US11654606B2
The invention relates to a cooling apparatus and a method for cooling a continuous strip, wherein the cooling apparatus comprises a cooling drum and a guiding device for guiding the strip in a plurality of windings around the cooling drum, wherein the guiding device comprises first and second guiding elements, wherein each one of the first guiding elements forms a set with one of the second guiding elements, wherein the first guiding element of the set receives the strip from a first winding in a first winding direction and directs the strip in a first transition direction towards the second guiding element which receives the strip in a second transition direction and directs the strip into a consecutive winding in a second winding direction, wherein the first transition direction is different from the first winding direction and the second transition direction is different from the second winding direction.
US11654604B2
In the present invention, constructed is a highly reliable system that does not allow unforeseen conditions to occur in the remote diagnosis of a clamp device. All combinations of status of a state detection switch mounted on a clamp device are anticipated in advance by a recursive method, and the states are defined with no omissions. A control unit 9 includes: a main body memory 9c that stores the ON/OFF state of a state switch together with the status of an injection molding machine main body, the clamp status and time information; and a main body communication unit 9d which is capable of short-range wireless communication. A message diagnosing a failure is stored in a smartphone 12 for all combinations of the ON/OFF state of the state detection switch for each of the following cases: whether in mold replacement mode or not; and whether a clamp device is in a clamped state or an unclamped state, or in a state other than the forgoing. The history of the ON/OFF state of the state detection switch with respect to the status of the main body and the clamp status is read from the main body memory 9c by wireless communication, and a corresponding message is displayed.
US11654597B1
A handheld hydraulic-powered concrete-cutting handsaw is provided including a base. A blade guard may be provided on the base. A hydraulic blade motor may be provided on the blade guard. A sawblade may be drivingly engaged for rotation by the blade motor. A front handle and a rear handle may be removably attached to the blade guard and/or base. The handsaw can further include a removable slurry guard. A coolant manifold may be provided on the blade guard. A coolant flow control valve may be confluently connected to the coolant manifold. A coolant supply line may be confluently connected to the coolant flow control valve. A pair of coolant discharge lines may be confluently connected to the coolant manifold and discharge at opposite sides of the sawblade.
US11654592B2
A particulate filter having a honeycomb structure of a matrix of interconnected porous walls including inlet cells and outlet cells defining a plurality of inlet channels and outlet channels, respectively, wherein at least a portion of the outlet cells are larger than any of the inlet cells, and a cross-sectional shape of at least some of the outlet channels is rectangular. Honeycomb extrusion dies, honeycomb bodies, honeycomb structures, and methods of manufacture are described, as are other aspects.
US11654589B2
A power operated rotary knife assembly including a power operated rotary knife having an annular rotary knife blade, a trim guide, and a drive mechanism for driving the rotary knife blade about an axis of rotation. The assembly also includes a portable power unit, a vacuum assembly and a flexible shaft drive transmission coupled between the power operated rotary knife and the portable power unit. The portable power unit includes a drive motor assembly providing a rotational power source which is operatively coupled to the drive mechanism through the flexible drive transmission to rotate the rotary knife blade. The portable power unit also includes a blower assembly providing vacuum pressure at an inlet duct side, the vacuum assembly being in fluid communication with the inlet duct side to generate a vacuum pressure condition in a region of a cutting opening defined by the rotary knife blade and the trim guide.
US11654571B2
A three-dimensional data generation device includes a virtual space arrangement section for arranging a virtual workpiece and a virtual vision sensor in a virtual space so that a part of the virtual workpiece fits in an imaging range of the virtual vision sensor, an arrangement relationship calculation section for calculating an arrangement relation between the arranged virtual workpiece and the virtual vision sensor, and a partial three-dimensional data generation section for generating partial three-dimensional data representing a partial shape of a workpiece which fits in the imaging range based on the calculated arrangement relationship.
US11654570B2
The self-driving robot comprises: a loading box including at least one loading space; a communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a signal; an information collection device configured to detect a surrounding environment; a driving device configured to implement movement of the self-driving robot; and a processor configured to control the loading box, the communication circuit, and the information collection device, wherein the processor performs control so that the self-driving robot identifies delivery authority information and position information of an event operator, in response to detecting a delivery event while moving along a moving path, and the self-driving robot determines whether to open the loading box, on the basis of the delivery authority information and the position information.
US11654566B2
Provided are systems and methods for decomposing learned robotic activities into smaller sub-activities that can be used independently. In one example, a method may include storing simulation data comprising an activity of a robot during a training simulation performed via a robotic simulator, decompose the activity into a plurality of sub-activities that are performed by the robot during the training simulation based on changes in behavior of the robot identified within the simulation data, and generating and storing a plurality of programs for executing the plurality of sub-activities, respectively, in the storage.
US11654565B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for controlling the execution of a physical process. The technique includes receiving, as input to a machine learning model that is configured to adapt a simulation of the physical process executing in a virtual environment to a physical world, simulated output for controlling how the physical process performs a task in the virtual environment and real-world data collected from the physical process performing the task in the physical world. The technique also includes performing, by the machine learning model, one or more operations on the simulated output and the real-world data to generate augmented output. The technique further includes transmitting the augmented output to the physical process to control how the physical process performs the task in the physical world.
US11654563B2
A control system is configured to facilitate transfer of a package between a room in a building and a delivery service outside the room associated with a shipment order. The system controls a shiftable panel of the building to selectively provide a path into and out of the room. The system includes a location sensor and a system processor. The location sensor is configured to sense package location data associated with the location of the package relative to the panel. The system processor is configured to receive package identification data associated with the package, permit panel opening to allow room ingress and egress along the path based on the package identification data, determine that the package has been transferred into or out of the room via the path based on package location data from the location sensor, and secure the panel closed to restrict room ingress and egress along the path based on package location data from the location sensor sensing that the package has been transferred into or out of the room via the path.
US11654555B2
The present disclosure relates to a robot teaching system, which moves a robot according to an external force applied from the outside so that the robot has a location and posture intended for teaching and then teaches a location and posture of the moved robot, and the robot teaching system comprises: an arm including a plurality of articular shafts and a plurality of links connected by the plurality of articular shafts; a plurality of strain gauges respectively coupled to frames of the plurality of links to measure a deformation value of the link that is deformed by the external force; and a calculating device configured to estimate the external force from the deformation value of the link obtained by the plurality of strain gauges, calculate a teaching force from the external force and move the robot by an operation corresponding to the teaching force.
US11654552B2
Provided are systems and methods for training a robot. The method commences with collecting, by the robot, sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the robot. The sensor data may be related to a task being performed by the robot based on an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The method may further include determining, based on the sensor data and the AI model, that a probability of completing the task is below a threshold. The method may continue with sending a request for operator assistance to a remote computing device and receiving, in response to sending the request, teleoperation data from the remote computing device. The method may further include causing the robot to execute the task based on the teleoperation data. The method may continue with generating training data based on the sensor data and results of execution of the task for updating the AI model.
US11654547B2
An extension tool has a proximal end and a distal end and comprises a plurality of sequentially arranged links moveable relative to one another and a support member defining the distal end and including a first wheel disposed at the distal end and a second wheel spaced apart from the first wheel. Additionally, or alternatively, an extension tool may comprise a plurality of windows defined in the plurality of sequentially arranged links. The windows are defined periodically along the plurality of sequentially arranged links such that a periodicity of the widows corresponds to a periodicity of a plurality of features of the component.
US11654538B2
A pneumatic fastener driver operable in a single sequential mode and a bump-fire mode, and includes a housing, a nosepiece, a trigger moveable between a default position and a depressed position, a contact arm movable relative to the nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position, and a timeout mechanism operable in the bump-fire mode to inhibit the drive cycle from being initiated in response to inactivity of the contact arm over a preset time interval defined by unwinding of a mainspring that is initially wound in response to the trigger being actuated from the default position to the depressed position. The pneumatic fastener driver also includes a counting assembly having a female barrel pivotably coupled to a pivot shaft of the trigger and driven by the mainspring and a lockout linkage coupled to the female barrel that is capable of interfering with a portion of the trigger.
US11654534B2
In a multi-bit screwdriver, a locking mechanism is formed from a tubular shaft having a passageway for facilitating travel of a selected bit through the passageway. A locking finger is formed longitudinally in the shaft and cantilevered from the shaft at a rearward end of the locking finger for facilitating radial spring action at a forward end of the locking finger. A locked detent and an unlocked detent are formed in the locking finger and are longitudinally spaced from each other, the locked detent being rearward of the unlocked detent. A track extends from the locked detent to the unlocked detent. A locking sleeve is slidably positioned on the shaft proximate the locking finger. A roller ball is mounted in the locking sleeve portion for engaging the locked detent or the unlocked detent, the roller ball being rollable along the track between the locked detent and the unlocked detent.
US11654533B2
Illustrative embodiments of ratchet tools are disclosed. In one embodiment, a ratchet tool may comprise a handle extending along a handle axis and housing a motor, a head coupled to the handle at a first end of the handle, the head supporting an output shaft configured to be driven by the motor to rotate about an output axis, the output axis being substantially perpendicular to the handle axis, a ratchet mechanism coupled between the handle and the output shaft, the ratchet mechanism configured to restrict rotation of the output shaft in a first direction and to allow rotation of the output shaft in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a direction control configured to switch the first direction associated with the ratchet mechanism between a clockwise and a counterclockwise direction, the direction control being coupled to the handle and spaced apart from the head along the handle axis.
US11654527B2
The present disclosure is directed to a polishing head for polishing a wafer by a slurry. The polishing head includes a main body and at least two air modules. The main body has a cavity for accommodating the wafer, a main channel, and at least two sub-channels connected to the main channel. The at least two air modules are disposed at an outer surface of the main body. Each of the air modules is respectively connected to one of the sub-channels of the main body and configured to generate an air stream. When the polishing head rotates, the air stream forms an air curtain around the outer surface of the main body.
US11654521B2
A tool machine magazine includes a base, a tool disc disposed on the base, tool sleeves disposed on a periphery of the tool disc through a bearing, a motor, a brake structure, a cam, a driver shaft, an angle sensor, and a control terminal. The motor drives the cam to operate. Each bearing orderly operates along the outline of the cam, driving the tool disc to continuously rotate without intermittence. The angle sensor is disposed on one end of the driver shaft or a rotation center of the tool disc. When the rotation angle of the tool disc matches the tool change command, the control terminal controls the brake structure to stop the motor, so as to stop the tool disc for facilitating the tool change operation.
US11654520B2
There is provided a cutting apparatus that cuts a workpiece by a cutting blade. The cutting apparatus includes a chuck table that holds a board in which a groove is formed through cutting of the board by the cutting blade, a cutting unit having a spindle and a mount flange that is fixed to a tip part of the spindle and on which the cutting blade is mounted, and a replacement apparatus that replaces the cutting blade mounted on the mount flange with the cutting blade stored in a blade storing part and replaces the board placed on the chuck table with the board stored in a board storing part. The replacement apparatus includes a holding part that holds the cutting blade and the board under suction.
US11654518B2
A system includes a machine tool having a clamp. The system also includes a processing head configured to be temporarily held by the clamp of the machine tool. The processing head is also configured to deposit one or more media onto a workpiece. The processing head includes a guide configured to direct energy from an energy source onto the workpiece and/or the one or more media. The processing head also includes one or more supplies including one or more reservoirs within the processing head. The one or more reservoirs are configured to receive the one or more media, store the one or more media as the processing head is moved from one location to another location, and provide the one or more media.
US11654513B2
A workpiece-separating device includes: a holding member that detachably holds a workpiece of a laminated body in which the workpiece that includes a circuit board and a supporting body through which laser beams pass are laminated with each other via a separating layer that peelably alters due to at least absorption of the laser beams; a light irradiation part that irradiates the laser beams toward the separating layer through the supporting body of the laminated body held by the holding member; a driving part that relatively moves a light irradiation position of irradiation from the light irradiation part with respect to the supporting body and the separating layer of the laminated body held by the holding member in at least a direction crossing a light irradiation direction of irradiation from the light irradiation part; and a controlling part that operates and controls the light irradiation part and the driving part.
US11654505B2
A method of manufacturing a terminal-equipped electric wire, includes: connecting a terminal fitting to one end of an electric wire in which a conductor is covered with a jacket; clamping a range of a predetermined length in a length direction at an intermediate portion of the electric wire with a pair of plate bodies; and performing an ultrasonic joining processing by applying an ultrasonic vibration to the conductor exposed at the other end of the electric wire.
US11654500B2
A method for joining an additively-manufactured component includes welding a plurality of additively-manufactured components via a weld joint to fabricate an integral structure. The additively-manufactured components are built by repeatedly depositing a weld bead layer of a next layer on a weld bead layer formed of a weld bead obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal by use of an arc, and the weld joint is built along with the deposition.
US11654498B2
A process for producing an amorphous ductile brazing foil is provided. According to one example embodiment, the method includes providing a molten mass, and rapidly solidifying the molten mass on a moving cooling surface with a cooling speed of more than approximately 105° C./sec to produce an amorphous ductile brazing foil. A process for joining two or more parts is also provided. The process includes inserting a brazing foil between two or more parts to be joined, wherein the parts to be joined have a higher melting temperature than that the brazing foil to form a solder joint and the brazing foil comprises an amorphous, ductile Ni-based brazing foil; heating the solder joint to a temperature above the liquidus temperature of the brazing foil to form a heated solder joint; and cooling the heated solder joint, thereby forming a brazed joint between the parts to be joined.
US11654497B2
A method for machining a toothing of a workpiece held in a clamping, in which a toothing tool that rotates about its rotational axis and comprises cutting edges is brought into rolling chip-removing machining engagement with the toothing that rotates about its rotational axis, in order to produce a predetermined tooth flank end geometry in one or more machining passes, wherein during the machining pass which produces the tooth flank end geometry, monitoring responsive to the event of a removed chip being pressed into a machined tooth flank of the toothing by means of the rolling machining process is carried out and, if the monitoring responds, an additional toothing machining process that removes the material protrusion on top of the tooth flank end geometry formed by the chip that was pressed in is implemented automatically, which process is carried out in the same clamping of the workpiece and by means of the toothing tool.
US11654493B2
A high frequency vibration spindle system with non-contact power transmission and a method for manufacturing a restraining member used therein are disclosed. The high frequency vibration spindle system comprises: an electric power transmission device including a first induction module and a second induction module, wherein the second induction module is disposed at either a spindle or a toolholder and is adapted to receive an electric power from the first induction module in a non-contact electromagnetic induction manner; a transducer adapted to vibrate the tool and disposed at the toolholder and electrically connected with the second induction module to receive the electric power; and-a restraining member located between the first induction module and the second induction module. With the restraining member, the structural strength and stability of the second induction module can be improved, thereby increasing the maximum rotational speed of the high frequency vibration spindle system.
US11654487B2
A production method for water-atomized metal powder includes: in a region in which the average temperature of a molten metal stream having an Fe concentration of 76.0 at % or more and less than 82.9 at % is 100° C. or more higher than the melting point, spraying primary cooling water at a convergence angle of 10° to 25°, where the convergence angle is an angle between an impact direction on the molten metal stream from one direction and an impact direction on the molten metal stream from any other direction; and in a region in which 0.0004 seconds or more have passed after an impact of the primary cooling water and the average temperature of metal powder is the melting point or higher and (the melting point+100° C.) or lower, spraying secondary cooling water on the metal powder under conditions of an impact pressure of 10 MPa or more.
US11654485B2
A method for the additive manufacturing of a component includes providing a powdered base material for a component, in particular a component for the hot gas path of a gas turbine, building up the component layer by layer on a building platform by fusing individual layers of the base material, and introducing an oxide dispersion strengthening into a region of the component to be additively manufactured by an oxidic additive, wherein the region is usually exposed to high thermomechanical loading during operation of the component.
US11654474B2
A wire feeding unit includes a driving motor; a driving roller which rotates by a driving force of the driving motor; a plurality of driven rollers arranged such that outer circumferential surfaces thereof are positioned on a same line; a belt which interlocks the driving roller and the plurality of driven rollers and is brought into contact with a wire, which is drawn into a side of the driven rollers, on a side of the plurality of driven rollers; and a plurality of idlers which support the wire on a side in which the wire and the belt are in contact with each other and assist feeding of the wire along a feeding direction of the belt in a free-rotation state.
US11654463B2
A liquification system for an organic waste management system includes a hopper that is oriented vertically such that organic waste added to the hopper is biased by gravity toward a bottom end of the hopper; an agitator that is disposed within the hopper and is movable in a first rotational direction that moves organic waste downward and in a second rotational direction that moves organic waste upward; a motor configured to selectively move the agitator in the first and second rotational directions under control of the controller; and a side grinding and drainage system disposed toward the bottom end of the hopper and preferably on a tapered portion of the hopper for grinding and liquefying organic waste.
US11654457B2
Methods for detecting electronics amongst a plurality of recycling materials.
US11654447B2
A sprinkler riser extension kit elevates a pop-up sprinkler that has a riser and a head detachable from the riser. The kit includes a gripping head having a channel extending therethrough, and a riser extension configured to slide within the channel and having a length corresponding to the length of the channel. The lower end of the gripping head is configured for attachment to the sprinkler, e.g., by a plurality of flexible pawls spaced evenly about the lower end, or alternatively to an upper portion of an identical gripping head. The riser extension includes means for attachment between the sprinkler head and the sprinkler riser. To elevate the sprinkler, the head is detached, the riser passed through the gripping head, the riser extension attached to the riser, the head attached to the riser extension, and the gripping head attached to the top of the sprinkler. Gripping heads and riser extensions are stackable atop one another, to enable elevation of the sprinkler head in multiple stages.
US11654431B2
Described herein are various inventions and embodiments thereof, directed to systems, devices, and methods for analysis of a biofluid, as well as controlling a biofluid analysis system using a microfluidic device. Embodiments of biofluid analysis systems disclosed herein may provide analysis of a biofluid to identify and characterize one or more analytes. An apparatus may include a first layer defining a first opening and a second opening. The first layer may be substantially transparent. A second layer may be coupled to the first layer and define a microfluidic channel that establishes a fluid communication path between the first opening and the second opening. At least a portion of the second layer may be substantially opaque.
US11654430B2
A discoid sample holder (1), on which a device (2) for carrying out at least one processing step is formed. According to the invention, a slot (3), into which a sampling instrument (4) can be introduced, and a mechanism (5) for releasing a sample from the sampling instrument (4) arranged in the receptacle (3), is formed in the sample holder.
US11654427B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a supported catalyst and a supported catalyst manufactured using the same. The method may prevent the growth of catalytic metal particles by repeatedly applying heat, so the method is simpler and more economical than conventional processes. Moreover, since the support in the supported catalyst thus manufactured includes a hollow having a predetermined size, an electrode manufactured using the supported catalyst may ensure a desired electrode thickness even when used in a relatively small amount compared to the conventional technology. Moreover, water generated during operation of a fuel cell can be efficiently discharged, so desired mass transfer resistance can be exhibited, and a high electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) and superior catalytic activity can be attained.
US11654423B2
Catalyst composition which comprises a first zeolite having a BEA* framework type and a second zeolite having a MOR framework type and a mesopore surface area of greater than 30 m2/g is disclosed. These catalyst compositions are used to remove catalyst poisons from untreated feed streams having one or more impurities which cause deactivation of the downstream catalysts employed in hydrocarbon conversion processes, such as those that produce mono-alkylated aromatic compounds.
US11654422B2
To provide a structured catalyst for catalytic cracking or hydrodesulfurization that suppresses decline in catalytic activity, achieves efficient catalytic cracking, and allows simple and stable obtaining of a substance to be modified. The structured catalyst for catalytic cracking or hydrodesulfurization (1) includes a support (10) of a porous structure composed of a zeolite-type compound and at least one type of metal oxide nanoparticles (20) present in the support (10), in which the support (10) has channels (11) that connect with each other, the metal oxide nanoparticles (20) are present at least in the channels (11) of the support (10), and the metal oxide nanoparticles (20) are composed of a material containing any one or two more of the oxides of Fe, Al, Zn, Zr, Cu, Co, Ni, Ce, Nb, Ti, Mo, V, Cr, Pd, and Ru.
US11654420B2
A process and catalyst are provided for the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane for the production of propylene as petrochemical building blocks. The process provides a direct single-step gas-phase dehydration of propane mixed with nitrogen in the presence and absence of steam/hydrogen over supported bimetallic alumina-silicates zeolites. The catalyst contains no precious metal entities and may contain one metal from group VIB in combination with another metal from group IIIA or IVA supported on FAU, MFI, KFI, BEA type alumina-silicates zeolites. The process provides a propane conversion of 18% to 52% with a propylene yield of 10% to 25%.
US11654418B2
The present disclosure includes a process for pelletizing a spent bleaching earth (SBE) into a clay-biocarbon composite including classifying the SBE based on at least one parameter of the SBE, selecting at least one filler compound and mixing the at least one filler compound with the SBE to make a mixture, forming a plurality of pellets out of the mixture, and pyrolyzing the pellets to produce the clay-biocarbon composite. Pyrolyzing a pelleted spent bleaching earth (SBE) may include advancing the pelleted SBE with a distributer to a first thermal chamber for providing even thermal processing, releasing the pelleted SBE to an auger to cool to room temperature, and condensing at least one volatile compound emitted from the pelleted SBE during thermal processing to produce a condensate for reuse.
US11654415B2
The invention relates to strong hydrogen-bond acidic sorbents. The sorbents may be provided in a form that limits or eliminates intramolecular bonding of the hydrogen-bond acidic site between neighboring sorbent molecules, for example, by providing steric groups adjacent to the hydrogen-bond acidic site. The hydrogen bond site may be a phenolic structure based on a bisphenol architecture. The sorbents of the invention may be used in methods for trapping or detecting hazardous chemicals or explosives.
US11654411B2
Methods and compositions are disclosed relating to the localization of nucleic acids to arrays such as silane-free arrays, and of sequencing the nucleic acids localized thereby.
US11654410B2
A method for manufacturing microcapsules containing an active substance, the method including: providing an aqueous solution of a surfactant, an oily phase comprising the active substance and a first monomer, and a polar phase comprising a second monomer; preparing an oil-in-water emulsion by adding the oily phase to the aqueous solution of the surfactant; adding the polar phase to the oil-in-water emulsion, in order to obtain a polymer in a reaction mixture, by polymerization of the first monomer and the second monomer; isolating the microcapsules, including a wall formed by the polymer and containing the active substance, from the reaction mixture; wherein the polymer is a poly(beta-amino ester). Microcapsules obtained by the method.
US11654409B2
A method of synthesizing aerogels and cross-linked aerogels are described that incorporate freeze-drying in lieu of super-critical solvent drying. Advantages over supercritical drying include a reduction in hazard risks posed by drying at supercritical conditions as well as the ability to up-scale the process to accommodate large pieces of material without introducing risk. In addition, inexpensive and more sophisticated mold technologies, which are not impervious to super-critical conditions, can be used to produce aerogel materials according to the freeze-drying method of the invention. This introduces a level of freedom never before available for the production of aerogel components.
US11654406B2
The invention relates to a mixing system for producing a cosmetic product. The invention also relates to a capsule (7, 8) containing a cosmetic compound. The mixing system allows the production of a cosmetic product from capsules (7, 8) comprising the raw materials required for the composition of such a cosmetic product, that is the cosmetic texturising agent, the cosmetic active substance and, as required, a cosmetic perfume. The invention is applicable in the cosmetic industry.
US11654394B2
A method and installation for removing a gas from a flow of a gas mixture. A first liquid (82) is introduced in the flow (106) for evaporative cooling and saturation of the gas mixture. Small droplets of a second liquid (84) are provided which are capable of adsorbing and dissolving said gas and of a size small enough not to be sedimented by gravitation and big enough to be centrifugally separated. The small droplets are sprayed into the flow for adsorbing and dissolving said gas into the droplets, and the small droplets are centrifugally separated from the flow.
US11654393B2
Solid sorbents, and especially zeolites, are attractive candidates for CO2 direct air capture (DAC) and point source capture applications because of their potential for high selectivity, fast kinetics, and low energy CO2 capture cycles. A common issue with solid sorbents, including zeolites, is their low thermal conductivity, which makes them difficult to heat for regeneration without using complex and expensive heat transfer systems. This invention utilizes a modified TVSA process which utilizes the product CO2 gas itself as the heating medium for the adsorbent bed, alone or in conjunction with internal or external heaters. The use of CO2 as a heating medium allows efficient heating of the sorbent bed and enables high purity CO2 product.
US11654383B2
A filter cartridge assembly for an ice making appliance having a rectilinear filter cartridge with a plurality of partitions that are positioned within an internal chamber, form multiple sub-chambers, and create a non-linear pathway for the flow of water through the filter cartridge. Filter media positioned in the sub-chambers of the filter cartridge are configured to remove dissolved solids from water travelling through the filter cartridge and used by the appliance to create ice, including clear ice.
US11654382B2
A filter cartridge with a longitudinal axis has mounting lugs engaging mating manifold flanges in an appliance to hold the cartridge in the appliance with fluid flowing through the cartridge at a line pressure of X psi while the lugs are designed for a greater, rated pressure Y. Each lug has a deformable portion and an aligned stop portion that are axially aligned. A distance d separates each stop portion from the axially aligned deformable portion. The deformable portion is below the stop portion and located to contact the manifold flange during use. The deformable portion permanently deforms above the rated pressure Y and below a qualification pressure Z that is at least twice the pressure X.
US11654380B2
Vibratory screening machines that include stacked screening deck assemblies are provided. In some embodiments, at least one of the vibratory screening machines may include an outer frame, an inner frame connected to the outer frame, and a vibratory motor assembly secured to the inner frame for vibrating the inner frame. A plurality of screen deck assemblies may be attached to the inner frame in a stacked arrangement, each configured to receive replaceable screen assemblies. The screen assemblies may be secured to respective ones of the plurality of the screen deck assemblies by tensioning the screen assemblies in a direction that a material to be screened flows across the screen assemblies. An undersized material discharge assembly may be configured to receive materials that pass through the screen assemblies, and an oversized material discharge assembly having a deflector may be configured to receive materials that pass over the screen assemblies.
US11654371B2
A system of classifying game styles may track a play of a user of one or more media content. The tracked play of the user of one or more media content may be analyzed to characterize the play of the user based on one or more categories of user gameplay style. A plurality of categories of user gameplay style may be selected to be displayed as a visual display of the user gameplay style. The visual display of the user gameplay style may be compared to one or more visual displays of characteristics of other media content. A recommendation for other media content that share similar characteristics to the user gameplay style may be generated.
US11654361B2
Systems and methods for prioritizing content packets based on a dynamically updated list of content filtering rules are described. A system is configured to identify an application executing on a client device to which to transmit content, the application associated with an account and determine that the application is configured with a configuration setting to apply a content filtering policy corresponding to a list of players including one or more players included in one or more lineups associated with the account. The system can receive a content item from a content source and determine one or more player tags associated with the content item. The system can determine that the content item includes a player tag corresponding to a player included in the list of players and transmit the content item to the client device for insertion in a content feed provided by the application responsive to the determination.
US11654360B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a video game processing program for causing a server to perform functions to control progress of a video game using a virtual space corresponding to map information of a real space and positional information of a user terminal of a user is provided. The functions include: an arranging function configured to arrange objects in the virtual space, at least one attribute of a plurality of attributes being associated with each of the objects; a specifying function configured to specify an object that satisfies a predetermined positional condition with respect to the positional information of the user terminal; and an updating function configured to update information regarding the user based on an attribute of the specified object.
US11654346B2
A billiard table top lighting apparatus provides substantially uniform lighting across the surface of a billiard table surface. In one form, the lighting apparatus includes a frame supporting lights that are non-centrally placed such that no lights are supported above a middle portion of the billiard table surface. So configured, the frame can have an attractive profile and further mount additional items above the billiard table surface to enable a variety of other features. For example, the frame may support one or more cameras, one or more motion sensors, one or more microphones, and/or one or more computing devices to enable any of a variety of innovative features. Such features could include automatic game play recording from one or more perspectives, merged video track storage for replay, review, and analysis, automatic lighting and dimming control, control of the apparatus from any mobile device, and the like.
US11654325B2
A set of angled grips for attachment to a weightlifting bar, such as a barbell bar or similar device, in order to provide an optimized gripping surface for a user's hands in terms of increased friction and comfort of the grips, thickness and circumference of the grips, and ergonomic angle of each grip surface relative to the bar.
US11654321B2
According to embodiments of the disclosure, an illustrative serpentine climbing cord exercise climber herein may comprise: a plurality of lateral frame members that are connected at upwardly extending ends with a head plate; a plurality of bottom support members that are each connected at outwardly extending ends to respective downwardly extending ends of the plurality of lateral frame members, wherein inwardly extending ends of the plurality of bottom support members are connected by a central joiner that is substantially aligned along a vertical axis with the head plate; and a pulley system comprising one or more pulleys that are coupled to one of the plurality of lateral frame members, one of the plurality of bottom support members, the head plate, and the central joiner, the pulley system operable to allow a climbing cord to travel along the vertical axis and a path defined by the one or more pulleys.
US11654302B2
A particle portal imaging (PPI) system and method are provided that can be used to provide a “beam's eye view” of a patient's anatomy as a charged particle beam is delivered to a target region of the patient's body. The PPI system is capable of performing real-time image acquisition and in-situ dose monitoring using at least exit neutrons generated within the patient. The PPI system can perform charged particle treatment (PT) monitoring to monitor the particle beam being used for PT.
US11654299B2
A control circuit accesses historical information regarding previously optimized radiation treatment plans for different patients and processes that information to determine the relative importance of different clinical goals. The circuit then facilitates development of a particular plan for a particular patient as a function of the relative importance of the clinical goals. By one approach the control circuit can be configured as a radiation treatment plan recommendation resource that accesses a database of radiation treatment plan formulation content items including at least one of a radiation treatment plan template, an auto-planning algorithm, and an auto-segmentation algorithm. By one approach the control circuit can be configured to, when presenting automatically-generated radiation treatment plans to a user, also co-present an opportunity for the user to signal to a remote entity that none of the plans are acceptable and that the user will instead employ a user-generated plan for the particular patient.
