US11649204B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of trifloxystrobin of formula (I), which is simple, economical, efficient, user and environment friendly, moreover commercially viable with higher yield and chemical purity.
US11649201B2
There are provided systems and methods for using fuel-rich partial oxidation to produce an end product from waste gases, such as flare gas. In an embodiment, the system and method use air-breathing piston engines and turbine engines for the fuel-rich partial oxidation of the flare gas to form synthesis gas, and reactors to convert the synthesis gas into the end product. In an embodiment the end product is methanol.
US11649193B2
A method and system reprocess soiled animal bedding material commingled with animal manure. In one aspect the soiled animal bedding material is separated in a shaker to send at least a preponderance of the manure to a holding tank. In another aspect the bedding is cleaned, rinsed and color is restored. The bedding material is subsequently dried and a bedding product, fertilizer product, and/or compacted product is formed. Alternatively, said bedding material is dried (without a compacting step) to form a product. In yet another aspect, the steps of separation, cleaning, rinsing and/or color restoration may be omitted.
US11649181B2
A treatment system and method for cephalosporin wastewater are disclosed. The treatment system includes: a flocculation and sedimentation device, an alkali reaction tank, a PAC reaction tank, a PAM reaction tank, a wastewater heat exchanger, a wastewater heater and an oxidation reactor that are connected with each other in sequence, wherein the wastewater heat exchanger is provided with a material inlet, a material outlet, a heat source inlet and a heat source outlet. An oxidized water from the oxidation reactor enters the wastewater heat exchanger from the heat source inlet, the heat source outlet is connected with a product canister, the product canister is connected with a membrane filtration device to realize concentration treatment of a landfill leachate, the material inlet is connected with the PAM reaction tank, and the material outlet is connected with the wastewater heater. An outer side of the oxidation reactor is provided with a micro-interfacial generation system for dispersing and breaking a gas into bubbles. The treatment system of the prevent invention improves the contact of reaction phase interfaces after arranging the micro-interfacial generation system, which ensures a good wastewater treatment effect under relatively mild operating conditions.
US11649176B2
A disclosed subsea sediment separation and filtration system includes first and second separation devices, a spreader apparatus, and a storage device. The first separation device receives a water/sediment/oil mixture and from a subsea surface and separates the mixture into a first component containing cleaned sediment and a second component containing a water/oil mixture. The spreader apparatus disperses the cleaned sediment of the first component into a subsea environment of the spreader apparatus. The second separation device receives the second component from the first separation device and separates the second component into a cleaned water component and an oil component. The second separation device disperses the cleaned water component into a subsea environment of the second separation device and provides the oil component to the storage device. The first separation device may include a plurality of hydrocyclone devices, and the second separation device may include a high pressure hydrocyclone device.
US11649173B2
Synthesizing upconverting nanoparticles includes heating a precursor solution comprising one or more rare earth salts, an alkali metal salt or alkaline earth salt, and a solvent comprising a plasticizer in a microwave reactor to yield a product mixture, and cooling the product mixture to yield the upconverting nanoparticles. Core-shell upconverting nanoparticles are synthesized by combining the upconverting nanoparticles with a precursor solution comprising one or more rare earth salts, an alkali metal salt or alkaline earth salt, and a solvent comprising a plasticizer to yield a nanoparticle mixture, heating the nanoparticle mixture in a microwave reactor to yield a product mixture, and cooling the product mixture to yield the core-shell upconverting nanoparticles.
US11649171B2
A refrigerator is provided, including rare earth cold accumulating material particles filled in a cold accumulating vessel. The rare earth cold accumulating material particles are a rare earth oxide or a rare earth oxysulfide. The rare earth cold accumulating material particles define a sintered body. An average crystal grain size of the sintered body is 0.5 to 5 μm, a porosity of the sintered body is 10 to 50 vol. %, and an average pore size of the sintered body is 0.3 to 3 μm. In an arbitrary cross-section of the rare earth cold accumulating material particles, a number of pores per a unit area of 10 μm×10 μm is 20 to 70.
US11649168B2
A high-purity n-tetrasilane purification method includes: introducing a tetrasilane (Si4H10) isomeric mixture into a solidifying purification tank, cooling the tetrasilane (Si4H10) to a predetermined temperature with refrigerant in the solidifying purification tank, maintaining the predetermined temperature between the freezing temperature of the n-tetrasilane (n-Si4H10) and of the i-tetrasilane (i-Si4H10), solidifying the n-tetrasilane (n-Si4H10) in the tetrasilane (Si4H10) isomeric mixture into solid state, and vacuuming the i-tetrasilane (i-Si4H10) from the mixture for separation.
US11649163B2
A plant, such as a hydrocarbon plant, is provided, which consists of a syngas stage for syngas generation and a synthesis stage where said syngas is synthesized to produce syngas derived product, such as hydrocarbon product. The plant makes effective use of various streams; in particular CO2 and H2. The plant does not comprise an external feed of hydrocarbons. A method for producing a product stream, such as a hydrocarbon product stream is also provided.
US11649156B2
A system for dispensing a gaseous fuel from a liquefied fuel and a method for operating such a system are provided. The system includes a storage tank, a pressure sensor, a dispenser, a temperature sensor, and a vapor supply unit. The storage tank stores a liquefied fuel including phases of liquid and vapor. The pressure sensor is configured to measure a vapor pressure inside the storage tank. The dispenser is configured to receive the liquefied fuel and dispense the gaseous fuel to a receiving tank. The temperature sensor is configured to measure temperature of the dispenser. The system further includes a vapor supply unit fluidly coupled with the storage tank and configured to provide the vapor of the liquefied fuel from the storage tank into the dispenser or in thermally contact with at least one portion of the dispenser.
US11649155B2
An environmentally-friendly test port mounting in a conventional gasoline/diesel fuel dispenser cabinet to provide a technician access to the fuel line and perform various tests that enables testing to occur at a highline point in the line system. The technician may access the test port while the line system head pressure s maintained at a point above ground. The test port has a quick connect/disconnect fitting disposed in a collar intermediate a mounting for a filter in a conventional gasoline/diesel fuel dispenser and the filter to provide a technician access to the fuel line and perform various tests. The quick connect/disconnect fitting may also be coupled to a hose for draining fuel under pressure into a safety can to prevent spillage during replacement of the filter. The safety can may be emptied into the fuel tank to conserve the fuel, prevent polluting the environment and as a safety measure.
US11649150B2
A cartridge and a base unit for use in an oral care appliance are disclosed. The cartridge includes a connection interface configured to form a detachable connection. The base unit is also configured to engage operatively with the cartridge to facilitate flow of an oral care composition from the cartridge into the oral care appliance.
US11649139B2
An electronic safety actuator assembly for an elevator system includes a safety case vertically moveable relative to an elevator car. Also included is a safety brake disposed within the safety case. Further included is an electromagnet operatively coupleable to the elevator car. Yet further included is a link member operatively coupleable to the elevator car and to the safety brake. Also included is a magnet disposed between the electromagnet and the safety case, the magnet vertically moveable relative to the elevator car, the electromagnet switchable between an energized condition and an un-energized condition, one of the energized condition and the un-energized condition magnetically attracting the magnet to the electromagnet, the other of the energized condition and the un-energized condition magnetically repulsing the magnet away from the electromagnet, repulsion of the magnet moving the safety brake from a non-braking position to a braking position.
US11649137B2
Elevator systems including an elevator car moveable within an elevator shaft, the elevator car having a first elevator car component, the first elevator car component having a first side facing an interior of the elevator car and a second side opposite from the first side and a structural sound-generation system. The structural sound-generation system having at least one audio actuator coupled to the second side of the first elevator car component and an audio system controller in communication with the at least one audio actuator. The structural sound-generation system is configured to generate vibrations within the first elevator car component such that sound waves are produced therefrom and projected into the interior of the elevator car.
US11649128B2
A dunnage conversion system for making a coil of dunnage from a sheet stock includes a coiler, a movable dancer upstream of the coiler and interposed in a path of the sheet stock, and a controller communicatively coupled to each of the coiler and the movable dancer. The coiler is configured to wind the sheet stock, and the controller is configured to control the speed of the coiler based on the position of the movable dancer to control tension of the sheet stock upstream of the coiler. The sheet stock drawn about the movable dancer may be a slit-sheet stock having a plurality of slits configured to expand under tension applied in a feed direction. The controller may be configured to control expansion of the slit-sheet stock upstream of the coiler allowing conversion of the sheet stock into a coil of relatively less dense dunnage prior to or during winding.
US11649127B2
An apparatus for exchanging paper rolls includes a paper supply mechanism having an inclined arm and a clamp assembly for receiving and holding a first paper roll; a second-roll hanger assembly arranged above the paper supply mechanism for receiving and holding a second paper roll; a slide rail arranged between the paper supply mechanism and the second-roll hanger assembly; an elevating assembly movably mounted to the slide rail; and a driving assembly for driving the elevating assembly to move along the slide rail. The elevating assembly picks up the second paper roll from the second-roll hanger assembly. To exchange the first paper roll with the second paper roll, the clamp assembly pushes the first paper roll away from the paper supply mechanism, and the elevating assembly lowers down along the slide rail to place the second paper roll in the paper supply mechanism.
US11649119B2
A raw material supply device and a device for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps, which can control dropping positions of a raw material containing substances having different shapes and specific gravities, and a method for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps using those devices. The raw material supply device includes a receiving port, a discharge port, a first guide surface, and a second guide surface on a surface opposing to the first guide surface. The processing device includes a first conveying unit, a raw material supply device, a second conveying unit, and a pyramid-shaped disperser. The processing method comprises a sorting step, wherein the sorting step comprises dropping the electronic and electrical device part scraps onto a plurality of dispersion surfaces of a pyramid-shaped disperser, and dispersing the electronic and electrical device part scraps in a plurality of directions on a conveying surface.
US11649113B2
A conveyance device (100) comprises: a base member (81); a holding member (83) that moves along the base member (81); a motor (M) for advancing and retracting the holding member (83); a target (T) provided on the holding member (83); an optical distance sensor (86) positioned so as to face the target (T) when the holding member (83) is in the advanced position; and a control device (70). A processor (71) is configured such that: a basic rotation speed is applied to the motor (M) to advance the holding member (83); the actual distance from the optical distance sensor (86) to the advanced target (T) is measured by the optical distance sensor (86); a corrected distance for moving the holding member (83) to the advanced position is calculated on the basis of the measured actual distance; and the motor (M) moves the holding member (83) on the basis of the calculated corrected distance.
US11649112B2
A storage system includes a plurality of storage areas for receiving stored goods, the storage areas being situated in at least one storage level and being accessible by an associated handling device to store stored goods at the storage areas or retrieve them from these storage areas. A conveyor is provided which is designed as a continuous conveyor and is led on a storage level through the arrangement of the storage areas.
US11649110B2
A guide robot includes a lower module includes a wheel and a motor provided inside the lower module, and an upper module disposed at an upper portion of the lower module and including a trash can assembly and a display unit. The upper module includes a body part coupled to the upper portion of the lower module and a head part rotatably coupled to an upper portion of the body part. The body part includes a front case forming a front outer appearance of the body part and including the trash can assembly provided inside the front case, and a rear case forming a rear outer appearance of the body part and including the display unit. A garbage insertion part is provided at a portion of the front case corresponding to an upper portion of the trash can assembly to insert garbage into the trash can assembly.
US11649107B2
Disclosed is a container suitable for holding objects such as flowers and which may include a body having at least one wall defining a cavity. The at least one wall may include openings separated apart from each other. A tensioner may pass through the openings. A platform may be situated within the cavity and coupled to the tensioner so as to receive a force from the tensioner when a tension is applied to the tensioner. This force may be operative to lift the platform and the flower coupled thereto so that the flower partially or fully extends from the cavity while at least a portion of the platform remains in the cavity.
US11649103B2
The invention comprises a container for food products that extrudate liquids comprising a tray and a bowed insert. The tray bottom wall has at least one raised area, at least one lower surface, and at least one sidewall. A plurality of flutes are disposed on the inner surface sidewall(s). A plurality of elevated portions extend upwardly from the bowed insert. The insert is secured within the tray. A reservoir is defined between the insert and the tray bottom wall. The elevated portions of the insert, the flutes, and the at least one raised area of the tray bottom define a plurality of channels.
US11649099B2
A blister package for a contact lens includes a base sheet and a sealing sheet. Either the base sheet or the sealing sheet includes a bowl, and the other sheet includes a dome and a sealing surface. The dome has a radius of curvature of about 13 mm to 19 mm and a height of less than 7 mm relative to the sealing surface. The dome is configured to protrude into the bowl to form a cavity. Related methods are also described.
US11649092B2
The invention relates to a plastic enclosure for enclosing industrial components. The enclosure comprises a case (2), a lid (9), and a latch device (13) for locking the lid to the case. The lid (9) has a grip means formed as a rigid lug (14) molded to be monolithic with the lid (9), the lug comprising a throughhole (19) to which a hook portion (17) of a rocker (15) can grip. The lug (14) is arranged, in the closed position of the lid, to extend over and at a distance from the second wall (7) to be substantially in parallel with a wall of the case to limit an intermediate space between the wall (7) and the lug (14) when the lid is in the closed position. The hook portion (17) is arranged so that, in the release position (II) of the rocker (15), it is turned inside the intermediate space away from the path of the lug (14) and, in the locking position (I) of the rocker, the hook portion is turned to protrude laterally outwards through the through-hole (19) of the lug (14) and to compress the sealing gasket (12) by pressing the sealing flange (8) against the sealing gasket (12) to create a spring force against which the hook portion holds the lug (14). The output force of the hook portion (17) exerted to the lug (14) is amplified by a mechanical advantage provided by a lever effect of the rocker (15) when being turned to the locking position by an input force exerted to the handle arm (18).
US11649083B2
A bag-making and packaging apparatus includes a bag-making and packaging unit, a film feeding unit, a splicing device, and a control unit. The control unit allows a bag-making operation to continue by utilizing an auto-feeding function that feeds to the bag-making and packaging unit a film F spliced by the splicing device to take the place of a film F currently being fed to the bag-making and packaging unit. When the control unit judges that at least one of the film feeding unit and the splicing device is malfunctioning in a case where the control unit is utilizing the auto-feeding function, the control unit stops the auto-feeding function and executes a non-auto-feeding mode. The non-auto-feeding mode allows the bag-making operation to be continued by the bag-making and packaging unit and a film roll holding unit that is operable among plural film roll holding units.
US11649082B2
A method of closing a packaging tray comprises arranging a packaging tray between a lower tool and an upper tool of a sealing station, positioning a cover film above the packaging tray between the lower tool and the upper tool, and pressing together the cover film and the packaging tray by a lower sealing surface of the lower tool and an upper sealing surface of the upper tool cooperating with the lower sealing surface. During the pressing together, a connection is established between the cover film and the packaging tray along a sealing seam. While the cover film and the packaging tray are being pressed together, an overpressure is locally generated by supplying pressurized gas from a pressurized-gas source, the overpressure cooperating as a counterpressure with the lower sealing surface or with the upper sealing surface so as to press the cover film and the packaging tray together.
US11649081B2
A wrapping machine for wrapping a load with a plastic film includes a main frame with two supporting columns having upper portions interconnected by a beam, a supporting carriage slidingly supported by the main frame and moved along a working direction by first actuating device, a moving ring rotatably supported by the supporting carriage and rotatably driven by second actuating device around a wrapping axis parallel to the working direction, and an unwinding unit fixed to the moving ring and provided with a reel of film and rollers. The first actuating device includes a first actuator arranged to operate a driving shaft rotatably supported by the beam and provided with a driving pulley engaged to a flexible element connected to the supporting carriage. The driving pulley rotates with the driving shaft for moving the flexible element and therefore the supporting carriage along the working direction.
US11649080B2
A rectangular blank has sides X and Y, where a and b are side dimensions, h is height, and r is width, or width reduced by height h, of the periphery region R of the finished packaging. The method includes: producing folding lines B in the blank parallel to side Y at these distances from the latter: B1: a1=h; B2: a2=h+a; B3: a3=2h+a; severing of two severing lines T, each starting from opposite sides X, along one of the folding lines B, or the extension thereof; selecting the distance between two end points ET of the severing lines T which are closer to an axis of symmetry S1 parallel to the side X, such that the distance corresponds to a side B″ of the finished packaging or length of a side M of a packaging insert.
US11649076B2
A system detects a maneuver of at least one space object by receiving a first data set relating to orbital characteristics of at least one space debris object. The system trains a model, using the first data set, in order to model orbital behaviors of the at least one space debris object. The system then receives a second data set relating to orbital characteristics of the at least one space object, and detects a maneuver of the at least one space object using the trained model and the second data set.
US11649072B1
Described herein is a power processing unit (PPU) for use with a Hall Effect Thruster (HET) and a Propellant Management Assembly (PMA) of a spacecraft. The PPU comprises an anode and ignitor supply subsystem that provides anode and ignitor signals to an anode and an ignitor circuit of the HET. The PPU also comprises a valve control subsystem that provides valve control signal(s) to valve(s) of the PMA. The anode and ignitor supply subsystem and the valve control subsystem are each coupled to a low voltage (LV) bus of an electrical power subsystem of the spacecraft. The anode and ignitor supply subsystem includes a step-up DC-DC converter having a transformer that steps-up a voltage of the LV bus to a higher voltage used to produce the anode and ignitor signals. The valve control subsystem is devoid of a transformer. An Electric Propulsion System (EPS) includes the PPU, HET and PMA.
US11649068B2
A landing zone indicator system which includes a battery that is configured to power a controller and a human vision output device, a controller that is configured to control human-visible light that is output by the human vision output device, and a human vision output device where the human-visible light output by the human vision output device generates an illuminated landing zone for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle.
US11649059B2
An integrated multimode thermal energy transfer system, method and apparatus for full-scale clean fuel electric-powered multirotor aircraft with automatic on-board-capability to provide sensor-based temperature awareness and adjustment to critical components and zones of the aircraft. Automatic computer monitoring, including by a programmed triple-redundant digital autopilot computer, controls each motor-controller and motor to produce pitch, bank, yaw and elevation, while simultaneously measuring, calculating, and adjusting temperature and heat transfer of aircraft components and zones, to protect critical components from exceeding operating parameters and to provide a safe, comfortable environment for occupants during flight. By using the results of the measurements to inform computer monitoring, the methods and systems can use byproducts including thermal energy disparities and differentials related to both fuel supply systems and power generating systems to both add and remove heat from different aircraft zones to improve aircraft function, comfort, and efficiency.
US11649054B1
Package delivery systems and methods may include a bistable beam coupled to an aerial vehicle, a bistable hook coupled to an end of the bistable beam, and a package carried by the bistable hook. The bistable beam may move between a reeled position and an extended position, and the bistable hook may move between a closed position and an open position. In addition, the bistable beam may include frangible connections or portions. Further, release or disconnection of frangible connections or portions of the bistable beam, as well as operations of the bistable hook, may be effected by passive or active methods.
US11649041B2
A method for extending a landing gear system for a vehicle is disclosed. The landing gear system includes a first landing gear assembly and a second landing gear assembly. The method includes the steps of sensing a first load on the first landing gear assembly after the first landing gear assembly has reached a wheels-on-ground state and comparing the first load to a first target value. The method further includes the step of controlling an extension speed of the first landing gear assembly according to a difference between the first load and the first target value.
US11649036B2
A propeller provided with interchangeable blades, and to a method of mounting such interchangeable blades on the propeller. The propeller comprises a hub, fastening fittings, rotation guide devices for guiding the fastening fittings in rotation relative to the hub, locking parts, and blades. The fastening fittings are configured to be assembled into the hub from the inside of the hub, and the locking parts lock respective ones of the fastening fittings onto the hub. The blades are fastened to respective ones of the fastening fittings outside the hub and can thus easily be replaced with other blades without removing the propeller.
US11649028B2
The invention relates to an interface for mounting a propulsion mechanism to a watercraft such as a fishing kayak, and to a watercraft comprising such an interface. The interface comprises a first portion including a first plate with a hole sized and shaped for receiving therethrough a portion of the propulsion mechanism, a second portion including a second plate and one channel extending from the second plate, the channel being in registry with the hole of the first portion for therein a portion of the propulsion mechanism. The interface also comprises fastening assemblies for removably fastening the second portion to the first portion of the interface, and a guiding assembly for maintaining the channel of the second portion in registry with the hole of the first portion.
US11649023B2
An escape system comprises a passage (1), a platform (3) and at least one craft (4), the platform (3) and the craft (4) being deployable from a structure (2) to water to facilitate evacuation of the structure via the passage. The passage is mounted to the platform such that the platform is urged towards the structure when deployed. The passage may be mounted to the platform such that movement of the passage relative to the platform is restricted in at least one direction. A plate (64) may support the passage, platform and/or craft during deployment, and/or stabilises the passage, platform and/or craft after deployment in the water.
US11649021B2
A marine monitoring and debris collection scow is provided, the scow comprising: a hull which includes an open stern, a bow opposite the open stern, a deck extending between the open stern and the bow and forming a bottom on an underside, the bottom extending between the open stern and the bow; a frame, the frame which is attached to the deck, the frame including a front, a back which is opposite the front and sides extending between the front and the back; at least one flotation chamber which extends around the sides and the front of the frame and forms a gunwale; a housing mounted on the deck; and a microcontroller unit housed in the housing, the microcontroller unit configured to receive a data set from at least one sensor, to store the data set, to process the data set into a processed data set and to send the processed data set to a radio.
US11649007B1
An electric scooter includes: a scooter body; a front fork pivotally arranged on a front side of the scooter body; a front wheel mounted on the front fork; a rear wheel arranged on a rear side of the scooter body; a handlebar including a crossbar and a riser, the crossbar being arranged at an upper end of the riser, and a lower end of the riser being coupled to the front fork; and a left steering light and a right steering light mounted on at least one of the scooter body, the front fork or the handlebar.
US11649003B2
A control device including an electronic controller for controlling a human-powered vehicle. The electronic controller is configured to control an adjusting device that is configured to adjust a seat height of the human-powered vehicle upon determining the human-powered vehicle is being stopped while traveling uphill.
US11649001B2
An alarm device for preventing theft of a vehicle having a kickstand support attached to the vehicle having: a housing associated with the kickstand support; a pressure sensing component located associated with the housing and adjacent an end of the kickstand for detecting a force of the kickstand on a ground surface, the pressure sensing component including a surface area for contacting the ground surface when the kickstand is in the deployed position; a controller in electronic communication with the pressure sensor for determining whether the kickstand is in contact with the ground surface based on measurements from the pressure sensing component; a communications module in electronic communication with the controller for wirelessly communicating with a user device. The controller generates an alarm when the kickstand is in the deployed position and determines that the force of the kickstand on the ground has changed by a threshold amount.
US11648999B1
An apparatus for measuring distance when moving a vehicle, for instance, for measuring how far to move a tractor of a tractor-trailer rig when sliding (e.g., tandem) axles of the trailer, for example, to equalize weight between wheels or axles of the rig. A scale is mounted on the vehicle with (e.g., evenly-spaced) indicia arranged in a line parallel to a forward or reverse direction of the vehicle. The scale is positioned on the vehicle where the driver, while driving the vehicle, can see the scale and can sight past the scale to a stationary visual reference located outside the vehicle (e.g., on the driving surface) to see how far the vehicle has moved. The scale may be on an elongated member which may be attached to the vehicle, for example, to a step below the driver.
US11648996B2
A portable trailer stabilizer, comprising: (i) a support surface engagement element configured to selectively engage a support surface; (ii) a trailer engagement element configured to selectively engage a forward end portion of a trailer; (iii) a hydraulic cylinder operatively connected between the support surface engagement element and the trailer engagement element, the hydraulic cylinder configured to extend the trailer engagement element relative to the support surface engagement element; (iv) an on-board, self-contained energy source comprising a hydraulic accumulator operatively coupled to the hydraulic cylinder; (v) an isolation valve fluidically interposing the hydraulic cylinder and the hydraulic accumulator; (vi) a positioning element engagement element configured to selectively couple with a trailer stabilizer positioning element of a tractor; and (vii) a valve operator mechanism configured to (a) open the isolation valve when the when the positioning element engagement element is coupled to the trailer stabilizer positioning element of the tractor, and (b) shut the isolation valve when the positioning element engagement element is uncoupled from the trailer stabilizer positioning element of the tractor, where the hydraulic cylinder, the hydraulic accumulator, and the isolation valve are operatively connected in a closed hydraulic system containing a hydraulic fluid.
US11648992B2
A vehicle tailgate configured to secure cargo and methods of using the same. The vehicle tailgate tray have a base portion. The base portion may have a top surface and be attachable to the vehicle. The vehicle tailgate may further have a top portion. The top portion may have a bottom surface and be attachable to the base portion. The top surface and the bottom surface may face each other and be configured to receive and fix the cargo when the top portion and the base portion are attached together. The bottom surface may be configured to adapt to a shape of the cargo.
US11648991B2
A quick-detach storage system with configurable compartments for a vehicle bed is provided. An example lightweight system has a rail member that can be quickly attached to and removed from the bed of a pickup truck by a single user standing near the pickup. A sliding member extends from the rail past the end of the tailgate of the pickup or other vehicle, allowing the user to attach and detach baskets and containers to the sliding member. The baskets and containers can then be retracted back into the pickup bed along the rail. Various containers of the system are outfitted to hold liquids, grocery items, tools, bicycles, and other objects for easy loading into the bed of the pickup, where the items remain secure. In an embodiment, multiple instances of the quick-detach storage system may be joined with each other.
US11648984B2
A structure of a vehicle disclosed herein may include: a windshield; an instrument panel located below the windshield; in-vehicle equipment disposed such that the in-vehicle equipment projects upward above an upper surface of the instrument panel and is fixed to the instrument panel; and an impact relieving mechanism configured to, when a rearward and downward collision load is applied to the in-vehicle equipment, relieve the collision load by moving the in-vehicle equipment rearward and downward.
US11648981B2
A method for estimating torsion bar torque includes receiving, from a first sensor, a handwheel position value indicating a position of a handwheel of a steering system and receiving, from a second sensor, a motor position value indicating a position of a motor of the steering system. The method also includes estimating a torsion bar torque value using the handwheel position value and the motor position value.
US11648979B2
A steering system installed on a vehicle, including: a steering mechanism including a steering member and configured to enable a wheel to be steered in accordance with a movement of the steering member; an operation assist device configured to apply a torque to a steering shaft for assisting an operation of a steering operation member; a steering assist device configured to assist the movement of the steering member utilizing a working fluid; and a controller configured to control a torque applied to the steering shaft by the operation assist device and control a supply flow rate of the working fluid, wherein the steering assist device assists the movement of the steering member with an assist force that depends on the supply flow rate, and the controller increases the supply flow rate when an operation speed of the steering operation member becomes equal to or higher than a set threshold speed.
US11648978B2
A torque transmission joint to suppress occurrence of noise when reversing the direction of rotation of a drive shaft. A first transmission member fixed to an output shaft (the drive shaft) is engaged with a first elastic member such that a first gap in a circumferential direction is interposed, as well as with an intermediate transmission member such that a larger gap in the circumferential direction is interposed. A second transmission member fixed to an end portion of a worm is engaged with a second elastic member such that a second gap in the circumferential direction is interposed, as well as with the intermediate transmission member such that a larger gap in the circumferential direction is interposed. First and second annular convex portions are fitted to, respectively, first and second concave portions to prevent separation of the first and second elastic members with respect to the intermediate transmission member.
US11648972B2
A motorized scooter cart system is a system that enables a user to comfortably move around while transporting objects or people. The system may include a scooter deck, at least one scooter wheel, a linkage arm, at least one seat assembly, a handlebar assembly, and a pushcart. The scooter deck is designed to support the weight of the user so that the user can freely maneuver the pushcart. The at least one scooter wheel provides the translational force necessary to move the present invention. The linkage arm enables the coupling of the scooter deck to the pushcart. The linkage arm also facilitates the maneuvering of the pushcart. The at least one seat assembly enables the user to comfortably seat while maneuvering the pushcart. The pushcart enables the transportation of objects or people mounted onto the pushcart. Finally, the handlebar assembly enables the control of the pushcart by the user.
US11648970B2
A convertible, all-terrain gear cart convertible between modes of manual propulsion, trailering, and support by a motor vehicle. A control arm with a trailer hitch connector permits trailering or manual propulsion and is pivotally coupled to a first end of a cargo bin, and a vehicle engaging member to permit support and transport by a motor vehicle projects from the second end of the cargo bin. Detachable, all-terrain wheels with lateral axes of rotation are retained at a mid-portion of the cargo bin. Cargo retention and roll bars are removably coupled to the cargo bin, and a retractable support leg can cooperate with the wheels to stabilize the gear cart. The vehicle engaging member can comprise a receiver with a mitered end forming a shelf that can be rested on a rigid tongue of a trailer hitch adapter to permit levering of the gear cart relative to a vehicle.
US11648969B2
A vehicle communication system includes a wireless communication device and a controller that controls operation of the wireless communication device. The controller directs the wireless communication device to switch between operating in an off-board communication mode and operating in an onboard communication mode. The wireless communication device communicates a remote data signal with an off-board location while the wireless communication device is operating in the off-board communication mode and the wireless communication device communicates a local data signal between vehicles of the vehicle system while the wireless communication device is operating in the onboard communication mode.
US11648965B2
A method of determining a trajectory for an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. An ego-vehicle may detect a moving actor in an environment. To choose between candidate trajectories for the ego-vehicle, the system will consider the cost of each candidate trajectory to the moving actor. The system will use the candidate trajectory costs for the candidate trajectories to select one of the candidate trajectories via which to move the ego-vehicle. An autonomous vehicle system of the ego-vehicle may then move the ego-vehicle in the environment along the selected trajectory.
US11648959B2
This document describes methods by which an autonomous vehicle deploys a simulation scenario while operating in a real-world environment. The vehicle's sensors collect perception data. During a run of the vehicle in a real-world environment, the vehicle's on-board computing system will: (i) receive the perception data; (ii) publish the perception data to a muxing tool of the on-board computing system; (iii) generate simulation data that identifies and labels one or more simulated objects in the environment; (iv) publish the simulation data to the muxing tool; (v) use the muxing tool to add at least a portion of the simulation data to the perception data to yield augmented perception data; and (v) use at least a portion of the augmented perception data to make one or more navigation decisions based for the autonomous vehicle.
