US11771498B2
A method of calculating leg length discrepancy of a patient including: receiving patient bone data associated with a lower body of the patient; identifying anatomical landmarks in the patient bone data; orienting a first proximal landmark and a second proximal landmark relative to each other and an origin in a coordinate system; aligning a first axis associated with a first femur and a second axis associated with a second femur with a longitudinal axis extending in a distal-proximal direction, wherein the first and second distal landmarks are adjusted according to the alignment of the first and second axes; calculating a distance between the first and second distal landmarks in the distal-proximal direction along the longitudinal axis; and displaying at least one of the distance or a portion of the patient bone data on a display screen.
US11771495B2
In one embodiment, a catheter apparatus is configured to be inserted into a body part of a living subject, and including an elongated deflectable element including a distal end, an expandable basket assembly disposed at the distal end and comprising a plurality of splines and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the splines, an irrigation channel disposed in the elongated deflectable element, and an inflatable balloon disposed in the expandable basket assembly and including a plurality of irrigation holes in fluid connection with the irrigation channel.
US11771487B2
A surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector comprising an ultrasonic blade and a clamp arm. The clamp arm is movable relative to the ultrasonic blade to transition the end effector between an open configuration and a closed configuration to clamp tissue between the ultrasonic blade and the clamp arm. The surgical instrument further comprises a transducer configured to generate an ultrasonic energy output and a waveguide configured to transmit the ultrasonic energy output to the ultrasonic blade. The surgical instrument further comprises a control circuit configured to monitor a parameter of the surgical instrument, wherein crossing an upper predetermined threshold of the parameter causes the control circuit to effect a first electromechanical system, and wherein crossing a lower predetermined threshold of the parameter causes the control circuit to effect a second electromechanical system different than the first electromechanically system.
US11771480B2
Systems for treating bone fractures are disclosed. Exemplary systems may include a backpack and one or more bone plates for engaging bone members. The backpack may be configured to be temporarily attached to the bone plate in order to provide trajectories for fasteners received by the bone plate. The bone plates can receive one or more screws to secure the bone plates to an underlying bone member. The one or more screws can be inserted into bone plate holes that can be considered locking or non-locking. The bone plates described herein can have particular combinations of locking and/or non-locking holes. Additional bone plate holes can be used to accept sutures, K-wire, or other instrumentation.
US11771471B2
Hydraulically expandable spinal rods and methods of use thereof are disclosed. The spinal rod may include a piston rod, a static rod, and a hydraulic pressure chamber for accepting hydraulic fluid and causing the piston rod to move in an expansion direction relative to the static rod. Upon connection of the piston and static rods to a patient's spinal column, the hydraulic spinal rod may be expanded to aid in correction of an underlying spinal deformity.
US11771467B2
A bone positioning device can include a fixation pin for attachment to a first bone and a fixation pin for attachment to a second bone. A first block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin, and a second block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin. A multi-axis joint can connect the first block and the second block, where the multi-axis joint allows the first second blocks to move with respect to each other about more than one axis.
US11771466B2
An external fixation system includes first and second fixation members having first and second pluralities of mounting holes, respectively. The first and second plurality of holes are configured to receive first and second ends of a plurality of struts, each strut having a default or initial mounting position. A simulation of the correction may be performed with the struts in the default positions, but it may be determined that the correction is not achievable. Additional simulations of the correction may be performed with the ends of the struts in different mounting positions to determine if other mounting positions of the struts allow the correction to be completed. During the correction, if one of the struts reaches a maximum length, it may be disconnected and reconnected to a different mounting hole so that, after being reconnected, the strut may be further increased in length to continue the correction.
US11771460B2
A valve component 1 of the invention comprises a main valve 2 which is located on a centre line and at least one auxiliary valve 3 which is located radially outwardly of the main valve 2. The main valve may be used for sealing engagement with a cannula. In some cases the cannula may be used for introduction of a number of robotically controlled surgical instruments generally, including a camera. The auxiliary valves 3 may be utilised to introduce another instrument through the valve component. The valve component is mounted in a manner which ensures that the valve component 1 is rotatable about a centre line through the axis of the valve component 1. This ensures that the valve component 1 can be rotated relative to a cannula inserted through the main valve 2 and consequently that the auxiliary valves 3 are rotatable relative to the cannula allowing the auxiliary valves 3 to be positioned to facilitate optimum access and manipulation for an auxiliary instrument(s) inserted through the auxiliary valve(s) 2.
US11771450B2
Described herein are methods using mechanical inverting tube apparatuses to remove clot (e.g., thrombectomy), the apparatuses including an inversion support catheter having an expandable funnel-shaped distal end, and a flexible tube that can be continuously rolled over the funnel-shaped distal end and invert into the inner lumen of the inversion support catheter.
US11771434B2
Methods and medical apparatus for deployment within an anatomical blood vessel. The medical apparatuses comprising: a first tubular wall, a second tubular wall, within the first tubular wall, and a constricting element configured to constrict a circumference of a portion of the second tubular wall; the combination of the first tubular wall, the second tubular wall and the constricting element forms a diametrical reducer.
US11771429B2
An end effector includes a cartridge assembly having a first tissue contact surface, an anvil assembly having a second tissue contact surface, and one or more tissue pockets defined in one of the first or second tissue contact surfaces. The anvil and the cartridge assemblies are moveable between an open position and a closed position to selectively clamp tissue between the first and second tissue contact surfaces. Each tissue pocket is configured to capture tissue therein while the anvil and the cartridge assemblies are disposed in the closed position. Each tissue pocket is configured to prevent the tissue from migrating away from the first and second tissue contact surfaces while the tissue is clamped between the first and second tissue contact surfaces.
US11771423B2
A powered handle assembly includes a motor assembly, a rack, a spur gear, and a manual retract mechanism. The spur gear is movable from a position engaged with the motor assembly and the rack to a positioned disengaged from the motor assembly and engaged with the rack to facilitate manual retraction of the rack.
US11771422B2
A surgical stapler is described herein which includes a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes: a rotatable drive member defining a transverse axis; a linkage operably coupled to the rotatable drive member defining a longitudinal axis; and an I-beam operably coupled to the linkage, configured to be advanced along the longitudinal axis in response to a rotational motion of the rotatable drive member.
US11771415B2
A knot pusher device for surgical port closure includes a head portion having at least one suture guide inlet and at least one suture retainer, the head portion being configured to contact a suture knot inside an incision to close a portion of a surgical port made by the incision, and a coupling member operatively connected to the head portion, the coupling member enabling releasable connection of the knot pusher device to a suturing device.
US11771414B2
A suture anchor, and a surgical filament assembly using same, capable of being fixated in a hole formed in a bone of a patient. The suture anchor preferably includes an anchor body having a distal end, a proximal end, a passage extending from the proximal end toward the distal end, at least one feature disposed on the exterior of the anchor to engage bone, and a filament knot patency element disposed within the passage and defining a channel having a sufficient minimum cross-sectional area to allow movement of a portion of a surgical filament therethrough when a removable sliding knot is formed, using the surgical filament, about the filament knot patency element. The surgical filament assembly preferably includes a first filament having a sliding knot removably positioned about the knot patency element, with a shortening limb and a tightening limb each extending from the sliding knot. The sliding knot defines an adjustable capture loop having two legs extending proximally to a bight, one leg transitioning into the shortening limb and passing through the channel of the knot patency element, the shortening limb being accessible to enable a user to shorten the capture loop. The tightening limb enables the user to tighten the sliding knot against an object extending through the capture loop to secure the object to the anchor.
US11771411B2
A medical device for treating a PFO is presented as well as a mechanism for its delivery, repositioning and/or removal. The device includes a wire or cable framework of six shape-memory cables formed into a right side having six loops that support a right side sail and a left side having six loops that support a left side sail. The right side loops and left side loops are connected together via waist members that extend between the right side and left side loops. Each cable is threaded through a through hole of a central post and pass through one of each of four types of connecting collars that establish the basic shape of the PFO device and retain the cables together to form a flexible and resilient PFO device.
US11771407B2
A probe having a contact force sensor is inserted into a cardiac chamber and an image of the blood pool is generated. A portion of the blood pool is removed from the image to retain a remaining portion of the blood pool. A determination is made that the distal segment of the probe is within the remaining portion of the blood pool, and responsively to the determination the contact force sensor is manually zeroed.
US11771402B2
Intraluminal medical devices, systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, an intraluminal medical system includes a handheld interface device in communication with an intraluminal device to be positioned within a body lumen of a patient. The intraluminal device includes a sensor configured to obtain physiology data associated with the body lumen. The handheld interface device includes a housing sized and shaped for handheld use, a controller core disposed within the housing and configured to control a plurality of sensor types respectively associated with a plurality of intraluminal devices, a computing core disposed within the housing, and a first display integrated in the housing. The controller core is operable to identify the sensor of the intraluminal device, and control the sensor to obtain the physiology data associated with the body lumen. The computing core is operable to process the physiology data using instructions associated with the identified sensor, wherein the computing core is further operable to process physiology data associated with the plurality of sensor types respectively using a plurality of modality specific instructions; and generate a graphical representation based on the physiology data. The first display is operable to display the graphical representation based on the physiology data.
US11771400B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a reference image holding unit that holds an ultrasound image acquired by fixing the position of the ultrasound probe as a reference image, a movement vector calculation unit that calculates a movement vector between two ultrasound images, a movement vector integration unit that integrates the movement vectors from the time when the reference image is held until the current time, a deformed image generation unit that generates a deformed image in which the reference image is moved and changed on the basis of an integration result, a tomographic plane determination unit that compares the deformed image with the current ultrasound image, to determine whether or not tomographic planes of the reference image and the current ultrasound image are the same as each other, and a determination result notification unit that notifies a user of a determination result.
US11771398B1
The present invention relates to an improved fetal heart rate transducer that overcomes shortcomings of prior transducers in several ways including utilizing an ultra slow-cure epoxy in combination with a piezo-electric disc bonding method to improve ultrasound transmission and reception characteristics, utilizing a slow-cure epoxy in combination with a frontend PCB bonding method to improve transducer reliability, utilizing a metal insert design in combination with molding-in techniques versus press fitting to improve the mechanical stability of the transducer, and utilizing a failsafe LVDS circuit to improve cable error detection and thus improve fetal monitor system reliability. In addition, a method of use of the present invention includes quantitively determining the integrity of each of the piezo-electric disc bonds with the plastic substrate as well as the integrity of the ultrasound field using various height water phantoms that simulate the human body.
US11771395B2
The present invention relates to positioning a medical imaging system in relation to an object. In order to provide improved positioning possibilities which facilitate the workflow during an intervention, a medical imaging apparatus (10) is provided with an image acquisition arrangement (12), which is positionable in relation to an object (16) to acquire image data (18) of the object from different directions. An output unit (14) is arranged to provide the image data. According to the invention, first movement direction indicators (22) are provided to indicate possible movement directions of the image acquisition arrangement in relation to the object. Further, a display apparatus (24), comprising a display area (26) to display image data (30) of an object provided by an image acquisition arrangement and a movement direction indication (28), may be provided, wherein the movement direction indication is configured to provide second movement direction indicators (32) in relation to the displayed image data of the object to indicate possible movement directions of the image acquisition arrangement in relation to the object. The first movement direction indicators and the second movement direction indicators are equivalent.