US11654297B2
A transparent cover member for a skin treatment device passes light and heat to a user's skin. The transparent cover member presents a comfortable flat surface at its exterior, and includes features that couple to a heating element that surrounds a plurality of visible light LEDs. The transparent cover member can include retaining features to assist in assembling the head assembly of the skin treatment device.
US11654282B2
The invention relates to a method and a cochlear implant system comprising; a microphone unit configured to receive an acoustical signal and transmit an audio signal based on the acoustical signal, a processor unit configured to receive the audio signal and process the audio signal into a plurality channels that are then used to generate a plurality of electrode pulses, an electrode array including a plurality of electrodes (M) configured to stimulate auditory nerves of a user of the cochlear implant system based on the plurality of electrode pulses, and wherein the processor unit is configured to assign an importance value to one or more electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, wherein each of the importance values is determined based on a status of an electrode pulse assigned to the respective electrode, and wherein the status of the electrode pulse of the plurality of electrode pulses is determined based on a masking model of across-electrode interferences imposed on that electrode pulse by other electrode pulses of the plurality of electrode pulses.
US11654281B2
Neurostimulation devices and methods provide a plurality of electrodes placed around a patient head such that electrode have electrical paths through the brain to other electrodes. A controller controls current between sets of opposing electrodes through the patient brain to selectively stimulate a region of interest of the patient brain. Different sets of electrodes are used to provide electrical current pulse with different polarities such that a net potential is exposed to a region of interest in the brain that it above a neuron stimulation threshold while a net potential exposed to tissue outside the region of interest is below the threshold.
US11654279B2
Tumors inside a person's head (e.g., brain tumors) can be treated using tumor treating fields (TTFields) by positioning capacitively coupled electrodes on opposite sides of the tumor, and applying an AC voltage between the electrodes. Unlike the conventional approach (in which all of the electrodes are positioned on the person's scalp) at least one of the electrodes is implemented using an implanted apparatus. The implanted apparatus includes a rigid substrate shaped and dimensioned to replace a section of the person's skull. At least one electrically conductive plate is affixed to the inner side of the rigid substrate, and a dielectric layer is disposed on the inner side of the conductive plate or plates. An electrically conductive lead is used to apply an AC voltage to the conductive plate or plates.
US11654269B2
Medical devices and methods for delivering fluid. The medical devices include one or more needles for delivering fluid. The methods may optionally include expanding an expandable member such as an inflatable member to expand an expandable scaffold outward toward a lumen wall. The methods may include delivering a first fluid out of one or more needles, and delivering a secondary fluid (which may be the same type of fluid as the first fluid, or a different type of fluid) from the device without delivering the secondary fluid through a needle.
US11654262B2
A handle assembly for controlling a steerable catheter includes a handle extending about a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end. A lumen extends through the handle to a distal tip extending outwardly from the distal end of the handle and a pair of control wires are interconnected to the distal end of extend the lumen. A lever assembly is disposed within the handle and includes a lever rotatable about a lever axis to control deflection of the distal end of the lumen. The lever assembly includes a first and second gear assembly disposed in opposing relationship to one another and offset relative to the longitudinal axis for allowing the lumen to pass therebetween. Each of the gear assemblies are interconnected to one of the pair of control wires to individually pull a respective one of the control wires in response to rotation of the lever.
US11654257B2
Methods, systems and devices that provide a therapeutic solution to alleviate the pain and discomfort of phantom limb syndrome are disclosed. The methods and systems of the present invention generally comprise capturing data from recording devices operably coupled to a processor and/or computing device, the recording devices configured to capture data associated with intact portions of a missing limb, one or more intact limbs and/or portions of the environment surrounding the missing limb, identifying the data captured, generating a three-dimensional virtual image of the missing limb and the surrounding environment from the data captured, and displaying the three-dimensional virtual image and the portions of the surrounding environment to the amputee such that the missing limb appears intact. The present invention advantageously provides a therapeutic and more immediate solution to alleviate the pain and discomfort from phantom limb syndrome.
US11654242B2
Precision low-dose, low-waste syringe configurations have a reduced diameter lumen for dispensing 0.01 ml increments of contents. Plunger and lumen configurations and a needle interface eliminate dead space. Ergonomic attachments improve the control and precision of delivery of syringes. An attachment main body includes a gripping surface to permit a user to engage the attachment and move the attachment main body, and thus the syringe plunger relative to the syringe barrel using sliding movement. Optical enhancement features are provided on the attachment to improve the readability of gradations and plunger position. The attachment may be provided with an assist feature, which may be a traction wheel mounted on the attachment body. An alternative configuration suitable for syringe contents of higher viscosity may include a pair of toothed pinion gears on a wheel and which cooperate with respective toothed racks formed on or fastened to the syringe body.
US11654240B2
Medical devices capable of filling liquid into a syringe barrel while evacuating any air from the syringe are described. An exemplary medical device includes a syringe barrel having a tapered sidewall portion for permitting air to vent from the chamber and preventing liquid from exiting the chamber, a plunger rod, and stopper. Another exemplary medical device includes a syringe barrel having a plurality of air venting grooves associated with the sidewall of the barrel, a plunger rod and stopper. Also described is a medical device including a syringe barrel, plunger rod and stopper having a porous plug. Described is a medical device including a syringe barrel having a plurality of air venting grooves associated with the sidewall of the barrel and a porous membrane disposed over the air venting grooves, a plunger rod and stopper. Methods for filling a syringe barrel with a liquid are also provided.
US11654238B2
A device for extracting a fluid from an ampoule, comprising a plunger body (2) arranged for enclosing an ampoule (3), and a syringe body (4) movable relative to the plunger body (2). The syringe body (4) comprises a piston member (6) and an outer tubular casing (8) concentrically arranged around the piston member (6). The piston member (6) comprises an insertion end (10), receivable within the plunger body (2) and arranged for insertion in the ampoule (3), an ejection end (12) attached to the outer tubular casing (8), and a lumen (14) extending between the insertion end (10) and the ejection end (12). The plunger body (2) and the syringe body (4) form an actuating arrangement of the device (1) arranged to move the piston member (6) through the ampoule (3) during operation and forcing a fluid from the ampoule (3) through the lumen (14).
US11654233B2
An insertion set system includes a base configured to be secured to a patient, and a flexible tubing on the base. The flexible tubing has a distal end portion forming a cannula to be inserted into the patient. An inserter having a needle is received by the base. The needle has a channel in which the distal end portion of the flexible tubing is received. The needle is able to slide relative to the flexible tubing, to selectively withdraw the needle off of the distal end portion of the flexible tubing. The base may include a passage for fluid flow arranged transverse to the axial dimension of the distal end portion of the flexible tubing.
US11654229B2
A wound irrigation device including a container with an opening along the outer surface of the container and a nozzle assembly coupled to the container and configured to selectively allow the liquid to exit the container when pressure is applied to the container.
US11654221B2
A dialysis fluid system includes a dialysis fluid inlet; a dialysis fluid outlet; a pump positioned and arranged to pump dialysis fluid through the dialysis fluid inlet and the dialysis fluid outlet; and an inductive heater located between the dialysis fluid inlet and the dialysis fluid outlet, the inductive heater including a fluid flowpath positioned and arranged to receive non-heated dialysis fluid from the dialysis fluid inlet and to output heated dialysis fluid to the a dialysis fluid outlet, a conductive heater element located within the fluid flowpath so as to be or act as a secondary coil of a transformer, and a primary coil of the transformer located outside of the fluid flowpath and positioned so as to magnetically induce a current into the conductive heater element, causing the conductive heater element and surrounding fluid to heat.
US11654212B2
Disclosed is the preparation of injectable collagen suspensions, to the method for preparing the suspensions, and to the uses thereof, particularly for forming dense collagen matrices.
US11654205B2
Generation of bubbles is disclosed to occur within a flow of an aqueous fluid. The bubbles may be formed within a tube of a selected diameter and the bubbles are controlled to exit the tube at a selected diameter. Generally, bubbles are formed to include a diameter of less than 1 millimeter, including less than about 20 microns.
US11654202B2
An iodinated CT contrast agent made of fatty acid derivatives for non-invasive visualisation and quantification of the brown and/or beige adipose tissue (BAT) or for imaging the heart and/or liver of a subject, to be taken orally which is a breakthrough in CT imaging. Image resolution by CT is significantly enhanced compared to PET.
US11654201B2
Described are nucleic acid regulatory elements that are able to enhance liver-specific expression of genes, methods employing these regulatory elements and uses of these elements. Expression cassettes and vectors containing these nucleic acid regulatory elements are also disclosed. These are particularly useful for applications using gene therapy.
US11654197B2
The present disclosure relates to pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimer prodrugs and ligand-linker conjugates thereof. The present disclosure also relates to compositions and uses of said prodrugs and conjugates.
US11654189B2
Provided herein are recombinant poxviruses that are stable through successive passaging of the recombinant poxviruses. More particularly, the recombinant poxviruses comprise one or more modified nucleic acids encoding MUC1, CEA, and/or TRICOM antigens, wherein the recombinant poxviruses are stable through successive passaging. Also, provided herein are compositions and method related thereto.
US11654185B2
Provided are methods and kits for reducing the severity of muscle stiffness. The method comprises delivering to one or more specific locations in the deep fascia of an affected muscle a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of hyaluronidase.
US11654184B2
The present invention relates to, inter alia, compositions and methods, including therapeutic alkaline phosphatases that find use in the treatment or prevention of the effects of radiation exposure and/or chemotherapy.
US11654176B1
A composition comprising an extract of Trigonella foenum Graecum, Fenugreek and Cinnamon administered in high doses is capable of arresting the formation Glocotoxicity and Lipotoxicity which lead to Insulin Resistance (IR), the hall mark of Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM). Natural ingredients with similar properties to Fenugreek and Cinnamon are used in the composition to function in synergy with the Fenugreek and Cinnamon to control IR and to minimize any undesirable side effects of using the high doses of Fenugreek and Cinnamon. Use of the composition results in a significant reduction of IR with a remarkable improvement in health in subjects suffering either from pre-diabetes and/or from T2DM.
US11654171B2
Methods for treating ovarian cancer comprising: administering to a patient and effective amount of a cannabis extract comprising CBD, wherein preferably, the cannabis extract is administered via a mucosal formulation.
US11654168B2
A method for manufacturing a Ganoderma Lucidum fermented beverage product (GLfb) is provided. It has found that Ganoderma lucidum contains high quantity of natural Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (PQQ). Free radicals generated by ischemic or hypoxic conditions have been found to be a significant cause of myocardial damage leading to myocardial death. PQQ has been reported to act as a free radical scavenger. In particular, PQQ has been reported to be effective in neutralizing superoxide and hydroxyl radicals.
US11654163B2
A combination or composition of mussel lipid and krill oil is disclosed, which is used to treat inflammation or pain. A process for preparing hill oil having a phospholipid content of about 50% or greater is also disclosed.
US11654159B2
Stimulation using EA of LI-4, LI-11, GV-14 and GV-20 in humans, horses, and rodents results in mobilization of MSCs into systemic circulation. Methods are provided for increasing mesenchymal stem cells in the circulating blood of a mammal by contacting acupuncture points LI-4, LI-11, GV-14, and GV-20 of the mammal with a therapeutically effective amount of EA stimulation to mobilize MSCs into the circulating blood of the mammal. Methods for treating damaged tissue, specifically damaged tendons are also provided. Isolated mesenchymal stem cells made according to these methods, methods of isolated them, and stem cell banks that store them are also provided.
US11654158B2
The present disclosure provides improved compositions for adoptive T cell therapies for treating, preventing, or ameliorating at least one symptom of a cancer, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, and immunodeficiency, or condition associated therewith.
US11654155B2
It is an object to provide a therapeutic material for a skin ulcer which has excellent therapeutic effects on intractable skin ulcers such as decubitus ulcers with pockets and huge decubitus ulcers. By applying the therapeutic material for decubitus ulcers consisting of a fibrous material holding an antibiotic and a cell proliferation accelerator therein which is formed into an approximately spherical shape to a site of decubitus in a state in which a defect extending to the dermis, subcutaneous tissue, muscle or bone occurs, it is possible to treat critical skin ulcers such as intractable decubitus ulcers with pockets and huge intractable decubitus ulcers, as well as to treat not only relatively mild decubitus classified as stage II according to the US National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) staging system, i.e., decubitus having ulcers in a state in which a part of the dermis is deficient, but also severe decubitus that has progressed to stage III to IV according to the NPUAP staging system, particularly decubitus with intractable ulcers with pockets or decubitus with huge intractable ulcers.
US11654142B2
Provided are methods of administering a vesicular monoamine transport 2 (VMAT2) inhibitor chosen from valbenazine and (+)-α-3-isobutyl-9,10-dimethoxy-1,3,4,6,7,1 1b-hexahydro-2H-pyrido[2,1-a]isoquinolin-2-ol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or isotopic variant thereof, to a patient in need thereof wherein the patient is also being administered digoxin.
US11654129B2
An isothiocyanate functional surfactant, wherein the protonated form of said surfactant is represented by the following chemical structure: wherein X includes an integer ranging from approximately 1 to approximately 25, and wherein Y includes an integer ranging from approximately 6 to approximately 25.
US11654126B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of immunotherapy. A method of using dimethylarginine derivatives to inhibit the proliferation of lymphocyte. ADMA, SDMA, and their derivative DMGV can inhibit T cells and/or B cells proliferation in vitro by inducing mitochondrial ROS. ADMA and SDMA can induce mitochondrial ROS generation by the action of alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase 2 (AGXT2), which converts both ADMA and SDMA into dimethylguanidino valeric acid (DMGV) in the mitochondria. The dimethylarginine dimethylamino hydrolase (DDAH) inhibitor PD404182 also inhibits T cell proliferation by allowing more ADMA and SDMA to be converted to DMGV. As a clinical relevance, DMGV effectively treated arthritis in mice which was caused by activated T cells.
US11654119B2
Formation of low-crystallinity curcumin nanoparticles via controlled supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) impregnation of curcumin into biodegradable nanoporous starch aerogels and methods of preparing these aerogels are disclosed. The nanoporous starch aerogels increase water solubility and bioaccessibility of the curcumin, thereby making them available for preparation of high nutraceutical value foods.
US11654116B2
A porous particle, wherein the porous particle has a mass median aerodynamic diameter and a volume average particle diameter that satisfy expression: y≥2x, where x denotes the mass median aerodynamic diameter and y denotes the volume average particle diameter, and the porous particle has a relative span factor (R.S.F) that satisfies expression: 0<(R.S.F)≤1.5.
US11654109B2
A cavitation seed for drug delivery, and a drug delivery method using the same are disclosed. The cavitation seed according to the present invention comprises: a shell which forms the outer surface thereof to maintain the outer shape thereof within a fluid; and a core which is located inside the shell to determine buoyancy of the cavitation seed within the fluid. The cavitation seed can improve an effect of delivering a drug into a body since cavitation is induced by ultrasound at a position close to the epidermis. In addition, the cavitation seed can be applied in the delivery of various drugs as well as skin cosmetics, such as skin tone lightening agents, depilatories, hair restorers and skin fillers, skin analgesics, local anesthetics, agents for genetic diseases such as psoriasis, and agents for treatment of skin disease such as skin cancer.
US11654108B1
The disclosure relates to a chewable medicated composition comprising sennosides as the active ingredient and at least one excipient, wherein the bitter taste of sennosides is masked and the composition is substantially free of sugar.
US11654107B2
An animal treat composition for the oral administration of a medication to an animal is disclosed. The animal treat composition comprises an adhesive portion core and an outer portion. The adhesive portion adheres to oral medication inserted into the adhesive core of the treat for administration of the medication to an animal.
US11654102B2
A cosmetic composition is provided, which comprises a carrier and a Vetiver root extract, in particular an extract from exhausted Vetiver root. This composition provides a stimulation of sebum production, stimulation of sebum antimicrobial, lipids production, activation of adipocytes volume increase, skin hydration, skin tonicity booster, skin fatigue reduction, perilabial wrinkles reduction, skin replumping, and fragrance long-lastingness enhancement.
US11654101B2
The cosmetic use of one or more absolute(s) obtained from magnolia, juniper or violet for depigmenting the skin.
US11654098B2
Storage stable organopolysiloxane gels, preparable in commercial quantities are prepared by the hydrosilylation reaction of a silicone resin containing a hydrosilyatable group, a short chain Si—H-functional silicone, and a long chain Si—H-functional silicone.
US11654091B1
A lotion for the topical application to reduce a swimmer's friction when swimming in water made by combining an aqueous phase comprising and at least one humectant with an oil phase. The at least one humectant is present in the aqueous phase in the range of from 45 to 97 wt. %. The oil phase comprises at least one surfactant and at least one oil, and is present in the lotion in the range of about 5 to 45 wt. %. The surfactant is present in the oil phase in the range of from about 0.1 to 25 wt. %. The lotion is stable, homogenous and hydrophobic, and reduces friction when swimming in water, with the lotion applied to a swimmer.
US11654087B2
A device and method for verifying the proper position of catheters in the body by means of acoustic reflectometry, the device including a sound source, one or more sound receivers, a tube with compliant walls and open distal end to be introduced through an entrance to a body cavity, the sound source and receiver(s) coupled to the proximal end of the tube, a processor for causing the sound source to generate an acoustic excitation signal, the processor processing the acoustic signals sensed by the sound receiver(s) and generating an approximation of the acoustic impulse response of the tube, and the processor analyzing the acoustic impulse response to determine the position of the tube in the body cavity.
US11654086B2
In certain embodiments, a vial adaptor comprises a housing configured to couple the adaptor with a vial, an access channel, a regulator channel, and a regulator assembly. The access channel is configured to facilitate withdrawal of fluid from the vial when the adaptor is coupled to the vial. The regulator channel is configured to facilitate a flow of a regulating fluid from the regulator assembly to compensate for changes in volume of a medical fluid in the vial. The regulator assembly can include a valve configured to transition between a closed configuration and an opened configuration.
US11654079B2
A sound treatment system includes an audio system for transmitting tones of predetermined frequencies through a plurality of outputs. A sound transmitting device is electrically connectable to one or more of the outputs, and includes a speaker for transmitting the tones received. The speaker is adjacent to crystal which is vibrationally responsive to the tones. A method of using the system includes generating tonal segments of predetermined duration, modulating the frequencies, and compiling these into an audio program. One or more sound transmitting devices are placed on desired locations of the body, and their inputs connected to corresponding outputs of the audio system. The generating step includes compiling selected predetermined frequencies into an audio program to generate the tonal segments, as well as modulating tones of one or more desired frequencies to generate the tonal segments.
US11654077B2
A massaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a fastener configured to removably attach to a human hand; a first base non-rotatably attached to the fastener; a second base rotatably attached to the first base, wherein the second base is configured to rotate about a first axis; an interface mechanism configured to permit adjustment of a rotational position of the first base with respect to the second base among two or more rotational positions; a cylinder coupled to the second base, wherein the cylinder is configured to rotate about a second axis, and wherein the first axis and the second axis are not parallel, and wherein the cylinder does not directly contact the first or second bases.
US11654074B2
Systems and methods relating to displaying images are disclosed. In one embodiment, sensor data is received via one or more sensors of a wearable head device comprising a display, the sensor data indicative of a surrounding environment of a user of the wearable head device. An image can be determined based on the sensor data, the image corresponding to the surrounding environment. A visibility of a first portion of the image corresponding to a first portion of the surrounding environment can be enhanced. Enhancing a visibility of a second portion of the image corresponding to a second portion of the surrounding environment can be forgone. The enhanced first portion of the image and a view of the second portion of the surrounding environment can be presented concurrently via the display of the wearable head device.
US11654063B2
A method for turning and positioning a patient includes placing a sheet under the patient, the sheet including a top surface, a bottom surface, a first lateral side, a second lateral side, a first strap coupled proximate to the first lateral side, and a second strap coupled proximate to the second lateral side, and providing a pulling force to the first strap and the second strap, wherein the pulling force to the first strap and the pulling force to the second strap are in opposing directions across the patient. The pulling force to the first strap is greater than the pulling force to the second strap whereby the pulling force to the first handle causes movement of the patient in the direction of the pulling force to move the patient from a first position to a second position, and the pulling force to the second handle is a resistance force.
US11654060B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for making elastomeric laminates that may be used as components of absorbent articles. The elastomeric laminates may include a first substrate, a second substrate, and an elastic material located between the first and second substrates. During assembly of an elastomeric laminate, a beam is rotated to unwind the elastic strands from the beam, wherein the strands may include a spin finish. First bonds are applied to bond discrete lengths of the stretched elastic strands with and between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the discrete first bonds are arranged intermittently along the machine direction. In addition, second bonds are applied between consecutive first bonds to bond the first and second substrates directly to each other, wherein the second bonds extend in the machine direction and may be separated from each other in a cross direction by at least one elastic strand.
US11654058B2
A bandage intended for use on digits; i.e. fingers and toes, to cover injuries to the knuckle or pad area of the first joint on the hand or foot. The bandage is configured as a pad with an angled loop, the loop used as an anchor around the base of a digit in order to resist motions that might peel the bandage off the skin. The pad may contain medicines suitable for treating a wound or injury, may be radio opaque, may contain a reinforced surface to prevent compression or skin friction at the site, or other ancillary devices. The loop is deformable in length in order to fit different digits and wound locations.
US11654055B2
The sensory substitution system includes a portable matrix of exciters that can be worn by a user in such a way that the exciters are placed against the skin of a user, as well as a control circuit for the exciters of the matrix. An asynchronous signal source provides the control circuit with an asynchronous signal representative of visual information organised according to a matrix of pixels. This asynchronous signal includes, for each pixel, successive events associated in an asynchronous manner with the pixel.
US11654054B2
An ophthalmic laser surgical system includes a pulsed laser source configured to generate a pulsed laser beam, optics configured to direct the laser beam towards a target region in a lens of an eye, and a processor configured to control the optics to form a regular array of cells in the target region by creating layers of photodisrupted bubbles to generate cell boundaries. The layers are created by causing the optics to scan the pulsed laser according to a curvature of a focal plane of the optics to track a natural curvature of the lens.
US11654042B2
Improved urine output collection apparatus and monitoring device features are provided. The disposable urine collection apparatus includes a collection reservoir and a diverter for controlling the flow of urine to a first passageway of the diverter in a first position and to a second passageway of the diverter in a second position, wherein the first passageway is fluidly interconnected to the collection reservoir. The disposable urine collection apparatus may include a cartridge having an internal chamber and inlet and outlet members interconnected to the cartridge, wherein the inlet member is selectively, fluidly interconnectable to the second passageway of the diverter, and wherein the outlet member is selectively, fluidly interconnectable to the collection reservoir. The monitoring device is interconnectable with the cartridge and operable to monitor a volume and/or level of urine collected within the cartridge. The cartridge may include a front portion and a reduced-width projecting portion extending rearwardly from the front portion. The projecting portion of the cartridge may be received within a recessed portion of the monitoring device. The monitoring device may include at least light source (e.g. a laser diode) for emitting a fan beam light signal into the projecting portion and a light detector array (e.g. a charge coupled device) for detection of the fan beam light signal and output of signals employable to determine a volume and/or level of collected urine.
US11654040B2
A neck stabilizing device for supporting a user's neck in vertical extension, includes a harness configured to be worn on a user's torso and a neck bracing member having an elongated stem for attachment to the harness, and a support portion configured to contact the base of the user's skull. The neck bracing member is shaped to follow the anterior and posterior curvature of the user's spine, and is flexibly resilient to allow for and resist neck extension.
US11654038B2
Various embodiments for a stent delivery device or catheter system that includes a stent disposed between an inner shaft and an outer sheath. A housing is coupled to the inner shaft and outer sheath with a rotary reel disposed in the housing and configured for rotation with respect to the housing. A hypotube is disposed in the housing and fixed thereto with the inner shaft extending into the opening of the hypotube and the outer sheath enshrouding a portion of the hypotube. Rotation of the rotary reel in a first direction pulls the outer sheath over the hypotube along the generally circular path to retract the outer sheath from the stent. In some embodiments, a rapid deployment mechanism allows for retracdtion of the outer sheat at an increased rate.
US11654021B2
A method for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets includes positioning a capsule of a delivery device proximate a native heart valve. The method further includes partially deploying a prosthetic heart valve device from the capsule such that an inflow region of a valve support and an inflow region of a fixation structure are radially expanded. A portion of the prosthetic heart valve device remains coupled to the delivery device while a gap exists between a downstream end of a prosthetic valve disposed within the valve support and a distal terminus of the capsule such that fluid can flow through the prosthetic valve with the prosthetic heart valve device partially deployed. The method may further include recapturing the prosthetic heart valve device within the capsule.
US11654011B2
The invention is directed to a system and methods for treating neurovascular compression. Certain preferred embodiments of the invention generally comprise an apparatus having an elongated body portion including a proximal anchor element and distal anchor element. The apparatus also may include one or more marker elements to facilitate placement of the apparatus by the user. The apparatus may be configured to permit the user, after insertion and deployment of the apparatus in a blood vessel, to move the blood vessel so that the blood vessel is no longer in contact with and compressing a nerve or other parts of the nervous system.
US11654007B2
In one embodiment, the invention may be a teeth cleaning device including: a first support structure comprising a first dentature channel configured to receive at least a first portion of a dentature of a user; a plurality of teeth cleaning pads located within the first dentature channel; a plurality of air bladders operably coupled to the teeth cleaning pads; an air-flow subsystem operably coupled to the air bladders; and a control unit operably coupled to the air-flow subsystem, the control unit configured to: (1) pressurize the air bladders with external air in a pressurization mode; and (2) transfer air between select ones of the air bladders in a cleaning mode.
US11654003B2
A scan model that is a mathematical model to simulate an imaging process performed by an x-ray imaging device that created a two-dimensional x-ray image of at least one tooth is generated. The scan model uses an initial estimate of one or more parameters of the x-ray imaging device. The one or more parameters include a scan angle parameter indicative of a scan angle of the x-ray imaging device. A two-dimensional contour of a three-dimensional model is adjusted to cause a first component of the two-dimensional contour to approximately align with a second component of the two-dimensional x-ray image. The scan model is calibrated based on data obtained from adjusting the two-dimensional contour.
US11653997B2
The present application provides a docking device, a surgical holding device having such a docking device, and a method for connecting a surgical instrument to a holding arm of a surgical holding device. The docking device has a two-part adapter device connected at a proximal end to the holding arm and at a distal end to the surgical instrument, a first adapter with an elongated portion with a longitudinal axis and a connecting body present at a distal end of the first adapter, and a first engagement element with a terminal connection surface. The adapter device has a second adapter on the shaft of the surgical instrument and an engagement element facing the terminal connection surface in the docking situation. The terminal connection surface of the first adapter is inclined at a predetermined first angle in relation to its longitudinal axis, which is in a range from 30° to 90°.
US11653995B2
A surgical headlight system has a headlamp. The surgical headlight system can further include a headwear structure, configured to be worn on a surgeon's head during surgery, supporting the headlamp. The surgical headlight system can further include a video camera configured to record surgery. The headlamp, the headwear structure and the video camera all have an exterior surface. An antimicrobial coating is applied to the exterior surface of the headlamp, the exterior surface of the video camera, and/or the exterior surface of the headwear structure. The antimicrobial coating includes a silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof. The antimicrobial coating imparts antimicrobial properties onto the exterior surface to which it is applied, such as the exterior surface of the headlamp. The silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof can be one or more of 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium ion, 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride, 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium ion, or 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride.
US11653985B2
A remote control apparatus to remotely control a patient-side system including medical equipment and an endoscope to capture an image of a surgery site according to an embodiment includes: an operation handle with which an operator controls the medical equipment; and an operation pedal section. The operation pedal section includes: plural pedals configured to be pressed down to execute functions concerning the medial equipment; and a base on which the plural pedals are arranged, the plural pedals being arranged at locations not overlapping each other in a planar view. The plural pedals include first height pedals with upper ends thereof located at a first height position and second height pedals with upper ends thereof located at a second height position, which is different from the first height position. The first height pedals are arranged alternately with the second height pedals.
US11653978B2
In some embodiments, a synthetic (virtual) orthopedic treatment device (e.g. a virtual external fixator representing a physical fixator attachable to a patients anatomic structure) is displayed concurrently in two views (e.g. anterior-posterior and lateral) along corresponding digital medical images (e.g. X-rays), and rotation/translation user input received along one of the images is used to concurrently control both displays of the orthopedic treatment device to reflect the rotation/translation user input.
US11653976B2
Systems and methods are provided to aid in planning at least a portion of a total knee arthroplasty procedure. The system and method automatically aligns the implant components and the bones according to a desired clinical alignment goal with minimum user input. The system and method further allows the user to adjust the position and orientation of the femur, tibia, or implant in a clinical direction regardless of a pre-adjusted position and orientation of the femur, tibia, or implant. The graphical user interface is provided that includes a three-dimensional (3-D) view window, a view options window, a patient information window, an implant family window, a workflow-specific tasks window, and a limb and knee alignment measures window.
US11653974B2
Developed is a tissue joining device for endoscopic surgery, which can be used in NOTES, or the like. As a result of intensive studies carried out to solve the problem described above, the inventors of the present invention have conceived of two tissue joining device having quite novel structures and completed the present invention.
US11653973B2
A catheter includes an insertion tube, a flexible substrate and one or more electrical devices. The insertion tube is configured for insertion into a patient body. The flexible substrate is configured to wrap around a distal end of the insertion tube and includes electrical interconnections. The electrical devices are coupled to the flexible substrate and are connected to the electrical interconnections.
US11653969B2
Disclosed herein is a method of alleviating symptoms of ocular surface discomfort, the method comprising: topically applying a cold slurry adjacent to a corneal limbus of an eye of a patient, wherein the cold slurry comprises water and a freezing point depressant, wherein the topical application of the cold slurry is configured to cause a degree of numbing of a cornea of the eye for a period of time, and wherein an ocular sensation of the eye is restored following the period of time.