US11648951B2
Among other things, we describe techniques for operation of a vehicle based on measured load characteristics and/or passenger comfort. One or more sensors of the vehicle can measure passenger data and/or load data of the vehicle. The passenger data and/or load data of the vehicle can be used by the vehicle to determine how to navigate within the surrounding environment.
US11648950B2
A method for measuring a slope angle of a vehicle includes, by a controller: determining whether or not a speed of the vehicle is 0 based on a speed signal received from a vehicle speed sensor of the vehicle; measuring an extremal value measured first, an extremal value measured second, and an extremal value measured third among extremal values of an output signal of an acceleration sensor detecting a signal corresponding to the slope angle of the vehicle when the speed of the vehicle is 0; verifying whether or not the measured three extremal values satisfy conditions of the extremal values based on reference conditions of each of the extremal values; estimating a steady state value of the output signal of the acceleration sensor, based on the extremal values measured first and second among the verified three extremal values and a dynamic characteristic parameter of the vehicle or based on the verified three extremal values; and converting the steady state value into the slope angle of the vehicle. The output signal of the acceleration sensor has a damped free vibration waveform.
US11648940B2
A vehicle driving control system has an automatic driving mode for automatic driving. The system includes a driver monitor, a driver abnormal state detector, a risk state detector, and an alarm controller. The driver monitor monitors, as a driver, an occupant in a vehicle compartment that can take over driving from the system during the automatic driving mode. The driver abnormal state detector detects an abnormal state of the driver based on a monitoring result by the driver monitor. The risk state detector detects, as a risk state, at least one of a control state or a traveling environment of the vehicle in the automatic driving mode. The alarm controller controls an alarm to be output to the driver during traveling in the automatic driving mode based on at least the risk state out of the abnormal state of the driver and the risk state of the automatic driving mode.
US11648937B2
A driver assistance device is configured to determine whether a type of a deceleration target is included in a category of a position-fixed object or a moving object, and determine whether the deceleration target is lost, and to continue the deceleration assistance on assumption that the lost deceleration target exists when the deceleration target is determined to be lost. The driver assistance device is configured to notify a driver of a host vehicle that the deceleration target is lost when the deceleration target is determined to be lost and the type of the deceleration target is included in the category of the moving object, and not to notify the driver that the deceleration target is lost when the deceleration target is determined to be lost and the type of the deceleration target is included in the category of the position-fixed object.
US11648930B2
A traveling mode setting unit configured to cause a shift to shift to a second traveling mode via a third traveling mode based on a traveling state of the vehicle traveling in the first traveling mode. The internal combustion engine control unit includes a derivation unit configured to derive a second rotational speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of transition from the third traveling mode to the second traveling mode based on a first rotational speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of transition from the first traveling mode to the third traveling mode, the traveling state of the vehicle and the second reduction ratio, and the internal combustion engine control unit is configured to control a third rotational speed of the internal combustion engine in the third traveling mode to be a value between the first rotational speed and the second rotational speed.
US11648926B2
The present disclosure relates to a solenoid valve. The solenoid valve includes an armature provided inside the sleeve, a plunger configured to ascend and descend by the operation of the armature, an elastic member configured to press the plunger toward the armature, a magnet core having a through hole in which the plunger and the elastic member are provided and forming an inner space in a longitudinal direction, a valve seat provided in the inner space and on which an orifice penetrating in an axial direction is formed to be opened and closed by the plunger, and a plurality of flow resistance members each including a ring body interposed between the valve seat and the magnet core to generate a flow resistance of a braking fluid, and a slot formed at one side of the ring body to penetrate through the ring body so that the braking fluid passes therethrough.
US11648922B2
A brake assembly for a manually-operated, height-adjustable wheeled vehicle according to a first aspect includes a brake cable assembly. The brake assembly includes a brake cable housing shaped to enclose an excess portion of the brake cable assembly. The brake assembly includes a cable adjuster coupled to the brake cable assembly. The cable adjuster is enclosed by the brake cable housing. There is additionally provided a wheel fork assembly for a manually-operated, height-adjustable wheeled vehicle according to a first aspect. The vehicle includes a frame member. The wheel fork assembly includes a mount shaped to couple with a lower end of the frame member of the vehicle. The mount has a longitudinal axis. The wheel fork assembly includes a wheel fork having a longitudinal axis offset from the longitudinal axis of the mount. The wheel fork is integrally coupled to and formed with the mount.
US11648921B2
An advance driver brake customizing method applied to a brake customizing system is provided to identically implement a braking feeling set according to a driver's vehicle regardless of a vehicle type by transplanting driver braking feeling information of a driver's vehicle into a braking feeling matching vehicle. A braking characteristic of a brake of a brake system, which is applied to the braking feeling matching vehicle, is directed to follow the braking characteristic of a brake of the brake system, which is applied to the braking feeling matching vehicle, through driver matching control in conjunction with a wireless network. In particular, even when the same driver changes a vehicle or a driver for the same vehicle is changed, the same braking feeling is maintained.
US11648908B2
A roof air bag apparatus for a vehicle includes a roof air bag cushion protecting a passenger, and the roof air bag cushion can be separated into a front air bag cushion and a rear air bag cushion. In particular, the front air bag cushion and the rear air bag cushion are unfolded into a space between a front passenger and a rear passenger in a face-to-face mode at the time of occurrence of a car accident, such that the unfolded front air bag cushion protects the front passenger by absorbing an impact force, and the unfolded rear air bag cushion protects the rear passenger by absorbing an impact force.
US11648892B2
A noise reflector configured to reduce engine sound passing below a side member of a vehicle and leaking laterally from the vehicle. The noise reflector is disposed on a lower side of a lower surface of the side member, has a sound reflective surface tilted from a vertical direction to be directed downward as being gradually laterally distant from an engine, and is configured to reflect downward engine sound received by the sound reflective surface and cause the engine sound thus reflected to interfere with engine sound passing below the side member.
US11648888B2
A surround view monitoring system and a method for providing the same, including a plurality of registration cameras, each mounted on a vehicle and photographing different areas around the vehicle; a depth camera that acquires distance information with respect to an obstacle existing around the vehicle; an image synthesis unit that generates a synthesis image by synthesizing images photographed by the plurality of registration cameras, and displays the distance information with respect to the obstacle acquired by the depth camera on an obstacle existing in the synthesis image; and an image control unit that displays the synthesized synthesis image on a display device are disclosed.
US11648879B2
A movement device for a luggage compartment flap having a mounting arm for the mounting of a luggage compartment flap. The movement device furthermore includes an actuator which is coupled to the second section the mounting arm and which is configured to, when activated, move the mounting arm such that the luggage compartment flap is moved at least part of the way from an open position to a closed position. As a result of this movement of the luggage compartment flap, the latter can be more easily reached and, for example, moved manually into its closed position. Also provided are a luggage compartment having a movement device, a vehicle region having a multiplicity of luggage compartments, and a vehicle having at least one movement device.
US11648872B2
A display device provided in a vehicle that travels autonomously includes: a display unit configured to display information to an outside of the vehicle; a determination unit configured to determine whether a travel state of the vehicle is any one of a deceleration state, a stop state, and a start state, based on a detection result of an internal sensor of the vehicle; and a display control unit configured to display on the display unit the information corresponding to each of the deceleration state, the stop state, and the start state, based on a determination result of the determination unit. In response to the determination unit having determined that the vehicle is in the deceleration state, the display control unit is configured to display on the display unit the information including a display moving from an upper side to a lower side along a vertical direction of the vehicle.
US11648862B2
A child safety seat is provided and includes a base, a seat body and a notifying system. The seat body is movable relative to the base between a first position and a second position. The notifying system includes at least one actuated device disposed on one of the base and the seat body, an actuating component disposed on another one of the base and the seat body, and a notifying device electrically connected to the at least one actuated device. When the seat body reaches at least one of the first position and the second position, the actuating component actuates the at least one actuated device, so that the at least one actuated device is actuated to generate different types of actuating signals. The notifying device generates different types of notifying signals when the at least one actuated device generates the different types of actuating signals.
US11648861B2
A headrest for a vehicle with improved collision performance includes: a headrest stay provided integrally with a seat back and exposed at an upper end of the seat back; a blower connected to the headrest stay; and a rotation direction change member installed between the headrest stay and the blower, connecting the headrest stay and the blower, and configured to allow a rotation direction of the headrest stay and a rotation direction of the blower to be opposite to each other in an event of a rear collision.
US11648858B2
A back panel of a motor vehicle seat includes, on its visible external back side, a thermal layer.
US11648852B2
A vehicle includes a high-voltage system circuit including a high-voltage battery; a low-voltage system circuit including a low-voltage battery and an updater; a DC-DC converter coupled between the two circuits; and a controller that controls the two circuits and the DC-DC converter. The updater updates a program of an update-target device. The DC-DC converter reduces in voltage output electric power of the high-voltage battery and then supplies the electric power to the low-voltage system circuit. The controller determines whether the update-target device is a certain device relating to electric power supply from the high-voltage battery. If the update-target device is the certain device, the low-voltage battery is charged with the output electric power of the high-voltage battery, the certain device stops operating, and the updater updates the program of the certain device by using the output electric power of the low-voltage battery.
US11648830B2
A soft top assembly which includes lift assist and improved fabric management. The assembly includes front side rails pivotally connected to rear side rails. A plurality of fabric control bows with control linkages provide fabric control to the top material during pivoting of the front side rails. A first and second gas strut are attached to the rear side rails to assist lifting and controlled motion as the top is moved between a closed position and open sunroof position, as one strut is fully loaded and compressed while the other strut is fully loaded and open, for lift assist and dampening.
US11648829B2
An assembly for moving a vehicle roof cover may have a mechanical component coupled to the cover; a carriage guided in a guide rail; and a deployment element which is extended in an elongate manner along a longitudinal axis. The mechanical component may be coupled to the deployment element at a first end of said deployment element, to transmit a movement of the carriage along a longitudinal direction in sections to the mechanical component. A locking pin may be arranged at a second end of the deployment element; the locking pin can be rotated about the longitudinal axis of the deployment element, movable between a first state and a second state, wherein the deployment element is locked in the first state preventing movement along the longitudinal direction relative to the carriage, and is locked in the second state preventing movement along the longitudinal direction relative to the guide rail.
US11648822B2
A heat management device may include: a first heat circuit in which first heat medium circulates; a second heat circuit in which second heat medium circulates; a first radiator disposed in the first heat circuit; a second radiator disposed in the second heat circuit; and vehicle equipment exchanging heat with the first heat medium. The first and the second radiator may be disposed such that the first heat medium and the second heat medium are able to exchange heat with each other, the first heat medium may be heated by heat exchange between the first and the second heat medium in a case where a temperature of the second heat medium flowing into the second radiator is higher than a temperature of the first heat medium flowing into the first radiator, and the first heat medium heats the vehicle equipment by exchanging heat with the vehicle equipment.
US11648819B2
An indoor heating line is arranged to pass through a heater core for a coolant heater and indoor air conditioning, and is provided with a first pump so that coolant can flow. A battery heating line is branched from a downstream point of the heater core and connected to an upstream point of the coolant heater after passing through a battery heat exchange part for temperature-raising a high voltage battery, where the battery heating line includes a first heat exchange flow passage that connects a downstream point of the heater core to a first side of the battery heat exchange part, and a second heat exchange flow passage that connects a second side thereof and an upstream point of the coolant heater, where the first heat exchange flow passage and the second heat exchange flow passage are configured to mutually exchange heat.
US11648816B2
A vehicle air-conditioner temperature controlling method, a vehicle air-conditioner temperature controlling system and a storage medium. The vehicle air-conditioner temperature controlling method includes: controlling an air-conditioner to perform heating and cooling according to a current contraction-dilation state of a vein vessel of a user.
US11648814B2
A sway-bar actuator for a vehicle includes a motor that rotationally operates a lead rod to axially operates a push rod. Operation of the push rod axially operates an attachment fork between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The engaged position is characterized by a unified operation of opposing stabilizing bars. The disengaged position is characterized by independent rotational operation of the opposing stabilizing bars. A sensor rod is coupled to and operates axially with the attachment fork. A sensor assembly has a rotator and a sensor magnet. Axial operation of the sensor rod produces a rotational operation of the sensor magnet. The sway-bar actuator includes an encoder, where a rotational position of the sensor magnet relative to the encoder corresponds to an axial position of the attachment fork and the push rod relative to the engaged and disengaged positions.
US11648807B2
A motor vehicle tire is disclosed with a pair of post-cure run-flat inserts, each of the pair of post-cure run-flat inserts is disposed within a tire cavity between a shoulder region and a respective upper sidewall region of the tire. The tire further includes a cylindrical sidewall defining an interior cylindrical cavity, each of the cylindrical sidewall and the interior cylindrical cavity extending 360 degrees about a rotational axis of the tire, the cylindrical sidewall having an exterior surface contacting a radially inner surface of an inner liner between the shoulder region and the respective upper sidewall region during a normal inflation condition of the tire.
US11648798B2
A wheel center cap ASSY (assembly) for a work vehicle includes a center cap attached to a hub of a wheel coupled to an axle and having a center axis, an adaptor including a cap attachment portion to which the center cap is attached and a plurality of flange portions disposed on the outer side of and along a circumferential direction of the center cap, and a coupling member for coupling the flange portions to the hub.
US11648795B2
A double sided clipboard includes a rigid board, a front fastening mechanism, a rear fastening mechanism, a left opening, a right opening, a left supporting arm, and a right supporting arm. The front fastening mechanism and the rear fastening mechanism are oppositely positioned of each other about a top edge of the rigid board to secure two sets of documents within the rigid board. The front fastening mechanism is connected to a front surface of the rigid board. The rear fastening mechanism is connected to a rear surface of the rigid board. The left opening and the right opening traverses through the rigid board and oppositely positioned of each other about the front fastening mechanism. The left supporting arm is perpendicular attached to the rigid board through the left opening. The right supporting arm is perpendicular attached to the rigid board through the right opening.
US11648793B2
A method for producing a decorative element and uses of a decorative element. A polarizing layer functioning as an analyzer is applied to a transparent optical carrier material and a transparent optical functional layer is applied as an image-forming layer including an optically anisotropic material. By spatially structuring the functional layer, a targeted location-dependent dependency of material properties of the optically anisotropic material is created for producing the image-forming layer. One or several decorative elements produced can each be introduced into a light field of a lighting device in a desired shape, size and quantity and having settable image motifs (image structures) and being disposed at different spatial distances and being freely disposable. The decorative element produced is intended to be used as an architectural element for creating light-optical effects in the exterior area of buildings, as a design element for interior design or for object design.
US11648790B2
An ink jet recording method performs recording on a recording medium using a white ink composition, a non-white ink composition, and a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent, the method including: a treatment liquid adhesion step of adhering the treatment liquid to the recording medium to form a treatment liquid layer; a non-white ink adhesion step of adhering the non-white ink composition to the recording medium by ejection thereof from an ink jet head to form a non-white ink layer; and a white ink adhesion step of adhering the white ink composition to the recording medium by ejection thereof from an ink jet head to form a white ink layer. The recording medium has a region in which the non-white ink layer, the white ink layer, and the treatment liquid layer are overlapped with each other, at least one of the ink compositions contains resin particles and a water-soluble resin, and the water-soluble resin has a glass transition temperature higher than that of a resin of the resin particles.
US11648777B2
An object is to provide a liquid ejection apparatus and a method of controlling a liquid ejection apparatus capable of preventing bubbles generated by kogation removal from interfering with the kogation removal. To this end, in a long liquid ejection head with a liquid circulated therethough, a pressure chamber is pressurized and a voltage is applied to a heat applying portion and an electrode to perform kogation removing cleaning.
US11648763B2
A method of applying an adhesive film to a component includes applying an adhesive film to a surface of a component, wherein the adhesive film is positioned between the surface and an elastic membrane, the elastic membrane is transferred into a curved state with a convex and a concave side and contacted with the surface with the convex side first such that an adhesive layer of the adhesive film is pressed onto the surface in a full-area by the elastic membrane, the adhesive layer is pressed onto the surface in a full-area by a negative pressure being applied to that side of the elastic membrane facing towards the adhesive film, and to stabilize the component against deformation brought about by this negative pressure, the elastic membrane along with the adhesive film is pushed against the surface of the component with a plunger means.
US11648758B2
A formed article according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cylindrical base layer containing a polyimide as a main component, a sliding layer disposed on an inner circumferential surface side of the base layer and containing a polyether ether ketone as a main component, and an outermost layer disposed on an outer circumferential surface side of the base layer and containing a fluororesin as a main component.
US11648756B2
The plastic intermediate film includes a sound insulating layer, wherein the sound insulating layer comprises a polyvinyl acetal resin, a plasticizer, and a refractive index regulator, wherein the refractive index regulator is particles with average diameter (D50) of 100 nm or less and has an absolute refractive index of 2.0 or more, wherein the refractive index regulator is comprised in an amount of more than 0 wt % and 1 wt % or less based on the entire sound insulating layer, and wherein the plasticizer is comprised in an amount of 33 to 41 wt % based on the entire sound insulating layer.
US11648734B2
Provided is an additive manufacturing process that uses an upward-pointing illumination source, such as a laser, projected through a substrate so as to solidify particulate matter supported by the substrate. The process is then repeated to build a hanging part layer by layer, for example by replenishing particulate matter on the substrate, or by moving the part a second substrate that supports other particulate matter. The disclosed process eliminates the need for a large powder bed and also allows for sintering of different powders in a single layer so as to give rise to parts that include layers that are themselves made from multiple materials. Also provided are related methods, include methods of incorporated cured resins into parts made by fusing particulate matter.
US11648731B2
In an example of a method for forming three-dimensional (3D) printed electronics, a build material is applied. A fusing agent is selectively applied on at least a portion of the build material. The build material is exposed to radiation and the portion of the build material in contact with the fusing agent fuses to form a layer. An electronic agent is selectively applied on at least a portion of the layer, which imparts an electronic property to the at least the portion of the layer.
US11648730B2
System and method for calibrating an acoustic monitoring system of an additive manufacturing machine
A calibration system for an acoustic monitoring system of an additive manufacturing machine includes a calibration platform removably mountable to a build platform of the additive manufacturing machine and one or more calibrated acoustic sources mounted to the calibration platform. The one or more calibrated acoustic sources define a measurement standard when operating.
US11648721B2
The disclosure discloses a co-rotating dual speed multi-screw extruder and a processing method thereof, the co-rotating dual speed multi-screw extruder enables a first screw and a second screw with the same outer diameter to co-rotate at different speed in a barrel, and the two screws wipe with each other, to achieve self-cleaning in processing; and circular arcs meshed with each other are respectively arranged between root diameters and top diameters of the two screws to form a first step structure and a second step structure, thus breaking an axial symmetry of a cross-sectional contour of the screws, and moreover, the first step structure and the second step structure are periodically meshed in a meshing zone in a staggered manner, so that a flow channel in the meshing zone is changed in a topological way, a strong elongation action and a strong disturbance action are effectively introduced in the meshing zone.
US11648719B2
A plasticization device includes: a cylinder having a supply port through which a material is supplied; a spiral screw configured to rotate inside the cylinder; a nozzle configured to discharge the material plasticized inside the cylinder; a heating unit provided between the supply port in the cylinder and the nozzle; a screw drive unit including a motor configured to rotate the screw; and a case configured to accommodate at least a part of the screw drive unit and having a first refrigerant flow path.
US11648716B2
Disclosed is a surface cleaning robot and a process for manufacturing a track thereof. The surface cleaning robot includes a body, where a walking unit is provided at the bottom of the body, the walking unit includes a track and a gear driving the track, the track includes a hard layer in the inner ring engaging with the gear and a soft layer in the outer ring contacting a cleaning surface, and the hard layer and the soft layer are nested and combined as a whole. The present disclosure adopts a composite track that closely nests and combines inner and outer rings of different materials.
US11648711B2
A multilayer core molding method for molding a multilayer core of a golf ball includes an upstream process; and a downstream process, wherein the intermediate molded body includes: an inner core; and an unvulcanized or semi-vulcanized first outer core material, and the downstream process molding apparatus includes: a first downstream process mold including a substantially hemispherical first downstream process mold cavity surface; a second downstream process mold including a substantially hemispherical second downstream process mold cavity surface; and an intermediate plate including a substantially hemispherical intermediate plate cavity surface, and a substantially hemispherical intermediate plate projecting surface, and wherein the downstream process includes: a second outer core arrangement step; an intermediate molded body arrangement; and a preparatory molding step.
US11648702B2
An improved detachable cutting assembly used in a food cutting machine includes a rotating disc with a window and a pivot hole. A flap is connected radially to the rotation axis of the cutting machine by its insert ring. The insert ring includes a fixing area in which at least one nut is embedded and on which there is at least one fastening hole coinciding with the at least one nut, and a lifting wedge on which a blade is partially embedded, leaving the cutting edge of the blade protruding on the upper face of the rotating disc through the window of the rotating disc. Existing in the fixing area of the rotating disc, there is at least one fastening hole coinciding with the at least one fastening hole and the at least one nut of the flap and capable of fixing the whole assembly by linking elements.
US11648698B2
A shaving razor cartridge having a housing with a primary guard and a secondary cap. A bridge member is integrally molded as part of the housing. A plurality of spaced apart parallel ribs of the bridge member extend transverse to the cutting edge of the first blade. The plurality of spaced part ribs define a primary cap surface and a secondary guard surface. A first blade mounted to the housing between the primary guard and the primary cap surface. A second blade having a cutting edge extends in a same direction as the cutting edge of the first blade and is mounted to the housing between the secondary guard surface and the secondary cap. The plurality of spaced apart parallel ribs define a plurality of rinse openings extending thru the bridge member.
US11648687B2
Example implementations relate to punch-in transitions to smoothly transition operation of parts of a robotic system from control tracks to real-time input, such as to smoothly transition a control track rotating a knob at a handheld controller to real-time input received at the handheld controller. Similarly, example implementations relate to punch-out transitions to smoothly transition operation of parts of a robotic system from real-time input to control tracks, such as to smoothly transition from the real-time input received at a handheld controller to a control track rotating a knob at a handheld controller. In particular, an example system may include a handheld haptic controller, a control system, and a robotic component.
US11648680B2
A protection system and method for cargos in a compartment and a robotic equipment thereof, applied in the field of robotics, are disclosed. The system includes an inflatable mechanism and an airbag. The airbag is used for filling the space between the cargos and/or between the cargos and an inner wall of the compartment. The airbag includes an inlet. The inflatable mechanism is defined on a robot for inflating or deflating the airbag via the inlet. The protection system and method for cargos in a compartment and a robotic equipment thereof can improve the stability of the stacked cargos during the process of the loading and unloading of the cargos, and the stability of the cargos during transportation.
US11648666B2
A method is provided for vibration suppression, which is useful in systems with configuration dependent dynamic parameters. The method is a general and practical solution for obtaining a set of inputs to a dynamic system, which will result in reduced vibrational behavior. A novel discrete time buffer implementation is employed, which yields reduced vibration due to a constant unity sum of applied impulses. The method includes shaping a position input with a continuously updated filter and using numerical differentiation to obtain consistent feedforward derivatives without phase shift.
US11648662B2
A speed reducer and a robot are disclosed. The speed reducer includes a rigid wheel, a flexible wheel and a flexible bearing; the rigid wheel is provided with a first fitting position and an inner wheel tooth set; the outer peripheral surface of a peripheral wall of the flexible wheel is provided with an outer wheel tooth set; in the axial direction of the rigid wheel, the tooth top of the outer wheel tooth set is provided with a first length, and the tooth root of the outer wheel tooth set is provided with a second length; the tooth top of the inner wheel tooth set is provided with a third length; the flexible bearing is provided with a fourth length; the second length and the third length are both greater than the first length, and the fourth length is greater than the second length.
US11648656B2
An electric handheld working machine includes: a housing including: a motor as a drive source of a working unit; an operating handle; and attaching members provided on an outer surface of the housing and configured to attach a battery to supply electric power to the motor. The attaching members includes: a connecting terminal connected to the battery; a step provided above the connecting terminal and configured to function as a drainage path to drain drops of water to sides; and openings formed in the sides of the attaching members to communicate with the drainage path. The openings communicate with a cooling air flow path configured to allow cooing air to flow through a gap between a back surface of the battery attached to the attaching members and the outer surface between the attaching member.
US11648655B2
Kickback control methods for power tools. One power tool includes a movement sensor configured to measure an angular velocity of the housing of the power tool, and an orientation sensor configured to measure an orientation of the housing. The power tool includes an electronic processor coupled to a switching network and a trigger. To implement the kickback control, the electronic processor is configured to receive measurements of the angular velocity of the housing, receive measurements of the orientation of the housing, determine a binding condition of the power tool based on the measurements of the angular velocity and the measurements of orientation, and control the switching network to cease driving of the brushless DC motor.
US11648650B1
A torque structure includes a first body, a second body, an elastic member, and a locking set. The first body has a receiving chamber. The second body is provided with a drive portion, a plurality of first securing portions, and a first end face. The locking set includes a locking member, a plurality of securing members, a plurality of balls, and a washer. The locking member is provided with a pivot portion, a plurality of second securing portions, and a second end face. The securing members are mounted in the first securing portions and the second securing portions. The washer is mounted on the locking member elastically biased between the first end face and the second end face to space the second body from the locking member. The washer eliminates a gap between the locking member and the second body.
US11648648B2
A wrench for opening and closing a clamp having a lever includes a handle section, a leverage section, and a locking assembly. The leverage section is coupled to the handle section. The leverage section includes an engagement surface to engage the clamp and an opening formed therein, the opening being configured to receive the lever of the clamp therein. The locking assembly is coupled to the leverage section. The locking assembly is configured to releasably secure the leverage section to the lever of the clamp when the lever is received within the opening of the leverage section.
US11648642B2
A method for smoothing surface roughness within an internal passageway is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method comprises developing a first sphere progression through a length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the first sphere progression having a first sphere diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the internal passageway; and developing a second sphere progression through the length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the second sphere progression having a second sphere diameter greater than the first sphere diameter, whereby the inner surface of the internal passageway is smoothed, first by the first sphere progression and then by the second sphere progression.
US11648637B2
A wheel weight-reducing pit cleaning device is provided. The wheel weight-reducing pit cleaning device comprises a lower lifting driving system, a side brush system, a ring brush unit, a ring brush system, a clamping driving system, a pressing system. The weight-reducing pit cleaning device is used for cleaning and removing the edge burrs of the drainage groove and the weight reduction groove at the wheel weight reduction pit.
US11648633B2
A multi-purpose precision machine tool is provided, which has main structures including a machine tool body, and a first workpiece fixing mechanism, a second workpiece fixing mechanism, and a tool mechanism provided on the machine tool body. The first workpiece fixing mechanism and the second workpiece fixing mechanism respectively include an internally expanding clamp and a soft-jaw chuck for clamping a workpiece, so as to not only drive the workpiece to rotate, and but also drive the workpiece to perform horizontal and vertical linear displacement. Therefore, the internally expanding clamp can first clamp the workpiece to machine one end of the workpiece, and then the soft-jaw chuck clamps the other end of the workpiece to machine the other end of the workpiece.
US11648632B1
A process for treating a centrifugal compressor wheel includes a combination of cold expansion of at least part of the bore of the wheel to induce residual compressive stresses in a region around the bore, and surface peening at least parts of the compressor wheel such as the back disk and portions of the blades.
US11648607B2
A continuously casting method including arranging temperature measuring elements according to specified conditions, selecting as evaluation targets for temperatures of copper plates on a wide face of mold values measured by the temperature measuring elements arranged closer to a center in a width direction of a cast slab than short sides of the cast slab under continuous casting at levels of 50 mm or more lower in a slab withdrawal direction than a meniscus of a molten steel in a mold, and adjusting a casting condition such that a standard deviation of the values measured over the width direction of the copper plates on the wide face of mold at a same level in the slab withdrawal direction is 20° C. or lower.
US11648603B2
Apparatus for handling bars (31), in particular metal bars, including a loading unit (22) provided with transporter elements (25) to transfer a series of bars (31) toward a selector unit (34); the selector unit (34) includes a gripping device (35) configured to remove one or more bars (31) from the transporter elements (25) of the loading unit (22) and to release them toward a subsequent collection station (43) and also includes sensors (41) configured to automatically detect at least the number of bars (31) removed and released by the gripping device (35) toward the collection station (43).
US11648587B2
An object-sorting apparatus includes a housing that extends from a top end to a bottom end, at least one vibration element, and a plurality of stages arranged in a vertical sequence in the housing between the top end and the bottom end. At least one of the stages includes a sorting base that at least partially defines a floor of the at least one stage. The sorting base is coupled to the at least one vibration element, and is configured to receive thereon a mixture of objects having different sizes, including a target size associated with the at least one stage. The stage also includes apertures defined in and extending through the sorting base and into flow communication with a next lower stage. The apertures are sized to receive therethrough, from the mixture, objects having a size smaller than the target size associated with the at least one stage.
US11648586B2
A vibration device includes a piezoelectric element and a vibration member. The vibration device is arranged to be supported on a base. The vibration member includes a first main surface opposing the base and a second main surface opposing the first main surface. The piezoelectric element is disposed on the second main surface. The first main surface of the vibration member is provided with a protrusion contacting the base and defining a vibration space on the first main surface. The protrusion is positioned outside the piezoelectric element to surround the piezoelectric element when the vibration member is seen through from a direction orthogonal to the first main surface.
US11648572B2
The present invention is a shower head for which a plurality of spout modes can be switched. The shower head includes: a storage chamber configured to store water supplied from a water supply source; a secondary-side flow-path member provided on a spout-surface side with respect to the storage chamber, the secondary-side flow-path member having a plurality of flow paths, each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of spout modes; and a plurality of diaphragm valves, each of which is configured to control a communicated/blocked state between each of the plurality of flow paths and the storage chamber.
US11648564B2
Apparatus and method for removing liquid from exterior surfaces of sample wells in a well plate. Wells that have water or other liquid on an exterior surface, e.g., after acoustic energy treatment in a water bath, may have the liquid removed by contacting the exterior surfaces of the sample wells with an absorbent material. A pad made of absorbent material may have a plurality of openings arranged to receive an array of sample wells inserted into the openings so that liquid can be removed from each of the sample wells.
