Headphones may be connectable to the control device via either (a) an analog headphone jack or (b) a point-to-point personal area network connection. In response to detecting that the headphones are connected to the control device: the control device (i) causing the one or more playback devices of the first zone to stop playback of the particular audio content; (ii) retrieving the particular audio content and (iii) resuming playback of the particular audio content via the connected headphones.
US11641531B2
A compressive/transform imager comprising a lens array positioned above input ports for collecting light into the input ports, waveguides routing the light from the input port to waveguide mixing regions (e.g. multi-mode interference couplers), and detectors for receiving outputs of the waveguide mixing regions.
US11641522B2
An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an image capturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets image capturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.
US11641519B2
A focus detection device includes: an imaging unit having a first and second pixel each of which receives light transmitted through an optical system and outputs signal used for focus detection, and a third pixel which receives light transmitted through the optical system and outputs signal used for image generation; an input unit to which information regarding the optical system is input; a selection unit that selects one of the first and second pixel based on the information to the input unit; a readout unit that reads out the signal from one of the first and second pixel based on a selection result at a timing different from reading out the signal from the third pixel to be read out; and a focus detection unit that performs the focus detection based on at least one of the signals of the first and second pixel read out by the readout unit.
US11641516B2
A lens apparatus includes an exterior unit incorporating a lens unit, and an operation unit arranged on the exterior unit, on which a touch operation is performed to control at least one controlled unit. The operation unit has a round shape and includes a detection unit configured to detect a clockwise direction touch operation and a counterclockwise direction touch operation.
US11641511B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for selectively delivering missed content to a user are provided. The embodiment may include identifying a user's eye direction, awareness, and attentiveness using a wearable device. The embodiment may also include determining whether the user is in a physical place where the user is viewing a live event. The embodiment may further include determining a minimum level of an attentiveness score for the user. The embodiment may also include identifying the attentiveness score of the user while watching any content when the user's attentive score is below a preconfigured threshold value. The embodiment may further include delivering content that the user missed based on the attentive score.
US11641503B2
In one general aspect, a method can include detecting at least one indicator of user-initiated interaction with a computing device, obtaining data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, identifying a current state of the computing device, determining that content displayed on a first display device included in the computing device is to be casted to a second display device separate from the computing device based on the at least one indicator of the user-initiated interaction with the computing device, the data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, and the current state of the computing device, and casting the content displayed on the first display device to the second display device.
US11641502B2
Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
US11641495B2
A computing system that identifies a media stream that a media client is processing for presentation determines which frame format of the media stream the media client is processing for presentation. And the computing system uses that determined frame format as a basis to facilitate dynamic content modification. For instance, based on then determined frame format, the computing system could work to ensure that replacement or overlay content that the media client obtains to facilitate dynamic content modification of the media stream is of that determined frame format. Further or alternatively, based on the determined frame format, the computing system could work to ensure that the media client gets provisioned with reference fingerprints of that particular frame format of the media stream, for use to facilitate client-side fingerprint matching to confirm that the media stream continues to be identified media stream.
US11641493B2
A method for displaying bullet screens can include: acquiring detection boxes by detecting human-body parts in a plurality of image frames in a target video; and determining a masked region of each of the image frames based on detection boxes in the each of the image frames and a ratio of the detection boxes in the each of the image frames in an image frame to which the detection boxes belong, wherein the client player does not display bullet screens in the masked region when playing the target video.
US11641492B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that process a far-infrared image. The image processing apparatus includes a region extraction section, a modal transformation section, and a superimposition section. The region extraction section extracts a region of interest within a visible-light image captured by a visible-light camera. The modal transformation section receives an image of the region of interest within an infrared image captured by an infrared camera observing the same subject as the visible-light camera, and transforms the received image to a modal image. The superimposition section generates a presentation image by superimposing the modal image on the region of interest within the visible-light image. The modal transformation section transforms a far-infrared image of the region of interest to a modal image including an information modal familiar to humans by using, for example, a database and a conditional probability distribution.
US11641483B2
Device, methods and systems that enable the interaction of merge list construction with other tools and methods in video coding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, based on a first threshold, a maximum number of history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidates to be checked in a table, making a decision regarding a selective checking of a number of the HMVP candidates in an order, the number of the HMVP candidates checked not exceeding the maximum number of HMVP candidates, constructing, based on the decision, a motion candidates list, and performing, based on the motion candidates list, a conversion between a current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.
US11641476B2
A second level intra prediction mode can be combined with one or more of sixty-seven JVET intra prediction modes during encoding of a coding unit in a video bitstream. Embodiments include making a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) mode available as the second level intra prediction mode. In embodiments, when a PDPC (position dependent intra prediction combination) mode is enabled, the second level intra prediction is combined with one of the 67 selected intra predictor modes. In embodiments, the PDPC mode is only enabled or available for a predetermined subset of intra prediction modes (out of 67 possible modes), in order to reduce encoder complexity and potentially improve coding efficiency. The PDPC mode may be identifies as enabled or available by a list of modes or signaling in the video bitstream.
US11641470B2
Devices, systems and methods for deriving intra prediction samples when the intra prediction mode for a coding block is the planar mode are described. In an aspect, a method for video coding includes selecting a first set of reference samples that are reconstructed neighboring samples of a current block, and determining a prediction value for a prediction sample of the current block by interpolating at least one of the first set and a second set of reference samples, where a reference sample of the second set of reference samples is based on a weighted sum of a first sample and a second sample from the first set of reference samples, and where the reference sample is aligned horizontally with the first sample, aligned vertically with the second sample, and positioned on an opposite side of the prediction sample with respect to either the first or the second sample.
US11641463B2
A method for encoding or decoding at least one image, an image being split into blocks of elements. The method includes, for at least one block: splitting the block into at least two areas; and processing at least one of the areas. The processing includes scanning the elements of the area according to a predetermined scanning order, and for at least one scanned element, called a current element: selecting at least one predictor element previously encoded or decoded according to a prediction function; and predicting the current element: from the at least one predictor element, if the at least one predictor element belongs to the area; or from at least one replacement value, otherwise.
US11641462B2
A resonant testing system for testing a device under test, including a processing circuit, a microphone array and a camera is disclosed. The processing circuit generates a scanning frequency signal and transmits the scanning frequency signal to the device under test, which plays sound based on the scanning frequency signal. The microphone array includes several microphones, each of the microphones receives the sound played by the device under test, and the microphone array outputs several audio signals corresponding to the microphones. The camera captures a real time image signal of the device under test, and transmits the real time image signal to the processing circuit. The processing circuit computes resonant positions and resonant levels according to the audio signals, and combines the resonant positions, the resonant levels and the real time image signal to generate a real time resonant result. A resonance testing method is disclosed.
US11641460B1
A method includes displaying, on a display, a representation of a physical environment and a computer-generated object. The method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud associated with the representation of the physical environment. The method includes obtaining depth information characterizing the physical environment. The method includes obtaining a capture event associated with a capture region within the representation of the physical environment. The capture region includes a portion of the computer-generated object. The method includes, in response to obtaining the capture event, disambiguating a group of points from the 3D point cloud, and generating, based on a function of the depth information and the group of points, a volumetric representation of the capture region. The group of points satisfies a spatial threshold with respect to the capture region. The volumetric representation includes a volumetric representation of the portion of the computer-generated object.
US11641459B2
A viewing system provides a viewing user with an experience of viewing a content that presents a character whose behaviors are controlled based on physical motions of a performer, the content being a binocular stereopsis content that presents staging in a 3D space in which a first character associated with a first performer and a second character associated with a second performer are arranged. The first character is arranged in a first region in the space, a viewpoint associated with the viewing user and the second character are arranged in a second region in the space. The system controls behaviors of the first character based on first motion information of the first performer, and controls behaviors of the second character based on at least one of second motion information of the second performer and information of an operational input performed by the viewing user.
US11641456B2
An example method to render an image includes obtaining two-dimensional image information of the image including a target and a scene and depth information associated with a first set of pixels and a second set of pixels of the image. The first set of pixels correspond to the target and the second set of pixels correspond to the scene. In response to depth information associated with a pixel of the image being in the predetermined range, the example method includes associating a first depth index with the pixel. Otherwise, the example method associates a second depth index with the pixel. The example method further includes calculating a weighted average picture level of the image based on grayscale values of pixels of the image, the first depth index and/or the second depth index and rendering the image based on the weighted average picture level.
US11641454B2
A projection apparatus includes a projection system, a distance measuring sensor that is used to adjust the focal point of the projection system and outputs infrared light in the frontward direction, and an enclosure that houses the projection system and the distance measuring sensor. An exit port of the projection system is disposed at a position which is shifted from the distance measuring sensor in a second direction opposite the first direction. The enclosure has a detection opening via which the infrared light exits. The distance measuring sensor has a detection range over which distance detection is allowed and a non-detection range over which no distance detection is allowed and which is shifted from the detection range toward the distance measurement sensor, and the distance measuring sensor is disposed at a distance from the detection opening, the distance including the non-detection range of the distance measuring sensor.
US11641453B2
A server, an on-board device, a vehicle, a non-transitory storage medium storing a program, and a method for providing information are provided. The server includes circuitry configured to: receive information on an image capture date and time and an image capture location from an on-board device that is configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle and produces the captured image, the surroundings including a sidewalk; store brightness information of the sidewalk on the image capture date and time, the brightness information being detected based on the captured image and the image capture location; and send the brightness information to a mobile terminal.
US11641452B2
The disclosure includes a doorbell having a visitor detection system that can comprise at least one of a camera, a microphone, and a motion detector. The method for using the doorbell can comprise recording, via the camera, video data that represents a video. The method can also comprise recording, via the microphone, audio data that represents audio. The method of using the doorbell can comprise transmitting at least a portion of the video data and at least a portion of the audio data, to a remote computing device that is communicatively coupled to the doorbell. The method can also comprise transmitting the video data and the audio data to a remote server that is communicatively coupled to the doorbell.
US11641447B2
A new real-time video communication device improves the clarity of shared screen by automatically adjusting the key frame's quantization parameter values. The adjustment depends on the underlying network's connection condition. When the connection bandwidth deteriorates, the key frame's quantization parameter value is further decreased on the value output from a standard H.264 encoder to derive a desirable quantization parameter value and thus achieve a desirable user experience of the shared screen. Moreover, the new real-time video communication device adjusts the frame rate of the shared screen based on the present quantization parameter value to achieve a more desirable user experience of the screen sharing.
US11641433B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an executing unit, and a controller. The acquiring unit acquires operational information indicating an operation performed at a second apparatus by a user. The executing unit executes a process. The controller causes a display to display information indicating a recommended process to be executed by the executing unit after the operation. The recommended process is set based on the operational information.
US11641431B2
Both a transmission priority of order data and a reception priority of product data can be controlled based on a usage status of a bandwidth of a network. In an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention, product data is created based on order data received via a network. A transfer priority of current data over preceding data is determined based on a determination condition of transfer priorities, and control is performed such that the preceding data and the current data are transferred according to the transfer priorities. The transfer priorities are changed such that the transfer of the preceding data is interrupted and the transfer of the current data is started in a case where the transfer priority of the preceding data is lower than the transfer priority of the current data and the usage status of the bandwidth of the network due to the transfer of the preceding data is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
US11641428B2
Systems and methods for dynamically updating bit loading profile assignments among a plurality of cable modems.
US11641426B2
A USB phone supporting multi-device conference application includes: a touch display module, an audio processing module, a digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) module, a Bluetooth module, a USB interface, and an MCU controller. The Bluetooth module is configured to establish a Bluetooth communication connection with an external Bluetooth terminal; the USB interface is configured to establish a USB communication connection with an external intelligent terminal; the DECT module is configured to establish a communication connection with an external wireless headphone; the touch display module is configured to display data, and recognize and obtain a touch operation instruction; the audio processing module is configured to perform audio processing on received audio data; the MCU controller is configured to process received data, further provided with a first mixer and connected to the touch display module, the audio processing module, the DECT module, the Bluetooth module, and the USB interface.
US11641422B2
Aspects described herein may allow for deploying third-party callback to be performed on a mobile device. For example, the mobile device may configure a third-party callback to be performed after a triggering event is detected by a remote device. The triggering event may relate to a remote device associated with the mobile device. A determination may be made as to whether the mobile device is within a pre-determined proximity of the remote device. If the two devices are in proximity and if the mobile device receives a message that indicates the triggering event has been detected, the mobile device may perform the third-party callback. In this way, a user's need to request services conveniently and accurately is facilitated.
US11641415B2
An electronic device is disclosed herein. The device includes a housing including a first opening formed in a surface thereof, a camera at least partially disposed in the housing, such that a lens of the camera is aligned with the first opening, a camera bracket including a flange structure disposed in the housing and spaced apart from the surface of the housing at a predetermined interval, a protruding structure extending from the flange structure into a space defined between the camera and an inner wall of the first opening to surround at least part of the camera, wherein the flange structure includes a first through-hole, and the protruding structure includes a recess, and wherein the protruding structure and the inner wall of the first opening form a microphone hole in communication with the recess and part of the first opening, an adhesive member disposed between the flange structure and an inner surface of the housing, the adhesive member including a passage, wherein one side of the passage is connected to the recess, and an opposite side of the passage is connected to the first through-hole, and a microphone element disposed in the housing and aligned with the first through-hole.
US11641414B2
A terminal includes a first opening and a second opening. At least two cameras and a distance detection sensor are disposed in the first opening, and the distance detection sensor is located in a gap between two of cameras, while a flash is disposed in the second opening. In this way, there are few openings on the terminal body, and the openings are small, layouts of components are compact, and appearance is more beautiful.
US11641412B2
Frame formatting for communications within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A signal is processed within a communication device using at least two respective downclocking ratios (e.g., a first downclocking ratio applied to a first portion of the signal such as a frame or packet extracted there from, a second downclocking ratio applied to a second portion of the signal). Alternatively, a signal is divided into more than two respective portions, and different respective downclocking ratios are applied to those different respective portions (e.g., a first downclocking ratio applied to a first portion of the signal, and so on up to an n-th downclocking ratio applied to an n-th portion of the signal). Some implementations apply a singular or common downclocking ratio to more than one portion of the signal (which may be contiguous/adjacent or non-contiguous/non-adjacent within the signal).
US11641411B2
A technique of managing communications among multiple modules of a munition includes receiving, by a first module of the munition, a first set of messages from a second module of the munition. The first set of messages is received in a first protocol used for communicating among the modules of the munition over a computer network. The technique further includes translating, by an interface assembly of the first module, the first set of messages in the first protocol into a second set of messages in a second protocol. The second protocol is a native protocol of the first module and is different from the first protocol. The technique still further includes providing the second set of messages from the interface module to an operational component of the first module, the operational component then responding to the second set of messages for performing a function of the munition.
US11641410B1
Techniques for dynamic content delivery network (CDN) selection using the domain name service (DNS) protocol are described. A DNS resolver utilizes a network identifier provided within a DNS query seeking to resolve a domain to select between different CDNs. The selection can be based on an analysis of network metric summary data corresponding to the CDNs from the perspective of an approximate location of the requesting client, as determined via the network identifier as a proxy. The selection process and involved network metric types can be configured by the user associated with the domain via a selection policy. Network metrics can be provided by the user or collected based on reported data generated by remote clients through provided metric-generating code, and thereafter transformed into network metric summary data that is used for resolution.
US11641399B2
Provided is a smart servo motor capable of allowing communication without using any unique ID and an actuator assembly using such smart servo motors. A main controller 11 is connected to a plurality of smart servo motors 1-1 . . . 1-N via a single communication path 13, where the main controller 11 can communicate with the individual smart servo motors using their unique IDs. Operating a selector of one smart servo motor 1-u permits communication between the smart servo motor 1-u and the main controller 11 with a special ID such as code “255”. With this communication, the main controller 11 can retrieve the unique ID assigned to the smart servo motor 1-u.
US11641392B2
Systems and methods for controlling data usage in a distributed environment among multiple entity domains. A method include steps of: receiving, in a local entity domain, a data consuming application comprising or identifying at least a first analytics task, wherein the first analytics task processes data inputs to produce first output data; determining availability of the data inputs; interpreting data usage policies, or data control policies, to determine atomic actions to be executed, wherein at least one of the data usage policies indicates that one of the data inputs for the first analytics task must remain in a remote entity domain; and executing the atomic actions, wherein the atomic actions include dispatching the first analytics task to the remote entity domain for remote execution of the first analytics task and receiving the first output data of the first analytics task from the remote entity domain.
US11641391B2
Systems and methods include a system comprising a cloud hub located in a premises. The cloud hub comprises adapters coupled to premises devices, and the cloud hub is configured as a gateway for the premises devices. A virtual gateway is located in a cloud server environment and coupled to the cloud hub. The virtual gateway is configured as a server-side abstraction of the cloud hub. The cloud hub and the virtual gateway are configured as an automation platform that maintains state data of the premises devices, controls interaction among the premises devices, and monitors and manages the premises devices. A security system coupled to the virtual gateway. The security system includes security system components.
US11641390B2
When download operations get started in unison in conformity to RSS metafile delivery time-and-date information, the traffic is temporarily concentrated to a server, resulting in the risk of a system failure or else. In addition, it is inevitable to periodically check whether an RSS file on Web server is updated or not; so, users must delete update-unnecessary RSS files from those objects to be monitored. In view of this, the periodical update check timing of download control information is dispersed, thereby scattering download requests to the server. The download control information is provided with the information indicating whether such download control information is put under update management and/or expire time-and-date information in case the update management is to be done, whereby an information processing apparatus performs, based on the information, erase processing of the download control information when the download processing is completed.
US11641384B1
Disclosed is a system for linking chatbot services and contact center services, and more particularly to a system for linking chatbot services and contact center services, in which a client is allowed to receive a query processing service from at least one of other chatbot servers or other contact center servers without changing a preexisting connection state while being initially connected to a specific chatbot server or a specific contact center server, so that a user can easily use a plurality of query processing services by linking the chatbot servers and contact center servers operated by a plurality of service providers, thereby minimizing the time, efforts and costs of the user who wants to receive the plurality of query processing services through the plurality of service providers.
US11641381B2
One or more timers can be used by an originating UE during setup of a communication session. The timer(s) can be triggered by an originating UE receiving a response from a node of a telecommunications network. The timer(s) can further be terminated by a particular termination event during a remainder of the session setup, so long as the termination event occurs before timeout of the timer(s).
US11641379B1
A cloud security method implement web security at the application level by monitoring network traffic and detecting cloud activities related to web applications, and then classifying the detected cloud activities to map certain security-related cloud activities into activity categories to enable security policy to be applied. The application-level cloud security method enables policy enforcement rules to be established for cloud activity categories. The security policies are then applied based on activity categories.
US11641375B2
Systems and methods are described for leveraging the knowledge and security awareness of well-informed users in an organization to protect other users and train them to identify new phishing attacks. Initially, a report of a message being suspicious may be identified and it may be determined whether message is a malicious phishing message. In an example, a well-informed user of an organization may report the message as suspicious. Further, on determining the message to be a malicious phishing message, a simulated phishing message or a template may be created. The simulated phishing message may then be communicated to one or more devices of one or more users.
US11641374B2
Determine a trusted dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server in a DHCP snooping environment
Presented herein are systems and methods to determine whether a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server in DHCP snooping environment is a trusted device without requiring trusted port configuration. In one or more embodiments, a DHCP snooping-enable switch/router adds an indicator to a message intended for a DHCP server, thereby notifying the DHCP server that the DHCP switch/router is enabled for or capable of “detection of trusted DHCP server.” The DHCP server includes a unique trusted identifier in its reply that the DHCP switch/router uses to verify whether the DHCP server can be considered a trusted device.
US11641369B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing digital personas for online services may include generating a digital persona and a persona wear indicator (PWI) score for a user of an anonymized inbox with a communication alias to use for an online entity, determining, based on one or more communication messages associated with the communication alias, that the online entity has leaked information associated with the digital persona, recalculating the PWI score for the digital persona based at least in part on the determination that the online entity has leaked the information, determining that the PWI score exceeds a privacy score threshold; and in response to determining that the PWI score exceeds the privacy score threshold, performing a security action that protects privacy of the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11641352B2
Method, apparatus, computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed for biometric recognition. The method may comprise obtaining first biometric data, wherein the first biometric data is captured in first condition or non-first condition; determining, by a discriminative network of generative adversarial networks, whether the first biometric data is captured in the first condition or non-first condition; in response to a determination that the first biometric data is captured in the non-first condition, inputting the first biometric data to a generative network of the generative adversarial networks to generate a second biometric data; obtaining a matching result by inputting the first biometric data in response to a determination that the first biometric data is captured in the first condition or the second biometric data to a matching network; and determining a recognition result based on the matching result.
US11641341B2
Systems, methods, and devices for performing targeted filtering of network traffic generated by user equipment (UE) devices connected to a customer premise equipment (CPE) device in a communication system that includes a distributed residential gateway. A network server may determine that the communication system includes a UE device that is compromised, misconfigured, or operating outside normal communication parameters, identify the UE device, determine an Internet protocol (IP) address or a media access control (MAC) address of the identified UE device, generate a quarantine request message that includes the IP address or the MAC address of the identified UE device in response to determining that the preconfigured virtual local area network access control list (VACL) on the CPE lists source IP addresses from which the CPE will filter outbound traffic, and send the generated quarantine request message to a bridged residential gateway (BRG) associated with the CPE device.
US11641340B2
To improve the network experience in a network, a unique device identifier (UDID) can be generated by a UDID generation module of a client device. The UDID generation module utilizes one or more device parameters as well as a service set identifier (SSID) as input(s) to the UDID generation module. The UDID can be reported to an access point device of the network so that the access point device can track, monitor, control, etc. the client device within the network, for example, when media access control randomization (rMAC) is utilized by the network to protect the privacy of the client device or a user of the client device. The same UDID is generated each time the client device joins the network so that the client device need not store the UDID.
US11641339B2
Technologies for mobile content delivery include an edge computing device, a mobile terminal, and a content delivery network server. The edge computing device has a network location between the mobile terminal and a core network, and the content delivery network server is accessed through the core network. The edge computing device receives a content request from the mobile terminal and modifies the content request to identify the network location of a zone-specific proxy of the edge computing device. The edge computing device forwards the content response to the content delivery network server. The content delivery network server may send a content response to the zone-specific proxy or the mobile terminal. The content response identifies an address of a network content resource. The network content resource is located at a surrogate content delivery network server of the edge computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11641336B2
Described herein are systems and methods for host multihoming with no state synchronization between top-of-rack (ToR) switches coupled to multiple hosts. ToR switches of a multi-homing system share a virtual MAC address and respond to Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests and/or Neighbor Discovery (ND) solicitations for a default gateway IP address from the host with the virtual MAC address. Ports on a ToR switch may be configured either with a static ARP and/or ND entry, or be configured to learn via a discovery protocol. The lightweight host multihoming system may have modified flooding behavior, ARP/ND handling, and data path forwarding. ARP/ND traffic from a host is processed by a ToR switch, while other multicast traffic may be discarded. Embodiments of the host multihoming system provide a lightweight solution for software implementation with minimal changes imposed on the host or network design.
US11641334B2
An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability by separation of display of a media component of message content and header information. An electronic message having an identifier of a recipient and a message content including an image media component is received at a server from a sending user device at which a display for associating the media component with the electronic message is provided without displaying the identifier of a recipient with the media component such that a single screen capture of the identifier of a recipient and the media component is prevented. The electronic message including an identifier of a sending user is transmitted to a recipient user device at which a display presenting the media component is provided without displaying the identifier of a sending user such that a single screen capture of both the identifier of a sending user and the media component is prevented.
US11641333B2
A system and method for multivariate testing of messages to a subgroup in a one-to-many messaging platform. A client text message is generated for transmission to a number of users via one or more messaging services. A subset of users is defined according to one or more attributes of the text message or the users, and the client text message is transmitted only to users in the subgroup. The transmission is analyzed for performance metrics, such as actions or reactions by users in the subgroup, and based on the performance metrics, the message is optimized for transmission to the larger group of users. Optimization happens rapidly.
US11641327B2
Payloads are received via a communication channel having one-way connectivity. The payloads have a container structure that includes a time stamp. It is determined whether a unit manifest has been received via the communication channel transmitted independently of the payloads. The unit manifest includes information associated with payloads including a hash of each payload on the unit manifest. Responsive to determining that the unit manifest has been received, it is determined whether the information associated with the payloads matches the corresponding payloads. Responsive to determining that the information associated with payloads on the unit manifest matches the corresponding payloads, the corresponding payloads are processed. It is determined whether an aggregate manifest associated with a predefined time period has been received. Responsive to determining that the aggregate manifest has been received, it is determined whether aggregate manifest information from the aggregate manifest matches payloads from the predefined time period.
US11641317B2
An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.
US11641313B2
An asynchronous state machine replication solution in a system of replicas includes executing multiple instances of a consensus protocol, referred to as leader-based views (LBVs) in each replica, where each replica is a leader participant in one of the LBV instances. Each replica drives a decision based on the consensus being reached among the LBV instances, rather than relying the expiration of timers and view changes to drive progress.