US11771390B2
Medical imaging systems and methods for determining contours of anatomical structures of vessels and vessel sections for representation in X-ray-based fluoroscopic images. Methods can include capturing a mask image, recording at least one filling image including a vascular tree filled with contrast agent, subtracting the mask image from the at least one filling image to produce at least one vessel image, generating a segmented vessel image by segmenting the vascular tree filled with contrast agent in the at least one vessel image and removing from the at least one segmented vessel image such vessels and vessel sections that do not meet a threshold value, wherein the threshold value represents a function of at least one predetermined structural feature, and superimposing the at least one segmented vessel image with a live X-ray image and reproduction on a display device.
US11771385B1
A surgical or exam table includes a radiolucent patient support surface; and a shelf beneath the patient support surface, wherein an X-ray panel may be supported on said shelf for X-raying a human or animal subject resting on the support surface.
US11771384B2
A system and a method are respectively for positioning an examination object and evaluation of an image with respect to a positioning of a breast of an examination object in relation to an x-ray device. In an embodiment, the system includes an x-ray device including at least one compression device to fix a breast of the examination object; at least one camera, arranged in relation to the x-ray device such that images are acquirable via the at least one camera, the images showing a current positioning of the breast of the examination object in relation to the x-ray device; and at least one display device, embodied to display the images.
US11771382B2
A computer tomograph operates by rigidly arranged x-ray tubes, which are components of emitter-detector elements, which form an emitter-detector ring opened by relocating one emitter-detector element. Each x-ray tube includes a cathode emitting electrons, and an anode arrangement having an anode. Each cathode has an orientation angle relative to the geometrical center axis of the computer tomograph. A tangential plane on the focal spot of the anode has a surface normal, which includes an anode angle with the center axis. X-ray radiation emitted from the focal spot is directed in a center radiation angle to an x-ray detector axially offset relative to the x-ray tubes. The quotient from the sum of the orientation angle, radiation angle and anode angle is between two ninths and two. Each cathode, interacting with an electrode arrangement of the x-ray tubes, produces a focal spot on one of selectable positions on the anode arrangement.
US11771378B2
Systems and methods for quantifying the duration of S1 and/or S2 heart sounds, in order to identify markers of heart failure and/or lung failure, are provided. Cardiac cycles containing S1 and S2 sound can be identified in a phonocardiogram and normalized. In order to quantify S1 and S2 sound length, the envelope of the absolute value of the signal can be obtained for each cycle. The sound waves of two components can be separated using the identified single sound wave. These features can be correlated to measures of heart failure and/or lung failure.
US11771374B2
The present invention provides methods of utilizing a cranial implant to improve a mental, physical, physiological, and/or informational condition of a person. The method generally comprises steps of 1) obtaining signals from the cranial implant of the person, 2) processing the obtained signals to produce a visually renderable image, and 3) rendering the image on an intraocular display.
US11771370B2
Systems, methods and devices are provided for performing diagnostic or therapeutic transcranial procedures using a patient-specific transcranial headset. The patient-specific headset may include a patient-specific frame that is fabricated, according to volumetric image data, to conform to an anatomical curvature of a portion of a patient's head. The patient-specific frame is configured to support a plurality of transducers in pre-selected positions and orientations, which may be spatially registered to the volumetric image data. This spatial registration may be employed to control at least a portion of the transducers to focus energy at a pre-selected tissue region.
US11771363B2
A system has a body with a base having a top surface with a receiving region to receive the bottom of a single foot. Among other things, the base may be in the form of an open or closed platform with a plurality of temperature sensors in communication with the top surface of the receiving region. The plurality of temperature sensors are within the receiving region and configured to activate after receipt of a stimulus applied to one or both the platform and the plurality of temperature sensors. A comparator is configured to form a temperature range as a function of the temperature value distribution and compare a percentage of the range size of the temperature distribution to a threshold value. An output produces ulcer information indicating the emergence of an ulcer or pre-ulcer when the percentage of the range size equals or exceeds the threshold value.
US11771350B1
Estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be improved using one or more calibration relationships that may be dependent on a characteristic of the optical sensor. For example, different calibration relationships can be used that are dependent on a spatial characteristic and/or that are dependent on a wavelength characteristic of the light emitting component(s) of the respective emitter of a channel. In some examples, a unique calibration relationship can be used for each channel. In some examples, a common calibration relationship can be used for multiple channels with shared distance and/or wavelength characteristics. Utilizing distance-dependent and/or wavelength-dependent calibration relationships can improve robustness of pulse oximetry measurements.
US11771347B2
A biological component estimation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a light detector array including a plurality of light detectors; a plurality of light sources disposed on both ends of the light detector array; and a processor configured to calculate a blood vessel alignment index, which indicates a degree of alignment of the biological component estimation apparatus with respect to blood vessels, by using an intensity of a first light that is measured by the plurality of light detectors after the first light is emitted to a user's skin from a first light source disposed on one end of the light detector array among the plurality of light sources, and an intensity of a second light that is measured by the plurality of light detectors after the second light is emitted to the user's skin from a second light source disposed on the other end of the light detector array among the plurality of light sources.
US11771346B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory, a second type spectrum measurer, and a processor. The memory stores an individualized blood sugar estimation model. The second type spectrum measurer measures second type spectrum data for a skin of a user. The processor calculates blood sugar of the user based on the measured second type spectrum data and the individualized blood sugar model. The blood sugar model is generated based on blood sugar profile data of the user calculated based on a first type spectrum-blood sugar profile relationship model and training second type spectrum data for the skin of the user.
US11771340B2
Systems and methods for detecting medically related events at a point of sale are disclosed herein. An example method of detecting droplets associated with a sneeze or cough at a point of sale includes: capturing, by an image sensor associated with a checkout workstation, one or more images; analyzing, by one or more processors, the images captured by the image sensor associated with the checkout workstation, to detect an indication that one or more droplets associated with a sneeze or cough are present upon one or more equipment associated with the checkout workstation; and triggering, by the one or more processors, a disinfection of the checkout workstation responsive to detecting the indication that the one or more droplets associated with the sneeze or cough are present upon the one or more equipment associated with the checkout workstation.
US11771332B2
Various embodiments provide an electronic device and a method, the device comprising: a capacitive sensor, a heart rate sensor including at least one light-emitting unit, a first light receiving unit, and a second light receiving unit; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: measure capacitance for a user wearing the electronic device by using the capacitive sensor; emit light by using the light-emitting unit according to the capacitance; measure a first amount of light which is said light reflected by the user's body tissue through the first light receiving unit, and a second amount of light which is said light reflected by the body tissue through the second light receiving unit; determine that the electronic device is worn by the user when at least one amount of light of the first amount of light and the second amount of light satisfies an amount of light in a specified range; and determine that the electronic device is detached from the user when the first amount of light and the second amount of light do not satisfy the amount of light in the specified range. Also, other embodiments are possible.
US11771331B2
An electronic sphygmomanometer measuring method, comprising: acquiring a barometric pressure sequence (S110); obtaining a systolic pressure/diastolic pressure on the basis of the barometric pressure sequence (S120); extracting characteristic information of the barometric pressure sequence (S130); and correcting the systolic pressure/diastolic pressure on the basis of the characteristic information (S140). The measuring method increases the precision in calculating the systolic pressure/diastolic pressure. Also disclosed accordingly are an electronic sphygmomanometric system, an electronic sphygmomanometer, and a storage medium.
US11771327B2
A system and method for human motion detection and tracking are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical sensing instrument monitors a stage. A memory is accessible to a processor and communicatively coupled to the optical sensing instrument. The system captures a depth frame from the optical sensing instrument. The depth frame may include at each image element first coordinate values including a point related to a distance from the optical sensing instrument. The depth frame is converted into a designated depth frame format, which includes at each image element second coordinate values relative to the depth frame. Probability distribution models are applied to the designated depth frame format to identify a respective plurality of body parts. The position of each of the respective plurality of body parts in the designated depth frame is calculated as is the position of each of the plurality of body parts in the depth frame.
US11771326B2
A system for capturing, storing and comparing dermatological images includes two components, namely, a handheld exam control and a patient interface. The handheld exam control includes a camera, display screen, illuminator and a position sensor. The patient interface includes a patient position template and a position sensor interface. The system captures an image sequence and the precise location of each image. Images may be compared to previous images by a clinician.
US11771325B2
A multispectral synchronized imaging system is provided. A multispectral light source of the system comprises: blue, green and red LEDs, and one or more non-visible light sources, each being independently addressable and configured to emit, in a sequence: at least visible white light, and non-visible light in one or more given non-visible frequency ranges. The system further comprises a camera and an optical filter arranged to filter light received at the camera, by: transmitting visible light from the LEDs; filter out non-visible light from the non-visible light sources; and otherwise transmit excited light emitted by a tissue sample excited by non-visible light. Images acquired by the camera are output to a display device. A control unit synchronizes acquisition of respective images at the camera for each of blue light, green light, visible white light, and excited light received at the camera, as reflected by the tissue sample.
US11771321B2
An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for generating an image(s) of an three-dimensional anatomical flow map(s) can include receiving an optical coherence tomography (“OCT”) signal(s), splitting the OCT signal(s) into a plurality of subspectra, averaging the plurality of subspectra, and generating the image(s) of the three-dimensional anatomical flow map(s) based on the averaged subspectra. The OCT signal(s) can be a swept-source OCT signal. The OCT signal(s) can be split into the subspectra based on a Hamming window. The Hamming distance window can be optimized to minimize a nearest side lobe for each of the subspectra. A position of at least one of the subspectra can be shifted prior to averaging the subspectra. The position of all but one of the subspectra can be shifted prior to averaging the subspectra.
US11771319B2
A two part patient monitoring device includes an activator module and a sensor device. The activator module includes a non-galvanic data port that creates a communication path with a non-galvanic data port on the sensor device. The activator module includes power contact pads that are each at least partially surrounded by a bias ring. A bias voltage is applied to the bias rings and a processor or circuit in the activator module monitors the voltage on the bias ring to detect a leakage current. The sensor module includes power contact pins that engage the power contact pads to transfer power from the activator module to the sensor device. Each of the contact pins are surrounded by a seal member such that the connection between the power contact pins and the power contact pads is protected from debris and/or moisture.
US11771318B2
The present invention relates to a method for supporting reading of a fundus image of a subject, and a computing device using the same. Specifically, the computing device according to the present invention acquires the fundus image of the subject, extracts attribute information from the fundus image on the basis of a machine learning model for extracting the attribute information of the fundus image, and provides the extracted attribute information to an external entity. In addition, when evaluation information on the extracted attribute information or modification information on the attribute information is acquired, the computing device according to the present invention can also update the machine learning model on the basis of the acquired evaluation information or modification information.
US11771316B2
Provided is a method for an ophthalmic examination by an ophthalmic examination system including an ophthalmic examination apparatus and an examiner-side apparatus that is connected to the ophthalmic examination apparatus by a network and is provided with an interface for input/output, the method including: a transmission step of transmitting an error signal from the ophthalmic examination apparatus to the examiner-side apparatus upon occurrence of an error in the ophthalmic examination apparatus; a selection step of, upon the examiner-side apparatus receiving the error signal, notifying an examiner of the occurrence of the error via the interface and also accepting selection input for selecting any of a plurality of predetermined handling methods of the error; a response step of the examiner-side apparatus transmitting a response signal to the ophthalmic examination apparatus on the basis of the selection input; and a notification step of, upon the ophthalmic examination apparatus receiving the response signal, notifying the examinee of guidance information on the action against the error on the basis of the response signal via an output device.