US11653967B2
A balloon catheter system for use by an operator for treating a targeted vein, the balloon catheter system comprising a balloon catheter, a fluid source and a control system. The balloon catheter includes a balloon having a balloon interior, the balloon configured to undergo one or more inflation cycles. The fluid source contains a cryogenic fluid that is selectively delivered to the balloon interior. The control system is configured to selectively control the delivery of the fluid to the balloon interior and to that selectively adjusts an inflation pressure to of the balloon interior based on a number of inflation cycles undergone by the balloon so as to selectively adjust an inflated balloon diameter of the balloon.
US11653956B2
A system is utilized, which comprises a cross connector for use in spinal fixation, further comprising multiple connection features configured to accommodate for direct attachment to multiple rods. Teachings are directed to a device that not only provides increased construct stiffness in flexion, extension and lateral bending, but also in torsion. The system adds stiffness in standard constructs. Joining multiple adjacent constructs with varying rod sizes for load distribution are also benefits of the system.
US11653955B2
A rod system, in particular, for the spine, includes a first rod, a second rod, and a connector for connecting the first rod and the second rod. The connector includes a main body defining a first rod seat configured to hold the first rod in a fixed manner and a second rod seat configured to accommodate a second rod, and a fixation member and a closure member that are interchangeably mountable to the main body. When the fixation member is mounted to the main body, the fixation member is engageable with the portion of the second rod to hold the second rod in a fixed manner relative to the main bod, while when the closure member is mounted to the main body, the closure member is configured to hold the second rod to the main body in a slidable manner.
US11653947B2
An interventional device for cutting tissue at a targeted cardiac valve, such as a mitral valve. The interventional device includes a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end. A cutting mechanism is positionable at the distal end, such as by routing the cutting mechanism through the catheter to position it at the distal end. The cutting mechanism includes one or more cutting elements configured for cutting valve tissue when engaged against the tissue. A handle is coupled to the proximal end of the catheter and includes one or more controls for actuating the cutting mechanism.
US11653946B2
A device for intravascular intervention can comprise an intervention element, an elongate manipulation member, and a joining element. The elongate element can comprise a hooked portion extending about a proximal portion of the intervention element. The hooked portion can comprise a bend. The hooked portion can have (i) no substantial surface crack at an interior region of the bend and (ii) a maximum lateral dimension that is less than 0.027 inch. The joining element can substantially permanently attach the hooked portion to the intervention element.
US11653945B2
A thrombectomy system may include an elongate shaft that defines a high pressure lumen and a low pressure lumen. The high pressure lumen may terminate near an end of the low pressure lumen. An expandable capture basket may be disposed near the end of the low pressure lumen. A thrombectomy apparatus may include an elongate shaft, an evacuation lumen extending within the elongate shaft and a high pressure lumen extending within the elongate shaft. A capture apparatus may be disposed within a wire lumen that extends within the elongate shaft such that the capture apparatus extends distally from the wire lumen.
US11653943B2
A deployment mechanism for selectively deploying and retracting an energizable member and/an insulative member relative to an end effector assembly of a surgical instrument includes one or more actuators, a clutch assembly, and a drive assembly. The clutch assembly is configured to couple to the actuator(s) to provide rotational motion in the first direction in response to such rotation of the actuator(s) and to decouple from the actuator(s) in response to rotation thereof in the second direction. The drive assembly is operably coupled to the clutch assembly and is configured to convert the rotational motion provided by the clutch assembly into longitudinal motion to translate the energizable member and/or insulative member from a storage position to a deployed position and to translate the energizable member and/or the insulative member from the deployed position back to the storage position.
US11653942B2
According to one aspect, a retrieval device may include a sheath having a distal end. The retrieval device may also include an end effector movable relative to the distal end of the sheath. The end effector may include first and second arms. The first arm may include a first opening at a distal portion of the first arm. The second arm may include a second opening at a distal portion of the second arm. The end effector may also include a third arm. The third arm may be slidably received in the first and second openings. A distal portion of the third arm may form at least part of a loop. The loop may extend through the first and second openings.
US11653923B1
A method of creating an anastomosis includes steps of advancing a distal tip of a catheter device through a first blood vessel into a second blood vessel, while simultaneously advancing a proximal base of the device into the first vessel, contacting a wall of the first vessel with a distal blunt surface on the proximal base. A further step is to retract the distal tip so that a proximal blunt base of the distal tip contacts a wall of the second vessel, thereby capturing the two vessel walls between the blunt surfaces of the proximal base and the distal tip. A controlled pressure is applied between the two blunt surfaces to compress and stabilize the captured tissue and approximate the vessel walls. A clip is deployed through the captured tissue to hold the tissue in place during the anastomosis procedure. The anastomosis is created by applying cutting energy to the captured tissue.
US11653921B2
An endoscopic surgical instrument has a distal end configured to perform an action on tissue; a proximal end; a beam; a drive rod; and at least one rail supporting at least one bearing, the at least one bearing movable relative to the at least one rail. The distal end of the instrument is configured to receive at least a portion of the beam, the beam movable longitudinally in response to an action on the drive rod. The at least one rail is shaped and configured to contact the beam tangentially to prevent the beam from buckling as the beam is moved longitudinally.
US11653919B2
An end effector of a surgical stapling apparatus includes an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly. The anvil assembly has an anvil body that supports an anvil buttress. The anvil buttress includes a distal alignment band that extends distally beyond the anvil body. The cartridge assembly has a cartridge body that supports a cartridge buttress. The cartridge buttress includes a distal alignment band that extends distally beyond the cartridge body.
US11653916B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly operatively associated with the staple cartridge assembly, and a surgical buttress. The staple cartridge assembly includes a tissue facing surface having staple retaining slots defined therein, each staple retaining slot housing a staple therein, and an annular knife disposed radially inwardly of the tissue facing surface. The anvil assembly includes an anvil member including a tissue facing surface having staple forming recesses defined therein, and an anvil shaft extending from the anvil member. The surgical buttress is releasably disposed on the tissue facing surface of the staple cartridge assembly or the anvil assembly. The surgical buttress has an annular configuration defining a central aperture therethrough, and includes body segments extending radially outwardly about the central aperture in spaced radial relation relative to each other, and a ring segment interconnecting the body segments.
US11653913B2
Disclosed in an orthopedic implant that comprises a spacer portion having a superior portion and an inferior portion, and a staple portion. The staple portion is integral with the spacer portion and comprises a crown portion and first and second leg portions, the first and second leg portions having distal end that converge from the crown portion and that are composed of a material that has superelastic properties at body temperatures, whereby the first and second leg portions are configured to impart a compressive biasing force when the implant is installed with the legs under tension.
US11653904B2
A needle assembly for sampling fluid from a patient including a needle guard, an insertion needle, and a needle housing. The distal end of the needle guard includes a nose portion and a flexible nose extension defining a fluid collection reservoir. The proximal end of the needle guard includes a push feature. The insertion needle has a sharpened distal tip, a proximal needle end and a shaft defining a lumen extending therebetween. The needle housing is operably coupled to the proximal needle end and is slideably coupled to the needle guard. The needle housing includes a flash chamber including a wall defining a cavity. The cavity is in fluid communication with the lumen of the insertion needle and is sealed at one end by a gas permeable flash plug. The push feature selectively engages the flash plug to divert captured bodily fluids to the fluid collection reservoir for sampling.
US11653903B2
The invention relates to an automatic reflection hammer system, which comprises the following components: a reflective hammer chassis, an outer side having a detachable reflection hammer head, and a pulley, a universal joint, a vertical height adjustment mechanism, and a fixing bracket. Wherein, the reflection hammer chassis links with the universal joint, the universal joint links to the vertical height adjustment mechanism, and the vertical height adjustment mechanism links with the fixing bracket.
US11653887B2
A method is for creating a synthetic mammogram based upon a dual energy tomosynthesis recording of an examination region. In an embodiment the method includes making a low energy tomosynthesis recording with a first X-ray energy spectrum; making a high energy tomosynthesis recording with a second X-ray energy spectrum of relatively higher energy compared with the first X-ray energy spectrum, wherein the examination region includes a contrast medium distribution; determining a subtraction volume based upon the high energy tomosynthesis recording and the low energy tomosynthesis recording; generating a three-dimensional probability map with a weighting factor per voxel based upon the subtraction volume; and creating a synthetic mammogram based upon the three-dimensional probability map.
US11653881B2
A device is described that can include a probe, a mobile device, and at least one processor. The probe can examine a corresponding anatomical part of a body. The mobile device can have a camera to take an image of the anatomical part of the body. The mobile device can execute a patient-application to process the image. The at least one processor can be configured to transmit the processed image to a server via a communication network. Related apparatuses, systems, methods, techniques and articles are also described.
US11653876B2
A CAP detection device configured to acquire pulse wave data of a subject, derive a baseline of the data and an envelope of the baseline, identify a local maximum point of the envelope and determine, as CAP candidate points, a first local maximum point of the baseline before the local maximum point of the envelope and a second local maximum point of the baseline after the local maximum point, and identify, for each CAP candidate point, a third local maximum point of the baseline before the CAP candidate point and a local minimum point of the baseline between the CAP candidate point and the third local maximum point and detect the CAP candidate point as a CAP based on an evaluation value obtained from a difference between the CAP candidate point and the third local maximum point and a difference between the CAP candidate point and the local minimum point.
US11653874B2
Method and system for characterizing tissue in three dimensions using multimode optical measurements
A surface of the tissue is illuminated with light having a known wavelength spectrum capable of materially penetrating the tissue. The light remitted from the tissue in response to the illumination is separated into at least two distinguishable polarization components. The intensity of the illumination light remitted from the tissue is measured over a hyperspectral range of wavelengths for the at least two distinguishable polarization components. Based on the preceding measurements and a degree of linear polarization of the remitted light, data representative of the three-dimensional location and one or more characteristics of an abnormal portion of the tissue are produced. Further, the masking effect of melanin may be eliminated to obtain accurate estimations of an anomaly.
US11653873B2
A skin detection device, including a processor and a texture recognition sensor, is disclosed. The texture recognition sensor is configured to detect surface texture of skin to be detected; and the processor is configured to determine surface smoothness of the skin to be detected according to the surface texture of the skin to be detected. The skin detection device can independently perform the health detection of the skin to be detected. A product information determination method, a product information determination device and a product information determination system are further disclosed.
US11653869B2
Physiological monitoring can be provided through a lightweight wearable monitor that includes two components, a flexible extended wear electrode patch and a reusable monitor recorder that removably snaps into a receptacle on the electrode patch. The wearable monitor sits centrally on the patient's chest along the sternum oriented top-to-bottom. The placement of the wearable monitor in a location at the sternal midline, with its unique narrow “hourglass”-like shape, significantly improves the ability of the wearable monitor to cutaneously sense cardiac electrical potential signals, particularly the P-wave and the QRS interval signals indicating ventricular activity in the ECG waveforms. In particular, the ECG electrodes on the electrode patch are tailored to be positioned axially along the midline of the sternum for capturing action potential propagation in an orientation that corresponds to the aVF lead used in a conventional 12-lead ECG that is used to sense positive or upright P-waves.
US11653868B2
Long-term electrocardiographic and physiological monitoring over a period lasting up to several years in duration can be provided through a continuously-recording subcutaneous insertable cardiac monitor (ICM). The sensing circuitry and the physical layout of the electrodes are specifically optimized to capture electrical signals from the propagation of low amplitude, relatively low frequency content cardiac action potentials, particularly the P-waves that are generated during atrial activation. In general, the ICM is intended to be implanted centrally and positioned axially and slightly to either the left or right of the sternal midline in the parasternal region of the chest. Additionally, the ICM includes an ECG sensing circuit that measures raw cutaneous electrical signals and performs signal processing prior to outputting the processed signals for sampling and storage.
US11653865B2
A device can be coupled to a foley catheter inserted into the bladder of a patient, where the foley catheter includes a urine passage through which urine can be drained from the bladder. The device includes a pressure sensor that is connected to a urine outlet of the urine passage and configured to measure a pressure value of the urine being drained through the urine outlet, a processor connected to the pressure sensor and configured to determine whether the foley catheter can be removed by comparing the pressure value and a predetermined threshold value, and a display unit connected to the processor and displaying whether the foley catheter can be removed according to the control of the processor.
US11653864B2
A method quantitatively determines fusion capacity in conjugate eye movements of a subject. Visual stimuli are provided for stereopsis as a task for the subject, the stimuli being generated at a viewing angle relative to the primary viewing direction of the subject such that the subject must execute a movement of the viewing direction of the eyes away from the primary viewing direction. Each stimulus is presented for a period of time so that the subject perceives the respective stimulus. The subject reacts to the respective stimulus perceived thereby within a reaction time. The reaction time is determined as the duration between presentation of the relevant stimulus and the subject's motor response to the stimulus. The steps are carried out continuously with stimuli for stereopsis at varying cognitive degrees of difficulty. A series of measurements of reaction times is generated at different cognitive degrees of difficulty.
US11653861B2
A method for determining oxygen saturation includes emitting light from sources into tissue; detecting the light by detectors subsequent to reflection; and generating reflectance data based on detecting the light. The method includes determining a first subset of simulated reflectance curves from a set of simulated reflectance curves stored in a tissue oximetry device for a coarse grid; and fitting the reflectance data points to the first subset of simulated reflectance curves to determine a closest fitting one of the simulated reflectance curves. The method includes determining a second subset of simulated reflectance curves for a fine grid based on the closest fitting one of the simulated reflectance curves; determining a peak of absorption and reflection coefficients from the fine grid; and determining an absorption and a reflectance coefficient for the reflectance data points by performing a weighted average of the absorption coefficients and reflection coefficients from the peak.
US11653856B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for measuring and analyzing movements of a body and for communicating information related to such body movements over a network. In certain embodiments, a system gathers biometric and biomechanical data relating to positions, orientations, and movements of various body parts of a user performed during sports activities, physical rehabilitation, or military or law enforcement activities. The biometric and biomechanical data can be communicated to a local and/or remote interface, which uses digital performance assessment tools to provide a performance evaluation to the user. The performance evaluation may include a graphical representation (e.g., a video), statistical information, and/or a comparison to another user and/or instructor. In some embodiments, the biometric and biomechanical data is communicated wirelessly to one or more devices including a processor, display, and/or data storage medium for further analysis, archiving, and data mining. In some embodiments, the device includes a cellular telephone.
US11653854B2
Systems and methods for generating MRI images of the lungs and/or airways of a subject using a medical grade gas mixture comprises between about 20-79% inert perfluorinated gas and oxygen gas. The images are generated using acquired 19F magnetic resonance image (MRI) signal data associated with the perfluorinated gas and oxygen mixture.
US11653834B2
Optical imaging or spectroscopy described can use laminar optical tomography (LOT), diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS), or the like. An incident beam is scanned across a target. An orthogonal or oblique optical response can be obtained, such as concurrently at different distances from the incident beam. The optical response from multiple incident wavelengths can be concurrently obtained by dispersing the response wavelengths in a direction orthogonal to the response distances from the incident beam. Temporal correlation can be measured, from which flow and other parameters can be computed. An optical conduit can enable endoscopic or laparoscopic imaging or spectroscopy of internal target locations. An articulating arm can communicate the light for performing the LOT, DCS, or the like. The imaging can find use for skin cancer diagnosis, such as distinguishing lentigo maligna (LM) from lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM).
US11653824B2
Provided is a medical observation system including a medical observation device and an image processing device. The medical observation device includes a plurality of imaging elements and a branching optical system configured to split incident light into a plurality of rays of light, and each of the plurality of rays of light split by the branching optical system is guided to at least one of the plurality of imaging elements. Of the plurality of imaging elements, two or more imaging elements each capture images having mutually different brightness, and two or more imaging elements are arranged so as to have mutually different optical distances from the branching optical system. The image processing device generates at least one of a first composite image based on a plurality of images having mutually different brightness, the first composite image having a wider dynamic range than each of the plurality of images, or a second composite image based on a plurality of images captured by each of the two or more imaging elements having different optical distances from the branching optical system, the second composite image having a deeper depth of field than each of the plurality of images.
US11653821B2
An endoscope includes a handle operation unit. The handle operation unit includes: an outer ring; a cam ring accommodated in the outer ring to rotate in accordance with rotation of the outer ring about a central axis and having a pair of guide holes; a pair of slide members accommodated in the respective guide holes and fixed to a force transmission member; and a support portion having a pair of slide grooves extending along a longitudinal direction of the endoscope, the support portion being accommodated in the cam ring to support the pair of slide members. The slide members slide in the respective slide grooves in accordance with the rotation of the outer ring. The field of view of the image-capturing unit is changed in accordance with sliding of the pair of slide members.
US11653820B2
An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).
US11653818B2
A visualization device for a robotic surgery apparatus includes a housing configured to be removably attached to a mounting interface of the apparatus and be positioned adjacent an insertion device of the apparatus. The housing includes first and second openings positioned on an exterior of the housing. The housing includes a substantially flexible camera tube with a first end attached to the housing and a second end including at least one camera. The second end is inserted through the first opening in the housing, pass through interior of the housing, and exit the housing through the second opening in the housing. The second end extends away from the housing toward a region of interest outside the housing or retract away from the region of interest and back toward the housing. The camera tube forms a loop around a portion of the housing.
US11653815B2
A recording device includes: a memory; and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to generate, based on temporal change in plural sets of image data that have been generated by an endoscope and arranged chronologically, biological information on a subject, associate the plural sets of image data with the biological information to record the plural sets of image data with the biological information into the memory, and select, based on the biological information, image data from the plural sets of image data that have been recorded in the memory to generate three-dimensional image data.
US11653813B2
A household dishwasher includes a washing container receiving a dishwasher load, a spray arm for applying washing liquor and/or fresh water to the dishwasher load, a drive system for actively driving the spray arm, and an overload protection mechanism configured to move autonomously from a coupling position, in which power is transmitted between the drive system and the spray arm, into a decoupling position, in which the power transmission between the drive system and the spray arm is interrupted, when the spray arm becomes blocked.
US11653807B2
The present disclosure provides a self-cleaning method of a self-moving cleaning robot and a self-moving cleaning robot. The self-moving cleaning robot has both a basic working mode and a self-cleaning mode. When the self-moving cleaning robot needs to perform self-cleaning, the following steps are performed: step 100: controlling the self-moving cleaning robot to enter the self-cleaning mode; step 200: performing, by the self-moving cleaning robot, at least one self-cleaning action; and step 300: when at least one condition for ending the self-cleaning action is met, exiting the self-cleaning mode, the step 100 includes: adjusting parameters related to the operation of the self-moving cleaning robot while substantially maintaining the basic working mode. The present disclosure automatically clean part of the stains left at a rolling brush, a rolling brush cavity, a water suction port, a dust suction port and an air duct of the self-moving cleaning robot without changing an original working mode of the self-moving cleaning robot, and can prevent remaining pollutants from dropping onto a working surface to cause secondary pollution, is easy to operate and convenient to control, and can effectively realize a self-cleaning process of the self-moving cleaning robot.
US11653806B2
The present disclosure relates to an autonomous cleaning robot. The autonomous cleaning robot may include a main body (1) and a cleaning assembly. The cleaning assembly is mounted on the main body (1). The cleaning assembly may include a first cleaning subassembly (2) removable and provided on the main body (1). The first cleaning subassembly (2) is moved in the forward direction or the backward direction of the main body (1) when the first cleaning subassembly (2) is loaded or removed from the main body (1). The first cleaning subassembly (2) is removable and connected to the main body (1) through a connecting member.
US11653805B2
Robot cleaner for performing cleaning using artificial intelligence and method of operating the same
A robot cleaner for performing cleaning using artificial intelligence includes a suction unit configured to suction dust, a driving unit to drive the robot cleaner, a memory configured to store a compensation model for inferring optimal suction output and driving output for cleaning environment information for learning, and a processor configured to acquire cleaning environment information, determine a suction output value and a driving speed of the robot cleaner from the acquired cleaning environment information using the compensation model, control the suction unit to suction the dust with the determined suction output value, and control the driving unit to drive the robot cleaner at the determined driving speed.
US11653804B2
A work system comprising a first autonomous work machine and a second autonomous work machine, wherein the first autonomous work machine includes: a detection unit configured to detect dirt on the second autonomous work machine; and a notification unit configured to, if the detection unit detects dirt, notify the second autonomous work machine of dirt information indicating the detection of the dirt, and the second autonomous work machine removes the dirt or waits in a predetermined position in response to the notification of the dirt information by the notification unit.
US11653795B2
A structurally supportive device for constructing a weight-bearing feature in a wet area of a building, such as but not limited to a shelf, seat or step in a shower, bath, tub, sauna, spa or swimming pool, comprising a triangular horizontal support surface with first, second, and third edges, wherein the first and the second edges form a right angle; a vertical presentation surface depending down from the third edge; a horizontal support lip along a bottom edge of the vertical presentation surface; and attachment tabs protruding from the first and second edges, with each tab running at least two-thirds the length of the first or second edge; wherein the tabs protrude sufficiently far to be received into a slot formed into a wall surface finishing material but not so far as to penetrate a waterproof membrane or a wall board, and wherein the horizontal support surface and vertical presentation surface are configured to receive a feature finishing material such as tile, stone or solid surface material.
US11653794B2
A utensil holding device is disclosed. The device includes one or more removeable and adjustable arms, a continuous rod having a plurality of sections including a first section configured for insertion into the ground, a second section configured to abut the ground and provide support, and a third section configured to receive the one or more removeable and adjustable arms. The sections are preferably integrally connected and formed of a continuous rod having a plurality of bends. Certain embodiments of the one or more removeable and adjustable arms are formed of a disc-shaped end and an elongated rod. The disc-shaped end is a partially folded disc in some embodiments.
US11653790B2
The Accelerated Slow Roasting Apparatus is a device for slow-and-low cooking a whole previously butterflied-prepared animal carcass comprising a closed cooking chamber with a plurality of adjustable air vents arranged on the bottom edge of the cooking chamber and a plurality of adjustable opening vents on a vertical side of the lid of the cooking chamber, and a slide out cooking grate with adjustable rails to support the grate while out of the cooking apparatus, a plurality of removable cooking fuel trays, wherein the cooking grate is positioned between twenty-five and forty centimeters above the cooking fuel trays to enable a flame-flare-up free, time-accelerated, slow-and-low cooking of the animal carcass in half, or less than half, of the traditional sixteen to twenty-two hours cooking time.
US11653784B2
Disclosed are various examples of drapery systems one of which includes a drapery rod operatively connected to a structure by a first bracket and a second bracket. In one nonlimiting embodiment the drapery rod has an exterior surface with a guide structure and a hollow interior having a feature. At least one example drapery system includes a drive coupler and a motor operatively coupled to the drive coupler, wherein the drive coupler is configured to be inserted within the hollow interior of the drapery rod and the drive coupler is configured to engage the feature of the drapery rod, wherein when the motor operates the drive coupler rotates, and rotation of the drive coupler causes rotation of the drapery rod.
US11653783B2
Provided is a telescopic rail, comprising a first rail and a second rail slidably arranged relative to each other, two rotating wheels, a belt, a first and a second traction block. When the rail is put into use, loosen the first and the second fixing device to release the belt from the first and the second traction block, then slide the first and the second rail relative to each other till the total length of the rails is qualified for the installation requirement, then tighten the first and the second fixing device to grip the belt by the first and the second traction block, after that cut off the surplus of belt, thus the length of the telescopic rail could be adjusted on-site without preparatory measurements and customizations, which decreases the workload for measurements and improves the efficiency for installation.
US11653776B2
A display vase adapted to hold a variety of longitudinal stems or sticks, the vase including a retainer mountable within the transparent vase that can hold a multitude of display items. The retainer may sit on a shelf or retaining ring inside the vase. The retainer may include an array of hexagonally shaped cells that may interlock with a lower level of interlocking cells. Also included is a method of arranging and displaying stemmed items in a vase. A retainer is set in a vase and stems are secured therethrough, preferably into a frog apparatus at bottom of vase.
US11653775B1
A wig stand system for keeping the style and shape of wigs comprising of a base, a connector, at least one arm, and at least one wig holder having a support, a cover, at least one body member, and a storage unit; wherein the connector bridges the base and the arm; wherein the connector includes a rotating member that allows the arm to rotate with respect to a vertical axis on a horizontal plane; wherein the wig holder is configured to receive a wig; wherein the cover and the body member are configured to receive the insertion of one or more pins.
US11653772B2
An inflatable protective resting assembly for enclosing a child while the child is outdoors includes an inflatable enclosure that is inflatable to define an enclosed resting area for a child. A plurality of screens is each removably attachable to the inflatable enclosure to protect the child from insects and reduce exposure to sunlight. A socket is provided and the socket is coupled to the inflatable enclosure. A plurality of accessory units is each removably attachable to the socket to enhance safety and security of the child when the child is positioned in the enclosed resting area defined by the inflatable enclosure.
US11653771B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a convertible children's high chair and a booster seat. According to various embodiments, the convertible high chair generally comprises a first child seat supported above a floor by a high chair frame, and a booster seat configured for being removably coupled to first child seat. The booster seat is configured such that, when detached from the high chair's first child seat, it can be used apart from the high chair (e.g., secured to the seating surface of a standard chair or another generally flat support surface). In certain embodiments, the booster seat includes a base surface configured to stably support the second child seat on a separate support surface (e.g., without the need to be attached to or mounted on a separate base or support member).
US11653764B2
A foldable multifunction chair including a base for contacting a support surface; a user body support having a support front surface for contacting a user body, the user body support being adjustably pivotably mounted to the base along a transversal axis; a selectively adjustable chair deployment mechanism cooperatively coupled to the base and the user body support, the chair deployment mechanism being configured for selectively adjusting the user body support to a desired angle relative to the base; and a locking mechanism configured for angularly locking the user body support to the desired angle relative to the base. The chair may be used, e.g., as a backrest with an accessory support positioned in front thereof for work, or as a seated workstation wherein the accessory support is positioned adjacent a rear surface of the user body support in a deployed position, and the collapsible seat in a deployed position.
US11653751B2
A hairbrush includes a body having a first half and a second half, and a container therebetween for storing fluids like liquids, i.e., water, alcohol, lotions, creams, etc. The first half and second half include respective bottom parts of a generally rectangular configuration each extending to an elongated portion extending to an open front. The first half and second half include respective inner surfaces and outer surfaces, with the second half including a flexible core from which a plurality of bristles extend radially outwardly.
US11653750B2
A hairstyling assembly comprising the main components of a handle and a barrel and bristles having a graphene material composite for retaining energy and is electrically conducting static electricity from a head of hair through the bristles and barrel and handle to ground.
US11653745B2
Bladders/containers designed to hold a meaningful amount of material (in any state: solid, liquid or gas) to conductively absorb heat from the human body. In addition, the material may be consumed by the user wearing the bladder/container, thus providing a source of hydration for the user. The bladders/containers would also enhance impact and/or ballistic protection of the user.
US11653740B2
A cosmetic container including a wiper capable of avoiding a pumping phenomenon without deterioration in scraping effect is provided. A wiper fitted to an opening of a cosmetic container includes a plurality of tongue pieces having the same shape disposed evenly in a circumferential direction and extending downward inside the container. Regions of the tongue pieces adjacent to each other partially overlap in the circumferential direction and are joined integrally at the overlapping portion. A length of the tongue pieces in an axial direction gradually decreases from one circumferential side edge portion toward the other side edge portion. In the overlapping portion, a tongue piece side short in the axial direction is disposed inside so as to form a groove between the tongue pieces, extending in the circumferential direction, that allows for air to pass between outside and inside spaces of the wiper.
US11653739B1
An applicator head intended to be associated with a cosmetic dispensing package for dispensing and applying a fluid product. The applicator head includes a first applicator member and a second applicator member coupled to one side of the first applicator member. The second applicator member made of a material capable of holding and retaining a thermal charge. An upper surface of the applicator head defines an applicator surface adapted to apply and dispense the fluid product. The applicator surface is angled with respect to a longitudinal axis of the applicator head. A recessed concavity is formed on the applicator surface and a discharge opening is disposed within the recessed concavity. A first portion of the recessed concavity lies on the first applicator member and a second portion of the recessed concavity lies on the second applicator member.
US11653729B2
The disclosure includes a wallet comprising an open-sided shell, a flexible member coupled to the open-sided shell, and a pull tab coupled to the external surface of the flexible member. The disclosure also includes a wallet comprising an open-sided shell, a flexible member coupled to the open-sided shell, a stretchable band configured to wrap around the open-sided shell and the flexible member, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) protection plate coupled to the open-sided shell. In some embodiments, the RFID protection plate is configured to securably couple at least one personal card between the RFID protection plate and the open-sided shell. The disclosure includes a wallet comprising an open-sided shell, a first protruding portion coupled to the open-sided shell, and a second protruding portion coupled to the open-sided shell.
US11653728B2
A jewelry item includes a ring-shaped base, a single center setting and a plurality of side settings. The ring-shaped base has a central opening and a central axis. The single center setting has a plurality of primary prongs for securing a center stone. The plurality of side settings is configured for securing an equal plurality of side stones around a perimeter of the center setting, wherein each side setting includes first and second adjacent inner secondary prongs and first and second adjacent outer secondary prongs. The jewelry item may be a ring having a band to be worn about a finger of a person. Shoulders and struts may secure the ring-shaped base above the band.
US11653726B1
A necklace keeper or clasp for securing a jewelry item and for receiving one or more charms. The clasp includes a support member constructed of a support ring that extends less than a full circle so as to define a support ring gap, and a top head piece that extends upwardly from the support ring. A sliding lock pad engages with the top head piece and is normally biased to an extended position. A guide ring is providing having a channel for receiving a support ring and extending less than a full circle so as define a guide ring gap. The sliding lock pad has a lock position in which it engages the support ring to inhibit relative rotation between the support ring and the guide ring; and has a release position in which there is relative rotation between the support ring and the guide ring so that the respective supporting ring gap and guide ring gap each align.
US11653711B2
A fitness tracking system includes a shoe, a magnetometer, and a controller. The magnetometer is mounted on the shoe and is configured to generate three-axis direction data in response to movement of the shoe during a predetermined time period. The controller is operably connected to the magnetometer and is configured to generate two-axis calibrated direction data based on the three-axis direction data after the predetermined time period. The two-axis calibrated direction data corresponds to an orientation of the shoe during the predetermined time period.