US11641304B2
The invention provides a method for managing a plurality of events, wherein each event comprises physical attributes and logical attributes by creating tuples with the events with the same logical attributes, providing a set of hierarchized relations between tuples, by means of a pipeline algorithm, wherein parent-child relations are provided between tuples, classifying the tuples in families, each family contains all the tuples related according to the parent-child relation provided by the pipeline algorithm, identify the parent tuple of each family, defined as the tuple which has at least one children and has no parent and present the parent tuples, together with the physical attributes of the events associated to each parent tuple.
US11641296B1
Various embodiments provide for data transmission using modulated carrier signals to carry data, where the carrier signal comprises a predetermined sequence of symbols. An embodiment can be used in such applications as data network communications between sensors (e.g., cameras, motion, radar, etc.) and computing equipment within vehicles (e.g., smart and autonomous cars).
US11641295B1
A method and device for estimating a carrier frequency offset, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a target area where a phase discrimination signal is located, wherein the target area is one of N numbers of candidate areas, the N numbers of candidate areas correspond to different value ranges, an union range of the N numbers of candidate areas is [π, −π], and N≥2; determining a first estimation value of a direct current component corresponding to the phase discrimination signal based on the target area; and performing a carrier frequency offset compensation on the phase discrimination signal based on the first estimation value of the direct current component.
US11641285B2
Certificates issued by a CA are distributed across multiple CRLs. Each certificate issued by the CA is assigned to a specific CRL, and the address of that CRL is written to the appropriate field of the certificate, such that an authenticating application can subsequently determine if the certificate is revoked. When the CA revokes a specific one of the issued certificates, it determines to which CRL the revoked certificate is assigned, and updates the specific CRL accordingly. In some embodiments, a single one of the multiple CRLs is active for assignment of certificates at any given time, and each certificate issued by the CA is assigned to the currently active CRL. In other embodiments, assignments of issued certificates are distributed between different ones of a pre-determined number of multiple CRLs by applying a statistical distribution formula to each issued certificate to determine a corresponding target CRL.
US11641283B2
A method of transferring access to a digital asset is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first blockchain transaction (4) from a first participant (6) by each of a plurality of second participants (8), (10). The first participant (6) has a first private key of a first private-public key pair of a cryptography system, and each participant (6), (8), (10) has a respective first share of a second private key of a second private-public key pair of the cryptography system, and the first blockchain transaction is signed with the first private key. Signature of the first blockchain transaction with the first private key is verified by each second participant (8), (10). A respective first share is applied to the first blockchain transaction to generate a respective second share of a second blockchain transaction signed with the second private key. Signature with the second private key is possible by means of a first threshold number of second shares and is inaccessible to less than the first threshold number of second shares. The first threshold number of second shares is combined from the first participant (6) and a plurality of the second participants (8), (10) generate the signature.
US11641282B2
Systems and methods performed for generating authentication information for an image using optical computing are provided. When a user takes a photo of an object, an optical authentication system receives light reflected and/or emitted from the object. The system also receives a random key from an authentication server. The system converts the received light to plenoptic data and uploads it to the authentication server. In addition, the system generates an optical hash of the received light using the random key, converts the generated optical hash to a digital optical hash, and uploads the digital optical hash to the authentication server. When the authentication server receives the upload, it verifies whether the time of the upload is within a certain threshold time from the sending of the random key and whether the digital optical hash was generated from the same light as the plenoptic data.
US11641275B2
Techniques are described herein for performing key rotation and key replacement. In an embodiment, a request is received that specifies key names. A first set of messages is generated, where each message identifies a table that is associated with the encrypted-data locations, and stored in a queue for processing by a first plurality of worker processes. Each worker process retrieves a message from the queue and generates a second message that identifies a subset of encrypted data records from the table. Each second message is stored in a distinct queue which is assigned to a worker process of a second plurality of worker processes. Each worker process retrieves the message from the assigned queue, decrypts the subset of encrypted data records, re-encrypts the decrypted data records using a new encryption key that corresponds to a new key name, and stores the re-encrypted data records in a database.
US11641266B2
A device determines a first latency value of a first data flow from a first physical port of the device to a second physical port of the device and a second latency value of a second data flow from the second physical port to the first physical port, where the first latency value is less than the second latency value. The device determines a first target latency value based on the first latency value and the second latency value. The device adjusts a latency value of the first data flow to the first target latency value.
US11641265B2
A method for supporting carrier aggregation and a short transmission time interval (sTTI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a terminal, and may comprise a step of reporting the maximum number of component carriers supporting a combination of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) sTTI lengths, in units of bands or band combinations.
US11641260B2
Provided are a switching method, a base station and a terminal. The method includes that: a base station configures a switching message for a narrow-bandwidth receiving mode, the switching message including time when a terminal is indicated to enter the narrow-bandwidth receiving mode and a position of a narrow bandwidth on a frequency band when the narrow-bandwidth receiving mode is entered; and the switching message is sent to the terminal to indicate the terminal to switch to the narrow bandwidth specified in the switching message for information reception, the narrow bandwidth being smaller than a system bandwidth. With adoption of the embodiments, the terminal may receive a signal on the narrow bandwidth, and reduction in power consumption of the terminal is facilitated.
US11641259B2
In one aspect, an apparatus of wireless communication at a user equipment includes receiving, during a radio resource control (RRC) setup, a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration including a specified time offset x. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) in a later time slot and an instruction to trigger the SRS resource set. The UE determines, based on information from the SRS configuration or the DCI, a starting position within a time slot for transmitting an SRS resource. The UE transmits, at the starting position x slots after the later time slot, a reference SRS resource selected from the SRS resource set, followed sequentially by the remaining resources. In another aspect a UE that receives a t value of multiple t values may transmit the reference resource in a (t+1)th time slot from a reference slot.
US11641249B2
DCI can be received. The DCI can include scheduling information for a physical channel carrying a TB. The physical channel can include a plurality of repetitions of the TB. The physical channel can span at least one slot. Each of the plurality of repetitions can be within a slot of the at least one slot. At least one repetition of the plurality of the repetitions can have a different duration than a duration of at least one other repetition of the plurality of the repetitions. A repetition duration of each of the plurality of repetitions can be determined based on a plurality of available symbols for the physical channel. The plurality of available symbols can be determined based on the DCI.
US11641243B2
A measuring device may include: a signal generator for generating a test signal; and a measurement control unit that inputs the generated test signal to a radio frequency (RF) chain including at least one circuit element, detects output signals of a first diode, a second diode, and a third diode which receive, as input signals, signals generated on the basis of a coupled signal for an input test signal of a circuit element of the at least one circuit element and a coupled signal for an output test signal of the circuit element, and measures an S-parameter for the circuit element on the basis of a component signal of the third frequency in the output signal of the first diode, a component signal of the third frequency in the output signal of the third diode, and the output signal of the second diode.
US11641230B2
A wireless single-frequency-channel, full-duplex, full-time transmit and receive communication node includes an antenna that transmits a transmit signal over a wireless transmit channel and that receives a receive signal over a wireless receive channel. A communications processor includes a first port electrically coupled to the antenna and a second port electrically coupled to a transmit path where the transmit path connects the second port to the first port. A third port of communications processor is electrically coupled to a receive path that connects the first port to the third port. The communications processor is configured to pass the transmit signal in the transmit path to the first port and configured to pass the receive signal in the receive path from the first port to the third port such that the transmit signal and the receive signal occupy a same frequency channel and operate simultaneously in a same time slot.
US11641224B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information about a downlink (DL) transmission transmitted from NRRH>1 RRHs, wherein: NRRH=number of remote radio heads (RRHs), RRH r comprises a group of antenna ports, and r=1, . . . , NRRH; receiving the DL transmission; and decoding the information about the DL transmission; wherein the DL transmission is based on a scheme that is a combination of a precoding scheme and a diversity scheme, wherein the precoding scheme corresponds to applying an intra-RRH precoder component to antenna ports within an RRH, and wherein the diversity scheme corresponds to applying an inter-RRH diversity component to antenna ports across RRHs.
US11641223B2
An operation method of a CP may include: collecting, from terminals or ANs, information on AN(s) to which each of the terminals is connectable, and determining a set of active AN(s) based on the information; adjusting connections between active AN(s) and the terminals based on cooperative transmission constraints; calculating first energy efficiency according to the active AN(s), and calculating second energy efficiency in a state in which at least one AN of active AN(s) is deactivated or activated; and maintaining the set of active AN(s) when second energy efficiency is not improved over first energy efficiency, and updating the set of active AN(s) by excluding or further including the at least one AN when second energy efficiency is improved over first energy efficiency, and performing iteratively from the calculating first energy efficiency and second energy efficiency.
US11641222B2
System and method for emulation of wireless channels and multi-antenna transmit and receive circuits
Device and method can be provided for emulating a system which includes a wireless channel, a wireless transmitter, and a wireless receiver. For example, with an emulation processor, it is possible to receive baseband data, process the received baseband data, and transmit the processed baseband data. Further, with a controller, it is possible to receive configuration information pertaining to the wireless channel, the wireless transmitter, and the wireless receiver to be emulated; and configure the emulation processor according to the received configuration information.
US11641220B2
Provided are a device and method for performing authentication in a wireless power transfer system. Provided is an authentication method in a wireless power transfer system including receiving a first packet including indication information on whether a target device supports an authentication function from the target device; transmitting, when the target device supports an authentication function, an authentication request message to the target device; receiving an authentication response message including a certificate on wireless charging from the target device in response to the authentication request message; and confirming authentication of the target device based on the authentication response message.
US11641219B2
A method is presented of determining whether a digital subscriber line is susceptible to radio frequency interference. The method measures the signal to noise ratio (SNR) margin on the digital subscriber line over a number of 24 hour periods. The measured SNR margin over a given 24 hour period is then compared to a reference function of SNR margin over time (24 hours), where the SNR margin of the reference function is higher during the day and lower during the night, and also repeats daily. A measure of the interference susceptibility is generated based on the degree of similarity between the measured SNR margin and the reference function.
US11641214B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US11641206B2
An integrated circuit that includes a generating circuit is described. During operation, the generating circuit may provide an edge clock having a target phase within a clock period of an input clock, where the generating circuit does not include a delay-locked loop (DLL). For example, the generating circuit may include a gated ring oscillator that provides a reference clock having a first fundamental frequency that is larger than a second fundamental frequency of the input clock. Note that the gated ring oscillator may be programmable to adjust the first fundamental frequency within a predefined range of values. Moreover, the generating circuit may include a control circuit that determines a reference count of a number of edges of the reference clock within a reference period of the reference clock.
US11641203B2
A regenerative gate charging circuit includes an inductor coupled to a gate of a FET. An output control circuit is coupled to a timing control circuit and a bridged inductor driver, which is coupled to the inductor. A sense circuit is coupled to the gate and to the timing control circuit, which receives a control signal, generates output control signals in accordance with a first timing profile, and transmits the output control signals to the output control circuit. In accordance with the first timing profile, the output control circuit holds switches or controllable current sources of the bridged inductor driver in an ON state for a first period and holds the switches or controllable current sources in an OFF state for a second period. Gate voltages are sampled during the second period and after the first period. The timing control circuit generates a second timing profile using the sampled voltages.
US11641199B2
A slew rate adjusting circuit includes an adjustment transistor configured to provide an adjustment current into an output port of an arithmetic amplifier, a first transistor connected between a power line of the arithmetic amplifier and the adjustment transistor, and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and an output node of the output port, wherein the adjustment transistor is turned on by the second transistor in response to a difference between an input voltage and an output voltage being equal to or greater than a reference voltage, and the adjustment current is provided to the output port in response to the adjustment transistor being turned on.
US11641194B1
A circuit can include a first sub-circuit, a second sub-circuit, and a third sub-circuit. The first sub-circuit can store a reset state or a set state, and can include a first Josephson junction (JJ), a second JJ, and a third JJ coupled in parallel using superconducting inductors. The first JJ, the second JJ, and the third JJ can be biased using a JJ-based current source. The second sub-circuit can switch the first sub-circuit to the set state in response to receiving a pulse. The third sub-circuit can switch the first sub-circuit to the reset state in response to receiving one or more pulses.
US11641190B2
An oscillator circuit (15) is disclosed. It comprises N amplifier circuits (A1-A4), connected in a ring and has a first and a second supply terminal (s1, s2). Each amplifier circuit (A1-A4) comprises an input transistor (M1) having its gate connected to the input (in) of the amplifier circuit, its drain connected to an internal node (x) of the amplifier circuit, and its source connected to the first supply terminal (si). Furthermore, each amplifier circuit (A1-A4) comprises a first resonance circuit (R1) comprising a first inductor (Ls) and a first capacitor (Cs), wherein the first inductor (Ls) is connected between the internal node (x) and the output (out) of the amplifier circuit, and the first capacitor (Cs) is connected between the output (out) of the amplifier circuit and one of the first and the second supply terminals (s1, s2). Moreover, each amplifier circuit (A1-A4) comprises a second resonance circuit (R2) comprising a second inductor (Lp) and a second capacitor (Cp), wherein the second inductor (Lp) and the second capacitor (Cp) are connected in parallel between the internal node (x) and the second supply terminal (s2).
US11641189B2
A relaxation oscillator includes an adjustable reference circuit generator to produce a reference current which is applied to a charging circuit. The charging circuit is configured to charge a capacitive node as a function of the reference current and a capacitance of an adjustable capacitor that is operably coupled to the capacitive node. A comparator having inputs operatively coupled to a reference voltage node and to the capacitive node, generates a comparator output. A control circuit alternatively enables the charging circuit to charge the capacitive node and to discharge the capacitive node in response to changes in the comparator output. Also, the control circuit outputs and oscillator output signal have an oscillator period as a function of the adjustable capacitance and the adjustable reference current.
US11641179B2
A power amplifier includes: at least two first bridge type amplifying circuits and at least two second bridge type amplifying circuits; the negative pole of the first load of each first bridge type amplifying circuit is respectively coupled to the positive stage of the second load of each second bridge type amplifying circuits through a gating circuit. When both a first input signal input into one of the at least two first bridge type amplifying circuits and a second input signal input into one of the at least two second bridge type amplifying circuits are less than a preset threshold, the gating circuit is turned on, so that the one of the at least two first bridge type amplifying circuits and the one of the at least two second bridge type amplifying circuits can share load current by the gating circuit.
US11641176B2
A method and a kit for building a protective structure, the method and the kit including supplying a carrying structure, including a plurality of parallel carrying rails; supplying a group of panels, the panels being able to be engaged on and slide on the carrying rails; and transferring the panels from the storage position to a final position bearing on the carrying rails, by transferring at least one of the panels from the storage position to an insertion position on the carrying rails; using a transfer device lifting the at least one panel upward; placing the transferred panels one after the other bearing on the carrying rails; and moving the transferred panels along the carrying rails.
US11641175B2
A controller for a rotary electric machine may include: at least one memory that stores a temperature prediction data in which a relationship among a rotational speed of a rotary electric machine, a torque information of the rotary electric machine, a temperature of the rotary electric machine at a reference time point, and a temperature of the rotary electric machine after an estimation calculation period elapses from the reference time point, and at least one processor that, at every estimation calculation period, sets the last calculation time before the estimation calculation period as the reference time point, and, by referring to the temperature prediction data, calculates an estimation value of temperature of the rotary electric machine after the estimation calculation period elapses from the last calculation time.
US11641171B2
A control device (110) includes a first multiplexing unit (202) configured to segregate a first PWM signal having a first switching frequency into a second PWM signal having a second switching frequency and a third PWM signal having a third switching frequency. Also, the control device (110) includes an integrator unit (204) configured to generate a first integrated signal and a second integrated signal based on the second PWM signal and the third PWM signal, and a modulator unit (206) configured to receive the first integrated signal and the second integrated signal and generate a modulation signal based on the first integrated signal and the second integrated signal. Furthermore, the control device (110) includes a generator unit (208) configured to receive the modulation signal and generate a fourth PWM signal having a fourth switching frequency different from the first switching frequency based on the modulation signal.
US11641167B1
A transformerless parallel active rectifier system includes N multiphase common mode inductors directly connected to a shared multiphase AC input with no intervening transformer, and N active rectifiers coupled to respective ones of the N multiphase common mode inductors and having respective DC outputs coupled to a shared DC bus, where N is an integer greater than 1. The N active rectifiers have ground current regulators and are synchronized to provide DPWM switching control signals synchronized to one another to regulate their respective ground currents and concurrently regulate the shared DC bus voltage.
US11641166B2
A rectifier circuit has a cathode node, an anode node, a rectifier switch, an auxiliary switch, an operating power capacitor and a rectifier controller supplied with power by the operating power capacitor. The rectifier switch is electrically connected to the auxiliary switch. When the rectifier controller turns OFF both the rectifier and auxiliary switches, the rectifier circuit supports a first loop, directing a first current to flow into the rectifier circuit from the anode node, through the operating power capacitor, and away the rectifier circuit from the cathode, so the operating power capacitor is charged. When the rectifier controller turns ON both the rectifier and auxiliary switches, the rectifier circuit supports a second loop directing a second current to flow into the rectifier circuit from the anode node, through the rectifier switch, and away the rectifier circuit from the cathode, without charging the operating power capacitor.
US11641154B2
A converter arrangement has a line-commutated converter with an AC voltage terminal to be connected to an AC voltage grid via at least one phase line. The converter arrangement has at least one switching module branch that is arranged in series in the at least one phase line and that includes a series connection of switching modules at whose terminals bipolar voltages that sum to give a branch voltage are in each case able to be generated. A bypass branch is arranged in a parallel connection to the switching module branch. At least one switching device is arranged in the bypass branch. The switching device includes activatable semiconductor switches that are connected in antiparallel. There is also described a method for starting up the converter arrangement.
US11641149B2
An electrical machine stator can include a stator core having a stator core shape and made of a core material, a plurality of windings disposed in the stator core and made of a conductive material, and an insulative material surrounding the plurality of windings and configured to electrically insulate each winding from each other adjacent winding, and/or to insulate one or more of the windings from the stator core. The insulative material can be an amorphous metal.
US11641146B2
Provided is a wheel bearing apparatus with a generator that can have a simplified structure to reduce costs and is capable of preventing electrolytic corrosion. The wheel bearing apparatus with a generator includes a wheel bearing and a generator. The generator includes a stator attached to a fixed wheel and a motor rotor attached to a rotating wheel and is of an outer-rotor type in which the stator is located on an outer periphery of the wheel bearing, and the motor rotor is located radially outside of the stator. The wheel bearing apparatus with the generator further includes at least one conducting unit that conducts a current between the fixed wheel and the rotating wheel.
US11641145B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a function module, a body, and a motor assembly. The body includes an accommodation space for accommodating the function module. The motor assembly includes a drive motor, a gear, a rotation output shaft, a displacement mechanism, and a latch. The drive motor includes a shaft. The gear is fixedly attached to the shaft. The rotation output shaft includes a gear teeth portion. The gear teeth portion is coupled to the gear. The rotation output shaft is connected to the function module and is configured to drive the function module to rotate. The displacement mechanism synchronizes with the shaft and is separated from the rotation output shaft. The displacement mechanism includes a linear motion component. The latch is connected to the linear motion component, and is configured to engage the function module.
US11641140B2
The present invention relates to an electromechanical battery comprising a single pole-pair Halbach array of permanent magnets incorporated into an annular flywheel, which together comprise a rotor assembly, a means for levitating the rotor assembly using a “double-lift” attractive magnetic levitator under active control, and a means for actively stabilizing the spinning rotor assembly by interaction with the fringe fields of the Halbach array.
US11641125B2
A vehicular power supply device to be applied to a vehicle includes an electric storage unit group, a charger, first and second switches, and a switch controller. The electric storage unit group includes a first electric storage unit and a second electric storage unit having higher internal resistance than the first electric storage unit. The charger is coupled to the electric storage unit group and charges one or both of the first electric storage unit and second electric storage unit. The first switch is provided between the first electric storage unit and the charger and controlled between an on state and an off state. The second switch is provided between the second electric storage unit and the charger and controlled between an on state and an off state. The switch controller controls the first and second switches based on a temperature of the electric storage unit group.
US11641121B2
A system is provided comprising: a materials handling vehicle; a wearable remote control device comprising: a wireless communication system including a wireless transmitter; and a rechargeable power source; a receiver at the vehicle for receiving transmissions from the wireless transmitter; a controller at the vehicle that is communicably coupled to the receiver, the controller being responsive to receipt of the transmissions from the remote control device; and a charging station at the vehicle. The charging station may charge the rechargeable power source of the wearable remote control device. The charging station may comprise a visual indicator.
US11641119B2
A method for detecting a bad contact of a charging cable comprises: measuring a cooling fluid temperature of a cooling fluid flowing through the charging cable; measuring a connector base temperature of a connector base of the charging cable, which connector base carries an electrical contact element of the charging cable; estimating a contact temperature of the electrical contact element by determining the contact temperature from a difference of the connector base temperature and the cooling fluid temperature; and deciding presence of a bad contact, when the estimated contact temperature is higher than a threshold temperature.
US11641112B2
A system to manage power consumption from a grid includes a building switchgear; an energy storage system (ESS) coupled to the building switchgear to selectively provide power in response to a customer power demand to prevent a customer grid power consumption from spiking and peaking at grid imbalance highest cost on peak times; an energy management system (EMS) to operate the ESS from behind-the-meter; and a data distribution service (DDS) coupled to the EMS forming a DDS-EMS network to provide a global data space servicing EMS edge publishers and subscribers.
US11641105B2
An integrated circuit device having insulated gate field effect transistors (IGFETs) having a plurality of horizontally disposed channels that can be vertically aligned above a substrate with each channel being surrounded by a gate structure has been disclosed. The integrated circuit device may include electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit structures. The ESD protection circuit structures may be formed in regions other than the region that the IGFETs are formed as well as in the region that the IGFETs having a plurality of horizontally disposed channels that can be vertically aligned above a substrate with each channel being surrounded by a gate structure are formed. By forming ESD protection circuit structures in regions below the IGFETs, an older process technology may be used and device size may be decreased. Furthermore, planar IGFETs of FinFETs may be formed in other regions to decrease device size and improve costs.
US11641093B2
A multi-function cabinet housing electrical equipment. The multi-function cabinet has four compartments. Each compartment is configured to house a different type of electrical equipment. The electrical equipment may be high-voltage electrical metering and distribution components, high-voltage control electronics, battery backup, wireways, low-voltage electronics, or a combination thereof. The multi-function cabinet contains wireways. The compartments of the multifunction cabinet are accessible using doors, which are fastened by locks. The cabinet contains a ventilation system with fans, vents, and filters.
US11641089B2
Some embodiments may include a packaged laser diode assembly, comprising: a length of optical fiber having a core and a polymer buffer in direct contact with the core, the length of optical fiber having a first section and a second section, the first section of the length of optical fiber including a tip of an input end of the optical fiber, wherein the polymer buffer covers only the second section of the first and second sections; one or more laser diodes to generate laser light; means for directing a beam derived from the laser light into the input end of the length of optical fiber; a light stripper attached to the core in the first section of the length of optical fiber. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US11641086B2
A method for automatically mounting a connector housing with a contact part attached to an electrical line includes holding the contact part, determining an actual rotational position of the contact part, comparing the actual rotational position with a predetermined rotational position, and performing a rotational position correction thereby aligning the connector part to the connector housing. The connector housing is fixed to a holder and the contact part is inserted into a cavity of the connector housing by means of a movable gripper.
US11641085B2
An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical terminal having a connection portion and an attachment portion angled relative to the connection portion. The assembly also includes a cylindrical inner housing sleeve formed of a polymeric material in which the connection portion of the electrical terminal is disposed and an outer connector housing formed of a polymeric material having a smooth bore configured to receive the inner housing sleeve containing the electrical terminal. The bore and inner housing sleeve are sized such that the inner housing sleeve is in an interference fit condition when received within the bore. The electrical connector assembly is assembled by a process having the steps of inserting the inner housing sleeve within the bore of the outer connector housing and affixing the inner housing sleeve to the outer connector housing by welding the inner housing sleeve to the outer connector housing.
US11641080B2
A harness comprises a connector body, a cable and a cable-holding portion which holds the cable. The connector body comprises a base portion. The cable is connected to the connector body. The cable has an end portion received in the base portion and a main portion extending rearward from the end portion. The cable-holding portion is formed with a recessed portion which opens at least downward in the upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The base portion has an interference portion. The recessed portion and the interference portion are located at opposite sides of the harness, respectively, in the lateral direction (Y-direction). The recessed portion is, at least in part, located at a position same as that of the interference portion in the front-rear direction (X-direction). The recessed portion is, at least in part, located at a position same as that of the interference portion in the upper-lower direction.