US11771312B2
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to detachable endoscope shafts assemblies including detachable endoscope shafts. In one implementation, an endoscope assembly comprises: an endoscope housing comprising a distal connector including first circuitry configured to receive one or more image signals or supply power from the endoscope housing; and a detachable endoscope shaft comprising: a distal segment configured to be inserted in a patient cavity; an attachment segment proximal to the distal segment, the attachment segment configured to be removably coupled to an instrument or adapter; and a proximal connector configured to removably and electrically couple to the distal connector, the proximal connector including second circuitry configured to electrically couple to the first circuitry.
US11771306B2
An embodiment of the present invention is an imaging system in which a camera unit and a control unit are connected by a video signal transmission line and a clock line, and the camera unit and the control unit operate in synchronization with each other by a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical synchronization signal indicating reading timing of the video signal. The camera unit includes a signal analysis circuit configured to encode information superimposed on a master clock, and encode a register control signal superimposed on the master clock using a camera clock based on timing of the horizontal synchronization signal or the vertical synchronization signal, and write an imaging condition indicated by the register control signal to a register.
US11771304B1
An endoscope in which a reusable portion is inserted nearly all the way into a hollow, pistol-grip handle of a single-use portion and the protruding part of the reusable portion and an adjacent part of the handle are covered with a flexible and resilient cap. The same cap covers the open end of the handle when the single-use portion is shipped from a manufacturing site. At a user's facility, a health professional tears the pouch, removes the cap from the handle, inserts the reusable portion, and covers the distal end of the reusable portion and an adjacent part of the handle with the same cap. Typically, a remote display connects to the endoscope wirelessly or through a cable, with a connector that fits through a hole in the cap configured to keep fluids from entering around the connector. The wireless transmission preferably uses a proprietary protocol to preserve medical data confidentiality.
US11771299B2
The present invention discloses a rotary cup washing device, comprising a flushing nozzle, a rotary impeller, a swirl outflow member, a fixed head and a water inlet pipe. The flushing nozzle, the rotary impeller, and the swirl outflow member are all provided in the fixed head. The flushing nozzle is connected to an upper part of the rotary impeller, and a lower part of the rotary impeller is correspondingly matched with the swirl outflow member, the flushing nozzle and the rotary impeller are capable for rotating relative to the fixed head under a water discharge action of the swirl outflow member. A lower part of the fixed head is connected to the water inlet pipe, and the water inlet pipe is connected to a pressure source. The present invention is capable of rotating the water to wash the cup in an omnibearing and uniform manner, and the cleaning effect is better.
US11771298B2
An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus with a cleaning reservoir having a plurality of chambers, which are selectably fillable with cleaning fluid. The chambers of the multi-chamber reservoir are fluidly interconnectable, the apparatus further comprising a fluid distribution pump and a controller for sequentially controlling a fluid flow between the chambers during an ultrasonic cleaning cycle. Such a multi-chamber reservoir has the advantage of reducing the total volume of fluid required to clean vessels in the reservoir, since the cleaning process can be performed in a staged or sequential procedure, and the cleaning and/or rinsing fluid reused in each chamber, allowing the apparatus to be more compact.
US11771287B2
A portable surface cleaning apparatus for a floor surface includes a main housing assembly adapted to be hand carried by a user, the main housing assembly carrying a fluid delivery system adapted for storing cleaning fluid and delivering the cleaning fluid to the surface to be cleaned, and a fluid recovery system adapted for removing the cleaning fluid and debris from the surface to be cleaned and storing the cleaning fluid and debris that was recovered, the main housing assembly comprising a base housing, a supply tank received on the main housing assembly, a recovery tank received on the main housing assembly separately from the supply tank.
US11771271B1
A dispensing assembly is disclosed herein. The dispensing assembly includes a housing comprising a plurality of side panels that together define a compartment; a cartridge for dispensing a paper product, the cartridge being removably received in the compartment of the housing; and an actuation subassembly being disposed in the housing, the actuation subassembly configured to advance the paper product disposed in the cartridge. In one or more embodiments, the housing and/or the cartridge of the dispensing assembly include one or more alignment elements for facilitating a correct positioning of the cartridge within the housing.
US11771268B1
A rolling medical bedside bathing tub is designed and configured to facilitate bathing for bedridden and other people with limited mobility. The bathing tub includes a bottom wall forming the bottom side of the bathing tub and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the bottom walls to define an enclosure. The bathing tub may include a backrest and an extendable seat to assist people in maintaining balance within the tub. Preferably, the bathing tub is portable. Additionally, the bathing tub may be extendable to allow for people of varying heights and sizes. A method for using the bathing tub is also provided.
US11771265B2
A reservoir assembly for a food processing system including a vacuum mechanism includes a housing having a hollow interior, an inlet pipe extending through said housing into said hollow interior, a fluid flow path from said hollow interior to the vacuum mechanism, and a valve positioned within said hollow interior, said valve being movable to control a flow of air provided to the vacuum mechanism via said fluid flow path.
US11771264B1
A multi-zone food holding bin has a continuous food supporting surface with multiple food holding zones. Each food holding zone is independently controllable so that different food temperatures may be maintained in adjacent food holding zones.
US11771260B2
An actively heated or cooled cup or mug has a body with a chamber that can receive and hold a beverage and a heating or cooling system disposed in a cavity below the chamber. The heating or cooling system has a heating or cooling element to actively heat or cool the chamber, power storage devices, and circuitry that controls the operation of the heating or cooling elements. A sensor can detect a presence of a liquid in the chamber, the circuitry configured to turn on power to the heating or cooling elements after said liquid is detected and further configured to automatically turn off power to the heating or cooling elements upon receiving a signal indicating that the liquid in the chamber has dropped below a predetermined liquid level or been depleted completely.
US11771257B2
An improved French coffee press apparatus, system, and method that utilizes a locking ring to engage with a locking base that can be removed from the carafe, along with any coffee grounds. The locking ring is connected to the pressing rod, which also includes a filter system above the locking ring. The pressing rod fits through an opening in the carafe lid, and the carafe lid secures the liquid inside the carafe. The combination of the filtering system assists in the filtering and capture of any coffee grounds into the locking base for cleaning, and the locking ring assists in the removal of the locking base.
US11771253B2
This invention relates to installation methods for a multi-component floor mat. The floor mat typically contains a textile component and a base component. Alignment and deployment of the textile component with the base component in an efficient manner is described herein.
US11771250B2
The present embodiments describe an insulated drinking vessel with a multifunction lid. In an embodiment, the drinking vessel can be configured to receive a multifunction lid. The multifunction lid may, in one embodiment, include an opening for receiving a drinking straw. In an embodiment, the multifunction lid may additionally include an opening for drinking or sipping directly through the lid. In an embodiment, the lid may include an operable cover for covering at least one of the openings in a first position and for allowing access to the fluid through the opening in a second position. In a further embodiment, the lid may include a plurality of operable covers. A first operable cover may be configured for covering the drinking straw opening in a first position and allowing insertion of a straw in a second position. The lid may also include an operable cover for covering the sipping spout in a first position and allowing drinking directly through the spout in a second position.
US11771248B2
A drinking dramatization glass includes: a glass body being a bottomed cylinder body having a curved part that curves in the horizontal direction as well as a top opening; a fixing mechanism for fixing a video display device on the glass body; and an image aspect ratio control part for changing the aspect ratio of an image on the video display device. The drinking dramatization glass is configured to compensate for a horizontal distortion of images viewed through the drink in the glass.
US11771244B2
A system for suspending articles from a surface may include, but is not limited to: a line; a first connector including: a curved portion; and a line-retention portion configured to couple to a first end of the line; a second connector including: a curved portion; and a line-retention portion configured to couple to a second end of the line.
US11771237B2
A foldable play yard is disclosed and includes a floor assembly, at least one top rail assembly and at least one corner post assembly. The at least one top rail assembly includes at least one upper beam. The at least one corner post assembly is movably coupled to the at least one upper beam. The floor assembly drives the at least one corner post assembly to drive the at least one upper beam to pivot to drive the at least one top rail assembly to be folded when the floor assembly is folded, and the floor assembly drives the at least one corner post assembly to drive the at least one upper beam to pivot to drive the at least one top rail assembly to be unfolded when the floor assembly is unfolded.
US11771236B2
The disclosure provides a support frame of a child seating device having unfolding and folding joints, bearing bases, a first stand and a second stand. The bearing base is formed on the unfolding and folding joint; the first stand is assembled with the unfolding and folding joints, the second stand is assembled with the unfolding and folding joints, and the second stand is connected pivotally to the first stand with the aid of the unfolding and folding joints. With the aid of the bearing bases, the support frame of the child seating device of the disclosure can be detached from or engaged with different child carriers, so that the support frame of the child seating device of the disclosure has multiple modes of use. In addition, the disclosure also provides a child seating device.
US11771235B2
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. A dimensionally stabilizing substrate is secured to at least some of the strings on one of the top and bottom surfaces of the strings. A scrim sheet is secured to at least some of the strings on an opposed surface of the strings to maintain the positions of the strings. The dimensionally stabilizing substrate is laterally rigid enough to maintain length and width dimensions of the coil spring assembly. However, the dimensionally stabilizing substrate is flexible enough to allow the pocketed spring assembly to be roll packed for shipping.
US11771234B2
A mattress securement device having a generally planar substrate dimensioned to have one or more aperture that is circumscribed by peripheral multi-directional edges of the planar substrate. An adhesive along one side of the planar substrate enables the mattress securement device to be releasably adhered to a foundation on which a mattress is supported. The weight of the mattress urges a portion thereof into the one or more apertures and other portions of the mattress against the multi-directional edges, both of which resist the mattress moving or sliding relative to the foundation.
US11771231B1
A multifunctional chair includes a support body, a telescopic structure, a seat body and a pedal assembly. The pedal assembly includes a fixing rod, a movable rod, an operating element and an elastic resistance element. The telescopic structure is connected with the support body, and the telescopic structure can be operated to move telescopically relative to the support body. One end of the fixing rod is fixed to the support body. The movable rod is movably connected with the fixing rod. The operating element is located at the end of the movable rod. Two ends of the elastic resistance element are respectively connected to the support body and the fixing rod. When the movable rod and the fixing rod are rotated toward the ground by pressing the operating element, the elastic resistance element can provide elastic resistance accordingly, so that the user can perform related muscle training exercises.
US11771229B2
The present invention relates to a movable chair provided with a cable protecting means, and more specifically, to a movable chair provided with a cable protecting means capable of preventing disconnection and breakage of various types of cables connected to the movable chair by restricting a moving or rotational radius of the movable chair.
US11771224B2
The invention relates to a drawer extraction guide with a corpus rail, a drawer rail, and a center rail and carriages arranged between them. It is provided that a synchronization device comprises at least a first and a second gear set with one or more synchronization wheels that are coupled with each other; that rolls a first synchronization wheel of the first gear set on one of the rails, on a component attached to the rail, on one of the carriages, or on an element attached to the carriage; that rolls a synchronization wheel of the second gear set on a further rail, on an element attached to a further rail, on a further carriage, or on an element attached to a further carriage; the synchronization device comprising a transfer member that is linearly and freely adjustable relative to the corpus rail, the center rail, the drawer rail, and the gear sets; and that one synchronization wheel of the first and the second gear set each roll on the transfer member. The invention allows for a compact configuration of a drawer extraction guide that is synchronized in its movement.