US11653709B1
Embodiments provide methods of disassembling apparel products. The methods include exposing an adhesive of the apparel product to a composition having an acidic or basic pH. The adhesive is disposed at least partially between a major component and a minor component of the apparel product. The adhesive includes a material having a disulfide bond. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with the adhesive. The methods include separating the major component from the minor component adjoined by the adhesive.
US11653706B2
Bras including an underband, a left shoulder strap, a right shoulder strap, a left support strap having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end of the left support strap being coupled to the left shoulder strap and the second end of the left support strap being coupled to the underband, the left support strap extending from the left shoulder strap to the underband along a path passing between the breasts of the wearer, and a right support strap having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end of the right support strap being coupled to the right shoulder strap and the second end of the right support strap being coupled to the underband, the right support strap extending from the right shoulder strap to the underband along a path passing between the breasts of the wearer.
US11653699B2
A cartridge assembly for an aerosol-generating system including a housing having an air outlet and an air inlet upstream of the housing air outlet; and a cartridge disposed within the housing. The cartridge includes a fluid-permeable heating element within a cartridge body; a cartridge air inlet; a cartridge air outlet; and an airflow path extending from the cartridge air inlet to the cartridge air outlet, via the fluid-permeable heating element. At least a portion of the cartridge may move between a first position, in which air from the housing air inlet is blocked from flowing to the housing air outlet, via the cartridge air inlet, the fluid-permeable heating element, and the cartridge air outlet; and a second position, in which an unrestricted airflow path exists from the housing air inlet to the housing air outlet, via the cartridge air inlet, the fluid-permeable heating element, and the cartridge air outlet.
US11653688B2
The present invention relates to allulose syrups, use of allulose syrups in the manufacture of food or beverage products, and food and beverage products made using the allulose syrups.
US11653678B2
The present invention relates to a mineral dietary supplement for ruminants comprising an organic-inorganic complex based on urea, and various clays for improving the animal's performance by the effect of delaying the release of urea in the rumen. The clays comprise at least one fibrous clay and a nonfibrous clay, preferably attapulgite and montmorillonite.
US11653673B2
The present invention relates to a process for treating flax (Linum usitatissimum) seeds with a view to improving their use as food, in particular for animals, characterized in that it comprises the following successive steps: a) Use of flax seeds provided that these seeds have a fat and/or omega-3 fatty acid content in excess of predefined values; and, only when the seeds are intended for feeding monogastric animals, a value for water retention capacity or a nutritional component of low value below predetermined values. b) Mixing, where there are at least two raw materials of different nature and/or quality and then fractionating, or fractionating and then mixing, said seeds from step a); c) Implementing a thermal step of preparation of the seeds from step b) with steam and/or a water-based liquid; d) Pressurizing the seed or mixture from step c) to a minimum pressure of 10 bars; and/or d1) Heating the seeds or the mixture from step d) or c) respectively.
US11653668B2
A chewing gum base comprises rubber derived from Russian Dandelion (TKS). Methods of extracting and purifying the rubber are provided. Gum base compositions and methods of compensating for variable ratios of elastomer:resin in the rubber are disclosed.
US11653659B2
Acidified milk product, which has a pH of between 3.0 and 5.0 and a content of lactose of at least 1.5 mg/ml, wherein the product contains a lactase, which retains its activity at a pH of 5.0 and a temperature of 37° C. at a level of at least 5% as compared to its activity at the optimum pH of the lactase.
US11653658B2
An apparatus for smoking food products, comprising at least one kiln which is provided with a drum, which can be actuated so as to rotate about its own axis of extension, and which defines internally a treatment chamber for food products which can be accessed through a loading and unloading opening. The drum has at least one smoke inlet which is connected to a smoke generator device.
US11653652B2
The present invention provides antimicrobial compositions, typically aqueous compositions, for use in the inhibition and control of microorganisms, including without limitation, viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeast, on organic and inorganic surfaces. The present invention further provides methods of using such compositions for immediate and residual inhibition, including control, of such microorganisms for a period of up to 24 hours and beyond.
US11653650B2
The present invention relates to a fungicide composition having excellent fungicidal activity, particularly a fungicide composition comprising isofetamid and mandestrobin as active ingredients, and a method for controlling a disease of a crop, which comprises applying isofetamid and mandestrobin to the crop.
US11653646B2
A bifunctional plant growth promoter and methods of preparing the plant growth promoter. The plant growth promoter comprises nano carbon black modified with carboxyl groups referred to as “carbon black acid”. The nano carbon black has a structure forming a first functional part of the plant growth promoter and the carboxyl groups form a second functional part of the plant growth promoter. The plant growth promoter has an average particle size in a size range of 5 nm to 200 nm and a mass fraction of carboxyl groups in a mass fraction range of 5% to 25%.
US11653637B2
An example insect rearing system a vessel comprising at least one interior surface defining a volume; a liner comprising a liner material, the liner having a shape corresponding to a shape of the interior surface, the liner configured to be disposed within the volume to establish a cavity within which water, insect larvae, and insect larvae food may be disposed and maintained; and wherein the vessel defines an opening configured to receive the liner and to allow the liner to substantially conform to the shape of the interior surface.
US11653635B2
The invention relates to methods of increasing the genetic progress of a line, breed or herd of swine through the use of sex-selected sperm cells in artificial insemination techniques. The invention also encompasses methods of artificially inseminating a swine via deep intrauterine catheter or via a laparoscopic procedure, which allow the use of reduced doses of sex-selected sperm cells.
US11653634B2
A method for adjusting an aquarium water temperature through direct heat exchange by a water temperature adjustment apparatus for an aquarium includes: a first step of allowing a smart sensor unit to measure the temperature of the water; a second step of controlling a heat exchange adjuster that sunk in the water to adjust the temperature of the water based on the temperature of the water measured by the smart sensor unit; and a third step of allowing the heat exchange adjuster to adjust direct heat exchange with the water.
US11653631B2
The present invention is a locking device that can be integrated onto a leash, and which provides a solution to the problem of slip-on collars over tightening or being inconvenient to use. The locking device comprises of a main body, a lock piece, a hook, and one or more arms. The one or more arms are connected within the main body to engage with the hook and the lock piece to lock a width of a collar portion which is formed from the pieces integrated onto the leash. The main body is configured to slide on the leash, and the lock piece is fixed onto the leash and when the lock piece slides into the main body, the main body is prevented from sliding. The hook is connected to a first end of the leash and when inserted into the main body forms the collar portion.
US11653629B2
A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations to accept ecosystem data and detect, analyze, and notify a user about a species in an environment. The system analysis and notification may include impact determination of the species on the environment and shall learn from the received and analyzed data, bringing intelligence to the system.
US11653623B2
A rotary milking parlor controlled that uses a set of sensors generating sensor signals that determine whether or not an entity is located at a hazardous position of the rotary milking parlor, and a central control unit, where each sensor in the set of sensors generates first and second independent signals, the first and second signals conveyed separately via respective first and second signal lines to the central control unit, and the rotary milking parlor controlled to be operated only if both the first and second signals of all sensors in the set of sensors indicate that no entity is deemed to be located at a hazardous position.
US11653615B2
A soybean cultivar designated 2910853 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 2910853, the plants of soybean 2910853, to plant parts of soybean 2910853, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 2910853 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 2910853, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 2910853, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 2910853 with another soybean cultivar.
US11653614B2
A multifoliate soybean cultivar designated P-17 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar P-17, to the plants of soybean cultivar P-17, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar P-17, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar P-17. 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 P-17. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar P-17, 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 P-17 with another soybean cultivar.
US11653609B2
Compositions and methods for generating maize plants that exhibit resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. Isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide that confers resistance to northern leaf blight, polynucleotide constructs comprising such, and maize plants comprising the polynucleotide constructs are provided. The methods include expressing an isolated polynucleotide in a maize cell via standard transformation methods and obtaining a maize plant from said maize cell.
US11653606B2
Novel Stevia rebaudiana plant cultivars, a process for preparing superior compositions comprising steviol glycosides, and the advantageous use of the compositions comprising steviol glycosides in consumables, including food and beverage products, are disclosed.
US11653603B2
The emitter attachable to a fluid conduit comprises a fluid inlet portion capable of taking in fluid from the fluid conduit. The fluid from the inlet portion moves to the pressure compensating or reducing portion which comprises a set of teeth which are arranged in a way so as to impede the flow of liquid thereby reducing the pressure. Downstream the pressure compensating portion is the output portion which communicates with an aperture in the fluid conduit to enable distributing the fluid to the environment. The base of the emitter is flexible allowing movement of the base by virtue of the pressure gradient. When the pressure of the fluid is reduced in the pressure compensating portion, a pressure gradient is created across the base and this result in the fluid in the fluid conduit moving the base towards the fluid conduit thereby reducing the volume of the cavity of the emitter.
US11653602B2
Shade house for casting an adjustable shadow over a surface, the shade house including: at least one frame extending in a longitudinal direction; a first set of photovoltaic panels mounted on the frame substantially orthogonally to a same orientation axis; a second set of opaque panels, for preference photovoltaic, mounted on the frame and movable in longitudinal translation relative to the frame at least between an open configuration, in which the panels are at least partially superposed over the panels in a view along the orientation axis, and a closed configuration, in which the panels at least partially extend beyond the panels in a view along the orientation axis; and an actuation system configured to actuate the second set at least from the open configuration to the closed configuration, and vice versa, the actuation system including pulleys mounted on the frame.
US11653588B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US11653587B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for displaying images of certain surroundings of an agricultural implement, for example one including a frame extending between opposing distal ends of a length transverse to a working direction of the agricultural implement. Individual image regions of the surroundings of the agricultural implement are captured using cameras arranged on the agricultural implement and directed toward a working area in the working direction, wherein a corresponding display is generated on a user interface. One or more traveling conditions (e.g., an edge of the working area and/or an edge of the frame, respectively corresponding to a first end and/or second end of the frame) may be automatically projected in the working direction, wherein respective indicia corresponding to the projected traveling conditions are superimposed on the generated display. The indicia may optionally be modified dynamically based on determined changes in a projected course of the working direction.
US11653586B2
Ground opener units for agricultural seeding machinery and the like utilise a gauge wheel and associated depth adjustment mechanism for regulating the penetration depth of the disk opener in use. An improved gauge wheel adjustment assembly comprises a spindle adapted to be rotatably supported in a spindle sleeve, the spindle having a shaft with a first end with a rectangular boss adapted for engagement with a depth adjustment handle of the disk opener and a second end with a tapered spline engagement formation. A gauge wheel support arm has a complementary tapered spline formation for engagement with the spindle second end.
US11659781B2
A selector device including a first metal electrode layer, a second metal electrode layer and a switching layer disposed between the first metal electrode layer and the second metal electrode layer. The switching layer is a stacked assembly of ABA, BAB, AB or BA, where A is an ion supply layer, and B is a conversion layer. The ion supply layer includes a chalcogenide metal material having a metal atomic content of more than 0% and not more than 50% with respect to the chalcogenide metal material. The conversion layer includes a chalcogenide material.
US11659779B2
Various embodiments may provide a memory cell. The memory cell may include an active electrode including an active electrode material. The memory cell may also include a first noble electrode contact with the active electrode, the first noble electrode being a patterned electrode including a noble electrode material. The memory cell may further include a resistive switching layer in contact with the active electrode and the first noble electrode. The memory cell may additionally include a second noble electrode including a noble electrode material, the second noble electrode in contact with the resistive switching layer.
US11659778B2
Methods, systems, and devices for composite electrode material chemistry are described. A memory device may include an access line, a storage element comprising chalcogenide, and an electrode coupled with the memory element and the access line. The electrode may be made of a composition of a first material doped with a second material. The second material may include a tantalum-carbon compound. In some cases, the second may be operable to be chemically inert with the storage element. The second material may include a thermally stable electrical resistivity and a lower resistance to signals communicated between the access line and the storage element across a range of operating temperatures of the storage element as compared with a resistance of the first material.
US11659764B2
Provided is an amine based compound of Chemical Formula 1: and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. The amine based compound can be used as a material of an organic material layer of an organic electroluminescent device, and can achieve an improvement of the efficiency, a low driving voltage and/or an improvement of the lifetime characteristic when applied to the organic electroluminescent device.
US11659762B2
A flexible display panel includes: a stretchable base film; an adhesive layer disposed on a surface of the stretchable base film; a flexible substrate including a plurality of display units and a plurality of connection units, every two adjacent display units being connected by at least one connection unit; and a plurality of first release agent films disposed between the plurality of connection units and the adhesive layer, the plurality of first release agent films and the plurality of connection units being in one-to-one correspondence. An orthographic projection of each connection unit on the stretchable base film is within an orthographic projection of a corresponding first release agent film on the stretchable base film. The plurality of display units are bonded to the adhesive layer.
US11659759B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and methods for forming arrays of EL devices and forming the EL devices with overlapped mask plates. The methods utilize overlapping a first mask plate and a second mask plate to form a mask arrangement having first apertures of the first mask plate overlapped with second apertures of the second mask plate forming one or more opening areas. A material is evaporated through the mask arrangement such that layers of the material are formed in a device area of the EL devices. The device area of each of the EL devices corresponds to the opening area of the mask arrangement of the first mask plate and the second mask plate. The method described herein allows for a higher density of the EL devices and creates a smaller deposition area due to the opening area of the mask arrangement.
US11659753B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a wavelength control film and a display device. A wavelength control layer for absorbing part of light of a specific wavelength band is disposed on an outer surface of a transparent substrate of the display device to enable a correction to the color temperature of white light, thus allowing for high-efficiency driving and a high color gamut upon implementing white light. Further, adjustment of the light absorption peak wavelength and transmittance of the light absorption material included in the wavelength control film enables wavelength control, with the characteristics of the light emitting element considered, and reduce external light reflectivity to thus provide the functions of a polarization plate.
US11659747B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of pixelated first electrodes disposed on the substrate, an uneven surface structure or a porous structure disposed between adjacent pixelated first electrodes, a plurality of OLED lighting elements disposed on the pixelated first electrodes and the uneven surface structure or the porous structure, a second electrode layer disposed on the OLED lighting elements. Equivalent transport distance of carriers along the uneven or porous surface increases accordingly, thereby resulting in reduced lateral leakage current between adjacent pixelated first electrodes.
US11659739B2
There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition.
US11659729B2
An electronic device substrate, a manufacturing method and a display device are provided. The electronic device substrate includes a base substrate, an organic encapsulation layer and a padding structure. The organic encapsulation layer is on the base substrate and includes a main part and an edge part; the padding structure on the base substrate protrudes from the base substrate; the edge part of the organic encapsulation layer at least partially covers the padding structure; with respect to the base substrate, a height of a part that is included by the padding structure and is away from the main part of the organic encapsulation layer is greater than a height of another part that is included by the padding structure and is close to the main part of the organic encapsulation layer.
US11659723B2
A method for manufacturing a photovoltaic device includes fabricating a first photovoltaic device portion with a first perovskite material layer having a first face, and fabricating a second photovoltaic device portion with a second perovskite material layer having a second face. Then first photovoltaic device portion and the second photovoltaic device portion are arranged such that the first face is in contact with the second face. Finally, the first photovoltaic device portion and second photovoltaic device portion are compressed at a pressure sufficient to fuse the first perovskite material to the second perovskite material.
US11659721B2
In a method of forming a gate-all-around field effect transistor, a gate structure is formed surrounding a channel portion of a carbon nanotube. An inner spacer is formed surrounding a source/drain extension portion of the carbon nanotube, which extends outward from the channel portion of the carbon nanotube. The inner spacer includes two dielectric layers that form interface dipole. The interface dipole introduces doping to the source/drain extension portion of the carbon nanotube.
US11659720B2
A resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) array is provided. The ReRAM array includes a silicon over insulator (SOI) substrate; a first bit line; a first inverted bit line of the first bit line; a second bit line; a second inverted bit line of the second bit line; a first word line; a first inverted word line of the first word line; a first ReRAM cell comprising a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, and a resistive element; and a second ReRAM cell comprising a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, and a resistive element connected in series; wherein upon applying a predefined potential on elements of the first ReRAM cell, a state of the first ReRAM cell is adjusted without effecting a state of the second ReRAM.
US11659718B2
A semiconductor device includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell. The MRAM cell includes a first magnetic layer disposed over a substrate, a first non-magnetic material layer made of a non-magnetic material and disposed over the first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer disposed over the first non-magnetic material layer, and a second non-magnetic material layer disposed over the second magnetic layer. The second magnetic layer includes a plurality of magnetic material pieces separated from each other.
US11659707B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate having an active region surrounded by an isolation layer; forming a first trench and a second trench in the active region, and a third trench and a fourth trench in the isolation layer; forming a bottom work-function layer in the third trench and the fourth trench, respectively; forming a middle work-function layer on the bottom work-function layer and in the first and the second trenches; forming a top work-function layer on the middle work-function layer; and forming a capping layer on the top work-function layer that fills a remaining region of the first, the second, the third and the fourth trenches.
US11659705B2
Methods, systems, and devices for thin film transistor deck selection in a memory device are described. A memory device may include memory arrays arranged in a stack of decks formed over a substrate, and deck selection components distributed among the layers to leverage common substrate-based circuitry. For example, each memory array of the stack may include a set of digit lines of a corresponding deck, and deck selection circuitry operable to couple the set of digit lines with a column decoder that is shared among multiple decks. To access memory cells of a selected memory array on one deck, the deck selection circuitry corresponding to the memory array may each be activated, while the deck selection circuitry corresponding to a non-selected memory array on another deck may be deactivated. The deck selection circuitry, such as transistors, may leverage thin-film manufacturing techniques, such as various techniques for forming vertical transistors.
US11659701B2
Disclosed herein is a noise suppression sheet that includes a magnetic sheet and a first metal layer provided on one surface of the magnetic sheet. The first metal layer has a plurality of annular slits. The first metal layer is divided into a plurality of first areas surrounded respectively by the plurality of slits and a second area surrounding an entire periphery of each of the plurality of slits.
US11659693B2
As air inside a building (e.g., a data center or any building that generates heat) becomes heated, it rises and is received or captured by a heat containment and then expelled from the building. The hot air is not recycle, recirculated, or re-cooled. Hot air being expelled from the building creates a pressure differential in which the pressure at the hot side of the building (where the heat containment is located) is lower than the cool side of the building. To this end, a chilling unit is installed at an opening of a building to supply cooled air at a constant rate. The chilling unit does not have an internal controller. Rather, an air conditioning (AC) unit of the building acts as an external controller. The AC unit is be set to maintain a target temperature and only runs when the temperature inside the building is above the target temperature.
US11659687B2
The present invention provides a stack-type vertical heat dissipation device comprising an evaporator unit and a condenser unit. The evaporator unit has a side configured for direct or indirect contact with, and thereby receiving heat from, a high-temperature device in order for the heat to convert a heat conduction medium inside the evaporator unit into a gaseous state. The condenser unit is stacked on a top side of a housing of the evaporator unit, and is provided therein with a flow channel that is in communication with the evaporator unit and allows passage of the heat conduction medium so that the heat conduction medium is able to return to the evaporator unit under a force of gravity after condensing from the gaseous state into a liquid state and thereby complete a thermal cycle.
US11659671B2
A buckle assembly and an electronic device using the buckle assembly are provided. The buckle assembly is assembled in a housing of the electronic device. The housing has an inner surface and a column with a first through hole, wherein the column protrudes from the inner surface toward inside of the housing. The buckle assembly includes a fixing element, a shaft and a pair of retaining rings. The fixing element is assembled in the first through hole. The shaft is fixed in the housing. The retaining rings are pivoted to the shaft. Each of the retaining rings has an arc portion, and the retaining rings buckle each other and abut on the column. The arc portions are co-constructed to form a first hole communicating with the first through hole while the retaining rings buckle each other, and the fixing element is inserted in the first hole and column to be fixed in the housing.
US11659665B2
A connection structure-embedded substrate includes: a printed circuit board including a plurality of first insulating layers of which at least one has a cavity provided therein, a plurality of first wiring layers disposed as at least one of an outer portion and an inner portion of the plurality of first insulating layers, and a first build-up insulating layer disposed on an upper surface of the plurality of first insulating layers; and a connection structure at least partially disposed in the cavity. The first build-up insulating layer is disposed in the cavity, and each of a lower surface of the connection structure and a lower surface of the cavity is in contact with at least a portion of the first build-up insulating layer, respectively.
US11659662B2
A flexible printed circuit board includes a base film having an insulating property, and multiple interconnects laminated to at least one surface side of the base film. The multiple interconnects include a first interconnect and a second interconnect in a same plane. An average thickness of the second interconnect is greater than an average thickness of the first interconnect. A ratio of the average thickness of the second interconnect to the average thickness of the first interconnect is greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 50.
US11659658B2
A multilayer board includes a laminated insulating body, signal conductors inside the laminated insulating body and extending in a transmission direction, and ground conductors sandwiching each of the signal conductors in a lamination direction via the insulating base material layers. The multilayer board includes a parallel extending portion in which the signal conductors extend parallel and that includes signal conductors arranged separately from each other in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction, and a signal conductor overlapping with the signal conductor in a planar view in the lamination direction and arranged separately from the signal conductor in the lamination direction. The parallel extending portion includes first and second regions arranged separately in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction.
US11659655B2
A tensile electronic module and electronic device using the same are provided. The tensile electronic module includes two electrical components and a stretchable trace connected between the two electrical components. The stretchable trace includes two arcs and at least three circular segments. The circular segments are connected to each other and have at least two various central angles. Each of the arcs is configured at one end of the circular segments for respectively connecting with one of the electrical components. The tensile electronic module proposed in the invention achieves to reduce tensile stress of the stretchable trace in multiple directions and can be further applied to an electronic device which is stretchable or having a curved surface. Damages caused by stress accumulation when the stretchable trace is stretched in different directions are therefore avoided. Therefore, it is believed reliability and service life of the electronic device are greatly improved.
US11659650B2
Disclosed herein are dual-spiral common-mode filters, printed circuit boards (PCBs) comprising such dual-spiral common-mode filters, and devices comprising such dual-spiral common-mode filters and PCBs. A dual-spiral common-mode filter is patterned into the reference plane of a PCB. The dual-spiral common-mode filter comprises a first spiral portion connected to a second spiral portion. The spiral portions may be substantially identical, or mirror images of each other, or different from each other. One or more signal traces in a signal trace layer of the PCB pass over the dual-spiral common-mode filter. The disclosed dual-spiral common-mode filters can replace both conventional patterned ground structure (PGS) filters used for radio-frequency interference mitigation and the cutouts often used in the reference plane of a PCB to mitigate impedance mismatches due to DC blocking capacitors. Also disclosed herein are methods of making PCBs that include dual-spiral common-mode filters.
US11659645B2
A monolithic housing for an x-ray source can wrap at least partially around a power supply and an x-ray tube. The monolithic housing can include Al, Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, Si, Sr, Zn, or combinations thereof. Mg can be a major component of the monolithic housing. The monolithic housing can be formed by injection molding. The monolithic housing can provide one or more of the following advantages: (a) light weight (for easier transport), (b) high electrical conductivity (to protect the user from electrical shock), (c) high thermal conductivity (to remove heat generated during use), (d) corrosion resistance, (e) high strength, and (f) high electromagnetic interference shielding (to shield power supply components from external noise, to shield other electronic components from power supply noise, or both).
US11659634B2
A microwave oven may include a temperature sensor to sense temperature in a cooking cavity, and a controller that can initiate a sous vide cooking cycle in response to user input after placement of a sous vide container (with a water bath and a food item to be cooked inside) into the cooking cavity, monitor a temperature of the water bath contained by the sous vide container during the cooking cycle using the temperature sensor, and control the microwave cooking element in response to the monitored temperature.
US11659626B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module supporting communication based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and a processor operatively coupled to the communication module. The processor is configured to transmit control information to request the communication module to operate in a first mode. Upon receiving an advertising Packet Data Unit (PDU) of predefined types from an external electronic device, the first mode corresponds to a mode of controlling the communication module so that a scan request is transmitted to the external electronic device in response to reception of the advertising PDU of the predefined types. The communication module is configured to receive the advertising PDU from the external electronic device, while operating in the first mode, on the basis of the control information, identify that a type of the received advertising PDU corresponds to a first type distinct from the predefined types, on the basis of a header included in the received advertising PDU, bypass transmission of the scan request on the basis of the identifying, and transmit to the processor an advertising notification for representing that the advertising PDU of the first type has been received.
US11659621B2
A method, a wireless device and a session management node for IP version selection for a PDU session requested to be established by a WCD, that supports PDU sessions of both IPv4 and IPv6 and that is configured to operatively communicate via a RAN with a SM node in a core network 101, the method being performed by the WCD comprises: sending S110 a first PDU session request message towards the SM node requesting establishment of a first PDU session, which request message comprises IP-version information indicating that the IP version of the requested first PDU session should be any one of IPv4 or IPv6; and receiving S130, S140, in response to sending the first PDU session request message, a first response message, which first response message comprises WCD information indicating the IP-version (i.e. IPv4 or IPv6) that has been selected for the requested first PDU session.
US11659620B2
A method for data transmission includes: receiving a first indication message from a base station, wherein the first indication message includes first information indicating a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) packet duplication function and at least two transmission entities configured for a radio bearer (RB) by the base station; setting a transmission function corresponding to the RB to be the PDCP packet duplication function according to the first indication message; setting a transmission entity corresponding to the RB according to the at least two transmission entities indicated in the first indication message; setting a present state of the PDCP packet duplication function, the present state being one of an activated state or a deactivated state; and performing data transmission according to the present state and the transmission entity.
US11659617B2
This application provides a method for waking up a terminal, a terminal, and a network device. In technical solutions provided in this application, a network device determines, from a plurality of wake-up signals that can wake up a to-be-woken-up terminal and that need to be monitored by the to-be-woken-up terminal for one PO, a target wake-up signal of the to-be-woken-up terminal, and sends the target wake-up signal to the to-be-woken-up terminal. If the terminal detects, for the one PO, at least one wake-up signal of the plurality of wake-up signals that can wake up the terminal and that need to be monitored by the terminal, the terminal monitors a downlink control channel at the PO.
US11659616B2
Example resource configuration methods and apparatus are described. One example resource configuration method includes applying, by a terminal device, to a network device for semi-persistent scheduling. The terminal device receives configuration information sent by the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a first semi-persistent scheduling resource for the terminal device. The terminal device configures the first semi-persistent resource for the terminal device based on the configuration information, and sends uplink data to the network device on the first semi-persistent scheduling resource.
US11659613B2
This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. A terminal in an inactive state receives a paging message, and content in the paging message is determined. When the content includes a first identity of the terminal, the terminal sends a first request message to a first access network device, where the first request message carries a non-access stratum (NAS) identifier of the terminal. When the content includes a second identity of the terminal and an identity of an anchor access network device, the terminal sends a second request message to the first access network device. The communication method of is application can adapt to a communication requirement of a terminal in an inactive state.
US11659607B2
Systems may establish a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) session during a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) outage. The systems may include Network Functions (NF) that perform steps for establishing the SIP session and/or bypassing the HSS experiencing the outage. For instance, an Interrogating (I)-Call Session Control Function (CSCF) may modify a terminating message received from a User Equipment (UE) to generate a modified terminating message, and send one or more instances (e.g., forks) of the modified terminating message to one or more candidate Serving (S)-CSCFs. A particular S-CSCF of the candidate S-CSCFs may comprise the registered S-CSCF and may respond to an instance of the modified terminating message. In some embodiments, the I-CSCF may establish the SIP session by sending an instance of the modified terminating message to a designated S-CSCF. The designated S-CSCF may determine which candidate S-CSCF comprises the registered S-CSCF, for instance, by querying the candidate S-CSCFs.
US11659604B1
A wireless communication method includes establishing a first communication link between a source device and a first device, switching a second device into a shadow device of the first device after obtaining link information of the first communication link by the second device, and interacting the second device with the first device through the first communication link. A wireless communication is further provided. By adopting technical solutions above, a communication connection mode between multiple devices is simplified, and wireless communication between multiple devices is further realized.
US11659603B2
A method of communication between an electronic device and a cellular network employing a communication protocol is disclosed. The device initiates a connection with the network and during the initiation the device issues to the network at least one information criterion. Once the connection is established, the network forwards to the device only communications required by said communication protocol and any communications which meet the information criterion issued by the device.
US11659602B2
A wireless network connection management method includes at least one universal integrated circuit card (UICC) starting a search timer when utilizing a non-priority subscriber identity module (SIM) to establish a connection with a non-priority wireless network; the at least one UICC sending a search command to a wireless communication device in response to a first condition, wherein the first condition is that the search timer expires; a wireless communication device searching for and obtaining a current network status, and sending a reply message indicating the current network status to the at least one UICC; and in response to that the current network status indicates that a signal strength of a priority wireless network is greater than a specific signal strength, the at least one UICC informing and switching to the priority wireless network, and transmitting an update command to the wireless communication device.
US11659588B1
Technologies directed to prioritized channel coordination in a multi-tier wireless network are described. One method includes identifying a first group of wireless devices located in a first geographical area using physical proximity information. The method includes, for a first wireless device having a highest priority among the wireless device in the first geographical area, determining a penalty value for each channel of a plurality of available channels and selecting a first channel having a lowest penalty value. The method includes, for a second wireless device having a second-highest priority, determining a penalty value for each of the remaining channels in the plurality of available channels and selecting a second channel, from the remaining channels, having a lowest penalty value. The method includes sending to the first wireless device information about the first channel and sending to the second wireless device information about the second channel.
US11659582B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5th generation (5G) communication system with an IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety, etc.) based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method and an apparatus for 5G migration in a frequency interference combination band and, more specifically, to a scheduling method and apparatus for interference control and efficient resource utilization in a mobile communication system supporting a carrier aggregation technology, a dual connectivity or multi-connectivity technology, or the like which simultaneously uses a plurality of frequency resources are provided.