US11641074B2
A connector includes a housing to be mounted on a circuit board, and an upper-stage terminal, a middle-stage terminal and a lower-stage terminal to be held in the housing. Leg portions of the respective upper-stage terminal and middle-stage terminal are arranged side by side in a width direction of a wall portion, and include each a wide portion and a narrow portion arranged below the wide portion. The wide portion of the upper-stage terminal protrudes only toward the middle-stage terminal with respect to the narrow portion of the upper-stage terminal. The wide portion of the middle-stage terminal protrudes only toward the middle-stage terminal with respect to the narrow portion of the upper-stage terminal. A leg portion of the lower-stage terminal is arranged between the narrow portion of the upper-stage terminal and the narrow portion of the middle-stage terminal in the width direction.
US11641071B2
A pin has a compliant section at a first end and a welding section at a second end opposite the first end. The compliant section is electrically connected with a via of a printed circuit board. The welding section has a welded connection with a passive component.
US11641066B2
Disclosed are aspects of an antenna including a body having a convex surface. A conductive structure is deposited onto an antenna region of the convex surface. The conductive structure is configured as a conformal slot antenna array. The antenna region of the convex surface includes corrugations having peaks and valleys. A plurality of slots of the conformal slot antenna array are located at the peaks and the valleys of the convex surface.
US11641058B2
An array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a wearable device are provided. The array substrate includes a near field communication antenna which is arranged in conductive layers of the array substrate, and the near field communication antenna includes: a main coil and a secondary coil, the main coil and the secondary coil are located in different conductive layers of the array substrate, and one terminal of the main coil is electrically connected to one terminal of the secondary coil through a first via hole of the array substrate, and the other terminal of the main coil is electrically connected to the other terminal of the secondary coil through another first via hole of the array substrate.
US11641056B2
[Problems to be Solved] To provide a flight vehicle and a communication system which can relay communications between transmission and reception antennae that are located farther from each other by using antennae capable of receiving information transmitted from a transmission antenna located in a wider range than a range of a linear directed antenna can receive. [Solution] A flight vehicle 1 according to the present invention comprises one or more linear array antennae (antennae 4); and a controller 2 configured to be capable to execute: a process of receiving information by one or more of the antennae 4, a process of outwardly transmitting said information by one or more of the antennae 4. In the communication system C of the present invention, which includes said flight vehicle 1, the transmission antenna T1 and the reception antenna R1 differ from each other. In the flight vehicle 1 of the present invention, it is preferable that the antennae 4 that receives the information and the antennae 4 that transmits the information differ from each other.
US11641055B2
A base station antenna includes first and second arrays that include respective pluralities of first and second radiating elements arranged along the longitudinal direction of the base station antenna, the second array transversely adjacent the first array. A longitudinal position of each second radiating element is staggered from that of the corresponding first radiating element. The first array comprises first and second sub-arrays, each of which comprises one or a plurality of adjacent first radiating elements. A phase center of the combination of the first and second subarrays is basically aligned with a sub-phase center of the second array.
US11641054B2
A communication device is provided here. The communication device includes a metal cover, a first radiator, and a second radiator. The metal cover includes a slot. The first radiator overlaps the slot in a first direction. A portion of the second radiator overlaps a portion of the first radiator in the first direction.
US11641048B2
A battery terminal connector assembly for attaching to a terminal post of a battery includes a biasing portion and a post engagement portion. The biasing portion has a first terminal post receiving opening. A biasing wall extends about a circumference of the first terminal post receiving opening. The post engagement portion has a second terminal post receiving opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. Engagement walls extend about a circumference of the second terminal post receiving opening. The biasing portion is movable relative to the post engagement portion between a first insertion position and a second termination position. As the biasing portion is moved from the first insertion position to the second termination position, the biasing wall engages the engagement walls and moves the engagement walls into mechanical and electrical engagement with the battery terminal post positioned in the second terminal receiving opening of the post engagement portion.
US11641035B1
A system for aircraft power management and distribution, including a sensor suite configured to measure battery pack data. The system includes a battery pack with a plurality of batteries and a battery monitoring component. This battery monitoring component is configured to measure battery pack data. The system also has electric power converters, each connected to a battery of the plurality of batteries. The system also includes a controller configured to control each electric power converter; receive an estimated charge from each battery; select and enable electric power converters based on the estimated charge; compare the total output of the enabled electric power converters against an optimal operating region; and adjust the number of the one or more enabled electric power converters accordingly.
US11641032B2
A solid electrolyte according to the present disclosure is represented by the following compositional formula (1). Li7(La3-xBix)Zr2O12 (1) In the formula (1), x satisfies 0.05
US11641023B2
A system for generating electrical power includes an electrochemical cell including a cathode and an anode separated by an electrolyte, a cathode fluid flow path in operative fluid communication with the cathode including a cathode-side inlet and a cathode-side outlet, and an anode fluid flow path in operative fluid communication with the anode including an anode-side inlet and an anode-side outlet. The system also includes: a reactant source in operative fluid communication with the anode-side inlet; an oxygen generator in operative fluid communication with the cathode-side inlet, including a combustible composition comprising a fuel and a salt that thermally decomposes to release oxygen; and an electrical connection between the electrochemical cell and a power sink.
US11641022B2
A system for controlling purge operation of a fuel cell assembly includes a controller and one or more sensors configured to obtain respective sensor data. The fuel cell stack is configured to receive a stack coolant. The controller is configured to execute a first purge mode when at least one of a first enabling condition and a second enabling condition is met. The first purge mode defines a first group of setpoints, including a relatively low cathode stoichiometric ratio. The controller is configured to switch to a second purge mode when the coolant temperature is above a minimum warm-up temperature and a third mode when a relative humidity value of a stack cathode output falls below a threshold humidity. The second purge mode defines a second group of setpoints, including a relatively high cathode stoichiometric ratio.
US11641020B2
An apparatus is provided for conditioning at least one process gas which is supplied to at least one electrochemical converter, via at least one process gas supply. The process gas supply has a humidifying unit configured and arranged to introduce a humidifying agent into the process gas. Water in a supercritical state can be introduced as the humidifying agent.
US11641019B1
A fuel cell system having a fuel cell cooling circuit coupled to a battery cooling circuit through a coolant/coolant heat exchanger for removing heat from the fuel cell cooling circuit through the battery cooling circuit during normal steady state operation of the fuel cell system.
US11641017B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode current collector, an intermediate layer, and an electrode active material layer. The intermediate layer is interposed between the electrode current collector and the electrode active material layer. The intermediate layer contains a metal-covered microcapsule. The metal-covered microcapsule includes a microcapsule and a metal film. The microcapsule includes a core and a shell. The shell surrounds the core. The core includes a volatile material. The shell includes a thermoplastic resin material. The metal film covers at least part of an outer surface of the microcapsule.
US11641013B2
A rechargeable lithium battery includes a negative active material including: a secondary particle including a core in which a plurality of primary particles are agglomerated, the primary particles including a natural graphite; and a coating layer including amorphous carbon and surrounding the core, wherein a Raman peak intensity ratio of a D peak (1350 cm−1 to 1370 cm−1) to a D′ peak (1570 cm−1 to 1620 cm−1) (ID/ID′) of the negative active material is about 3.2 to about 3.8, and a lattice constant La of the negative active material is about 30 nm to about 45 nm.
US11641011B2
An electrode assembly comprising a first unit electrode in which a plurality of first electrodes entirely made of a first electrode mixture having a solid shape are connected to each other; a second unit electrode in which a plurality of second electrodes entirely made of a second electrode mixture having a solid shape are connected to each other; a separator interposed between the first unit electrode and the second unit electrode; and an electrode tab comprising a plurality of first electrode tab provided on the first unit electrode and a plurality of second electrode tab provided on the second unit electrode.
US11641008B2
A light emitting device including a first light emitting cell, a second light emitting cell, and a third light emitting cell each including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, pads electrically connected to the first, second, and third light emitting cells, a first wavelength converter configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the first light emitting cell into a first wavelength, and a second wavelength converter configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the second light emitting cell into a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, in which the first light emitting cell has a larger area than the third light emitting cell, and the second light emitting cell has a larger area than the first light emitting cell.
US11641007B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor diode structure with one or more light-emitting active layers, an anti-reflection coating on its front surface, and a redirection layer on its back surface. Active-layer output light propagates within the diode structure. The anti-reflection coating on the front surface increases transmission of active-layer output light incident below the critical angle ΘC. Active-layer output light incident on the redirection layer at an incidence angle greater than ΘC is redirected to propagate toward the front surface at an incidence angle that is less than ΘC. Device output light is transmitted by the front surface to propagate in an ambient medium, and includes first and second portions of the active-layer output light incident on the front surface at an incidence angle less than ΘC, the first portion without redirection by the redirection layer and the second portion with redirection by the redirection layer.
US11641004B2
A light emitting device includes: a semiconductor structure including: a first semiconductor layer including: a first side parallel to an m-plane of the first semiconductor layer, and a second side meeting the first side, the second side being parallel to an a-plane of the first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer disposed on a portion of the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the light emitting layer; a first conductive member disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a second conductive member disposed on the second semiconductor layer; a first terminal disposed on the first conductive member; a second terminal disposed on the second conductive member; and a covering member covering a lateral surface of the first conductive member, a lateral surface of the second conductive member, a lateral surface of the first terminal, and a lateral surface of the second terminal.
US11641002B2
A device includes a substrate and an optoelectronic chip buried in the substrate. The substrate may include an opening above a first optical transduction region of the first optoelectronic chip and above a second optical transduction region of a second optoelectronic chip.
US11641000B2
The invention provides an image sensor, the image sensor includes a substrate, a first circuit layer located on the substrate, and at least one nanowire photodiode located on the first circuit layer and electrically connected to the first circuit layer, the nanowire photodiode comprises a lower material layer and an upper material layer with a P-N junction between the lower material layer and the upper material layer, the lower material layer includes perovskite material.
US11640992B2
A shielded gate trench MOSFET device structure is provided. The device structure includes MOS gate trenches and p body contact trenches formed in an n type epitaxial silicon layer overlying an n+ silicon substrate. Each MOS gate trench includes a gate trench stack having a lower n+ shield poly silicon layer separated from an upper n+ gate poly silicon layer by an inter poly dielectric layer. The upper and lower poly silicon layers are also laterally isolated at the areas where the lower poly silicon layer extends to silicon surface by selectively removing portion of the upper poly silicon and filling the gap with a dielectric material. The method is used to form both MOS gate trenches and p body contact trenches in self-aligned or non self-aligned shielded gate trench MOSFET device manufacturing.
US11640989B2
A structure and formation method of a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a semiconductor stack having first sacrificial layers and first semiconductor layers laid out alternately. The method also includes patterning the semiconductor stack to form a first structure and a second structure. The method further includes replacing the second structure with a third structure having second sacrificial layers and second semiconductor layers laid out alternately. In addition, the method includes removing the first sacrificial layers in the first structure and the second sacrificial layers in the third structure. The method includes forming a first metal gate stack and a second metal gate stack to wrap around each of the first semiconductor layers in the first structure and each of the second semiconductor layers in the third structure, respectively.
US11640987B2
Disclosed herein are methods for forming vertical field-effect-transistor (vFET). In some embodiments, a method includes providing a device structure including a plurality of pillars extending from a base layer, forming a capping layer over the device structure, and forming a drain in an upper section of each of the plurality of pillars by performing an angled implant to each of the plurality of pillars. The angled implant may be delivered at a non-zero angle of inclination relative to a perpendicular extending from a top surface of the base layer. The method may further include etching the device structure to remove the capping layer from along a lower section of each of the plurality of pillars, wherein the capping layer remains along the upper section of each of the plurality of pillars.
US11640986B2
A semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing, is provided. A dummy gate is formed on a semiconductor substrate. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) is formed over the semiconductor fin. A dopant is implanted into the ILD. The dummy gate is removed and an anneal is performed on the ILD. The implantation and the anneal lead to an enhancement of channel resistance by a reduction in interlayer dielectric thickness and to an enlargement of critical dimensions of a metal gate.
US11640983B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a gate dielectric over a substrate; a gate electrode over the gate dielectric, the gate electrode including: a work function tuning layer over the gate dielectric; a glue layer over the work function tuning layer; a fill layer over the glue layer; and a void defined by inner surfaces of at least one of the fill layer, the glue layer, and the work function tuning layer, a material of the gate electrode at the inner surfaces including a work function tuning element.
US11640979B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes steps of forming a recess in the substrate; depositing an insulating layer on the substrate; forming a gate electrode on the insulating layer and partly buried in the recess; removing a portion of the insulating layer exposed through the gate electrode to form a gate dielectric; and implanting dopants in the substrate to form a source region and a drain region on either side of the gate electrode.
US11640972B2
A semiconductor substrate has a front face with a first dielectric region. A capacitive element includes, on a surface of the first dielectric region at the front face, a stack of layers which include a first conductive region, a second conductive region and a third conductive region. The second conductive region is electrically insulated from the first conductive region by a second dielectric region. The second conductive region is further electrically insulated from the third conductive region by a third dielectric region. The first and third conductive regions form one plate of the capacitive element, and the second conductive region forms another plate of the capacitive element.
US11640965B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a first charge accumulation region disposed in the substrate and having a second conductivity type, a second charge accumulation region connected with the first charge accumulation region, having the second conductivity type and extending downward from an edge of the first charge accumulation region, a pinning region disposed on the first charge accumulation region and having the first conductivity type, a floating diffusion region spaced laterally from the pinning region, a channel region disposed between the pinning region and the floating diffusion region, and a gate structure disposed on the channel region.
US11640963B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises: a base substrate; an insulating layer arranged on the base substrate, the insulating layer being provided with recesses spaced from each other; metal lines arranged on one side of the insulating layer away from the base substrate, portions of the metal lines corresponding to the recesses being located in the recesses, the metal lines having a corrugated longitudinal cross-section in an extending direction of the metal lines to reduce a risk of the metal lines breaking during bending and improve flexibility of the display panel.
US11640957B2
A light emitting module includes a substrate, a light reflective resin layer, wiring electrodes and a light emitting element. The light reflective resin layer is arranged on the substrate. The wiring electrodes are arranged over the substrate with the light reflective resin layer being interposed between the substrate and the wiring electrodes. The light emitting element has an electrode formation surface including a positive and negative pair of element electrodes, and a light emitting surface on a side opposite to the electrode formation surface. The light emitting element is arranged on top surfaces of the wiring electrodes with the element electrodes facing the top surfaces of the wiring electrodes.
US11640955B2
A multi-chip package includes a first die having temperature sensors and a second die. The first die generates temperature deviation information of m (m
US11640948B2
A connector structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The connector structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a metal layer, a passivation layer, and a conductive structure. The metal layer is over the semiconductor substrate. The passivation layer is over the metal layer and includes an opening. The conductive structure is in contact with the metal layer in a patterned surface structure of the conductive structure through the opening of the passivation layer.
US11640943B2
A semiconductor wafer includes a wafer body including an active layer having a first crystal orientation and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, and a support layer having a second crystal orientation different from the first crystal orientation and having third and fourth surfaces opposing each other, a bevel portion that extends along an outer periphery of the wafer body to connect the first surface to the fourth surface, and a notch portion formed at a predetermined depth in a direction from the outer periphery of the wafer body toward a center portion of the wafer body. The bevel portion includes a first beveled surface connected to the first surface and a second beveled surface connected to the fourth surface. The first beveled surface has a width in a radial direction of the wafer body that is 300 μm or less.
US11640939B2
Memory bit cells having internal node jumpers are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a memory bit cell on a substrate. The memory bit cell includes first and second gate lines parallel along a second direction of the substrate. The first and second gate lines have a first pitch along a first direction of the substrate, the first direction perpendicular to the second direction. First, second and third interconnect lines are over the first and second gate lines. The first, second and third interconnect lines are parallel along the second direction of the substrate. The first, second and third interconnect lines have a second pitch along the first direction, where the second pitch is less than the first pitch. One of the first, second and third interconnect lines is an internal node jumper for the memory bit cell.
US11640929B2
An integrated circuit assembly may be formed having a substrate core, wherein the substrate core includes at least one heat transfer fluid channel formed therein, a first build-up layer formed on a first surface of the substrate core, and a second build-up layer formed on a second surface of the substrate core, and methods of fabricating the same. In embodiments of the present description, the integrated circuit structure may include at least one integrated circuit device formed within at least one of the first build-up layer and the second build-up layer. The embodiments of the present description allow for cooling within the substrate, which may significantly reduce thermal damage to the components of the substrate and/or integrated circuit devices within the substrate.
US11640898B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus for the fabrication of waveguides. In one example, an angled ion source is utilized to project ions toward a substrate to form a waveguide which includes angled gratings. In another example, an angled electron beam source is utilized to project electrons toward a substrate to form a waveguide which includes angled gratings. Further aspects of the disclosure provide for methods of forming angled gratings on waveguides utilizing an angled ion beam source and an angled electron beam source.
US11640895B2
There is provided a sample holder capable of reducing positional deviation of a cartridge in the heightwise direction of a sample. The sample holder includes the cartridge and a holder base having a mounting portion for the cartridge. The mounting portion includes a placement surface, a first tilted surface, and a rotary drive mechanism for imparting a rotary force to the cartridge. The cartridge includes an opposing first tilted surface opposite to the first tilted surface of the mounting portion. As the rotary drive mechanism imparts the rotary force to the cartridge, the first tilted surface of the cartridge is pressed against the first tilted surface of the mounting portion, whereby the cartridge is pressed against the placement surface.
US11640888B2
Proposed are an input/output device and a control method for the same, the device including a first input/output terminal that receives a forward signal from a limit switch or outputs power to a sensor; a second input/output terminal that receives a backward signal from the limit switch or receives a sensing signal from the sensor; and an integrated circuit unit that determines a communication target for exchanging a signal through the first input/output terminal and the second input/output terminal, and selectively receives or outputs the forward signal, the backward signal, the power of the sensor and the sensing signal based on the determination result.
US11640885B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods of manufacturing are described that provide a rotary switch. An example rotary switch includes a substrate and a plurality of electrical contacts supported by the substrate. The rotary switch includes a resistor network of a plurality of resistors in electrical communication with the plurality of electrical contacts and a commutator that moves relative to the substrate along the plurality of electrical contacts. The commutator electrically connects a pair of adjacent electrical contacts so as to modify an output voltage of the rotary switch corresponding to a position of the rotary switch. Each resistor of the resistor network is positioned so as to electrically connect a respective pair of adjacent electrical contacts. Each resistor in the resistor network comprises a resistance value that is different from resistance values of other resistors in the resistor network.
US11640884B2
A system may comprise a printed circuit board (PCB) including a top surface, and a bracket including a top surface configured to receive and couple to a key switch and a bottom surface including at least two protrusions that extend normal to the bottom surface of the bracket. The bracket can be configured to mount to the PCB such that the bottom surface of the bracket is coupled to the top surface of the PCB, and the at least two protrusions may each include conductive leads that couple to the top surface of the PCB. The bracket is configured to only cover a portion of a bottom surface of the key switch when coupled to the key switch. An LED can be mounted to the top surface of the PCB, laterally adjacent to the bracket, and under the key switch at a location not covered by the bracket.
US11640879B2
A winding-type capacitor package structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The winding-type capacitor package structure includes a winding assembly, a package assembly, a conductive assembly, and a bottom carrier frame. The winding assembly includes a positive winding conductive foil and a negative winding conductive foil. The winding assembly is enclosed by the package assembly. The package assembly includes a casing structure and a filling body received inside the casing structure. The casing structure has an inner rough surface. The bottom carrier frame is disposed on a bottom portion of the casing structure. The filling body includes a plurality of layered structures, and each of the layered structure is connected between the winding assembly and the casing structure. Therefore, the filling body including the layered structures can be limited inside the casing structure through friction force provided by the inner rough surface.
US11640878B2
A winding capacitor package structure and a method of manufactured the same are provided. The winding capacitor package structure includes a winding assembly, a package assembly, a conductive assembly, and a bottom carrier frame. The winding assembly includes a winding positive foil and a winding negative foil. The winding assembly is enclosed by the package assembly. The package assembly includes a casing structure and a filling body received inside the casing structure. The casing structure includes a main casing for enclosing the filling body and a retaining body inwardly bent from a bottom side of the main casing. The filling body includes a plurality of layered structures, and each of the layered structure is connected between the winding assembly and the casing structure. Therefore, the filling body including the layered structures can be retained and limited inside the casing structure through the retaining body.
US11640874B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a first dielectric layer on which a first internal electrode, a first coupling portion, and a second internal electrode are disposed, a second dielectric layer on which a third internal electrode, a second coupling portion, and a fourth internal electrode are disposed, and a third dielectric layer on which a fifth internal electrode or a sixth internal electrode is disposed, and first and second external electrodes connected to the first to sixth internal electrodes, and disposed on both surfaces of the body in the first direction. The first to third dielectric layers are sequentially stacked.
US11640873B1
A method of forming a self-aligned electrical winding includes forming a first conductive turn in a first conductive layer around a planned leg hole and forming a second conductive turn in a second conductive layer around the planned leg hole. The method includes stacking a plurality of conductive layers aligned with each other, and separated from each other by at least one intervening insulation layer into a multilayer PCB stack. The method includes forming the planned leg hole through the multilayer PCB by removing the respective conductive portions of the first conductive turn and second conductive turn that extend into the planned leg hole. Forming the leg hole defines a first inner circumference for the first conductive turn and a second inner circumference for the second conductive turns, wherein the first inner circumference is aligned with the second inner circumference through forming the leg hole.
US11640870B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface opposing each other in a first direction; an internal insulating layer buried in the body; a coil portion disposed in the internal insulating layer, and forming at least one turn centering on an axis in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; first and second external electrodes disposed on one surface of the body and spaced apart from each other, and connected to the coil portion; an external insulating layer covering the body and exposing the first and second external electrodes. Lengths of the first and second external electrodes taken in the second direction are shorter than a length of the external insulating layer taken in the second direction.
US11640867B2
A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body that is formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers on top of one another and that has a coil built into the inside thereof; and a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by electrically connecting a plurality of coil conductors, which are stacked together with insulating layers, to one another. A first main surface of the multilayer body is a mounting surface. A stacking direction of the multilayer body and an axial direction of the coil are parallel to the mounting surface. The coil includes a plurality of different coil conductors having different coil diameters, and shortest distances from the first main surface to the coil conductors are identical for all of the plurality of different coil conductors.
US11640860B2
A circuit module includes an interposer, and the interposer includes an element body including a first surface, a first interposer terminal provided on the first surface of the element body, and connected to a first external element, a second interposer terminal provided on the first surface of the element body, and connected to a second external element, a first wiring provided in the element body, and electrically connecting the first interposer terminal and the circuit board with each other, a second wiring provided in the element body, and electrically connecting the second interposer terminal and the circuit board with each other, and a bypass wiring provided in the element body and/or on a surface of the element body, and electrically connecting the first interposer terminal and the second interposer terminal with each other.
US11640853B2
The present invention discloses a personal health record system with a process decision support function. By constructing a personal health record system with separated characteristic data extraction and characteristic data analysis, characteristic data that meets analysis requirements is expected to be rapidly obtained. A statistics query interface based on characteristic data and time logic is provided, and decision support for users is completed through steps such as characteristic matching, process classification and statistics evaluation, and process recommendation, so as to make medical big data better execute high-level information analysis and decision support functions.
US11640845B2
A bioinformatics method for determining a risk score that indicates a risk that a subject will experience a negative clinical event within a certain period of time. The risk score is based on a combination of activities of two or more cellular signaling pathways in a subject, such as a human, wherein the specific cellular signaling pathways are the PI3K pathway and one or more of a Wnt pathway, an ER pathway, and an HH pathway. The invention also includes an apparatus with a digital processor configured to perform such a method, to a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that are executable by a digital processing device to perform such a method, and to a computer program comprising program code means for causing a digital processing device to perform such a method. The invention achieves advanced prognosis of negative clinical events, for example, disease progression, recurrence, development of metastasis, or even death.
US11640839B2
A 1S-1T ferroelectric memory cell is provided that include a transistor and a two-terminal selector device. The transistor exhibits a low conductive state and a high conductive state (channel resistance), depending on drive voltage. The two-terminal selector device exhibits one of an ON-state and an OFF-state depending upon whether the transistor is in its low conductive state or its high conductive state. The transistor may be, for instance, a ferroelectric gate vertical transistor. Modulation of a polarization state of ferroelectric material of the vertical transistor may be utilized to switch the state of the selector device. The memory cell may thus selectively be operated in one of an ON-state and an OFF-state depending upon whether the selector device is in its ON-state or OFF-state.
US11640838B2
A memory is provided that is configured to practice two different modes of read operation, such as both a normal read operation and a burst-mode read operation. In one example, the memory is a pseudo-dual-port memory. The memory may include an address comparator to perform a time-division multiplexing to first compare a read address to a stored address and then to compare a write address to the stored address.
US11640836B2
A system and method are directed to providing a configurable timing control of a memory system. In one embodiment, the system has a first interface to receive a DIMM clock and configuration information, a second interface to a first data bus, and a third interface to a second data bus. The system further has a plurality of flip-flops, a multiplexor coupled to the plurality of flip-flops, a first control block for controlling to hold an input data within the plurality of flipflops, and a second control block for controlling a timing of an output data from the plurality of flip-flops via the multiplexor with a programmable delay. The input data is received via the second interface. The programmable delay is received via the first interface. The output data is sent out with the timing delay via the third interface.