US11771223B2
A workstation assembly that can be opened when needed is disclosed. When closed, the workstation assembly can be aesthetically pleasing and can have a reduced footprint. When opened, the workstation assembly can include a deployable screen system capable of deploying an interior screen from a door section of the workstation assembly. The screen can provide a backdrop for videoconferencing, can provide improved isolation (e.g., sound isolation, visual isolation, shared airflow isolation, and the like) for an individual within the opened workstation assembly. The deployable screen system can also include an exterior screen for providing an aesthetically pleasing exterior and improved isolation while the workstation assembly is in use. The workstation assembly can also include a surround frame with openings and light sources to provide diffuse illumination to the environment surrounding the workstation assembly, which can be especially useful when natural light is unavailable.
US11771221B1
A motion controlled wall-mountable storage product including a storage product, such as a cabinet or a shelf, having a wall-mountable portion and a moveable portion operable to store goods. A series of plates lowers and raises the moveable portion for easy access to the store goods. A set of first plates is connected to the wall-mountable portion. Each of the first plates is moveable in a first direction relative to the wall-mountable portion. A set of second plates is connected to the set of first plates, and each of the second plates is moveable in a second direction relative to the set of first plates. A set of third plates connected to the set of second plates, and each of the third plates is moveable in a third direction relative to the set of second plates. The moveable portion of the storage product is connected to the set of third plates.
US11771211B2
A device for cleaning a top of a beverage can. The device includes a main-body and a cleaning-member. The cleaning-member is saturated with a cleaning composition. The cleaning composition includes an amount of sanitizer or disinfectant such as alcohol, sufficient to at least reduce, if not kill or inactivate, pathogenic matter located on the top of the beverage can.
US11771210B2
An oral care implement including an elongated body having a head portion supporting plurality of tooth cleaning elements and a handle portion defining an outer surface. A grip control component is disposed on the handle portion and includes a pair of transversely spaced apart control surfaces separated by a longitudinally extending channel. The control surfaces are elevated above the outer surface of the handle portion and positioned to engage a user's thumb. The control component is operable to tilt the head portion at an upward or downward angle relative to a vertical plane of a user's teeth when the control component is grasped between the user's thumb and forefinger for producing a proper brushing angle at the gum line.
US11771209B2
Disclosed is a workout backpack that is capable of enabling a plurality of unique exercises for weight training, resistance training, and complete cardio conditioning. Suitably, the disclosed workout backpack includes built-in weight compartments, hookups for resistance bands, or rucking.
US11771207B2
A hammock is provided and includes a bed layer and an insulation section. The insulation section is connected to a bottom surface of the bed layer using a mechanical joint and includes a plurality of baffle boxes containing insulating material.
US11771206B2
Embodiments of bag having a self-adjustable carrying strap system and methods to manufacture such a bag are generally described herein. Other embodiments that may be described and claimed include a golf bag having a self-adjustable carrying strap system.
US11771204B2
Provided are a method for manufacturing a mask pack for heavy metal adsorption comprising immersing a cellulose nonwoven fabric in an alkali solution by a cold pad batch method and then aging the cellulose nonwoven fabric at room temperature for 10 minutes to 50 minutes, and immersing the cellulose nonwoven fabric in a carboxymethylation solution by the cold pad batch method and then aging the cellulose nonwoven fabric at room temperature to 60° C. for 10 minutes to 3 hours, and a mask pack for heavy metal adsorption manufactured by the method.
US11771196B2
A wireless blow dryer includes an air duct, a handle, and an energy storage assembly. The air duct is provided with the air outlet channel. The handle comprises a connecting end connected to the air duct and a free end opposite to the connecting end; an outer surface of the free end of the handle is provided with an air inlet along a circumferential direction of the handle. The handle is provided with the air inlet channel in air communication with the air inlet and the air outlet channel. The energy storage assembly includes an energy storage module arranged in the air duct and a charging connector electrically connected with the energy storage module. The charging connector is arranged at the free end of the handle.
US11771190B1
Disclosed is a foldable mobile phone case including a card storage structure including an upper body part, a lower body part, a card storage part having a structure recessed by a predetermined depth in the same shape as a card to be stored inside the lower body part and in which a card inlet port is formed at a position in contact with the upper body part, and a hinge cover part having a structure mounted to be rotatable in one side direction by a hinge structure at a lower end of the upper body part, is mounted to surround a hinge part of the mobile phone when the mobile phone is folded, and is rotated outward by a hinge structure and opens a hinge portion of the mobile phone when the mobile phone is unfolded.
US11771173B1
Systems and methods for providing footwear that facilitate distribution of a fluid held by the footwear to a foot of a user are described. A footwear structure embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a sole including an upper layer, a bottom layer, and an intermediate layer coupled between the upper layer and the bottom layer, the sole defining a cavity through the upper layer and at least a portion of the intermediate layer; and a fluid distribution structure sized and dimensioned to fit at least partially within the cavity, the fluid distribution structure including a fluid retention portion configured to retain a fluid for release to a foot of a user when the user introduces the foot onto the sole and in contact with at least a portion of the fluid retention portion.
US11771168B2
Provided is a head band including a band main body, a supporting band, and an adjusting band, wherein the supporting band may stably support a head of a wearer by contacting and supporting the head at two or more points, and the length of the head band may be adjusted for improved wearing convenience.
US11771164B2
A method of synchronizing flashing between a plurality of marker system components mounted on a helmet includes receiving a signal from at least one global positioning satellite receiver, the signal comprising a time value. When the time value indicates illumination is needed, initiating illumination of at least one light emitting device of each the marker system components, thereby, synchronizing of the initiating of illumination to the time value for all marker system components.
US11771161B2
Provided is a headgear including first and second holding parts that respectively hold first and second cooling members. In a worn state, the first and second holding parts are respectively positioned laterally to left and right carotid arteries. The headgear includes a headgear main body to be worn on a head and a neck cover that covers a neck, the first and second holding parts are provided in the neck cover, the first holding part is a first pocket that stores the first cooling member, the second holding part is a second pocket that stores the second cooling member, and the headgear includes a coupling part that detachably couples a left end part and a right end part of the neck cover.
US11771151B2
Systems and methods for integrating and using sensor system in articles of apparel are provided. The system may include an apparel piece sized and dimensioned to be worn on a user and a sensor system integrated with the apparel piece. The sensor system may include at least one stretchable capacitive sensor positioned on the apparel piece so as to measure a biometric parameter of the user when the apparel piece is worn, an illumination system configured to provide illumination in a specified illumination area based on the measured biometric parameter of the user, and a control module to control one or more settings of the illumination system.
US11771137B2
A frequency tracking method for an ultrasonic electronic cigarette is provided. The method includes enabling start of working of an ultrasonic atomizer and selecting an oscillation frequency range of the ultrasonic atomizer as a frequency scan range according to the natural frequency characteristics of the ultrasonic atomizer. The method further includes selecting N frequency points within the frequency scan range and controlling the ultrasonic atomizer to work at the N frequency points. The method further includes finding out a maximum current value Imax and a minimum current value Imin of the ultrasonic atomizer when working at the N frequency points, and finding out a working frequency fimax corresponding to the maximum current value Imax. The method further includes controlling the ultrasonic atomizer to work at a frequency ftracking=fimax+Δf; and detecting the working current I of the ultrasonic atomizer.
US11771129B2
A compact cigarette manufacturing machine comprises a housing, a filling pipe, a loading element, a presser, and a push spoon. The housing encloses a material chamber comprising a bottom surface and an open end for receiving materials. The filling pipe is disposed on the housing to define a filling tip, and extends into a filling cavity in communication with the material chamber. The loading element is assembled with the housing and is operable to load the materials into the filling cavity through an opening of the bottom surface of the material chamber. The presser is assembled with the housing and is operable to press the materials loaded in the filling cavity. A push spoon slidably disposed inside the filling cavity is operable to deliver the materials in the filling cavity into a cigarette tube loaded on the filling tip.
US11771126B2
The present invention discloses a multi-station adaptive walnut shell pre-breaking system, comprising a feeding device and a shell pre-breaking device. The feeding device comprises a feeding box, a single-helix twister and a double-helix twister are disposed in the feeding box, the single-helix twister and the double-helix twister rotate in opposite directions, and an adjustable spring partition is disposed below the single-helix twister and the double-helix twister; the shell pre-breaking device comprises a shell pre-breaking box, a plurality of squeezing stations are provided in the shell pre-breaking box, each of the squeezing stations is provided with a shell pre-breaking assembly, the shell pre-breaking assembly comprises a falling U-shaped plate and a squeezing U-shaped plate, a first end of the falling U-shaped plate is hinged to the shell pre-breaking box, a second end of the falling U-shaped plate is pushed to move by a falling cam, the end of the squeezing U-shaped plate opposite to the first end of the falling U-shaped plate is pushed to move by a squeezing cam, the end of the squeezing U-shaped plate opposite to the second end of the falling U-shaped plate is hinged to the shell pre-breaking box, the squeezing cam is in an outer dwell state when the falling cam moves, and the falling cam is in an outer dwell state when the squeezing cam moves.
US11771125B1
The gut-brain axis, neurobiology and neurotransmission are physiologic systems with known pathways, yet they are rarely leveraged for wellness, notwithstanding extensive literature regarding healthy diets and nutrition. Gastrointestinal (GI) evolution has equipped humans with exceptional plasticity for food abundance or scarcity, while maintaining homeostasis by producing essential neurotransmitters that drive fundamental behaviors, from seeking nourishment to engaging in routine tasks of life. The advent of cheap, abundant, and highly processed foods in the last century, however, has upended the very systems that evolved for survival with a debilitating propensity for obesity in abundance—and malnourishment where access may be limited to a scarce supply of such processed foods, or none at all. In short, a better understanding and application of physiologic signaling and equilibrium is needed in cases of weight management and malnourishment. Neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, are the primary moieties that have beneficial capacity in routine tasks, consuming but not overconsumption of needed sustenance, and achieving wellness overall. Thus, this invention provides a novel delivery mechanism of micro-dosed, natural ingredients for stimulating production of a calibrated serotonin level by leveraging the gut-brain axis through organic nutrient conversion without synthetic pharmacologic compounds. Herein, specifically engineered foodstuff that converts to serotonin (or other mediators of neurobiology) is designed to facilitate weight management and may be applied to mitigate risks of malnourishment maladies such as childhood stunting by employing directed neurobiology.
US11771124B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising mannose oligosaccharide and a process for making such. The present invention further relates to a composition comprising mannose oligosaccharide for use in the treatment of a human or animal.
US11771102B2
The present invention features compositions and methods for modulation of the mucosal immune system. The compositions include foods fermented by the probiotic organism, Lactobacillus paracasei CBA L74 (International Depository Accession Number LMG P-24778). Alternatively the compositions can include L. paracasei CBA L74 and a physiologically acceptable carrier. In some embodiments, the L. paracasei CBA L74 can be non-replicating. The compositions can be administered to a subject having or at risk for gastrointestinal disorders related to immaturity of the immune system, infection or disease.
US11771092B2
The present invention is directed to the vegetative insecticidal proteins (Vips) modified to comprise heterologous bacterial carbohydrate binding modules and the methods of use thereof. Expression of modified proteins resulted in variations to activity against lepidopteran pest species of agricultural importance such as Corn earworm and Fall armyworm conveying broad spectrum insect control.