US11659578B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may schedule a user equipment (UE) to transmit a sidelink data message to another UE. The base station may consider timing capabilities of the transmitting UE and the receiving UE when scheduling the sidelink communication. For example, the base station may schedule a feedback resource based on the timing capabilities of the transmitting UE and the receiving UE. The feedback resource may be scheduled with enough time such that the sidelink UEs can finish processing any sidelink communications in time to provide the feedback for the sidelink communications to the base station using the feedback resource.
US11659577B2
According to certain embodiments, a user equipment, UE, is operable for multiple sub-carrier spacing values. The UE comprises memory operable to store instructions and processing circuitry operable to execute the instructions, whereby the UE is operable to determine one of a plurality of time-domain resource allocation tables based on first information received from a network node. The first information comprises a Radio Network Temporary Identifier, RNTI. The UE is operable to determine a time-domain resource allocated to the UE for transmission or reception of a wireless signal based on the determined one of the plurality of time-domain resource allocation tables and second information received from the network node. The second information comprises a time-domain resource allocation field value received in downlink control information, DCI. The UE is further operable to transmit or receive the wireless signal using the determined time-domain resource.
US11659574B2
A user equipment (UE) having a first capability associated with a lower maximum UE bandwidth than a second capability performs at least a part of initial access based on an initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) that is shared among UEs having the first capability and UEs having the second capability. The UE switches, after the initial access, to an active downlink BWP and an active uplink BWP that are dedicated for the UEs having the first capability to perform random access, paging, system acquisition, measurement and data communication procedures.
US11659573B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a downlink transmission for control information during a set of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions. The UE may determine a first configuration for the set of PDCCH monitoring occasions during a slot of the downlink transmission and a threshold number of PDCCH candidates and/or a threshold number of non-overlapping CCEs within the slot. In some cases, the UE may also determine a threshold number of PDCCH candidates and/or non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs) within a single PDCCH monitoring occasion. The threshold number of PDCCH candidates and non-overlapping CCEs may be fixed, based on the number of PDCCH monitoring occasions during the slot, based on a processing capability of the UE, or a combination thereof. The UE may decode control information contained in one or more of the PDCCH monitoring occasions.
US11659571B2
A resource information transmission method, a relevant device and a system are provided. The resource information transmission method includes: acquiring resource information from a second network side device or a central control unit, the resource information being used to represent a frequency-domain resource for the second network side device or the first network side device; and performing communication transmission with a UE in accordance with the resource information.
US11659568B2
Provided is a method for transmitting information, a network device and a terminal device. The method includes that: a time-frequency resource for a downlink control channel of at least one terminal device is determined, the time-frequency resource for the downlink control channel of the at least one terminal device being mapped in a first control region within a bandwidth of a system according to a manner of a frequency domain first and then a time domain; and the downlink control channel of the at least one terminal device is sent through the time-frequency resource for the downlink control channel of the at least one terminal device. According to the information transmission method, network device and terminal device of the embodiments of the application, system performance may be improved.
US11659559B2
Optimal determination of wireless network pathway configurations may be provided. A computing device may establish Multi-Access Point (AP) coordination between at least a first AP and a second AP. The first AP can determine an uplink operation is scheduled. When an uplink is scheduled, the first AP can switch its antenna to a narrow beamwidth. The first AP can then receive uplink transmissions from at least a client in the coverage area of the narrow beamwidth. After the uplink transmission, the first AP can then switch the antenna to a larger beamwidth for a next Multi-AP coordination operation.
US11659554B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for wireless communication, for use in a communication system at least using two beams. The method comprises: a network device determines transmission resources that can be used by M beam groups, wherein each beam group comprises at least one beam in the at least two beams, M≥1; the network device sends configuration information to a first terminal device, the configuration information being used for indicating the transmission source used by each beam group, so that the practicability and user experience of a multi-beam system can be improved.
US11659553B2
A method of sidelink communications can include receiving at a user equipment (UE) a configuration for a first resource pool indicating a first size of a first first-stage sidelink control information (SCI) in terms of a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and a second size of the first first-stage SCI in terms of a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs). The first resource pool can be divided into slots in time domain and sub-channels each occupying a set of PRBs in frequency domain. The first first-stage SCI having the first size of the number of OFDM symbols and the second size of the number of PRBs indicated by the configuration for the first resource pool can be transmitted within a first slot and a first sub-channel of the first resource pool.
US11659541B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for coordinating wireless communication. Various devices may be configured for wireless communication. The wireless communications may be coordinated via a backhaul communication channel and may minimize interference between the communications.
US11659531B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may determine to change a first slot format used when operating in a half-duplex mode based on a traffic pattern or a channel quality, or both, and may transmit a request to change the slot format to a base station. The request may include information relating to a slot format based on the traffic pattern or the channel quality, or both, such as an explicit indication of a slot format or a request for a different resource distribution between uplink symbols, downlink symbols, or flexible symbols, or any combination thereof. The base station may receive the request to change the slot format and may transmit an indication of a second slot format to the UE based on the request. The base station and the UE may communicate using the second slot format.
US11659525B2
An apparatus serves a plurality of user equipments in a wireless communication system. For transmitting/receiving data of a plurality of user equipments, which include at least a first user equipment and a second user equipment, on resources shared by the plurality of user equipments, the apparatus transmits/receives a first data signal of the first user equipment and second data signal of the second user equipment using a non-orthogonal multiple access, NOMA, scheme. The first data signal and the second data signal are modulated using different waveforms prior to superposition of the first and second data signals.
US11659520B2
A method in a radio access network, RAN, node for paging user equipment in an area spanning across a plurality of radio access technologies, RATs, comprises determining the capabilities of a user equipment to which a paging message is intended, and transmitting the paging message to the UE via one or more RATs which the UE is determined as being capable of communicating with.
US11659512B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a network to notify user equipment device (UE) whether a network slice the UE has requested is subject to a quota. An AMF of the network may inform the UE if an allowed slice(s) is subject to quota management as part of a registration procedure via a registration accept and/or a UE configuration update command. In addition to providing information regarding whether an S-NSSAI is subject to quota management, the AMF may also share the percent of quota availability to the UE. The UE may implement access control logic based on the received available quota for a particular network slice.
US11659510B2
A method at a first device for synchronising a first clock of the first device to a second clock of a second device, includes receiving a first message comprising an identifier from a third device; generating a first timestamp in dependence on the time at which the first message is received at the first device according to the first clock; receiving a second message from the second device comprising the identifier and a second timestamp, the second timestamp having been generated in dependence on the time at which the second device received the first message from the third device according to the second clock; and adjusting the first clock in dependence on a time difference between a time indicated by the first timestamp and a time indicated by the second timestamp.
US11659507B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for selecting or eliminating candidate targeted communications. A method may include receiving candidate identifiers and traits associated with the candidate identifiers. A method may further include generating a candidate index including one or more dimensions associated with candidate traits. A method may further include intersecting the dimensions to determine if one or more candidates appear in dimensions associated with the desired candidate traits. A method may further include generating a result set based on the results of the intersecting computation. A method may further include selecting or eliminating candidates based on the results of the intersecting computation.
US11659499B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first set of grants for performing uplink transmissions between the UE and a first group of cells associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second set of grants for performing uplink communication between the UE and a second group of cells associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that a combined transmit power exceeds a total power limit or that there may be a potential of the combined power exceeding the total power limit. The UE may further perform the uplink communication with the first group of cells using the first RAT and the second group of cells using the second RAT.
US11659496B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for adapting clear channel assessment (CCA) thresholds with or without Transmit Power Control (TPC) are disclosed. An IEEE 802.11 station (STA) may dynamically calculate a STA specific transmit power control (TPC) value and a STA specific clear channel assessment (CCA) value based on a target TPC parameter and a target CCA parameter. The target TPC parameter and the target CCA parameter may be received from an IEEE 802.11 cluster head configured to control TPC and CCA for a plurality of STAs associated with the BSS. The target TPC parameter and the target CCA parameter also may be related. The STA may then determine whether a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) wireless medium of a wireless local area network (WLAN) basic service set (BSS) is occupied or idle based on the STA specific CCA value.
US11659491B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support closed-loop transmit power control (TPC) for user equipment (UE) sidelink communications. TPC information may be provided, by a first UE receiving transmissions from a second UE, with respect to a sidelink implemented between the UEs. TPC information may be multiplexed with sidelink data traffic in a sidelink communication between UEs. The TPC information may include a TPC indicator and one or more TPC messages for providing TPC commands with respect to one or more sidelinks. The sidelink data traffic of some examples may include data-only traffic, such as semi-persistent scheduled (SPS) data traffic, that is decoupled from accompanying sidelink control information (SCI). Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11659486B2
The present invention provides a wireless communication method of an electronic device, wherein the wireless communication method includes the steps of: building a link with peer electronic device; receiving downlink data information from the peer electronic device; referring to the downlink data information to determine wake and doze information of the electronic device; and transmitting the wake and doze information of the electronic device to the peer electronic device.
US11659479B2
A network accessing method includes performing a cell search procedure for a first RAT; receiving first SI from a first cell of the first RAT when the first cell has been found in the cell search procedure; determining whether second SI is scheduled by the first cell according to content of the first SI; receiving the second SI in response to determination of the second SI being scheduled and deriving information regarding a second cell of a second RAT different from the first RAT; searching for the second cell according to the information regarding the second cell; and attempting to access the second cell instead of the first cell when the second cell has been found. The first cell is configured to provide access to a first core network and the second cell is configured to provide access to a second core network different from the first core network.
US11659475B2
An electronic apparatus connectable with a network, includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a first device and a second device; and a processor configured to store network connection setting information of the first device, determine, in response to receiving, from the second device, a signal requesting network connection setting information, whether the second device is capable of using the network connection setting information of the first device, and transmit the stored network connection setting information of the first device to the second device in accordance with a result of the determination.
US11659469B2
A communication session for a UE can be restored in the event of serving call session control function (S-CSCF) node unavailability and/or application server (AS) unavailability by storing, prior to IMS unavailability, attribute-value pairs (AVPs) at a home subscriber server (HSS). These AVPs can be used independently by individual IMS nodes to restore a communication session for a UE due to an unavailable IMS node. When a first S-CSCF node becomes unavailable, a proxy CSCF (P-CSCF) node can send a SIP request originating from the UE to a second S-CSCF node. The second S-CSCF node can then send a request to the HSS for an identifier of an AS associated with the UE. Upon receipt of the AS identifier (e.g., an active AS name AVP) from the HSS, the second S-CSCF node can send the SIP request to the AS in order to restore the communication session for the UE.
US11659463B2
A base station in a first wireless network provides first wireless connectivity to user equipment operated by a subscriber. The first wireless network supports first wireless communications such as non-voice communications. A network management resource receives configuration information assigned to the subscriber operating the user equipment. The configuration information indicates that the subscriber is assigned use of a second wireless network that provides support of second wireless communications (such as voice communications). In response to detecting a trigger event (such as a voice call) indicating a need to switch to use of the second wireless network, the network management resource initiates termination of the first wireless connectivity and establishment of second wireless connectivity between the user equipment and a base station in the second wireless network.
US11659461B2
Performing handovers based on RACH capabilities includes instructing neighboring access nodes to share RACH capabilities with each other, identifying a RACH capability of wireless devices attached to a serving access node, and selecting a target access node based on matching the RACH capabilities. The RACH capabilities are associated with a format and/or a range or distance of RACH transmissions.
US11659456B2
Disclosed are a signal transmission method and device, and a computer storage, including that: a base station sends or receives a signal within a sweep time interval, an access signal time interval, which is comprised of sweep time blocks sweep time blocks. The access signal time interval includes a downlink access signal time interval and an uplink access signal time interval. The base station sends the signal over the downlink access signal time interval, and receives the signal over the uplink access signal time interval. A terminal sends or receives a signal within the access signal time interval which is comprised of the sweep time blocks. The terminal sends the signal over the uplink access signal time interval, or receives the signal over the downlink access signal time interval.
US11659452B2
Systems and methods described herein bring a 5G standalone-capable end device back into 5G service to leverage the 5G network's data capacity as soon as a VoLTE call is over. A network device receives a fallback connection, for a 5G New Radio (NR) standalone-capable end device, from a second network to the first network to support a voice call on the end device, wherein the fallback connection supports a voice-over-LTE call. The network device detects an end of the VoLTE call and initiates, in response to the detecting, a handover of the end device back to the second network, wherein the initiating occurs while the end device is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode.
US11659448B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for controlling basic service set (BSS) configuration of an access point (AP) in a multi-AP network. The multi-AP network may include a first AP that manages a first basic service set (BSS) and a second AP that manages a second BSS. The first BSS and the second BSS may share one or more wireless channels or may have overlapping coverage areas. A multi-AP controller may determine a BSS configuration policy (such as a maximum transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration) for the second BSS based on a type of traffic in the first BSS. This disclosure includes techniques for sharing traffic characteristics, determining the BSS configuration policy, communicating the BSS configuration policy, and controlling the BSS configuration policies for multiple BSSs so that one of the BSSs can provide a quality of service (QoS) for one or more stations (STAs).
US11659437B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain information on the number of predicted abnormal terminals, allocate different resources respectively to a plurality of terminal groups, wherein the number of the plurality of terminal groups is greater than the number of predicted abnormal terminals, obtain learning data of each of the plurality of terminal groups, and identify a final terminal group among the plurality of terminal groups, based on the learning data.
US11659435B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network congestion control method, where the method includes: sending, by a transmit end device, forward probe packets to a destination device at a preset initialized rate, where some or all of the forward probe packets arrive at the destination device after being rate-limited forwarded by using a reserved bandwidth of an egress port of an intermediate device in a network; receiving return probe packets returned by the destination device, where the return probe packets correspond to the probe packets received by the destination device; and determining a data packet sending rate based on the received return probe packets, and sending a data packet at the data packet sending rate.
US11659429B2
The processing apparatus performs predetermined processing for measurement data transmitted from the sensor, in which the processing apparatus acquires transmission destination information indicating a predetermined area in a server apparatus in an outside in which processed data subjected to the predetermined processing is to be stored, from a relay apparatus that performs relay processing between the processing apparatus and the server apparatus in order to transmit the processed data from the processing apparatus to the server apparatus, when the relay apparatus is communicatively connected to the communication unit in a state before building of a network between the processing apparatus and the server apparatus, and generates, after the acquisition of the transmission destination information, transmission-processed data in a form in which the relay apparatus is able to execute the relay processing, by adding information relating to the predetermined area indicated by the transmission destination information to the processed data.
US11659421B2
A method of processing spectrum monitoring (SM) big data based on tensor decomposition comprises the steps of: S1: processing calibration of geolocation V, synchronized clock t, synchronized time tn(0 . . . N); of SM stations and determining SM sampling point M and bandwidth B; S2: processing discretization for a monitoring time and structured processing of SM data for a monitoring period to obtain a one-dimensional SM sequence Itn at the given sampling time and a two-dimensional SM matrix W at the given monitoring period; S3: constructing a cuboid matrix Q based on the two-dimensional SM matrix W, processing tensor decomposition for the cuboid matrix Q and identify the emitter.
US11659419B2
A method for identifying an interfering aerial vehicle user equipment within a communications system, the method including determining for the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment a first signal measurement value is less than a first threshold value; and determining for the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment a second signal measurement value related to the radio interface between the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment and a serving cell access point is greater than a second threshold value, and the first signal measurement value is determined based on a comparison between the second signal measurement value and further signal measurement values related to the radio interface between the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment and at least one further cell access point.
US11659418B2
A single radio equipment test device includes a control unit for testing a plurality of antennas, (e.g., an antenna array). The control unit includes a first interface to operatively couple the control unit to an antenna under test, (e.g., arranged in a test chamber). The control unit further includes a second interface to operatively couple the control unit to a reference antenna, (e.g., also arranged in the test chamber). The control unit is configured to control and/or monitor the antenna under test and the reference antenna.
US11659417B2
A communication apparatus to function as an access point in a wireless network including a plurality of access points includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about firmware of at least one access point other than the communication apparatus of the plurality of access points, a determination unit configured to determine a schedule for updating the firmware of the at least one access point based on the acquired firmware information, and a notification unit configured to notify the at least one access point of information about the determined schedule.
US11659413B2
Aspects of disclosure relate to a network node for changing a physical cell identifier (PCI). The network node transmits a first signal based on a first PCI during a first synchronization signal block (SSB) occasion, transmits a second signal based on the first PCI during a second SSB occasion, and transitions from the first PCI to a second PCI. During a transition period, the network node transmits the first signal based on the second PCI during the first SSB occasion, and continues to transmit the second signal based on the first PCI during the second SSB occasion. After an end of the transition period, the network node continues to transmit the first signal based on the second PCI during the first SSB occasion, and ceases transmission of the second signal based on the first PCI during the second SSB occasion. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11659397B2
An information handling system of a Radio Access Network (RAN) system operating a secure network slice orchestration system may comprise a network interface device of the RAN system transceiving data within a 5G New Radio (NR) frequency band with an endpoint computing device, the network interface device receiving an instruction from a client solutions management (CSM) platform to assign a network slice within the 5G NR frequency band, based on a security profile associating the endpoint computing device with a security tier, to a network slice as established by a software defined network (SDN) controller within a sub-portion of the 5G NR frequency band, the secure network slice orchestration system determining the endpoint computing device is associated with the network slice within a communications profile received from the CSM platform, and the SDN controller establishing a virtual access point transceiving data within the network slice with the endpoint computing device.
US11659393B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for establishing a security context and relates to the communications field, so as to comprehensively protect UE data. The method includes: acquiring an encryption algorithm of an access node; acquiring a root key and deriving, according to the root key and the encryption algorithm, an encryption key of the access node; sending the encryption key and the encryption algorithm to the access node, so that the access node starts downlink encryption and uplink decryption; sending the encryption algorithm of the access node to the UE so as to negotiate the encryption algorithm with the UE; and instructing the access node to start downlink encryption and uplink decryption and instructing, during algorithm negotiation, the UE to start downlink decryption and uplink encryption.
US11659388B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a multi-mode wireless access protocol (MMWAP). A redirection router may receive a pre-association request, from a user communication device, and send an acknowledgment of the pre-association request. The user communication device may further transmit authorization keys associated with an application installed in the user communication device. Based on the authorization keys, the redirection router may send an authentication indication to the user communication device. The user communication device may use the redirection router to transmit and receive messages associated with the application to public networks and other private networks. The redirection router may maintain multi-mode connectivity independently with multiple user communication devices.
US11659387B2
Techniques for preventing sequence number leakage during user equipment authentication in a communication network are provided. For example, a method comprises obtaining a permanent identifier and an authentication sequence value that are unique to user equipment, concealing the permanent identifier and the authentication sequence value, and sending the concealed permanent identifier and the authentication sequence value in a registration message from the user equipment to a communication network. Then, advantageously, in response to receipt of an authentication failure message from the communication network, the user equipment can send a response message to the communication network containing a failure cause indication without a re-synchronization token.
US11659382B2
Methods for operating a UE, a network node, a Session Management Function (SMF) and a Unified Data Management (UDM) are disclosed. The methods include transmitting, by a UE, a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session Establishment Request message toward an SMF in the communication network (902A), and receiving at the UE a policy decision on security protection of User Plane (UP) data terminating in a RAN for the PDU Session (904A). The policy decision received at the UE may be in accordance with a UP security policy provided by the SMF to the RAN during PDU Session Establishment. Also disclosed are a UE, network node, SMF and UDM.
US11659381B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites.
US11659379B2
A configuration for dynamic capacity for multiple universal subscriber identity modules. The apparatus transmits, to a base station, UE capability information in response to a UE capability enquiry, the UE capability information including a set of UE capabilities. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, UAI including an IE indicating a modified subset of UE capabilities of the set of UE capabilities when multiple USIMs are active at the UE. The apparatus operates based on the modified subset of UE capabilities when multiple USIMs are active at the UE.
US11659376B2
A method for improving roaming configuration efficiency including providing a GUI including roaming configuration data for roaming partner network operators. The method includes receiving, at a roaming configuration management (RCM) server and via the GUI, updated roaming configuration data for a first roaming partner network operator and updated roaming configuration data for a second roaming partner network operator. The method includes applying the updated roaming configuration data for the first roaming partner network operator to a first set of network entity data associated with the first roaming partner network operator and the updated roaming configuration data for the second roaming partner network operator to a second set of network entity data associated with the second roaming partner network operator. The method includes providing the updated roaming configuration data for the first and second roaming partner network operators.
US11659367B2
Relay terminals each transmit to a control device a packet received from a wireless sensor and a reception strength for short range wireless communication detected when receiving the packet, and return a response to the packet to a transmission source wireless sensor from which the packet is transmitted only when a response instruction is issued from the control device, and the control device compares reception strengths for a same packet that is transmitted from a same wireless sensor and received by each of the plurality of relay terminals among the reception strengths received from the relay terminals, transmits the response instruction only to one target relay terminal with the highest reception strength, and performs relay transfer of sensor data stored in a packet received by the target relay terminal to a host apparatus.
US11659366B1
A method for providing data to a user comprising communicating, from a radio access network to a Minimization of Drive Tests (“MDT”)-channel-communicative sensor device, at least one MDT signal selected from the group consisting of an MDT configuration signal and an MDT control signal. The method also comprises generating, at least in part in response to the MDT signal and using an onboard sensor of the MDT-channel-communicative sensor device, sensor data comprising non-MDT data. The method also comprises receiving at least a portion of the sensor data into the radio access network over an MDT channel and communicating at least the portion of the sensor data from the radio access network to the user.
US11659357B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11659341B2
A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
US11659340B2
The present invention provides an impulsive noise suppression method based on dual-microphone architecture, applied to a hearing aid comprising a first feedforward microphone, a second feedforward microphone, and a speaker, and a sensitivity level of the first feedforward microphone is less than a sensitivity level of the second feedforward microphone, wherein the method comprising: obtaining an input signal comprising a first signal provided through the first microphone and a second signal provided through the second feedforward microphone; determining whether the input signal comprises an impulsive signal according to a first time-domain signal energy value of the first signal and a second time-domain signal energy value of the second signal; and performing an impulsive signal suppression operation on the input signal if the input signal comprises the impulsive signal. The technical scheme provided by the present invention has a simple calculation process, low calculation resource consumption, and fast response speed.
US11659336B2
A vibration apparatus includes a substrate, an elastic piece, a magnetic component and at least two coils. The substrate abuts on a display panel of a mobile terminal; the at least two cods are fixed on an inner side surface of the substrate; the inner side surface faces away from the display panel; the at least two coils are disposed coaxially; and axes of the at least two coils are perpendicular to the substrate. A first side surface of the elastic piece abuts on the inner side surface of the substrate; the magnetic component is connected to a second side surface of the elastic piece; the second side surface is disposed away from the first side surface. The at least two cods are at least in part accommodated in an annular accommodating groove of the magnetic component.
US11659335B2
The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US11659334B2
The present invention provides an acoustic device including a frame, a magnetic circuit system, and a vibration system. The vibration system includes a diaphragm, a voice coil, and a support. The diaphragm includes a dome, a first suspension, and a second suspension. The diaphragm includes a first fixation portion, and the dome includes a dome body and a first dome extending wall bending and extending from the dome body, the first fixation portion connected to and wrapping the first dome extending wall.
US11659319B2
A speaker device is disclosed. The speaker device includes a speaker enclosure structure including a speaker. The speaker is an electro-mechanical component, which in operation generates sound waves by deflection of a speaker membrane and in collaboration with the speaker enclosure structure. The speaker device further includes a speaker device housing. The speaker device housing is an outer shell of the speaker device and may accommodate additional electronic components required for operation of the speaker or for other purposes. The speaker enclosure structure is mechanically coupled to the speaker device housing. The speaker device further includes at least one coupling element, wherein the speaker enclosure structure is mechanically coupled to the speaker device housing by the at least one coupling element, the coupling element having a vibration damping structure configured to inhibit mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the coupling element.
US11659302B1
A differential subrange analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts differential analog image signals received from sample and hold circuits to a digital signal through an ADC comparator. The comparator of the differential subrange ADC is shared by a successive approximation register (SAR) ADC coupled to provide both M upper output bits (UOB) and a ramp ADC coupled to provide N lower output bits (LOB). Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) of the differential subrange SAR ADC comprises 2M buffered bit capacitor fingers connected to the comparator. Each buffered bit capacitor finger comprises a bit capacitor, a bit buffer, and a bit switch controlled by the UOB. Both DACs are initialized to preset values and finalized based on the values of the least significant bit of the UOB. The subsequent ramp ADC operation will be ensured to have its first ramp signal ramps in a monotonic direction and its second ramp signal ramp in an opposite direction.
US11659293B2
An image sensing device including optical filters adjacent to each other is disclosed. The image sensing device includes a substrate including first and second photoelectric conversion elements configured to generate photocharges corresponding to an intensity of incident light corresponding to a first color; a first pixel including a first optical filter disposed over the first photoelectric conversion element to selectively transmit the light corresponding to the first color; a second pixel including a second optical filter disposed over the second photoelectric conversion element to selectively transmit the light corresponding to the first color; and a first air layer disposed between the first optical filter and the first photoelectric conversion element to reflect light from the first optical filter.
US11659283B2
An apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set an illumination condition used when an imaging unit captures an image of a target object illuminated with light emitted by an illumination unit, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the set illumination condition, a derivation accuracy in reflection characteristic for each position on the target object.
US11659278B2
An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
US11659274B2
A lens apparatus includes an optical member, a driving device configured to perform driving of the optical member, a detector configured to detect a state related to the driving, and a processor configured to generate a control signal for the driving device based on first information about the detected state, wherein the processor includes a machine learning model configured to generate an output related to the control signal based on the first information and second information about the lens apparatus, and is configured to output the first information and the second information to a generator configured to perform generation of the machine learning model.
US11659271B2
An electronic device and method are provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a touchscreen display, and a processor configured to display, on the touchscreen display, a screen including at least one target object image corresponding to at least one subject obtained by the camera and at least one graphical object configured to capture the at least one subject in response to receiving an input, identify that the at least one target object image is resized according to a movement of at least one of the electronic device or the at least one subject, and in response to identifying the resizing of the at least one target object image, change a property of the screen by resizing the at least one graphical object.
US11659269B2
An optical measuring device includes at least one optical sensor configured for optical capture of at least one measurement object at multiple image recording positions. The optical measuring device includes at least one display device configured to display, for multiple predetermined and/or determinable image recording positions, in each case a schematic representation of an image to be recorded at the respective image recording position. The optical measuring device includes at least one data processing unit and at least one interface. The interface is configured to provide at least one item of manipulation information to the data processing unit. The data processing unit is configured to, based on the manipulation information, adapt at least one of the image recording position and an image recording parameter of at least one of the images to be recorded.
US11659262B2
An image pickup apparatus that prevents hooking of a cable, coming-off of a connector, or the like without lowering insertion and extraction performance of a cable even when external connection terminals are arranged on inclined faces formed on a side surface of an apparatus main body in its width direction while reducing a size of the apparatus main body in the width direction. The inclined faces inclines such that ends of the respective inclined faces on a back side of the apparatus main body are inclined in a direction to come close to the optical axis. The inclined faces are arranged at positions so as not to overlap to each other when viewed from the width direction of the apparatus main body, and are arranged such that a part of the inclined faces overlap to each other when viewed from a direction of the optical axis.
US11659258B2
The present invention proposes a program production method or the like that is suitable for generating a program according to a change in situation. In a program production apparatus 3, a program production unit 21 generates a program using material data. A basic script storage unit 11 stores a basic script. In a stage in which the generation of the program is started, the program production unit 21 generates the program according to the basic script. Subsequently, the program production unit 21 gradually modifies the basic script using dynamic data (e.g., a user's instruction, information collected in a real-time manner, etc.), so as to generate a program suitable for the situation of the material data, viewers, or the like. This enables the provision of even live broadcasting with a small number of users. Also, this allows emergency broadcasting to be automatically provided according to situation.
US11659248B1
The present invention relates to a method, a server and a computer-readable medium for generating an interactive content, and more particularly, to a method, a server and a computer-readable medium for generating an interactive content, in which node generation information for each of a plurality of nodes included in the interactive content is received from a user terminal of a user who wants to generate the interactive content, and a plurality of nodes including an interactive video in which a specific interactive object utters text information included in the received node generation information, and node connection information for connection with one or more other nodes corresponding to a next node according to condition information included in the node generation information are generated, so that the interactive content including the nodes is generated.
US11659244B2
Systems and methods for identifying, assembling, and publishing content are described. A a video content item, having a first time length, is identified by a system to be included in a program scheduled for a first time period. The video may be hosted on a third party system. A first time span within the first program is allocated for the video, wherein the first time span is longer than the first time length. The system determines, prior to or at the first time period, a time difference between a current length of the video and the first time span. At least partly in response to determining that the video has a time length shorter than the first time span, the system selects supplemental content based at least in part of the determined time difference to be streamed to user terminals over a data network within the first time period.
US11659243B2
Systems and methods are described herein for generating a playlist for a simultaneous presentation of a plurality of media assets. The system retrieves a user preference associated with a user profile and receives a selection of a first media asset and a second media asset from the plurality of media assets for presentation on a user device. The system parses the respective audio streams of the first media asset and the second media asset to identify one or more preferred audio segments based on the user preference and generates the playlist of the identified one or more preferred audio segments. Based on a generated audio playlist, the system generates, for presentation on the user device, the video stream for each of the first media asset and the second media asset and the playlist of the identified one or more preferred audio segments.
US11659239B2
Embodiments generally relate to managing user profiles on electronic devices. In some embodiments, a method includes detecting a voice of a first user. The method further includes identifying the first user from among a plurality of users based on the voice. The method further includes accessing a first user profile based on the identifying of the first user, where the first user profile is associated with the first user. The method further includes configuring a client device based on the first user profile. The method further includes presenting at least one media content item on the client device based on the configuring of the client device.
US11659238B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11659235B1
Methods and systems can identify and request video data and information associated with an event. An event location and time associated with the event can be determined. The event can comprise damage to property or injury to a person. A geographic range of interest associated with the event location and a time duration of interest associated with the event time can be determined. One or more users who are determined to have been at or near the event location at the event time can be automatically identified. A request for at least one of information or video data from the geographic range and time duration of interest can be transmitted to the one or more identified users.