US11640831B2
An evaluation device applies a lowpass filter with a cutoff frequency being a first predetermined value or a second predetermined value greater than the first predetermined value with or without change of feedback formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a picked-up speech signal, converts the picked-up speech signal, feeds back the converted speech signal to a subject, and includes an evaluation unit that calculates a compensatory response vector by using pickup formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a speech signal acquired by picking up an utterance made by the subject while feeding back a speech signal that has been converted with change of the feedback formant frequencies to the subject, and pickup formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a speech signal acquired by picking up an utterance made by the subject while feeding back a speech signal that has been converted without change of the feedback formant frequencies to the subject, and determines an evaluation based on a compensatory response vector for each cutoff frequency.
US11640822B2
Systems and methods for dynamic sequence-based adjustment of prompt generation are provided. The system can receive a first interaction and a second interaction via a client device and identify a first sequence based on the first interaction and the second interaction. The system can map the first sequence to a node data structure and identify a node in the node data structure that matches the first sequence. The system can generate an adjusted parameter for a first digital component object responsive to a match with an attribute of the node in the node data structure. The system can execute a real-time digital component selection process among a plurality of digital component objects including the first digital component object to select the first digital component object. The system can transmit a prompt with the first digital component object to a client device to cause the client device to present the prompt.
US11640817B2
In one aspect a method that includes receiving an input signal captured by one or more first sensors associated with an active noise reduction (ANR) device, and processing the input signal using a first filter disposed in an ANR signal path to generate a first signal for an acoustic transducer of the ANR device. The input signal is processed in a pass-through signal path disposed in parallel with the ANR signal path to generate a second signal for the acoustic transducer, wherein the pass-through signal path allows a portion of the input signal to pass through to the acoustic transducer in accordance with a variable gain. One or more second sensors detect an existence of a condition likely to cause instability in the pass-through signal path, and in response, the variable gain is adjusted. A driver signal for the acoustic transducer is generated using an output based on the adjusted gain.
US11640816B1
An acoustic metamaterial (AMM) passive impedance matching device for headphone-type devices for matching the complex acoustic impedance load of a human ear to enhance acoustic performance of a headphone is disclosed. The device includes shunt compliance chambers stacked concentrically relative to one another from an upper end to a lower end. Each of the shunt compliance chambers includes side connecting inductive channels positioned annularly around a circumference of at least one of the shunt compliance chambers. The shunt compliance chambers define a predetermined volume of air. The inductive channels connect the shunt compliance chambers to the main headphone volume, generating an acoustic resistance and reactive impedance that matches the complex acoustic impedance load of the human ear canal. The AMM device also includes an inductive channel, as a design parameter, extending from the main headphone volume to the ambient air serving as an additional resistive and reactive load.
US11640813B2
A string bender mechanism for a string musical instrument having a bender assembly comprising a control member and at least two bender levers. The control member moving between a first position and at least a second position, being a rest and active position, respectively. The at least two bender levers have a first end and a second end. The first end of said bender lever is dimensioned or adjacent to the control member and the second end of the bender lever receives a string. When the control member is in the first position, the bender levers are at rest and a tone emanates from a plucked string. When the control member is in the second position, the bender levers move simultaneously, and a varied tone emanates from a plucked string. In an alternative embodiment, one or more bender levers may be replaced with a switcher assembly.
US11640807B2
A display device with favorable display quality is provided. A display portion where a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix is divided into Region A and Region B, i.e., regions on the upstream side and the downstream side of a scanning direction. A signal line for supplying an image signal is provided in each of Region A and Region B. Region A and Region B adjoin each other such that a boundary line showing the boundary between the regions is bent. Bending the boundary line suppresses formation of a stripe in a boundary portion. For example, in a given column, the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region A is made different from the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region B.
US11640800B2
The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device that allow precise color gamut tuning to be efficiently performed, and a display device including the same. A color gamut mapping method according to an aspect includes converting, by a color space converter, a first color signal of an input image into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, entirely controlling, by an overall controller, a saturation and a hue of the third chrominance component using overall saturation gains and overall hue gains and outputting a fourth chrominance component, and inversely converting.
US11640799B2
A display apparatus includes a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, the plurality of pixels being connected to scan lines and data lines; a data driver configured to transmit a data signal to a source output line; a data distributer configured to selectively connect the source output line to the data lines; and a latch portion arranged between the data distributer and the pixel portion, wherein the latch portion includes a plurality of latches connected to at least one of data lines excluding a data line, from among the data lines, connected to the source output line by the data distributer at a timing at which a scan signal is transmitted to the scan lines.
US11640785B1
A pixel driving device includes a driving transistor, a pixel driving circuit, an optical sensor circuit, and a reset and reading circuit. Driving transistor controls a light emission device. Pixel driving circuit is connected to the driving transistor and resets according to a first sweep signal. Pixel driving circuit compensates according to a second sweep signal. Pixel driving circuit controls the driving transistor according to a driving signal to drive light emission device. Optical sensor circuit includes a node. Optical sensor circuit resets the node to a voltage level of the driving signal. Light sensing circuit performs sensing to generate a light sensing signal. Reset and reading circuit is connected to the driving transistor, the pixel driving circuit, and the optical sensor circuit. Reset and reading circuit receives a reset and reading signal so as to reset the pixel driving circuit and to read out the light sensing signal.
US11640783B2
A driving controller set includes a net power control setter, a data clamper, a data line, and a data driver. The net power control setter may determine a first scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of (N+1)-th frame data based on a load of N-th frame data and a net power control reference value. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. The data clamper may determine a second scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of the N-th frame data based on a load of (N−1)-th frame data and the N-th frame data. A data signal may be generated using the first scale factor and/or the second scale factor. The data line may include a conductive material. The data driver may convert the data signal into a data voltage and may output the data voltage to the data line.
US11640780B2
The present disclosure relates to a data driver circuit capable of overcoming a limitation in frequency by correcting a skew between a clock and data even when a frequency and the number of channels are increased, and the data driver circuit according to an aspect may include a shift register configured output sampling signals in response to a clock, a first latch part configured to sample and latch data of each channel in response to each of the sampling signals, and a bi-directional deskew buffer part disposed between a stage of a first channel and a stage of a second channel belonging to the shift register and between a first latch of a first channel and a second latch of a second channel belonging to the first latch part and configured to buffer a clock input from the stage of the first channel.
US11640775B2
A display device including a substrate having a display area and a non-display area outside the display area, a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate in the display area, an external circuit bonded on the substrate in the non-display area, a first signal line disposed on the substrate in the non-display area and surrounding at least a portion of the display area, the first signal line being electrically connected to the external circuit, and a second signal line disposed in the non-display area and surrounding at least a portion of the first signal line, the second signal line being electrically connected to the external circuits.
US11640771B2
A display device is provided with a display area and a frame area on a flexible substrate. The display area includes a transistor and a light-emitting element, and the frame area surrounds the display area. The display device includes: an upper inorganic insulating film, a first upper metal layer, a first resin layer, a protective layer, a second upper metal layer, a second resin layer, and a third resin layer provided in a stated order above a semiconductor layer of a transistor. In a display area, the protective layer covering a whole upper face of the first resin layer comes into contact with an upper wire included in the second upper metal layer.
US11640762B2
An apparatus for indicating an expected speed of a vehicle includes an information provider configured to provide vehicle driving information and deceleration event information required to determine the expected speed of the vehicle at a deceleration event point while the vehicle travels, a controller configured to detect a deceleration event on a travel path based on the vehicle driving information and the deceleration event information provided by the information provider and to determine the expected speed of the vehicle at the detected deceleration event point, and a display unit configured to receive a signal indicating the expected speed of the vehicle at the deceleration event point and the deceleration event information from the controller and to display the received expected speed of the vehicle in a predetermined form of an augmented reality (AR) image and a position of the deceleration event on an information display screen.
US11640760B2
A first remote control application is configured to cause a smart device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of a controllable appliance in response to a user interface element of the smart device being activated while a second remote control application of a bridge device is configured to cause the bridge device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of the controllable appliance in response to receiving at the bridge device the at least one command transmitted from the smart device. The at least one command is transmitted from the smart device using a first transmission protocol and the at least one command is transmitted from the bridge device using a transmission protocol recognized by the controllable appliance.
US11640754B2
This invention relates to a security tag for use in a retail environment. In particular this invention relates to a security tag including a flexible member or lanyard that can be formed into a loop to attach the security tag to an article. A security tag comprises a main body comprising a casing having opposite first and second end walls; an elongate flexible member for securing around an object, a first end of the flexible member being connected to the main body; a releasable locking mechanism in the main body, the locking mechanism configured to retain a second end of the flexible member within the casing such that a part of the flexible member external to the casing forms a loop, the locking mechanism being releasable by application of a magnetic force such that the second end of the flexible member can be withdrawn from the casing; and two electronic article surveillance (EAS) sensors housed within the casing, a first one of the sensors being proximate the first end wall of the casing and a second one of the sensors being proximate the second end wall of the casing.
US11640752B2
An electronic relative directional indicator includes a microcontroller in electronic communication with an electronic compass, an electronic motion-detecting module and at least one light source that is controllably illuminable. A battery life of the electronic relative directional indicator is managed by monitoring the electronic motion-detecting module for motion within pre-defined time periods and reducing power to electronic components accordingly. The electronic relative directional indicator can be placed on the face shield portion of a self-contained breathing apparatus face mask to provide a constant source of orientation for firefighters in reduced- or zero-visibility environments.
US11640750B2
A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a game control unit programmed to display a game screen including a primary game area a plurality of primary game reels and a bonus feature event area including a plurality of bonus prize cells. Each bonus prize cell is configured to display a randomly selected bonus prize, and is operable as one of an active bonus prize cell and an inactive bonus prize cell. Each bonus prize cell is associated with a wager amount value. The game control unit initiates an instance of the game by receiving a wager being placed on the game by the player, selecting bonus prize cells having associated wager amount values equal to or less than the wager amount of the received wager, and operating the selected bonus prize cells as active bonus prize cells.
US11640745B2
A gaming machine has a main or master gaming controller for presenting primary games based upon wagers of primary credits associated with a primary credit balance. A secondary controller is associated with the gaming machine for presenting secondary games based upon wagers of secondary credits associated with a secondary credit balance. The secondary controller may effectuate transfers of credits between the primary and secondary credit balances.
US11640744B2
A gaming system randomly selects a trigger value for a feature, which starts when the current value of a symbol counter reaches the trigger value. In some examples, a gaming system includes memory that stores data defining reel strips. When a symbol counter is initialized, an initial value of the symbol counter is randomly selected from a range of allowable initial values having an upper limit. A trigger value is randomly selected from a range between the initial value and a ceiling value, which is greater than the upper limit. For each of one or more instances, symbols are selected from the reel strips for display, and the current value of the symbol counter is incremented based on the count of designated symbols, if any, among the selected symbols. Responsive to the current value of the symbol counter reaching the trigger value, the feature is started.
US11640741B2
A method for dispensing a beverage container to a consumer. The method includes receiving in a beverage container dispenser a first beverage container that contains a beverage corresponding to a beverage selection of a user. The method further includes dispensing a second beverage container containing the beverage from a temperature-regulated compartment of the beverage container dispenser. The second beverage container that is dispensed from the temperature-regulated compartment corresponds to the beverage selection of the user.
US11640739B2
A system is provided that includes an event site device having a display and an imaging device. The event site device is configured to capture an image of a user's face for identification. The system further includes a server configured to associate ticketing information with an identity of the user, receive the image of the user's face from the event site device, determine the identity of the user based on facial feature information stored for the user, retrieve the ticketing information associated with the user, and transmit the ticketing information to the event site device for presentation on the display.
US11640738B2
A system and method for sensing or tracking users at a geographic location or destination and collecting data based upon such users and/or the tracking of such users for enhancing the experience of the users, providing increased operational functionality of venues or attractions associated with the destination, and/or managing or influencing behavior associated with users or employees at the geographic location or destination. The system may be accessible via software applications executed upon mobile devices and/or permanent hardware kiosks and/or via a web-based interface. Trackable hardware is carried and/or worn or otherwise associated with the users so that the users' movement and activities may be tracked at the geographic location or destination.
US11640735B2
Systems and methods for location-aware scanning of an IoT beacon by a mobile device, and the authentication of the mobile device, are disclosed herein. The system detects when the mobile device is within a geofenced region associated with the IoT beacon and enables the scanning by the mobile device for signals from the beacon. Using the beacon signals received by the mobile device, the system detects when the mobile device and IoT beacon are sufficiently near one another. Once the mobile device and IoT beacon are sufficiently near each other, the system authenticates control of the mobile device over the IoT beacon by verifying an authentication key transmitted to a server.
US11640730B2
Method and apparatus for configuring automobile diagnostic function and automobile diagnostic device
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for configuring an automobile diagnostic function, and an automobile diagnostic device. The method for configuring an automobile diagnostic function includes: obtaining first function configuration information from a server, the first function configuration information including an identifier of at least one automobile diagnostic function; determining an automobile diagnostic function group based on the first function configuration information; and granting use permission of the automobile diagnostic function group in an automobile diagnostic application program. Function configuration information is obtained from the server and then an automobile diagnostic function supported by a product is configured, thereby improving flexibility of automobile diagnostic function configuration and reducing product development and maintenance costs.
US11640718B2
A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.
US11640714B2
Systems and methods for panoptic video segmentation are described. A method may include identifying a target frame and a reference frame from a video, generating target features for the target frame and reference features for the reference frame, combining the target features and the reference features to produce fused features for the target frame, generating a feature matrix comprising a correspondence between objects from the reference features and objects from the fused features; and generating panoptic segmentation information for the target frame based on the feature matrix.
US11640713B2
A computer-implemented method and computing system for sensing gameplay events and optionally and preferably augmenting a video feed with overlay, comprising in some embodiments a data acquisition module, a sensor module, and optionally and preferably an overlay module. By describing the state of gameplay with models that capture the semantics of the game and comparing this description to a library of event patterns using one or more pattern matchers defining different ways of evaluating criteria, occurrences of events are detected. Detected events are processed by the overlay module to generate video feed augmented with overlay illustrating said events.
US11640711B2
A technique for generating a trained discriminator is provided. The technique includes applying one or more of a glitched image or an unglitched image to a discriminator; receiving classification output from the discriminator; adjusting weights of the discriminator to improve classification accuracy of the discriminator; applying noise to a generator; receiving an output image from the generator; applying the output image to the discriminator to obtain a classification; and adjusting weights of one of the discriminator or the generator to improve ability of the generator to reduce classification accuracy of the discriminator, based on the classification.
US11640708B1
Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that match a current scene graph associated with a user's current environment to a prior scene graph for a prior environment to determine that the user is in the same environment. The current scene graph is compared with the prior scene graph based on matching the objects within the current scene graph with objects within the prior scene graph.
US11640706B2
A computing-device implemented system and method for identifying an item in an x-ray image is described. The method includes training a machine learning algorithm with at least one training data set of x-ray images to generate at least one machine-learned model. The method further includes receiving at least one rendered x-ray image that includes an item, identifying the item using the at least one model, and generating an automated detection indication associated with the item.
US11640692B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determines generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on depth data and a segmentation mask. For example, an example process may include obtaining depth data including depth values for pixels of a first image, obtaining a segmentation mask associated with a second image, the segmentation mask identifying a portion of the second image associated with an object, and generating a 3D model based on the depth data and the mask.
US11640691B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may access surfaces and texel data of an artificial reality scene. The surfaces may be generated based on a first viewing position of a viewer. The system may determine tiles on a display to test for a visibility of the surfaces from a second viewing position. The tiles may include first tiles that need more computational resources and second tiles that need less computational resources. The system may determine a tile order which interleaves the first and second tiles. The system may generate rays based on the tile order. The system may determine the visibility of the surfaces from the second viewing position based on the ray-surface intersections. The system may generate color values of a subframe based on the surface visibility and the texel data. The system may provide the color values to the display.
US11640690B2
Methods and systems are provided for training a machine learning model to generate density values and radiance components based on positional data, along with a weighting scheme associated with a particular view direction based on directional data to compute a final RGB value for each point along a plurality of camera rays. The positional data and directional data are extracted from set of training images of a particular static scene. The radiance components, density values, and weighting schemes are cached for efficient image data processing to perform volume rendering for each point sampled. A novel viewpoint of a static scene is generated based on the volume rendering for each point sampled.
US11640685B2
Systems and methods for managing graphic design using metadata relationships are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display a visual design including a set of design elements, each of which may be contained within a corresponding container. The electronic device may receive a selection to spatially adjust a design element, and may determine a modification to the design element based an element behavior of the design element and/or a container behavior of the corresponding container. The electronic device may display, in the user interface, the design element reflecting the modification.
US11640681B2
A method is disclosed including: receiving raw image data corresponding to a series of raw images; processing the raw image data with an encoder to generate encoded data, where the encoder is characterized by an input/output transformation that substantially mimics the input/output transformation of one or more retinal cells of a vertebrate retina; and applying a first machine vision algorithm to data generated based at least in part on the encoded data.
US11640668B2
Systems and techniques are described herein for performing optical flow estimation for one or more frames. For example, a process can include determining an optical flow prediction associated with a plurality of frames. The process can include determining a position of at least one feature associated with a first frame and determining, based on the position of the at least one feature in the first frame and the optical flow prediction, a position estimate of a search area for searching for the at least one feature in a second frame. The process can include determining, from within the search area, a position of the at least one feature in the second frame.
US11640667B2
The method for determining property feature segmentation includes: receiving a region image for a region; determining parcel data for the region; determining a final segmentation output based on the region image and parcel data using a trained segmentation module; optionally generating training data; and training a segmentation module using the training data S500.
US11640665B2
Aspects of the technology described herein relate to detecting degrade ultrasound imaging frame rate. Some embodiments include receiving ultrasound data from the ultrasound device, generating ultrasound images from the ultrasound data, taking one or more measurements of ultrasound imaging frame rate based on the ultrasound images, comparing the one or more measurements of ultrasound imaging frame rate to an reference ultrasound imaging frame rate value, and based on a result of comparing the one or more measurements of ultrasound imaging frame rate to the reference ultrasound imaging frame rate value, providing a notification and/or disabling an ultrasound imaging preset and/or an ultrasound imaging mode with which the ultrasound device was configured.
US11640661B2
Risk prediction models are trained and deployed to analyze images, such as computed tomography scans, for predicting future risk of lung cancer for one or more subjects. Individual risk prediction models are separately trained on nodule-specific and non-nodule specific features such that each risk prediction model can predict future risk of lung cancer across different time periods (e.g., 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years). Such risk prediction models are useful for developing preventive therapies for lung cancer by enabling clinical trial enrichment.
US11640659B2
There are provided methods and systems for assessing the health of an asset. For example, a system is provided. The system may include a processor and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations consistent with identifying a defect in a component of an asset. The operations may include fetching from an inspection system, a plurality of images acquired from an inspection of the component of the asset by the inspection system. The operations may include identifying, based on an image processing technique codified and included as part of the instructions, a subset of images from the plurality of images. The subset of images is representative of the defect in the component of the asset, and the image processing technique is selected from the group consisting of an auto-distress ranking technique, a structural similarity technique, a mean-subtracted filtering technique, and a Hessian norm computation technique.
US11640653B2
A method for correcting top-of-atmosphere reflectance data in high altitude imagery to a ground surface reflectance data. Transmission of light through Earth's atmosphere and its suspended load of aerosol particles degrades light within the visible through near infrared portion of the spectrum. This can severely affect the quality of the data recorded by orbiting Earth observation satellites. The method first measures the degree of atmospheric effects upon reflectance, then reverses these effects to deliver surface reflectance data and imagery cleaned of haze and thin clouds.
US11640652B2
A discrete wavelet transform-based noise removal apparatus and a remote medical diagnosis system using the same. The discrete wavelet transform-based noise removal apparatus can effectively remove noise from various medical images including ultrasound images, images indicative of results of biological or chemical reaction on a bio-disc, images obtained by medical devices, and images for telemedicine.
US11640650B2
Provided are a computing apparatus for constructing a mosaic image and an operation method of the same. The computing apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: segment an input image into a plurality of sub areas to obtain a plurality of sub area images, extract a feature from each of the plurality of sub area images, generate a plurality of source images respectively corresponding to the plurality of sub areas using an image generation neural network, the image generation neural network using, as a condition, the feature extracted from each of the plurality of sub area images, and combine the plurality of source images respectively corresponding to the plurality of sub areas to generate a mosaic image.
US11640645B2
Provided is an apparatus for acquiring images including an image sensor including a sensor substrate including a plurality of photo-sensing cells sensing light, and a color separation lens array provided above the sensor substrate, the color separation lens array including a fine structure in each of a plurality of regions respectively facing the plurality of photo-sensing cells and separating incident light based on color, the fine structure forming a phase distribution to condense light having different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells, a signal processor configured to perform, based on a point spread function corresponding to each color pixel by the color separation lens array, deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to process an image signal for each color obtained by the image sensor, and an image processor configured to form a color image from the image signal for each color processed by the signal processor.
US11640635B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically identifying substitute items. A computing device can generate matrix data that identifies connection values between a plurality of items. The matrix data may be generated based on the application of one or more machine learning algorithms to historical data identifying accepted or denied item substitutions. The computing device may then receive item data identifying at least one second item and at least one attribute of that second item. The computing device may generate a graph based on the matrix data and the item data to determine connection values between the second item and the plurality of first items. The computing device may then determine a substitute item (e.g., a replacement item) for the second item based on the connection values between the second item and the plurality of first items.
US11640632B2
A method and a system segmenting a user viewing listings in online publications to render the listing according to a rule received from a seller. For example, the system receives one or more listings submitted by a seller. The listing comprises one or more modifiable parameters. The system also receives a rule from the seller, the rule associated with a first listing of the one or more listings. A profile is associated with a user based on data collected about the user. The first listing is rendered to the user based on the profile associated with the user and the rule by modifying the one or more parameters.
US11640631B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, performed by at least one apparatus (2, 4, 6, 8), the method comprising: obtaining (22) from a user cleaning related information, and determining (42) a composition or a part thereof for an individualized cleaning agent to be produced based on the obtained cleaning related information. The present disclosure also relates to an apparatus, a system, a computer program code and a computer readable storage medium.
US11640624B2
Technology is disclosed for facilitating and processing cross-merchant promotions. In examples, the disclosed technology comprises processing transaction data for a first merchant and a second merchant that includes identifiers for merchant, customer, location, and item; generating a recommendation for the merchants to participate in a cross-merchant promotion based on a determination that they are complementary; facilitating a notification of the promotion to customers; receiving transaction data for another transaction of the first merchant; applying the promotion to the transaction based on a customer transaction history of the customer; processing payment for the transaction; apportioning the payment to the first and second merchant according to an agreement between them; and presenting a notification of application of the promotion on a merchant device.
US11640616B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for counting a ballot in an electronic voting system. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, generating, by a token generator of the system, a number of tokens, wherein every token unambiguously identify actions of a user during an electronic voting, when the user is identified and authenticated successfully, enabling the user to select a token from the number of tokens, activating, by a ballot activator of the system, a ballot for the user, wherein activating includes generating the ballot, unambiguously relating the token selected by the user to the ballot, and enabling the user to access the ballot, and counting, by a ballot counter of the system, the ballot filled out by the user.
US11640599B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for a smart card which enables users to securely complete online transfers without entering sensitive transaction information into a third-party system. The smart card may include a touch-sensitive screen configured to display selectable transfer options. The smart card may include a microprocessor and wireless interface. The wireless interface may provide wireless communication capabilities and the ability to initiate online transfers based on information captured by the touch-sensitive screen. The smart card may be a parent smart card associated with a parent account. The parent account may be linked to a dependent account. The parent smart card may receive a communication related to the dependent account. Selectable transfer options displayed on the touch-sensitive screen may enable a transfer from the parent account to the dependent account.
US11640596B2
A mobile terminal is adapted for mobile payment through payment in accordance with transaction data from the customer to a merchant via a payment service provider, and is adapted for a clearing of the payment between bank servers. The terminal is characterized in that a) in the secure runtime environment access data are stored for an authentication between the payment trust application and the payment service provider; and b) the agent is further adapted b1) upon an authentication between the payment trust application and the payment service provider, to transmit access data, or authentication data generated employing access data, between the secure runtime environment and the payment service provider, and b2) to accept from the payment trust application a transaction instruction for a payment in accordance with the transaction data and to send it to the payment service provider. A corresponding mobile payment method for a terminal is likewise specified.
US11640588B2
An automated valet parking system provides an automated valet parking service in a parking lot. A vehicle supporting the automated valet parking service executes braking control so as to automatically decelerate and stop before a target stop position in the parking lot. Braking result information indicates a braking distance until the vehicle is stopped by the braking control or an error distance between the target stop position and an actual stop position. The automated valet parking system determines whether or not the braking distance or the error distance deviates from an acceptable range. When the braking distance or the error distance deviates from the acceptable range, the automated valet parking system decides that an abnormality occurs in a braking device or a tire of the vehicle and transmits notification information notifying the abnormality occurrence to a terminal device operated by a user of the vehicle.