US11771084B2
Formulations comprised of pyrone and a mixture of at least one cationic surfactant, such as for preservation of personal care compositions, are disclosed. Articles comprising the formulations are further disclosed.
US11771083B2
The present disclosure relates to a flower-thinning composition, which is safe for honeybees when sprayed at a low concentration, and a flower-thinning method using the same.
US11771080B2
A ladder stand includes a ladder portion, a platform on the ladder portion, and a plurality of support straps to hold the ladder stand against a support structure. The plurality of support straps may include upper support straps that are each connected to the ladder stand, wrap partially around the tree, and connect to each other with a connecting device, to position the tree between the ladder stand and the straps. The platform may include a blade element positioned to press against the tree when the support straps are tightened against the tree. A method of installing a ladder stand may include connecting ends of the upper support straps to each other after passing the ends around an obstruction on the tree. A user may pull on other ends of the straps to draw the straps upward along the tree until they are approximately level with the blade element.
US11771077B2
A farming machine includes one or more image sensors for capturing an image as the farming machine moves through the field. A control system accesses an image captured by the one or more sensors and identifies a distance value associated with each pixel of the image. The distance value corresponds to a distance between a point and an object that the pixel represents. The control system classifies pixels in the image as crop, plant, ground, etc. based on depth information in in the pixels. The control system generates a labelled point cloud using the labels and depth information, and identifies features about the crops, plants, ground, etc. in the point cloud. The control system generates treatment actions based on any of the depth information, visual information, point cloud, and feature values. The control system actuates a treatment mechanism based on the classified pixels.
US11771072B2
A convertible tube adapter including a top connection point, a shaft, a bottom connection point and a knob. The top connection point includes a plurality of connection contacts integrated on a first side of the top connection point, a fastener receiving surface integrated on a second side of the top connection point and an aperture incorporated between the plurality of connection contacts and the fastener receiving surface. The shaft is configured for insertion into a tube which is fixedly integrated into an object. The shaft includes a pair of bumpers located on each side, which each extends outward from a side surface of the shaft. The bottom connection point is attached to a bottom end of the shaft and includes a carve-out structure integrated into its rear surface which is configured to receive a mating pin positioned at the bottom of the tube to prevent the adapter from rotating in the tube. The adapter is configured to effectively convert the tube into a mount when the shaft is inserted into the tube by allowing an article to attach to the top connection point of the adapter.
US11771070B1
A two-tier in vitro growth apparatus and method for cultivating Oestridae larvae and maggots is provided. The growth apparatus includes a top tier container and a bottom tier container where the top tier container has a growth container residing within the volume of the top tier container. The growth container is constructed of a semipermeable material and facilitates cultivating Oestridae larvae and maggots within an interior space of the growth container.
US11771059B2
A computer-implemented method and system for tracking near-field communication (NFC)-enabled animals with a portable computing device (PCD) (i.e. mobile phone) may include providing an NFC-tag comprising memory in which the memory contains a unique identifier. The NFC-tag may be coupled to an animal and then the NFC-tag may be scanned with the PCD. A tag identification server may determine if data from the NFC-tag exists in a database and then transmits an animal production facility identifier and one or more animal records associated with data from the NFC-tag from the tag identification server if the data from the NFC-tag exists in the database. Access to a secure memory area on the portable computing device containing a complete set of animal records for an entire animal facility may be granted if the software identifier matches the animal production facility identifier received from the tag identification server.
US11771056B1
The present application discloses a feeding toy for providing food through shaking by pet, comprising a base and a granary, the base is provided with a food leakage channel, and a lower end of the food leakage channel is provided with a blocking wall, a tapered slideway is arranged at center of the base, the granary is arranged above the base, and food leakage holes are arranged on periphery of the granary, a food buffer area is arranged outside the food leakage hole, and an elastic telescopic rod is arranged at lower end of the granary, and the elastic telescopic rod is in contact with the tapered slideway on the base.
US11771050B2
A disposable kitty litter box is provided. The disposable kitty litter box includes a base portion and a plurality of layer portions each including a plurality of apertures. In an assembled configuration, the plurality of apertures of each layer portion of the plurality of layer portions are offset from each other to keep kitty litter from passing between a plurality of apertures of a top layer portion.
US11771042B2
A soybean cultivar designated 01310539 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 01310539, to the plants of soybean cultivar 01310539, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 01310539, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 01310539. 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 01310539. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 01310539, 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 01310539 with another soybean cultivar.
US11771036B2
A soybean cultivar designated 02050106 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02050106, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02050106, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02050106, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02050106. 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 02050106. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02050106, 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 02050106 with another soybean cultivar.
US11771027B2
A gardening appliance includes a grow tower rotatably mounted within a liner and defining a root chamber. A mixing tank defines a water inlet, a nutrient inlet, and a mixture outlet. An overflow protection system is operably coupled to the mixing tank and includes a wastewater reservoir, an overflow port fluidly coupled to the mixing tank, an overflow conduit providing fluid communication between the overflow port and the wastewater reservoir, and a one-way overflow valve fluidly coupled to the overflow conduit to prevent liquid flow back into the mixing tank.
US11771020B2
Processes for direct seeding of guayule seeds into a field and fields produced by the processes. According to these direct seeding processes, treated guayule seeds are mixed with a seed starting mixture to produce a planting mixture that is applied to exposed soil of a field. The applied planting mixture is then pressed or compressed which facilitates germination of the guayule seeds into seedlings.
US11771019B2
A method and apparatus are provided for vertically felling trees by taking apart the trunk in a stepwise manner combining sagittal and horizontal cross-sections. A vertical frame is attachable to a tree trunk, the vertical frame having a movable portion and a fixed portion. A first cutting device is attachable to the vertical frame and configured to cut the tree sagittally substantially along a longitudinal axis of the tree. A second cutting device is attachable to the vertical frame and configured to cut the tree horizontally from an exterior of the tree to a sagittal cut made in the tree by the first cutting device. A locking mechanism releasably locks the movable portion of the frame to the fixed portion of the frame. The apparatus uses the weight of the upper trunk to maintain stability to steadily decrease the tree height until the entire tree is removed.
US11771018B2
A blower may include: a volute case defining a suction port, a volute chamber, and a discharge port; an impeller rotatably supported within the volute chamber; a motor connected to the impeller and configured to drive the impeller; and an outer case accommodating the suction port of the volute case and the motor. The outer case may include an external suction port and define an air passage extending from the external suction port to the suction port of the volute case. When the blower is held or worn in a predetermined posture by a user, the external suction port of the outer ease may be configured to be located so as to be open vertically downward.
US11771005B2
The cutter implement may include a housing, a cutter, and a curtain. The housing has a forward end for engaging the crop material when moving in a direction of operation. The housing at least partially defines a cutting region disposed at the forward end. The cutter is coupled to the housing and can cut the crop material in the cutting region. The curtain is coupled to the forward end of the housing and is positioned forward of the cutter relative to the direction of operation for engaging and leaning the crop material upstream of the cutter. The curtain includes a stiffness control feature operable to control a vertical stiffness of the curtain to provide a variable vertical stiffness that increases with an increase in a bend angle of the curtain rearward relative to the direction of operation.
US11770998B2
A seed-sowing assembly, especially of rice, consisting of at least two single seeding units arranged in parallel and displaced longitudinally from each other, which allows a narrow separation between furrows, wherein each of said single units comprises a first pivoting support arm connected at one of its ends that supports a load regulator; and a second pivoting support arm connected to another end of the first support arm that supports at least one furrow-generating disc; at least one depth limiting wheel coupled to at least one furrow-generating disc; a seed contact wheel; and a third pivoting support arm connected to one end of the second support arm that supports two furrow-closing wheels. A seed-sowing machine comprising the seed-sowing assembly.
US11778925B2
A magnetic device includes a stacked body including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer; a first insulating layer which covers side surfaces of the stacked body; and a radiator located outside the first insulating layer with respect to the stacked body, in which a distance between the stacked body and the radiator differs depending on a position of the stacked body in a stacking direction.
US11778924B2
A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, a spin-orbit torque (SOT) induction wiring disposed over the MTJ stack, a first terminal coupled to a first end of the SOT induction wiring, a second terminal coupled to a second end of the SOT induction wiring, and a selector layer coupled to the first terminal.
US11778923B2
A magnetoresistive memory device includes a memory stack, a spin-orbit-torque (SOT) layer, and a free layer. The memory stack includes a pinned layer, a spacer layer over the pinned layer, a reference layer over the spacer layer, and a tunnel barrier layer over the reference layer. The SOT layer has a top surface substantially coplanar with a top surface of the tunnel barrier layer of the memory stack. The free layer interconnects the SOT layer and the tunnel barrier layer.
US11778916B2
A matching control method for mechanical impedance of a magnetostrictive precision transducer includes developing a three-layer neural network model corresponding to a Young's modulus of a Terfenol-D material; acquiring sample data to form a training sample set and a testing sample set; training the model using a Bayesian regularization training algorithm, and optimizing connection weights and thresholds among layers of the tested model, so as to obtain a final three-layer neural network model; based on the final model, building an inverse model of mechanical impedance of the magnetostrictive precision transducer; using a current level of impedance of a load as an input of the inverse model to obtain a bias magnetic field, and changing a level of the bias magnetic field by changing a bias current in an excitation coil of the transducer, thereby achieving adaptive matching between the mechanical impedance of the transducer and the impedance of the load.
US11778900B2
A heterocyclic compound is represented by Formula 1. An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the organic light-emitting device includes at least one of the heterocyclic compound.
US11778899B2
Provided are an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound, and a diagnostic composition including the organometallic compound. M1(L11)n11(L12)n12
US11778895B2
Provided is a compound comprising a structure of wherein the variables are defined herein.
US11778894B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting diode device (OLED) structure, in particular to a high-efficiency organic light-emitting diode device comprising a boron-containing compound. The organic light-emitting diode device prepared by the present invention comprises: an anode, a hole injection or transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron injection or transport layer, and a cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a host material and a doping material, the host material can be composed of a single material or a mixture of materials with different structures; the doping material is a boron-containing organic compound with a singlet-triplet energy gap of not more than 0.2 eV; the singlet and triplet energy levels of the host material are higher than those of the doping material, which can prevent the energy return and avoid the reduction in the light emitting efficiency of the device. Further provided is a preparation method of the organic light-emitting diode device.
US11778891B2
Disclosed is a preparation method for crosslinked nanoparticle film. The preparation method comprises: dispersing nanoparticles in a solvent and uniformly mixing same, so as to obtain a nanoparticle solution; and using the nanoparticle solution to prepare a nanoparticle thin film by means of a solution method, and introducing a gas combination to promote a crosslinking reaction, so as to obtain a crosslinked nanoparticle thin film. By introducing a gas combination during film formation of nanoparticles, the present disclosure promotes the crosslinking among particles, and thus increases the electrical coupling among particles, lowers the potential barrier of carrier transmission, and increases the carrier mobility, thereby greatly improving the electrical properties of the thin film.
US11778889B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device having a print head that includes a micronozzle array of depositors to deposit a material on a substrate. A reflective optical device may reflect a signal output by at least one optical sensor, and to reflect the signal from a surface of the substrate to the optical sensor. A processor may determine a distance between the optical sensor and the target surface of the substrate. The device may include one or more actuators coupled to the at least one print head to move the print head relative to an internal reference frame and adjust a position of the print head to the substrate. The sensor may be fixedly coupled with a mount to the internal reference frame. The print head may be configured to move independently of the optical sensor in at least one axis of linear or rotational motion.