US11659230B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing passive data collection from third-party channel applications. An embodiment includes running a channel application of a first layer of an operating system, and receiving an application programming interface (API) call, from the channel application, for a module of a second layer of the operating system. The module may be a non-video playback module that includes graphic rendering logic, for example. Some embodiments may further include intercepting metadata sent to the module, determining identifying information of a content instance based on the intercepted metadata, and storing the determined identifying information of the content instance.
US11659227B2
An audio and video processing method, includes: displaying a video creation interface of a target audio, where the video creation interface includes n audio clips of the target audio and video recording entries corresponding to the n audio clips respectively, n≥2; receiving a trigger signal acting on a target video recording entry on the video creation interface, where the target video recording entry is a video recording entry corresponding to a target audio clip; acquiring a target video corresponding to the target audio clip based on the trigger signal, where the target video is a video clip of which the video duration is less than a duration threshold; and sending a video creation request carrying the target video to a server, where the video creation request is used to instruct to play picture information of the target video when the target audio is played.
US11659222B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for monitoring data transmitted and/or received via multicast transmission and, based on latency, segment loss, and/or other occurrence, modifying sources and/or other characteristics of additional data transmission. The data may be video segments of media content items. Sources of video segments can be changed based on comparisons of rates of arrival of video segments, failure to receive segments, etc. Selection of an encoded version of content for multicast and/or unicast transmission may be based on indications of delay and/or non-receipt, and/or based on predictions of increased load on a network.
US11659220B2
A system and method in which a TV signal reception device (e.g., set top box) receives a broadcast signal, sends the broadcast signal to a TV, and sends an event signal to a rating statistics information server or associated user terminal when a predetermined condition occurs, to ultimately cause an associated user terminal to generate fingerprint data of audio from the TV and to provide the fingerprint data to the server so as to facilitate channel identification and generation of ratings statistics.
US11659200B2
The present invention relates to block merging according to block split among video coding techniques, and a method and an apparatus for coding and decoding a video, in which in generating and modifying a block merging list, spatial merging candidate blocks of the block merging list are changed according to a split type and order of a current coding unit.
US11659196B2
Methods and systems for improving coding efficiency of video.
US11659195B2
A system for broadcasting that includes a watermark payload.
US11659185B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and followed by an upsampling operation, where the upsampling operation is performed, in both a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in a fixed order, on samples obtained from the matrix vector multiplication operation.
US11659183B2
A system and method for regenerating high dynamic range (HDR) video data from encoded video data, extracts, from the encoded video data, a self-referential metadata structure specifying a video data reshaping transfer function. The video data reshaping transfer function is regenerated using data from the metadata structure and the extracted reshaping transfer function is used to generate the HDR video data by applying decoded video data values to the reshaping transfer function.
US11659181B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for processing a video. The method may include: acquiring object regions obtained by performing object detection on a target video frame, a type of an object in each of the object regions being a preset type; determining, for an object region in the acquired object regions, in response to determining that the object region satisfies a preset condition, that the object region is a non-ROI; using an object region other than the non-ROI in the object regions of the target video frame as a ROI; and acquiring a quantization parameter change corresponding to each ROI, and encoding the target video frame based on the quantization parameter change.
US11659177B2
A method of partitioning in video coding for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structure that can have quadtree or binary partitioning of the root node and quadtree or binary trees branching from each of the leaf nodes. The partitioning at any depth can use asymmetric binary partitioning to split a node represented by a leaf node into two child nodes of unequal size, representing the two child nodes as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the parent leaf node and coding the child nodes represented by final leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET, wherein further partitioning of child nodes split from leaf nodes via asymmetric binary partitioning is allowed recursively along the same branch in any order with symmetric partitioning.
US11659175B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for marking the availability of a potential candidate coding block for intra prediction mode estimation of a current coding block are provided. One example method includes obtaining a parent block of a current coding block (parentCurr), and a parent block of a candidate coding block (parentCand). The current coding block and the candidate coding block are each obtained by splitting of the parentCurr and the parentCand, respectively. In one aspect, the current coding block cannot use an intra prediction mode of a potential candidate coding block when parentCand and parentCurr are the same block, a function of a number of quadtree, ternary tree, and binary tree splitting operations is greater than a threshold minus 1, and a split mode of the parent block of the current coding block parentCurr is a ternary tree split.
US11659172B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise determining a current block by splitting an image, identifying whether a palette mode is applied for the current block based on a palette mode flag obtained from a bitstream, obtaining palette mode encoding information of the current block from the bitstream based on a tree type of the current block and whether the palette mode is applied for the current block, and obtaining chroma component prediction information of the current block from the bitstream based on the palette mode being not applied for the current block.
US11659167B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a coded representation of the video, that a resolution of a current picture containing the current block and a reference picture used for the conversion are different, and performing the conversion based on the determining such that predicted values of a group of samples of the current block are generated using a horizontal or a vertical interpolation filter.
US11659164B1
A method for visual media processing, including: computing, during a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and/or a chroma residual scaling (CRS) factor for the current video block based, at least in part, on neighboring samples of a corresponding luma block which covers a top-left sample of a collocated luma block associated with the current video block, wherein one or more characteristics of the current video block are used for identifying the corresponding luma block.
US11659162B2
A video processing method is provided to include: determining, based on a position rule, whether a local illumination compensation (LIC) tool is enabled for a conversion between a current block in a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, and performing the conversion based on the position rule. The position rule specifies that the LIC tool is enabled for blocks on boundaries of the video region and disabled for blocks inside the video region and the LIC tool includes using a linear model of illumination changes in the current block during the conversion.
US11659157B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for measuring a naked-eye stereoscopic image, a method and apparatus for processing an image and a display device. The system includes: a naked-eye stereoscopic display device, configured to display preset images in sequence; an image acquisition device, configured to obtain monochromatic images by capturing display contents of the naked-eye stereoscopic display device, and send the monochromatic images to a processor; and a processor, configured to acquire at least one preset crosstalk amount to each stereoscopic pixel of the naked-eye stereoscopic display device from each view point according to the monochromatic images, where each of the at least one preset crosstalk amount represents a proportion coefficient that measures how much a view from another view point affects a color value of a view from a target view point.
US11659153B2
Disclosed herein is an image data transmission method including, by an image generation apparatus, generating an image to be merged with a display image and data of an α value representative of a transparency of a pixel of the image to be merged, generating data for merging representing the image to be merged and the data of the α value on one image plane, and transmitting the data for merging to an apparatus that generates the display image.
US11659148B2
A method for controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising, displaying, in a first mode, a first image based on received image data having first resolution on a display surface at a first display size corresponding to the first resolution, displaying, in a second mode, a second image based on the image data having second resolution smaller than the first resolution on the display surface at a second display size corresponding to the second resolution, converting, when the display apparatus accepts the operation of increasing the second display size in the second mode, the first resolution of image data to third resolution corresponding to the operation, displaying a third image based on the image data having the third resolution on the display surface.
US11659141B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a region comparison unit configured to receive first luminance information corresponding to a first image signal and second luminance information corresponding to a second image signal, and to generate third luminance information by using the first and second luminance information; a region determination unit configured to calculate a brightness level value for the first image signal by using the first luminance information; a reliability determination unit configured to calculate a reliability determination value for the first image signal by using the first luminance information; an extraction unit configured to generate a luminance correction threshold value of the first image signal by using the brightness level value and the reliability determination value; and an interpolation unit configured to output corrected luminance information for the first luminance information by using the luminance correction threshold value and the third luminance information.
US11659133B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally relate to methods and video system components that have integrated background differentiation capabilities that allow for background replacement and/or background modification. In some embodiments, undesired portions of video data generated in a video environment are separated from desired portions of the video data by taking advantage of the illumination and decay of the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, provided from an illuminator, over a distance. Due to the decay of intensity with distance, the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the undesired background has a lower intensity when received by the sensor than the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the desired foreground. The difference in the detected intensity at the one or more wavelengths can then be used to separate and/or modify the undesired background from the desired foreground for use in a video feed.
US11659128B2
A control method of an information processing device that communicates with a communication device includes accepting a connection processing instruction to connect the communication device with at least one external device, and performing processing to execute newly, in a case that the connection processing instruction is accepted and the communication device is not connected to any external device, the connection processing.
US11659127B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: accumulate a document received by FAX in a storage; control output of the accumulated document based on an operation of a user; and set a state of the document to unread in response to the document being accumulated in the storage, and set the state of the document to already read on condition that output of all pages of the document is completed.
US11659111B2
An image processing apparatus for executing a plurality of applications associated with specific functions to perform image processing includes a first registration unit that, when executing any one of the plurality of applications, automatically registers first setting data set for the application in a storage unit in association with the application, a second registration unit that, according to a registration instruction from a user, registers second setting data set for any one of the plurality of applications in association with the application, and a display control unit that displays a calling-up and setting screen including a first button group for calling up the first setting data automatically registered in the storage unit and a second button group for calling up the second setting data registered in the storage unit.
US11659110B2
This image forming device is capable of providing a plurality of usage services, and requires an operation setting for selecting a usage service at the time of use. The image forming device includes a touch panel that accepts a user operation while presenting an operation screen, and a controller that controls the operation screen of the touch panel. At least some of the usage services provided by the image forming device require operation of a reception device (document reader, media reader, QR code reader, or NFC card reader) provided in the image forming device, or connected to the image forming device. When a reception device is operated before an operation setting for usage service selection is performed on the touch panel, the controller switches to an operation screen that shows a preferential display of a usage service which is applicable to the reception device that has been operated.
US11659105B2
A control device includes a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive a signal with a communication terminal with which wireless connection has been established, a control unit configured to perform predetermined control according to a request signal from the communication terminal, and a printing unit configured to print on a to-be-printed medium. When the wireless communication unit detects disconnection of the wireless connection with the communication terminal while the printing unit is printing on the to-be-printed medium, the control unit keeps the wireless communication unit in a state in which transmission of the beacon signal containing identification information of the wireless communication unit is stopped.
US11659101B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a human presence sensor that detects a user who uses the image forming apparatus; a first covering provided in front of the human presence sensor; and a second covering provided in front of the first covering, the second covering being configured not to interfere with detection of a detection target by the human presence sensor.
US11659095B1
A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for assessing and/or controlling call routing for Internet-based (e.g., VoIP/VioIP) calls. According to one such method, endpoint devices are used to monitor and/or assess the call-quality. The assessment is sent to a centralized server arrangement and call-routing is controlled therefrom. Endpoint devices employ a decentralized testing mechanism to further monitor and assess call quality. Aspects of call quality are analyzed and attributed to endpoint devices and/or local connections or networks to distinguish intermediate routing issues from local/endpoint issues.
US11659094B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for scheduling a call to be automatically initiated between users. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, a request for a call to be automatically initiated, at a scheduled time, between the first device and a second device corresponding to a second user; providing, to the second device and in response to the receiving, an invitation to participate in the call; receiving, from the second device and in response to the providing, an acceptance of the invitation; and providing for automatically initiating the call between the first device and the second device at the scheduled time.
US11659090B2
A system and method for hybrid callback management with biometric authentication, utilizing a callback cloud and an on-premise callback system, allowing users to be verified via his or her biometrics, and also allowing brands to utilize a hybrid system that protects against any premise outages or cloud service faults and failures by introducing redundancies and co-maintenance of data key to callback execution.
US11659079B2
A method for receiving audio broadcasts during a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) frame, the method may include (a) opening, during a DECT frame and by a portable point (PP) that is a potential recipient of the audio broadcasts from a fixed part (FP), multiple reception windows that are spaced apart from each other and are allocated to receive signals related to audio broadcast; (b) receiving received signals, by the PP and during the multiple spaced apart reception windows; and (c) processing, by the PP, the received signals.
US11659068B2
A method of cloud based messaging includes receiving a message and a message topic from a message sender, storing the message topic and the message on a message queue, retrieving the message from the message queue, translating the message from a message bus protocol to a recipient protocol and transmitting the translated message to a message recipient.
US11659064B2
An improved information management system that implements a staging area or cache to temporarily store primary data in a native format before the primary data is converted into secondary copies in a secondary format is described herein. For example, the improved information management system can include various media agents that each include one or more high speed drives. When a client computing device provides primary data for conversion into secondary copies, the primary data can initially be stored in the native format in the high speed drive(s). If the client computing device then submits a request for the primary data, the media agent can simply retrieve the primary data from the high speed drive(s) and transmit the primary data to the client computing device. Because the primary data is already in the native format, no conversion operations are performed by the media agent, thereby reducing the restore delay.
US11659063B2
Methods, systems, and devices may be used to support freshness-based processing of requests. Freshness-based processing may involve the service layer examining the age of stored content (e.g., resource representation) that it hosts and determining whether it is fresh enough to satisfy a retrieve or discovery request with a specified freshness requirement. If not fresh, the service layer can contact an application to refresh the content. In addition, freshness-based processing can also involve the service layer examining the semantic state of a command oriented update request to determine whether its state is fresh or not with respect to prior commands processed by the service layer. For example, the service layer may compare stored content associated with controlling a particular application (e.g. door is locked) and against the semantic content of an update request (e.g., unlock door) to determine whether it is the same (e.g., stale) or not (e.g., fresh). If fresh, the service layer can then re-target the update request to an application to have it perform the command (e.g., unlock door).
US11659059B2
Systems and methods are provided for filtering management application instances intended to manage hardware in a system, such as configuring a computing component. Filtering of the management application instances can be performed by a filtering proxy application configured to operatively sit between each management application instance and a management interface of the hardware. Filtering the management application instances may include substituting values or attributes in/transforming requests, responses, state information, event information, so that it appears to the computing component and each of the management application instances as if each of the management application instances has exclusive control of the computing component.
US11659054B2
A media stream includes multiple spot blocks representing portions of time assigned to particular media content, where some of the plurality of spot blocks include primary media content, and others include advertising content. The media stream also includes a contextual marker embedded in at least one of the spot blocks. The contextual marker includes information used by a media player to transmit a tracking call in response to reading the contextual marker.
US11659052B2
Techniques for synchronizing a network device to selectively operate according to a selectable operation policy. A system utilizing such techniques can a self-configuring network device operation coordination system and a self-configuring network device operation management system. A method utilizing such techniques can include synchronizing a network device to selectively operate according to a first operation policy and a second operation policy in providing network service access.
US11659049B2
Device and method for remote device profile management/identification for intelligent discovery are disclosed. A remote device profile management method for service interworking may include receiving a request to register a device profile of a local device for a cloud network, generating a regular profile identification (ID) for the device profile, registering a record including the regular profile ID along with ID and connection information of a device registry in which the local device is registered, and registering a record including the regular profile ID and the device profile.
US11659044B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing online user privacy. Methods can include receiving tag information specifying a given publisher identifier for a publisher and a given client identifier assigned to a user of the client device by the publisher. A given service identifier assigned to the user by the service apparatus is obtained. A mapping between the given service identifier to the given client identifier is created. A list of client identifiers assigned to a set of users by the publisher is received. A list of matched service identifiers corresponding to the list of client identifiers are stored. Multiple content requests are received from multiple different client devices accessing services provided by the service apparatus. Responses to the content requests are based on whether the client devices provide service identifiers that are included in the list of matched service identifiers.
US11659035B2
Technology is disclosed for bridging clouds of computing devices for compute and data storage. The technology can receive a virtual routing table (VRT), wherein the VRT indicates an association with a virtual local area network (VLAN) and defines neighbors for each route wherein at least one neighbor is defined for each of the two different cloud service providers, wherein the route definition creates a private transitive network between the neighbors; receive from a first node a first message destined for a second node; determine that the first message employs the route specified by the VRT; forward the first message to the second node; receive from a third node a second message destined for the second node; determine that the second message does not employ the route specified by the VRT; and fail to forward the second message to the second node.
US11659019B2
Technologies are disclosed for resource mapping during URL changes in multi-tenant distributed computing systems. The distributed computing system may resolve a URL by using a tenant and/or site name extracted from the URL to retrieve an entry in a site map table. The entry includes an address to a database that contains the requested content. After a tenant or site name has been changed, or if the tenant or site have been moved, the distributed computing system will resolve pre-existing URLs to the old entry, resulting in a file not found error. In some embodiments, during an operation that changes a tenant or site name, a redirect URL containing the new tenant and/or site name is added to the old entry. When a request addressed to a URL containing the old tenant and/or site names is received, the distributed system sends a redirect response that includes the redirect URL.
US11658992B2
A lateral movement application identifies lateral movement (LM) candidates that potentially represent a security threat. Security platforms generate event data when performing security-related functions, such as authenticating a user account. The disclosed technology enables greatly increased accuracy identification of lateral movement (LM) candidates by, for example, refining a population of LM candidates based on an analysis of a time constrained graph in which nodes represent entities, and edges between nodes represent a time sequence of login or other association activities between the entities. The graph is created based on an analysis of the event data, including time sequences of the event data.
US11658990B2
A system for detecting anomalies is provided. The system includes a computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The computer system receives communications from a remote computer platform. The at least one processor is programmed to execute real-time a simulation model of the remote computer platform. The simulation model simulates inputs and outputs of the remote computer platform based on real-time data. The at least one processor is also programmed to receive one or more outbound communications transmitted from the remote computer platform, generate one or more outputs of the simulation model, compare the one or more outbound communications transmitted from the remote computer platform to the one or more outputs of the simulation model, detect one or more differences based on the comparison, and generate an output based on the one or more differences.
US11658985B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for utilizing blockchain to implement named data networking. In various embodiments, a computing system might determine whether a cache that is communicatively coupled to the computing system contains data that is responsive to a first request received from a user. If so, the computing system might retrieve and send (to the client device) data that is responsive to the received first request. If not, the computing system might send, to a blockchain system, a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing data responsive to the received first request. In response to identifying such a blockchain, the computing system might receive a copy of the identified blockchain; might abstract, from the identified blockchain, the block containing the data responsive to the received first request; might abstract the data from the identified block; and might send the data to the client device.
US11658974B2
There is provided a method and system for digital rights enforcement. The method includes: determining digital content requested by a user via a selected user device; determining digital rights associated with the digital content; reviewing the digital rights to determine access rights relating to authorized devices for the user; determining whether the user has exhausted the access rights; and if the access rights are exhausted: determining at least one use factor for each of the user's previously authorized user devices; determining a previously authorized user device on which to revoke access to the digital content based on the at least one use factor; and revoking access rights to the previously authorized user associated device; otherwise downloading the digital content on the selected user device. The system includes a content review module and a revoker module.
US11658962B2
A system and method of implementing an API of an authentication service includes implementing a confirmation API, wherein the implementing includes: initiating a confirmation API request based on receiving an access request, wherein the confirmation API request operates to perform an authentication of a requestor making the access request; identifying the requestor based on a search of the requestor via the confirmation API; identifying, by one or more API endpoints of the remote authentication service: (i) a subscriber account of the subscriber maintained by the remote authentication service and (ii) identifying a user device of the requestor that is enrolled with the subscriber account based on the confirmation API request; transmitting a confirmation request to the user device; obtaining from the user device a response to the confirmation request and presenting the response to the confirmation request to the subscriber; and granting or denying the access request.
US11658954B2
The present invention relates in particular to a pairing method between a multimedia unit and one operator having an operator identifier, the multimedia unit having a multimedia unit identifier and receiving conditional access data from said operator, the method being characterized in that: receiving by the multimedia unit a multimedia unit key formed by applying a first cryptographically function to a personalization key and to the multimedia unit identifier; receiving by the operator an operator key formed by applying a second cryptographically function to said personalization key and to the operator identifier; said multimedia unit further having a function of the multimedia unit and said operator further having a function of the operator, these functions being such that the result of the application of the function of the operator to said operator key and to said multimedia unit identifier is equal to the result of the application of the function of the multimedia unit to said multimedia unit key and to said operator identifier, this result forming a pairing key between said multimedia unit and said operator.
US11658951B2
Carrier secure communications are provided by receiving, by a service provider device from an application interacting with a user device over a carrier network, an encrypted first request for user information. The carrier network intercepted a first request from the application based on a service provider identifier in the first request, and encrypted the first request to provide the network carrier encrypted first request to the service provider device. The service provider device may decrypt the encrypted first request to provide the first request and process the first request. The first request may include a carrier injected header that includes information about the user and/or user device that provided the first request. The information in the injected header may be used by the service provider device in processing the first request such as retrieving secure information without user credentials or storing data provided in the first request.
US11658949B2
Improvements to publish-subscribe protocols are provided, including a method for communicating data in a network comprising publisher devices, a broker and subscriber devices, comprising one of the publisher devices: i-a. receiving a public key from the broker; i-b. determining, based on one or more attributes of data to be published to the broker, whether a sensitivity level of the data is low; and ii. following completion of both of steps i-a and i-b, publishing the data to the broker, wherein: when step i-b results in a determination that the sensitivity level of the data is low, step ii comprises transmitting the data to the broker unencrypted; and when step i-b results in a determination that the sensitivity level of the data is not low, step ii comprises encrypting the data then transmitting resulting encrypted data to the broker, wherein the step of encrypting the data uses the public key.
US11658948B2
A method includes linking a first application with a first Transport Layer Security (TLS) library, linking a second application with a second TLS library, obtaining a sequence of cryptographic keys by a first agent, the sequence of cryptographic keys based on an agent key and provided from the first agent to the first TLS library, obtaining the sequence of cryptographic keys by a second agent, the sequence of cryptographic keys based on the agent key and provided from the second agent to the second TLS library, establishing communication between the first TLS library and the first agent to create a first trusted relationship, establishing communication between the second TLS library and the second agent to create a second trusted relationship, and establishing a third trusted relationship between the first agent and the second agent.
US11658947B2
A protected link between a first computing device and a second computing device is set up, wherein communication over the protected link is to comply with a communication protocol that allows packets to be reordered during transit. A plurality of packets are generated according to a packet format that ensures the plurality of packets will not be reordered during transmission over the protected link, the plurality of packets comprising a first packet and a second packet. Data of the plurality of packets are encrypted for transmission over the protected link, wherein data of the first packet is encrypted based on the cryptographic key and a first value of a counter and data of the second packet is encrypted based on the cryptographic key and a second value of the counter.
US11658946B2
A method that includes receiving patient-generated event data over a network from a patient device associated with a patient having an active digital therapy prescription for treating an underlying disease or disorder. The patient-generated event data is encrypted by the patient device and includes at least one timestamped event related to the active digital therapy prescription. In response to receiving the patient-generated event data, the method includes decrypting, anonymizing, and storing the anonymized patient-generated event data on memory hardware. The method further includes receiving a patient record request over the network from a healthcare provider (HCP) system that requests the patient-generated event data and includes an authentication token. In response to receiving the patient record request, the method includes retrieving and encrypting the anonymized patient-generated event data from the memory hardware using the authentication token. The method also includes transmitting the encrypted patient-generated event data to the HCP system.
US11658943B2
Provided is a detection device which is suitable for receiving a service within a network assembly, having the following:—means for providing cryptographic security at or above the transport level of the communication protocol levels which can be used in the network assembly for at least one first existing communication connection between the detection device and a network access device which is arranged in the network assembly and which can be used to monitor data detected by the detection device and/or control an additional device within the network assembly using the data detected by the detection device,—means for generating and/or determining network access configuration data for at least one additional second communication connection, which is to be cryptographically secured below the transport level, between the detection device and the network access device,—means for providing the generated and/or determined network access configuration data to the network access device.
US11658937B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product controls movements and adjusts operations of a robot or collection of robots over a computer network. The system allows for the dynamic creation of cloud message queues, and uses a hierarchical message format and weight matrix collapse method to allow multi-entity deconfliction of control messages so that multiple operators, either human or intelligent software agents, may simultaneously control one or more robots or subassemblies of robots and/or other electronic/mechatronic devices.
US11658921B2
Disclosed is a method of network resource allocation. The method includes: generating an adjacency matrix of nodes in a metropolitan area network (MAN) according to spatial adjacency relationships of the nodes; generating a network state feature matrix according to traffic information of each node; extracting traffic spatial features of the nodes from the adjacency matrix and the network state feature matrix through a traffic spatial feature extraction model; obtaining predicted traffic of the nodes from the traffic spatial features through a traffic prediction model; and performing a network resource allocation according to the predicted traffic of the nodes. Further, a device of network resource allocation and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US11658897B2
A loop prevention system includes a plurality of networking devices that are coupled together to form a Layer Two (L2) domain and at least a portion of the plurality of networking devices are coupled together in a physical loop configuration. A networking device included in the plurality of networking devices may include at least one L2 domain connection that couples the networking device to at least one of the plurality of networking devices in the L2 domain, and an edge connection that connects the networking device to a computing device that is outside of the L2 domain. The networking device may receive a data frame via the edge connection. The networking device then generates a loop breaker data frame by tagging the data frame with a loop breaker tag and forwards the loop breaker data frame via the at least one L2 domain connection.
US11658896B2
A routing table creation method, an electronic device, and a network are provided. The method includes: generating a first probe packet, where the first probe packet has a source address and a destination address; sending, from a source node corresponding to the source address, the first probe packet on a network including at least two nodes, until the first probe packet reaches a destination node corresponding to the destination address, and recording addresses of nodes through which the first probe packet passes, to form a first path; generating a second path according to the first path, where the second path is a reverse path of the first path; generating a first response packet, sending the first response packet along a second path until the first response packet reaches the source node; and creating a routing table entry according to the second path.
US11658888B2
A network timing view provides enhanced visualization for synch timing in support of mobile (4G/5G deployments) and others requiring sync. It allows network managers to view relevant synch data both textually and graphically displayed on the network map nodes and links in a unified view. The user is able to select the appropriate filter on the network map to show the 1588/SyncE connectivity and relevant nodes that are participating in delivering timing. It allows a user to trace the timing path from any timing device upstream to the clock source. It also allows the user to interactively discover and navigate downstream timing paths from any timing device, similar to exploring a tree hierarchy. The timing topology and path data provided allows a user to investigate the timing network for troubleshooting purposes such as timing alarms and events, sync problems, clock quality levels and clock states.
US11658886B2
A method of facilitating predictive intent-based routing of service requests. Accordingly, the method may include receiving a service request data from a user device, initiating a chatbot, retrieving a service portfolio based on the receiving of the service request data, processing the service portfolio and the service request data, determining a service level, analyzing the service request data using a first machine learning model, determining an intent based on the analyzing, generating an adjusted service level based on the intent using a second machine learning model, assigning an agent to a user of the at least one user based on the adjusted service level, generating a service notification for the agent based on the assigning, transmitting the service notification to the user device and an agent device associated with the agent, and storing the service request data, the service notification, and the adjusted service level.
US11658855B2
A method, at a transmission/reception point (TRP), of producing a positioning reference signal muting pattern includes: obtaining, at the TRP, one or more positioning reference signal criteria, the one or more positioning reference signal criteria regarding at least one of positioning reference signal transmission or positioning reference signal reception; and producing, at the TRP, the positioning reference signal muting pattern such that the positioning reference signal muting pattern meets the one or more positioning reference signal criteria.
US11658850B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a repetition factor associated with a message or an indication that demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling is to be applied for the message for joint channel estimation. The UE may communicate a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) associated with the message based at least in part on receiving the indication of the repetition factor or the indication that DMRS bundling is to be applied. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11658845B2
An information handling system includes multiple data ports, a memory, and a processor. Each of the data ports enables a separate communication link of a plurality of communication links for the information handling system. The memory stores data to indicate whether the information handling system supports bridge assurance on each of the communication links. In response to the bridge assurance being supported in the information handling system, the processor provides a message across a first link of the communication links. The message indicates that bridge assurance is supported in the information handling system. The processor also determines whether an acknowledgement message has been received. In response to the acknowledgement message being received, the processor enables the bridge assurance on the first link.
US11658843B2
Full-duplex communications are provided by modifying the Media Access Control sub-layer of communication node protocols. The modification allows communication nodes to communicate with one another in full-duplex, where each node transmits and receives data simultaneously with other nodes in a single frequency. A timing of the simultaneous data transmissions, acknowledgments, and short-interframe-space waiting periods can be determined based on network-allocation-vector data transmitted in association with request-to-send or clear-to-send signals.
US11658834B2
A power sourcing equipment (PSE), a powered device (PD) and a line loss detection method for Power over Ethernet (PoE) are provided. The PD receives a voltage/current information transmitted by the PSE to obtain an output voltage value and an output current value thereof, and the PSE receives an input voltage value returned by the PD, such that the PSE and the PD can both calculate a line power loss therebetween based on the input voltage value of the PD, the output voltage value and the output current value of the PSE; alternatively, the PD obtains the input voltage value through a voltage detection circuit under at least one state point of a power consumption that is known, and calculates, according to the output voltage value of the PSE and a known maximum power consumption of the PD, a maximum line power loss therebetween.
US11658832B2
A device configured to receive a service request for modifying a user account. The device is further configured to add an entry in a service request log and an event log in response to receiving the service request. The device is further configured to query a status log to determine a current status of the user account. The device is further configured to apply modification instructions from the service request to the current status of the user account to update the current status of the user account and to modify the current status of the user account in the status log. The device is further configured to identify a provisioning service device that is associated with the user account, to determine service instructions for the provisioning service device based on the updated current status of the user account, and to send the service instructions to the provisioning service device.
US11658825B2
Provided is a method for securing an item of device use information of a device, having the following steps: —determining the item of device use information; —generating transaction data depending on the item of device use information; —generating a blockchain data structure which is based on a cryptocurrency and includes the transaction data or a checksum of the transaction data; —sending the generated blockchain data structure to at least one blockchain node. The item of device use information of a device according to the described method is change-protected by a decentralized security structure. Thanks to the distributed blockchain database, the item of device use information of the device cannot be manipulated subsequently. The use of the decentralized blockchain technology also advantageously means that no central trusted point or party is necessary.
US11658810B2
A method for cryptographic key management for managing access control is provided. A key is divided into a plurality of portions of the key. Pre-encryption contextual data is received for each of a plurality of devices. The pre-encryption contextual data indicates at least one attribute of a respective device of the plurality of devices before an encryption of the plurality of portions of the key is performed. The plurality of portions of the key are encrypted based at least on the pre-encryption contextual data of the plurality of devices to make the plurality of the portions of the key dependent at least on contextual data corresponding pre-encryption contextual data. Each of the plurality of encrypted portions of the key is distributed to a respective device of the plurality of devices for storage and retrieval.