US11648563B2
This disclosure describes a reaction vessel assembly that includes the following: a reaction vessel including a housing component; a reaction chamber defined by the housing component; and a light absorbing layer conforming to a portion of an interior-facing surface of the housing component that defines the reaction chamber, the light absorbing layer comprising a multiple discrete regions; and an energy source configured to direct light through at least a portion of the housing component at one or more of the discrete regions of the light absorbing layer.
US11648550B2
In order for the handling of a pipette to be improved, the pipettes (1) according to the invention and a method according to the invention for setting a volume of a pipette to be pipetted are proposed. In the case of the pipette (1) it is provided that the activation element (7) for activating the ejection mechanism (6) for ejecting a pipette tip forms a conduit (9) for the pipetting button (3). On account thereof, an activation face (10) of the activation element (7) is enlarged in such a manner that the handling of the ejection mechanism (6) of the pipette (1) is in particular simplified and is particularly comfortable. It is furthermore also proposed that the activation element (7) is coupled to the volume adjustment mechanism (11) of the pipette, and the adjustment of the volume to be pipetted by the pipette (1) is performed with the aid of a movement of the activation element (7)(FIG. 4).
US11648548B1
The present invention relates to single thread composite fibers comprising at least one binder and at least one active catalyst for the capture and degradation of chemical threats such as chemical warfare agents (CWA), biological warfare agents, and toxic industrial chemicals (TIC) and a method for producing the same. The invention fibers are applicable to the fields of protective garments, filtration materials, and decontamination materials.
US11648543B2
Provide is a functional structural body that can suppress aggregation of metal oxide nanoparticles and prevent functional loss of metal oxide nanoparticles, and thus exhibit a stable function over a long period of time. A functional structural body (1) includes: a skeletal body (10) of a porous structure composed of a zeolite-type compound; and at least one type of metal oxide nanoparticles (20) containing a perovskite-type oxide present in the skeletal body (10), the skeletal body (10) having channels (11) that connect with each other, and the metal oxide nanoparticles (20) being present at least in the channels (11) of the skeletal body (10).
US11648535B2
The present invention relates to a three-way catalyst (TWC) for treatment of exhaust gases from internal combustion engines operated with a predominantly stoichiometric air/fuel ratio, so called spark ignited engines.
US11648531B2
The method for preparing a super absorbent polymer according to the present disclosure reduces the generating amount of a fine powder while realizing the same particle size distribution in the process of pulverizing the dried polymer, thereby reducing the load of the fine powder reassembly, drying, pulverizing and classifying steps.
US11648528B2
Adsorbents including a sorbent, at least one metal additive and greater than about 5 wt. % triethylenediamine are described herein. Methods for making such adsorbents and filters comprising the adsorbents are also described.
US11648526B2
A lightweight modified filter material, a preparation method therefor and use thereof, the lightweight modified filter material being prepared from the following components in parts by mass: 75-100 parts of waste glass, 5-20 parts of a metal oxide modifier and 1-10 parts of a foamer. The lightweight modified filter material has the advantages of being lightweight, having large specific surface area, a high isoelectric point, porosity and the like, increasing the isoelectric point and service life of the filter material. The added metal oxide can be combined with SiO2 in the glass to form Si—O-Me (Me metal ions) and enter the glass network.
US11648525B2
The present invention relates to a reaction method for forming a layered structure of immiscible liquid-phase concentric layers within a rotary reactor and a reaction system including the layered structure, and may provide a basis capable of efficiently performing a multistage reaction in terms of time and space.
US11648522B2
An improved process of forming polyurea and chitosan microcapsules encapsulating a benefit agent is described. The process comprises forming a water phase comprising hydrolyzing chitosan in an acidic medium at a pH of 6.5 or less for an extended period and combining with a polyisocyanate. The reaction product of the hydrolyzed chitosan and polyisocyanate yields a microcapsule having improved release characteristics, with enhanced degradation characteristics in OECD test method 301B.
US11648521B2
Nanoporous carbon-based scaffolds or structures, and specifically carbon aerogels and their manufacture and use thereof are provided. Embodiments include a silicon-doped anode material for a lithium-ion battery, where the anode material includes beads of polyimide-derived carbon aerogel. The carbon aerogel includes silicon particles and accommodates expansion of the silicon particles during lithiation. The anode material provides optimal properties for use within the lithium-ion battery.
US11648520B2
A fluidized bed cooler for cooling a urea-containing granular material may include a cooler chamber having a product inlet opening, a product outlet opening, a perforated plate disposed in the cooler chamber, and at least one cooling medium entry opening disposed beneath the perforated plate. The product inlet opening may be disposed above the perforated plate, and a baffle plate may be disposed between the product inlet opening and the perforated plate. A distributor plate may be disposed between the baffle plate and the perforated plate. An area of the distributor plate may be 10% to 50% greater than an area of the baffle plate.
US11648517B2
An aeration apparatus for aerating water discharged from a hydraulic turbine includes: a manifold disposed within a crown of a runner of the hydraulic turbine; a plurality of radial pipes extending radially from an outer perimeter of the manifold and in fluid communication with the manifold; and one or more air injectors having a first end disposed within an aeration pipe, each of the one or more air injectors having a second end extending into a nozzle at a first end of one of the radial pipes. Rotation of the aeration apparatus resulting from rotation of the runner causes pumping of water from the manifold through the radial pipes past the one or more air injectors, and water flowing past the one or more air injectors causes air to become entrained in the water. The radial pipes discharge the water and entrained air from the aeration apparatus.
US11648516B2
An ozone water generating device includes a housing, an ozone generator for generating ozone, and an ejector having a water inlet, a water outlet, and an air inlet. The ozone generator and the ejector are installed in the housing. An exit of the ozone generator is connected to the air inlet of the ejector. The ozone water generating device can directly output ozone water, and has a compact structure and is small in size.
US11648512B2
Described herein are novel emulsion liquid membranes useful for extracting pollutants from industrial wastewater and water. The emulsion liquid membranes include, in various phases, at least one of nanoparticles, an ionic liquid, and combinations of nanoparticles and ionic liquids. Use of the present emulsion liquid membranes enhances the separation and the stability of the ELM method for pollutant extraction and recovery from wastewater and water.
US11648511B2
A method includes producing a first blended low salinity injection water for injection into at least one injection well that penetrates a first region of an oil-bearing reservoir and producing a second blended low salinity injection water for injection into at least one injection well that penetrates a second region of an oil-bearing reservoir. The reservoir rock of the first and second regions has first and second rock compositions, respectively, that present different risks of formation damage. The first and second blended low salinity injection waters comprise variable amounts of nanofiltration permeate and reverse osmosis permeate. The compositions of the first and second blended low salinity injection waters are maintained within first and second predetermined operating envelopes, respectively, that balance improving enhanced oil recovery from the first and second regions while reducing formation damage upon injecting the first and second blended low salinity injection waters into the oil-bearing reservoir.
US11648509B2
A system and method for inerting a protected space is disclosed. Process water is delivered to an anode of an electrochemical cell comprising the anode and a cathode separated by a separator comprising a proton transfer medium. A portion of the process water is electrolyzed at the anode to form protons and oxygen, and the protons are transferred across the separator to the cathode. Process water is directed through a process water fluid flow path including a gas outlet and a gas discharge valve in operative fluid communication with the gas outlet. Air is delivered to the cathode and oxygen is reduced at the cathode to generate oxygen-depleted air, and the oxygen-depleted air is directed from the cathode of the electrochemical cell along an inerting gas flow path to the protected space.
US11648506B2
A system comprises an electrodialysis apparatus, which includes first and second reservoirs, wherein a salt concentration in the first reservoir reduces below a threshold concentration and salt concentration in the second reservoir increases during an operation mode. A first electrode comprises a first solution of a first redox-active electrolyte material, and a second electrode comprises a second solution of a second redox-active electrolyte material. In a first reversible redox reaction between the first electrode and first electrolyte material at least one ion is accepted from the first reservoir, and in a second reversible redox reaction between the second electrode and second electrolyte material at least one ion is driven into the second reservoir. A first type of membrane is disposed between the first and second reservoirs, and a second type of membrane, different from the first type, is disposed between the respective electrodes and reservoirs.
US11648503B2
The disclosure relates to an activated carbon scrubber apparatus 300 and a method of its operation for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from a controlled environment. The scrubber apparatus is configured to switch between: an adsorption configuration in which it is configured to provide CO2-rich gas from the controlled environment to a sorbent bed 302 comprising activated carbon for CO2 adsorption, and to return the treated gas to the controlled environment; and a regeneration configuration in which it is configured to provide a regenerating gas from outside of the controlled environment to the sorbent bed to desorb CO2 and regenerate the activated carbon, and to discharge CO2-rich gas outside of the controlled environment. The method comprises alternately operating the scrubber apparatus in the adsorption configuration and the regeneration configuration over a plurality of cycles, wherein the scrubber apparatus is operated at a cycle frequency of between 4 and 30 cycles per hour. A heater 303 is controlled to heat the sorbent bed in the regeneration configuration.
US11648498B2
The present disclosure relates to air filters and the frame to support the air filters. More particularly, it relates to synthetic and natural fiber filters that do not have frames. The frame assembly in this present and its special frame allows for fiber media filters to be easily connected to the frame and replaced. The frame is easily modified to fit a wide range of openings.
US11648494B1
A water filter cartridge guide includes a ring with inward facing protuberances and outward facing protuberances. The guide is operative to center a water filtration cartridge within a sump.
US11648493B2
An improved clarifier tank having a rake arm assembly with one or more rake arms, a rake arm driveshaft operatively connected to the rake arms and a rake arm drive, and a sump scraper driveshaft, operatively connected to a plurality of sump scrapers and a sump scraper drive.
US11648488B2
Method for revamping a refining section of a methanol distillation plant comprising a medium pressure (MP) column a low pressure (LP) column, wherein both said columns comprise at least one bottom boiler, a gaseous stream of distilled methanol withdrawn from the MP column is fed to at least one bottom boiler of the LP column and a liquid solution containing methanol withdrawn from the MP column is fed to the LP column, the method of revamping comprising the installation of a high pressure (HP) column; the installation of a line feeding a gaseous stream of distilled methanol from the HP column to at least one bottom boiler of the MP column and the installation of a bottom line for exporting from the HP column a liquid stream consisting essentially of water.
US11648478B2
According to one aspect, there is provided a virtual reality control system including: a sensor detecting a light signal; a display displaying an image to a user; at least one controller controlling the display; and an input device transmitting an input signal input from the user to the controller, wherein the controller is computing position data of the user by using data based on the light signal and computing virtual position data based on the position data of the user, wherein a plurality of areas is displayed on the display based on the virtual position data, wherein the plurality of areas includes an accessible area, where a character based on the virtual position data can move to, and an inaccessible area, where the character cannot move to, wherein an accessible mark is provided in the accessible area which is located within a reference distance from the character.
US11648476B2
Various methods for implementation by a computer that executes a video game. A first method comprises obtaining a desired direction of motion of a playing character that is in cover mode and on a cover path; and moving the character along the cover path in case the desired direction of motion is within a given range of directions, the character being kept in cover mode. A second method comprises determining a distance of the character to a cover path associated with a particular game object; determining the character's angle of approach relative to the game object; and responsive to receipt of a command to invoke cover mode, causing the character to enter cover mode in case a plurality of conditions is satisfied including a first condition that depends on the distance of the character to the cover path and a second condition that depends on the character's angle of approach.
US11648470B2
A streaming system may improving online gaming experiences for streaming players and/or providing device independent input processing. The streaming system may receive, from a client device, a selection of a game to be played via a streaming system, determine network connection parameters based at least in part on the game, determine a current streaming quality of the network connection of the client device, and determine the current streaming quality does not meet the network connection parameters. Based on the determination that the current streaming quality does not meet the network connection parameters, the streaming system may cause a prompt to be displayed to a player associated with the client device regarding alternative content for the player to play or cause at least a portion of the gameplay of the game to be slowed based at least in part on the current streaming quality and the network connection parameters.
US11648468B2
A system and method for providing offers to facilitate users to complete active game actions in a game space are disclosed. Offers to forego a group of pending wait periods of active game actions may be generated and presented to the users at the same time or near the same time along with offers to forego these pending wait periods individually and separately. In some examples, for incentivizing the users to accept the offer to forego the group of pending wait periods, a discount may be determined for these offers with respect to the offers to forego the group of pending wait periods individually and separately. In some examples, selection of the group of pending wait periods may be made based on likelihoods as to whether the users will spend stored consideration to forego the group of pending wait periods individually and separately.
US11648466B2
Provided are a data transmission method and related apparatuses. The method is applicable to an electronic device established with a plurality of wireless communication links and includes the following. A game running scene is detected. in response to a game application running in a foreground. A scene data packet of the game running scene is acquired. At least two target wireless communication links are selected from the plurality of wireless communication links based on the game running scene and performing shunt transmission on the scene data packet.
US11648464B2
A controller device to be worn on a hand of a user includes a plurality of sensor sections that detect the fingers of the user and a sensor support section for supporting the sensor sections. The sensor support section supports the sensor sections in such a manner that the distance between mutually adjacent sensor sections is changeable.
US11648459B2
A fusible toy bead includes a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of recesses.
US11648450B1
A table-tennis training apparatus for training a player to apply spin to a table-tennis ball when using a racket to hit the ball. The table-tennis training apparatus has a ball holder for rotatably holding a table-tennis ball. When the ball thereon is hit by a racket, the ball holder pivots about an axis and an elastic structure coupled to the ball holder dampens the speed of the ball holder to prolong the contact time between the racket and the ball and consequently help the player to more clearly experience the feeling of applying spin to the ball and thus facilitate the player's training of applying spins to the ball.
US11648440B2
A system and non-intrusive method for exercise posture detection are provided. The system includes a mat, at least one sensor matrix comprising one or more sensors and configured to generate an electrical signal upon making a contact by the user with the mat, a plurality of sensor lines, a plurality of power lines and a processing subsystem. The processing subsystem includes a data acquisition module configured to extract a first set of data, to extract a second set of data; a data processing module to process the first set of data and the second set of data, to concatenate the first set of data and the second set of data to get a final set of data, to compare the final set of data with a pre-defined set of posture data, to determine the posture of the at least one exercise.
US11648430B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, information that indicates that a fire has been detected in a building and that a fire suppression system within the building has begun dousing the fire; monitoring sensor information from one or more sensors located within the building; determining, by the computer system and based on the sensor information, whether the fire has been extinguished; activating, in response to determining that the fire has been extinguished, a feature to turn off a water supply to the building, the feature being presented on a computing device for a user who is associated with the building; receiving, after activating the feature and from the computing device, a command to turn off the water supply; and transmitting, by the computer system, a control signal that causes an electromechanical device to close a water valve within the building.
US11648425B2
Disclosed is a chemical oxygen self-rescue device, including a breathing assembly (1), an oxygen generating assembly (2) and a gas bag; (3) the oxygen generating assembly includes an oxygen generating agent tank (21), a gas discharge valve (23) and an oxygen candle (22); the gas discharge valve is arranged on a component above an oxygen generating agent (213) in the oxygen generating agent tank and below a breathing end of the breathing assembly, and the opening and closing of the gas discharge valve are controlled by means of an inflated volume of the gas bag. The chemical oxygen self-rescue device reduces the resistance to breathing, lowers the temperature of breathed gas and improves the utilization rate of the oxygen generating agent.
US11648402B2
In one example, the disclosure describes a method comprising receiving, by processing circuitry, information indicative of one or more evoked compound action potential (ECAP) signals. The one or more ECAP signals are sensed by at least one electrode carried by a medical lead. The processing circuitry determining that at least one characteristic value of the one or more ECAP signals is outside of an expected range. Responsive to determining that the at least one characteristic value of the one or more ECAP signals is outside of the expected range, the processing circuitry performs a lead integrity test for the medical lead.
US11648388B2
An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a pump casing (2) having a blood flow inlet (21) and a blood flow outlet (22), and an impeller (3) arranged in said pump casing (2) so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein the impeller (3) has blades (31) sized and shaped for conveying blood from the blood flow inlet (21) to the blood flow outlet (22). The blood pump (1) further comprises a drive unit (104) for rotating the impeller (3), the drive unit (104) comprising a plurality of posts (140) arranged about the axis of rotation (10). Coil windings (47) around the posts are sequentially controllable so as to create a rotating magnetic field. The shaft portion (141) of each of the posts (140) comprises a soft magnetic material which is discontinuous in cross-section transverse to the longitudinal axis of the respective post (140).
US11648382B2
A microneedle structure, a manufacturing method therefor, and a manufacturing apparatus therefor are presented. The microneedle structure manufacturing method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: a) injecting, into a lower mold comprising a microneedle intaglio, a polymer solution containing a biocompatible polymer; and b) coupling a shape control mold, which comprises a protrusion, to the lower mold such that one end of the protrusion of the shape control mold is impregnated with the biocompatible polymer solution injected into the microneedle intaglio.
US11648380B2
A device (10,210) for treatment of a canal associated with an orifice includes a flexible stem portion (20, 220) adapted for insertion along the canal and having an expandable member (24, 224) carried by the stem portion (20, 220) at or adjacent the distal end. The expandable member (24, 224) is for occlusion of an inner end region of the canal. A cap (40, 240, 340) mounted on the stem portion (20, 220), configured as a receptacle (42, 242), to close an outer end of the canal and to accommodate the surface(s) about the outer end of the canal. The cap (40, 240) thereby de-fines with the expandable member (24, 224), a treatment zone, wherein the receptacle (42, 242) is adapted to receive and store treatment fluid for contact with the surface(s) about the outer end of the canal.
US11648379B2
A balloon catheter and methods for use are disclosed for endovascular procedures, e.g., performing a thrombectomy. In one embodiment, among others, the balloon catheter includes an elongated catheter body. At a distal end, the catheter body also includes an angled tip and a balloon adjacent to the angled tip. The balloon is inflatable to form an oblong shape.
US11648378B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.
US11648377B2
A securement device configured to secure an external portion of a medical device to the skin surface of a patient after an internal portion of the device has been placed in the patient is disclosed. The securement device includes a retainer that is employed to securely retain the external portion of the medical device in place. The retainer is attached to a base, such as an adhesive pad that adhesively attaches to the skin surface. In one embodiment, therefore, a retainer comprises a body defining a channel configured to receive therein a portion of the medical device, and at least one foot extending from the body that is configured to stabilize the retainer with respect to a skin surface. The retainer body further includes a nose that is configured to deflect a portion of the external portion of the medical device toward the skin insertion site.
US11648372B2
A method for assisting a user with meditation includes applying, to the user, a distributor at or near a brain portion of the user; operating a signal generator to provide a signal to the brain portion the user, the signal being applied to the brain portion of the user by the distributor; and engaging in one or more meditation practices by the user while the signal is being applied to the brain portion of the user. The signal may correspond to an electrical signal, and the distributor may include an anode and a cathode. The anode may provide the signal to the user, and the cathode may receive the signal from the user to transfer the signal back to the signal generator.
US11648365B2
A headgear system and/or an interface assembly incorporating a headgear system that, in some configurations, is configured to transform from elasticated or “stretchy” behavior to “inelastic” behavior at least in response to normal or expected forces encountered during the intended therapy. In some configurations, upon fitment to the head of a user, the system automatically adjusts toward or to an appropriate size.
US11648362B2
An apparatus including a patient interface device formed from a flat substrate that is folded, wherein the patient interface device includes a plurality of seams where sections of the substrate are joined together, and wherein one or more of the plurality of seams form a shape that corresponds to a perimeter of a bottom side of a nose from a first alare corner of the nose to a tip of the nose to a second alare corner of the nose.
US11648358B2
An aerosol generator with an active liquid container and a nebulization chamber associated therewith, which is connected to an inlet channel for the supply of carrier gas and to an outlet channel for the discharge of carrier gas mixed with aerosol obtained from the active liquid, is intended to enable a particularly good adjustability of the droplet size of the aerosols contained in the discharged carrier gas and thus a use particularly in the context of a transnasal inhalation therapy. For this purpose, the nebulization chamber has a substantially rotationally symmetrical boundary wall, the inlet channel being positioned and oriented in the region of its point of entry into the nebulization chamber in such a way that its longitudinal axis is offset relative to the axis of symmetry of the nebulization chamber in the region of the point of entry and does not intersect the axis of symmetry.
US11648356B2
A safety needle device may include: a hub configured to be connected to a vessel; a needle attached to the hub, the needle extending between a distal end, configured for insertion into a patient, and an opposed proximal end, configured for connection to the vessel; a shield slidable relative to the hub and rotationally constrained, wherein the shield is irreversibly slidable from an initial position, before injection, to a locking position, after injection, passing through an intermediate position; a housing attached to the hub and surrounding: a portion of the hub, a portion of the shield when the shield is in the initial position and in the locking position, and almost totally the shield when the shield is in the intermediate position; and an elastic member biased to push the shield toward the distal end and to resist a longitudinal sliding of the shield toward the proximal end.
US11648353B2
An incremental syringe configured for displacement of fluid, such as medicaments is disclosed. The syringe may comprise detents on the syringe plunger configured to provide tactile feedback, audible feedback, or both, for discrete units of fluid aspirated or injected to or from the syringe. In some embodiments, a second set of detents is included, and in some embodiments a third set of detents is included.
US11648351B2
The present invention provides a power unit (1) for a drug delivery device as well as methods for providing and mounting the power unit (1) in the drug delivery device. The power unit (1) comprises a first interface member (30) extending along a reference axis and comprising a hollow body (31) and a first engagement structure (35), a second interface member (10) comprising a tubular structure (11) extending at least partially through the hollow body (31) and having a skirt (12), and a second engagement structure (14) configured for releasable engagement with the first engagement structure (35), and a torsion spring (20) comprising a first end portion (23) being attached to the first interface member (30) and a second end portion (22) being attached to the second interface member (10), the torsion spring (20) being pre-strained to induce a relative rotational motion between the first interface member (30) and the second interface member (10). The first interface member (30) and the second interface member (10) are configured for relative motion along the reference axis from a first relative axial position in which the first engagement structure (35) and the second engagement structure (14) are engaged to prevent the relative rotational motion between the first interface member (30) and the second interface member (10) to a second relative axial position in which the first engagement structure (35) and the second engagement structure (14) are disengaged. In the first relative axial position of the first interface member (30) and the second interface member (10) the torsion spring (20) is accommodated in a user inaccessible space (39) defined by the hollow body (31) and the skirt (12).
US11648342B2
Some embodiments comprise a pump assembly for reduced pressure wound therapy, comprising a housing, a flow pathway through the pump, one or more valves in communication with the flow pathway, a pump supported within or by the housing, and a one-way flow valve in fluid communication with the pump. The pump assembly can have a pressure sensor in communication with the flow pathway through the pump, and at least one switch or button supported by the housing, the at least one switch or button being accessible to a user and being in communication with the controller. The one-way flow valve can be configured to substantially prevent a flow of gas through the one-way flow valve in a direction of flow away from the pump. The pump assembly can have a controller supported within or by the housing, the controller being configured to control an operation of the pump. The pump has been sterilized following the assembly of the pump such that an inside and an outside of the housing, the flow pathway, the one or more valves, the pump, the controller, the battery compartment, and the at least one switch or button have been sterilized.
US11648317B2
The disclosure provides stable pharmaceutical compositions comprising an anti-CD79b immunoconjugate and a surfactant. The disclosure also provides methods for using such compositions for the treatment of cancer.
US11648316B2
The present invention relates to an oral pharmaceutical composition containing pemetrexed as a water-soluble anticancer drug and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly to an oral pharmaceutical composition, in which an ion-binding complex of pemetrexed and a bile acid derivative as an oral absorption enhancer is formed, mixed with a pharmaceutical additive, and then provided in the form of a capsule or a tablet through pressing or included in the internal water phase of a w/o/w (water-in-oil-in-water) multiple nanoemulsion, thus increasing the oral bioavailability of pemetrexed as the water-soluble anticancer drug, whereby pemetrexed, which is currently administered only in the form of an injection formulation, can be manufactured into a formulation capable of being orally administered, ultimately alleviating inconvenience and problems with use of injection formulations, improving patient compliance and contributing to a reduction in medical expenses.
US11648309B2
The application discloses method of treatment of cancer utilizing a linear or substantially linear epitope on netrin-1 that likely corresponds to the specific binding region of netrin-1 to receptor, in particular of the UNC5 class, especially UNC5B and UNC5A, or alternatively corresponds to a region nearby the specific binding region of netrin-1 to receptor that when bound to an antibody prevents netrin-1/receptor interaction. This determination of a linear epitope allows for the production of antibodies binding to netrin-1 and interfering with netrin-1/receptor interaction, thereby inducing apoptosis or cell death of tumour cells expressing or overexpressing netrin-1 and at least one netrin-1 receptor, owing the fact that this interaction inhibits netrin-1 binding to a receptor and the multimerization of the receptor. The application also discloses a murine monoclonal antibody directed against this epitope and various humanized forms thereof.
US11648306B2
Disclosed are a non-integrative Listeria-based vaccine and a method for inducing antitumor immune response. In particular, the present disclosure provides a recombinant nucleic acid molecule, a recombinant plasmid or a recombinant expression vector comprising the recombinant nucleic acid molecule, a recombinant protein, and a recombinant Listeria. Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition and a vaccine comprising the above component, a method for slowly and continuously killing cells using the same, and a method for inducing immune response in a subject using the same.
US11648298B2
An oral care composition, including a catalyzing enzyme and an anhydrous matrix configured to at least partially stabilize the catalyzing enzyme, wherein the anhydrous matrix includes a source of hydrogen peroxide, an acyl donor, a non-aqueous anhydrous liquid, and a surfactant mixture including sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), Betaine, and a poloxamer.
US11648292B2
A pharmaceutical composition contains an antibody or a fragment thereof specific for COL6A3 for the treatment of a cancer. A method of treating a cancer includes administering to a subject in need thereof the pharmaceutical composition. A kit includes a container that contains the pharmaceutical composition. A method of producing an antibody or a fragment thereof against a peptide or a MHC/peptide complex. A method for detecting a diseased tissue includes administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody or a fragment thereof conjugated to a radioisotope and detecting a signal from the radioisotope in the subject. A method for treating a diseased tissue includes administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody or a fragment thereof conjugated to a toxin.
US11648291B2
The disclosure discloses a method of using PRD, PRD-S, TAD, ZF7 peptide or a mixture thereof to inhibit a cellular response to inflammatory stimuli or treat cytokine-storm-mediated diseases. An amino acid sequence of the PRD peptide is SEQ ID NO: 1, an amino acid sequence of the PRD-S peptide is SEQ ID NO: 2, an amino acid sequence of the TAD peptide is SEQ ID NO: 3, and an amino acid sequence of the ZF7 peptide is SEQ ID NO: 4.
US11648284B2
Disclosed is a composition for ameliorating, preventing or treating an autoimmune skin disease, containing a Musan box (Sphallerocarpus gracilis) extract or a fraction thereof as an active ingredient.
US11648278B2
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs. Such TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens.
US11648272B2
Methods and compositions related to the use of a protein with kynureninase activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified kynureninase capable of degrading kynurenine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with kynurenine depletion using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids.
US11648266B2
The present invention relates to the use of immunoregulatory macrophages for treating diseases that are associated with pathological changes of the blood vessels. The present invention particularly relates to the use of immunoregulatory macrophages for treating micro- and macroangiopathies of the lower limbs. The invention furthermore relates to the use of immunoregulatory macrophages for promoting tissue remodelling to facilitate wound healing. Pharmaceutical compositions for use in the recited treatments are also disclosed which comprise the immunoregulatory macrophages.
US11648264B2
Methods and compositions are provided for combined transplantation of a solid organ and hematopoietic cells to an HLA mismatched recipient, where tolerance to the graft is established through development of a persistent mixed chimerism. An individual with persistent mixed chimerism, usually for a period of at least six months, is able to withdraw from the use of immunosuppressive drugs after a period of time sufficient to establish tolerance.
US11648262B1
The subject matter described herein is directed to stable L-cysteine compositions for injection, comprising: L-cysteine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and/or hydrate thereof in an amount from about 10 mg/mL to about 100 mg/mL; Aluminum in an amount from about 1.0 parts per billion (ppb) to about 250 ppb; cystine in an amount from about 0.01 wt % to about 2 wt % relative to L-cysteine; pyruvic acid in an amount from about 0.01 wt % to about 2 wt % relative to L-cysteine; a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, comprising water; headspace O2 that is less than 1.0%; dissolved oxygen present in the carrier in an amount from about 0.01 parts per million (ppm) to about 1 ppm, wherein the composition is enclosed in a single-use container having a volume of from 10 mL to 100 mL. Also described are compositions for a total parenteral nutrition regimen and methods for their use.
US11648261B2
A method of treating, reducing, or alleviating a medical condition in a patient is disclosed herein. The method includes administering to a patient in need thereof a biocompatible drug comprising one or more antiviral medications together with one or more cell pathway inhibitors, the patient having at least one of a respiratory tract inflammatory disease, a central nervous system inflammatory disease, and vasculitis. The one or more antiviral medications preventing an attachment of viruses to cell walls, blocking a penetration of the viruses into cells, and/or inhibiting virus replication by damaging nucleic acids of the viruses. The one or more cell pathway inhibitors blocking an inflammatory response of inflamed tissue without inhibiting an immune response of the patient.
US11648258B2
A method for treating cancer by using an agent which is capable of inhibiting the functionality of the MCM complex, a heterohexameric ring formed from six subunits, in the process of DNA replication and a method of screening for such agents by detecting the locations and functions of the MCM subunits, such as hMcm2 and hMcm6, in cells treated with candidate compounds.
US11648251B2
The present invention relates to a method of determining if a patient is likely to respond to a treatment with a targeted therapy compound selected from protein kinase inhibitors, small molecule inhibitors, and monoclonal antibody-based compounds. The present invention further relates to a method of identifying a targeted therapy compound selected from protein kinase inhibitors, small molecule inhibitors, and monoclonal antibody-based compounds for personalized medicine. The present invention also relates to a method of treatment of cancer in a patient. The present invention also relates to a targeted therapy compound selected from protein kinase inhibitors, small molecule inhibitors, and monoclonal antibody-based compounds for use in a method of treatment of cancer in a patient.