US11778886B2
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a first display region and a second display region within the first display region, wherein the first display region includes a plurality of emitting units, and the second display region includes a plurality of electrophoretic units, the plurality of emitting units are configured to realize display, and the plurality of electrophoretic units are configured to realize switch between a display state and a transparent state.
US11778882B2
A display panel includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixel groups. The plurality of sub-pixel groups includes a first sub-pixel group and a second sub-pixel group. The first sub-pixel group includes two adjacent sub-pixels with a first interval therebetween, and the second sub-pixel group includes two adjacent sub-pixels with a second interval therebetween. The first interval is different from the second interval.
US11778874B2
An electronic device may include a display having display pixels formed in an active area of the display. The display further includes display driver circuitry for driving gate lines that are routed across the display. A hole such as a through hole, optical window, or other inactive region may be formed within the active area of the display. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal may be merged together prior to being routed around the hole to help minimize the routing line congestion around the border of the hole. Dummy circuits may be coupled to the merged segment portion to help increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. The hole may have a tapered shape to help maximize the size of the active area. The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.
US11778870B2
It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.
US11778861B2
A display device includes: a window including a front area and a side area bent from the front area, the side area having a first curvature; and a display panel including a first display area facing the front area of the window and a second display area facing the side area of the window, the first display area including first, second, and third light emission areas, the second display area including the first, second, and third light emission areas. The second display area comprises an edge display area and a corner display area disposed at an end of the edge display area, and the first light emission area, the second light emission area, and the third light emission area of the corner display area are disposed in a stair shape along a curved edge of the corner display area.
US11778858B1
An electronic device may have a display with an array of display pixels. To increase the efficiency of the display, the display may also include an array of microlenses. Each microlens may overlap and focus light from a respective pixel. Pixels for one of the colors of light may have a high aspect ratio. These pixels may be covered by two microlenses or a single cylindrical microlens. The microlens dimensions may be tuned to mitigate non-uniformities in the brightness profiles of the pixels. The microlens edges may be laterally shifted towards or away from the center of the light-emitting areas to either reduce or increase the focusing power of the microlens. The microlenses and color filter elements in each pixel may also be shifted to account for the chief ray angle of the display.
US11778854B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescent display device, including a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer formed on the organic light-emitting device and the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer and a polymer organic layer alternatingly stacked with an intermediate layer formed of a first organic monomer between the inorganic layer and the polymer organic layer, and one surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the inorganic layer through bonding sites on a surface of the inorganic layer and another surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the organic layer by polymerization.
US11778846B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
US11778844B2
A light emitting element includes: a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, a first light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode to emit a first light, a second light emitting layer between the first light emitting layer and the second electrode to emit a second light, and an intermediate layer including a host material between the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer and, wherein the intermediate layer has a thickness of from about 90 nm to 170 nm.
US11778822B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first stack, forming a sacrificial structure and a first contact passing through the first stack, forming a second stack on the first stack, forming a first hole through the second stack to expose the sacrificial structure, forming a second hole through the first stack by removing the sacrificial structure, forming a channel structure in the first and second holes, and forming a second contact passing through the second stack and coupled to the first contact.
US11778821B2
A semiconductor memory device with improved reliability and a related method are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a mold structure including a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of mold insulating films on a first substrate, a channel structure penetrating the mold structure and crossing a respective level of each of the gate electrodes, a plurality of first insulating patterns in the mold structure, the first insulating patterns including a material different from that of the mold insulating films, and a first through via in the first insulating patterns, the first through via penetrating the first substrate and the mold structure. The gate electrodes include a first word line and a second word line on the first word line. A first distance from the first word line to the first through via is different from a second distance from the second word line to the first through via.
US11778815B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a memory cell structure covered by a protective layer is formed in a memory cell area of a substrate. A mask pattern is formed. The mask pattern has an opening over a first circuit area, while the memory cell area and a second circuit area are covered by the mask pattern. The substrate in the first circuit area is recessed, while the memory cell area and the second circuit area are protected. A first field effect transistor (FET) having a first gate dielectric layer is formed in the first circuit area over the recessed substrate and a second FET having a second gate dielectric layer is formed in the second circuit area over the substrate as viewed in cross section.
US11778805B2
Disclosed are semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor memory devices may include a capacitor including first and second electrodes and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer may include a zirconium aluminum oxide layer including a first zirconium region adjacent to the first electrode, a first aluminum region, a second aluminum region adjacent to the second electrode, and a second zirconium region between the first and second aluminum regions. The first and second zirconium regions may include zirconium and oxygen and may be devoid of aluminum. The first and second aluminum regions may include aluminum and oxygen and may be devoid of zirconium. The first aluminum region and the first zirconium region may be spaced apart by a first distance, and the first aluminum region and the second zirconium region may be spaced apart by a second distance shorter than the first distance.
US11778801B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first gate structure extending in a first direction and including a first gate electrode and a first gate capping pattern, a second gate structure spaced apart from the first gate structure and extending in the first direction, and including a second gate electrode and a second gate capping pattern, an active pattern extending in a second direction, the active pattern below the second gate structure, an epitaxial pattern on one side of the second gate structure and on the active pattern, a gate contact connected to the first gate electrode, and a node contact connected to the second gate electrode and to the epitaxial pattern. An upper surface of the gate contact is at a same level as the first gate capping pattern, and an upper surface of the node contact is lower than the upper surface of the first gate capping pattern.
US11778770B1
A synchronizing and locking mechanism of a server slide rail includes a middle rail installing structure, an operating plate, an outer rail locking structure and an inner rail synchronous locking structure. The middle rail installing structure is formed on the middle rail and includes an installing part and a through hole. The operating plate is installed to the installing part and has first and second elastic plates, and the first elastic plate has a middle/outer rail locking stop point, an inner rail releasing outer rail locking hook and a pull operation part, and the second elastic plate has an inner/middle rail synchronous stop point and a jack-up part. The outer rail locking structure is installed to the outer rail and includes an outer rail locking hole. The inner rail synchronous locking structure is installed to the inner rail and includes an inner rail locking hole and a synchronous hook.
US11778760B2
The present disclosure provides a chip packaging structure including at least one chip packaging unit. The chip packaging unit includes a flexible substrate and a rigid substrate. The flexible substrate includes a first flexible substrate body, and a plurality of input pads and a plurality of output pads arranged on the first flexible substrate body, wherein the input pads and the output pads are connected in one-to-one correspondence. The rigid substrate includes a rigid substrate body and a chip arranged on the rigid substrate body, wherein the rigid substrate is bonded to a drive printed circuit board of a display device. Two opposite sides of the flexible substrate are respectively bonded to the rigid substrate and a display panel of the display device. The plurality of input pads are electrically connected to the chip, and the plurality of output pads are configured to transmit signals to the display panel.
US11778752B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board (100) includes: providing a first single-sided circuit substrate (20) including an insulating base layer (11) and a circuit layer (13); forming first conductive posts (111) electrically connected to the circuit layer (13) in the insulating base layer (11) to obtain a second single-sided circuit substrate (13); providing a first adhesive layer (40), forming second conductive posts (401); providing one second single-sided circuit substrate (30), defining a receiving groove (31) to obtain a third single-sided circuit substrate (50); providing another first single-sided circuit substrate (20), mounting an electronic component (14) on the circuit layer (13) to obtain a surface mounted circuit substrate (60); stacking the first single-sided circuit substrate (20), the first adhesive layer (40), the second single-sided circuit substrate (30), at least one of the third single-sided circuit substrate (50), and the surface mounted circuit substrate (60) in that order; pressing the intermediate body (70).
US11778749B2
To provide a mounting structure in which a connection unit is protected and a non-flexible region is small, the mounting structure includes a flexible wiring board, a non-flexible component, and a connection unit provided in a region smaller than a bottom face of the non-flexible component and connecting the flexible wiring board and the non-flexible component. The mounting structure includes a protection resin sealing the connection unit in such a way that the flexible wiring board and the non-flexible component are separable. The protection resin covers only a region where the connection unit is provided. To a face of the flexible wiring board, being on an opposite side to the connection unit, a reinforcing material is added. The reinforcing material covers a region where the connection unit is provided and being narrower than the bottom face of the non-flexible component.
US11778743B2
An expansion card having a mezzanine level communication port is disclosed herein. The mezzanine level communication port frees space on the primary substrate (e.g., printed circuit board) for any one or more of a variety of expansion card components. The expansion card includes a bracket, a first communication port, a primary substrate, and a secondary substrate. The first communication port is coupled to the bracket. The primary and secondary substrates are disposed on one side of the bracket. The secondary substrate has a termination of the first communication port.
US11778742B2
A through-hole via penetrating, in a thickness direction, through a circuit board provided with multiple wiring layers in which a conductor pattern is formed on a surface of an insulating layer, wherein the through-hole via has a first through-hole conductor that is disposed inside a hole penetrating through the circuit board and that is formed from a conductor; a second through-hole conductor that is disposed inside the hole so as to be spaced, in a circumferential direction of the hole, from the first through-hole conductor; a first land portion that connects the first through-hole conductor to the conductor pattern on one insulating layer; and a second land portion that connects the first through-hole conductor with the second through-hole conductor on another insulating layer different from the one insulating layer.
US11778740B2
An improved memory module structure includes a printed circuit board, memory units disposed on the printed circuit board, and a connection interface disposed on the printed circuit board for connection with an electronic device. The printed circuit board includes a solder pad zone having solder pads electrically connected with the memory units and the connection interface. A conduction element is combined with the solder pad zone or at least one conductor line electrically connected, in the form of bridge connection, the solder pads, in order to have the solder pads electrically connected. A memory module modification method is also provided, including removing a register from an existing dual inline memory module to expose a solder pad zone, and disposing of a conduction element or arranging a conductor line to have the memory units and the connection interface of electrically connected to thereby form an improved memory module structure.
US11778735B2
A circuit board includes: an electrically insulating part and an electrically conductive part; at least one semiconductor chip embedded into the electrically insulating part in a part of the circuit board; and a cooling area above and below the at least one semiconductor chip. The electrically conductive part includes a first outer conductive layer on the first surface, a second outer conductive layer on the second surface, and a first inner conductive layer which is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. The first inner conductive layer is electrically insulated from the first outer conductive layer and from the second outer conductive layer by the electrically insulating part in the cooling area, or is electrically connected to the first outer conductive layer outside the cooling area.
US11778729B2
A temperature rise due to thermal interference between electronic components is suppressed. Electronic components (11a, 11b) are adjacently mounted on a circuit board (12). The circuit board (12) is fixed to a base (13). A rectangular convex portion (21) is provided on the base (13). The rectangular convex portion (21) is disposed so as to be located below the electronic components (11a, 11b) when the circuit board (12) is assembled to a housing (10). The rectangular convex portion (21) includes N concave portions (21a). The concave portions (21a) are arranged on a surface (21b) facing the region between the electronic components (11a, 11b).