US11658808B2
Memory control circuitry controls access to data stored in memory, and memory security circuitry generates encrypted data to be stored in the memory. The encrypted data is based on target data and a first one-time-pad (OTP). In response to an OTP update event indicating that the first OTP is to be updated to a second OTP different from the first OTP, the memory security circuitry generates a re-encryption value based on the first OTP and the second OTP, and the memory security circuitry to issues a re-encryption request to cause updated encrypted data to be generated in a downstream component based on the encrypted data and the re-encryption value and to cause the encrypted data to be replaced in the memory by the updated encrypted data.
US11658804B2
Techniques for updating blockchains using a proof of work determined serially include receiving a block of data for inclusion in a new block of a blockchain; deterministically determining an initial nonce, hashing a combination of the block of data and the initial nonce to create a hashed value; iteratively deterministically determining an updated nonce based on a combination of the hashed value and updating the hashed value by hashing the updated nonce until the updated hashed value satisfies a proof of work criteria; creating the new block based on the block of data, the initial nonce, and the updated hashed value that satisfies the proof of work criteria; and having the new block stored in the blockchain.
US11658800B2
A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for privacy preserving routing of a data packet. The data packet may comprise a packet header and a data payload; the packet header comprising at least a homomorphically encrypted final destination address of a final destination device. An intermediate routing device may receive the data packet. At the intermediate routing device, in a non-TEE, homomorphic computations may be performed to determine a homomorphically encrypted address of a next intermediate routing device. At the intermediate routing device, in a TEE, one or more secret homomorphic decryption keys may be stored and used to decrypt the homomorphically encrypted address of the next address of the next intermediate routing device. The data packet may be transmitted to the decrypted address of the next intermediate routing device according to an updated packet header with the unencrypted address of the next intermediate routing device in the sequence.
US11658795B2
A clock and data recovery circuit includes a phase detector that outputs phase characteristic data based on a digital data signal and an adjustment circuit that adjusts phase characteristic data. The clock and data recovery circuit sets an adjustment value in an adjustment circuit by calculating an adjustment value of phase characteristic data using a monitor circuit while changing a phase of a reference clock signal to be adjusted in a phase interpolation circuit based on offset data output from an offset output circuit in a training period before communication starts.
US11658771B2
Methods are described for identifying and acting upon predetermined message patterns during reception of a data stream structured as USB message frames. A first embodiment performs pattern matching between received message bits and one or more predetermined sequences, identifying unscrambled ordered set messages. A second embodiment applies a descrambling operation and performs comparable pattern matching between descrambled received message bits and one or more additional predetermined sequences, identifying scrambled ordered set messages.
US11658767B2
A method for adjusting a wireless modem includes: a channel parameter of a wireless modem at a present moment is acquired; a target clock frequency and a target working voltage of the wireless modem are generated, according to the channel parameter, with a neural network that is pre-trained; and a working voltage and a clock frequency of the wireless modem are adjusted to the target working voltage and the target clock frequency, respectively.
US11658766B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to switch between waveform configurations based on an indicated modulation coding scheme (MCS) such that waveform switching may be signaled implicitly. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a hybrid MCS table including MCS indexes associated with a first waveform configuration and MCS indexes associated with a second waveform configuration. The base station may schedule resources for an uplink transmission for the UE and may indicate an MCS index associated with the uplink transmission, using index from the MCS table. The UE may select a waveform configuration for the uplink transmission based on the MCS index. For example, the UE may compare the MCS index with a threshold MCS index of the hybrid MCS table and determine a waveform configuration associated with the MCS index based on whether the MCS index falls above or below the threshold.
US11658763B2
A telecommunications module includes an optical wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a first optical signal input into the telecommunications module into a plurality of different wavelengths, a fiber optic splitter configured to split a second optical signal input into the telecommunication module into a plurality of optical signals, and a plurality of optical add/drop filters, each of the optical add/drop filters configured to combine one of the optical signals that has been split by the fiber optic splitter and one of the wavelengths that has been demultiplexed by the optical wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer into a combination output signal that is output from the telecommunications module.
US11658760B2
A method for allocating wireless resources based on sensitivity to interference provides a base station controller which, within an area of overlap of adjacent wireless cells, determines a set of neighboring cell pairs from a plurality of cells. The base station controller sorts the set of neighboring cell pairs according to the number of inner-pair interfered user equipment devices of each neighboring cell pair where inner-pair interfered user equipment devices are user equipment devices located in coverage areas of the neighboring cell pair and allocates resource blocks for each neighboring cell pair sequentially based on the sorted set. An apparatus employing the method is also disclosed.
US11658757B2
A communication system includes a master device and a plurality of slave devices. Each slave device stores a synchronization period and a correction amount of a difference between a time of the master device and a time of the slave device. The master device acquires the correction amount from the slave device, calculates a correspondence relationship between a synchronization period and the correction amount based on the correction amount, calculates a target synchronization period in the slave device based on the correspondence relationship, classifies each slave device into a plurality of groups based on the target synchronization period in each slave device, and sets a maximum target synchronization period among the target synchronization periods of at least one slave device classified into each group to a new synchronization period in which the master device performs the time synchronization along with the at least one slave device.
US11658753B2
A signal measurement method and a communication apparatus to measure a downlink angle of departure (DAOD) more accurately. The method includes: receiving resource configuration information, where the resource configuration information includes configuration information of a first reference signal set, the first reference signal set includes M reference signals, N reference signals in the M reference signals are reference reference signals, M is greater than 1, and N is greater than or equal to 1; receiving the M reference signals; determining N first paths corresponding to the N reference reference signals, and separately determining M*N received powers of the M reference signals on the N first paths; and reporting a measurement result, where the measurement result includes K*N received powers in M*N received powers, K≤M, and the first path is one of a plurality of paths corresponding to a reference reference signal.
US11658752B1
This application relates to underwater wireless sensor networks, and more particularly to a node positioning method for an underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) based on zeroing neural dynamics (ZND), including: (S1) defining a time-varying problem of node positioning of the UWSN based on an angle of arrival (AOA) algorithm and a time difference of arrival (TDOA) algorithm; (S2) performing modeling for the time-varying problem to acquire a mathematical model of a linear dynamic matrix equation; (S3) establishing a modified zeroing neural dynamics (MZND) model with a nonlinear activation function; and (S4) solving the time-varying problem by utilizing the MZND model to complete the node positioning of the UWSN.
US11658748B2
An optical transmitter transmits a data signal. The optical transmitter has an encoder configured to encode the data signal by selecting based on a bit sequence a first symbol and a second symbol from a set of four symbols for each one of at least two transmission time slots. The optical transmitter further has a modulator configured to use in each transmission time slot the first symbol to modulate a first carrier wave and the second symbol to modulate a second carrier wave, and to transmit the two carrier waves over orthogonal polarizations of an optical carrier. Symbols in consecutive transmission time slots have non-identical polarization states.
US11658745B2
A method of dispersion compensation for an optical link includes establishing communication using a first symbol rate over the optical link, determining a dispersion compensation for the optical link based on the communication at the first symbol rate, and establishing communication using a second symbol rate over the optical link using the determined dispersion compensation, wherein the second symbol rate is higher than the first symbol rate.
US11658739B2
Architectures and techniques are presented that improve or enhance a network planning procedure such as by selecting a more efficient test buffer that is used to identify objects that might intersect a Fresnel zone between two transceivers. An improved test buffer (e.g., buffer region) can be one that is constructed from a plurality of rectangles situated along a line of sight of the two transceivers and that are oriented according to cardinal directions.
US11658731B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a high gain active relay antenna system. The active relay antenna system comprises a first antenna pair having a first receive antenna and a first transmit antenna to communicate wireless signals in a forward link from a base station to a plurality of users; and a second antenna pair having a second receive antenna and a second transmit antenna to communicate wireless signals in a return link from the plurality of users to the base station. The active relay antenna system further comprises a first active relay section and a second active relay section to provide for adjustable power gain in the wireless signals.
US11658730B2
A method, device, and computer-readable medium provide for establishing, by a repeater device, a communication channel with a fixed wireless access (FWA) device; receiving, by the repeater device, reference signals from a wireless station; forwarding, by the repeater device, the reference signals to the FWA device; transmitting, by the repeater device, a first uplink signal from the FWA device using a first transmission power level to the wireless station, wherein the first transmission power level is a predetermined value; receiving, in response to the first uplink signal, transmit power control (TPC) command parameters from the FWA device via the communication channel; adjusting, by the repeater device and based on the first TPC command parameters, the first transmission power level from the predetermined value to an adjusted value; and transmitting, at the adjusted transmission power level, a second uplink signal from the FWA device to the wireless station.
US11658718B2
The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
US11658716B2
A wireless communication system based on millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequency (RF) repeaters includes a first communication device. The first communication device includes a digital signal processor configured to provide access to a first type of communication network to a plurality of communication systems that are communicatively coupled to the first communication device via a plurality of different type of wireless networks. A plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals corresponding to different communication protocols is obtained via the plurality of different type of wireless networks. The obtained plurality of RF signals corresponding to different communication protocols are merged into a mmWave RF signal of a specified frequency. The mmWave RF signal of the specified frequency is transmitted to a second communication device.
US11658708B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication systems, and in particular, to techniques for generation and processing of an embedding representing a beam for communication. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a wireless node. The method generally includes receiving an embedding representing a characterization associated with a beam; providing the embedding to a machine learning (ML) model; generating one or more communication parameters for communication using the beam via the ML model based on the embedding; and communicating using the one or more communication parameters.
US11658704B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station and a user equipment (UE) may utilize multi-port reference signals to determine a beam pair for rank-2 transmissions. For example, a UE may receive a set of multi-port reference signals, where each multi-port reference signal of the set corresponds to a unique beam pair and is received via two ports associated with two different polarizations. The UE may determine a spectral efficiency estimation for each multi-port reference signal of the set, select a beam pair associated with a multi-port reference signal with the highest determined spectral efficiency estimation of the set, and transmit an indication of the selected beam pair to the base station. Therefore, the UE and the base station may communicate using a beam pair which maximizes the spectral efficiency and rate of rank-2 transmissions.
US11658702B2
Example electric appliance identification methods and apparatuses are provided. One example method includes obtaining, by a power line communication (PLC) device, a first noise signal in a circuit. The PLC device can then obtain first data based on the first noise signal, where the first data is used to describe a time-frequency feature of the first noise signal. The PLC device can then obtain, based on an electric appliance identification model and the first data, an electric appliance identification result corresponding to the first noise signal, where the electric appliance identification model is obtained based on a signal including a second noise signal of at least one known electric appliance.
US11658695B2
A device and method of verifying protective case usage, is described. The device includes one or more processors to drive an electromechanical transducer with an input signal. The electromechanical transducer generates an input force based on the input signal, and a sensor of the device generates a test output signal in response to the input force. The one or more processors determine, based on the test output signal, a level of verification that a protective case is mounted on the device. The determination can include determining whether the test output signal matches a predetermined impulse response signal indicative of an unprotected device or a protected device. A digital identification tag of the protective case can be read by a radio-frequency transceiver of the device to provide an additional level of verification that the protective case is mounted on the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11658692B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a transmitting wireless device, such as a user equipment or a base station, may apply a first set of digital pre-distortion (DPD) coefficients to a plurality of antenna elements to form a first transmit beam. The wireless device may determine to switch from using the first transmit beam to using a second transmit beam that is different from the first transmit beam and may apply a second set of DPD coefficients to the plurality of antenna elements to form the second transmit beam, where the second set of DPD coefficients is different from the first set of DPD coefficients. The wireless device may transmit signaling using the second transmit beam based at least in part on applying the second set of DPD coefficients.
US11658682B2
The inventive concept relates to method for encoding and decoding sparse codes and orthogonal sparse superposition codes. A sparse code encoding method which is to be performed by an encoding apparatus, according to an embodiment of the inventive concept may include selecting an index set that is a part of a code block by using an information bit, and mapping a codeword less than a preset size to the selected index set.
US11658674B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes N sensing channels. Each channel includes a first main sensing node and a second redundancy sensing node paired therewith. N analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are coupled to the first sensing nodes, with digital processing circuits coupled to the N ADCs. A pair of multiplexers are coupled to the second sensing nodes and to the N ADCs with a further ADC coupled to the output of the second multiplexer. An error checking circuit is coupled to the outputs of the second multiplexer and the further ADC to compare, at each time window in a sequence of N time windows, a first digital value and a second digital value resulting from conversion to digital of: an analog sensing signal at one of the first sensing nodes, and an analog sensing signal at the second sensing node paired with the selected one of the first sensing nodes.
US11658673B2
The present disclosure relates to circuitry comprising: digital circuitry configured to generate a digital output signal; and monitoring circuitry configured to monitor a supply voltage to the digital circuitry and to output a control signal for controlling operation of the digital circuitry, wherein the control signal is based on the supply voltage.
US11658668B2
A semiconductor device includes an internal command generation circuit configured to generate a synthesized command from a command which is inputted in synchronization with any one of a first internal clock and a third internal clock generated by dividing a frequency of a clock, and configured to generate a first internal command and a second internal command by delaying the synthesized command depending on a detected input time of the command. The semiconductor device also includes a data transmission circuit configured to generate transmission data from data in synchronization with any one of the first internal command and the second internal command.
US11658667B2
A division factor generator of a feedback divider block in a fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL). The division factor generator is enabled to operate with larger values of division factors without increased complexity of an internal modulator core implemented, for example, as a delta-sigma modulator (DSM) having a signal transfer function (STF), wherein the STF always generates only an integer value as an output in response to an integer value received as input.
US11658654B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for use in biasing and driving high voltage semiconductor devices using only low voltage transistors are described. The apparatus and method are adapted to control multiple high voltage semiconductor devices to enable high voltage power control, such as power amplifiers, power management and conversion (e.g. DC/DC) and other applications wherein a first voltage is large compared to the maximum voltage handling of the low voltage control transistors. According to an aspect, timing control of edges of a control signal to the high voltage semiconductor devices is provided by a basic edge delay circuit that includes a transistor, a current source and a capacitor. An inverter can be selectively coupled, via a switch, to an input and/or an output of the basic edge delay circuit to allow for timing control of a rising edge or a falling edge of the control signal.
US11658647B2
A switched delay section for an integrated circuit device is disclosed. The switched delay section includes a segmented inductor loop comprising a plurality of segments separated by nodes. A plurality of capacitors are coupled between the segmented inductor loop to provide a plurality of delay sections. An image loop is in electrical communication with the segmented inductor loop. The image loop includes a switch configured to place the plurality of capacitors in one of a high capacitance or a low capacitance state to provide a variable delay value.
US11658646B2
In an embodiment, a circuit for tripling frequency is configured to receive an input voltage (Vin) having a sinusoidal shape and a base frequency. The circuit has a first and a second transistor pair that are cross-coupled, and a trans-characteristics f(Vin) approximating a polynomial nominal trans-characteristic given by f ( V i n ) = ( 3 A V i n - 4 A 3 V i n 3 ) g m where A represents an amplitude of the input voltage and gm is a transconductance of transistors of the first and second transistor pairs.
US11658631B1
A phase optimizer optimizes, for each listening position in a listening environment, a phase shift for each frequency in a range of predetermined frequencies. The phase optimizer determines a resultant phase value for each possible phase shift value and stores the resultant phase values for each possible phase shift value in an array. The phase optimizer calculates mean and standard deviation for the resultant phases stored in the array. The mean and standard deviations stored in the array are compared and phase shift values that result in the resultant phase values having the smallest mean and standard deviations are selected and are stored in memory. The phase optimizer optimizes each frequency, within a predetermined range of frequencies, for all possible phase shift values within a predetermined range of phase shift values and generates a phase shift target curve generated to be output by the phase optimizer.
US11658629B2
An amplifier circuit includes: an operational amplifier that includes two input terminals and an output terminal; a voltage-dividing resistor circuit electrically connected to the output terminal and that includes a voltage-dividing terminal that outputs a potential obtained by voltage-dividing a potential of the output terminal and a feedback resistor circuit electrically connected to the voltage-dividing terminal and one of the two input terminals. The voltage-dividing resistor circuit includes a plurality of resistors that each include terminals and a switch. The plurality of resistors includes a first resistor and a second resistor. The first resistor includes a terminal that corresponds to the voltage-dividing terminal. The switch switches, from a first terminal of the first resistor to a second terminal of the second resistor, the terminal that corresponds to the voltage-dividing terminal.
US11658627B2
A first embodiment is directed to a circuit including a positive biasing circuit with a drive PMOS for biasing in subthreshold, a negative biasing circuit with a drive NMOS for biasing in subthreshold, and an amplification circuit coupled to the biasing circuits. The amplification circuit includes a first stage with a first boosting stage, a second stage with a second boosting stage, and a resistive element coupled between the first and second stages. A second embodiment is directed to a folded cascode operational amplifier wherein a value of the resistive element is selected to place at least one of a drive MOS in subthreshold. A third embodiment is directed to an integrated circuit with a resistive area neighboring a first boosting area and a second boosting area, the resistive area including a resistive element directly connected to a drive PMOS and a drive NMOS.
US11658626B2
A two-stage differential amplifier with cross-coupled compensation capacitors. The differential amplifier includes first amplifier circuitry receiving a differential input voltage and presenting first and second intermediate outputs. The amplifier further includes a second amplifier stage with a first leg having an input coupled to the second intermediate output of the first amplifier circuitry, and a second leg having an input coupled to the first intermediate output of the first amplifier circuitry. A compensation capacitor is provided for each leg of the second amplifier stage, each coupled between the output of that amplifier leg and its input. A first cross-coupled capacitor is coupled between the output of the first amplifier leg to the input of the second amplifier leg, and a second cross-coupled capacitor is coupled between the output of the second amplifier leg and the input of the first amplifier leg.
US11658625B2
A preamplifier circuit comprises a first pair of transistors and a second pair of transistors having current flow paths therethrough coupled at first and second output nodes and providing first and second current flow lines intermediate a supply node and ground. The two pairs of transistors comprise: first and second input transistors located intermediate the outputs nodes and one of the supply node and ground providing respective input nodes, first and second load transistors intermediate the output nodes and the other of the supply node and ground. The load transistors have control terminals capacitively coupled to the other of the supply node and ground and a reset switch arrangement is provided periodically activatable to short the first output node, the second output node as well as the control terminals of the first load transistor and the second load transistor.
US11658621B2
Provided herein are apparatus and methods for a multi-stage signal-processing circuit. The signal-processing circuit can include multiple configurable stages that can be cascaded and configured to process an input signal. Control circuitry can be used to select an output of the configurable stages. Serial data can be recovered with good signal integrity using a signal monitor with the configurable stages by virtually placing the signal monitor on a buffered output node.
US11658617B2
A method for modelling a power amplifier, including memory effect modelling, for general input waveforms and power levels involves generating an extraction waveform having a plurality of tones each having a different frequency, a difference between the frequencies of two adjacent tones of the plurality of tones not being an integer multiple of a difference in frequency between any two other adjacent tones of the plurality of tones. The method further involves providing the extraction waveform to the power amplifier, receiving output from the power amplifier generated in response to the extraction waveform, and generating a model of the power amplifier based on the output.
US11658615B2
Multi-level envelope trackers with an analog interface are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracking system for generating a power amplifier supply voltage for a power amplifier is provided. The envelope tracking system includes a multi-level supply (MLS) DC-to-DC converter that outputs multiple regulated voltages, and an MLS modulator that controls selection of the regulated voltages over time based on an analog envelope signal corresponding to an envelope of the RF signal amplified by the power amplifier.
US11658607B2
An integrated building photovoltaic apparatus for closing an opening on a building facade and generating electricity from a solar radiation which pass through the opening, includes at least two panes that are at least partially transparent and joined to each other by an interposed spacer to form an internal chamber therebetween; a blind arranged inside the internal chamber and having movable photovoltaic slats to vary the amount of the solar radiation passing through the opening; and connection elements, configured to pull or push the photovoltaic slats. Each slat has a photovoltaic sheet with interconnection grooves which define thin film solar cells monolithically connected in series. The solar cells include at least two coupling thin film solar cells (40′), each one having a through hole and a close-pattern isolation groove surrounding the through hole to define an inactive area of the coupling single thin film solar cell surrounding the through hole.
US11658602B2
A motor drive device of an embodiment includes a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, a third detection circuit, a fourth detection circuit, and an output circuit. The first drive circuit drives a first phase of a motor. The second drive circuit drives a second phase of the motor. The first detection circuit detects a first anomaly of the first phase. The second detection circuit detects the first anomaly of the second phase. The third detection circuit detects a second anomaly of the first phase. The fourth detection circuit detects the second anomaly of the second phase. The output circuit outputs an occurred anomaly as a flag signal based on results of detection by the first to fourth detection circuits.
US11658590B2
A motor system comprises a motor comprising: a stator with a plurality of subwindings each having a plurality of phase connections for receiving phase voltages, wherein each of the subwindings is electrically insulated from each of the other subwindings; a rotor comprising a plurality of permanent magnets or energisable electromagnets; a controller comprising a plurality of control parts, each control part associated with a respective subwinding, each control part being configured to monitor phase voltages of the associated subwinding, between phase connections. The system further comprises a controller configured to: obtain, from each control part, at set discrete time intervals, a plurality of back measured electromotive force, EMF, readings for each of the respective subwindings; using the plurality of measured back EMF readings and an a priori knowledge of the motor's construction to estimate a commutation event timing.
US11658589B2
An electronically commutated motor driving module for driving a motor includes a voltage detector, an electronically commutated motor driver, a current detector, a voltage converter, and a controller. The voltage detector detects supply voltage to generate a voltage detection signal. The electronically commutated motor driver is supplied by the supply voltage to generate, according to an electronically commutated signal, an operating current for driving the motor. The current detector detects the operating current to generate a current detection signal. The voltage converter converts the supply voltage into an internal voltage. The controller is supplied by the internal voltage and generates the electronically commutated signal according to a plurality of control parameters. When the controller determines that a specific event has happened according to the control parameters, the controller stops generating the electronically commutated signal and then stores the control parameters.
US11658588B2
A piezoelectric energy harvester system for collecting kinetic energy is provided, wherein the kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy, and wherein at least a portion of the converted electrical energy is utilized to operate a load. The system comprises an energy input portion and an energy harvesting portion. The energy input portion includes an input member configured to be actionable by an outside force. The energy harvesting portion includes a capture member, a sprocket portion, and a piezoelectric energy harvester. The capture member is adapted for receiving mechanical input from the input member. The sprocket portion is disposed for movement with the capture member. The sprocket portion includes at least one radially disposed sprocket actuator configured for making contact with and exciting the piezoelectric energy harvester. The piezoelectric energy harvester is excited by the contact to produce the kinetic energy.
US11658581B1
A power converter with an adjustable output voltage has an isolation DC/DC transformer, a primary side circuit connected to a primary coil of the isolation DC/DC transformer for transmitting an input AC power to the primary coil, and a secondary side circuit connected to a secondary coil of the isolation DC/DC transformer. The secondary side circuit includes a first output loop, a second output loop and a mode switch connected in the first output loop. When power consumption of a load is low, the mode switch is turned off to interrupt the first output loop so that the secondary side circuit generates a first output voltage with a low voltage level. When power consumption of a load is high, the mode switch is turned on and the secondary side circuit generates a second output voltage with a high voltage level. Without greatly increasing circuits, the power converter achieves wide-range voltage regulation.
US11658577B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of voltage regulators arranged in a field programmable array and a power array controller coupled to the plurality of voltage regulators. The power array controller is configured to control the plurality of voltage regulators to output power to a plurality of power rails. Each power rail provides a respective rail current at a respective rail voltage. The power array controller is configured to for each of the plurality of power rails, determine the respective rail current associated with the respective power rail, select a subset of voltage regulators according to at least the respective rail current, and enable the subset of voltage regulators to generate the respective rail voltage and provide the respective rail current collectively.
US11658575B2
A USB-power delivery integrated circuit controller includes: one or more driver circuits configured to control operation of a buck-boost converter; a regulator configured to regulate an internal supply voltage of the controller from a variable input voltage of the buck-boost converter in a regulation mode, and to pass the variable input voltage as the internal supply voltage without regulation in a bypass mode, the regulator being in the bypass mode when the variable input voltage is below the internal supply voltage, the regulator including an amplifier and a pass transistor configured to pass a current that is inversely proportional to an output of the amplifier; a clamping circuit configured to limit an overdrive voltage of the pass transistor during an inrush current event; and an override circuit configured to deactivate the clamping circuit in the bypass mode when the current passed by the pass transistor is below a current threshold.
US11658573B2
A mode-transition architecture for USB controllers is described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) controller includes a controller coupled to a slope compensation circuit, the controller to detect a transition of a buck-boost converter from a first mode having a first duty cycle to a second mode having a second duty cycle that is less or more than the first duty cycle. The controller controls the slope compensation circuit to nullify an error in an output caused by the transition. The controller can cause the slope compensation circuit to apply a charge stored in a capacitor during a first cycle to start a second cycle with a higher voltage than the first cycle.
US11658566B2
A power supply system may include a target device and an adapter. The target device may include an adapter connection switch that receives adapter recognition information to form a connection with the adapter, a voltage detection unit that receives an output voltage from an adapter, and a voltage-change-requesting unit that outputs a voltage to request a voltage change based on information on the output voltage from the adapter. The adapter may include a device information recognition unit that receives the voltage to request a voltage change, and an output-voltage-changing unit that changes the output voltage based on the voltage to request a voltage change.
US11658561B2
A LCL filter for a 1 or 3-phase grid including one magnetic core, at least one primary winding, at least one secondary winding, at least one winding for reducing flux ripples in the magnetic core located between the primary winding and the secondary winding, wherein the windings are placed on the magnetic core, the primary winding is connected to the input of the LCL filter for connecting the filter to an inverter, the secondary winding is connected to the output of the LCL filter for connecting the filter to a load or grid and the winding is connected to the filter capacitor wherein the magnetic core is a closed magnetic core and the windings are galvanically insulated.
US11658559B2
A system may include a power converter configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage and a controller configured to control operation of the power converter based on a comparison of a current associated with the power converter to a threshold current and control the threshold current as a function of the input voltage.
US11658555B2
An actuator includes a connection body connected with a support body and a movable body and having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to relatively move the movable body with respect to the support body. The connection body formed in a tube shape is disposed on both end sides in the vibration direction of the movable body. In a state that the movable body is located at a home position, the inner peripheral part connected with one of the movable body and the support body of each of the connection bodies is pulled to a center side in the vibration direction of the movable body with respect to its outer peripheral part connected with the other of the movable body and the support body and is shear-deformed.
US11658551B2
An electric motor vehicle auxiliary unit includes a housing which is at least partly electrically conductive. An electric drive motor having stator-side motor coils, a unit mechanism which is driven by the electric drive motor, and a motor electronics circuit board are each arranged within the housing. The motor electronics circuit board includes motor electronics having control and power electronics which control the electric drive motor, and at least one housing ground connection which is electrically conductively connected directly to the housing via a housing ground element. A punch comb arrangement has at least two plug pins. A plug connection connects the motor electronics circuit board to an engine control unit. The plug connection is electrically connected to the motor electronics circuit board via the punch comb arrangement. The housing ground element is designed as a plug pin of the at least two plug pins of the punch comb arrangement.
US11658548B2
A voice coil motor (VCM) according to one or more embodiments may include a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The coil part may include a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.
US11658539B2
Insulators each include a plurality of board holding claws projecting from an outer peripheral edge of the circuit board for engaging a plurality of board recesses, the plurality of board holding claws are arranged on the outer peripheral edge of the circuit board such that an interval of board holding claws on a connector-mounted side is smaller than an interval between board holding claws on a counter-connector-mounted side, and a load receiving pin, which receives a radial load, projects at a counter-connector-mounted position, which is opposite to a mounted position of a connector.
US11658528B2
Electric machine having: a shaft; a rotor with permanent magnets that is fitted to the shaft; a stator having a magnetic core which consists of a series of laminations made of ferromagnetic material and longitudinally crossed by a plurality of stator slots; and a stator winding having a plurality of rigid bars that are inserted in corresponding stator slots and that are covered, on the outside, with an insulating coating. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic elements, which are arranged beside one another around the rotation axis so as to form a closed ring. Each magnetic element is formed by a plurality of permanent magnets which are axially arranged one after the other according to a Halbach array.
US11658524B2
Provided is a rotary electric machine that is able to suppress vibration noise of the rotary electric machine caused by an out-of-plane deformation. The rotary electric machine includes a stator including a frame being an annular member, and a plurality of split cores arranged in an annular shape and fitted to and held by a radially inner portion of the frame, wherein the frame is formed such that an inner diameter of each of both end portions thereof is smaller than an inner diameter of an axial middle portion thereof, and fitting fastening force between the frame and each split core is set to be greater at both the end portions than at the axial middle portion.
US11658522B2
An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a yoke fitted over a ring that has a plurality of teeth with gaps therebetween for fitting metal windings. The ring of teeth has an inner circumference that is closed and to connect the teeth, and an outer circumference with open gaps or slots between the teeth. The metal windings are fitted through the open outer circumference. Regions of the closed inner circumference between the teeth are treated such that the region's magnetic permeability is reduced relative to the remainder of the stator. The reduction in magnetic permeability provides a magnetic flux barrier between the teeth.
US11658518B2
A wireless power circuit operable in transceiver mode and in Q-factor measurement mode includes a bridge rectifier having first and second inputs coupled to first and second terminals of a coil, and an output coupled to a rectified node. An excitation circuit coupled to the first terminal, in Q-factor measurement mode, drives the coil with a pulsed signal. A protection circuit couples the first terminal to a first node when in Q-factor measurement mode and decouples the first terminal when in transceiver mode. A controller causes the bridge rectifier to short the first and second terminals to ground during Q-factor measurement mode. A sensing circuit amplifies voltage at the first node to produce an output voltage, and in response to the voltage at the first node rising to cross a rising threshold voltage, digitizes the output voltage. The digitized output voltage is used in calculating a Q-factor of the coil.