US11648250B2
The present disclosure is directed to tetrahydroquinazoline derivatives of Formula I and their use for selectively killing HIV infected GAG-POL expressing cells without concomitant cytotoxicity to HIV naïve cells, and for the treatment or prophylaxis of infection by HIV, or for the treatment, prophylaxis or delay in the onset or progression of AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC).
US11648248B1
Anti-microbial compounds having a pyridazine nucleus are provided. The compounds have anti-microbial (anti-biotic) properties and are used to treat infections caused by microbes, especially bacteria that are resistant to known antibiotics e.g. drug resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
US11648234B2
This invention is directed to selective androgen receptor degrader (SARD) compounds pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof in treating early prostate cancer, prostate cancer, advanced prostate cancer, castration resistant prostate cancer, triple negative breast cancer, other cancers expressing the androgen receptor, androgenic alopecia or other hyperandrogenic dermal diseases, Kennedy's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and uterine fibroids, and to methods for reducing the levels of androgen receptor-full length (AR-FL) including pathogenic or resistance mutations, AR-splice variants (AR-SV), and pathogenic polyglutamine (polyQ) polymorphisms of AR in a subject.
US11648229B2
Provided are: a composition containing 96-99 area % of eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester, the composition having an arachidonic acid alkyl ester content of 0.7 area % or less, and an eicosapentaenoic-acid-alkyl-ester mono-trans isomer content of 2.5 area % or less; and a method for producing a composition containing a high concentration of eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester, the method including performing precision distillation on a composition containing eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester, obtained by alkyl esterification of a raw material oil containing eicosapentaenoic acid, under a vacuum of 0.2 Torr or lower and a temperature of 190° C. or lower in the entire column, and performing a concentration treatment on the precision-distilled composition using chromatography.
US11648222B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating a cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective dose of a CYP26-resistant retinoic acid receptor (RAR) alpha (RARα) selective agonist, whereby as a result of the treatment the tumor burden is reduced in the subject and cancer stem cells resident in the bone marrow are substantially reduced.
US11648220B2
The invention features methods of treating disorders related to increased levels of myeloid derived suppressor cells such as cancer or infections. The disclosure also provides methods of treating cancer including combinations of LXRβ agonists and immunotherapies such as PD1 inhibitors, PDL1 inhibitors, and adoptive T-cell transfer therapy.
US11648217B2
Described herein is the use of bisamidoximes compounds for the treatment of HAT malfunction related pathologies.
US11648216B2
There is herein provided a compound of formula (I).
US11648215B2
A hydrophilic active molecule delivery system whereby active molecules can be released on demand and/or a variety of different active molecules can be delivered from the same system and/or different concentrations of active molecules can be delivered from the same system. The system may be used to deliver/release hydrophilic active molecules that are incompatible to each other.
US11648211B2
Pharmaceutical formulations (nanococktails) include two or more nanoparticulate delivery vehicles each including an active agent. The nanococktails can be formulated at any ratio of active agents by changing the ratio of nanoparticulate delivery vehicles in the nanococktail. The nanoparticulate delivery vehicles can have matched surface potential to prevent aggregation. The nanoparticulate delivery vehicles of the combined formulation are designed to provide each active agent with desired, preferably overlapping therapeutic windows and a specifically selected pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profile when the nanococktail is administered to a subject. Each of the nanoparticulate delivery vehicles can be designed to enhance solubility, duration of action, targeting, stability, and to program release while preventing degradation of an active agent and preventing side effects, toxicity, and tolerability issues in a subject.
US11648204B2
The present invention relates to a process for lyophilising a product (3), comprising the steps of providing a bulk product (3) loading system in the form of a bag (1), the bag (1) having an interior and an exterior defined by a flexible wall, the bag (1) further comprising a filling port (5) providing access to the interior of the bag (1), filling a product (3) having a first moisture content into the interior of the bag (1) via the filling port (5), and exposing the product (3) in the interior of the bag (1) to a lyophilisation cycle such that the moisture content of the product (3) is reduced from the first moisture content to a second, lower, moisture content.
US11648201B2
A free-flowing solid pharmaceutical formulation comprising one or more active ingredients and a blend comprising sorbitol and liquid paraffin, a package containing the formulation, a process for the manufacture of the formulation and the use of the blend in the formulation.
US11648199B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for anti-aging therapy and for the treatment and prophylaxis of age-related diseases and disorders in a human subject in need of such therapy or treatment, the methods comprising the pulmonary administration to the subject, preferably via inhalation, of composition comprising rapamycin, or a prodrug or derivative thereof.
US11648195B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition which includes microcapsule particles (1 to 1,000 μm) stabilized by encapsulating a peony extract as an active ingredient, which is useful for skin, with a biocopolymer, and a fibrous protein surrounding the particles in a matrix form, a method of preparing the cosmetic composition, and the use of the cosmetic composition for improving a skin condition.
US11648185B2
A method for producing a powder lead is disclosed, wherein at least one colourant, at least one filler and at least one binder are mixed with a carrier liquid, leads are shaped from the wet compound, the leads shaped in step b) are guided through a chamber in which they are exposed to a pulverulent covering agent, and the powdered leads are guided into a drying apparatus and dried therein.
US11648176B2
A child-resistant medication container assembly that includes a blister card including a plurality of compartments each configured to support a dosage of medication, and a puck including a body portion, a recess that defines a partition wall in the body portion, and a plurality of openings defined in the partition wall. Each opening corresponds to one of the plurality of compartments in the blister card. The assembly further includes a carton including a first wall opposite a second wall. An access opening is defined in the first wall and a plurality of perforations are defined in the second wall. The access opening is sized to provide access to the plurality of compartments, and each perforation corresponds to one of the plurality of compartments in the blister card.
US11648171B2
A mobility device positionable between a powered transport position and a powered wheelchair position is provided. The mobility device includes a frame including a pair of side rails, a pair of wheels on each side rail, a distance between each wheel on a corresponding side rail defining a length of the mobility device, a pair of arms coupled to an end of the pair of side rails, and a seat member positioned between the pair of arms. A pair of foot plates is pivotally attached to the pair of side rails and rotatable between an unfolded position in which the foot plate is horizontal and a folded position in which the foot plate is vertical. Each foot plate having a length at least substantially equal to the length of the mobility device.
US11648166B2
Module for housing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including a portable digital camera and processing circuitry with machine vision and machine learning software for automatically documenting healthcare events and healthcare equipment operations in the electronic health record.
US11648155B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for assembling disposable pant diapers having contoured elastic belts. During the assembly process, opposing end regions of chassis are connected with the elastic belts in the form of first and second continuous elastic laminates. The chassis are then folded to place the elastic laminates into a facing relationship. The inner longitudinal edges of one or both the elastic laminates are then cut to define a contoured shape. Discrete pieces of trim material may be removed from one or both the elastic laminates, and the first and second continuous elastic laminates are cut in the cross direction to form discrete pant diapers. In some configurations, a single knife both removes the trim material and cuts the elastic laminates in cross direction. And in some configurations, a first knife removes the trim material and a second knife cuts the elastic laminates in cross direction.
US11648154B2
A method including: a step of carrying first and second continuous webs in a predetermined carrying direction; a first slitting step of slitting the first continuous web along a virtual first cut-off line extending the carrying direction, thereby dividing the first continuous web into a wider first divided web and a narrower second divided web; a step of sandwiching an around-torso elastic member extending in a girth direction between the wider first divided web and the second continuous web; a welding step of welding together the first divided web, the second continuous web and the around-torso elastic member intermittently in the carrying direction, thereby producing a layered sheet; and a bonding step of sandwiching an around-leg elastic member meandering relative to the carrying direction between the layered sheet and the narrower second divided web, and attaching the around-leg elastic member thereto by an adhesive, thereby producing a stretchable continuous sheet.
US11648149B2
In certain embodiments, a system for making an implant for an eye comprises a laser, a camera, and a computer. The laser emits a laser beam to shape a material. The camera generates one or more images to monitor shaping of the material. The computer stores a pattern for the implant, which is designed to provide refractive treatment for the eye; sends instructions to the laser to control the laser beam to shape the material according to the pattern; assesses the images from the camera according to the pattern; and adjusts the instructions in response to the images.
US11648122B2
Apparatus (20) for testing a prosthetic leaflet (10) includes a bar (22); a light source (24); a detector (26); an actuator (40); a gauge (28); a display (82); and circuitry (84). The leaflet is draped over the bar. The light source emits a beam of light (32). The detector detects the beam, and generates a detection-signal indicative of detection of the beam. Actuation of the actuator moves the bar with respect to the beam. The gauge measures an elevation of the bar above the beam, the elevation changing with the moving of the bar by the actuator. The circuitry is configured: (i) to receive the measured elevation from the gauge, (ii) to receive the detection-signal from the detector, and (iii) in response to the detection-signal, to drive the display to display the elevation that was measured when the detection-signal was received by the circuitry.
US11648117B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices for clamping a leaflet of a heart valve. In particular, the present disclosure relates to medical devices, systems, and methods for delivering artificial chordae tendineae in a patient. In an embodiment, a system may include a clamp having a plurality of arms at a first end. The plurality of arms may have a closed configuration in which the arms are oriented toward each other, and an open configuration in which the arms are oriented away from each other. A spring portion may be coupled to the plurality of arms at a second end that is configured to bias the arms to the closed configuration. The arms of the clamp may be configured to fixedly engage with a leaflet of the heart valve. The second end of the clamp may be configured to couple to an artificial chordae tendineae.
US11648110B2
A prosthetic heart valve may include a valve portion, a tether connected to the valve portion, and an anchor for connecting the tether to the wall of the heart. The anchor may include a flexible first disc biased toward a first shape that is convex in a first direction and a neck extending from the first disc in a second direction opposite the first direction. The neck has a first end connected to the first disc and a second end. The anchor may further include a flexible second disc connected to the second end of the neck and biased toward a second shape that is convex in the first direction. When deployed, the first and second discs sandwich the wall of the heart.
US11648102B2
A method for use of a double-structured tissue implant or a secondary scaffold stand-alone implant for treatment of tissue defects. The double-structured tissue implant comprising a primary scaffold and a secondary scaffold consisting of a soluble collagen solution in combination with a non-ionic surfactant generated and positioned within the primary scaffold. A method of use of a stand-alone secondary scaffold implant or unit for treatment of tissue defects.
US11648094B2
Method for automatically assigning numeric labels to teeth in a dental arch map provides a segmented 3D surface image of patient dentition having identified individual teeth and determined tooth position in the dental arch. A tooth contour for the identified teeth is defined. The tooth type is identified as one of incisor, canine, premolar, or molar. A display of the tooth contour is labeled with an assigned tooth number according to the tooth position, tooth contour, and tooth type. The labeled mapping is displayed.
US11648084B2
An implant-supported denture placement and alignment system may include a denture apparatus. The denture apparatus may have a denture base and a denture base positioning system. The denture base may be connectable to implants. Moreover, the denture base positioning system may position the denture base in substantially the same position as a surgical guide used to place the implants. In this manner, the denture apparatus may be positioned so that it is mountable to the implants placed according to the surgical guide following their placement in a patient's mouth. In this manner, variations in the placement of the implants arising during the process of installing the implants may be compensated by transferring the actual implant positioning to the denture apparatus when it is positioned by the denture base positioning system.
US11648080B2
A medical observation control device and system include a memory that stores a parameter for a first imaging condition of an imager at a first time of capturing a first medical image and circuitry configured to correct for brightness differences between the first medical image captured at the first time and a second medical image captured at a second time. The circuitry is configured to restore the parameter for the first imaging condition as a second imaging condition for capturing the second medical image, control the imager so as to capture an image of an observation object under the second imaging condition as the second medical image, compare the first medical image with the second medical image, and correct brightness of at least one of brightness of the first medical image and brightness of the second medical image based on a comparison result.
US11648066B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth a method to drive robotic arm to one or more points on an operation pathway. The method includes constructing a three-dimensional model based on a medical image scan of a patient, planning an operation pathway according to the three-dimensional model, retrieving image information of the patient captured by a three-dimensional optical apparatus, selecting a first set of landmark points in the three-dimensional model, selecting a second set of landmark points in the retrieved image information, matching the first set of landmark points with the second set of landmark points, transforming coordinates from a three-dimensional model coordinate system to a three-dimensional optical apparatus coordinate system based on a result of the matching, and driving the robotic arm to the one or more points on the operation pathway in a robotic arm coordinate system.
US11648055B2
Apparatus, consisting of a probe configured to be inserted into contact with a myocardium, and an electrode attached to the probe. A temperature sensor, incorporated in the probe, is configured to output a temperature signal. A pump irrigates the myocardium, via the probe, with an irrigation fluid at a controllable rate, and a radiofrequency (RF) signal generator applies RF power via the electrode to the myocardium, so as to ablate the myocardium. The apparatus also has processing circuitry that measures a temperature of the probe, based on the temperature signal, while the RF power is applied and, when the measured temperature exceeds a preset target temperature, iteratively reduces the RF power applied by the signal generator and concurrently iteratively varies a rate of irrigation of the irrigation fluid provided by the pump, until the measured temperature is reduced to the preset target temperature.
US11648053B2
An electrophysiology catheter has an elongated catheter shaft and a distal assembly with a flex circuit and a support member on which the flex circuit is supported in a generally cylindrical form. The support member has a post extending longitudinally through the cylindrical form of the flex circuit which delivers irrigation fluid into the cylindrical form. The post can be configured to define multiple irrigation chambers within the distal assembly. One or more flow directors movable in the post selectively direct irrigation fluid within the distal assembly. Apertures in the flex circuit allow the irrigation fluid to exit to outside the distal assembly.
US11648049B2
Surgical devices, systems, and methods are provided for applying monopolar energy and bipolar energy to tissue. In one embodiment, a surgical device is provided with an end effector that has first and second jaws movable between an open position and a closed position, and a conductive member that extends through the end effector. The conductive member has a retracted position in which the conductive member is substantially disposed within the end effector and an extended position in which the conductive member extends at least partially distally beyond the end effector. The conductive member is configured to conduct energy through tissue adjacent thereto when the conductive member is in the extended position. A trigger coupled to the handle is pivotally movable to move the conductive member between the retracted and extended positions.
US11648046B2
An electrode assembly for use with an electrosurgical instrument includes a base portion, a return lead adapted to be electrically coupled to a return terminal of an electrosurgical generator, an electrical insulator supported on a distal portion of the return lead, a tensioning mechanism, and an active lead adapted to be electrically coupled to an active terminal of the electrosurgical generator. The tensioning mechanism includes a slider slidably disposed in the base portion, a rotation rod threadably coupled to the slider, and a spring proximally biasing the slider. The active lead having a first end portion securely fixed to the base portion and a second end portion slidably coupled to the rotation rod of the tensioning mechanism. A portion of the active lead extends around the electrical insulator. Rotation of the rotation rod causes axial displacement of the second end portion of the active lead to tension the active lead about the electrical insulator.
US11648043B2
A device, system and method for temperature-based lesion formation assessment and mapping functionality using an accessory usable with an over-the-wire balloon catheter. The device may include a first annular element, a plurality of wires coupled to the first annular element, and a second annular element, the plurality of wires passing from the first annular element through the second annular element and into an elongate wire conduit coupled to the second annular element. At least one of the plurality of wires may include at least one temperature sensor and/or at least one mapping electrode. The first annular element coupled to an outer surface of a sheath. As a balloon catheter is advanced out of the sheath lumen, the distal tip of the catheter engages the second annular element and pushes the wires out of the sheath lumen, everting them over the balloon of the catheter.
US11648038B2
Surgical instruments and methods for delivering bone anchor assemblies into bone are disclosed herein. Use of these anchors or instruments can eliminate one or more of the steps in a conventional bone anchor installation procedure, improving surgical efficiency and safety. In general, a surgical instrument can include a handle assembly having an elongate shaft extending distally therefrom. The handle assembly can be configured to axially translate a carrier assembly that secures a stylet extending therethrough. Translation of the stylet can be made relative to a distal end of the elongate shaft. The surgical instruments can include various carrier assemblies for positioning the distal end of the stylet relative to the distal end of the elongate shaft based on a length of bone anchor to be installed by the surgical instrument.
US11648036B2
A suture system including a suture construct having a first reduction construct configured to be selectively arranged in an expanded state and a reduced state. The first reduction construct includes a first locking limb, a first contractible loop, and a first opposed loop disposed generally opposite to the first contractible loop, wherein reduction of the first opposed loop contracts the first contractible loop from the expanded state into the reduced state and secures the suture construct in the reduced state. The suture construct may also include a second reduction construct. Optionally, the suture system includes a first and a second pusher tube defining a first and a second lumen, respectively, wherein each pusher tubes are advanced over portions of opposed loops, respectively, and wherein distal portions of opposed loops extend beyond the pusher tubes, respectively.
US11648028B2
A method and apparatus for treating a clot in the blood vessel of a patient, and particularly the treatment of a pulmonary embolism is disclosed. The treatment includes restoring flow through the clot followed by clot removal, either partially or substantially completely. The clot treatment device is expandable into the blood vessel and may contain radial extensions that assist in restoring flow as well as in removing clot material.
US11648010B2
An apparatus for irrigating the vas deferens in connection with a vasectomy reversal is described. The apparatus comprises a fluid delivery device having a first portion that connects to the vas deferens, the fluid delivery device connecting such that a catheter tip inserts into the vas deferens and is held in stable position relative thereto and such that fluid enters the vas deferens through the catheter tip.
US11648006B2
A surgical instrument including an end effector that has a selectively reciprocatable implement movably supported therein. The implement is selectively advanceable in a distal direction upon application of a rotary actuation motion thereto and retractable in a proximal direction upon application of a rotary retraction motion thereto. An elongate shaft assembly is coupled to the end effector and is configured to transmit the rotary actuation motion and rotary retraction motion to the reciprocatable implement from a robotic system that is configured to generate the rotary actuation motion and said rotary retraction motion.
US11647999B1
Systems and methods are described for correcting sagittal imbalance in a spine including instruments for performing the controlled release of the anterior longitudinal ligament through a lateral access corridor and hyper-lordotic lateral implants.
US11647993B2
An oral fluid collection device is provided that includes a borosilicate glass collection tube that can be capped post-collection for containing a human donor's expectorated oral fluid. The collection tube has a lyophilized reagent disposed therein that is essentially free of surfactants and solvents and includes a bacteriostatic, a peptidoglycan cleaving enzyme, an esterase inhibitor, an antioxidant, and a buffer at a pH range of about 5.7 to about 6.5 for stabilizing drugs and drug metabolites that may be present in the donor oral fluid. Interaction between the collected oral fluid and the buffer-preservative is provided by gravity drawing the collected oral fluid downward into contact with the lyophilized buffer-preservative. The lyophilized buffer-preservative brings the collected oral fluid to a pH for stabilization of the drugs and drug metabolites including Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the major metabolite of THC, 11-nor-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid, (THCA), cocaine, and the major metabolite of cocaine, benzoylecgonine (BZE).
US11647989B2
Improved ultrasound imaging devices and methods of using the devices are provided. An intraluminal imaging device is configured process imaging data obtained using a single imaging sequence in different processing paths to generate B-mode and flow images. For example, an ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound imaging device comprising an array of acoustic elements and a processor in communication with the array. The processor activates the array of acoustic elements to acquire ultrasound data using a sequence of transmit-receive pairs, generates a B-mode image using the acquired ultrasound data, forms a plurality of sub-apertures comprising a portion of the transmit-receive pairs, groups the sub-apertures into temporally-spaced ensembles, determines a flow estimate based on a comparison of at least one of sub-apertures within an ensemble, ensembles within an aperture, or different apertures, and outputs a graphical representation of the B-mode image and the flow estimate to a display.
US11647977B2
Devices and methods in which auscultation signals, ultrasound signals, and ambient noise signals may be simultaneously acquired by a same handheld device are provided. Moreover, in some embodiments, electrocardiogram (EKG) may be acquired by the handheld device. One such device includes a housing having a sensor portion at a distal end of the housing, and a handle portion between a proximal end and the distal end of the housing. An ultrasound sensor is positioned at least partially within the sensor portion of the housing, and a first auscultation sensor is positioned at least partially within the sensor portion of the housing. An ambient noise sensor is positioned at least partially within the housing between the handle portion and the proximal end of the housing.
US11647974B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to control an X-ray tube to perform an X-ray irradiation, that is performed prior to an X-ray imaging performed on an object, based on an imaging condition where at least one of an X-ray irradiation range and dose is smaller than an imaging condition of the X-ray imaging. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to evaluate a positional relationship between the X-ray tube and an X-ray detector based on a detection result of an X-ray irradiated in the prior X-ray irradiation by the X-ray detector.
US11647966B2
A method for producing an image of a body tissue surface. The method includes transforming a source 3-D model of the body tissue surface into a flattened model comprising details of the body tissue surface represented visually on an unwrapped and flattened surface, wherein the flattened model represents transformed positions of the source 3-D model of the body tissue surface defined between a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is formed about a lumen defined by the body tissue surface, and the body tissue surface projects about the lumen to the second edge. The method further includes producing an image from the flattened model.
US11647962B2
A behavioral state of a brain is classified by automatically selecting one or more sensors based on the signals received from each sensor and one or more selection criteria using one or more processors, calculating at least one measured value from the signal(s) of the selected sensor(s), classifying the behavioral state as: (a) an awake state whenever the measured value(s) for the selected sensor(s) is lower than a first threshold value, (b) a sleep state (N2) whenever the measured value(s) for the selected sensor(s) is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and the measured value(s) is not greater than a second threshold value, or (c) a slow wave sleep state (N3) whenever the measured value(s) from the selected sensor(s) is greater than the first threshold value and the measured value(s) is greater than the second threshold value, and providing a notification of the classified behavioral state.
US11647957B2
Provided herein is a probe for ultrasound imaging of tissue. The probe comprises an optical relay having an optically absorbing coating at the distal end of the probe for generating ultrasound from excitation light via the photoacoustic effect, wherein the generated ultrasound propagates as an ultrasound beam into the tissue; and an ultrasound receiver separate from the optical relay. The optical relay is configured to receive as input a time-varying spatial pattern of excitation light at the proximal end of the probe and to transmit the excitation light to the distal end of the probe to illuminate the optically absorbing coating in accordance with said time-varying spatial pattern, thereby generating ultrasound from the excitation light via the photoacoustic effect to propagate as a scanning ultrasound beam into the tissue. The ultrasound receiver is configured to receive reflections of the ultrasound from tissue. Such an ultrasound probe may be incorporated, for example, into a transseptal puncture needle.
US11647953B2
A sensor device includes a sensor housing defining a channel extending along a channel axis through the housing from a first side of the sensor housing to a second side of the sensor housing opposite the first side, at least one contact electrode extending from the first side of the housing, an electrically-conducting lead attached to the housing in electrical communication with the at least one contact electrode, and a locking mechanism located in the channel permitting one-way axial motion of a thread threaded through the channel from the first side to the second side.
US11647938B2
Apparatus and method are provided to collect and analyze heartbeat waveforms. In one novel aspect, the heartbeat waveforms are collected from wearable devices. In one embodiment, the wearable device collects heartbeat waveforms by attaching the device to the patient for a long period and sends the collected waveforms to a receiver through a wireless network. In another novel aspect, an application program is installed in a smart device to receive heartbeat waveforms from one or more wearable devices. The application program either relays the received waveform to a remote processing center or processes the data before sending. In another novel aspect, an analysis method compares received patient's current heartbeat waveform with historic data. In one embodiment, the historic data are stored in a cloud-based database. In another novel aspect, the remote processing center is an open platform data center, which takes in certified third party inputs.
US11647936B2
An electroencephalogram electrode includes: a bottom portion on which a connection member is placed, the connection member which is configured to supply a biological signal that is acquired from a subject through conductive gel, to an external apparatus; an annular wall which annularly extends from the bottom portion in a contact direction with respect to the subject; and a plurality of barb members which are disposed in a holding space for the conductive gel that is located inside the annular wall, and which elongate from the bottom portion in the contact direction with respect to the subject.
US11647935B2
A partially-masked electrode includes a conductive material and an insulated coating having an outer surface. The insulated coating defines a contoured opening that exposes or reveals an area of the conductive material, wherein the contoured opening has an upper perimeter at the outer surface of the insulated coating. When the upper perimeter of the insulated surface coating is placed in contact with a tissue of interest, wherein the tissue of interest is proximate a blood pool, the insulated coating creates a seal between the blood pool and the contoured opening so that no blood in the blood pool can contact the conductive material. This seal reduces or eliminates the reception of far field effects in the blood pool by the electrode, making it easier to locate and diagnose unhealthy tissue.
US11647934B2
A mono-layer electrode sensor suitable for a multitude of electrophysiology testing applications is disclosed. The electrode sensor can include a mono-layer of conductive film shaped with a soft-form geometry that is modifiable to a targeted size tailored to a patient. The conductive film includes a sensing area that is complementary to a size and morphology of a body structure of the patient. The conductive film can have a connector coupled to the sensor, and the skin adherent side can have a bio-compatible hydrogel coated there over including a non-conductive material formed over the connector portion of the conductive film.
US11647927B2
A microelectrode assembly for in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a microelectrode part formed of a single strand; and a polymer coating layer surrounding the microelectrode part, wherein a portion of the microelectrode part may protrude from the polymer coating layer, neurotransmitters in vivo may be sensed by the protruding portion of the microelectrode part, and plasmonic nanostructures may be formed on the surface of the microelectrode part.
US11647921B2
A breathing sensing device that detects breathing of a subject, the breathing sensing device including a film-shaped sensor configured to adhere to a body surface of the subject from a region corresponding to a xiphoid process of a sternum of the subject to a region corresponding to an epigastrium of the subject. The sensor is configured to detect the breathing of the subject by detecting relative positional changes between the region corresponding to the xiphoid process and the region corresponding to the epigastrium.
US11647913B2
An image processing apparatus including a memory and a processor is provided. The image processing apparatus is configured to perform selecting one of data compression processing modes in response to a user input, and executing, according to the selected data compression processing mode, data compression processing on an input captured image based on an inter-frame prediction. The image processing apparatus is further configured perform generating a compressed image from the executed data compression processing. A group of pictures with respect to the generated compressed image is different according to the data compression processing modes. When receiving a request for acquiring vital information from a person captured in the input captured image, one of the data compression processing modes is selected so that the generated compressed image is configured by I pictures only.
US11647906B2
Some embodiments are directed to a dermoscope and a method for forming an image of a part of a skin having one or more at least partly transparent structures, such as at least partly transparent hair. The dermoscope has a light source, a light shaping unit, and an image forming lens. The light source is arranged to provide light to the light shaping unit. The light shaping unit is arranged to direct at least part of the light via an immersion fluid to the part of the skin having the one or more at least partly transparent structures to be imaged at incident angles in the immersion fluid larger than 70 degrees relative to the optical axis of the dermoscope. The image forming lens is arranged to receive at least light refracted from the one or more at least partly transparent structures.
US11647901B2
An endoscope includes an image pickup apparatus, and the image pickup apparatus includes an imager includes an external electrode, a stacked device, a top electrode on a top surface, and a bottom electrode on a bottom surface, a three-dimensional wiring board having a first zone to which the external electrode is bonded, a second zone to which the top electrode or the bottom electrode is bonded, a third zone to which the top electrode or the bottom electrode is bonded, and a fifth zone arranged on a side surface of the stacked device, wherein the top surface, the bottom surface, and at least two side surfaces of the stacked device are covered with the wiring board.
US11647892B2
A distal end portion of an endoscope includes: a flexible printed circuit board on which a light-receiving unit mounting section, a first extending section, a light-emitting unit mounting section, and a second extending section are formed continuously; a stand on which the light-receiving unit mounting section is disposed in contact with the stand; a protruding portion including an inner wall surface, a protruding end surface, and an outer wall surface, in which the first extending section is disposed in contact with the inner wall surface, the light-emitting unit mounting section is disposed in contact with the protruding end surface, and the second extending section is disposed in contact with the outer wall surface; and a distal end cover that covers the stand and the protruding portion, with the second extending section being sandwiched between the distal end cover and the protruding portion.
US11647889B2
Systems for obtaining an image of a target are provided including at least one multi-wavelength illumination module configured to illuminate a target using two or more different wavelengths, each penetrating the target at different depths; a multi-wavelength camera configured to detect the two or more different wavelengths illuminating the target on corresponding different channels and acquire corresponding images of the target based on the detected two or more different wavelengths illuminating the target; a control module configured synchronize illumination of the target by the at least one multi-wavelength illumination module and detection of the two or more different wavelengths by the camera; an analysis module configured to receive the acquired images of the target and analyze the acquired images to provide analysis results; and an image visualization module modify the acquired images based on the analysis results to provide a final improved image in real-time.
US11647888B2
Systems and methods for compensating for observer movement during robotic surgery. An exemplary system includes an image capture device configured to capture images of a surgical site, a stereoscopic display device, a sensor configured to detect positions of an observer, and a computing device including a processor and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to receive the images of the surgical site from the image capture device, receive data from the sensor indicating a position of the observer, process the received images of the surgical site based on the movement of the observer, and cause the stereoscopic display device to display the processed images of the surgical site.
US11647886B2
A check valve assembly for a drain pump configured to transfer fluid from a sump, through a volute having a pump discharge passageway extending from the volute, includes a seat assembly and a flapper assembly. The seat assembly has a body with a first distal end and a second distal end, and a fluid passage extending through the body. The body defines a valve seat having a sealing surface about the fluid passage. The flapper assembly is operably coupled to the seat assembly. The flapper assembly has a moveable portion configured to selectively move between a closed position where the moveable portion seals against the sealing surface and an opened position where the moveable portion raises to allow liquid through the fluid passage. The check valve assembly is configured to be located within the pump discharge passageway.
US11647885B2
A method, performed by a robot vacuum cleaner, of planning a cleaning route includes: dividing an indoor space into at least one cleanable region based on an indoor space map generated using at least one sensor included in the robot vacuum cleaner; dividing the at least one cleanable region into a plurality of partial regions based on a cleaning mode of the robot vacuum cleaner; and planning a first cleaning route to control a number of direction changes of the robot vacuum cleaner with respect to each of the plurality of partial regions based on the cleaning mode being a first mode.