US11640587B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining repair estimate data that describes a repair estimate for a damaged vehicle; extracting, from an OEM repair procedure database according to the received repair estimate data, repair procedure data that describes repair procedures for the damaged vehicle; transmitting the extracted repair procedure data to at least one technician computing device; obtaining repair log data generated by the at least one technician computing device, wherein the repair log data describes one or more repairs performed upon the damaged vehicle; determining whether the repair procedures for the damaged vehicle have been satisfactorily performed based on the received repair log data and the extracted repair procedure data; sending an electronic approval message responsive to determining the repair procedures for the damaged vehicle have been satisfactorily performed; and sending an electronic disapproval message responsive to determining the repair procedures for the damaged vehicle have not been satisfactorily performed.
US11640582B2
A method for aligning NFC antennas on a mobile device and document. The method comprises determining the mobile device model identifier, associating the model identifier with a configuration, determining a model type and determining the document configuration in relation to its NFC components, selecting an feedback schema for aligning the NFC antennas based on the device and document configuration, generating alignment feedback according to the alignment feedback schema, detecting a data connection between the mobile device and the document and generating a connection indication. The determining the document type can be performed by reading a Machine Readable Zone. The feedback schema can be coupled with the mobile device's video camera and display, audio, and haptic feedback.
US11640578B2
Techniques are disclosed for advantageously forecasting an inventory of a product having a particular duration (e.g., video content). The technique can include determining the particular configuration (e.g., maximum number of impressions, maximum amount of time permitted) of breaks identified within an impression log. Based on the number of breaks and the configurations of the breaks, the technique can forecast a future inventory of the product. In some implementations, the disclosed technique can identify an amount of a previous break that was not filled with video content. These forecasts can enable product sellers to better communicate with their customers, negotiate supply contracts, price their products, plan for business operations, etc.
US11640574B2
Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements.
US11640571B1
A model management system receives data for an inventory of models including data regarding issues for each of the models. The model management system determines a model risk score for each of the models based on the issues for each of the models. As the issues are opened and closed, the model management system receives updates and in real-time, updates the model risk score. The model risk score can be determined using a severity assigned to each issue for each of the open issues for a given model as well as the number of issues at each severity. Risk scores can be calculated across a line of business and across an enterprise, for example. The model management system also provides one or more of: model development, model validation, model integration, model use, model maintenance, and model retirement.
US11640557B2
A machine learning device performs machine learning on a numerical control device which, when a first command including a corner portion, composed of two blocks in the machining program, generates a second command in which the two blocks are replaced with m or more blocks. The machine learning device comprises: a state information acquisition unit for acquiring state information including the first command, coordinate values of each block in the m or more blocks, and location information of the machining path and the machining time; an action information output unit for outputting action information; a reward output unit for outputting a reward value based on the inward turning amount in the corner portion; and a value function updating unit for updating a value function based on the value of the reward outputted from the reward output unit, the state information and the action information.
US11640556B2
Techniques performed by a data processing system for analyzing the impact of training data changes on a machine learning model herein include training a first instance of a machine learning model with a first set of training data; modifying the first set of training data to produce a second set of training data; training a second instance of the model with the second set of training data; comparing the first instance of the model to the second instance of the model to determine features that differ between the first instance and the second instance of the model; identifying a subset of historical data associated with the features that differ between the first instance and the second instance of the model; and scoring the subset of the historical data to produce a report identifying differences in the output of the first instance and the second instance of the machine learning model.
US11640555B2
Techniques for machine and deep learning process modeling of performance and behavioral data are described, including receiving objective performance data, including an induction document, and raw performance data, validating the raw performance data, determining whether incumbent data is sufficient to build a model, building a model to generate an output performance dataset, evaluating a behavioral dataset generated using behavioral attributes determined from a survey, identifying a candidate file using the model, the model being identified as a model candidate, and evaluating the model candidate against one or more other model candidates using one or more exit criteria to determine whether the model candidate, relative to the one or more other model candidates, is used to identify a release candidate.
US11640551B2
The present disclosure proposes a method and an apparatus for recommending sample data. The method may include: inputting a plurality of pieces of sample data to be classified into at least one preset classification model, and acquiring a classifying probability of classifying each piece of sample data into each classification model; acquiring a first distance between each piece of sample data and a classifying boundary of each classification model according to the classifying probability of classifying the piece of sample data into the classification model, in which the classifying boundary of the classification model is configured to distinguish positive and negative sample data; computing a target distance for each piece of sample data according to the first distance between each piece of sample data and the classifying boundary of each classification model.
US11640547B2
Systems and methods are described for facilitating operation of a plurality of computing devices. Data indicative of enumerated resources of a computing device is collected. The data is collected without dependency on write permissions to a file system of the one computing device. A condition of the computing device is determined based on historical data associated with enumerated resources of other computing devices. The identified condition can be updated as updated historical data becomes available. A communication to the computing device may be sent based on the identified condition.
US11640542B2
The disclosure generally relates to system architectures, and, more particularly, to a method and system for system architecture recommendation. In existing scenario, a solution architect often gets minimum details about requirements, hence struggles to design a system architecture that matches the requirements. The method and system disclosed herein are to provide system recommendation in response to requirements provided as input to the system. The system generates an acyclic dependency graph based on parameters and values extracted from an obtained user input. The system then identifies a reference architectures that matches the requirements, and further selects components that match the architecture requirements. The system further selects technologies considering inter-operability of the technologies. Further, the system generates architecture recommendations for the user, based on the selected components, and technologies. The system can collect user feedback for to the recommendation provided, and can generate rankings to improve future recommendations.
US11640531B2
An example method for updating convolutional neural network includes: obtaining a sample with a classification label; performing a first operation on the sample based on parameters of each layer of front-end network, to obtain a first operation result; performing a second operation on the sample based on the first operation result and the parameters of each layer of back-end network that the first GPU has, to obtain a second operation result; separately sending the first operation result to the other GPUs; receiving a third operation result obtained after each other GPU performs a third operation on the sample based on their parameters of each layer of back-end network and the first operation result; combining the second and third operation results to obtain a classification result; determining a prediction error based on the classification result and the classification label; and updating the convolutional neural network based on the prediction error.
US11640526B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing a neural network using binary tensor and scale factor pairs. For one example, a method of optimizing a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) includes initializing an approximation residue as a trained weight tensor for the trained CNN. A plurality of binary tensors and scale factor pairs are determined. The approximation residue is updated using the binary tensors and scale factor pairs.
US11640525B2
A method comprises performing data pre-processing of initial signals to obtain pre-processed initial signals; building a first machine learning model based on the pre-processed initial signals; generating output signals using the first machine learning model; computing ranks of the output signals; computing classifications of the output signals; and building a set of stacked machine learning models based on the ranks and the classifications. The set of stacked machine learning models may be used to generate subsurface well log data, NMR data, or other data.
US11640523B2
The present invention relates to a method for training a signal characterization neural network. The method comprises the steps of: providing a measurement signal having at least one distortion; assigning at least one predefined signal integrity identifier to a corresponding distortion within the measurement signal; generating at least one input training vector based on the provided measurement signal and the corresponding assigned signal integrity identifier; and applying the generated input training vector on input terminals of the signal characterization neural network for training the signal characterization neural network. The present invention also relates to a method for automatically characterizing a measurement signal. The present invention further relates to a measurement apparatus and a corresponding method for analyzing a waveform signal.
US11640522B2
An artificial neural network (ANN) generates a base expanded matrix that represents an output of a layer of the ANN, such as the output layer. Values in each row are grouped with respect to a set of network parameters in a previous layer, and a sum of the values in each row produces an output vector of activations. The ANN updates the values in at least one column of the expanded matrix according to parameter updates, which results in an updated expanded matrix or an update expanded matrix. An error or a total cost can be computed from the updated expanded matrix or the update expanded matrix. Nonlinear activation functions can be modeled as piecewise linear functions, and a change in an activation function's slope can be modeled as a linear update to an expanded matrix. Parameter updates can be constrained to a restricted value set in order to simplify update operations performed on the expanded matrices.
US11640520B2
A method for automatically generating a neural network architecture includes: loading a first computer-readable representation of a first neural network architecture including first genes representing parameters of the first neural network architecture; generating a first neural network including neurons in accordance with the first genes; deploying the first neural network in a robotic controller; training the first neural network by supplying inputs to an input processing unit connected to the first neural network and receiving outputs from an output processing unit connected to the first neural network, the training including updating synaptic weights of connections between the neurons based on responses to the inputs supplied to the input processing unit; evaluating a performance of the first neural network architecture; and generating, by the computer system, an updated computer-readable representation of an updated neural network architecture based on the evaluation of the performance the first neural network.
US11640518B2
An apparatus and a method for the disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system that simulates functions such as recognition and determination of the human brain by using a machine training algorithm such as deep learning and an application of the AI system are provided. A neural network training method includes obtaining target modality signals of a first domain aligned in a time order and auxiliary modality signals of a second domain that are not aligned in the time order, extracting characteristic information of the target modality signals using a first neural network model, estimating the time order of the auxiliary modality signals using a second neural network model, and training the first neural network model based on a result of the estimation and the characteristic information.
US11640510B2
In some embodiments, a smart card may include a substrate with a first side and a second side. A first protective layer covers the first side and a second protective layer covers the second side of the substrate. Circuitry held in the substrate includes electronic interconnects for interconnecting circuitry elements. The circuitry elements include a processor, power circuitry for powering the circuitry elements, and an environmental detection sensor for respectively detecting a predetermined environmental parameter. The processor is configured to receive an output from the environmental detection sensor, to determine from the output that the environmental detection sensor detected an environmental alert trigger condition, and to generate an alert that is representative of the environmental alert trigger condition. The protective layers include pores in a region proximate to the environmental detection sensor for exposing the environmental detection sensor to an environment around the smart card.
US11640500B2
Disclosed herein is a platform for translating various user input into a standardized input used to cause a database to sort data in a specified manner and present the data in a graphic user interface according to user instruction. User input is a text string that includes a first set of characters and a second set of characters split by a dividing symbol. Based on the choice of dividing symbol and the arrangement of the first set of character and second set of characters the system converts the input into a standardized form.
US11640492B2
A website building system includes a processor; at least one database storing at least website pages and layouts comprising fluid components, breakpoint ranges for multiple viewport sizes, dynamic layout rules and responsive editing rules for editing said fluid components according to breakpoint ranges and a responsive editing module running on the processor, the module includes a rule engine to provide layout decisions for a page of a website built by the WBS according to the dynamic layout rules and the responsive editing rules associated with at least one incoming trigger; a responsive editor to receive the at least one incoming trigger and dimensions of a current viewport, and to generate an updated fluid responsive design layout for said current viewport according to the layout decision and a CSS (cascading style sheet) generator to map the features of the updated fluid responsive design layout design into a smart CSS for the current viewport.
US11640490B2
A method of generating a mask used in fabrication of a semiconductor device includes, in part, selecting a source candidate, generating a process simulation model that includes a defect rate in response to the selected source candidate, performing a first optical proximity correction (OPC) on the data associated with the mask in response to the process simulation model, assessing one or more lithographic evaluation metrics in response to the OPC mask data, computing a cost in response to the assessed one or more lithographic evaluation metrics, and determining whether the computed cost satisfies a threshold condition. In response to the determination that the computed cost does not satisfy the threshold condition, a different source candidate may be selected.
US11640488B2
A quotation system receives shape data of an article configured from a plurality of elements from a client terminal and provides quotation information of the article. The quotation system has: a memory storing the shape data and tolerance data in which multiple types of tolerance information relating to the elements are associated with each other; and a computer performing assistance processing to assist in setting of at least one type of the multiple types of tolerance information on the basis of the tolerance data.
US11640482B2
A system and method are provided for providing trusted links between applications. The method is executed by a registry server device having a communications module. The method includes storing in a database coupled to the registry server device, configuration files for a plurality of applications, each configuration file comprising an indication of data that can be shared with other applications, The method also includes receiving via the communications module, from a first application, a first request to obtain a trusted link to a second application and sending to the first application, via the communications module, a first response having the trusted link. The method also includes receiving via the communications module, from the second application, a second request to verify the trusted link provided by the first application in association with the second application being invoked by the first application. The method also includes sending to the second application, via the communications module, a second response with a result of the verification.
US11640477B2
One example disclosed method involves a computing system providing a client device a virtualized computing environment. Upon receiving a request to access a file or folder in the virtualized computing environment from the client device, a file system filter driver of the computing system may intercept the request, and determine authorization to access the file or folder based at least in part on a security policy associated with the user account. If the client device is authorized to access the file or folder, the computing system may cause the client device to output a representation of contents of the first file or folder using the virtualized computing environment.
US11640472B2
Execution of software containers is secured using security profiles. A security profile is generated for a container image, wherein the container image includes resources utilized to execute a corresponding application container, wherein the generated security profile includes at least a spawned processes profile, wherein the spawned processes profile includes, for each spawned process executed at runtime by the application container, a signature of an executable file of the spawned process. The operation of a runtime execution of the application container is monitored. A violation of the spawned processes profile is detected based on the monitored operation.
US11640470B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses directed to implementations of an approach and techniques for more effectively preparing for, detecting, and responding to cybersecurity threats directed at people or at groups of people. Embodiments are directed to classifying or segmenting employees by “predicting” what are believed to be two attributes of an employee that contribute to making them at a higher risk of being a target of a cybersecurity attack. These attributes are the employee's seniority level (e.g., employee, contractor, manager, executive, board member) and the employee's primary function or role in an organization (e.g., HR, Legal, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D, etc.
US11640464B2
The present disclosure describes a firmware analysis system and method that can generate a collection of protocol constraints from known firmware and apply the collection of protocol constraints towards an unknown firm to recognize protocol relevant fields and detect functionality within the unknown firmware.
US11640463B2
Provided is an analysis device with which it is possible to find information relating to the intention and purpose of an attacker. The analysis device is provided with a purpose estimating means that estimates the purpose of behavior, based on predetermined behavior in the computer and knowledge information that includes the relation between the behavior and the purpose of executing the behavior.
US11640462B2
Systems and methods for correlating access-system primitives generated by an access control system and semantic primitives generated by a sensor data comprehension system.
US11640458B2
A system includes at least one hardware processor of a computing node and at least one memory storing instructions that cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations. The operations include instantiating a user code runtime to execute within a sandbox process. The sandbox process configures access by the user code runtime to an operating system (OS) kernel of the computing node. The OS kernel is configured with one or more filtering policies. A determination is performed of whether a system call received by the OS kernel violates the one or more filtering policies. The system call is triggered by at least one operation of the user code runtime. A tracing event is instantiated to trace execution of the system call based on the determination.
US11640451B2
An electronic device include: a display, an input unit, at least one processor, and a memory. The input unit includes at least one biometrics sensor and the memory includes instructions. The processor is configured to perform user authentication based on biometric sensing information obtained through the at least one biometrics sensor in response to an input to the input unit. In response to successfully performing the user authentication, the processor is configured to identify whether a duration of the input exceeds a first threshold time. The processor is configured to perform a first function when the duration is less than or equal to the first threshold time. The processor is also configured to perform a second function when the duration exceeds the first threshold time.
US11640448B2
A method of operation on a license server comprises sending by the license server, a license, including a confirmation challenge, to a rights manager of a client device. The method of operation further comprises receiving by the license server, a confirmation response from the rights manager of the client device, the confirmation response being transmitted by the rights manager of the client device in accordance with data recovered by the rights manager from the confirmation challenge.
US11640446B2
A method for generating a synthetic dataset from an original dataset includes encoding categorical features of the original dataset, embedding the encoded dataset in a low-dimensional space, selecting a seed record from the embedded dataset, identifying a plurality of nearest neighbor records to the seed record, generating a new record by randomly selecting features from the plurality of nearest neighbor records, and concatenating the new record into the synthetic dataset. For a synthetic dataset that contains N records, which may be the same as or different from the number of records in the original dataset, the selecting, identifying, generating, and concatenating operations operate a total of N times on the records in the embedded dataset.
US11640434B2
A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for identifying resolutions have been disclosed. The system comprises a server device including a memory, a processor, and a network interface. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to record a series of actions associated with a client device and to receive, from the client device, incident data of an incident that is associated with the series of actions. The memory further includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to query a database for resolution information based on the series of actions and the incident data and to transmit a message that includes the resolution information to the client device.
US11640426B1
Implementations relate to techniques for providing context-dependent search results. The techniques can include receiving a query and background audio. The techniques can also include identifying the background audio, establishing concepts related to the background audio and obtaining terms related to the concepts related to the background audio. The techniques can also include obtaining search results based on the query and on at least one of the terms. The techniques can also include providing the search results.
US11640425B2
An inspection support system for a construction machine including a camera 416 and a display (monitor) 414 and acquiring image data of the construction machine provided in an inspection report includes a guidance display section 432 that displays a guidance image on the display 414, the guidance image showing a composition of a photographing object photographed as the image data, a photographing section 450 that acquires a photographic subject image photographed by the camera 416 as image data, and a transmitting section that transmits the image data acquired to a management server 300 that manages the inspection report.
US11640421B2
A computer that receives a set of names of coverage events. The computer creates, by a machine learning-based technique, groups from the set of received names of the coverage events based on the set of names of the coverage events. The computer generates a cross product coverage model from the created groups and identifies subgroups of uncovered events for each of the created groups.
US11640417B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for information retrieval are disclosed. Embodiments of such systems and methods may perform information retrieval based on a language model that is used to generate a single vector for the search terms of a query. Similarly, a single vector representation of each of the data records to be searched is obtained and the single vector representing the search terms of the query compared to the single vector of each data record to determine a similarity metric. The resulting similarity metrics associated with each of the data records can be used to rank, present or return one or more data records.
US11640412B2
A system for sub-table replication within a materialized view of a source data table. A materialized view of a source data table is generated based on a query, the source data table having a plurality of data table rows associated with a plurality of client identifiers and including an entitlements column and data content, the entitlements column including a plurality of provider account identifiers and a plurality of consumer account identifiers. An update to an entitlements table of the source data table is detected where the entitlements table includes a plurality of entitlements table rows and where the entitlements table rows are associated with the client identifiers, the consumer account identifiers, and the provider account identifiers. An update to the source data table based on the first update to the entitlements table is detected, and an incremental replication of the materialized view of the source data table is performed.
US11640406B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an analytic applications environment enables data analytics within the context of an organization's enterprise software application or data environment, or a software-as-a-service or other type of cloud environment; and supports the development of computer-executable software analytic applications. A data pipeline or process, such as, for example, an extract, transform, load process, can operate in accordance with an analytic applications schema adapted to address particular analytics use cases or best practices, to receive data from a customer's (tenant's) enterprise software application or data environment, for loading into a data warehouse instance. Each customer (tenant) can additionally be associated with a customer tenancy and a customer schema. The data pipeline or process populates their data warehouse instance and database tables with data as received from their enterprise software application or data environment, as defined by a combination of the analytic applications schema, and their customer schema.
US11640402B2
In response to receiving a flow of data, one or more operators in a parallel region included in a distributed data processing system for stream processing the flow of data are initialized. In response to identifying a change to the flow of data or a change to the distributed data processing system, at least one of the flow of data and a size of the parallel region included in the distributed data processing system are dynamically adjusted. The flow of data is processed via the dynamically adjusted one of the flow of data and the parallel region included in the distributed data processing system.
US11640396B2
A query generation system receives, from a first device, a first input and a first project identifier and receives, from a second device, a second input and a second project identifier. The first and second inputs are the same and are in a natural language format that is not compatible with a downstream database management system. The system generates, based on the first input, a first database query. The system generates, based on the second input, a second database query. The first and second database queries are compatible with the downstream database management system. The system receives a first response to the first database query and a second response to the second database query from the downstream database management system. The system transmits the first response to the first device and the second response to the second device.
US11640391B2
Herein are high throughput techniques for incorporating cryptographic blockchains into relational data. In an embodiment, a computer indicates, in a database dictionary in a database, that a relational table is for blockchain storage. The relational table contains application column(s). In response to that indication, the relational table is associated with system column(s) that are unmodifiable by administrators and clients of the database. The system column(s) include a cryptographic hash column. A request to store a particular value in a particular application column is received from a client. In response to receiving the request, a cryptographic hash value is calculated for a new row for the relational table. In the relational table, the computer stores the new row that contains: the particular value in the particular application column, and the cryptographic hash value in the cryptographic hash column.
US11640390B2
Systems and methods for verifying files in bulk in a file system. When files are represented by a segment tree, the levels of the segment trees are walked by level such that that multiple files are verified at the same time in order to identify missing segments. Then, a bottom up scan is performed using the missing segments to identify the files corresponding to the missing segments. The missing files can then be handled by the file system.
US11640368B2
One embodiment includes acceleration systems that operate as intermediaries between the API processing system and the clients to reduce API call roundtrip latencies. The acceleration systems are a network of interconnected systems that are distributed across the globe. A given acceleration system establishes a network connection with a given client and receives a request for processing an API call over the connection. The programming function associated with the API call is configured in the API processing system. The acceleration system facilitates the processing of the API call over an established connection with the API processing system.
US11640360B1
Various embodiments relate to an inline encryption engine in a memory controller configured to process data read from a memory, including: a first data pipeline configured to receive data that is plaintext data and a first validity flag; a second data pipeline having the same length as the first data pipeline configured to: receive data that is encrypted data and a second validity flag; decrypt the encrypted data from the memory and output decrypted plaintext data; an output multiplexer configured to select and output data from either the first pipeline or the second pipeline; and control logic configured to control the output multiplexer, wherein the control logic is configured to output valid data from the first pipeline when the second pipeline does not have valid output decrypted plaintext data available.
US11640355B1
This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and performs logical-to-physical address translation in a manner that reduces or eliminates the need for a memory controller to handle these functions, and initiates functions such as wear leveling in a manner that avoids competition with host data accesses. A memory controller optionally educates the host on array composition, capabilities and addressing restrictions. Host software can therefore interleave write and read requests across dies in a manner unencumbered by memory controller address translation. For multi-plane designs, the host writes related data in a manner consistent with multi-plane device addressing limitations. The host is therefore able to “plan ahead” in a manner supporting host issuance of true multi-plane read commands.
US11640352B2
Disclosed is a method, a device, a system and/or a manufacture of testing software and/or computing hardware design through test fragmentation into one or more discrete computing environments. In one embodiment a method for efficient testing with a test fileset includes initiating a new instance of an operation filesystem and copying a software application, a script, a computer hardware design, and/or a circuit design to be tested into the operation filesystem to define a workspace data. The method defines a discrete environment that is a computing container and/or a virtual computer, the assigns the discrete environment a processing power and/or memory allocation from a computing resources pool and clones a workspace master to generate a workspace clone. The method then extracts a test script from the test fileset, executes the test script within the workspace clone, and returns the resources to the computing resources pool.
US11640351B2
A system and method are provided for automated application testing. The method is executed by a device having a communications module and includes requesting via the communications module, from a repository for a development environment, a current build file for each of at least one device type. The method also includes receiving via the communications module, from the repository, the current build file for each device type; deploying via the communications module, each current build file on a respective device type; and initiating at least one test on each device type based on a simulation of the device operating according to the current build file.
US11640334B2
The methods and systems improve uncorrectable error (UE) and silent data corruption (SDC) rates for memory chips and improve error correction of the memory chips. The systems may include a memory bank with a plurality of memory chips in communication with a memory controller. The memory bank may use one additional memory chip that stores a bitwise parity of the data stored in the remaining memory chips of the memory bank. The parity bits are used to rebuild corrupted data when a UE occurs. The parity bits are also used to detect whether a SDC occurred in the data.
US11640329B2
An event graph schema for a technology landscape may be determined, where the technology landscape is characterized using scores assigned to performance metrics. The event graph schema may include a plurality of nodes corresponding to the performance metrics and the scores, and directional edges connecting node pairs of the plurality of nodes, with each directional edge having a score-dependent validity criteria defined by scores of a corresponding node pair. Anomalous scores associated with an event within the technology landscape may be used to find anomalous nodes. Valid edges connecting two of the anomalous nodes and satisfying the score-dependent validity criteria thereof may be used to determine at least one path that includes the valid edges and connected anomalous nodes. In this way, it is possible to traverse the at least one path to identify at least one of the connected anomalous nodes as a root cause node of the event.
US11640328B2
A predictive model for equipment fail modes. An anomaly is detected in a collection of trace data, then key features are calculated. A search is conducted for the same or similar anomalies having the same key features in a database of past trace data. If the same anomaly occurred before and is in the database, then the type of anomaly, its root cause, and action steps to correct can be retrieved from the database.