US11778726B2
A heat dissipation structure and an electronic apparatus having the heat dissipation structure are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a high thermal-resisting housing, a thermal pad and a metal bracket. Heat is transferred between the thermal pad and an electronic component mounted on the printed circuit board. The high thermal-resisting housing defines an inner space for accommodating the printed circuit board. A columnar space is formed in the high thermal-resisting housing, and a metal layer is arranged outside the columnar space. The thermal conductivity of the high thermal-resisting housing is not greater than 1 W/m·K. The metal bracket and the printed circuit board are disposed at two opposite sides of the high thermal-resisting housing, respectively. A fastening member penetrates through the metal bracket and is inserted into the columnar space to urge the metal bracket to be in contact with the metal layer.
US11778724B2
A first busbar includes a first electrical connection portion that is electrically connected to a main relay, a first heat transfer connection portion that is thermally connected to the insulating plate, and a first detour portion that connects the first electrical connection portion and the first heat transfer connection portion to each other. A second busbar includes a second electrical connection portion that is electrically connected to the main relay, a second heat transfer connection portion that is thermally connected to the insulating plate, and a lateral detour portion and a lower detour portion that connect the second electrical connection portion and the second heat transfer connection portion to each other.
US11778721B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generation system includes a target supply unit configured to supply a target substance to a first predetermined region, a laser system configured to output pulse laser light to be radiated to the target substance in the first predetermined region, a first sensor configured to detect an arrival timing at which the target substance has reached a second predetermined region between the target supply unit and the first predetermined region, an optical adjuster arranged on an optical path of the pulse laser light between the laser system and the first predetermined region, and a processor configured to control transmittance of the pulse laser light through the optical adjuster based on the arrival timing.
US11778714B2
A control method includes determining a first control signal of a first control unit, determining a second control signal of a second control unit, and controlling a light effect of the illumination device according to a control rule, the first control signal, and the second control signal. The first control signal is used to control an illumination device to generate a first light effect. The second control signal is used to control the illumination device to generate a second light effect.
US11778712B2
A system and method are disclosed for analyzing the effectiveness of lighting control signals that result in controlling the lighting conditions in an environment or space. The lighting conditions are changed resulting in alteration of the behavior of the people in the space, including lowering sound levels or changing mental state/behavior of the people in the space. The system analyzes information, related to the response of the people in the space, to determine the effectiveness of a control signal that is used to alter the lighting conditions. The altered lighting conditions include at least one or more of altering the intensity of the lights (dims or brightens) or wavelength of the lights (color) in the space.
US11778704B2
A control system includes a scheme generation module and a control unit communicatively coupled to the scheme generation module. The scheme generation module generates a control scheme according to an optical image of an illuminated object. Upon execution of the control scheme, the control unit controls the status of the light fixture according to the content of the control scheme, such that the status of the light fixture matches the status of the illuminated object, thereby facilitating improvement of the display effect of the illustrated object.
US11778698B2
An infrared heating device that appropriately sets positions of infrared lamps and a radiation thermometer relative to an object to be heated and is easily positioned includes: an infrared irradiator that irradiates infrared rays to an object to be heated to heat the object to be heated; a holding member that holds the infrared irradiator; a radiation thermometer that measures a temperature of a surface of the object; and a pair of laser pointers that irradiate laser beams to the surface of the object from different positions. The pair of laser pointers are disposed to cause the respective laser beams to be coincident in position with each other at one point on the surface of the object when a distance between the surface of the object and the infrared irradiator is a predetermined distance.
US11778695B2
The present invention provides a heating apparatus for heating a load. The heating apparatus comprises a heater having a heating element for receiving electrical power and for converting the electrical power into heat to heat a heating surface of the heater. The heating apparatus also comprises a temperature sensor for sensing and outputting a measurement of the temperature of the heating element, a power actuator for providing the electrical power to the heating element of the heater, a power sensor for sensing and outputting a measurement of the power provided to the heating element by the power actuator, and control circuitry for controlling the power actuator to control the power delivered by the power actuator to the heating element. The control circuitry is configured to receive the temperature measurement from the temperature sensor, receive the power measurement from the power sensor, combine the temperature measurement and the power measurement, and control the power actuator in dependence upon the combined temperature measurement and power measurement. This ensures that the temperature of the heating surface is constant throughout a period when the load is applied.
US11778686B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communications, and particularly relate to an always-on PDU session management method and device for reducing system overhead and improving user experience. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention comprise: a session management function (SMF) determining that an attribute of a PDU session is an always-on PDU session; the SMF recording the attribute of the PDU session in a session management context; and the SMF managing the PDU session according to the attribute of the PDU session recorded in the session management context.
US11778673B2
[Object] To provide a communication apparatus and a communication method which are capable of suppressing a decrease in communication efficiency in UL communication of a random access scheme. [Solution] Provided is a communication apparatus, including a communication unit configured to transmit a trigger frame including sub area information in which a sub area is specified from a resource area including wireless communication resources selectable as uplink resources and receive a response frame to the trigger frame. Provided is a communication apparatus, including a communication unit configured to receive a trigger frame including sub area information in which a sub area is specified from a resource area including wireless communication resources selectable as uplink resources and transmit a response frame to the trigger frame.
US11778670B2
The disclosure provides methods and devices for confirming the resource configuration of uplink signal transmission. The method includes receiving a configuration indicating a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission occasion (RO), determining resource set(s) corresponding to one or more PRACH ROs according to the configuration, and performing uplink transmission on the determined one or more resource sets.
US11778668B2
This application provides a communication method and a device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device to a network device, a random access preamble, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) from the network device, wherein the RAR indicates a first resource, and sending, by the terminal device, downlink channel quality indication information to the network device, wherein the downlink channel quality indication information is carried in a Message 3 on the first resource, and the downlink channel quality indication information is used to indicate downlink channel quality.
US11778659B2
A method of operating a network node in a radio access network includes transmitting a control message indicating to a user equipment to perform a random access procedure, wherein the control message is transmitted utilising a beam selected from a set of beams. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11778654B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes with discontinuous reception (DRX) operations. A user equipment (UE) may use timers to maintain an ON duration in DRX. The UE may receive, via downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a feedback transmission opportunity (TxOP) for a HARQ process. The UE may activate a timer at the end of the TxOP regardless of whether the UE transmits feedback in the TxOP to ensure that the UE remains active. In some implementations, a base station may provide the UE with multiple opportunities to transmit a feedback message. The UE may reactivate a timer after each feedback TxOP for the same HARQ process or may activate the timer after the first feedback TxOP and may refrain from activating the timer after subsequent feedback TxOPs for the HARQ process.
US11778649B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for measuring, filtering, and reporting cross-link interference (CLI) in cases where not all aggressor user equipments (UEs) are transmitting signals that can be measured by a victim UE. A UE may obtain a set of CLI measurements by performing CLI measurements during a set of CLI measurement occasions. The UE may determine a first subset of the set of CLI measurements that satisfy a CLI measurement threshold and a second subset of the set of CLI measurements that do not satisfy the CLI measurement threshold. The UE may apply a filter to the first subset of the set of CLI measurements, and suppress the filter for the second subset of the set of CLI measurements, to obtain a filtered CLI measurement value. The UE may transmit the filtered CLI measurement value to a base station.
US11778646B2
A user equipment may be configured to implement full duplex transmission configuration indication (TCI) in a unified TCI framework. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive, from a base station, a plurality of TCI states, the plurality of TCI states including a full duplex TCI state corresponding to at least two channels for a first transmission link type and at least one channel for a second transmission link type. Further, the user equipment may apply the full duplex TCI state in accordance with a determined application time.
US11778644B2
A communication system is described in which machine-type communication devices having a reduced bandwidth can be allocated physical uplink control channel resources that fall within that reduced bandwidth whilst other, legacy, devices can continue to use physical uplink control channel resources that do not fall within that reduced bandwidth.
US11778640B2
A method by which a first device performs wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method includes receiving, from a second device, first sidelink control information (SCI) including scheduling information about a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), the first SCI including information related to priority, information related to frequency resource allocation, information related to time resource allocation, information related to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern, and information related to a modulation and coding scheme (MCS); receiving, from the second device, assistance information including information related to first resources and information related to a service type through the PSSCH; generating a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU); selecting a sidelink (SL) resource from among the first resources based on the MAC PDU being related to the service type; and transmitting the MAC PDU based on the SL resource.
US11778639B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus of broadcast gateway signaling for channel bonding. The apparatus for broadcast gateway signaling includes an input formatting unit configured to generate baseband packets corresponding to channel bonding; and a stream partitioner configured to allocate the baseband packets to two or more RF channels of the channel bonding for generating an outer tunnel data stream, the outer tunnel data stream generated in different ways according to a plurality of operation modes for the channel bonding.
US11778638B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.
US11778632B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to embodiments, a method performed by a distributed unit (DU), the method comprises generating a control plane (C-plane) message for multiple ports, the C-plane message including section information and a section extension; and transmitting the C-plane message to a radio unit (RU) via a specific port of the multiple ports. The section information includes information on a beam identifier (ID). The section extension includes beam group type information for indicating a type of beam grouping, and port information for indicating a total number of one or more extended antenna-carrier (eAxC) ports indicated by the section extension.
US11778629B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a source user equipment (UE) and a relay UE may participate in a decode and forward relaying procedure to provide greater uplink coverage to a base station. As part of the decode and forward relaying procedure, the source UE may transmit source data to the base station and the relay UE may overhear the source data transmission, decode the source data transmission from the source UE, and forward the source data to the base station. In some cases, the base station may unsuccessfully receive the source data from the source UE and the relay UE, and may transmit a groupcast downlink control information (DCI) message to indicate a resource assignment that the source UE and the relay UE may use for retransmitting the source data or for transmitting new source data, or both.
US11778628B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information including a sidelink cancellation indication indicating a cancellation of a communication in a communication resource that has an overlap with a physical sidelink control channel. The UE may transmit on the communication resource in accordance with the sidelink cancellation indication and a rule associated with the overlap with the physical sidelink control channel. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11778624B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives higher layer signaling that indicates a periodic time period in which uplink transmission is not performed and a processor that monitors downlink control information for scheduling system information in the time period. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are disclosed.
US11778621B2
Example uplink control information transmission methods and apparatus are provided. One example method includes receiving first indication information, where the first indication information includes a parameter β and a parameter α. First information is determined based on the first indication information. A quantity of resources for sending uplink control information (UCI) is determined based on first information. The first information includes scheduling information, a ratio of a quantity of bits of the UCI to a quantity of bits of data, a first preset parameter, the parameter β, a quantity of available resources of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and the parameter α. The parameter β is an offset of the UCI. The parameter α is configured by higher layer signaling and the parameter α is less than 1. The UCI is sent to a network device based on the determined quantity of resources for sending the UCI.
US11778617B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink grant that schedules uplink shared channel transmissions of a first length. The UE may then determine the actual lengths of the transmissions, which may differ from each other and the scheduled length (e.g., due to conditions of the communication environment, such as the location of slot boundaries). The UE may also identify uplink control information to be multiplexed on the uplink shared channel (e.g., when the scheduled transmission overlaps with a control channel or based on an uplink grant for the uplink control information). The UE may multiplex the uplink control information on the uplink shared channel so as to maintain the same rate-matching scheme and the same coding scheme for each of the transmissions, and transmit the uplink control information in at least one of the transmissions.
US11778615B2
A method and device for transmitting a scheduling request, the method includes: transmitting a scheduling request to a network device via a random access procedure when a maximum counter value of a scheduling request configuration is reached; information on the scheduling request configuration is transmitted to the network device during the random access procedure. Therefore, the network device can know which SR configuration that the terminal device would like to reconfigure upon reception of the RACH message; and only one or more resources corresponding to the SR configuration may be released, such that service interruption for other LCGs/LCHs may not happen.