US11647883B2
A cleaner includes: a suction unit that guides dust and air; a main body that includes a dust separation unit for separating dust from air guided through the suction unit; a main body terminal mounted on the main body; a handle unit that is slide-coupled to the main body; and a handle terminal mounted on the handle unit and is connected to the main body terminal when the handle unit is slide-coupled to the main body.
US11647877B2
In one example, a lifting assembly for a toilet includes at least a track arm and a track. The track arm is configured to guide a toilet seat assembly from a first position to a second position. The track is coupled to a base enclosure of the toilet and providing a track path for the track arm, and the track path has a radius of curvature to limit the range of motion of the toilet seat assembly.
US11647869B2
A bench assembly can be for use in a bathtub for showering. The bench assembly can comprise a frame that is configured to sit within a bathtub. A bench can be coupled to the frame. A pivotable platform assembly can comprise a platform support structure pivotably coupled to the frame and a platform coupled to the platform support structure. The pivotable platform assembly can be configured to bias against an upper rim of the bathtub.
US11647864B2
A heat loss protection lid for a thermal liquid container system, wherein the heat loss protection lid comprises a central body, a liquid ingress opening formed within the central body, a liquid dispensing opening formed within one of a peripheral edge of the central body or a lip formed around the peripheral edge of the central body. and a concealed air intake hole.
US11647862B2
Disclosed is a steam-type air fryer, including: an air outlet structure, including a body shell, the body shell is provided therein with a cooking cavity, a steam generator in the body shell generates hot steam which is introduced into the cooking cavity, the cooking cavity is provided with an air outlet hole for discharging residual steam, a cold wind passage into which external cold air enters is formed between the cooking cavity and the body shell; and a water inlet structure, including an air fryer main body, an upper end of the air fryer main body is provided with a water tank seat, the water tank seat is detachably provided with a water tank, wherein the water tank is provided therein with a water outlet seat extending upward, the water tank seat is provided with a water outlet pipe corresponding to the water outlet seat.
US11647860B1
A beverage dispensing device and methods for dispensing beverages are provided. In one embodiment, the beverage dispensing device includes a housing, a carbonation assembly, a carriage assembly, and one or more flavorant containers. The beverage dispensing device can also include a controller with a UI to allow a user to customize aspects of a beverage. These customizable aspects can include fluid volume, carbonation level, flavorant type, and/or flavorant amount. Based on the customized aspects of the beverage, the beverage dispensing device can dispense an amount of carbonated or uncarbonated water, and can dispense a type and amount of flavorant. Illustrative embodiments of flavorant containers are also provided.
US11647854B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for a smart container designed to determine sensor data corresponding to fluid contained by the smart container. The smart container may container or more sensors such as a contents sensor for determining the contents of fluid being contained by the smart container. The contents sensor may determine the presence of caffeine and the smart container determine amount of volume consumed by a user. Example methods may include sending the sensor data to a server to be analyzed and displaying data corresponding to the analysis by the server.
US11647850B2
A retail display hook for merchandise packaged with a hang tab aperture includes mounting bracket with a hang bar and an access bar cantilevered therefrom. The hang bar extends outwardly along a straight portion, through an upwardly peaked portion, and followed by an upwardly angled portion. An access flap pivotally engages a distal end of the access bar, and is located above and adjacent to the distal end of the hang bar. The access flap includes an arrester extension and a blocker extension. Rotation of the access flap between a display position and an access position controls removal of merchandise to one unit at a time, requiring cyclical operation to remove more than one unit.
US11647847B2
A baby carrier includes a carrying assembly and a support sheet. The carrying assembly includes a waist member and two shoulder straps. A front end of the waist member is connected with a lower portion of the support sheet. An upper portion of a front end of each shoulder strap is connected with an upper portion of the support sheet. A rear end of each shoulder strap is connected with a middle portion of the support sheet. A lower portion of a front end of each shoulder strap forms a circular structure connected with the waist member. A fixing member is disposed on the front end of the waist member. The lower portion of the front end of each shoulder strap is slidably connected with the fixing member. A width between the two shoulder straps is adjusted by a slide of each shoulder strap on the fixing member.
US11647846B2
A bassinet includes a frame unit, two legs pivotally connected to the frame unit, a bottom plate disposed between the legs, and a lower limiting mechanism disposed on at least one of the legs. The bottom plate is detachably connected to the legs via the lower limiting mechanism. Another bassinet includes the frame unit, four of the legs pivotally connected to the frame unit and disposed angularly spaced apart from each other, an upper limiting mechanism disposed on at least one of the frame unit and the legs for limiting pivotal movement of the legs away from each other, and the bottom plate detachably connected to the legs to exert forces pushing the legs away from each other.
US11647845B2
A changing table has a changing surface on which an individual can lie to be changed or washed. The changing surface is formed from a sheet of semi-rigid material having a longitudinal center axis and having also, parallel to the center axis, first and second edges occupying nominal rest positions with respect to each other when there is no load on the surface, the said edges being fixed to first and second longitudinal members, the sheet and longitudinal members forming together a support system having for the first 10 mm of extension between the said center line and the said nominal rest position of the said first edge and between the said center line and the said nominal rest position of the said second edge an average spring rate in extension of more than 300 N/mm and the said semi-rigid sheet having a torsion coefficient of more than 10 Nm/radian.
US11647839B2
A rotating work surface system for a chair including a seat base having a top engaging surface, a seat support having top side and a bottom side and a rotating surface positioned in between the seat base and the seat support. The rotating surface includes a top side and a bottom side wherein the rotating surface is adapted to pivotally engage about an axis and a fixed position of the seat base and the seat support.
US11647838B2
A mounting apparatus for positioning a television relative to a wall and a fireplace mantel includes a mounting plate coupled to a distal end of a positioning arm and is moved and positioned according to movement of the positioning arm. The positioning arm has a linear configuration with a proximal end mounted inside an inset wall housing which is itself mounted into a wall above the mantel of a fireplace. The positioning arm is pivotally movable between a retracted configuration completely inside the wall housing and a deployed configuration outside and extending away from the wall housing. The positioning arm includes gas springs and the mounting plate includes an adjustable bracket capable of mounting televisions having large VESA patterns.
US11647834B2
A display support system includes a display support system having a pair of posts spaced apart in a first direction and upper and lower vertically spaced beams extending in the first direction. Each of the upper and lower beams has first and second ends coupled to the posts. A pair of receivers are carried by each of the upper and lower beams, wherein the receivers open upwardly in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein the receivers are movable relative to the upper and lower beams in at least the second direction. A plurality of mounting members, each having an insert portion, are removably received in one of the receivers, wherein the mounting members are adapted to be coupled to the display.
US11647831B2
A desk frame elevation structure includes an inner tube telescopically received in an outer tube and a roller unit between the inner and outer tubes. The outer tube is fixed to a base and includes a bottom plate and a first top plate. A desk board unit is fixed to the inner tube. A telescopic rod is received in the inner tube and has top and bottom ends coupled to the outer and inner tubes, respectively. The inner tube extends through an upper buffer pad disposed below the first top plate. The upper buffer pad has an upper face abutting the first top plate and a lower face for abutting an abutting edge of the inner tube. A lower buffer pad is disposed above the bottom plate and includes a lower face abutting the bottom plate and an upper face for abutting a bottom end of the inner tube.
US11647829B2
A carrying case including a main body housing providing a storage space, an opening to the storage space, a movable part or flap, a partially-detachable loop portion, and at least one fastening means. The partially-detachable loop portion has a first end that is fixedly-attached to the main body housing, and a second end that is attachable/detachable to the main body housing by the fastening means. In a fully-attached state, the fastening means holds the second end of the partially-detachable loop portion to an outer surface of the main body housing until the at least one fastening means is released, the releasing allowing a partially-detachable loop portion to move to a partially-attached state where the second end freely moves.
US11647827B2
A support pole system for supporting articles above the ground or earth includes a support pole formed from at least two elongated pole sections that are movably coupled together so that the pole sections can be moved relative to one another between collapsed and extended positions to shorten and lengthen the support pole. An article head piece is coupled to an upper end of the support pole for attaching articles to the support pole. A base assembly couples to the lower end of the support pole and has a stake configured for insertion into the ground or earth for supporting the support pole in an upright position. The stake has projecting members that engage the ground or earth when the stake is inserted therein to prevent rotation of the stake about the longitudinal axis of the stake. A cross member is positioned at an upper end of the stake to form a footrest to facilitate insertion of the stake into the ground or earth.
US11647821B2
A claw type or octopus type hair clip includes a first side, a second side, a hinge pin that pivotally couples the first side to the second side, and a lock that prevents the first side and the second side from undesirably pivoting to an open arrangement. The hair clip may include features, such as tabs that may be pressed together, that release the lock to enable the hair clip to be opened and placed over an object, such as an individual's hair. When lock-releasing features are released, the lock engages, enabling the first side and second side of the hair clip to be pivotally closed while preventing the first side and second side from pivotally opening.
US11647815B2
A magnetic buckle device has a buckle main body and an inserting head. When the inserting head is close to an insertion hole of the buckle main body, the magnetic attraction force between a first component on the inserting head and a second component on the buckle main body can assist with inserting the inserting head into the insertion hole. After the inserting head is inserted to a predetermined position, the magnetic attraction force will keep the buckle main body in an engaged state even without any additional fixing means. When the buckle main body is switched to a disengaged state and the inserting head is moved out of the buckle main body, the magnetic attraction force attracts the inserting head to attach to the buckle main body, and thereby, after moved out, the inserting head cannot move arbitrarily.
US11647814B2
In a markerless foot size estimation device 100, a shape data input unit 10 acquires three-dimensional shape data of a foot of a subject and stores the three-dimensional shape data in a shape data storage unit 20. A characteristic extraction unit 30 extracts foot shape characteristics from the three-dimensional shape data of a subject's foot stored in the shape data storage unit 20, and stores the foot shape characteristics in a shape characteristic storage unit 40. A machine learning unit 50 uses, as teacher data, foot shape characteristics and arch height stored in the shape characteristic storage unit 40 to create, through machine learning, an estimation model used to estimate arch height based on foot shape characteristics, and stores the estimation model in an estimation model storage unit 60. An estimation output unit 70 uses the estimation model stored in the estimation model storage unit 60 to estimate arch height based on extracted shape characteristics and outputs the arch height.
US11647804B2
A helmet is disclosed for protection during an impact. An inner liner may slidably couple to the outer liner through at least one return spring. The outer liner includes an interior surface with a shelf extending inward. The shelf includes an arresting surface. The inner liner has an exterior surface, an interior surface and an edge connecting the exterior surface to the interior surface. The edge faces the arresting surface of the shelf. The inner liner is slidably movable relative to the outer liner between a first position in which the edge of the inner liner is separated from the arresting surface of the shelf by a first gap, and an arrested position in which a portion of the edge of the inner liner is in contact with a portion of the arresting surface of the shelf.
US11647796B2
A smoking device includes several parts such as a bottom portion, a core portion, a slide portion, and a housing. The device also includes a bowl. The slide portion presents a rectangular plate having a first end, a second end, side edges. The bottom portion includes a bottom surface and a top surface. The top surface includes a pool defined therein to form a depth and a bottom of the pool. The housing is used to hold a central processing unit, a transmitter, a memory module, and a battery, wherein all these components are operably connected with one another. The central processing unit includes a software that is configured to control dosage, temperature, length of inhaling, etc. The central processing unit is operably connected to the transmitter adaptable to receive wireless signals.
US11647790B2
A vaporizer pod is disclosed. In various embodiments, the vaporizer pod comprises a reservoir defined by, and disposed within a housing, wherein the housing defines a central channel extending between a central channel inlet and a central channel outlet, a column disposed within the housing, an atomizer channel extending between an atomizer channel inlet and an atomizer channel outlet, and a heat conductor disposed within the column.
US11647788B2
An electronic cigarette, including an atomization part and a battery part. The atomization part and the battery part are disposed side by side in the electronic cigarette thereby preventing the e-liquid in the atomization part from flowing into the battery part.
US11647786B2
An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.
US11647785B2
An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.
US11647783B2
Devices for generating and releasing vapor. In particular, described herein are portable devices for generating a low-temperature inhalable vapor having an elongated tubular body containing a vaporization chamber and a battery-powered heater, a removable mouthpiece covering the vaporization chamber, a display configured to indicate the temperature of the vaporization chamber; a microcontroller configured to regulate the temperature of the vaporization chamber, and a control to select from among a variety of temperature settings.
US11647777B2
A nutritional composition having a total energy content of 67 kcal/100 ml or lower and including: a protein content which is 1.25 g/100 ml or lower, an energy content from protein of 7.2-8.4% of the total energy content of the nutritional composition, an energy content from fat which is at least 49% or more of the total energy content of the nutritional composition, a medium chain fatty acid content comprising 8 to 10 carbons which is less than 3 wt % of total amount of fatty acids, a sialic acid content of 10-25 mg/100 ml, a cholesterol content of 5-10 mg/100 ml, and a sphingomyelin content of 9-15 mg/100 ml is disclosed.
US11647774B2
There are proposed substance mixtures comprising (a) 20 to 80% by weight of monocyclic terpenes and (b) 80 to 20% by weight of active substances selected from the group consisting of rebaudiosides or plant extracts comprising them, steviosides or plant extracts comprising them, naringin dihydrochalcone, mogrosides or plant extracts comprising them, rubusosides or plant extracts comprising them.
US11647773B2
Steviol glycosides compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana extracts. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweeteners, sweetness enhancers, flavors, and flavor enhancers in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
US11647745B2
Disclosed is a formulation having at least two auxinic hormonal herbicides, normally used separately in applications to control a wide variety of broadleaf weeds, present in fields without cultivation, during chemical fallows, and in crops such as winter cereals, corn and sorghum, that together have a synergistic effect on weed control. This effect is even greater in the microemulsion formulation that includes at least the two active ingredients, if compared to the conventional tank mix, this greater efficiency being attributed to the chemical compatibility that exists in the “ready mix” achieved by the correct choice of emulsifiers to maintain active emulsion, physical compatibility that translates into greater biological efficacy. Preferably, the herbicidal composition has at least: (i) from 7.5% to 40% of 2,4-D in its acidic form; and (ii) from 1.2% to 35% of Dicamba in its acid formic as active ingredients, formulated together in a microemulsion type formulation.
US11647741B2
This invention relates to an improved holder for a fishing rod. typical fishing rod holders are difficult to quickly and accurately adjust. Some even require the use of a tool to adjust. The claimed invention teaches a rod holder with a convenient adjustment mechanism that allows a user to adjust the angle of the rod holder in two planes without the use of a tool and with only one hand.
US11647732B2
A pet stroller includes a canopy fabric, a supporting frame, a first longitudinal frame, a second longitudinal frame, a rear wheel frame, and a plurality of wheels. The supporting frame includes a carriage body which has an accommodating cavity and a front opening. The supporting frame includes a main supporting frame, an adjustable supporting frame and a utility frame extended from the main supporting frame to a position corresponding to the front opening of the carriage body for allowing pet's access. When the adjustable supporting frame is in a lying position, the adjustable supporting frame is pivotally moved to substantially align with the main supporting frame for maximizing a volume of the accommodating cavity. When the adjustable supporting frame is in the first inclined position, it is pivotally moved to inclinedly and upwardly extended from the main supporting frame for reducing a size of the accommodating cavity.
US11647723B2
A soybean cultivar designated 07060434 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 07060434, to the plants of soybean cultivar 07060434, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 07060434, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 07060434. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 07060434. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 07060434, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 07060434 with another soybean cultivar.
US11647710B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparation of soybean leaves having a high content of an isoflavone derivative in a dark condition and soybean leaves having a high content of an isoflavone derivative prepared thereby. Specifically, treatment of a soybean plant 20 days to 60 days after seeding with a predetermined concentration of ethylene in a dark condition was found to accumulate higher concentrations of isoflavone derivatives in soybean leaves than treatment with ethephon in a light condition, which requires a high level of energy. Therefore, when used, the method of the present invention can economically and quickly prepare soybean leaves having a very high content of isoflavones, and the soybean leaves having a high content of isoflavone derivatives, an extract of the soybean leaves, and a fraction of the extract can be advantageously used as a food and medicine material against diseases caused by estrogen unbalance and deficient antioxidant activity.
US11647704B2
A device for picking up and hauling a log or similar object and a method for its use are disclosed. The device is capable of picking up one end of the log and dragging the log behind it, but is also capable of picking up the entire log off the ground. The device can be anchored to and pulled behind a small vehicle, such as an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) or utility vehicle (UTV), or behind a large vehicle such as a car or truck. The device uses no winches or hydraulics that could break or wear out, and lifts and holds the log solely using levers and chains as attachment points. The device is able to maneuver over rugged terrain and is also able to be towed at high speeds on a road.
US11647703B2
A cable use system includes a plurality of support posts, a cable supported by the support posts, a winding device configured to wind the cable, a hoisting device coupled to the cable and configured to move in an air when the cable is wound by the winding device, and a cutting device hung from the hoisting device. The cutting device includes a cutting unit configured to cut a surface side of a tree all around.
US11647695B2
A crop elevator for a combine harvester includes an ascending section and a descending section and a housing enclosing the ascending section and the descending section. The elevator further comprises an elevator loop arranged inside the housing which includes a plurality of paddles for elevating a harvested crop. The elevator also includes a weighing system configured to determine a weight of harvested crop that is present on at least one of the paddles during an ascending movement of the at least one of the paddles in the ascending section. The weighing system includes a weight sensor configured to output a weight signal representative of the weight of the harvested crop. The ascending section of the elevator comprises a measurement section, wherein the weighing system is configured to retrieve the weight signal when the at least one of the paddles is in the measurement section of the elevator.
US11647690B2
A lawn mower robot includes a water tank configured to store water, a nozzle, and a cleaning module that is configured to clean the cutting blades of the robot by spraying water stored in the water tank on the blades through the nozzle.
US11647687B2
In one aspect, a system for controlling the direction of travel of agricultural implements may include a work vehicle having a vehicle-based controller configured to control an operation of a valve provided in operative association with the work vehicle. The system may also include an agricultural implement configured to be towed by the work vehicle. The implement may include a sensor configured to detect an operational parameter indicative of a direction of travel of the implement. The implement may also include an actuator configured to adjust the direction of travel of the implement, with the actuator being fluidly coupled to the valve such that the valve is configured to control an operation of the actuator. The implement may further include an implement-based controller configured to initiate control of the operation of the valve based on sensor data received from the sensor to adjust the direction of travel of the implement.
US11647685B2
An automated implement control system includes one or more distance sensors configured for coupling with an agricultural implement. The one or more distance sensors are configured to measure a ground distance and a canopy distance from the one or more sensors to the ground and crop canopy, respectively. An implement control module is in communication with the one or more distance sensors. The implement control module controls movement of the agricultural implement. The implement control module includes a confidence module configured to determine a ground confidence value based on the measured ground distance and a canopy confidence value based on the measured canopy distance. A target selection module of the implement control module is configured to select one of the measured ground or canopy distances as a control basis for controlling movement of the agricultural implement based on the comparison of confidence values.
US11653583B2
A resistive random access memory is provided. The resistive random access memory includes a bottom electrode, a metal oxide layer including a plurality of conductive filament regions formed on the bottom electrode, and a plurality of top electrodes formed on the metal oxide layer, corresponding to the respective conductive filament regions. Each of the conductive filament regions has a bottom portion and a top portion. The width of the bottom portion is greater than that of the top portion. The conductive filament regions include oxygen vacancies, and regions other than the conductive filament regions in the metal oxide layer are nitrogen-containing regions.
US11653581B2
A resistive random access memory cell includes a gate all around transistor and a resistor device. The resistor device includes a first electrode including a plurality of conductive nanosheets. The resistor device includes a high-K resistive element surrounds the conductive nanosheets. The resistor device includes a second electrode separated from the conductive nanosheets by the resistive element.
US11653575B2
A subelement (1) for an Nb3Sn-containing superconductor wire includes an Sn-containing core (2), an inner matrix (5) which includes Cu and surrounds the Sn-containing core (2), a region (7) of mutually abutting Nb-containing rod elements (8, 30), which surrounds the inner matrix (5), where the Nb-containing rod elements (8, 30) are each configured with an Nb-containing core filament (9; 31) and a Cu-containing filament casing (10), an outer matrix (6) which includes Cu and surrounds the region (7) of Nb-containing rod elements (8, 30). The Sn-containing core (2) has a core tube (3) into which an Sn-containing powder (4) has been introduced, the Sn-containing powder (4) being in a compacted state. This provides a subelement for an Nb3Sn-containing superconductor wire which cost-effectively yields an improved superconducting current carrying capacity.
US11653569B2
A device having a piezoelectric actuator, which can both detect the actuation force and provide a haptic feedback. The linear expansion of the actuator can be amplified in the desired direction by a deformable metal sheet. The actuator has a flat piezoelectric basic body having plane-parallel main surfaces and two electrodes. The body is designed to generate an active haptic feedback when a force exerted upon the basic body is detected. The haptic feedback is generated in that an actuator voltage, which, by piezoelectric actuator action, results in a change in the length of the basic body, is applied between the electrodes. A cymbal-shaped metal sheet is fastened to the basic body. The body is fixed with the truncated cone vertices between a base and an actuation means connected to the base and fixed by means of a bias, which is set as tensile or compressive stress.
US11653567B2
A portable electrical power generation system using thermoelectric modules to produce voltage from a temperature differential. The temperature differential is maintained using a passive cooling system including a retained liquid coolant and heat from a heated fluid.
US11653564B2
The present specification provides a compound of Chemical Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device including the same. The compound of Chemical Formula 1 used in an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device provides improved driving voltage and light efficiency, and increased service lifetime.
US11653563B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first compound represented by Formula 1 and a second compound represented by one of Formulae 2A and 2B.
US11653557B2
The present invention relates to an organic electronic device, comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and a substantially organic layer comprising a compound according to formula (I) between the first and the second electrode: wherein M is a metal ion, each of A1-A4 is independently selected from H, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C20 aryl and substituted or unsubstituted C2-C20 heteroaryl and n is valency of the metal ion.
US11653552B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display area including a light blocking area and a non-display area around the display area, a base film disposed on the display panel, a light blocking layer that overlaps the light blocking area and is disposed on a surface of the base film, a first adhesive disposed between the display panel and the base film, a window disposed on the base film, and a second adhesive disposed between the window and the base film. A first hole defined in a portion of the light blocking area passes through the base film, the light blocking layer, the first adhesive, and the second adhesive.
US11653549B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a through portion passing through the substrate and the first insulating layer, a display unit disposed on the first insulating layer and including a plurality of pixels surrounding at least a portion of the through portion, and a dummy pixel unit. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element including a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode facing each other, and an emission layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The dummy pixel unit includes a plurality of dummy pixels disposed between the through portion and the display unit, and including a metal pattern including a same material as the pixel electrode. The dummy pixels are disposed adjacent to the display unit.
US11653546B2
A display device includes a display area and a peripheral area. A display layer includes a plurality of display elements arranged thereon. A thin-film encapsulation layer is arranged on the display layer and includes first, second, and third encapsulation layers. The second encapsulation layer is on the first encapsulation layer. The third encapsulation layer is on the second encapsulation layer. A touch sensing layer is arranged on the thin-film encapsulation layer and includes touch electrodes and trace lines. The display area is partially bent about an axis, and the third encapsulation layer is bent along the axis and has a structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked. The first layer includes an inorganic insulating material, and the second layer includes a silicon carbon compound material.
US11653528B2
Provide is a light emitting device including a reflective layer including a phase modulation surface, a planarization layer disposed on the reflective layer, a first electrode disposed on the planarization layer, an organic emission layer disposed on the first electrode and configured to emit visible light that includes light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength that is shorter than the first wavelength, and a second electrode disposed on the organic emission layer, wherein the reflective layer and the second electrode form a micro cavity configured to resonate the light of the first wavelength, and wherein the planarization layer includes a light absorber configured to absorb the light of the second wavelength.
US11653521B2
An OLED display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The OLED display device includes a substrate including a display area provided with an organic light emitting element and a pad area provided with a plurality of pads, the pad area formed around the display area, an encapsulation layer formed on the substrate such that the encapsulation layer covers the organic light emitting element, and a dam formed between the display area and the pad area, the dam controlling flow of an organic film material constituting the encapsulation layer.
US11653519B2
A display device includes: an organic EL layer formed over a circuit section formed over a substrate, an insulating layer interposed between the circuit section and the organic EL layer; a cathode electrode formed over the organic EL layer in common for all pixels; and a contact electrode that is provided at an outer peripheral portion of an effective pixel region and that electrically connects the cathode electrode and the circuit section. In the display device, the cathode electrode is electrically connected to the contact electrode, on an inner side as compared to an end surface of a film formation area of the organic EL layer.
US11653518B2
A display panel includes: a substrate; a first electrode layer disposed on one side of the substrate; a pixel definition layer with a plurality of opening structures disposed on one side of the first electrode layer facing away from the substrate, where the opening structure exposes part of first electrodes. The barrier control gate is then disposed on the pixel definition layer. The first-type carrier layer, then is the light-emitting layer, the second-type carrier layer, and finally the second electrode layer, are sequentially deposit on the display panel as formed above.
US11653508B2
A polymer solar cell includes a photoactive layer, a cathode electrode, and an anode electrode. The photoactive layer includes a polymer layer and a carbon nanotube layer. The polymer layer includes a first polymer surface and a second polymer surface opposite to the first polymer surface. A portion of the carbon nanotube layer is embedded in the polymer layer, and another portion of the carbon nanotube layer is exposed from the polymer layer. The cathode electrode is located a surface of the carbon nanotube layer away from the polymer layer. The anode electrode is located on the first polymer surface and spaced apart from the carbon nanotube layer. The entire second polymer surface is exposed.
US11653506B2
A memory device is provided with a support and several superimposed levels of resistive memory cells formed on the support, each level having one or more rows of one or more resistive memory cell(s), each resistive memory cell having a variable resistance memory element formed by an area of variable resistivity material arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode. The memory element is connected to a source region or drain region of a control transistor, the control transistor being formed in a given semiconductor layer of a stack of semiconductor layers formed on the support and wherein respective channel regions of respective control transistors of resist memory cells are arranged.
US11653499B2
A semiconductor device structure comprises stacked tiers each comprising at least one conductive structure and at least one insulating structure longitudinally adjacent the at least one conductive structure, at least one staircase structure having steps comprising lateral ends of the stacked tiers, and at least one opening extending through the stacked tiers and continuously across an entire length of the at least one staircase structure. The at least one conductive structure of each of the stacked tiers extends continuously from at least one of the steps of the at least one staircase structure and around the at least one opening to form at least one continuous conductive path extending completely across each of the stacked tiers. Additional semiconductor device structures, methods of forming semiconductor device structures, and electronic systems are also described.
US11653494B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a source material, a dielectric material over the source material, a select gate material over the dielectric material, a memory cell stack over the select gate material, a conductive plug located in an opening of the dielectric material and contacting a portion of the source material, and a channel material extending through the memory cell stack and the select gate material and contacting the conductive plug.
US11653489B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a conductive region, a first data line, a second data line, a first memory cell coupled to the first data line and the conductive region, a second memory cell coupled to the second data line and the conductive region, a conductive structure, and a conductive line. The first memory cell includes a first transistor coupled to a second transistor, the first transistor including a first charge storage structure. The second memory cell includes a third transistor coupled to a fourth transistor, the third transistor including a second charge storage structure. The conductive structure is located between and electrically separated from the first and second charge storage structures. The conductive line forms a gate of each of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors.
US11653487B2
Embodiments include a transistor device that comprises a gate electrode and a gate dielectric surrounding the gate electrode. In an embodiment, a source region may be below the gate electrode and a drain region may be above the gate electrode. In an embodiment, a channel region may be between the source region and the drain region. In an embodiment, the channel region is separated from a sidewall of the gate electrode by the gate dielectric. In an embodiment, a capacitor may be electrically coupled to the drain region.
US11653475B2
An electronics cooling system includes a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly having a heat generating component connected to a base. A plurality of thermally conductive microtubes are connected to the PCB assembly with a first spatial density. The plurality of thermally conductive microtubes are connected to a heat plate of a cooling system with a second spatial density to evenly spread the heat flux of the PCB assembly over the heat plate.
US11653472B2
Heat sink and heat sink arrangements are provided for an electronic device immersed in a liquid coolant. A heat sink may comprise: a base for mounting on top of a heat-transmitting surface of the electronic device and transferring heat from the heat-transmitting surface; and a retaining wall extending from the base and defining a volume. A heat sink may have a wall arrangement to define a volume, in which the electronic device is mounted. A heat sink may be for an electronic device to be mounted on a surface in a container, in an orientation that is substantially perpendicular to a floor of the container. Heat is transferred from the electronic device to liquid coolant held in the heat sink volume. A cooling module comprising a heat sink is also provided. A nozzle arrangement may direct liquid coolant to a base of the heat sink.
US11653459B2
A server includes a chassis; a base panel fixedly coupled to the chassis; a movable panel coupled to the base panel; and a locking member fixedly coupled to the movable panel. The movable panel is movable relative to the base panel in a moving direction between an unlocked position where the locking member is configured to be disengaged with a locking panel of an electronic rack, and a locked position where the locking member is configured to be engaged with the locking panel of the electronic rack.
US11653454B2
A printed wiring board according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base film having insulation properties and a conductive pattern including multiple wiring portions laminated, the conductive pattern running on at least one surface of the base film, wherein each wiring portion includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion coating an outer surface of the first conductive portion, wherein an average width of each wiring portion is 10 μm or greater to 50 μm or smaller, and an average thickness of the second conductive portion is 1 μn or greater to smaller than 8.5 μm.
US11653451B2
A flexible circuit board and display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible circuit board includes a base film including a bending area and a plurality of signal wires formed over the bending area of the base film. At least one through-hole is defined in the base film.