US11640323B2
Method and machine learning agent for executing machine learning on an industrial process by using computing resources in an edge cloud. A state of the industrial process is identified (2:1) and a learning model comprising a training algorithm for the machine learning is selected (2:2) based on the identified state. The training algorithm in the selected model is then adapted (2:4) so that the amount of available computing resources in the edge cloud is sufficient for computations in the training algorithm. The adapted training algorithm is finally applied (2:5) on data generated in the industrial process using computing resources in the edge cloud. Thereby, computing resources in the edge cloud can be used and no additional resources are needed, thus reducing latency and bandwidth consumption.
US11640317B2
Systems and methods are directed to methods and apparatus for transferring ownership of common resources from a source entity, which owns a resource, to a destination entity, which will own the resource, in a distributed system. The method includes the source entity receiving a command to change ownership (the MOVE command), and then marking the source entity as no longer owning the common resource. The source entity then sends a MOVE command to the destination entity, which will then update its common resource ownership table to reflect that the ownership of the common resource has been transferred from the source entity to the destination entity. It is advantageous that the updating of ownership of the common resource in the source entity occur simultaneously with the dispatching of the MOVE command to the destination entity.
US11640303B2
According to one embodiment, a calculating device includes a first memory, a second memory, a third memory, a first arithmetic module, a second arithmetic module, a first conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the first memory and a first input terminal of the first arithmetic module, a second conductive line electrically connecting a second output terminal of the first memory and a first input terminal of the second arithmetic module, a third conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the second memory and a second input terminal of the second arithmetic module, a fourth conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the third memory and a third input terminal of the second arithmetic module, and a fifth conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the second arithmetic module and a second input terminal of the first arithmetic module.
US11640302B2
A computing device comprising: a plurality of ALUs; a set of registers; a memory; a memory interface between the registers and the memory; a control unit controlling the ALUs by generating: at least one cycle i including both implementing at least one first computing operation by way of an arithmetic logic unit and downloading a first dataset from the memory to at least one register; at least one cycle ii, following the at least one cycle i, including implementing a second computing operation by way of an arithmetic logic unit, for which second computing operation at least part of the first dataset forms at least one operand.
US11640291B2
A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units configured to receive an upgrade request; obtain a redundancy model indicating network device redundancies or service redundancies; determine, based on the upgrade request and the redundancy model, an update graph having nodes each representing one of the network devices or one of the services, the update graph also having at least one edge that connects two of the nodes and that indicates the network redundancy or the service redundancy; determine, based on the update graph including the at least one edge, an update schedule for performing an update of software for the network devices that ensures availability for the first network device or second network device or availability for the service; and update the software of each of the network devices according to the update schedule.
US11640288B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for upgrading a system version of a system. The method can include: acquiring, using circuitry, from a first storage space a current system version identification corresponding to a current system version; acquiring, using circuitry, from a second storage space a backup system version identification corresponding to a backup system version; comparing, using circuitry, the current system version identification with the backup system version identification; and configuring the system based on the comparison.
US11640281B2
A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for introspection of classes within source code. A computing device receives access to object-oriented source code. The computing device parses the source code to determine one or more objects contained in the source code. The computing device determines one or more classes associated with the one or more objects. The computing device generates a class table including one or more class data points associated with the one or more determined classes. The computing device generates one or more source code methods to perform a class-level introspection based upon the generated class table.
US11640277B2
A method/system for managing experimental data, a computer readable storage medium, and a device are provided. The method includes: recording the managing experimental data, and preprocessing the experimental data, to obtain at least two preprocessed experimental arrays; selecting one element from each of two selected preprocessed experimental arrays according to an analysis requirement, and combining the elements to form a cyclic experimental database, the cyclic experimental database including several combination data; performing cyclic statistical analysis on the combination data in the cyclic experimental database, to obtain a cyclic statistical result corresponding to retrieved combination data.
US11640276B2
A masking device for a virtual assistant, the masking device including a body configured to at least partially block a virtual assistant microphone of the virtual assistant, and an assistant initializer in or on an inside of the body. The masking device also includes a masking device microphone on an outside of the body, and a processor communicatively connected to the assistant initializer and the microphone. The processor is configured to employ the assistant initializer to control an audio communication channel to the virtual assistant in response to the microphone receiving a first audio key term from a user.
US11640270B2
Firmware instruction(s) are selected from a plurality of firmware instructions based at least in part on: (1) a conditions table that includes one or more conditions for handling the plurality of firmware instructions and (2) state information. It is determined how to handle the one or more selected firmware instructions based at least in part on: (1) the conditions table and (2) the state information. In the event the determined handling is to perform the selected firmware instructions, an instruction sequence is obtained, from a sequencing table that includes one or more instruction sequences associated with a storage media device, based at least in part on the one or more selected firmware instructions. In the event the determined handling is to perform the one or more selected firmware instructions, the obtained instruction sequence is output to the storage media device.
US11640266B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller comprising first random access memory (RAM1), second random access memory (RAM2), and a storage unit divided into a plurality of zones. The controller restricts the host to a maximum number of zones that can be in the open and active state at a time. Open zones can be switched to the closed state, and vice versa, upon a predetermined amount of time expiring. The maximum number of open zones is based on one or more amounts of time to: generate parity data, copy the parity data from the RAM2 to the RAM1, update the parity data, switch a zone from the open and active state to the closed state, and the amount of space in a temporary RAM1 buffer.
US11640247B2
A system and technique are provided for providing a service address space. The system includes a service co-processor provided with a service address space. The service co-processor is attached to a main processor where the main processor is provided with a main address space. The service co-processor creates and maintains an independent copy of the main address space in the form of the service address space. The service co-processor receives from the main processor a command packet, determines a clock value for initiating a service function designated by the command packet, and updates the service address space until reaching the clock value. The service co-processor then performs the service function at the clock value.
US11640240B1
Systems and methods are provided for managing the order of data written to a transaction log in a distributed storage system. In a system with multiple nodes, if sequencers are naively generated without taking into consideration inconsistencies among the different nodes generating the sequencers, then the sequencers may not increase for each data transaction. To alleviate this problem, the node committing the transaction to the transaction log may perform a consistent read and verifies that the sequencer advances. If the sequencer does not advance, the node can perform a context-dependent operation such as adjusting the sequencer, acknowledging the write without committing it to the transaction log, or rejecting the write altogether.
US11640236B2
A visual form designer is disclosed. A target user interface is configured to display a particular form. A design user interface is used to design the target user interface. The design user interface includes at least a widget-selection section and a form-design section. The design user interface also includes various layout options for displaying a form template in the form-design section. An interface widget may be dragged from the widget-selection section to a particular location in the form template in the form-design section. The design user interface displays an instance of the interface widget at the particular location in the form template. A different layout may be selected. The design user interface displays the instance of the interface widget at a different location in the form template in the different layout. Hence, instances of interface widgets in the form template are rearranged based on a selected layout option.
US11640233B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for extracting text from an input document to generate one or more inference. Each inference box may be input into a machine learning network trained on training labels. Each training label provides a human-augmented version of output from a separate machine translation engine. A first translation may be generated by machine learning network. The first translation may be displayed in a user interface with respect to display of an original version of the input document and a translated version of a portion of the input document.
US11640231B1
Various examples are described for improving accessibility in a user interface. A is generated to manipulate a floorplan. A list user interface element can be included that allows a user to assign unassigned locations in a floorplan without having to drag and drop within the user interface.
US11640228B2
Access techniques and systems for virtually rendered digital content are described. In one example, a collection of items of digital content is received that involves an operation of a computing device. As part of rendering the collection, the computing device generates an object model having nodes corresponding to the items in the viewable subset. The computing device then adds an additional node to the object model as a compact representation (e.g., as text) of other items of digital content that are not rendered. As a result, the compact representation supports operations involving digital content that is not currently rendered in the user interface.
US11640223B2
A sensing circuit includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes; a first capacitance between the sensor electrodes; a plurality of proximity sensing electrodes electrically isolated from the sensor electrodes; and a second capacitance between at least one of the sensor electrodes and the proximity sensing electrodes. A density of at least one of the proximity sensing electrodes is less than a density of at least one of the sensor electrodes.
US11640205B2
A device including a piezoelectric actuator that can detect the actuation force and provide haptic feedback. The longitudinal extension of the actuator, generated for this purpose, can be reinforced in the desired direction by a deformable metal sheet. The deformable metal sheet is adhered on and has a borehole for pressure equalization.
US11640199B2
A method for operating an assist system for a vehicle that includes a sensor device for detecting a directional characteristic value that is representative of a viewing direction of a driver of the vehicle. In the method, a calibration characteristic value is provided that is representative of a rest viewing direction of a standard driver. At least one initial direction characteristic value is determined, in dependence of which a rest characteristic value is determined that is representative of a rest viewing direction of the driver. A transformation characteristic value is determined based on the rest characteristic value, which is representative of a transformation between the rest characteristic value and the calibration characteristic value. Based on the transformation characteristic value, subsequently determined directional characteristic values are corrected.
US11640198B2
A system for human interaction with virtual objects comprises: a touch sensitive surface, configured to detect a position of a contact made on the touch sensitive surface; a reference layer rigidly attached to the touch sensitive surface and comprising one or more patterns; a display device, configured to display a virtual object that is registered in a reference coordinate fixed with respect to the touch sensitive surface; one or more image sensors rigidly attached to the display device, configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more patterns; and at least one processor, configured to determine a position and an orientation of the display device with respect to the touch sensitive surface based on the captured image, and identify an interaction with the virtual object based on the detected position of the contact made on the touch sensitive surface.
US11640196B2
The present invention provides an analog-digital hybrid architecture, which performs 256 multiplications and additions at a time. The system comprises 256 Processing Elements (PE) (108), which are arranged in a matrix form (16 rows and 16 columns). The digital inputs (110) are converted to analog signal (114) using digital to analog converters (DAC) (102). One PE (108) produces one analog output (115) which is nothing but the multiplication of the analog input (114) and the digital weight input (112). The implementation of PE is done by using i) capacitors and switches and ii) resistor and switches. The outputs from multiple PEs (108) in a column are connected together to produce one analog MAC output (116). In the similar manner, the system produces 16 MAC outputs (118) corresponding to 16 columns. Analog to digital converters (ADC) (104) are used to convert the analog MAC output (116) to digital form (118).
US11640194B2
Coordinating dynamic power scaling of agents based on power correlations of agent instructions is disclosed. A global power controller determines a first local power quantifier of a first agent executing an agent instruction of a task of a workload. The global power controller stores a correlation between the first agent executing the agent instruction and a second local power quantifier corresponding to a second agent. The global power controller subsequently determines that the first agent is executing or will execute the agent instruction. The global power controller accesses the correlation associated with the first agent executing the agent instruction and sends to the second agent a proposed power level based on the correlation.
US11640179B2
A method is provided for stabilizing an orientation and height of a person or load-carrying multicopter with a plurality of motors, wherein the drive of the individual motors in flight is continuously calculated by a flight control unit and correspondingly prescribed to the motors using control technology, for which purpose, based on a desired torque τ, of a desired thrust s preferably prescribed by a pilot signal, and of a motor matrix M, the drive of the motors is calculated by a motor allocation algorithm f and provided as a control signal to the motors, wherein the following applies to the drive and the corresponding motor control variables u: u=f(τ, s, M). The method provides that A) the individual motors are weighted with a preferably diagonally filled matrix P, so that the following applies: u=f(τ, s, M, P), the motor allocation algorithm calculates the drive u such that the individual motors make an individual contribution to the desired forces and torques T and to the thrust s in accordance with the matrix P depending on the weighting; and/or B) zero space orientations with 0=M·uN that do not generate any torques or thrust, and therefore do not influence the flight movement, are used to drive the motors.
US11640173B2
A control apparatus plans a movement route of a moving body based on a recognition result of an exterior environment of the moving body; corrects the planned movement route, based on a recognition result of an obstacle in the exterior environment of the moving body; and controls the movement of the moving body based on the corrected movement route. The recognition result of the obstacle includes a recognition result of a side portion of the obstacle with respect to the movement route of the moving body, and in the correction, the planned movement route is corrected based on a correction amount continuously obtained based on the recognition result of the obstacle associated with advancement of the moving body.
US11640172B2
Provided is an apparatus for providing obstacle information and reliability information to vehicle based on information received from roadside units. The apparatus includes a communication module that receives obstacle information from multiple roadside units, each roadside unit including multiple sensors for detecting obstacles within a predetermined field of view. A reliability judgement unit in the apparatus determines a reliability of the received obstacle information to output a reliability value based on a number of roadside units detecting a same obstacle, a number of sensor of one roadside unit detecting a same obstacle, and a difference value of detection of the same obstacle between different roadside units or different sensors.
US11640163B1
A computer implemented method of administering a complex system includes receiving multivariate data from a plurality of sensors of the system in an ambient state. Event sequences in the received multivariate data are identified. The multivariate event sequences are projected to a lower stochastic latent embedding. A temporal structure of the sequences is learned in a lower latent space. A probabilistic prediction in the lower latent space is provided. The probabilistic prediction in the lower stochastic latent space is decoded to an event prediction in the ambient state.
US11640162B2
A controller for controlling a system having uncertainties in its dynamics subject to constraints on an operation of the system is provided. The controller is configured to acquire historical data of the operation of the system, and determine, for the system in a current state, a current control action transitioning a state of the system from the current state to a next state. The current control action is determined according to a robust and constraint Markov decision process (RCMDP) that uses the historical data to optimize a performance cost of the operation of the system subject to an optimization of a safety cost enforcing the constraints on the operation, wherein a state transition for each of state and action pairs in the performance cost and the safety cost is represented by a plurality of state transitions capturing the uncertainties of the dynamics of the system.
US11640158B2
Provided is a data security sharing method for multiple edge nodes to operate in a collaboration mode under an industrial cloud environment. The method includes: firstly, edge nodes that need collaborative computing separately applying for a shared key to an authority center; secondly, the authority center generating a shared key and issuing the key to each of the edge nodes applying for participation in the collaborative computing; again, the edge nodes combining industrial characteristics to generate an interference factor set, and adding different interference factors for different types of data; then, the data of the edge nodes is implemented with improved homomorphic encryption and is uploaded to an industrial cloud platform; and finally, the industrial cloud platform performing homomorphic analysis and computing on the data uploaded by each of the edge nodes, and issuing the data back to each of the edge nodes.
US11640154B2
A technology for associating and ascertaining dependency relations between device variables corresponding to respective devices with dependency relations of device variables for respective parameters of a function in a control program is provided. A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph including a plurality of first nodes that respectively express device variables and edges that express having dependency relations, and a second directed graph including the plurality of first nodes, the edges, and a block that expresses the function, and switches and displays the generated first directed graph and second directed graph on a display device.
US11640145B2
Aiming at insufficient drying seafood on-board caused by hull swings, the present invention involves the establishment of location correction system for processing seafood transportation displaced by wind waves and anti-accumulation drying processing method. This invention employs CFD-DEM method to simulate the state and distribution of the material particles modulated by the deflector angle and wind speed. Finally, the optimized rotation angle of deflector and wind speed are obtained where material particles are equally distributed. Meanwhile, the uniform and fast drying of the marine products in the swinging hull are achieved. This invention shows the great advantages of high efficiency, automation and continuity.
US11640143B2
A receptacle (10) for receiving a horological assembly (1) and handling same on a setting machine (1000), this receptacle (10) is a support which includes, for receiving such an assembly (1), a substantially planar bearing surface (190), and which includes, below the bearing surface (190), a spring mechanism (180) for receiving such an assembly (1), and, above said bearing surface (190), locking wedges (102) of such an assembly (1), and, between the bearing surface and the locking wedges (102), angular orientation means (103) for the angular orientation in abutment pressure of an edge of such an assembly (1) on this support.
US11640141B2
The timepiece includes a tourbillon including a carriage that bears a sprung balance and a magnetic escapement device, the latter including an escape wheel set, formed of an annular magnetic structure, and a magnetic element coupled with the magnetic structure and having an oscillating movement that is synchronous with the oscillation of the mechanical resonator. The mechanical escapement is arranged so as to have alternately energy accumulation phases, from a conversion of mechanical energy supplied by the barrel into magnetic potential energy in the magnetic escapement, and transfer phases of energy accumulated in the magnetic escapement to the magnetic resonator. During the energy transfer phases, the magnetic element is subjected to a magnetic force such that the magnetic escapement then converts into mechanical energy magnetic potential energy accumulated in the preceding energy accumulation phase to be able to maintain the oscillation of the mechanical resonator.
US11640138B2
A holographic image generation system including a spatial light modulator; a light source; a temporal modulator; a light sensor and a demodulator. The spatial light modulator has pixels. The light source illuminates the spatial light modulator. The temporal light modulator modulates an output intensity of the light source over time to encode holographic data representing a hologram. The light sensor is associated with a spatial light modulator and receives light from the light source and generates a signal representative of the output intensity of the light source. The demodulator is connected to the light sensor to receive the signal. The demodulator decodes the signal to obtain the holographic data. The demodulator is connected to the spatial light modulator to set the pixels of the spatial light modulator in accordance with the holographic data to display the hologram ready for illumination by the light source to form a holographic reconstruction.
US11640136B2
The invention relates to a scaled holographic medium comprising a layer construction B′-C1′-C2′, to a process for producing the sealed holographic medium, to a kit of parts, to a layer construction comprising a protective layer and a substrate layer and to the use thereof.
US11640131B2
A fixing device includes a fixing roller, a pressure roller, a first bearing, a second bearing, and an annular insulating member. The insulating member is interposed at least one of between the first bearing and a shaft of the fixing roller and between the second bearing and a shaft of the pressure roller. The insulating member has a slit formed in at least one circumferential location thereon and creating a circumferential discontinuity in the insulating member, and includes a projection projecting from one of circumferentially opposed end surfaces of the slit toward the other of the circumferentially opposed end surfaces.
US11640117B2
A misregistration measurement and region of interest selection system (MMRSS) for measuring misregistration between at least two layers on a wafer in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, the MMRSS including a set of misregistration metrology tools, including at least two misregistration metrology tools, and a misregistration analysis and region of interest selection engine operative to: analyze a plurality of misregistration measurement data sets associated with a set of regions of interest (ROIs) of at least one measurement site on the wafer and at least partially generated by at least one first misregistration metrology tool, and wherein each of the data sets is associated with a set of quality metrics, identify a recommended ROI and communicate the recommended ROI to at least one second misregistration metrology tool of the set of misregistration metrology tools, the second misregistration metrology tool being operative to generate misregistration metrology data associated with the recommended ROI.
US11640099B2
A pressure cell for sum frequency generation spectroscopy includes: a metal pressure chamber; a heating stage that heats the liquid sample; a pump, connected to an interior of the metal pressure chamber, that pressurizes the interior of the metal pressure chamber; and a controller that controls the pump and the heating stage to control a pressure of the interior of the metal pressure chamber and a temperature of a liquid sample. The metal pressure chamber includes: a base that retains the liquid sample; a removable lid that seals against the base to enclose the liquid sample in the metal pressure chamber; and a window in the removable lid that exposes the liquid sample to an exterior of the metal pressure chamber.
US11640093B2
The present invention provides an array substrate including a substrate, a transparent insulating layer, a light-absorbing layer, a thin film transistor layer, a first protective layer, and a color filter layer. Since structures of the transparent insulating layer and the light-absorbing layer are added to the array substrate, the problem of high reflectivity of display panels with light emitting from sides of the array substrate can be solved and the image quality of the display panel is improved, so that the display panel can better adapt to a full screen demand of the market.
US11640082B2
A backlight unit and a display device includes a plurality of light sources and a color conversion layer on a reflective layer, thereby removing expensive color conversion sheets and supplying high-quality white light. A backlight unit includes a printed circuit; light sources on the printed circuit; a reflective layer on at least a partial area of an area in which the light sources are not disposed on the printed circuit; a transparent film above the light sources and the reflective layer and spaced apart from the light sources and the reflective layer; light diffusion patterns on at least one of the top and bottom of the transparent film and corresponding to each of the light sources; a first color conversion layer on the reflective layer; and a second color conversion layer on at least one of a top surface and a bottom surface of the light diffusion patterns.
US11640076B2
A display substrate, a display device and a test method of the display substrate are disclosed. The display substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region includes: a first leading wire extending in a first direction and including a first end and a second end; a first test wire electrically connected with the first leading wire at a first position of the first test wire between the first end and the second end; the display region includes first signal wires of first group extending in a second direction, two first signal wires arranged outermost in the first direction among the first signal wires of first group are respectively connected with the first end and the second end, and remaining first signal wires among the first signal wires of first group are connected with the first leading wire between the first end and the second end.
US11640072B2
An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided and includes: a movable body, a rotational support structure, a gimbal mechanism, and a fixed body. The rotational support structure, which rotatably supports the movable body including a camera module around an optical axis, is rotatably supported by the gimbal mechanism around a first axis and a second axis. The rotational support structure includes a first annular groove provided on the movable body, a plate roller including a second annular groove facing the first annular groove in the direction of Z axis, and multiple spherical objects inserted into the first annular groove and the second annular groove. The gimbal mechanism rotatably supports the plate roller around a first axis. The movable body includes a first-side stopper part facing one of plate roller extension portions with a gap from one side in the circumferential direction around the Z axis.
US11640070B2
A viewing angle light control film and a display having the same are discussed. The viewing angle light control film according to the present disclosure can include a base film, a first optical layer disposed on the base film, a second optical layer contacting the first optical layer, and a light scattering pattern disposed at an interface between the first optical layer and the second optical layer.
US11640063B2
Head-mounted virtual and augmented reality display systems include a light projector with one or more emissive micro-displays having a first resolution and a pixel pitch. The projector outputs light forming frames of virtual content having at least a portion associated with a second resolution greater than the first resolution. The projector outputs light forming a first subframe of the rendered frame at the first resolution, and parts of the projector are shifted using actuators, such that physical positions of light output for individual pixels occupy gaps between the old locations of light output for individual pixels. The projector then outputs light forming a second subframe of the rendered frame. The first and second subframes are outputted within the flicker fusion threshold. Advantageously, an emissive micro-display (e.g., micro-LED display) having a low resolution can form a frame having a higher resolution by using the same light emitters to function as multiple pixels of that frame.
US11640040B2
Systems and methods for simultaneous focal length control and achromatic computational imaging with quartic metasurfaces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes: a first metalens having a plurality of first nanoposts carried by a first substrate; a second metalens having a plurality of second nanoposts carried by a second substrate; and a source of light configured to emit light toward the first metalens and the second metalens. The first metalens is transversely offset with respect to the second metalens.
US11640018B2
A floating mirror includes a buoyant body extending between a first end and a second end, and a reflective material disposed on opposite surfaces of the buoyant body.
US11640017B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are taught that convey information in a mirror to a user. A glass layer has a front side and a back side. The glass layer further includes a first region. The first region has a first optical property. A second region has a second optical property. The first optical property is different than the second optical property. A first boundary exists where the first region meets the second region and the first boundary is shaped to convey information when the second region is illuminated from the back side and the glass layer is viewed from the front side by the user. When the second region is not illuminated from the back side the first region and the second region provide substantially the same reflection when the glass layer is viewed from the front side by the user, and the first boundary does not convey information.
US11640015B1
An image capture device may detect presence of drop of liquid on its optical element during capture of visual content. The image capture device may effectuate removal of the drop of liquid from the optical element.
US11640010B2
An assembly for detection of foreign bodies in a multihead weigher includes an image recorder and a lighting module and an image evaluation module. The multihead weigher includes weighing containers for filling with bulk material, a selection of the bulk material being emptiable into chutes combined in the shape of a funnel upon arrival of a trigger signal. The image recorder records an image series, and the lighting module and the image evaluation module output a signal upon detection of a foreign body in the image series. The image recorder includes one or more cameras for optical capturing of the funnel, the one or more cameras being arranged inside of or above the funnel and being set up to capture one or more sections of an interior surface of the funnel between two horizontal planes.
US11640008B2
A mobile platform for assessing and modifying pavement surfaces. An emitter generates electromagnetic waves towards a portion of a pavement surface. A condition sensor receives electromagnetic radiation from a first portion of the pavement surface and generates a first electronic signal representative of a current condition of the portion of the pavement surface. A location sensor generates a second electronic signal containing location data corresponding to the first portion of the pavement surface. A computing platform processes the electronic signals and creates a current pavement condition data point. The computing platform may compare the first electronic signal against a reference representative of a target condition, determine if there is a condition variance, and, if a condition variance exceeds a predetermined threshold, generate a condition control signal which is transmitted to and operates to modify operation of the pavement surface modification system in order to reduce the condition variance.
US11640006B2
A system for detecting a position of an ionizing radiation. The system includes a radiation detector including a plurality of cathode films, a plurality of anode strips sets, a plurality of insulator films, a conductive grid, and a drift region. Each set of the plurality of anode strips sets is disposed between a respective pair of adjacent cathode films of the plurality of cathode films. Each of the plurality of insulator films is disposed between a respective cathode film of the plurality of cathode films and a respective set of the plurality of anode strips sets. The conductive grid is disposed in parallel with the detection plane and exposed to the ionizing radiation. A drift region includes a region between the conductive grid and the detection plane. The radiation detector is configured to ionize a gas by generating an electric field inside the drift region.