US11658507B2
A battery charging method and an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device can comprise: a connection unit comprising a first terminal to which a voltage is applied by an external device, and a second terminal for transmitting/receiving data; a first charging unit for charging a battery connected to the electronic device by using the voltage applied to the first terminal; and a second charging unit for charging the battery by dropping the voltage applied to the first terminal according to a preset voltage drop rate. The first charging unit can comprise: a first switch connected to the first terminal; a communication unit for transmitting information through the second terminal; and a first control unit for acquiring first information on the battery voltage, controlling the communication unit such that the first information is transmitted to a charger connected to the connection unit, and controlling the first switch such that the voltage adjusted on the basis of the first information by the charger is supplied to the second charging unit through the first terminal.
US11658490B2
Provided is a method for identifying low-frequency oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in an electrical supply network, wherein the electrical supply network has a line voltage with a nominal line frequency, comprising the steps: detecting at least one electrical signal of the electrical supply network as at least one test signal and filtering and/or transforming the at least one detected test signal into at least one check signal, temporal derivation of the at least one check signal or difference formation of temporally separated values of the check signal, in order to obtain a gradient signal in each case, identifying the presence of a low-frequency oscillation if the gradient signal or at least one of the gradient signals meets a predetermined check criterion, in particular at least one predetermined check limit is exceeded.
US11658482B2
A system and method for combining power from DC power sources. Each power source is coupled to a converter. Each converter converts input power to output power by monitoring and maintaining the input power at a maximum power point. Substantially all input power is converted to the output power, and the controlling is performed by allowing output voltage of the converter to vary. The converters are coupled in series. An inverter is connected in parallel with the series connection of the converters and inverts a DC input to the inverter from the converters into an AC output. The inverter maintains the voltage at the inverter input at a desirable voltage by varying the amount of the series current drawn from the converters. The series current and the output power of the converters, determine the output voltage at each converter.
US11658479B2
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided in using a supply clamp circuit using an ESD event actuated MOSFET device. Triggering of the MOSFET device is made at both the gate terminal and the substrate (back gate) terminal. Additionally, the MOSFET device can be formed of cascoded MOSFETs.
US11658478B2
A grid connected inverter is connectable to a power grid having a synchronous generator connected thereto, and is operable according to an output active power command generated by a virtual synchronous generator control function, to thereby reduce grid frequency variation. The output active power command is represented by a sum of a set value of the output active power of the grid connected inverter, a value obtained by multiplying a pseudo attenuation coefficient to a frequency deviation between a grid frequency and a reference frequency, and a value obtained by multiplying a pseudo inertia coefficient to a derivative value of the grid frequency. The pseudo inertia coefficient after the grid frequency reaches a maximum point of frequency variation is adjusted to a value smaller than the pseudo inertia coefficient before the grid frequency reaches the maximum point of frequency variation.
US11658471B2
A sealing unit (28) that fits within the sealing unit opening (26) of a housing 22. The sealing unit (28) including a sealant arrangement (32) that define a plurality of cable ports (30). The sealing arrangement is also configured for providing a peripheral seal between the housing (22) and the sealing unit (28). The sealing unit (28) includes an actuation arrangement (31) for pressurizing the sealant arrangement (32) within the sealing unit opening (26). The sealant arrangement (32) includes a plurality of sealing modules (33a-33e) each sized to form only a portion of the pressure actuated sealant arrangement (32).
US11658470B2
A cable passthrough includes a first layer having a first edge and an aperture, and a second layer overlapping the first layer. The passthrough is configured to be installed on a roof deck, such that the aperture is configured to align with an aperture formed within the roof deck. The passthrough is configured to receive at least one cable having a first end and a second end. The second end of the cable is capable of extending outwardly from the first edge of the first layer and the first edge of the second layer of the passthrough. The cable is configured to be positioned intermediate the first layer and the second layer.
US11658469B2
A duct-bank stub-up assembly includes a first pre-formed stub-up module that comprises a first plurality of conduits and a first encasing body. For each of the first conduits, a first end of the conduit provides a mating end on a mating side of the first encasing body and a second end of the conduit provides a mating end on a top surface of the first encasing body. The assembly further includes a second pre-formed stub-up module that comprises a second plurality of conduits and a second encasing body formed to have a stub-up section and a footer section. For each of the second conduits, a first conduit end provides a mating end on a mating side of the footer section and a second conduit end provides a mating end on a top surface of the stub-up section. The first module is positioned on the footer of the second module.
US11658468B2
A splice couples together abutting barrier strips for a cable tray. The splice generally includes a base wall. Opposing sidewalls extend outward from opposite sides of the base wall. The opposing side walls and the base wall together define an open interior of the splice configured to receive the abutting barrier strips therein. A window may extend through the base wall to the open interior to allow the abutting barrier strips to be visible therethrough when the abutting barrier strips are received in the open interior of the splice. A grip may be on the opposing side walls to enhance gripping of the splice. At least one of the sidewalls may have a chamfered corner to enhance entry of the barrier strips into the open interior.
US11658467B2
Provided is a busbar connecting device that can achieve good workability and high reliability at the same time. The busbar connecting device includes: a connection portion in which a busbar conductor and a current conductor of a bushing are connected; an insulation busbar connector covering the connection portion; a work hole communicating with the connection portion from an outside of the insulation busbar connector; and an insulating plug inserted into the work hole and sealing the insulation busbar connector, wherein a surface pressure between an inner circumferential surface of the work hole and an outer circumferential surface of the insulating plug is greater at a deep part of the work hole than at a shallow part of the work hole.
US11658466B2
Apparatus, systems and methods to spectrally beam combine a group of diode lasers in an external cavity arrangement. A dichroic beam combiner or volume Bragg grating beam combiner is placed in an external cavity to force each of the diode lasers or groups of diode lasers to oscillate at a wavelength determined by the passband of the beam combiner. In embodiments the combination of a large number of laser diodes in a sufficiently narrow bandwidth to produce a high brightness laser source that has many applications including as to pump a Raman laser or Raman amplifier.
US11658465B1
A mobile device includes a camera and a light source module embedded in the mobile device. The light source module includes at least a laser-pumped phosphor light source that includes a photoluminescent phosphor and a laser diode to generate laser light within a first wavelength range to pump the photoluminescent phosphor. Exposure of the photoluminescent phosphor to the laser light results in emission of visible light within a second wavelength range according to a laser-pumped emission spectrum associated with the photoluminescent phosphor.
US11658452B2
Optical line amplifiers with on-board controllers and supervisory devices for controlling optical line amplifiers are provided for controlling bootstrap or power-up procedures when optical line amplifiers are initially installed in an optical communication network. The controllers may include non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store computer logic having instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processing devices to block an input to one or more gain units of the line amplifier and cause the line amplifier to operate in an Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) mode. In response to a detection of a valid power level of the line amplifier, the instructions can further cause the one or more processing devices to switch the line amplifier from the ASE mode to a regular mode and unblock the input to the one or more gain units of the line amplifier to allow operation of the line amplifier in the regular operating mode.
US11658450B2
A cylindrical electrode module of a fiber optic laser system includes an inner cylinder having an inner repeating pattern of longitudinally-aligned positive and negative electrodes on an outer surface of the inner cylinder. The cylindrical electrode mode includes an outer cylinder that encloses the inner cylinder. The outer cylinder that has an outer repeating pattern of longitudinally-aligned negative and positive electrodes on an inner surface of the inner cylinder that are in corresponding and complementary, parallel alignment with the positive and negative electrodes of the inner repeating pattern on the outer surface of the inner cylinder. The cylindrical electrode module includes an optical fiber having an input end configured to align with and be optically coupled to a pump laser. The optical fiber is wrapped around the inner cylinder within the outer cylinder to form a cylindrical fiber assembly. The electrodes are activated to achieve quasi-phase matching.
US11658447B2
The present disclosure provides a pin-type LED lamp holder including: a connector, a first lead wire, a second lead wire, a first fixing tube and a second fixing tube, the connector provided with a first hole and a second hole through the entire connector, the first fixing tube and the first lead wire fixedly connected and plugged into the first hole, and the second fixing tube and the second lead wire fixedly connected and plugged into the second hole. In this way, the first fixing tube and the second fixing tube can be wrapped by the connector and insulated well, thereby a risk of electric shock is prevented.
US11658443B2
Methods, structures, and apparatus that are able to detect the presence of liquid, moisture, or other contaminants in or on a connector. Examples provide a connector having a dedicated liquid-detect contact that does not have a corresponding contact in a corresponding connector. Examples provide liquid-detect circuitry that can use the liquid-detect contact to determine the presence of a liquid on or in the connector and can perform self-diagnostic tests such as continuity checks and calibration.
US11658442B2
A controllable electrical outlet may be used to control one or more standard electrical outlets. The controllable electrical outlet may include a first connection configured to be electrically coupled to a hot connection, a second connection configured to be electrically coupled to a standard electrical outlet, and a third connection configured to be electrically coupled to a neutral connection. The controllable electrical outlet may also include a load control circuit, a communication circuit, and a control circuit. The load control circuit may be electrically coupled in series between the first and second screw terminals to control power delivered to the standard electrical outlet, and the control circuit may be coupled to the load control circuit and the communication circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control power delivered to the standard electrical outlet in response to a wireless signal received via the communication circuit.
US11658427B2
A connection device includes a bearing device for at least one spring element formed on a busbar of the connecting contact; a spring element configured to move from a first tension state in which a contact end of the spring element bears against the busbar, a second tension state in which the connection for the conductor to the busbar is closed, and a third tension state in which the contact connection for the conductor to the busbar is opened.
US11658424B2
A deployable reflector for an antenna is disclosed. The deployable reflector comprises a deployable membrane configured to adopt a pre-formed shape in a deployed configuration, and an electrically conductive mesh disposed on a surface of the membrane wherein the electrically conductive mesh is configured to permit relative lateral movement between the electrically conductive mesh and the membrane during deployment of the reflector. In the deployed configuration, the conductive mesh adopts the shape of the membrane and forms a reflective surface of the reflector. A method of manufacturing the deployable reflector is also disclosed.
US11658421B2
The invention relates to an antenna comprising a radiative antenna element able to emit a signal in at least two disjoint frequency bands and a waveguide covered by the radiative antenna element, comprising two nested resonant cavities, each single-mode or mostly single-mode in a separate frequency band.
US11658418B2
Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device that includes a first substrate having radio frequency (RF) components and a second substrate that is coupled to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a first conductive layer of an antenna unit for transmitting and receiving communications at a frequency of approximately 4 GHz or higher. A mold material is disposed on the first and second substrates. The mold material includes a first region that is positioned between the first conductive layer and a second conductive layer of the antenna unit with the mold material being a dielectric material to capacitively couple the first and second conductive layers of the antenna unit.
US11658416B2
An antenna of a handheld metal detector for detecting a target in a soil, the antenna including a housing including a bottom plane for facing the soil; two lateral sides; a front side; and a rear side; wherein the lateral sides, the front side and rear side are with respect to a user of the handheld metal detector holding and operating the handheld metal detector to detect the target in the soil; and at least one winding within the housing. A mean distance of conductors of the at least one winding near at least one of the two lateral sides of the housing is closer to the bottom plane than a mean distance of conductors of the at least one winding near at least one of the front side and rear side of the housing.
US11658414B2
A system includes a housing with one or more edge processors to handle processing on behalf of a mobile target or to provide local data to the mobile target or to provide artificial intelligence for the mobile target; one or more antennas coupled to the housing; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with the mobile target using 5G or 6G protocols.
US11658412B2
An antenna includes a first element, a second element, and a reactance-adjustable component. The first element receives an excitation current through an electrical connection to an antenna feeder, and the second element generates an induced current through electromagnetic induction of the first element. The reactance-adjustable component is disposed at an end of the first element close to a reference plane, and/or the reactance-adjustable component is disposed at an end of the second element close to a reference plane. The reference plane uses a connection point between the first element and the antenna feeder as an origin point and is perpendicular to an axial direction of the first element. The reactance-adjustable component has an adjustable reactance value and is configured to adjust a phase difference between an excitation current and an induced current, where the phase difference has an association relationship with a target angle of radiation of the antenna.
US11658408B2
Methods of antenna pointing and antenna assemblies implementing those methods are disclosed. An example method includes providing a user terminal antenna assembly including an antenna and an auto-peak device. The antenna includes a reflector, a subreflector, and a feed, the feed oriented relative to the reflector and the subreflector to produce a beam. The antenna further includes a tilt assembly to tilt the subreflector relative to the reflector and the feed. The method further includes providing a control signal to tilt the subreflector in a plurality of tilt positions to move the beam while measuring corresponding signal strength of a signal communicated via the antenna at each of the plurality of tilt positions. Additionally, the method includes selecting a tilt position from the plurality of tilt positions based on a measured signal strength, and providing the control signal to tilt the subreflector to the selected tilt position.
US11658407B2
A system includes one or more antennas and a processor to communicate with a predetermined target using 5G or 6G protocols.
US11658395B2
An antenna package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna device including a dielectric layer and an antenna unit disposed on the dielectric layer, and a circuit board. The antenna unit includes a radiator and a transmission line extending from the radiator. The circuit board includes a core layer and a signal wiring disposed on the core layer and electrically connected to the antenna unit. The circuit board has a bonding region adhered to the antenna device, a signal transmission region including the signal wiring and a connect region including a connector connected to a terminal end portion of the signal wiring. A length of the transmission line of the antenna unit is greater than or equal to a length of the signal transmission region of the circuit board.
US11658393B2
A radio-frequency device includes a radio-frequency module. The radio-frequency module includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), a front-end integrated circuit (FEIC), and a flexible substrate. The RFIC has at least a portion surrounded by a first core member and is configured to input or output a base signal and a first radio-frequency (RF) signal having a frequency higher than a frequency of the base signal. The FEIC has at least a portion surrounded by a second core member and is configured to input or output the first RF signal and a second RF signal having a power different from a power of the first RF signal. The flexible substrate is configured to connect the first and second substrates to each other, provide a transmission path for the first RF signal, and being more flexible than the first and second substrates.
US11658391B2
Aspects disclosed herein include a device including a first antenna substrate including one or more antennas. The device also includes a metallization structure. The device also includes a first spacer disposed between the first antenna substrate and the metallization structure, configured to maintain a constant distance between the first antenna substrate and the metallization structure. The device also includes a first plurality of conductive elements, disposed within the first spacer, configured to electrically couple the first antenna substrate to the metallization structure. The device also includes where the first spacer is configured to enclose all the conductive elements, electrically coupled to the first antenna substrate, and is configured to form an air gap between the first antenna substrate and the metallization structure. The device also includes where the first plurality of conductive elements is separated by air in the air gap.
US11658384B1
An antenna apparatus having a housing enclosing antenna components and a leg extending from the housing includes a base securable to a surface and configured to receive a bottom portion of the leg. A locking assembly defined at the bottom portion of the leg is moveable between a first position, wherein the leg is removable from the base, and a second position, wherein the leg is lockingly secured within the base.
US11658383B2
An antenna mounting assembly of a base station antenna includes: a pole clamp configured to clamp the pole; and a first pivoting arm and a second pivoting arm, a first end portion of the first pivoting arm being pivotally connected to a radome body of the antenna, a second end portion of the second pivoting arm being pivotally connected to the pole clamp, and an opposing second end portion of the first pivoting arm being pivotally connected to an opposing first end portion of the second pivoting arm through a pivoting portion. One of the second end portion of the first pivoting arm and the first end portion of the second pivoting arm is provided with a guide post, and the other is provided with a guide groove.
US11658382B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides an antenna and an antenna system. The antenna includes a body member, a head member integrally connected to a first edge of the body member, wherein the head member forms a fold having a first angle towards the front face of the body member, and a first arm member and a second arm member, wherein the first arm member and the second arm member are integrally connected to the body member corresponding to the second edge and the third edge of the body member, and wherein the set of arm members each form a fold having a second angle towards the front face of the body member.
US11658381B2
A dual-band filtering switch based on a single quad-mode dielectric resonator (DR) includes: a first printed circuit board (PCB) provided thereon with an input terminal; a second PCB provided thereon with an output terminal; a shielding shell arranged between the first and second PCBs and enclosing a shielding cavity together with the first and second PCBs; and a single quad-mode DR arranged in the shielding cavity. The first and second PCBs each include a feeding layer, a dielectric layer, and a ground layer that are stacked in sequence. The feeding layers of the first and second PCBs each include a microstrip line and a switching circuitry connected to the microstrip line, and the feeding layer is in contact with a surface of the DR to realize a switching function of the filtering switch. The proposed filtering switch feature low loss transmission and high selectivity with dual-band operation, miniaturization with the fewest resonators and friendly-integration, simultaneously.
US11658370B2
A safety protection device for a battery test system includes a system device, an alternating current changeover switch and a direct current changeover switch. The system device is coupled to a load device. One terminal of the AC changeover switch is coupled to an AC source, the other terminal of the AC changeover switch is coupled to the system device. One terminal of the DC changeover switch is coupled to a battery pack, the other terminal of the DC changeover switch is coupled to the system device. The system device detects in real time a plurality of sets of detection information of the battery pack, performs a plurality of determinations on the plurality of sets of detection information to obtain a plurality of sets of determination information. The system device respectively switches the AC changeover switch and DC changeover switch according to the plurality of sets of determination information.
US11658368B2
A button-type battery including a package assembly and a cell assembly is provided. In actual application, as part of a sealing wall is recessed inwards in a direction to a battery reservoir so as to form a locking boss, as such, when a battery cover is being assembled, the locking boss is pressed against part of a sealing plastic ring so that the part of the sealing plastic ring is in tight contact with a sealing edge, and a battery cup can be locked to the battery cover by means of the locking boss, thereby preventing easy detachment of the battery cover from the battery cup to cause exposure of a rolled cell. The battery cover is applied with a strong locking force from the battery cup, greatly improving the safety of the button-type battery.
US11658363B2
A battery for an aircraft. The present embodiments further relate to an aircraft with at least one such battery. The battery may include a battery casing with a casing wall that forms an interior volume, a plurality of battery cells that is arranged in the interior volume, and a functional layer that is arranged at the casing wall between the plurality of battery cells and the battery casing. The functional layer may include an intumescent material that, in case of a breach of the battery casing, is adapted to ensuring flame containment within the interior volume and mitigation of uncontrolled heat and gas emission from the interior volume through the breach of the battery casing.
US11658357B2
A cooler for at least one electrical energy storage element, the cooler comprising at least one heat-transfer liquid circulation duct, the ends of which penetrate into manifolds. Each of the manifolds comprises a collector having at least one opening for introduction and passage of at least one duct, and a cover covering the collector in such a way as to define a volume, into which the at least one duct opens, for circulation of the heat-transfer liquid. The at least one duct and the cover are mechanically assembled with the collector. A manifold further comprises at least one seal disposed between the collector and the at least one duct, and also between the collector and the cover.
US11658356B1
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for a cloud-based computing system may include receiving data pertaining to a battery pack of a vehicle, wherein the data is measured by one or more sensors associated with the vehicle. The method may include determining, based on the data, whether a sum of a physics-based model estimated terminal voltage minus an actual voltage of the battery pack satisfies a threshold. Responsive to determining the threshold is satisfied, the method may include determining a trigger event has occurred and calibrate one or more parameters of the physics-based model, a machine learning model, or both, wherein the physics-based model outputs one or more properties pertaining to the battery pack of the vehicle, and the machine learning model uses the one or more properties to predict a remaining useful life of each cell of the battery pack.
US11658347B2
A lead-acid battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and an electrolyte solution, in which the positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode material, the negative electrode plate includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode material, the positive current collector contains Sn in an amount of 0.95% by mass or more, the negative electrode material contains a polymer compound, and the polymer compound has a peak in a range of 3.2 ppm or more and 3.8 ppm or less in a chemical shift of 1H-NMR spectrum, or the polymer compound contains a repeating structure of oxy C2-4 alkylene units.
US11658341B2
A method for manufacturing a gel-state flame-retardant electrolyte film includes the steps of: preparing a first solution having a high boiling-point solvent; adding a solid-state polymer material into the first solution, and performing a heating and stirring process to form a second solution; adding a flame-retardant electrolyte material and a flame-retardant water-absorbent material into the second solution for forming a third solution by well mixing; forming the third solution into a viscous matter; and, solidifying the viscous matter to form the gel-state flame-retardant electrolyte film. In addition, a gel-state flame-retardant electrolyte film, a gel-state electrolyte battery and a method for manufacturing the gel-state electrolyte battery are also provided.
US11658334B2
A separator including a porous substrate and a porous layer. The porous layer is disposed on a surface of the porous substrate and includes inorganic particles and a binder. The porous substrate has an absolute plastic deformation rate in a first direction ranging from about 40% to about 1800%. By using the separator provided in the present application, the safety performance of lithium ion batteries is improved.
US11658328B2
Provided is a superwide pouch type secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly including a cathode plate, an anode plate, and a separator; a pouch surrounding the electrode assembly; and electrode tabs connected to both ends of the electrode assembly and protruding outward of the pouch, wherein the electrode tabs connected to the both ends of the electrode assembly include one or more cathode tabs and anode tabs, respectively, and width of battery cell is more than 4 times longer than height of battery cell such that loading efficiency of the pouch type secondary battery into a vehicle and an energy density may be improved without increasing an internal electrode.
US11658325B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, a stack case containing the fuel cell stack, and an interruption control unit for electrically interrupting an output line of the fuel cell stack at the time of vehicle collision. The interruption control unit is arranged on an upper surface of the stack case, and a front end of the interruption control unit is positioned on the vehicle rear side as compared with a front end of the stack case.
US11658321B2
An energy management method comprises a step A of outputting, by a fuel cell apparatus provided in each of a plurality of facilities, power using fuel, a step B of managing a storage amount of the fuel stored in a storage tank shared by the plurality of facilities, and a step C of allocating the storage amount of the fuel to each of the plurality of facilities.
US11658316B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell system comprising an outer container, defining an enclosed chamber. Inside the enclosed chamber are provided: a storage vessel for storing a cryogenically liquefied working fluid, a gasification device coupled to the storage vessel, a fuel cell arrangement coupled to the gasification device, and a control unit configured to control flow between the components within the enclosed chamber. A power cable is provided which is coupled at one end to the fuel cell arrangement and extending through an exterior wall of the outer chamber such that a second end of the cable extends outside the chamber. The enclosed chamber is substantially sealed such that in use, leaking of the working fluid is substantially prevented.
US11658313B2
A separator assembly for a fuel cell includes: a first separator having a protruding bead seal providing a seal; a second separator joined to the first separator to be integrated therewith and having an arched bulge protruding in the same direction as the bead seal at a location corresponding to a location where the bead seal is formed; a gasket provided on a concave surface of the bulge of the second separator at the location where the bulge is formed, the concave surface being opposite to a convex surface of the bulge; and a sealing agent applied to a convex surface of the bead seal of the first separator at the location where the bead seal is formed.
US11658309B2
A fuel cell is an ammonia fuel cell using an ammonia-containing fuel. A catalyst used for an anode of the fuel cell is a ruthenium complex having two first ligands and one second ligand, and the first ligand is pyridine or a condensed cyclic pyridine compound with or without a substituent, and the second ligand is 2,2′-bipyridyl-6,6′-dicarboxylic acid with or without a substituent on a pyridine ring.
US11658308B2
An innovative fuel cell system with membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) includes a polymer electrolyte membrane, a gas diffusion layer (GDL) made of porous metal foam, and a catalyst layer. A fuel cell has a metal foam layer that improves efficiency and lifetime of the conventional gas diffusion layer, which consists of both gas diffusion barrier (GDB) and microporous layer (MPL). This metal foam GDL enables consistent maintenance of the suitable structure and even distribution of pores during the operation. Due to the combination of mechanical and physical properties of metallic foam, the fuel cell is not deformed by external physical strain. Among many other processing methods of open-cell metal foams, ice-templating provides a cheap, easy processing route suitable for mass production. Furthermore, it provides well-aligned and long channel pores, which improve gas and water flow during the operation of the fuel cell.
US11658295B2
This cathode active material for a secondary battery using a non-aqueous electrolyte includes nickel-rich lithium transition-metal oxide, exhibits a hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) peak of 1,560 to 1,565 eV in binding energy from an Al-rich layer, using a photon energy of 6 KeV, and with respect to the mean particle diameter r of the lithium transition-metal oxide particle, the Al concentration is approximately constant within 0.35r of the center.
US11658292B2
A silicon-based anode material, a preparation method thereof and a lithium ion battery are provided. The preparation method of the silicon-based anode material includes: passing a silicon substrate material through a vapor deposition gas to coat the surface of the silicon substrate material with a carbon deposition layer, the vapor deposition gas includes a first carbon source gas and a second carbon source gas, the volume percentage of the first carbon source gas and the second carbon source gas in the vapor deposition gas increases or decreases at different reaction stages for forming the carbon deposition layer. The side of the carbon deposited layer close to the silicon base material is more or less dense than the other side of the carbon deposited layer. The coating layer on the surface of the silicon-based anode material has a continuously changing junction, thereby greatly improving the cycling stability of the material.
US11658290B2
Lithium metal secondary battery containing a conducting polymer network-based anode-protecting layer
Provided is a lithium metal secondary battery comprising a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte-separator assembly disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises: (a) an anode active material layer containing a layer of lithium or lithium alloy optionally supported by an anode current collector; and (b) an anode-protecting layer in physical contact with the anode active material layer and in ionic contact with the electrolyte-separator assembly, having a thickness from 10 nm to 500 μm and comprising an electrically and ionically conducting network of cross-linked conjugated polymer chains having a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 to 5×10−2 S/cm and an electron conductivity from 10−8 to 103 S/cm.
US11658284B2
A method of producing metallic sodium powders. The method includes immersing one or more solid pieces of sodium metal in an organic liquid containing a hydrocarbon oil. The solid piece (s) of sodium metal immersed in the hydrocarbon oil is (are) then subjected to ultrasonic irradiation, wherein the solid piece of sodium metal is fragmented to form sodium powder, resulting in a dispersion of the sodium powder in the organic liquid. The dispersed sodium powder is then separated from the organic liquid, resulting in metallic sodium powder. A method of presodiation of an anode in an electrochemical cell. The method includes adding sodium metal powders to the surface of the anode either as a dry powder or as a suspension of the sodium particles in an organic liquid. An anode in an electrochemical cell containing metallic sodium particles. An electrochemical cell comprising a presodiated anode.
US11658282B2
A composition for forming an active material layer, including a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, an active material, a conductive auxiliary agent including a carbonaceous material, and a dispersion medium, in which the dispersion medium includes at least one ketone compound dispersion medium in which two aliphatic groups each having 4 or more carbon atoms are bonded to a carbonyl group; a method for manufacturing the composition for forming an active material layer; a method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte-containing sheet; and a method for manufacturing an all-solid state secondary battery.
US11658281B2
A battery comprising a high capacity electrode construction may include layering of the electrode and/or low active material loading.
US11658277B2
A method for producing an optoelectronic component and an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing a semiconductor chip having an active region for radiation emission, applying a seed layer on the semiconductor chip, wherein the seed layer includes a first metal and a second metal being different from the first metal, and wherein the second metal is less noble than the first metal, applying a structured photoresist layer directly to the seed layer, applying a solder layer at least to regions of the seed layer which are not covered by the photoresist layer and wherein a proportion of the second metal in the seed layer is between 0.5 wt % and 10 wt %.
US11658266B2
Lighting module disclosed in an embodiment of the invention, a substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate; a first reflective layer disposed on the substrate; a resin layer disposed on the first reflective layer and the light emitting device; and a second reflective layer disposed on the resin layer, wherein the resin layer is a front side surface on which light generated from the plurality of light emitting devices is emitted, a rear side surface facing the front side surface, and first and second side surfaces connecting the front side surface and the rear side surface with each other. A distance between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer is smaller than a distance between the front side surface and the rear side surface of the resin layer, and the front side surface of the resin layer has a plurality of convex portions convex toward the front side surface from the light emitting device and a plurality of concave portions recessed in a direction of the rear side surface.
US11658265B2
In an embodiment a light emitting diode includes an n-type n-layer, a p-type p-layer and an intermediate active zone configured to generate ultraviolet radiation, a p-type semiconductor contact layer having a varying thickness and a plurality of thickness maxima directly located on the p-layer and an ohmic-conductive electrode layer directly located on the semiconductor contact layer, wherein the n-layer and the active zone are each of AlGaN and the p-layer is of AlGaN or InGaN, wherein the semiconductor contact layer is a highly doped GaN layer, and wherein the thickness maxima have an area concentration of at least 104 cm−2.
US11658263B2
A method of fabricating a light emitting device includes (i) determining whether each measurement location is defective or not based on a measurement result of the emission wavelength of each location, (ii) forming a test stacked structure by combining one of the first wafers, one of the second wafers, and one of the third wafers in a set of wafers, and (iii) calculating a combination yield of the test stacked structure based on a count of defective measurement locations that overlap in the test stacked structure.
US11658258B2
The present disclosure relates to a method that includes depositing a spalling layer onto a surface that includes a substrate, depositing a device comprising a III-V material onto the spalling layer, resulting in the forming of a stack, and dividing the stack substantially at a plane positioned within the spalling layer to form a first portion that includes the substrate and a second portion that includes the PV device, where the spalling layer includes a first layer configured to provide a compressive stress and a second layer configured to provide a tensile stress, the first layer and the second layer form an interface, the dividing occurs as result of the interface, and the compressive stress and the tensile stress are strain-balanced so that a total strain within the spalling layer is approximately zero.
US11658255B1
A metamorphic multijunction solar cell having a growth semiconductor substrate with a top surface having a doping in the range of 1x1018 to 1x1020 charge carriers/cm3; a window layer for a top (light facing) subcell formed directly on the top surface of the growth substrate; a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell directly on the window layer; a surrogate substrate on the top surface of the sequence of layers of semiconductor material, wherein a portion of the semiconductor substrate is removed so that only the high doped surface portion of the substrate, having a thickness in the range of 0.5 μm to 10 μm, remains.