US11653448B2
A circuit board module includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board facing the first circuit board, a connecting device fixed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and an adapter board fixed to the connecting device and disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The adapter board is inserted into the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US11653432B1
One example described herein includes a light-emitting diode (LED) driver system. The system includes an error amplifier configured to compare an input voltage with a reference voltage to generate a control voltage. The system further includes an amplifier output stage configured to control an output current through a first current path and a shunt current through a second current path based on the control voltage. The amplifier output stage comprises a slew-rate controller configured to control a slew-rate of the shunt current. The shunt current can be provided through a shunt resistor in the second current path and added to the output current to provide a total current through an LED string.
US11653429B2
A LED based lighting apparatus is disclosed. The light engine used in the lighting apparatus may use printed circuit board and have a plurality of LED groups that are independently controllable by a control unit. The power supply input and return paths connected to each LED group may be implemented on different layers to allow a compact footprint that may be used with traditional fluorescent encasements with relatively little modification. The LEDs may comprise a subset of LEDs having a first colour and a subset of LEDs having a second colour different from said first colour intertwined on the light engine.
US11653425B2
Method of irradiating a load placed in a cavity by radiating UHF or microwave radiation into the cavity. The method includes setting transmission durations, by setting for each of a plurality of frequencies, a respective transmission duration, repeatedly causing energy to be transmitted into the cavity at the plurality of frequencies according to a duty cycle, wherein the duty cycle defines an allotted transmission time for each of the plurality of frequencies, and switching ON or OFF transmission of the energy at certain frequencies, so that over a plurality of repetitions of the duty cycle the energy is transmitted at each of the plurality of frequencies for the respective transmission duration.
US11653419B2
The cartridge for the aerosol-generating system includes a housing defining an air inlet and an air outlet and an airflow path defined within the housing. The cartridge includes an atomizer assembly with an aerosol-generating element that is fluid permeable, and two electrical contact portions connected to the aerosol-generating element. The aerosol-generating element has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side of the aerosol-generating element is exposed to the airflow path and the second side of the aerosol-generating element is in contact with a liquid. The cartridge includes the mount that contains the atomizer assembly, where the mount covers a first portion of the first side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the airflow path, and covers at least a portion of the second side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the liquid.
US11653412B2
This application provides a data transmission method and communications apparatus, to improve transmission efficiency. The method may include obtaining, by a MAC entity of a first communications device from an upper layer, first data on each of at least one first logical channel and second data on each of at least one second logical channel, where a service type or a destination address of the first data is different from a service type or a destination address of the second data. The method may also include generating, by the first communications device, a MAC PDU, where the MAC PDU includes the first data on each first logical channel and the second data on each second logical channel; and sending, by the first communications device, the MAC PDU through a direct link.
US11653408B2
Disclosed by the present application are a discontinuous reception method, terminal device and network device, the method including: a first terminal device determining a target discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle used for the first terminal device to detect a DRX indication signal during a DRX indication cycle which is used for DRX indication signal detection, the DRX indication cycle comprising N DRX cycles, the DRX indication signal being used to indicate that the first terminal device wakes up or sleeps during an activation period of the N DRX cycles after the moment when the DRX indication signal is detected; a first terminal device detecting a DRX indication signal sent by a network device in the target DRX cycle; the first terminal device waking up or sleeping according to the DRX indication signal during the activation period of the N DRX cycles after the moment when the DRX indication signal is detected.
US11653403B2
In order to achieve the above-described object, a disclosure of this specification provides a method for performing, by a UE, a PDU session establishment request, in case information on a LADN area is changed. The method may include the steps of performing a first PDU session establishment request for a first LADN area, in case the first PDU session establishment request is transmitted from outside of the first LADN area, receiving a Reject message rejecting the first PDU session establishment request from a network system, in case the Reject message is received, transmitting a registration update request for updating a LADN area to the network system, receiving information on an updated second LADN area (LADN Service Area 2) as a response to the registration update request, and performing a second PDU session establishment request for the second LADN area.
US11653400B2
A communication system supports communication between an end node (101) of a vehicle (103) and a remote correspondent node (105) via a fixed network (107) which comprises a plurality of wireless access points (109) with a directional antenna arrangement for mm wave radio communication using directional beams. A vehicle (103) comprises wireless modems (111, 113, 701, 703) employing electronically steerable beamforming directional antennas for establishing mm wave radio communication links to the access points (109). At least one first access point (109) is arranged to transmit multipath environment data for an area supported by the access point to the wireless modems (111, 113, 701, 703). A controller (1101) of the vehicle is arranged to set a diversity property for transmissions of data from the wireless modems to the wireless access points in response to the multipath environment data.
US11653399B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The present disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A proposed method for a base station to transmit information controlling configuration of an uplink (UL) secondary component carrier (SCC) corresponding to a secondary cell in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation (CA) includes identifying first information associated with an uplink electric field of a primary cell, transmitting measurement configuration information associated with the secondary cell to a terminal, receiving a measurement report message associated with the secondary cell from the terminal, identifying second information associated with a downlink electric field of the secondary cell based on the measurement report message, and transmitting the information controlling configuration of the UL SCC of the secondary cell to the terminal based on at least one of the first information or the second information.
US11653393B2
A wireless device receives radio resource control message(s) from a base station indicating random access resources of an uplink bandwidth part of a cell, that comprises two-step random access resources. The wireless device may determine, while the two-step random access type and a four-step random access type are available for transmitting a preamble, that the two-step random access resources comprise contention-free two-step random access resources. The wireless device may also select from among the two-step random access type and the four-step random access type, the two-step random access type. The wireless device may then transmit a preamble to the base station using the two-step random access resources, based on the two-step random access type.
US11653390B2
A method of transmitting data in a telecommunications system comprising a terminal transmitting a first random access request message to the base station in accordance with the first random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the first random access request message comprising at least part of the data and a first preamble; and upon determination that the use of the first random access procedure has been unsuccessful, the terminal transmitting a second random access request message to the base station in accordance with the second random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the second random access request message comprising a second preamble.
US11653387B2
A random access method in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. A method for performing two-step random access in user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a first message to a base station (BS), the first message including a medium access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU) that includes a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU) or a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI), and a random access preamble, monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a second message from the BS within a configured time window, the second message corresponding to the first message, and determining whether the two-step random access is successful based on a result of the monitoring.
US11653386B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment may monitor for a transmission over a set of periodically scheduled resources (e.g., semi-persistently scheduled resources)) of a downlink shared channel in an unlicensed spectrum. The user equipment may receive the transmission, where the transmission indicates a channel access configuration (e.g., a listen-before-talk configuration) for accessing the unlicensed spectrum. In some cases, the transmission may include a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) that indicates the channel access configuration. The transmission may additionally indicate at least one uplink channel over which the user equipment may transmit a message and/or a channel occupancy time associated with a successful acquisition of the unlicensed spectrum by the base station. The user equipment may transmit a message (e.g., an acknowledgement) based on the channel access configuration.
US11653382B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting a narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) preamble in a narrow band (NB)-Internet of things (IoT) system supporting a frame structure type 2. More specifically, the method performed by a user equipment includes receiving, from a base station, control information related to an uplink-downlink configuration; and transmitting, to the base station, the NPRACH preamble based on parameters related to a NPRACH preamble transmission related to the received control information.
US11653381B2
Method and apparatus for a user equipment (UE) transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system are disclosed. For this end, the UE, receiving first uplink grant information and logical channel priority information associated with the first uplink grant, constructs a first data unit including data from one or more radio bearers with first logical channel priority corresponding to the logical channel priority information. And, the UE transmits the first data unit to a network.
US11653378B2
A base station (eNB) determines device-to-device (D2D) transmission parameters for signal transmission over a D2D communication link between a first user equipment (UE) device and a second UE device. The eNB instructs the first UE device to transmit a reference signal that is received by the second UE device. The second UE device reports D2D channel characteristic information indicative of the received reference signal. Based on the D2D channel characteristic information, the base station determines the D2D transmission parameters and provides the parameters to the first UE device.
US11653377B2
Disclosed is a method for signaling control information for coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission in a wireless communication system. The control information signaling method for CoMP transmission is performed by a base station and comprises providing, through RRC signaling, a terminal with setup information on each CSI-RS resource of a CoMP measurement group which is set in the terminal; and selectively providing, through DCI, the terminal with control information which indicates mapping of the PDSCH resource element corresponding to terminal and at least either pseudo-same positionality information of CSI-RS or pseudo-same positionality information of DM-RS. Thus, control information signaling for coordinated multipoint transmission can be efficiently performed.
US11653371B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) associated with transmission configuration information, where the transmission configuration information includes a plurality of indicators of respective reference signals. The UE may communicate, with the base station, based at least in part on the transmission configuration information. The DCI may include a field associated with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state that includes the plurality of indicators. As an alternative, the DCI may include at least a first field associated with a first TCI state that includes a first indicator of the plurality of indicators and a second field associated with a second TCI state that includes a second indicator of the plurality of indicators. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11653358B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a scheduling downlink control information (DCI) message in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The scheduling DCI message indicates a resource allocation for a scheduled DCI message in a subsequent physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method further includes receiving, from the base station, the scheduled DCI message within the subsequent PDSCH. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11653357B2
Techniques for radio frequency uplink performance assessment utilizing downlink erasure frame analysis are provided. An indication of if a received frame has been determined to be an erasure frame is received from a plurality of receiver wireless communications devices. The indications of if the received frame has been determined to be an erasure frame are aggregated. The frame identified by the frame identifier is declared to be an erasure frame when at least one of the plurality of wireless communications devices has indicated the received frame has been determined to be an erasure frame. That an error occurred on an uplink between the sender wireless communication device and the RAN is determined when the frame is declared an erasure frame.
US11653352B2
A user equipment (UE) and a method for system information (SI) modification and acquisition procedure are provided. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a paging radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI) from a base station, the DCI including an SI modification bit and a public warning system (PWS) notification bit; performing an SI acquisition procedure upon determining that the SI modification bit is set; and acquiring at least one of an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification and a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification upon determining that the PWS notification bit is set.
US11653349B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) of a group of UEs may communicate with other members of the group to provide data or other information via sidelinks. The UE may transmit a groupcast sidelink request to the base station. After receiving the sidelink request, the base station may send a sidelink grant (e.g., transmit or receive grant) in downlink control information (DCI) to the UEs in the sidelink groupcast communications group. The sidelink grant may include information for each hop such as which UEs are going to transmit or receive, the reception or transmission beams of the UEs, time and frequency resources, or the data to forward or relay. In some examples, a UE may relay information to other UEs in the sidelink groupcast communications group.
US11653344B2
An AP determines an overall frequency bandwidth of an operating channel of a WLAN, and one or more punctured sub-channels for the operating channel. The AP transmits a first packet to one or more client stations of the WLAN, the first packet specifying i) the overall frequency bandwidth of the operating channel, and ii) the one or more punctured sub-channels. The AP receives a second packet that includes an RTS frame from a first client station. The AP determines that one or more sub-channels in the operating channel are not idle from the standpoint of the AP, and in response to receiving the second packet, the AP transmits a third packet that includes a CTS frame that indicates to the one or more client stations of the WLAN that only a subset of sub-channels in the operating channel is reserved for a transmit opportunity of the first client station.
US11653339B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive from each of a plurality of other wireless communication devices first information specifying at least one communication resource requested to be allocated; and a transmitter configured to transmit second information specifying at least one communication resource allocated to each of the other wireless communication devices based on the first information. The transmitter is configured to transmit signals via the communication resources specified in the second information and the receiver is configured to receive signals via the communication resources specified in the second information.
US11653333B2
A method and apparatus for activation and/or deactivation for a pool of resources is provided. A first device operating in a wireless communication system receives, from a network, a configuration of one or more resource pools for autonomous resource selection, selects a resource pool for a logical channel from among the one or more resource pools based on data being available in the logical channel, and transmits, to a second device, information on the selected resource pool.
US11653318B2
Systems and methods for network coordination are disclosed. A method comprises listening to a primary device during a receiving slot group of a primary/secondary (P/S) piconet shared between the primary device and the secondary device, determining based on the listening during the receiving slot group whether the primary device is attempting to communicate with the secondary device, listening to a host device on a host piconet during a transmitting slot group of the P/S piconet in response to a determination that the primary device is not attempting to communicate with the secondary device, and transmitting to the primary device over the P/S piconet during the transmitting slot group of the P/S piconet in response to a determination that the primary device is attempting to communicate with the secondary device.
US11653317B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In an example, a method includes a first node receiving a precision time protocol (PTP) message, identifying one or more timing domains to be supported by the first node based at least in part on the PTP message, and sending, to a second node of the wireless communication network, an indicator of the one or more timing domains to be supported by the first node. Another example at a node includes receiving, from additional nodes of the wireless communication network, indicators of one or more timing domains supported by the additional nodes, receiving a PTP message associated with a timing domain, and sending the PTP message to a subset of the additional nodes based at least in a part on the indicators of one or more timing domains supported by the additional nodes.
US11653310B2
A method for determining a transmit power includes: determining, by UE, a transmit power of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) based on a downlink pathloss of at least one of a serving cell or one or more neighbor cells, wherein the SRS transmission is for positioning purpose.
US11653300B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling acknowledgement and retransmission timers during sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) communication. An example method by a transmitter user equipment (UE) generally includes transmitting a first repetition of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a receiver UE prior to entering an inactive state, while the transmitter UE is operating in a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) mode; returning to an active state to monitor for acknowledgment feedback from the receiver UE, wherein the return is based on a first timer relative to an end of the first repetition of the PSSCH; remaining in the active state for a duration defined by a second timer; and taking one or more actions depending on whether the transmitter UE receives acknowledgment feedback during the duration indicating failed reception of the first repetition of the PSSCH by the receiver UE.
US11653287B2
A method to operate an apparatus comprises: receiving and/or determining (102) a plurality of condition information characterizing communication paths for communicating with at least one endpoint, wherein the communication paths differ at least in a respective radio channel; receiving and/or determining (104) an application information characterizing at least one communication property of an application; determining (106) a replication decision in dependence on the plurality of condition information and in dependence on the application information; and transmitting (110) a data packet associated with the application on one or a set of the different communication paths in dependence on the replication decision.
US11653284B1
A central routing function (CRF) platform. The CRF platform comprises at least one processor; a non-transitory memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor that stores a plurality of prioritized international call route lists where each prioritized international call route list associates alternative international communication service carrier routes in a prioritized order with an international telephone number; and a call process application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor, receives a request for a prioritized international call route list from a network element, where the request comprises an international telephone number, pads out the international telephone number received from the network element to form a 15-digit number, looks up a prioritized international route list using the 15-digit number in the non-transitory memory, and sends the prioritized international route list to the network element.
US11653283B2
Enhanced Common Packet Radio Interface (eCPRI) based Fronthaul forms the foundation for open radio access network (O-RAN). O-RAN envisages splitting the radio into two parts, a Distributed Unit (DU) and Radio Units (RU), interconnected using high speed Fronthaul links. O-RAN and eCPRI for 5G/NR place demands for high speed Fronthaul with low latency, and high network bandwidth requirements. In the present disclosure, embodiments for configurable eCPRI Fronthaul solutions are disclosed. Various hardware accelerator implementations are presented for control plane and user plane traffic. The hardware accelerator implementation may support DU and RRU functionality required by eCPRI with minimal software intervention. The configurable eCPRI Fronthaul may support different data flows and meet different performance demands of DU and RRU. Scalable architecture may be applied for the configurable eCPRI Fronthaul to allow stacking of multiple hardware accelerators via a high-speed network interconnect, and overall performance and throughput may be improved.
US11653280B2
A wireless apparatus, which is used as a first wireless apparatus in a wireless system that includes the first wireless apparatus and a plurality of second wireless apparatuses, includes: a communication circuit for receiving a result of measurement of a first channel from each of the plurality of second wireless apparatuses that communicate with each other via the first channel; and a control circuit for executing a first process when the result of the measurement is lower than a predetermined quality, wherein the first process causes the communication circuit to transmit a switching instruction to each of the plurality of second wireless apparatuses, to establish a second channel between the wireless apparatus and each of the plurality of second wireless apparatuses, and to switch wireless communication between each of the plurality of second wireless apparatuses via the first channel to wireless communication via the second channel.
US11653278B2
A method for localizing a voice call is disclosed, comprising: receiving an originating leg setup message for an originating leg bearer from the first base station for a first user equipment (UE); creating a first call correlation identifier and storing the first call correlation identifier in association with the first UE; extracting a second call correlation identifier from a terminating leg setup message for a terminating leg bearer received from the core network; determining a real time protocol (RTP) localization status for the originating leg bearer and the terminating leg bearer based on matching the second call correlation identifier of the terminating leg against the stored first call correlation identifier of the originating leg; and sending transport layer assignment messages to the first base station to redirect RTP packets from the first UE to the second UE via the terminating leg bearer without the RTP packets transiting the core network.
US11653272B2
Disclosed are a communication method for merging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for supporting a reservation resource, and according to the present invention, a method for a base station in a communication system comprises a step of transmitting reservation resource-related information to a terminal, determining, on the basis of the reservation-related information, whether a first signal is mapped to the reservation resource and a resource, in which the first signal to be transmitted to the terminal is overlapped, and transmitting the first signal to the terminal on the basis of the determination.
US11653269B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for an enhanced query and response message for a recommended bit rate for uplink and/or downlink streaming. The techniques generally include generating a query message indicating a requested data rate for streaming services, wherein the requested data rate is indicated via a bit rate field and one or more additional bits, and sending the query message to a base station.
US11653258B2
A system that can detect a congested network node device that is overloaded due to number of user equipment (UE) devices connected to the network node device being determined to have exceeded a connection threshold; determine a second network node device that is available to establish connections with at least some of the UEs connected to the congested network node device; identify a third network node device that is transferring UE devices to the congested network node device to create additional connections; and transmit a cell individual offset (CIO) parameter and cell hysteresis offsets to the third network node device to reduce transferring UE devices to the congested network node device, and another CIO parameter and cell hysteresis offsets to the second network node device to increase establishment of the UE connection from the congested network node device.
US11653255B2
A control apparatus (40) determines a control value to be supplied to a node (604) in a communication network so as to achieve a setpoint of Quality of Service (QoS) performance required by a traffic flow transferred through the communication network. This control value causes the node (604) to adjust allocation of network resources to the traffic flow. The control apparatus (40) corrects the control value to be supplied to the node (604) on the basis of a control delay between the control apparatus (40) and the node (604) and on the basis of a trend in changes in a traffic-related parameter. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to stabilizing control for guaranteeing QoS performance required by a traffic flow even when there is a non-negligible control delay.
US11653250B2
A network platform manages the provisioning of a UE with a dominant identity profile and a recessive identity profile. The dominant profile is associated with a user's existing wireless data plan and the recessive profile corresponds to a data plan of a provider of device, or machine-to-machine, services to the UE. The UE uses the two profiles to transmit separate data contexts on separate respective bearers. When managing two separate bearers, the UE always uses the dominant profile first for managing a handoff to a stronger cell. The UE reports that the new cell that now serves the dominant context is the only cell that has enough strength to support the recessive context, even if other cells near the UE have signals strong enough. This necessarily causes the recessive context to always be handed off to the same cell to which the dominant context has already been handed off.
US11653238B2
Example methods and devices are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, by a first device, configuration information from a second device, where the configuration information is used by the first device to report information about an association relationship between a zero power-reference signal resource and a non-zero power-reference signal resource. The first device can then report the information about the association relationship based on the configuration information.
US11653235B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus where a user equipment (UE) may indicate different physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capabilities (such as UE capabilities in terms of the number of control channel elements (CCEs), blind decodes (BDs), number of downlink control information (DCI) formats, etc.) per monitoring span or slot. For example, a UE may support a different number of CCEs per slot or a different number of DCIs per monitoring span for different service types (such as a different number of CCEs for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and for ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC)). A UE may indicate different sets of PDCCH monitoring capabilities (such as sets of PDCCH monitoring capabilities for different service types, monitoring spans, slots, etc.). A base station may receive the indication of UE PDCCH monitoring capability information and may configure the UE with one or more monitoring occasions accordingly.
US11653230B2
Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network optimization include receiving inputs related to signal strength and interference during operation of the Wi-Fi network; performing an optimization to determine operational parameters of one or more access points in the Wi-Fi network, wherein the optimization is based on the inputs and is configured to address an objective associated with the Wi-Fi network; and providing outputs comprising the operational parameters for configuration of the Wi-Fi network, based on the optimization, wherein the operational parameters include channel and bandwidth selection, and topology of the one or more access points.
US11653223B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to variable antenna patterns. A method comprises determining respective locations of a plurality of candidate client stations to be communicated with an access point (AP); assigning the plurality of candidate client stations to at least one of a plurality of predetermined station groups based on the determined respective locations, the plurality of station groups being associated with a plurality of antenna patterns supported by the AP, respectively, and the plurality of antenna patterns providing respective radiation coverage areas; in accordance with a determination that at least one target client station is selected from the plurality of candidate client stations for communication, determining a target antenna pattern associated with a target station group to which the at least one target client station is assigned; and causing the AP to communicate with the at least one target client station using the target antenna pattern.
US11653221B2
A system and method of cognitive radio control to allow for low probability of detection and/or low probability of exploitation communications in a contested or hostile environment. The cognitive radio system of the present disclosure can reason over policy constraints and real-time data to make dynamic changes to mission parameters in real-time.
US11653214B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11653213B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11653210B2
A vehicle communication processor includes a communication control unit that receives digitally signed information from an external device, and a first control processing unit and a second control processing unit that process information received by the communication control unit. The communication control unit or the first control processing unit includes a sign verification section that performs an authenticity verification of a digital sign of the digitally signed information. The second control processing unit includes an execution preparation section and an execution determination section. The execution preparation section performs an execution preparation process on data of the digitally signed information in parallel to the authenticity verification on the digital sign. The execution determination section determines whether the data of the digitally signed information is to be executed in a case where the digital sign of the digitally signed information is verified as being authentic.
US11653206B2
Techniques for trusted roaming between identity federation based networks. A first wireless access point (AP) receives a roaming request from a wireless station (STA), to roam from the first AP to a second AP. The first AP is associated with a first access network provider (ANP), the second AP is associated with a second ANP, and the first ANP is different from the second ANP. Authentication information relating to the STA is transmitted from the first ANP to the second ANP using a trusted connection. The trusted connection was previously established between the first ANP and the second ANP based on a query to an identity federation to which both the first and second ANP belong. The STA is de-associated from the first AP. The STA is re-associated at the second AP using the transmitted authentication information.
US11653205B2
A first communication node may provide first and second NAS connection identifications for respective first and second NAS connections between the first and a second communication node, with the first and second NAS connection identifications being different and the first and second NAS connections being different. A first NAS message may be communicated between the first and second communication nodes over the first NAS connection, including at performing integrity protection for the first NAS message using the first NAS connection identification and/or performing confidentiality protection for the first NAS message using the first NAS connection identification. A second NAS message may be communicated between the first and second communication nodes over the second NAS connection, including performing integrity protection for the second NAS message using the second NAS connection identification and/or performing confidentiality protection for the second NAS message for confidentiality protection using the second NAS connection identification.
US11653202B2
A method for edge network authentication and access, implemented by an edge server, including receiving user equipment (UE) information from an application client executed on a UE to establish a connection between the edge server and the UE, verifying whether the UE has authorization to the local access point name (APN) based on the UE information, generating a session key when the UE has authorization to the local APN, sending the session key to the UE, receiving a request to access content of an application on a content server from the UE, decrypting the information to obtain a key, comparing the key with the application key to validate the UE, verifying identifiers of the UE when the UE is valid, identifying the application on the content server to obtain the content based on the request, encrypting and sending a session identifier to the UE based on a new application key.
US11653194B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate resiliency, overload control, and/or the like for an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile network architecture. In one instance, a method is provided that includes initiating, by a buddy AMF, a heartbeat exchange with a primary AMF. The method may further include identifying a status condition for the primary AMF by the buddy AMF based on the heartbeat exchange and providing a status indication to a radio access network node by the buddy AMF based on the status condition for the primary AMF.
US11653168B2
An audio navigation device comprising an input means for inputting two or more audio pieces into the navigation device; a spatialization means for allocating a position in the form of a unique spatial coordinate to each audio piece and arranging the audio pieces in a multi-dimensional arrangement; a generating means for generating a binaural audio output for each audio piece, wherein the audio output simulates sounds that would be made by one or more physical sources located at the given position of each audio piece; an output means for simultaneously outputting multiple audio pieces as binaural audio output to a user; a navigation means for enabling a user to navigate around the audio outputs in the multi-dimensional arrangement; and a selection means for allowing a user to select a single audio output.
US11653166B2
A device includes a memory configured to store instructions. The device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to obtain spatial audio data representing audio from one or more sound sources. The processor is also configured to execute the instructions to generate first directional audio data based on the spatial audio data. The first directional audio data corresponds to a first arrangement of the one or more sound sources relative to an audio output device. The processor is further configured to generate second directional audio data based on the spatial audio data. The second directional audio data corresponds to a second arrangement of the one or more sound sources relative to the audio output device. The second arrangement is distinct from the first arrangement. The processor is also configured to generate an output stream based on the first directional audio data and the second directional audio data.
US11653165B2
A sound signal output method of outputting sound to a plurality of areas comprises obtaining a sound signal of a sound source, receiving a setting of reproduction information indicating whether or not to output the sound signal of the above-mentioned sound source to each of the plurality of areas where the above-mentioned sound signal is to be output, and outputting the above-mentioned reproduction information and the above-mentioned sound signal, or reproducing the above-mentioned sound signal based on the above-mentioned reproduction information.
US11653161B2
The present disclosure relates to a socket connector for a hearing device. The hearing device comprises a Behind-The-Ear (BTE) unit and a Receiver-In-the-Ear (RIE) unit, the BTE unit comprising a frame, wherein the frame comprises electronic components of the BTE unit, the RIE unit comprising a plug connector configured for providing an electrical connection between the RIE unit and the BTE unit. The socket connector is connectable to the frame of the BTE unit and is configured for detachably connecting the plug connector to the frame.
US11653154B2
The present disclosure relates to a hearing device having a microphone, where most of the microphone is shielded by an outer shielding of the hearing device. An inlet in the outer shielding allows sound from outside the hearing aid to travel to the microphone to be picked up by it. However, the combination of the microphone and the inlet results in the microphone becoming more sensitive at some audible frequencies. A damping filter positioned in connection with the inlet acts to counter the acoustic effect of the inlet by damping sound in the audible frequency range, where the microphone has increased sensitivity.
US11653151B2
The present disclosure relates to a speaker device. The speaker device may include a core housing, a circuit housing, an ear hook, and a housing sheath. The circuit housing may be configured to accommodate a control circuit or a battery. The control circuit or the battery may be configured to drive an earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound. The core housing may be configured to accommodate the earphone core. The core housing may include a housing front panel facing a human body and a housing rear panel opposite to the housing front panel. The earphone core may be configured to cause the housing front panel and the housing rear panel to vibrate. Vibration of the housing front panel may have a first phase, and vibration of the housing rear panel may have a second phase. An absolute value of a difference between the first phase and the second phase may be less than 60 degrees when a frequency of each of the vibration of the housing front panel and the vibration of the housing rear panel is within a range between 2000 Hz and 3000 Hz. The ear hook may be configured to connect the core housing and the circuit housing. The housing sheath may at least partially cover the circuit housing and the ear hook. The housing sheath may be made of a waterproof material. The waterproof effect of a speaker device may be improved through sealed connections between various components of the speaker device in this the present disclosure.
US11653150B2
This application relates to audio driving circuitry (100), and in particular to audio driving circuitry for outputting first and second audio driving signals for driving a stereo audio load (106), which may be a stereo audio load of an accessory apparatus (102) removably coupled to the audio driving circuitry in use. A load monitor (111) is provided for monitoring to monitor, from a monitoring node (112), an indication of a common mode return current passing through a common return path, together with an indication of a common mode component of the first and second audio driving signals and to determine an impedance characteristic of the stereo audio load. The load monitor (111) can provide dynamic monitoring of any significant change in load impedance. In some embodiments the load monitor (111) comprises an adaptive filter (301) which adapts a parameter of the filter which is related to the load impedance so as to determine the indication of load impedance.
US11653149B1
A system for generating surround sound is disclosed. The system may be used for replicating a sonic space that can be reproduced around an end user listener. Applications may include general rebroadcasting of an event or use in a virtual reality setting. The sound captured may be live sound or a recorded sound. The system includes microphones positioned in multiple positions on or proximate an audio source subject. Speakers are positioned relative to each other in a cuboctahedral arrangement around an acoustic point of reference. An audio processing unit connected wirelessly to the microphones processes individual signals from the microphones and transmits the individual signals to the plurality of speakers.
US11653148B2
Certain embodiments relate generally to modifying audio playing on a first device based on detection of that audio by a second device. Other embodiments relate to transferring audio between a first device and a second device. More particularly, audio playing from a first device may be muted, stopped, or adjusted in volume based on detection of that audio by, or interaction with, a second device. Likewise, audio may be transferred from a first device to a second device based on communications between the first and second devices, proximity of the first and second devices relative to one another, proximity of a user to either the first or second device, and so on.
US11653143B2
A sensor assembly includes a housing having an external-device interface and a sound port to an interior to the housing. A transducer and an electrical circuit are disposed within the housing. The transducer is acoustically coupled to the sound port while the electrical circuit is electrically coupled to the transducer and the external-device interface. A cavity is formed in a portion of the sensor assembly. In some embodiments, the portion is a base of the housing of the sensor assembly. In other embodiments, the portion is a sound port adapter coupled to the sensor assembly. In any case, the cavity is acoustically coupled to the interior of the housing via the sound port and includes a wall portion structured to modify an acoustic property of the sensor assembly.
US11653136B2
The present disclosure relates to a speaker device including a core housing. The core housing may accommodate an earphone core. An absolute value of a difference between a first phase of a vibration of a housing panel of the core housing caused by the earphone core and a second phase of the housing back of the core housing caused by the earphone core may be less than 60 degrees when a frequency of each of the vibration of the housing panel and the vibration of the housing back is between 2000 Hz and 3000 Hz. A button may be disposed at a button hole on the circuit housing, and move relative to the button hole to generate a control signal for a control circuit to cause the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound. An elastic pad may be disposed between the button and the button hole.