US11639999B2
Method for the improved near and remote detection of a LIDAR receiving unit for motor vehicles, wherein the receiving unit has a plurality of sensor elements, wherein the sensor elements can be activated and deactivated, wherein at least a subset of the sensor elements are activated at a first point in time within a measurement cycle, wherein one or more sensor elements are activated and/or one or more sensor elements are deactivated at a second point in time within the measurement cycle, said second point in time occurring after the first point in time.
US11639993B2
A radar apparatus includes an antenna composed of an end-fire array antenna and including a plurality of antenna elements; and a circuit board in which the plurality of antenna elements is disposed side by side in a first direction. At least one of the plurality of antenna elements is parallel to a substrate surface of the circuit board. A directivity of at least one of the plurality of antenna elements is set to a third direction tilted with respect to the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US11639977B2
A local coil for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed herein. The local coil includes an electrical circuit arrangement and a coaxial cable with an internal conductor and an external conductor surrounding the internal conductor. The two ends of the coaxial cable are connected to the electrical circuit arrangement and the internal conductor and the external conductor together form an antenna loop. The internal conductor and/or the external conductor has at least one interruption and the at least one interruption divides the internal conductor and/or the external conductor into at least two separate segments in each case.
US11639974B1
A first magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field intersecting a detection object being transported along a transport path. A second magnetic field generator opposite to the first magnetic field generator with respect to the transport path generates a magnetic field intersecting the detection object. A first magnetoresistive element between the first magnetic field generator and the transport path outputs, as a change in resistance, a change in magnetic flux density produced by transport of the detection object. The first and second magnetic field generators are different in a magnetic pole facing the transport path and are arranged with a center of the first magnetic field generator in a transport direction of the detection object and a center of the second magnetic field generator in the transport direction are located at mutually different positions. The first magnetoresistive element includes a first resistor and a second resistor arranged with spacing therebetween.
US11639967B2
A sensor system for a battery module, includes: a shunt resistor including: a first current clamp and a second current clamp, each of the first and second current clamps to be connected to a current path of the battery module; a first voltage clamp and a second voltage clamp; and a measurement resistance between the first voltage clamp and the second voltage clamp, and electrically connected to the first current clamp and the second current clamp; a first landing pad electrically connected to the first voltage clamp; a second landing pad electrically connected to the second voltage clamp; a first temperature sensor connected to the first landing pad; and a second temperature sensor connected to the second landing pad.
US11639966B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for enhanced electrical signature analysis (ESA) for fault detection in electrical machines. The enhanced ESA uses an algorithm that is able to adaptively learn the behavior of a particular electrical machine and automatically establish fault thresholds for the electrical machine without requiring manual inputs from an operator. The particular algorithm described herein to accomplish this may use machine learning that may be used to model the behavior of the electrical machine in real-time and based on any properties specific to the electrical machine.
US11639965B2
A measurement device is described that comprises a measurement unit configured to perform measurements on an electric signal of a device under test while applying at least one measurement parameter for performing the measurements. The measurement device has an integrated direct current source configured to power the device under test. The measurement device also comprises a monitoring unit configured to monitor at least one monitoring parameter of the direct current source. The measurement device has a control unit configured to control the measurement parameter. Further, a method for measuring a device under test is described.
US11639957B2
One example includes a cryogenic wafer test system. The system includes a first chamber that is cooled to a cryogenic temperature and a wafer chuck confined within the first chamber. The wafer chuck can be configured to accommodate a wafer device-under-test (DUT) comprising a plurality of superconducting die. The system also includes a second chamber that is held at a non-cryogenic temperature and which comprises a wafer chuck actuator system configured to provide at least one of translational and rotational motion of the wafer chuck via mechanical linkage interconnecting the wafer chuck and the wafer chuck actuator system. The system further includes a radiation barrier arranged between the first chamber and the second chamber and through which the mechanical linkage extends, the radiation barrier being configured to provide a thermal gradient between the cryogenic temperature of the first chamber and the non-cryogenic temperature of the second chamber.
US11639953B2
A method and a measurement system for determining the noise power of a device under test especially the exact noise power is provided. The measurement method comprises determining a sideband gain of a measurement system using a calibration unit, connecting a device under test to the measurement system, measuring a noise power of the device under test with a receiver and correcting the measured noise power with the determined system gain including a sideband gain.
US11639952B2
A method for determining a sheet resistance of a sample (1) by using point probes. The method includes: (a) positioning (101) five point probes (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e) on the sample (1) at selected positions which are distanced from an edge of the sample (1): (b) connecting (102) the five point probes (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e) in five configurations wherein each configuration comprises a different set of four point probes (abcd, bcde, cdea, deab, eabc) and measuring (103) a resistance (r1=rabcd, r2=rbcde, r3=rcdea, r4=rdeab, r5=reabc) between the four point probes for each configuration; (c) determining (104) the sheet resistance (ρ0).
US11639948B2
A signal analysis method is described. The signal analysis method comprises the following steps. An output signal is received from a device under test. A sampling point density is received and/or the sampling point density is determined based on the output signal. A response function of the device under test is determined based on the output signal and based on the sampling point density. The sampling point density represents a number of sampling points per frequency interval for determining the response function. The response function characterizes at least one property of the device under test as a function of frequency. Moreover a measurement system for determining a response function of a device under test is described.
US11639947B2
A method of detecting a foreign object on a stage according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes acquiring first position information of a first pattern included in a first image in a reference state of a surface of the stage capable of attracting an object to be inspected; acquiring second position information of a second pattern included in a second image of the surface, the second image being obtained after obtaining the first image; and detecting one or more foreign objects on the surface by comparing the first position information and the second position information.
US11639943B2
There is provided an automatic analysis device that can easily realize introduction and replacement of additional reagents in operation even in a small-scale configuration. The automatic analysis device includes a reagent dispensing mechanism 107 that dispenses a reagent from a reagent container 113 containing a reagent, and a normal reagent storage portion 130 that stores a reagent container and an additional reagent storage portion 111. The normal reagent storage portion 130 is positioned in a normal movable area 132, which is a portion of a movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107 and the additional reagent storage portion 111 is positioned in an area excluding the normal movable area 132 in the movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107. The reagent dispensing mechanism 107 performs an access operation in the normal movable area 132 in the normal operation and performs an access operation to the additional reagent storage portion 111 upon receiving a predetermined instruction.
US11639938B2
Bead-based analytical assays suitable for detecting changes in the abundance of target analytes in biological samples are disclosed. In an embodiment, an assay involves incubating a sample with one or several beads that are capable of binding several distinct analytes in an amount sufficient for detection by mass spectrometry from a single bead.
US11639935B2
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosis of delayed bone fracture healing, comprising determining the frequency of a subpopulation of CD8+ cells selected from a first group comprised of CD8+CD57+, CD8+CD28− and CD8+CD28−/CD57+, in a sample obtained from a subject. The present invention further relates to a system and a kit of parts for prediction and resulting options for preventing of delayed bone fracture healing.
US11639925B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for measuring of multiple physiological properties of biological samples, such as measuring biological flux.
US11639924B2
The invention provides a carrier and a method for obtaining, removing, or detecting extracellular membrane vesicle or virus present in a sample. In particular, the invention provides (a) a carrier (a Tim carrier) on which a protein (a Tim protein), selected from a T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing molecule-4 (a Tim-4) protein, a Tim-3 protein, and a Tim-1 protein, is bound; (b) a method for obtaining the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (c) a method for removing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (d) a method for detecting the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (e) a kit for capturing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus, comprising the Tim carrier; and (f) a kit for capturing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus, comprising a reagent containing the Tim protein and a reagent containing the carrier.
US11639919B1
An adapter for use in monitoring the deterioration of an oil insulated transformer due to pyrolysis that allows for an alarm to be generated at the desired ppm values is provided. The adapter is configured to sample the headspace of the main transformer tank as well as the adjacent compartments of a transformer and pass it over a common sensor to check for gases indicative of pyrolysis. During this constant monitoring process, the device will alert the end user when there is an increase in monitors gases. This will allow the owner to take the transformer off line and perform other diagnostic tests to determine the extent of damage to the equipment.
US11639907B2
A device (1) for determining the dew point of a gas in a process chamber (2) which comprises a temperature control element (3) and a temperature sensor (4) for determining the temperature in the process chamber (2). The temperature sensor is in a thermally conductive functional connection with the temperature control element (3), and the temperature control element (3) is designed to actively heat and cool the temperature sensor (4). The temperature sensor is arranged in direct contact with the temperature control element (3).
US11639905B2
The present disclosure provide pipe scanning systems suitable for performing integrity and reliability inspection of pipelines, including insulated and non-insulated pipelines. The pipe scanning system may include a track disposed about a surface of the pipeline (e.g., on top of the insulation for insulated pipelines or on top of the pipe for non-insulated pipelines) and a scanning device mounted on the track via a drive carriage. The drive carriage includes components to facilitate movement of the drive carriage and the scanning device along the track such that the scanning device travels about the circumference of the pipeline. The scanning device includes an x-ray emitter and a digital x-ray detector that may capture media content indicative of a scanned section of the pipeline (e.g., a 360° circumferential scan), and the media content may be analyzed to detect the presence of one or more defects, such as corrosion under insulation (CUI).
US11639901B2
A test structure for use in metrology measurements of a sample pattern formed by periodicity of unit cells, each formed of pattern features arranged in a spaced-apart relationship along a pattern axis, the test structure having a test pattern, which is formed by a main pattern which includes main pattern features of one or more of the unit cells and has a symmetry plane, and a predetermined auxiliary pattern including at least two spaced apart auxiliary features located within at least some of those features of the main pattern, parameters of which are to be controlled during metrology measurements.
US11639898B2
An apparatus for testing an edge portion of a substrate, includes a first illumination source configured to irradiate light to an end portion of the edge portion of the substrate; a second illumination source configured to irradiate light to a lower portion of the edge portion; a third illumination source configured to irradiate light to an upper portion of the edge portion; and first to third photographing portions, respectively corresponding to the first to third illumination sources, wherein the first illumination source comprises a C-shaped cross-section and comprises a first curved surface facing the end portion of the edge portion, the second illumination source comprises a half C-shaped cross-section and comprises a second curved surface facing the lower portion of the edge portion, and the third illumination source comprises a half C-shaped cross-section and comprises a third curved surface facing the upper portion of the edge portion.
US11639895B2
A “lab on a chip” includes an optofluidic sensor and components to analyze signals from the optofluidic sensor. The optofluidic sensor includes a substrate, a channel at least partially defined by a portion of a layer of first material on the substrate, input and output fluid reservoirs in fluid communication with the channel, at least a first radiation source coupled to the substrate adapted to generate radiation in a direction toward the channel, and at least one photodiode positioned adjacent and below the channel.
US11639887B2
Provided herein are methods to characterize preparations of recombinant viral particles using analytical ultracentrifugation. Recombinant viral particles include recombinant adeno-associated viral particles, recombinant adenoviral particles, recombinant lentiviral particles and recombinant herpes simplex virus particles. Variant species of recombinant viral particles including empty capsids and recombinant viral particles with variant genomes (e.g., truncated genomes, aggregates, recombinants) can be identified and quantitated. The methods can be used to characterize preparations of recombinant viral particles regardless of the sequence of the recombinant viral genome or the serotype of the recombinant viral capsid.
US11639885B2
The present invention addresses the problem of evaluating the hydrophobicity of a powder. According to the present invention, a powder is charged into a mixed solvent composed of a lipophilic solvent and a hydrophilic solvent, the voltage rate R of the mixed solvent is measured at predetermined time intervals while adding a lipophilic solvent to the mixed solvent charged with the powder, a parameter x correlating with the concentration of powder is defined for an arbitrary voltage rate R, a continuous function HP(x) of the ratio of a lipophilic solvent corresponding to x is defined, and HP(x) for required x is set as a representative value of a lipophilic solvent ratio distribution and used as an index of hydrophobicity.
US11639882B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for detecting exhaust emissions of a vehicle equipped with an ignition engine based on big data of remote sensing. The system includes: a vehicle emission measuring instrument, a host computer, an information display instrument, a vehicle driving state tester, a weather monitor, a license plate camera and a vehicle emission monitoring platform. The vehicle emission measuring instrument, the information display instrument, the vehicle driving state tester, the weather monitor and the license plate camera communicate with the host computer. The host computer is connected to the vehicle emission monitoring platform via the Internet. The present disclosure acquires pollutant concentrations in the vehicle emissions through the detection system, divides a vehicle specific power (VSP) into multiple bins, performs statistical analysis and evaluation on the vehicle emissions according to different vehicle types, and determines high-emission vehicles.
US11639878B2
In various example embodiments, devices, systems, and methods for a waist measuring belt are provided. An example waist measuring belt is made up of a belt buckle frame with attachments for a belt strap. The belt further includes a position measuring module coupled to the belt buckle frame that measures an attachment position of a second end of the belt strap to the belt buckle frame. The belt also includes a tension measuring module coupled to the belt buckle frame that measures a tension through the belt buckle frame and the belt strap. A memory and a wireless communication module attached to the belt may be used to store measurements and communicate with a mobile device or server. In various embodiments, estimated user waist sizes over time using measured values and belt-specific data may be used to estimate a user's waist size and generate a waist size history.
US11639875B2
A method for processing a raw image characterized by first Pix1(i,j) and second Pix2(i,j) raw measurements collected by first Bol1(i,j) and second Bol2(i,j) bolometers of a set of bolometers Bol(i,j) of a detector, the first bolometers Bol1(i,j) being closed off, the method being executed by a computer on the basis of reference measurements PixREF(i,j) that include first Pix1REF(i,j) and second Pix2REF(i,j) reference measurements associated with the first Bol1(i,j) and with the second Bol2(i,j) bolometers, the method including: a) a correlation step between the first raw measurements Pix1(i,j) and the first reference measurements Pix1REF(i,j); and b) a step of correcting the raw image, which includes computing corrected measurements PixCor(i,j) of a corrected image for each bolometer Bol(i,j) on the basis of the reference measurements PixREF(i,j) and of the result of step a).
US11639869B2
A road surface condition identification apparatus for identifying a road surface condition is provided. The road surface condition identification apparatus includes a vibration detector unit configured to output a detection signal being an analog signal according to magnitude of vibration of the tire. For identifying the road surface condition, the road surface condition identification apparatus performs A-D conversion of converting the detection signal of the vibration detector unit into a digital signal. Based on data on vehicle speed, the road surface to condition identification apparatus sets a conversion range of the magnitude of the vibration of the tire used in the AD conversion from the detection signal into the digital signal.
US11639868B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining a volume of remaining liquid in a container are disclosed. A container profile can first be developed using image analysis to determine a maximum liquid level in the container. The profile can then be broken into divisions, each corresponding to an equal volume. When real-world measurements of a liquid level in a real-world container are made, these can be translated to one of the divisions, which can be summed with all underlying divisions to estimate a volume of remaining liquid in the real-world container.
US11639861B2
An electric power steering apparatus has a rotation detection device that includes a sensor section that detects a rotation of a motor and outputs a mechanical angle and a count value, and a signal obtainer that obtains the mechanical angle and the count value from the sensor section. The rotation detection device also includes an absolute angle calculator that calculates an absolute angle based on the mechanical angle and the count value and a storage area for storing a reference value that is used for correcting calculation errors in the absolute angle.
US11639854B2
A method and system for generating a location identification grid and for using a location identification grid. The location identification grid can include a first geographic area that correspond to a pre-existing area. This pre-existing area can correspond to a postal code such as a zip code, a telephone code such as, an area code, or any other desired pre-existing area. The location identification grid can be subdivided into smaller geographic areas to allow more accurate identification of a location. The location identification grid can include a second geographic area. The second geographic area can be a subdivision of the first geographic area. The location identification grid can be used with signals that identify a location within a location identification grid. These signals can include a first component corresponding to the first geographic area and the second component corresponding to one or more second geographic areas.
US11639852B2
A three-axis microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope includes four proof masses, where the proof masses are connected by spring beams and/or rigid beams; a first proof mass is configured to move in an X-axis direction; a second proof mass is configured to rotate around an X-direction axis, a Y-direction axis, and a Z-direction axis, and when the first proof mass moves in the X-axis direction, the second proof mass is driven to rotate around the Z-direction axis; a third proof mass is configured to move in the X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction, and when the first proof mass moves in the X-axis direction, the third proof mass is driven to move in the Y-axis direction; a fourth proof mass is configured to move in the X-axis direction, and when the third proof mass moves in the X-axis direction, the fourth proof mass is driven to move in the X-axis direction.
US11639834B2
A buttstock of a small arm includes a front connection area for a positive connection to a receiver. In order to permit increased cartridge capacity, a trigger unit with a trigger latch and a transfer element extending forward for connection of the trigger latch to a trigger mechanism arranged in the receiver is positioned on the buttstock.
US11639818B2
A thermal management system includes a receiver configured to store a refrigerant fluid; a refrigeration system having a refrigerant fluid path that includes the receiver, and at least one evaporator disposed in the refrigerant fluid path. The refrigeration system is configured to receive the refrigerant fluid from the receiver through the refrigerant fluid path. The at least one evaporator is configured to receive the refrigerant fluid and to extract heat from at least one heat load having a specified thermal inertia that is in at least one of thermal conductive or convective contact with the at least one evaporator.
US11639816B2
A heating and cooling device is disclosed comprising at least one integral low voltage heating and cooling source and an efficient flexible heat distribution means having a thermal conductivity of from 375 to 4000 W/mK for distributing the heat and cool across a surface. Further aspects include thermal interface compounds to provide full thermal contact as well as the use of a phase change material to provide a long lasting heating and/or cooling effect without the use of external electrical input. Preferred applications include automotive and furniture seating heating and cooling, along with outdoor garments having distributed heating and cooling effects. Additional aspects include a thermal pad wrap and a thermally conductive liquid system for heat/cool distribution.
US11639815B2
A portable refrigeration system for use in transport of medicines or other valuable, temperature sensitive materials is disclosed. The system can use GPS positioning technology to provide absolute global location along with internet connection through a cellular modem on board which allows for communication to the cloud of temperature and transit data during device use. The refrigerator 10 can be powered by a rechargeable battery back that may be recharged through connection to AC mains supply or connection to the photovoltaic panel 26 included with the device 10. The insulated container can be held at a constant temperature through the use of vacuum insulated panel construction. The device 10 can be cooled through the use of thermoelectric cooling modules 68 coupled to the insulated chamber 74 and paired with a heat exchanger 56 with heat pipes 60 and a system fan 54. The device 10 can be operated either through the included graphical user interface display 20 via touch or buttons or it may be accessed and controlled by a remote computer 80 through the cloud via a cellular connection 78.
US11639805B2
A building device includes a plurality of sensors, a display device, and a control circuit. The display device includes a user interface having a set of indicator lights. The display device further includes a plurality of touch-sensitive buttons configured to receive a user input. The control circuit is configured to receive configuration information relating to a preset setpoint value, a maximum setpoint value, and a minimum setpoint value. The control circuit is further configured to receive a user input relating to a temperature adjustment for increasing a current setpoint value or decreasing the current setpoint value. The control circuit is further configured to configure an output of the set of indicator lights to provide a visual representation of the temperature adjustment by associating the current setpoint value with activation of at least one of the indicator light of the set.
US11639798B2
The invention relates to a device for supporting and fastening heating pipes (20) of a heating system placed in subfloors, walls or ceilings of a building. The device comprises: a laminar body having a first face and an opposite second face, a plurality of fastening elements made in one piece on the first face of the laminar body and configured to fasten said heating pipes on the first face. The invention is characterized in that both the laminar body and the fastening elements of the device are in a mixture comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer and thermally conductive inorganic fillers.
US11639796B2
A cooking appliance and method generate an audible and/or visual indication to a user while an igniter is activated during ignition of a gas burner to notify the user that the igniter is active.
US11639787B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic assembly structure which utilizes a magnetic attraction or repulsion effect generated by two magnetic components to make two buckle structures automatically engaged to each other. The magnetic assembly structure of the present disclosure has a first main body and a second main body, and via the hardware design of disposing magnetic components and buckle structures respectively on the first main body and the second main body, the first and second main bodies rotate in respect to each other due to the magnetic attraction or repulsion effect, so as to efficiently engage the two buckle structures each other. Thus, it actually eases the installation and uninstallation of the appliance to which the magnetic assembly structure is applied, and the costs of installation and consuming time are reduced.
US11639780B2
Disclosed are a lamp for a vehicle and a vehicle including the lamp. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a lamp for a vehicle, the lamp including: a lens part configured as a single body capable of transmitting light and having a focal point; first and second light source parts configured to generate first light and second light that are to enter the lens part; an optic part provided in front of the second light source part; and a shield part configured to block a part of the first light or a part of the second light, in which the first light emitted from the first light source part and the second light emitted from the second light source part reach the single body of the lens part so as to form a beam pattern outside the vehicle.
US11639772B1
The engine oil collection container comprises a collection pan and a perforated cover. The engine oil collection container may be a container for collecting oil. One or more emptied oil bottles may be held in an inverted position by a plurality of bottle apertures located on the perforated cover so that residual oil within the one or more emptied oil bottles may drain into the collection pan. A top aperture located at the top center of the perforated cover may be operable to collect the oil from a non-bottled oil source. As a non-limiting example, the non-bottled oil source may be an oil collection basin or a vehicle oil pan. In some embodiments, the engine oil collection container may comprise a rolling stand that is operable to reduce friction between the bottom of the collection pan and the ground when moving the container.
US11639763B2
An expansion pipe joint that absorbs displacement occurring at a connection portion between an upstream pipe and a downstream pipe includes an outer tube having a downstream end coupled to the downstream pipe, an inner tube that is inserted into the outer tube and has an upstream end coupled to the upstream pipe, and a closing member having elasticity that is provided between an upstream end of the outer tube and the upstream end of the inner tube so as to close a gap between them. Then, a difference between a position in an axial direction of the upstream end of the outer tube and a position in the axial direction of the upstream end of the inner tube is within a predetermined range so that a bus line of the closing member is inclined from the axial direction.
US11639762B2
A water delivery device includes a first conduit section and a second conduit section rotatably coupled to the first conduit section by a magnetic joint. The magnetic joint includes a plurality of magnets that cooperatively define a plurality of rotational positions between the first conduit 5 section and the second conduit section.
US11639751B2
A ring gear assembly includes a ring gear, a gear box case, and a set of bolts. The ring gear includes a set of gear teeth inside the ring gear and arranged in a circle around the ring gear axis. The ring gear further includes a set of flanges arranged along at least one side of the ring gear. Each flange has a respective flange bolt hole therethrough, and each flange bolt hole has a respective bolt axis that is oriented perpendicular to the ring gear axis. The gear box case has a set of gear box bolt holes therethrough, each gear box bolt hole corresponding to a respective one of the flange bolt holes. Each of the bolts passes through a respective one of the gear box bolt holes and its corresponding flange bolt hole to fasten the ring gear to the gear box case.
US11639749B1
A gear system based on variably expandable gears, where input from either or both an operator or a computer processor may induce selective radial expansion and contraction of at least one gear in a gear set. The computer processor may be programmed to establish and maintain a desired gear ratio, regardless of the various variable forces which may be encountered, permitting gear setting and adjustment to control a desired parameter, such as speed, revolutions-per-minute, and watts with minimal effort by the operator.
US11639742B2
The present invention relates to a clutch device (6) having a clutch (46) and an actuating mechanism (48) for actuating the clutch (46), wherein the actuating mechanism (48) has a first adjusting element (84) and a second adjusting element (86) which interacts with an impinging element (68) acting on the clutch (46). The first adjusting element (84) can be rotated in the axial direction (8, 10) relative to the second adjusting element (86) with displacement of the second adjusting element (86). Moreover, the present invention relates to a drivetrain (2) for a motor vehicle with a clutch device (6) of this kind.
US11639741B2
Provided are a wet friction plate and a wet multiplate clutch device capable of reduction drag torque while suppressing a decrease in the area of a friction member. The wet friction plate includes multiple friction members through oil grooves on a flat plate annular core metal. The friction member has first fine grooves opening at an inner peripheral edge of the friction member and extending to an outer peripheral edge side and second fine grooves opening at an outer peripheral edge of the friction member and extending to an inner peripheral edge side. The first fine groove and the second fine groove are formed to have a groove width of equal to or greater than 0.1 mm and equal to or less than 0.8 mm, and overlap portions overlapping with each other in a circumferential direction at the same position in a radial direction of the core metal.
US11639733B2
A dual rod positioning structure, for connecting and fixing two single rods sleeved on or inserted into one another, includes positioning holes respectively located on rod bodies of the two single rods and a positioning seat capable of being engagedly fixed to the positioning holes and sleeved on the single rods. The positioning holes are arranged on two adjacent sidewalls of the single rods. Inserted into the positioning seat are a positioning element selectively engaged in the positioning holes, a spring, a positioning pin and an outward protruding button. The positioning structure overall is structurally simple, convenient to assemble, and stable in terms of positioning.