US11653129B2
A multimodal audio broadcast assembly for selectively enabling individual and group listening includes a pair of earbuds and a docking station. Each earbud is selectively engageable a respective ear of a user so that the earbud is removably engaged to the respective ear. The earbuds can receive wirelessly an audio signal from an electronic device and can broadcast the audio signal into the ears of the user. The docking station operationally engages the pair of earbuds so that the docking station is positioned to charge the pair of earbuds. The docking station also can receive the audio signal from the electronic device. A dock speaker is engaged to the docking station and is positioned to selectively broadcast the audio signal.
US11653114B2
An embodiment includes: a semiconductor substrate including a pixel well region and a peripheral well region; a pixel ground line arranged above the pixel well region; a pixel well contact between the pixel ground line and the pixel well region; pixels arranged to form columns in the pixel well region; a reference signal generation circuit arranged in the peripheral well region; and comparator units arranged in the peripheral well region, provided to respective columns, and each configured to receive the pixel signal from the pixels on a corresponding column and the reference signal. Each comparator unit includes a comparator having a first input node that receives the pixel signal and a second input node that receives the reference signal, a first capacitor unit between the reference signal generation circuit and the second input node, and a second capacitor unit between the second input node and the pixel ground line.
US11653113B2
An image sensor includes a pixel including a reset circuit and a floating diffusion node, and outputting a pixel signal that is generated based on a voltage at the floating diffusion node, the pixel signal including a reset output that is generated based on the voltage at the floating diffusion node being reset by the reset circuit. The image sensor further includes a sampler sampling the output pixel signal to generate a sampling signal having a time interval corresponding to a magnitude of the output pixel signal, and a counter counting the generated sampling signal, based on a counter clock, to generate a counting value corresponding to the time interval of the sampling signal. The sampler samples the reset output of the output pixel signal n times to generate first to n-th reset sampling signals, where n is an integer of 2 or more.
US11653108B2
Examples described may related to an imaging sensor used by a vehicle, including a light sensor. The light sensor comprises a plurality of cells aligned in a plurality of horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns. The apparatus further includes an optical system configured to provide the light sensor with a field of view of an external environment of the apparatus. Additionally, the system includes a processing unit configured to: divide the plurality of horizontal rows of the light sensor into one or more enabled rows and one or more disabled rows; obtain image data from the light sensor by sampling one or more cells in the one or more enabled rows; and store the received image data in a memory.
US11653098B2
Disclosed is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes receiving an image including frames captured over time in a light environment including an alternating current (AC) light, extracting AC pixels corresponding to the AC light from pixels in the image, estimating visual spaces of the AC pixels based on values of the AC pixels in the frames, estimating information of the AC light included in the image based on the visual spaces, and processing the image based on the information of the AC light.
US11653095B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for image capture. For example, systems may include an image capture module including an image sensor configured to capture images, a connector, and an integrated mechanical stabilization system configured to control an orientation of the image sensor relative to the connector; an aerial vehicle configured to be removably attached to the image capture module by the connector and to fly while carrying the image capture module; and a handheld module configured to be removably attached to the image capture module by the connector, wherein the handheld module includes a battery and an integrated display configured to display images received from the image sensor.
US11653094B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation, based on image data resulting from a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor, the image shooting operation generating image data indicating a synthetic image into which a plurality of captured images is synthesized; a shake detector that detects a shaking state of the imaging apparatus; and a display that displays information, wherein the controller controls the display to display shaking state information including a plurality of shaking states detected by the shake detector during the plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.
US11653092B2
Enhanced phase detection for a PDAF sensor includes extracting pixel data from image data, the image data captured from an image capturing device having a phase detection autofocus (PDAF) sensor; extracting one or more features from the pixel data, including removing irrelevant pixel data; and determining a phase difference between the one or more features.
US11653087B2
An information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to user operation in an image-capturing device; a specifying unit configured to specify candidates of image-capturing support information to be presented to the user, based on the user operation in the image-capturing device: a control unit configured to control a timing of displaying the specified candidates of the image-capturing support information on a display unit of the image-capturing device, based on the user operation in the image-capturing device; and a setting unit configured to set the image-capturing support information, which is selected by the user, on the image-capturing device, out of the candidates of the image-capturing support information displayed on the display unit of the image-capturing device.
US11653086B2
One or more systems and/or methods for capturing an image are provided. In an example, an application interface (e.g., a weather application interface), within which the image is to be populated, may be identified. The application interface may be evaluated to identify display context (e.g., a temperature label, weather visual effect, a weather icon, etc.) of the application interface. A camera user interface, associated with a camera of a device, may be displayed to a user. The display context may be overlaid a real-time image capture preview provided by the camera user interface so that the user may preview how the image may appear when used as a background image for the application interface (e.g., how a scene of a park may appear when the temperature label, weather icon, etc. are displayed over the background image). The image may be captured through the camera user interface utilizing the camera.
US11653084B2
A method of configuring a camera comprising: collecting a video data with the camera, providing a plurality of imaging profiles, each imaging profile being associated with a set of scene characteristics, for each imaging profile, generating a spatial output data in dependence on the video data and the set of scene characteristics of the imaging profile, wherein the spatial output data is indicative of spatial locations of events detected in the video data matching one or more of the scene characteristics, performing a comparison of the spatial output data of each of the plurality of imaging profiles, selecting a preferred imaging profile in dependence on the comparison, configuring the camera to operate according to the preferred imaging profile.
US11653077B2
A camera module includes an imaging lens assembly, an image sensor, a first reflecting member and a first driving apparatus. The imaging lens assembly is for converging an imaging light on an image surface. The image sensor is disposed on the image surface. The first reflecting member is located on an image side of the imaging lens assembly, the first reflecting member is for folding the imaging light, and has a first translational degree of freedom. The first reflecting member is assembled on the first driving apparatus, and the first driving apparatus is for driving the first reflecting member moving along the first translational degree of freedom.
US11653075B2
In general, in an aspect, second look advertising is enabled. During an original advertisement selection process at a network infrastructure, original-selection advertisements are selected for play back with a streaming format video on a viewer device. After the original advertisement selection process, the streaming format video is presented on the viewer device together with advertisements that are provided by a helper process and can include the original-selection advertisements or other advertisements or both.
US11653074B2
System and methods are described for generating one or more viewable highlight playbacks, such as, for example, a viewable highlight playback including highlights of a sporting event that may be viewed essentially on demand. The system and methods transform raw digital media data associated with the event to a playback instruction signal including key highlights of the event to be viewed over a predetermined time period while capturing an essence of the event. The system and methods allow control of a viewing of the viewable highlight playback utilizing, at least in part, the playback instruction signal.
US11653073B2
Technology for a display device is described. The display device can include at least one display screen operable to show at least one display panel. The display device can include a controller. The controller can receive a content frame from a content source over a transport topology. The controller can receive a presentation timestamp (PTS) associated with the content frame, where the PTS indicates an earliest time at which the content frame is to be displayed at the display device. The controller can provide the content frame for display on the display panel at a subsequent panel refresh opportunity in accordance with the PTS.
US11653065B2
Scenes in video images are identified based on image content of the video images. Regional cross sections of the video images are determined based on the scenes in the video images. Image portions of the video images in the regional cross sections are encoded into multiple video sub-streams at multiple different spatiotemporal resolutions. An overall video stream that includes the multiple video sub-streams is transmitted to a streaming client device.
US11653062B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine audio source impact on an audience of media are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: divide audio of monitored media into successive audio segments; perform speaker identification on the audio segments; generate confidence values for speakers identified in the audio segments; generate speaker identification data for ones of the speakers having respective confidence values that satisfy a threshold; and analyze the speaker identification data to determine a speaker impact on audience ratings data.
US11653056B2
A set-top box with enhanced behavioral controls and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a signal input, a signal output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may pair with an electronic door locking apparatus coupled to a door that is room-collocated with the set-top box in a hospitality establishment. The set-top box may then reprogram the electronic door locking apparatus as well as control amenities, such as a display, in response to presence signal from the electronic door locking apparatus.
US11653055B2
Systems and methods for selecting network-connected devices to provide device functions for an event
Systems and methods are provided for selecting one or more network-connected devices to provide device functions required by an event. A media guidance application may detect an event in which a user is currently engaged. The media guidance application may identify a set of device capabilities associated with the event. The media guidance application may search, within a plurality of network-connected devices of the user, to identify one or more devices that enable functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities to be perceptible to the user, and the media guidance application may instruct the identified one or more devices to provide the functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities associated with the event.
US11653046B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a request for an instance of content and determines content metadata for the instance of content. A metric for concurrent playback sessions based on the content metadata is determined. The concurrent playback sessions are actively streaming content. The method evaluates the request to block or allow the request based on comparing the metric for concurrent playback sessions to a threshold for the concurrent playback sessions.
US11653041B2
A statistical multiplexer is provided with a series of encoders that encode media streams at different bitrates to reduce jitter. The encoded media streams are transmitted to a multiplexer over a network and experience jitter that is reduced by a de-jitter arrangement. The multiplexer rearranges a transmit time of select packets in select ones of the media streams received over the network when a total group bandwidth available on the transmission channel over which the multiplexed media stream is to be transmitted is less than a sum of the bandwidths of the media streams because of the jitter and de-jitter process experienced by the media streams. The rearranging causes the bandwidth of the multiplexed media stream to be no greater than the total group bandwidth of the transmission channel without exceeding a maximum bit rate at which each individual encoded media stream is configured.
US11653031B2
A method is provided that includes receiving pictures of a video sequence in a video encoder, and encoding the pictures to generate a compressed video bit stream that is transmitted to a video decoder in real-time, wherein encoding the pictures includes selecting a picture to be encoded as a delayed duplicate intra-predicted picture (DDI), wherein the picture would otherwise be encoded as an inter-predicted picture (P-picture), encoding the picture as an intra-predicted picture (I-picture) to generate the DDI, wherein the I-picture is reconstructed and stored for use as a reference picture for a decoder refresh picture, transmitting the DDI to the video decoder in non-real time, selecting a subsequent picture to be encoded as the decoder refresh picture, and encoding the subsequent picture in the compressed bit stream as the decoder refresh picture, wherein the subsequent P-picture is encoded as a P-picture predicted using the reference picture.
US11653030B2
An asymmetric deblocking method for deblocking a boundary between a P block and a Q block such that 5 samples within the P block and 7 or 3 samples within the Q block are modified. The method includes determining a value refP based on at least p5, determining a value refQ based on at least qx, wherein qx is q3 or q7; determining a value refMiddle based on at least p0 and q0, wherein p0 is directly adjacent to the boundary and q0 is directly adjacent to the boundary; performing a linear interpolation between refP and refMiddle; and performing a linear interpolation between refQ and refMiddle.
US11653009B2
Systems and methods are provided for encoding a multi-pixel caching scheme for lossless encoders. The systems and methods can include obtaining a sequence of pixels, determining repeating sub-sequences of the sequence of pixels consisting of a single repeated pixel and non-repeating sub-sequences of the sequence of pixels, responsive to the determination, encoding the repeating sub-sequences using a run-length of the repeated pixel and encoding the non-repeating sub-sequences using a multi-pixel cache, wherein the encoding using a multi-pixel cache comprises, encoding non-repeating sub-sequences stored in the multi-pixel cache as the location of the non-repeating sub-sequences in the multi-pixel cache, and encoding non-repeating sub-sequences not stored in the multi-pixel cache using the value of the pixels in the non-repeating sub-sequences.
US11653008B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data transferred from an adaptation parameter set (APS) can be signaled through a hierarchical structure, and restrictions are placed on the scaling list data transferred from the APS, whereby the amount of data to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and easiness in implementation can be provided.
US11653002B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, an operation associated with a list of motion candidates based on a condition related to a characteristic of the current block. The list of motion candidates is constructed for a coding technique or based on information from previously processed blocks of the video. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11652999B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method performed by the image decoding apparatus, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: determining a current block by splitting an image on the basis of split information acquired from a bitstream; determining a quantization parameter of the current block; and determining a transform coefficient of the current block on the basis of the quantization parameter.
US11652995B2
Provided are an encoding method and apparatus, and a decoding method and apparatus for adaptively selecting a context model used to entropy-encode and entropy-decode a syntax element, based on various shapes of coding units. The image decoding method includes: determining a context model based on block shape information including at least one of a shape, direction, width, ratio of width and height, or size of a coding unit; obtaining, from a bitstream based on the context model, information about a split shape mode for splitting the coding unit; and determining a split shape mode of the coding unit, based on the information about the split shape mode.
US11652985B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream including a plurality of picture parameter sets (PPSs) and a plurality of pictures at a plurality of picture sizes. A first picture size of a first picture is determined from a first PPS. The first picture is decoded at the first picture size to create a decoded reference picture. The decoded reference picture is stored in a decoded picture buffer. A second picture size of a second picture is determined from a second PPS. The second picture references the decoded reference picture according to inter-prediction. The decoded reference picture is scaled from the first picture size to the second picture size. The second picture is decoded at the second picture size based on the decoded reference picture at the second picture size.
US11652977B2
Provided is a method of calibrating a stereoscopic display device. The device includes a motor and a display panel, and the display panel is driven by the motor to rotate to realize a stereoscopic display. The method includes acquiring a control strategy of the motor and display parameters of the display panel matching the control strategy, wherein the control strategy indicates that each time the motor runs for a preset period of time, the motor is restarted; controlling the motor to run according to the control strategy, to calibrate the motor by restarting; and driving the display panel to display according to the display parameters in the rotation process of the motor.
US11652975B2
Calibration in the field is described for stereo and other depth camera configurations using a projector One example includes imaging the first and the second feature in a first camera of the camera system wherein the distance from the first camera to the projector is known, imaging the first and the second feature in a second camera of the camera system, wherein the distance from the second camera to the projector is known, determining a first disparity between the first camera and the second camera to the first feature, determining a second disparity between the first camera and the second camera to the second feature, and determining an epipolar alignment error of the first camera using the first and the second disparities.
US11652967B2
A projection device and a projection image correction method are provided. Four target coordinates of four target vertices forming a target quadrilateral boundary are obtained. A first trapezoidal boundary is obtained according to a predetermined image boundary and a first coordinate component of each of the four target coordinates. At least one edge of the target quadrilateral boundary is extended until intersecting with at least one of two reference line segments to obtain a second trapezoidal boundary. Bases of the first trapezoidal boundary are perpendicular to bases of the second trapezoidal boundary. First direction scaling processing is performed according to the first trapezoidal boundary, and second direction scaling processing is performed according to the second trapezoidal boundary, to scale an original image into a target image block aligned with the target quadrilateral boundary in an output image. The projection device projects the output image to display a rectangular projection image.
US11652964B2
Four of laser light source sections each includes a semiconductor laser. Any two of the laser light source sections are disposed in an imaginary plane perpendicular to the center axis of a luminous flux and on a first imaginary line that intersects with the center axis so as to face each other with the center axis sandwiched between the two laser light source sections, and other two of the laser light source sections are disposed on a second imaginary line perpendicular to the first imaginary line so as to face each other with the center axis sandwiched between the two laser light source sections. The laser light source sections are at the same distance from the center axis. The first light, the second light, the third light, and the fourth light are each linearly polarized light and have the same polarization direction.
US11652961B2
Apparatus and methods for remotely viewing and authenticating/validating the contents of a safe deposit box (or safe) are provided. The apparatus and methods may include a safe deposit box including a locking internal cavity, a camera, a weight sensor, a light, a control circuit, and a communication circuit. After receiving a request to view the contents and authenticating a user, the safe deposit box may take still or motion pictures of the contents and weigh the contents and send the results to the user or a server. If the contents of the safe deposit box have changed an alert may be sent to the user or a server.
US11652960B2
Embodiment systems and methods for presenting a facial expression in a virtual meeting may include detecting a user facial expression of a user based on information received from a sensor of the computing device, determining whether the detected user facial expression is approved for presentation on an avatar in a virtual meeting, generating an avatar exhibiting a facial expression consistent with the detected user facial expression in response to determining that the detected user facial expression is approved for presentation on an avatar in the virtual meeting, generating an avatar exhibiting a facial expression that is approved for presentation in response to determining that the detected user facial expression is not approved for presentation on an avatar in the virtual meeting, and presenting the generated avatar in the virtual meeting.
US11652956B2
Methods and systems for videoconferencing include recognition of emotions related to one videoconference participant such as a customer. This ultimately enables another videoconference participant, such as a service provider or supervisor, to handle angry, annoyed, or distressed customers. One example method includes the steps of receiving a video that includes a sequence of images, detecting at least one object of interest (e.g., a face), locating feature reference points of the at least one object of interest, aligning a virtual face mesh to the at least one object of interest based on the feature reference points, finding over the sequence of images at least one deformation of the virtual face mesh that reflect face mimics, determining that the at least one deformation refers to a facial emotion selected from a plurality of reference facial emotions, and generating a communication bearing data associated with the facial emotion.
US11652951B2
An apparatus corrects a measurement value obtained by measuring a first image formed using a recording element that ejects ink, to identify a density characteristic of the recording element. The apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a second image obtained by measuring the first image, an identification unit configured to identify a boundary between regions in the second image, each of the regions corresponding to one of a plurality of head modules including the recording element, and a first correction unit configured to correct a measurement value of the second image based on the identified boundary.
US11652948B2
A communication job record display device that is capable of improving display of a destination in a record of transmission and reception. A display unit displays information about a communication job concerning transmission and reception with an external device. An obtaining unit obtains record information about the communication job including destination information. A display controller controls display by the display unit. The display controller changes a destination display method based on a size of a record display screen displayed on the display unit and the destination information about the record information obtained so that the destination information will be displayed on the display screen.
US11652943B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, and a processor configured to write data related to a processing instruction that is inputted into the apparatus to the second memory instead of the first memory when a write lifetime of the first memory is less than a first lifetime threshold, based on state information about a state of the first memory.
US11652941B1
The disclosure discloses methods and systems for securing confidential content of a document. The method includes receiving a print request to print the document. A user interface is provided to the user having a secure option, the secure option further includes a partial secure option to secure partial content of the document. Based on the selection of the partial secure option, a selection of a confidential area including the confidential content in the document is received. Based on the selection, one or more coordinates of the confidential area are calculated. Then, an infrared (IR) mark is embedded in the document. While embedding the IR mark, the one or more coordinates of the confidential area including the confidential content in the document is embedded. Finally, a printed document is output with the IR mark including the coordinates of the confidential area for later identification of the confidential content and/or use such as masking.
US11652936B2
A recording device includes a housing including a recording mechanism unit configured to perform recording on a target recording medium, and a recording mechanism unit cover configured to rotate, by a rotational shaft along a first side surface of the housing, between an open state of an upper surface of the housing being open and a closed state of the upper surface of the housing being closed. The recording mechanism unit cover is configured to be inside the housing in the closed state and a second side surface and a third side surface of the recording mechanism unit cover that intersect the first side surface of the housing in the closed state are provided with a rib configured to support a second side surface or a third side surface of the housing that intersects the first side surface of the housing.
US11652935B2
An image forming apparatus that performs a setting related to a job and executes the job includes: a display that displays an operation screen; a storage that stores a setting history which is past setting information; and a controller that performs a display process to the display, a setting process of performing the setting, and a process of executing the job. The controller displays, on the display, the operation screen for selecting the setting history, performs a setting of the job on the basis of each of a plurality of the setting histories selected from the operation screen, and executes the job.
US11652934B2
A printing device includes a printing unit and a panel unit. The printing unit includes a printing mechanism that executes a printing operation, a main circuit board including a processor that controls an operation of a panel unit and an operation of the printing mechanism, and a relay board that relays a signal propagated between the main circuit board and the panel unit, the panel unit is rotatably attached to the printing unit so as to take a first attachment state and a second attachment state, the relay board includes a wireless communication device attachment portion to which a wireless communication device configured to receive a wireless signal from an outside by wireless communication is attached, and a shortest distance between the panel unit and the relay board is smaller than a shortest distance between the panel unit and the main circuit board.
US11652926B2
A method of digital printing is disclosed in which a digital image to be printed has at least one region having pixels comprising superpositioned layers of a first ink and a second ink. The method includes producing at least one sample print and calibrating misalignment of the superpositioned layers at a plurality of calibration locations on the sample print. The resultant misalignment data is provided to a morphing program to pre-deform the digital image to provide a modified digital image which compensates for misalignment during printing. The image is then printed using the modified digital image. An apparatus and a machinereadable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor are also disclosed.
US11652919B2
One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.
US11652915B2
Electronic equipment includes a center frame, a first motor, a second motor, and a drive module. The first motor and the second motor are fixed respectively at a first designated location and a second designated location of the center frame. The drive module is electrically connected respectively to the first motor and the second motor. The drive module is adapted to drive, according to a control signal, the first motor or the second motor to vibrate independently, or drive the first motor and the second motor to vibrate synchronously.
US11652912B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for requesting complete information or partial information on access points (APs) in a transmitting multi-link device (MLD) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Specifically, a receiving MLD transmits a probe request frame to the transmitting MLD through a first link. The receiving MLD receives a probe response frame from the transmitting MLD through the first link. The transmitting MLD includes a first transmitting station (STA) operating in the first link and a second transmitting STA operating in a second link. The receiving MLD includes a first receiving STA operating in the first link and a second receiving STA operating in the second link. The probe request frame includes a profile field of the second receiving STA.
US11652903B2
A method and system of multimedia streaming services using DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) are disclosed. According to this method, one or more Push Directives are sent from a client to a server to indicate information related to media data requested. Each Push Directive comprises a Push type including Push-rate and Push-rate Directive includes information associated with a push data rate related to the media data requested. If the Push-rate Directive is received by the server, one or more groups of data for the media data requested are pushed from the server to the client according to the push data rate. According to another method, fragmented MPDS are used, where at least one fragmented MPD omits a MPD header, MPD payload, Period header or Period payload. In yet another method, a status message group includes SharedResourceAllocation message that comprises parameters including bandwidth and pacingRate.
US11652901B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.
US11652884B2
A storage system determines source addresses, and destination addresses in a storage system, for network traffic. The storage system determines a hash algorithm, from a plurality of hash algorithms. The hash algorithm is to be used across the source addresses for load-balancing the network traffic to the destination addresses. The storage system determines that the hash algorithm more closely meets one or more load-balancing criteria than at least one other hash algorithm, of the plurality of hash algorithms. The storage system distributes the network traffic from the source addresses to the destination addresses in the storage system, with load-balancing according to the determined hash algorithm.
US11652879B2
Embodiments of the present specification disclose matching methods, apparatuses, and devices based on trusted asset data. One method comprises: analyzing trusted asset data of a first entity to obtain asset description information of the first entity, wherein the trusted asset data is stored on a trusted device; obtaining service information of a plurality of second entities; determining target service information that matches the first entity based on the asset description information and the service information; and sending the target service information to the first entity.
US11652867B2
A computer-implemented method for ingesting and presenting a video with associated linked products and metadata as a unified actionable shopping experience may include accessing a video file, receiving information about an object, the information including a link to a merchant portal or web page through which the object may be purchased, combining the video file and information about the object into a social media post, and delivering the social media post to consumers.
US11652864B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting resources. The method includes: determining the target bitrate of a target moment; in response to the target bitrate being inconsistent with the current bitrate, acquiring target address information of a multimedia resource having said target bitrate; and sending to a server a frame acquisition request carrying the target address information, the frame acquisition request being used to instruct the server to return a media frame of said multimedia resource at the target bit rate.
US11652860B2
The disclosed embodiments describe methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable media for synchronizing streamlining multimedia files among client devices. In the various embodiments, multiple client devices are configured to adjust playback of live multimedia content to synchronize playback in combination with a video conference.
US11652854B2
A device receives a call invitation message with a Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer for establishing a call between a calling party and a called party and obtains a set of network fallback rules associated with the called party. The device determines, based on the set of network fallback rules, whether to reject the call and avoid network fallback from a first wireless network to a second wireless network. The device sends, based on the determination, a call denial message without an SDP answer, to reject the call and avoid the network fallback.
US11652849B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide for identifying recommended feature sets for new security applications. In one example, a method of providing recommended feature sets for a new security application includes identifying a request for the new security application, and determining a classification for the new security application. The method further provides identifying related applications to the new security application based on the classification, and identifying a feature set for the new security application based on features provided in the related applications.
US11652833B2
An indication of a security alert and a context for the security alert is received. The context includes one or more entities related to the context and a timestamp for the security alert. Data sources for the one or more entities are searched during a time window around the timestamp. One or more anomaly detection models are executed to identify anomalies that are related to the security alert based on the context. Identified anomalies for investigation of the security alert are output.
US11652830B2
The application is applicable for use in conjunction with a system that includes connected vehicle communications in which vehicles in the system each have an onboard processor subsystem and associated sensors, the processor subsystem controlling the generation, transmission, and receiving of messages communicated between vehicles for purposes including crash avoidance. A method is set forth for determining, by a given vehicle receiving messages, the occurrence of misbehavior, including the following steps: processing received messages by performing a plurality of plausibility determinations to obtain a respective number of plausibility measurements; determining at least one context for the region at which the given vehicle is located; weighting the plurality of plausibility measurements in accordance with values determined from the at least one context to obtain a respective plurality of plausibility indicator values; and deriving a misbehavior confidence indicator using the plausibility indicator values.
US11652827B2
Various approaches are disclosed to virtualizing intrusion detection and prevention. Disclosed approaches provide for an embedded system having a hypervisor that provides a virtualized environment supporting any number of guest OSes. The virtualized environment may include a security engine on an internal communication channel between the guest OS and a virtualized hardware interface (e.g., an Ethernet or CAN interface) to analyze network traffic to protect the guest OS from other guest OSes or other network components, and to protect those network components from the guest OS. The security engine may be on a different partition than the guest OS and the virtualized hardware interface providing the components with isolated execution environments that protect against malicious code execution. Each guest OS may have its own security engine customized for the guest OS to account for what is typical or expected traffic for the guest OS.
US11652826B1
A method including receiving, by a device from a transmitting source application, a transmission packet to be transmitted to a destination application; determining, by the device, connection information included in the transmission packet, the connection information indicating one or more parameters to be utilized by the destination application to connect with the transmitting source application; determining, by the device, a fingerprint associated with the connection information based at least in part on encrypting the one or more parameters; comparing, by the device, the determined fingerprint with a stored fingerprint stored in correlation with an identity of a trusted source application; and processing, by the device, the transmission packet based at least in part on a result of comparing the determined fingerprint with the stored fingerprint. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11652824B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for evaluation of trustworthiness of network devices are proposed. In one aspect, a first network device can determine a first determine a first probability of a security compromise of a second network device based on visible indicators. The first network device can also determine a second probability of the security compromise of the second device based on invisible indicators. The first network device also determines a trust degradation score for the second network device and establishes, based on the trust degradation score, a specified type of communication session with the second network device.
US11652822B2
Techniques for deperimeterized access control are described. A method of deperimeterized access control may include receiving, by a controller of a deperimeterized access control service, a single packet authorization (SPA) request for a session ticket from an agent on a electronic device, wherein the agent sends the request for the session ticket in response to intercepting traffic destined for a service associated with the deperimeterized access control service and determining that the agent does not have a session ticket for the service, authorizing the SPA request, providing a session ticket to the agent based on the request, receiving, by a gateway of the deperimeterized access control service, a request to initiate a session with a service, the request including the session ticket, validating the session ticket, and providing session parameters to the agent to be used to initiate the session between the electronic device and the service.
US11652821B2
This is directed to providing access to content stored on a local cloud. In particular, a device can direct a librarian service overseeing the operation of a local cloud to provide another device with access to content stored on the local cloud. The librarian service can generate credentials for the other device, and provide the credentials to the other device. Using the credentials, the other device can connect directly to the local cloud and access the content. In addition, the local cloud can validate the credentials of the other before providing access to the content. The credentials can include, for example, a key to install or load on the device. The librarian may not require, however, the user to create credentials or register with the librarian before being permitted to access the content on the local cloud.
US11652813B2
An identity authority computing device having a processor in communication with a database is described herein. The database stores a plurality of persistent user identifiers associated with a plurality of users. The processor is programmed to receive a service request over a public network, the service request including a service provider identifier and a single-use token value associated with one of the users. The processor is also programmed to determine at least one persistent user identifier associated in the database with the token value, and generate an updated service request including the at least one persistent user identifier. The processor further is programmed to generate an encrypted service request using a public encryption key associated with the service provider identifier, and transmit the encrypted service request to a service provider computing device associated with the service provider identifier.
US11652812B2
A network security system and method implements dynamic access control for a protected resource using run-time contextual information. In some embodiments, the network security system and method implements a dynamic access ticket scheme for access control where the access ticket is based on run-time application context. In other embodiments, the network security system and method implements policy enforcement actions in response to detected violations using application programming interface (API) to effectively block detected policy violations without negatively impacting the operation of the application or the user of the application. In some embodiments, the network security system uses enterprise social collaboration tools to interact with the end-user or with the system administrator in the event of detected security incidents.
US11652806B2
A key management system includes a managed system coupled to a management system through a network. The managed system includes managed device locking subsystem(s) coupled to a managed device and a key storage. The managed device locking subsystem(s) retrieve, through the network from the management system, a managed device locking key that is configured to unlock the managed device. The managed device locking subsystem(s) then encrypt the managed device locking key to provide an encrypted managed device locking key, and store the encrypted managed device locking key in the key storage. Subsequent to storing the encrypted managed device locking key, the managed device locking subsystem(s) retrieve the encrypted managed device locking key from the key storage, and decrypt the encrypted managed device locking key to provide a decrypted managed device locking key. The managed device locking subsystem(s) then use the decrypted managed device locking key to unlock the managed device.
US11652805B1
A method including transmitting, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, a first meshnet communication to the second device based at least in part on utilizing a meshnet local port dedicated for communicating meshnet communications; selectively transmitting, by the first device to an infrastructure device, a binding request based at least in part on utilizing the meshnet local port dedicated for communicating meshnet communications; and receiving, by the first device, a second meshnet communication from the second device based at least in part on utilizing the meshnet local port dedicated for communicating meshnet communications. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11652795B2
Systems and methods for providing pre-emptive intercept warning for online privacy or security are disclosed. In one embodiment, at a privacy security appliance comprising at least one computer processor, a method for may include: (1) establishing a virtual private network (VPN) connection with a computer application executed by a client device; (2) receiving, over the VPN connection, an internet protocol (e.g., HTTP or HTTPS) request for a website host; (3) communicating the internet protocol request to the website host; (4) receiving a response to the internet protocol request from the website host; (5) inspecting the response for privacy or security issues with embedded links in the response; (6) scoring the embedded links based on the inspection; (7) generating a mock webpage based on the response comprising the scoring for the embedded links; and (8) delivering the mock webpage with the scoring to the application over the VPN. The mock webpage may include links to the embedded links.
US11652788B2
In a communication system, a first mediation apparatus includes a first control device. The first control device stores in a memory a correlation database correlating a mediation apparatus ID of the second mediation apparatus with a first device ID of a device. The first controller requests a management server to register the first device ID, and receives a first command from the management server. The first controller transmits a second command to the second mediation apparatus through the firewall by using a series of procedures. The second command includes second instruction information based on the second command. The first controller transmits a first response to the management server. The second mediation apparatus includes a second control device to initiate the series of procedures and transmits a third command based on the second command to the device, and transmits a second response as to the first mediation apparatus through the firewall.
US11652787B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards locating and counting unused nodes, such as free Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address blocks. A hierarchical structure of nodes is created from an origin block to a specified lower level, and the hierarchical structure is processed using mapping and eliminating to locate free nodes. A first node group comprises node(s) in use, a second node group identifies intermediate subnets between the first node of the first node group and the specified origin block, and a third node group identifies any subnets hierarchically below node(s) in use. Unused (free) node count information is obtained based on nodes below the origin block that are not in the first node group, the second node group, or the third node group.
US11652782B1
A method for dynamically updating domain name system (DNS) records from network function (NF) profile information includes, at an NF repository function (NRF) including at least one processor, receiving a message relating to an NF profile of an NF. The method further includes constructing, based on NF service availability information in the NF profile and local configuration of the NRF, a DNS resource record for the NF. The method further includes utilizing a dynamic DNS update procedure to dynamically update a DNS resource record for the NF with a DNS server.
US11652781B2
A data processing method based on a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform includes receiving a target data packet transmitted by a terminal, determining whether the target data packet includes a network service header (NSH) tag, and when determining that the target data packet includes the NSH tag, transmitting the target data packet to a target MEC platform corresponding to the NSH tag for data processing.
US11652773B2
The system manages a data structure that defines at least one topic limit for each client computer. The data structure can cause each client computer to display different user interface formats based on a topic limit that is allowed per thread. The data structure causes some devices, which may have a limited viewing area, to only show a single-topic thread, while the data structure also causes other devices to display multi-topic threads. Thus, for high priority topics or for devices having a limited display area, the system can cause the display of a single-topic thread pertaining to a topic to which an incoming message corresponds. This feature can improve user interaction by bringing focus to high priority threads when messages of a particular topic are received at select devices, while allowing other devices to provide a broader perspective of thread formats having multiple topics when the same messages are received.
US11652772B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. In response to receiving a message, embodiments of the present invention can determine a visibility metric associated with the received message. Embodiments of the present invention can then dynamically create a list of users able to interact with the message based on the determined visibility metric. Embodiments of the present invention can then perform an action based on the dynamically created list.
US11652767B2
A method of processing messages executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. A first message for a user is analyzed for a structured content element. When found, content from a data source distinct from the message is obtained by executing an associated action. A first message display state is formed for the message comprising a message notification and the content. A messaging application user interface, comprising an electronic message list with a plurality of objects, is updated. Responsive to selection of a first object of the plurality of objects, the first object representing the first message, the user is enabled to toggle the first message display state between first and second display states, the second display state differing from the first by providing direct access to the first message.
US11652766B2
Discussed herein are dynamically generated, customized electronic messages based on, for example, data representing attributes of an electronic message to be generated for an intended recipient; and, in response to receiving the data, sending custom content triggering data based on the attributes, where the custom content triggering data represent at least a dynamic portion of customized content to be added subsequently into the electronic message while the electronic message is rendered for display to the intended recipient; generating the electronic message content, which includes the custom content triggering data; and sending the electronic message to the intended recipient; and, in response to receiving the custom content triggering data, determining attributes of the electronic message based on the custom content triggering data; and generating the dynamic portion of customized content based on the electronic message attributes.
US11652761B2
A Network-on-Chip (NoC) includes a packet transmission switch, and a corresponding method of operating the NoC includes storing packets received from an input terminal in a buffer, storing buffer locations in which each of the packets is stored in an ordering queue of an output terminal, and sequentially outputting the packets from the output terminal according to the buffer locations.
US11652749B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing data packets and implementing policies in a software defined network (SDN) of a virtual computing environment. At least two SDN appliances are configured to disaggregate enforcement of policies of the SDN from hosts of the virtual computing environment. The hosts are implemented on servers communicatively coupled to network interfaces of the SDN appliance. The servers host a plurality of virtual machines. The servers are communicatively coupled to network interfaces of at least two top-of-rack switches (ToRs). The SDN appliance comprises a plurality of smart network interface cards (sNICs) configured to implement functionality of the SDN appliance. The sNICs have a floating network interface configured to provide a virtual port connection to an endpoint within a virtual network of the virtual computing environment.
US11652746B1
Resilient consistent hashing techniques are implemented to perform requests among nodes of a distributed system. Different load balancers are assigned different groups of request handling nodes that cache data to perform request. Requests are assigned to different load balancers according to a consistent hashing scheme. Load balancers distribute requests among assigned nodes using a load balancing scheme. Different numbers of nodes can be assigned to different load balancers.
US11652744B1
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for maintaining efficient representations of prefix tables for utilization by network switches and other devices. In an embodiment, the performance of a network device is greatly enhanced using a working representation of a prefix table that includes multiple stages of prefix entries. Higher-stage prefixes are stored in slotted pools. Mapping logic, such as a hash function, determines the slots in which a given higher-stage prefix may be stored. When trying to find a longest-matching higher-stage prefix for an input key, only the slots that map to that input key need be read. Higher-stage prefixes may further point to arrays of lower-stage prefixes. Hence, once a longest-matching higher-stage prefix is found for an input key, the longest prefix match in the table may be found simply by comparing the input key to lower-stage prefixes in the array that the longest-matching higher-stage prefix points to.
US11652743B2
Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. IGMP configuration is distributed to the L2 virtual switches.
US11652740B2
A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the second channel, and configured to communicate the Ethernet-encapsulated second virtual container over an Ethernet cable to a slave for wireless transmission over a second wireless link of the link aggregation group to the receiver.
US11652730B2
An intermediate node (203) for a transport network (200) is configured such that traffic flows between at least one remote access node (201) and a central hub node (202) pass via the intermediate node (203). The intermediate node (203) is configured to selectively process a traffic flow depending on a responsiveness requirement of the traffic flow.
US11652726B2
A network device that provides packet forwarding services includes: a command line interface and a route manager. The command line interface is programmed to: obtain a command, for updating a routing control function, that specifies positional information; identify a portion of the routing control function based on the positional information; identify a syntactic style associated with the portion of the routing control function; make a modification to the routing control function to obtain a modified routing control function; and update operation of the network device based on the modified routing control function. The route manager is programmed to process a route for forwarding packets of the network device based on the modified routing control function, after the operation of the network device is updated, to obtain a processed route for forwarding the packets.
US11652723B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to ascertaining whether data messages are repetitions of a previous data message. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments characterized herein, data packets (130/131) are received (102) and which use a first time delay relative to transmission of a previous data packet (120/121) by a different transmitter. Repetitions (110A/111A) of data packets are also received (102), and which use a second time delay relative to transmission of a previous data packet (110/111) by the same transmitter. The second time delay is less than the first time delay. The received packet is identified (102) as being a repetition of an immediately-previous data packet based on a time delay between the data packet and the immediately-previous data packet, relative to the first and second time delays.
US11652722B2
The embodiments described herein can dynamically adjust timing of network bandwidth estimations by adjusting a target frequency for sending probing sequences to one or more receivers of content. The receivers receive these probing sequences from a transmitter and respond to the transmitter with network bandwidth estimations. In one embodiment, the probing sequences can use the content itself to create the probing sequences. The embodiments can be used in video conferencing applications to control how a transmitter of content can adjust transmissions based upon the network bandwidth estimations. In one embodiment, a policy can be used at a transmitter to begin a video transmission with a high frequency target for sending probing sequences (with, e.g., smaller length probing sequences) and transition to a lower frequency target (with, e.g., longer length probing sequences) when network bandwidth deteriorates and then return to the higher frequency target when the network bandwidth improves.
US11652718B2
A semiconductor device and an operating method thereof are provided. An operating method of a semiconductor device, includes monitoring a plurality of request packets and a plurality of response packets that are being transmitted between a master device and a slave device; detecting a target request packet that matches desired identification (ID) information from among the plurality of request packets; counting the number of events of a transaction including the target request packet by using an event counter; counting the number of request packets whose corresponding response packets are yet to be detected, from among the plurality of request packets by using a Multiple Outstanding (MO) counter; determining whether an MO count value of the MO counter is valid; and if the MO count value is invalid, resetting the event counter.
US11652706B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and computer-readable media for dynamically provisioning resources within a compute environment. The method aspect of the disclosure comprises A method of dynamically provisioning resources within a compute environment, the method comprises analyzing a queue of jobs to determine an availability of compute resources for each job, determining an availability of a scheduler of the compute environment to satisfy all service level agreements (SLAs) and target service levels within a current configuration of the compute resources, determining possible resource provisioning changes to improve SLA fulfillment, determining a cost of provisioning; and if provisioning changes improve overall SLA delivery, then re-provisioning at least one compute resource.
US11652701B2
An electronic device (such as a controller) is described. During operation, the electronic device receives, from a second electronic devices, information that specifies occurrences of different types of events in a network (which includes the second electronic devices). For example, the information may include counts of the occurrences of the different types of events in the network, which may be collected by the second electronic devices. Then, the electronic device aggregates the information about the different types of events in the network, and stores the aggregated information in memory. Moreover, the electronic device predicts an occurrence of an anomaly or an error in the network based at least in part on the aggregated information and a pretrained machine-learning model (such as a neural network). Next, the electronic device selectively performs a remedial action based at least in part on the prediction.
US11652698B2
A method and system for emulating physical layer (L1) connectivity between distant computing devices. Existing solutions require that the computing devices or end points directly connect to a same interconnecting (or network) device and/or employ network devices requiring awareness of the communication protocol used between the end points. Further, existing solutions typically fail to match the ingress and egress clock rates. These restrictions limit scaling of the solutions, confine the end points to a physical co-location, and/or fail to transport or replicate the physical properties (e.g., errors, proprietary signaling, clock frequency, etc.) of the data stream transmitted between the end points. The disclosed method and system overcome these limitations through implementation of a L1 connectivity abstraction between computing devices across a network, and through clock rate reconstruction using a data buffer state controlled phase lock loop (PLL) mechanism.
US11652694B2
A first router obtains a first network address of a first local area network (LAN) implemented by a second router and a first subnet mask associated with the first LAN. The first router causes the establishment of a secure communications channel with the second router. The first router determines that a computing device seeks to join the first LAN. The first router obtains an internet protocol (IP) address that has a same network address as the first network address and sends, to the computing device, the IP address and the first subnet mask for use by the computing device.
US11652687B2
A communication system that includes a base unit and one or more end units that communicate over a primary communication link using a first communication protocol and a secondary communication link using a second protocol. The secondary communication link may be a shorter range communication link than the primary communication link. The secondary communication link may be used to transmit and receive registration information, configuration settings, and status information between the end units and the base unit.
US11652684B1
A method of automatic troubleshooting, includes determining that a first parameter was degraded; identifying at least one first process corresponding to the first parameter; determining whether the at least one first process was operating while the first parameter was degraded; based on determining that the at least one first process was operating while the first parameter was degraded, identifying a problem scenario corresponding to the first parameter and the at least one first process; identifying a plurality of second parameters associated with the problem scenario; determining whether the plurality of second parameters were degraded; based on determining that the plurality of second parameters were degraded, determining that the problem scenario occurred; and based on determining that the problem scenario occurred, displaying information indicating the problem scenario.
US11652681B2
The present disclosure relates to adaptive modulation and coding scheme selection and signaling in a communication system. In particular, a modulation and coding scheme to be used for transmission of a data is selected from a set of predetermined modulation and coding schemes. The predetermination of the set is performed by selecting the set from a plurality of predefined sets. The sets have the same size, so that a modulation and coding selection indicator signaled to select the modulation and coding scheme may be advantageously applied to any of the selected sets. Moreover, a second set includes schemes with a modulation not covered by the schemes of a first set, and which is of a higher order than any modulation in the first set.
US11652677B2
Control information (126) related to the reception of data (128) within a subframe (116) is transmitted over multiple subframes (113, 116) over multiple carrier (107, 108) from communication system infrastructure (102). A controller (134) in a mobile wireless communication device (104) reconstructs the control information (126) received over multiple subframes (113, 116) based on at least some control information (130) in a first physical control channel (118) in a first subframe (113) transmitted over a first carrier (107) and at least some other control information (132) in a second physical control channel (120) in a second subframe (116) transmitted over a second carrier (108).
US11652674B2
In one example aspect, a method is provided of preparing a symbol for transmission, the method comprising applying a window function to a symbol to generate a modified symbol, wherein a property of the window function is based on a channel length of a transmission channel over which the modified symbol is to be transmitted, and causing the modified symbol to be transmitted over the transmission channel.
US11652666B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides mechanisms for identifying a source location in a service chaining topology. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a query, from a service plane implementation module executing on a host of a service virtual machine (“SVM”), for a location of a source host implementing a guest virtual machine (“source GVM”) that originated a packet in a computer network and that serviced the packet; in response to receiving the query, performing a search of bindings associated with one or more virtual network identifiers (“VNIs”) or service virtual network identifiers (“SVNIs”) to identify a particular binding that includes a MAC address of the host implementing the source GVM; identifying, in the particular binding, the location of the source host; and providing the location of the source host to the host of the SVM to facilitate forwarding of the packet from the SVM to the GVM.
US11652665B2
A respective VPN routing table for each of a plurality of VPNs can be stored on a client device. The client device can access a first VPN routing table and, using the first VPN routing table, establish a first VPN tunnel to a first VPN. The first VPN can be a first subnetwork assigned a particular network prefix. While the first VPN tunnel is currently active, the client device can access a second VPN routing table and, using the second VPN routing table, establish a second VPN tunnel to the second VPN. The second VPN can be a second subnetwork assigned the same particular network prefix as the first subnetwork. While the first VPN tunnel and the second VPN tunnel are simultaneously active, the client device can communicate data to remote devices in the first VPN and the second VPN using the particular network prefix for both.
US11652664B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to managing a second ring link failure in a multi-ring Ethernet network. In an example, an inter-connection network node in a multi-ring Ethernet network comprising a major ring and a sub-ring may propagate a signal failure (SF) event, received in response to a second ring link failure in the major ring, to one or more nodes in the sub-ring. In response to receiving the SF event, a Ring Protection Link (RPL) on the sub-ring may be unlocked to allow network traffic through the RPL and avoid loop formation on the multi-ring Ethernet network. The sub-ring may be moved to the ring protection switching state, including performing a filtering database (FDB) flush at every node on the multi-ring Ethernet network whereby all MAC addresses and related port associations for traffic forwarding are cleared from the FDB.
US11652662B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods to accelerate classification of malicious activity by an intrusion detection system are provided. An intrusion detection system can speculate on classification of labels in a random forest model based on temporary and incomplete set of features. Additionally, an intrusion detection system can classify malicious context based on a set of committed nodes in the random forest model.
US11652661B2
The claimed interface extension device is based on a network device (DCC) having at least one previously unoccupied digital data output (OUT), to which an interface extension module (IOE) having at least one supply voltage input (S) and having a plurality of digital interfaces is coupled in the claimed manner. In this way, the supply voltage input (S) of the interface extension module (IOE) is interconnected with the digital data output (OUT) of the network device (DCC), so that in event of an error, the interface extension module (IOE) and all the digital interfaces thereof can be switched off. In addition, by measuring the sum current flowing through the outputs of the interface extension module, the load diagnosis capacity of the network configuration can be extended to the interface extension device. The claimed interconnection of the supply voltage input (S) of the interface extension module with the digital data output (OUT) of the network configuration has the advantage of also implementing a fail-safe behavior for conventional interface extension modules.
US11652655B1
A microphone of a primary client device is used to capture audio for a remote conference participant. During the conference, audio is sampled from the microphone of the primary client device and from microphones of one or more secondary client devices at the same location as the primary client device. Based on a score calculated for the audio sampled from the secondary client device being higher than a score calculated for audio sampled from the primary client device, the microphone of the secondary client device is selected for audio capture for the remote conference participant. The audio is output through conferencing software to which the primary client device is connected via a user interface tile for the conference without displaying a new user interface tile.
US11652653B1
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a video-conferencing system that is a realistic analog to an in-person meeting environment, and methods of communication using the video conferencing system. In one example embodiment, a video-conferencing system is disclosed including a semi-circular screen with a plurality of cameras embedded within the screen in a peripheral array. The camera array facilitating a unique field of vision for each participant of a user within the video-conferencing system associated with a respective position of each participant relative to the user in a meeting environment.
US11652652B2
A method for managing an application exchange platform includes receiving, from a developer, a service function, wherein the service function includes configuration details for an application available through an online application exchange. The method includes deploying the service function in the application exchange, identifying a first domain event requesting access to the service function from a user, and calling the service function in the online application exchange, in response to the first domain event. The method also includes recording a metric associate with the service function and a return parameter, emitting a second domain event indicative of a completion of the service function, and charging, with a billing tool, an appropriate party based on a usage metadata for the service function. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable memory storing instructions to cause the system to perform the above method are also provided.
US11652651B1
A physical layer (PHY) processor of a network interface device operates in a low power state in which a transceiver of the PHY processor device periodically does not transmit on a communication link during a plurality of quiet time slots. In response to determining a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition associated with the communication link, the PHY processor transitions to a link recovery state in which the transceiver continuously transmits idle symbols. In response to determining that the low SNR condition has ended, the PHY processor transitions from the link recovery state to the low power state.
US11652646B2
Systems and methods for key management. An aspect of the disclosure provides for a key management system including an authenticating function, a key-management function, and at least one function. The system provides for separation of authentications and key-management functions. The authenticating function configured for receiving an authentication request associated with a terminal device (TD), authenticating the request, and sending an authentication response to the at least one function. The key-management function configured for receiving a key request associated with the TD, generating a key according to the key request, and sending the key to the at least one function. The at least one function configured for receiving a request for service, sending, to the authenticating function, the authentication request, and receiving, from the authenticating function, the authenticating response.
US11652643B2
A method for verifying content data to be used in a vehicle is provided. The method includes acquiring content data, acquiring, from partial data divided from the content data, a respective plurality of first hash values, acquiring a signature generated by using the first hash values and a key, acquiring state information that indicates a state of a vehicle, determining an integer N that is greater than or equal to one based on the acquired state information, generating, from N pieces of partial data included in the partial data, respective second hash values, verifying the content data by using each of (a) a subset of the plurality of first hash values respectively generated from partial data other than the N pieces of partial data, (b) the second hash values, and (c) the signature, and outputting information that indicates a result of the verifying.
US11652635B2
Embodiments for device pairing using optical codes are described. One embodiment is a wearable device with an image sensor configured to capture an image including a first optical code from a first host device. The wearable device decodes the first optical code, and in response to the first optical code, initiates broadcast of a pairing advertisement. The host device displays a second optical code in response to the pairing advertisement, and the wearable device captures and processes the second optical code to determine a host pairing advertisement code. The wearable device then, in response to the second optical code, initiate broadcast of a second pairing advertisement including the host pairing advertisement code. In various embodiments, a secure wireless channel is then established and used for further secure communications.
US11652629B2
The present invention is a platform and/or agnostic method and system operable to protect data, documents, devices, communications, and transactions. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable to authenticate users and may be operable with any client system. The method and system are operable to disburse unique portions of anonymous related information amongst multiple devices. These devices disburse unique portions of anonymous information and are utilized by the solution to protect sensitive data transmissions, and to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. When used for authentication, login-related information is not stored in any portion of the solution, users and devices are anonymously authenticated. The solution also permits a user to access secured portions of the client system through a semi-autonomous process and without having to reveal the user's key.
US11652622B2
Described in detail herein is a method for encrypting or encoding time-stamped location data associated with a computing device. The method converts time and location information associated with the computing device into a vector format. The method generates a code vector based on the converted time and location vector. The method sorts entries in the code vector based at least in part on a predetermined ordering scheme. The method executes a random modification to each of the sorted entries. The method compares the code vector to at least one other code vector associated with another computing device. The method identifies other code vectors within a specified distance of the given code vector. The method concludes that the computing device and the at least one other computing device were in proximity to each other during a time period corresponding to the time information.
US11652617B1
The present invention discloses a method and a device for performing authenticated ranging measurement by a first radio node. The method comprises receiving a first ranging signal from the second radio node; determining a first ranging parameter based on the first ranging signal; determining a range based on the first ranging parameter; and authenticating the second radio node based on the first ranging signal and authentication setup information comprising a condition on the first ranging signal.
US11652593B2
The present disclosure provides method and device used in UE and base station for wireless communication. A UE receives a first signaling and then operates N radio signals respectively in N time-frequency resource blocks. The first signaling indicates N1 time-frequency resource blocks; the N1 time-frequency resource blocks respectively belong to N1 frequency sub-bands in frequency domain; any of the N time-frequency resource blocks is one of the N1 time-frequency resource blocks, N being a positive integer greater than 1 and no greater than N1; the N radio signals respectively comprise N first-type reference signals, and an antenna port for transmitting each of the N first-type reference signals is associated with a first antenna port.
US11652587B2
To appropriately configure a sequence to be applied to, for example, a reference signal in a future radio communication system, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section that transmits an uplink shared channel and a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) of the uplink shared channel; and a control section that controls a sequence to be applied to the DMRS based on at least one of a maximum length of the DMRS configured by a higher layer parameter, a number of symbols of the DMRS notified by downlink control information, and whether or not frequency hopping is applied.
US11652577B2
A system includes a first node, a second node, and a third node, wherein the first node establishes a wireless communication link with the second node to perform wireless communication, and forwards connection information of the wireless communication to the third node; and the third node receives, by listening on the wireless communication link based on the connection information, transmission data sent by the second node to the first node. If an error occurs when the third node receives the transmission data sent by the second node to the first node, the third node interferes with the first node's reception of the transmission data sent by the second node, so that an error is caused when the first node receives the transmission data sent by the second node, and the second node is triggered to perform retransmission.
US11652575B2
A method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a radio link control (RLC) entity associated with a cell group of the terminal, information about a number of retransmissions of a packet, identifying whether packet duplication is activated, based on information indicating that the number of retransmissions of the packet reaches a maximum number of retransmissions of the packet, and transmitting, to a base station, a message indicating a failure of retransmission of the packet, based on a result of the identifying.
US11652574B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of at least one of a first interleaving mode for mapping codeblocks to a data channel or a second interleaving mode for reporting channel state information (CSI). The UE may map codeblocks to the data channel based at least in part on the first interleaving mode. The UE may report CSI based at least in part on the second interleaving mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11652573B2
Error correction in network packets using soft information and modified payloads are disclosed herein. The method can include extracting soft information from copies of a network packet, using the extracted soft information to select K positions in a payload of the network packet, the payload with uncertain values of bits, the selected K positions having largest levels of uncertainty, changing one or more of the uncertain values at the K positions to a selected combination of values to transform the payload to a modified payload of the network packet, generating an error detection code for the modified payload and when the generated error detection code for the modified payload matches the error detection code for the network packet, using the modified payload as a corrected network packet and processing the next network packet.
US11652572B2
Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals are provided. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction (FEC), encoding signaling data, forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and the encoded signaling data and transmitting a signal frame that includes the data groups.
US11652571B1
Performing a constant time cyclic redundancy check (CRC) over an entire packet to obtain a constant time CRC value. A first CRC is performed on an original header of the packet and a second CRC is performed on a modified header of the packet. The size of the payload of the packet is obtained. An XOR operation is performed on the results of the first and second CRC to calculate a third result. An intermediate CRC value is obtained by performing a CRC on a number of zero values corresponding to the size of the payload using the third result as an initial value. The intermediate CRC value may be employed with other packets having a same size and same header as the packet. The constant time CRC value is obtained by performing an XOR operation on the intermediate CRC value and the original CRC value contained in the packet.
US11652568B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS) includes receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions, determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs and a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, determining, based on the first number of symbols and the SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs), and receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.
US11652567B2
Methods, systems, and devices for replacement scheme for a pulse amplitude modulated bus are described. A device may receive a signal indicative of a set of data associated with a multi-level modulation scheme that includes three or more levels. The device may determine, based on the signal, a first quantity of symbols corresponding to a first level of the multi-level modulation scheme and a second quantity of symbols corresponding to a second level of the multi-level modulation scheme. And the device may modify the signal, based on a sum of the first quantity and the second quantity satisfying a threshold, to replace one or more of the symbols corresponding to the first level with a respective symbol corresponding to a third level of the multi-level modulation scheme.
US11652554B2
An optical reception device including: a wavelength selection unit configured to split an optical signal amplified by an optical amplifier into different paths according to wavelengths by using a wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer, and control a passage state of a passage target optical switch through which the optical signal is to be passed, out of a plurality of optical switches provided on the respective paths, to select an optical signal of a path where the optical signal entered and output the optical signal to a receiver; and a wavelength detection unit configured to detect the wavelength of an optical signal by using each of a plurality of optical detectors, determine the passage target optical switch based on a detection result, and output, to the determined passage target optical switch, a control signal for controlling the passage target optical switch so as to enter the passage state, the optical detectors being respectively provided on different paths that are different from the paths on which the plurality of optical switches are provided and that respectively correspond to wavelengths into which the optical signal is split by a wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer.
US11652551B2
According to one embodiment, a repair terminal includes reception means for receiving a setting value of a predetermined setting item set in an information processing device by visible light communication using light emitted by a light source device connected to the information processing device; matching means for matching a setting value of the setting item received by the reception means with a matching setting value corresponding to the setting item and determining appropriateness of the setting value; and output means for outputting a matching result of the matching means.
US11652544B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical time domain reflectometry method including the steps of feeding a plurality of unipolar optical probe signals to a near end of an optical path under test, receiving a corresponding plurality of reflected unipolar optical receive signals, creating a corresponding plurality of digital receive data signals, calculating at least one correlation signal by correlating the digital receive data signals with a bit sequence corresponding to a respective probe bit sequence, and determining the signal propagation delay between the near end of the optical path and a respective reflective position. The present disclosure also relates to an optical time domain reflectometry system in which this method is implemented and a computer program having instructions to cause the optical time domain reflectometer and to execute the method herein.
US11652543B2
A controller is configured to control a first of plural relay nodes to transmit signals representing data to one of communications terminals received from a base station or to receive signals representing data from a communications terminal for transmission to the base station, wherein, upon first predetermined conditions being met, to control a second of the plurality of relay nodes to transmit signals representing the data to the communications terminal received from the base station or to receive signals representing the data from the communications terminal for transmission to the base station, and to control the communications terminal to transmit a first signal representing at least a first part of the data to the first relay node for transmission to the base station, and to transmit a second signal representing at least a second part of the data to the second relay node for transmission to the base station.
US11652536B2
Methods, systems and devices for resource reservations for relay nodes in 5G and New Radio (NR) networks are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes performing a first set of communications between a first relay node and at least one parent of the first relay node using transmission resources that are determined by at least a first type of resources, and performing a second set of communications between the first relay node and at least one child node of the first relay node using transmission resources that are determined by at least a second type of resources. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving a slot format message from a parent of the first relay node, where the slot format message is effective in a time offset, which is based on a hop index of the first relay node.
US11652529B2
A method for acquiring an indication of a preferred beam of a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method is performed in a network node of a cellular communication network. The network node is adapted to support a plurality of beams of a signal beam-forming scheme and to communicate with the wireless communication device using at least one beam of the plurality of beams. A message indicative of the beam power setting is transmitted to the wireless communication device. Measurement signals are also transmitted. A report indicative of the preferred beam is received from the wireless communication device. The preferred beam is determined by the wireless communication device based on the measurement signals and the beam power setting. Corresponding methods for the wireless communication device, as well as corresponding arrangements, network node, wireless communication device, cellular communication network, and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11652528B2
The present disclosure relates to selections of a channel state information (CSI) report setting option by a distinct demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern. Specifically, in one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine a CSI transmission setting based on the at least one measurement of the communication channel, the CSI transmission setting is associated with a distinct DMRS pattern, and transmit a CSI report with the distinct DMRS pattern to the network entity in accordance with the CSI transmission setting. In another aspect, a network entity may transmit CSI setting configuration information to a UE, the CSI setting configuration information including at least one parameter corresponding to a channel measurement threshold that triggers selection of a distinct DMRS pattern based on a CSI transmission setting, and receive a CSI report and the distinct DMRS pattern from the UE associated with the CSI transmission setting.
US11652527B2
Techniques are described herein for determining a priority ranking for channel state information (CSI) reports based at least in part on a reliability parameter, a latency parameter, or both of resources allocated to a user equipment (UE). In some wireless communications systems, ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) services may be interspersed with enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services. The UE may perform a CSI report prioritization procedure to account for reliability parameters, latency parameters or both. In some cases, CSI reporting for resources associated URLLC services may receive higher priority than CSI reporting for eMBB services. The UE may be configured to determine reliability parameters and/or latency parameters based on signaling received from the network or from determining changes to one or more configurations of the UE. In some cases, the priority ranking of the CSI report may be based at least in part on a slot set identifier.
US11652521B1
A communication device, computer program product, and method proactively implement a successful transmit antenna configuration to address antenna outages for multiple transmit carrier scenarios. A carrier of the communication device determines a first transmit carrier, of at least two transmit carriers of a multiple transmit carrier mode, that is identified as having priority among the at least two transmit carriers. The controller identifies one or more transmit antenna configurations in the transmit antenna configuration data that support the first transmit carrier. The carrier determining, for each transmit antenna configuration, an aggregate antenna outage metric that indicates the transmit performance for a corresponding transmit antenna configuration. The controller configures an antenna switching network and RF frontend of a communication subsystem of the communication device with a first transmit antenna configuration that has a better aggregate antenna outage metric than other antenna configurations.