US11639730B2
A device for the deaeration of a hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic system has at least one hydraulic motor arrangement and a hydraulic fluid storage which is hydraulically coupled with this hydraulic motor arrangement. A suction device for sucking out the hydraulic fluid is associated with the at least one hydraulic motor arrangement such that the suction device guides hydraulic fluid out of the hydraulic motor arrangement into the hydraulic fluid storage by means of vacuum pressure (Δp). The suction device is constructed as a jet pump and is integrated in the return line between the hydraulic motor arrangement and hydraulic fluid storage.
US11639725B2
The present disclosure provides a micro water pump, including: a pump body having a cavity, an inlet communicating with the cavity, and an outlet communicating with the cavity; a drive mechanism installed on the pump body for driving liquid from the inlet into the cavity and discharging from the outlet. The pump body includes a base, an upper cover engaging with the base for forming the cavity, and a barrier member. The upper cover includes a fixed wall located in the cavity. The barrier member protrudes from the fixed wall for preventing the drive mechanism from colliding and rubbing with the fixed wall during rotation. By virtue of the configuration, improved heat-dissipation performance is performed.
US11639723B2
A compressor or pump stage is provided. The compressor or pump stage at least comprising a central shaft (8) and one rotor (3), where the axis of rotation of the rotor (3) is the central shaft (8) and where the rotor comprises a number, n, of rows of impellers (5) arranged at an outer perimeter of the rotor with an axial distance between neighbouring rows of impellers (5), where n={2, 3, 4 . . . }.
US11639713B2
Modular mechanically driven diaphragm pump features are presented herein. Such a diaphragm pump can include a motor, a drive mechanism, and a coupling mounted on a wheeled frame. A diaphragm pump can be mounted to the coupling by forming mechanical static and dynamic connections to brace a housing of the diaphragm pump relative to a drive rod which is moved by the drive mechanism to operate the pump. These mechanical static and dynamic connections can be broken to dismount the pump for replacement or servicing. In some cases, a gas charge can be introduced on the non-working fluid side of the diaphragm to boost performance and/or a dampener can be integrated into the housing of the diaphragm pump and mounted/dismounted with the diaphragm pump.
US11639707B2
A method for monitoring an aircraft turboshaft engine including a vibration sensor capable of outputting a vibration signal and a spark plug. The method includes, based on the vibration signal output by the vibration sensor, a step of determining a level of vibration of the turboshaft engine as well as a step of determining an indicator of spark plug wear.
US11639703B1
In a turbocharged internal combustion engine system including an eCompressor as a secondary air pump (SAP) for injecting air into an exhaust system of the ICE, controllable valves enable the turbocharger compressor and the SAP to provide two-stage compressed air to the intake of the ICE in certain operating conditions, or to feed the air via a secondary air injection line (SAI line) into the exhaust system in other conditions. A conduit is tapped off the discharge of the SAP and connects with discharge ducting from the turbocharger compressor, and an on/off valve configured for defined leakage in the “off” position controls flow through the conduit. When the air from the SAP is needed only for injection air, the leakage through the leaky valve into the intake system suppresses surge of the SAP.
US11639688B1
A planetary gear system includes a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears connected to a carrier and engaging with the sun gear, and a ring gear assembly including a damper housing, and a ring gear connected to the damper housing and engaging with the plurality of planet gears. The ring gear includes a geared wall having a plurality of gear teeth engaging with the plurality of planet gears, and a damper housing attachment member radially spaced outward of the geared wall and attaching the ring gear to the damper housing. A first end of the geared wall and the damper housing engage each other via a plurality of squeeze film damping members, and a second end of the geared wall is connected to the damper housing attachment member via a flexible damping wall that is configured to provide a radial damping of the second end of the geared wall.
US11639685B1
Blades including integrated damping structures are disclosed herein. An airfoil to be disposed within a flow path of a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining an axial axis, a radial axis and a circumferential axis comprising an airfoil body including a first face, a second face and a recessed portion formed in the second face, and an airfoil cap having a first surface, the airfoil cap disposed within the recessed portion, the first surface substantially flush with the second face.
US11639683B2
A split cycle internal combustion engine includes a combustion cylinder accommodating a combustion piston and a compression cylinder accommodating a compression piston. The engine also includes a controller arranged to receive an indication of a parameter associated with the combustion cylinder and/or a fluid associated therewith and to control an exhaust valve of the combustion cylinder in dependence on the indicated parameter to cause the exhaust valve to close during the return stroke of the combustion piston, before the combustion piston has reached its top dead centre position (TDC), when the indicated parameter is less than a target value for the parameter; and close on completion of the return stroke of the combustion piston, as the combustion piston reaches its top dead centre position (TDC), when the indicated parameter is equal to or greater than the target value for the parameter.
US11639673B2
A composite oil pan for a work vehicle engine and a method of forming the composite engine oil pan include forming a sheet of metal into a first pan and open molding a fiber-reinforced polymer resin onto the first pan forming a second pan. The first pan has a first bottom wall and first peripheral walls extending from edges of the first bottom wall to define a sump, the first peripheral walls terminating in a first peripheral flange. The second pan has a second bottom wall and second peripheral walls abutting the first bottom wall and the first peripheral walls, the second peripheral walls terminating in a second peripheral flange. The first pan defines a thin metal structure with an inner surface extending across the first bottom wall, first peripheral walls and first peripheral flange; the second pan reinforces the first pan without abutting the inner surface.
US11639663B2
A velocity of a flow of drilling fluid is adjusted to a magnitude that is within the operating range of a mud pulser disposed in the flow of the drilling fluid. A stator in the mud pulser directs the flow of drilling fluid along one or more separate paths. The paths are defined by channels that extend axially along an outer surface of the stator and that are spaced angularly apart from one another. Also in the mud pulser is a rotor that alternatingly blocks the paths. The velocity is adjusted with a plug assembly that blocks flow through a designated channel. One type of plug assembly is a disk with passages that register with less than all of the channels, and that mounts on a downstream end of the stator. Other types of plug assemblies mount in the designated channel to block the flow path.
US11639662B2
A power and communications cable may include an electromagnetic waveguide, an inner metallic tubular surrounding the electromagnetic waveguide, an electrically conductive material surrounding the inner metallic tubular, an electrically insulating material surrounding the electrically conductive material, and an outer metallic tubular resistant to corrosion and abrasion surrounding the electrically insulating layer. The example system may include an electrical device locatable in the wellbore and coupleable to the cable and a control unit coupleable to the cable and operable to supply power to and communicate with the electrical device via the power and communications cable.
US11639651B2
A gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) is configured to process crude oil produced from a well. A production stream from the well operates at a first pressure. A processed crude oil stream from the GOSP flows to a multi-phase ejector. The multi-phase ejector induces flow of a production stream from the well in response to the flow of the processed crude oil stream.
US11639647B2
A self-powered sensor array (SPSA) for sensing environmental parameters along a drillstring includes an outer collar having moveable member retainers with moveable members movably located in the moveable member retainers. An inner ring is rotatably supported within the outer collar with bearing elements on an outer surface of the inner ring positioned to displace the moveable members relative to the moveable member retainers in response to relative rotation between the inner ring and the outer collar. Shape memory material elements are arranged in a respective moveable member retainer. Distance sensors are configured to sense a gap responsive to a shape change of the respective shape memory material element and a displacement of the respective moveable member. Power generation components are configured such that, in response to the relative rotation, the bearing elements displace a particular moveable member into a particular moveable member retainer, generating an electric charge.
US11639642B2
The invention provides a remotely activated connecting device for connecting a wellhead and or Christmas tree positioned on a wellhead to a fracing tree that may comprise a collet system for selectively engaging and disengaging from a threaded, spiral, and or flange shoulder that may utilize hydraulics for same.
US11639633B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermal management system configured to control a temperature of a building and having a controller configured to determine an adjustment to a window setting of the building based on current weather data, forecasted weather data, or both. The thermal management system also includes a display configured to display instructions related to the adjustment.
US11639631B2
An actuating system for a window shade includes a first rotary axle rotatable for displacing a bottom part, a second rotary axle rotatable for displacing an intermediate rail, and a limiting mechanism including a first and a second sliding part respectively linked movably to the first and second rotary axle. The first sliding part slides in a first direction when the first rotary axle rotates for lowering the bottom part and in a second direction when the first rotary axle rotates for raising the bottom part. The second sliding part slides in the first direction when the second rotary axle rotates for lowering the intermediate rail and in the second direction when the second rotary axle rotates for raising the intermediate rail. The first sliding part is prevented from sliding in the second direction via a contact between the first sliding part and the second sliding part.
US11639630B1
A gated barrier that includes a barrier frame first portion, a barrier frame second portion, and a gate between the barrier frame first and second portions. The barrier frame first and second portions include first and second threshold portions that are spaced apart from each other and held in such a spaced apart orientation by a rigid elongate piece. The gated barrier further includes a latch apparatus, panels, and junction apparatus between the panels.
US11639624B2
A structure for shielding a rail includes a rail configured to be mounted on a vehicle body, a drive unit movably connected to the rail, a swing arm rotatably connected to the drive unit and a sliding door, a shade bar configured to be in contact with the swing arm and connected to the drive unit so as to be movable in a first direction in which the shade bar moves close to the rail or a second direction in which the shade bar moves away from the rail, and a cover having a first end connected to the shade bar, the cover configured to open or close a space in which the rail is positioned in accordance with a movement of the drive unit.
US11639622B2
A defense mobile device for securing a door during shelter-in-place situations. The device includes wheels rendering it mobile and stops that, when activated, hold the device stationary. A panel has a ballistic core that resists bullets, a front face, an opening, and a cover positioned over the opening to overlay and enclose a door knob protruding through the opening. The front face forms, or has affixed to it, a writing surface. The panel pivots between a plurality of angled positions to facilitate writing and an upright position flat against the door. A locking rod, rotatably connected to the panel, pushes and pulls the panel between its angled positions and its upright position. A portal defined by a ballistic door viewer or viewport is located in the panel and permits viewing or observing through the panel. A release system is configured to deactivate the stop and enable the device to move.
US11639618B2
A latch bolt with a bolt head that is removably mounted on a latch tail through the use of a bolt head adjustment mechanism. The bolt head adjustment mechanism may comprise one or more locking members (e.g., within the bolt head, the latch tail, and/or independent from the other components of the latch bolt) that allow the bolt head to be removed, rotated, and reassembled while the latch bolt is located within the case of the mortise lock. The bolt head may comprise an anti-friction latch that is configured to pivot within the flanges of the bolt head in a way that maintains contact between the anti-friction lock and the strike plate.
US11639616B2
A locking device for an energy storage device of a motor vehicle, includes a locking element, which is adjustable based on a control signal, by an adjusting device between a locking position, in which the locking element engages with a latch receptacle, and a release position, in which the locking element is out of engagement with the latch receptacle. The adjusting device has an adjusting element made of a shape memory alloy. The shape change enables the locking element to be adjustable between the locking position and the release position.
US11639615B2
An escape hatch for an aircraft includes a door body having an exterior side and an interior side opposite the exterior side; an exterior handle movably connected to the door body, the exterior handle rotatable between a stowed position, in which the exterior handle is recessed within an opening of the door body, and an unstowed position, the exterior handle being accessible from the exterior side of the door body to open the door; and a visual indicator connected to the door body and visible from the interior side of the door body only when the exterior handle is in the stowed position.
US11639613B2
A portable room includes a number of sides, where a first side of the number of sides includes a first door, a second side of the number of sides includes a port, and the second side is adjacent to the first side. The portable room also includes a roof attached to the number of sides. The portable room further includes a number of pockets integrated with the roof, where each pocket is configured for receiving a filter.
US11639598B2
Mounting assemblies for waste disposers such as food waste disposers, waste disposers employing such mounting assemblies, and related methods are disclosed herein. Mounting assemblies include an engagement feature having a first engagement structure located on the body flange and a second engagement structure located on the upper portion of the disposer body. When the engagement feature is in the engaged position, the body flange and the disposer body are engaged, forming a combined disposer and body flange assembly. The combined disposer and body flange assembly can be lifted into alignment with the strainer flange assembly and rotated as a unit to engage the body flange with the mounting flange.
US11639596B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of fluid switches, and more particularly to an bathtub faucet, comprising a housing (10), a first valve (11) which is disposed in the housing in the radial direction of the housing (10) and configured for switching on or switching off the flow of the fluid towards the outlet (100); a first base (12) which is disposed in the housing in the axial direction of the housing (10) and configured for diverting the fluid therethrough, and the first base comprises: first fluid guiding ports (120) disposed along the radial direction of the first base (12) and second fluid guiding ports (121) disposed at two ends of the first base (12) along its axial direction and are respectively communicated with the first fluid guiding port (120), and the first valve (11) is configured to sealingly engage to the first base (12) and communicated with the first fluid guiding ports (120), so that the fluid is controlled by the first valve (11) to be communicated with the second fluid guiding port (121) at the upper end or shut off, wherein the fluid is introduced from the second fluid guiding port (121) at the lower end and then diverted through the first fluid guiding port (120).
US11639591B2
A panning tool is described and comprises a sifting scoop comprising an elongated half sphere of proportional dimensions. The left side wall, right side wall, and back wall of the sifting scoop define a reservoir for collecting sediment and holding precious metals and gems separated from the sediment during and after panning. The floor extends forwardly from the back side and can comprise riffles, furrows, or be flat. The panning tool comprises a connection body. The connection body is affixed to an interior face of the sifting scoop. Methods of using the panning tool and manufacturing the sifting scoop are also described.
US11639583B1
Apparatus, devices, assemblies, systems and methods of using w spring clips over spikes for holding railroad tie spikes down to wood and concrete railroad ties and hold the spike heads to the rails. A first embodiment can use rail tie plates with box holders for holding end portions of a w shaped spring steel clip to press against cap heads of railroad tie spikes. A second embodiment can use a rail tie plates with vertical supports for horizontal bars over heads of railroad tie spikes. A third embodiment can use rail tie plates with vertical studs and upper threaded ends with flat plates attached by nuts over heads of rail road tie spikes, and with cotter pins locking the nuts in place. Additional embodiments include metal structures fastened, welded and/or forged to tie plates for allowing w shaped spring clips with mid portions that hold down heads on spikes to prevent the spikes from coming out. Additional embodiments can use concave side C-clips, convex side C-clips, double hook C-clips in flat plate and fire form, G-Clips and W-Clips with notches on leg ends. The embodiments can be used with auxiliary plates having welded bars over notch openings to hold down both heads of stakes and footer edges of rails.
US11639578B2
A pretreatment liquid for water-based pigment textile printing is disclosed, which includes: 1 wt % to 30 wt % of aqueous non-ionic polyurethane; 1 wt % to 20 wt % of a metal salt; 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of a melamine resin; and the balance being a solvent. A method for forming a pattern on a textile using the aforesaid pretreatment liquid is also disclosed.
US11639558B2
A method produces a single-crystal silicon semiconductor wafer. A single-crystal silicon substrate wafer is double side polished. A front side of the substrate wafer is chemical mechanical polished (CMP). An epitaxial layer of single-crystal silicon is deposited on the front side of the substrate wafer. A first rapid thermal anneal (RTA) treatment is performed on the coated substrate wafer at 1275-1295° C. for 15-30 seconds in argon and oxygen, having oxygen of 0.5-2.0 vol %. The coated substrate wafer is then cooled at or below 800° C., with 100 vol % argon. A second RTA treatment is performed on the coated substrate wafer at a 1280-1300° C. for 20-35 seconds in argon. An oxide layer is removed from a front side of the coated substrate wafer. The front side of the coated substrate wafer is polished by CMP.
US11639556B2
A micronozzle assembly, comprising a reservoir, an array of structures comprising micronozzles, a porous structure positioned between the reservoir and the array, and an electrode within the reservoir, wherein the electrode comprises any of a mesh, a frame along the perimeter of the cavity of the reservoir, or a rod extending into a cavity of the reservoir.
US11639554B1
A flow cell for reducing carbon dioxide may include a first chamber having a gold coated gas diffusion layer working electrode, a reference electrode, and a water-in-salt electrolyte comprising a super concentrated aqueous solution of lithium bis-(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI). A second chamber adjacent the first chamber has a gold coated gas diffusion layer counter electrode and the water-in-salt electrolyte. The second chamber being separated from the first chamber by a proton exchange membrane. A reservoir coupled to each of the first and the second chambers with a pump contains a volume of the water-in-salt electrolyte and a head space.
US11639552B2
A method for plating a work piece includes forming a work piece, where the work piece includes first and second segments that are electrically isolated. The first segment is connected in a first circuit and the second segment is connected in a second circuit. The first circuit may include a first power source and the second circuit may include a second power source. The work piece and the first and second segments may be disposed in a common solution, and current may be applied in the first circuit and the second circuit to create first and second metal surfaces. The first and second metal surfaces may be made from the same base metal. The first and second metal surfaces may be created simultaneously, with the work piece and the first and second segments disposed in a common solution.
US11639551B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate on which a central area and a peripheral area adjacent to the central area are arranged. The central area includes a display area. The display apparatus further includes: at least one insulation pattern that is formed in the peripheral area; a groove from which a material for forming the insulation pattern is removed and that is formed adjacent to the insulation pattern; and at least one insulating layer that is interposed between the insulation pattern and the substrate. The groove is located in the at least one insulating layer.
US11639543B2
A tetrahedral amorphous hydrogenated carbon and amorphous siloxane hybrid diamond-like nanocomposite composition can include: tetrahedral amorphous hydrogenated carbon (ta-C:H); and amorphous siloxane (a-Si:O), wherein the ta-C:H and a-Si:O are in an interpenetrating network. A method of forming a tetrahedral amorphous hydrogenated carbon and amorphous siloxane hybrid diamond-like nanocomposite can include: providing a source of H, C, O, and Si as a liquid precursor; providing evaporated precursor into a vacuum chamber; forming a plasma with an RF plasma generator and/or a thermal plasma generator; and depositing, on a rotating biased substrate, a collimated layer of the tetrahedral amorphous hydrogenated carbon and amorphous siloxane hybrid diamond-like nanocomposite having tetrahedral amorphous hydrogenated carbon (ta-C:H) and amorphous siloxane (a-Si:O), wherein the ta-C:H and a-Si:O are in an interpenetrating network. A RF rotating electrode is also provided.
US11639538B2
The device and method for manufacturing metal clad plates in way of continuous casting and rolling provided by the present invention, combines the continuous casting, rolling and heat treatment methods used for single material production with the continuous and large-scale production method of composite strip, greatly improves the production efficiency of composite plates. The present invention can be used for producing single-sided or double-sided composite plates with different thickness specifications, wherein the base material or the composited material can be selected in a wide range, including carbon steel, stainless steel, special alloy steel, titanium, copper and the like. The invention realizes the production of composite plates by continuous casting and rolling, and reduces energy consumption and costs.
US11639533B2
Disclosed is pearl sugar, having a biggest dimension between 5.6 and 8.0 mm, and a dissolution time at 20° C. lying between 3 minutes and 8 minutes, or a biggest dimension of smaller than 5.6, and a dissolution time at 20° C. lying between 1 minute and 3 minutes and 30 seconds. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of pearl sugar, using a sugar-containing raw material which is brought to a moisture content lying between 0.5 and 4.0 wt. %, an average size of between 0.40 and 1.20 mm, and whereby at most 2 wt. % of particles have a size of at most 0.20 mm.
US11639529B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for the diagnosis and evaluation of neoplastic disorders, particularly non-small cell lung cancer. Assays are described in which patient test samples are analyzed for the presence of one or more specific EML4-ALK fusion genes associated with neoplastic disorders.
US11639521B2
The present invention provides novel compositions and methods for assessing the size of tandem repeat sequences, e.g., telomeres, within a genome, using specially designed Molecular Inversion Probes (MIPs) and reaction conditions.
US11639519B1
Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens.
US11639518B2
Methods of analyzing nucleic acids of a cell are provided.
US11639504B2
Nucleases and methods of using these nucleases for expressing a transgene from a safe harbor locus in a secretory tissue, and clones and animals derived therefrom.
US11639502B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of biology, and in particular to a Macrobrachium nipponense Cathepsin L gene and use of dsRNA thereof, including the Macrobrachium nipponense Cathepsin L gene, a gene fragment and the dsRNA thereof, and use of the dsRNA in inhibiting ovary development of Macrobrachium nipponense. The Macrobrachium nipponense Cathepsin L gene is obtained at first with the full-length nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID No. 1 and the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID No. 2. Gene fragments with sequences of SEQ ID No. 3 and SEQ ID No. 8 are obtained by using technologies such as RNA interference, and dsRNA1 and dsRNA2 are synthesized from the two gene fragments. The synthesized dsRNA1 and dsRNA2 are injected into a pericardial cavity of a female Macrobrachium nipponense and the result shows that the dsRNA1 can effectively slow down the ovary development speed of the female Macrobrachium nipponense.
US11639499B1
The present invention provides MMLV reverse transcriptase enzymes with increased thermal stability as compared with wild type MMLV and AMV reverse transcriptases. The improved thermal stability allows for reverse transcription of RNA to cDNA at temperatures above 37° C., thereby reducing error rates introduced during cDNA synthesis. As a result, the reverse transcriptases of the invention allow for increased accuracy in the determination of transcriptomes of living organisms.
US11639494B2
An embryo, gamete or stem cell culture medium comprising: a) acetyl-carnitine at a concentration of about 5 to about 50 μM; and b) lipoic acid or a derivative thereof at a concentration of about 2.5 to about 40 μM. The culture medium may optionally further comprises acetyl-cysteine at a concentration of about 5 to about 50 μM.
US11639488B2
A photobioreactor includes a first and a second container extending along a longitudinal direction; the second container extending inside the first container, so as to delimit a first channel between the first and the second containers; and forming a second channel inside the second container; a first passage means capable of allowing the circulation of a fluid between the first channel and the second channel; a second passage means capable of allowing the circulation of the fluid between the first channel and the second channel, disposed above the first passage means; at least one light source; a gas injection means, configured so as to inject gas in the form of bubbles into the second channel; the circulating fluid being able to be exposed to a light source.
US11639485B2
An alkoxylated bio-oil composition is provided. The alkoxylated bio-oil composition may include an alkoxylated bio-oil prepared from an alkoxylation of dewatered bio-oil. A method for preparing an alkoxylated bio-oil composition is provided. A copolymer composition is provided. The copolymer composition may include an alkoxylated bio-oil copolymer unit. A method for preparing a copolymer composition is provided.
US11639479B2
There is disclosed an antifoam component which includes at least one acrylamide polymer for use in a diesel fuel. Acrylamide polymers prepared by polymerizing a (meth)acrylamide monomer to yield a homopolymer or, alternatively, the acrylamide polymer may be prepared by polymerizing a (meth)acrylamide monomer and a (meth)acrylate monomer to yield a heteropolymer.
US11639467B2
A nanoplatelet including a two-dimensional template including a first semiconductor nanocrystal; and a first shell including a second semiconductor nanocrystal disposed on a surface of the two-dimensional template, the second semiconductor nanocrystal having a composition different from the first semiconductor nanocrystal, wherein the second semiconductor nanocrystal includes a Group III-V compound, and wherein the nanoplatelet does not include cadmium.
US11639462B2
A method of servicing a wellbore may comprise providing a treatment fluid comprising a carrier fluid and hollow particles, wherein the hollow particles may comprise an outer wall that encapsulates a gas. The method may further comprise introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore annulus and trapping at least a portion of the treatment fluid in the wellbore annulus. The carrier fluid may degrade the outer wall of the hollow particles in the wellbore annulus and release the encapsulated gas.
US11639454B2
An adhesive for joining metals and resins is disclosed. The adhesive comprises 0.0001˜3 wt. % of amino silane, 0.0001˜1 wt. % of a crosslinker and 0.0001˜3 wt. % of an organometallic compound. In particular, the adhesive forms an adhesive layer that has a metal atomic ratio less than 50%.
US11639450B2
The invention relates to curable non-isocyanate polyurethane coating compositions which is the reaction product of a polycarbamate resin and a dialdehyde. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the curable coating compositions of the invention. The invention also relates to objects coated with the curable coating composition of the invention.
US11639449B2
The present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel and a display device including the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel capable of enhancing the visibility of a laser pointer and exhibiting excellent physical and optical properties, particularly preventing a specular reflection phenomenon of a laser pointer light, by including fine metal particles and inorganic oxide fine particles dispersed in a photocurable resin layer.
US11639448B2
The present disclosure provides a white ink comprising an aqueous ink vehicle, a white colorant, and latex particles. The colorant can consist essentially of metal oxide particles present at from 2 wt % to 50 wt %, can have an average particle size from 100 nm to 1000 nm, and can have a high refractive index from 1.8 to 2.8. The latex can be present in the ink at from 2 wt % to 20 wt %, can have a glass transition temperature from 0° C. to 130° C., and can have a low refractive index from 1.3 to 1.6. The metal oxide particles and latex particles can be present in the white ink at weight ratio is from 6:1 to 1:3.