US11778609B2
Aspects described herein relate to beam sweep based semi-persistent signaling (SPS) or configured grant (CG) activation. In one aspect, a network entity may determine a beam sweep pattern for at least one of a SPS based downlink periodic transmission, an uplink control transmission for the SPS based downlink periodic transmission, or a CG based uplink periodic transmission. The network entity may further transmit an indication including the beam sweep pattern to a user equipment (UE). In another aspect, a UE may receive a beam sweep pattern for at least one of a SPS based downlink periodic transmission, an uplink control transmission for the SPS based downlink periodic transmission, or a CG based uplink periodic transmission from a network entity.
US11778591B2
This application discloses a method for selecting a plurality of carriers and a related device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, first configuration information, where the first configuration information includes at least one piece of first carrier information and corresponding first channel congestion parameter information; obtaining first data; selecting at least one direct link transmission carrier for the first data according to the first carrier information and in a priority sequence based on the first channel congestion parameter information; and sending the first data on the direct link transmission carrier.
US11778589B2
A first UE in a UE group may determine that a sidelink channel is available for data transmission and transmit SCI reserving a COT on the sidelink channel. A second may receive, from the first UE, the SCI reserving the COT on the sidelink channel and transmitting the sidelink transmission on the sidelink channel using one or more resources of the inter-group sharable resources. The COT may include a first set of resources reserved for the first UE, an intra-group sharable resources capable of being shared by the UE group, and an inter-group sharable resources capable of being shared by the second UE outside of the UE group. The second UE may perform the CAT 1 or CAT 2 LBT procedure to contend for the inter-group sharable resources. The access to the inter-group sharable resources may be limited.
US11778588B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining shared resources associated with one or more user equipments (UEs) for sidelink communications, including control resources and data resources. A first UE may transmit a sidelink request to reserve a subset of data resources to a second UE, and may monitor for one or more sidelink responses indicating a positive sidelink response to the sidelink request, a negative sidelink response to the sidelink request, or both. The second UE may transmit a positive sidelink response if it is available for a data transmission. A third UE may transmit a negative sidelink response if it objects to the data transmission. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring for the one or more sidelink responses, whether to transmit a sidelink confirmation indicating a reservation of the subset of the data resources to the second UE.
US11778584B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for parameter update for range-based positioning. An apparatus of a station (STA) for parameter update for range-based positioning, the apparatus including processing circuitry configured to perform a distance estimating method with access points (APs) to determine distance estimates between the APs and the STA, the distant estimating method including parameters, and configured to determine a location of the STA based on the distance estimates between the APs and the STAs and locations of the APs. The processing circuitry further configured to: update the parameters by subtracting from a parameter of the parameters a learning rate times a derivative of a cost function with respect to the parameter, where the cost function is based on the determined location of the STA, the locations of the APs, and the distance estimates between the APs and the STA.
US11778579B2
The present disclosure concerns a method of estimation and correction, at the level of a base station, of a frequency drift (ΔF1, ΔFi, ΔFN) between signals transmitted by a plurality of antenna systems (306_1, 306_i, 306_N) spatially distributed around a computing unit of the base station (304) and signals received by a radio device (310).
US11778572B2
A method of wireless communications by a transmitting sidelink user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a sidelink synchronization signal (SL-SS) within a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB). The SL-SS has an SL-SS pattern with a reduced number of physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) symbols, which may be zero PSBCH symbols. The method also includes receiving transmission in accordance with the SL-SS. The SL-SS may be transmitted at a time and/or frequency different from a legacy SL-SS.
US11778567B2
Methods and systems for operation in a WLAN are provided. Methods and systems for a transmit power control (TPC) scheme are disclosed. In an embodiment, an access point (AP) may send a trigger frame to one or more stations (STAs) for synchronizing and scheduling uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmissions. The trigger frame may contain an open-loop power control index 1 and a power adjustment index 2. The one or more STAs may estimate pathloss using an indicated AP transmit power and received power to set a baseline transmit power. The one or more STAs may adjust their transmit power in the UL transmission period to be the indicated target receive power at the AP.
US11778556B2
In an aspect, a BS transmits a WUS that includes an indication of selected PCIs of a PCI group to a UE. The UE receives the WAS and monitors one or more configured DRX ON durations associated with the selected PCIs of the PCI group. In another aspect, a BS transmits a signal that includes dormancy status information for a set of selected PCIs to a UE. For each PCI in the set of selected PCIs indicated by the dormancy status information as associated with a dormant state, the UE refrains from PDCCH monitoring on a dormant BWP to which the respective PCI transitions. For each PCI in the set of selected PCIs indicated by the dormancy status information as associated with a non-dormant state, the UE performs PDCCH monitoring on a non-dormant BWP to which the respective PCI transitions.
US11778553B2
A communication apparatus that includes a transceiver capable of communicating with the first another communication apparatus operable in accordance with information of a schedule for causing another communication apparatus to operate in a communicable state and the second another communication apparatus inoperable in accordance with the information on the schedule is provided, the information being contained in a first radio signal transmitted by the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus controls, by the schedule, the transceiver so as to transmit the second radio signal for limiting transmission of a radio signal by the second other communication apparatus in at least a part of a period in which the first other communication apparatus operates in a communicable state in a case where the first radio signal is transmitted.
US11778547B2
A method of operating a node, for inter-node discovery, in a telecommunication network, the node being configured for Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) is provided. The method includes the steps of defining a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) Transmission Configuration (STC) comprising information elements related to one or more of numerology, periodicity, offset, duration, SSB index, or location in the frequency domain; and transmitting, by the node, an SSB or SSB burst set according to the information elements in the STC.
US11778543B2
Method and apparatus use a value tag in conjunction with transmission and/or processing of system information in a wireless communication network. The method includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first type system information block (SIB) from a base station (BS) apparatus. The first type SIB includes an identifier of a second type SIB and a first value tag indicating a version of the second type SIB. The method further includes the UE determining whether to request the second type SIB by comparing the first value tag with a prestored second value tag. The prestored second value tag is associated with a prestored second type SIB. The method further includes the UE transmitting to the BS apparatus a request message for the second type SIB when the prestored second value tag does not match the first value tag and receiving the second SIB from the BS apparatus.
US11778542B2
A mobile communication system according to one embodiment comprises: a base station configured to transmit discovery reference signal in an unlicensed spectrum, and a radio terminal configured to receive the discovery reference signal in the unlicensed spectrum. The base station notifies the radio terminal of timing information indicating a timing at which the discovery reference signal is to be transmitted in the unlicensed spectrum.
US11778534B2
A single platform for controller functionality for each of security, monitoring and automation, as well as providing a capacity to function as a bidirectional Internet gateway, is provided. Embodiments of the present invention provide such functionality by virtue of a configurable architecture that enables a user to adapt the system for the user's specific needs. Embodiments of the present invention further provide such functionality by providing for installation of removable, modular communication adapters for communication with a variety of devices external to the security, monitoring and automation controller.
US11778525B2
A network node and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The network node includes a storage, a processor, and a computer program stored on the storage and executable by the processor, wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, the processor implements: obtaining cell configuration information and trigger condition information; sending a configuration message to a terminal, wherein the configuration message comprises the cell configuration information and the trigger condition information.
US11778524B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a wireless terminal and base station, and corresponding methods therein, for providing a handover for a subset of bearers associated with the wireless terminal. The subset of bearers is less than a total number of bearers associated with the wireless terminal. Thus, upon the completion of the handover procedure, at least one bearer will stay connected with a source base station.
US11778520B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may start, at a default data subscription (DDS) of the UE, a timer associated with a non-Third Generation Partnership Project (non-3GPP) tunnel over a cellular network based at least in part on a DDS switching at the UE. The UE may determine, at the DDS, that the non-3GPP tunnel over the cellular network is available prior to an expiry of the timer. The UE may perform a handover of a non-3GPP tunnel over data connection to the DDS based at least in part on the DDS switching at the UE and the non-3GPP tunnel over the cellular network being available prior to the expiry of the timer. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11778515B2
A wireless communication network serves user communication devices using Internet Protocol (IP) and Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB). An IAB Mobile Termination (MT) and an IAB donor establish a wireless IAB link. The IAB MT and a Centralized Unit (CU) establish IP links over the wireless IAB link. The IP links have different QoS levels. The IAB MT exchanges data streams with the user communication devices. The data streams have different QoS requirements. The IAB MT and the CU correlate the QoS requirements of the data streams with the QoS levels of the IP links. The IAB MT and the CU exchange individual ones of the data streams over individual ones of the IP links based on the QoS correlations. The CU exchanges the data streams with a data communication network based on the QoS requirements.
US11778509B2
Enabling Ethernet Header Compression (EHC) for use with data sent within a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) control plane of a wireless communication network. In one aspect, a wireless communication device sends a signal to a wireless communication network indicating the device supports EHC for data transfer over a control plane. The device obtains a response from the wireless communication network indicating the wireless communication network supports EHC for data transfer over the control plane. The device then sends an Ethernet packet compressed using EHC to the wireless communication network over the control plane. The wireless communication device may be configured to send a request to the wireless communication network to use EHC before sending the Ethernet packet compressed using EHC. The device then sends the compressed Ethernet packet only if the request is granted. In another aspects, complementary EHC features are provided within a network component of the wireless communication network.
US11778506B2
A method for reallocating a data processing peripheral server in an MEC architecture includes: a prior step of allocating a current peripheral server to process data for a mobile device, by a management unit, selecting a new peripheral server by the management unit, and notifying peripheral server reallocation to the current peripheral server by the management unit. The selecting is preceded by receiving, by the management unit, of a message dispatched by the mobile device and including a data item representative of a quality of service measured at the level of the mobile device.
US11778505B1
Systems, methods and processing nodes are provided for prioritization of relay data packets. A processor determines one or more of a buffer status for the relay node and a load within the sector, compares the buffer status and/or the load to threshold values, and applies an updated QoS profile to the relay node when the comparisons satisfy particular criteria.
US11778501B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling a data rate in a network slice of a wireless communication system. A method for controlling a bit rate of a network slice by a session management function (SMF) device of a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a slice control policy information from a policy and charging function (PCF) device, transmitting, to a user plane function (UPF) device, a parameter for controlling each slice based on the received slice control information, and receiving, from the UPF device, a response signal for whether the transmitted parameter is acceptable.
US11778500B2
Provided by the embodiments of the present application are a signal reporting method, a terminal device, and a network device, which may improve system performance, the method comprising: a terminal device measuring N first signals to obtain a corresponding measurement result and measuring M second signals to obtain a corresponding measurement result, wherein N≥1 and M≥1; the terminal device determining a signal that needs to be reported according to the measurement result of the N first signals and the measurement result of the M second signals.
US11778499B2
A SS of a SS block of a SS burst set can be received. A measurement can be performed at least on the received SS of the SS block. A PBCH of the SS block that can include a first portion and a second portion of the PBCH can be received. The first portion can carry at least a part of minimum system information. The second portion can carry timing information. The timing information can include information including at least an indication of a SS block index of the SS block within the SS burst set. The SS block index can be determined. A measurement report that can include a measurement quantity from the measurement on the received SS of the SS block and that can include the determined SS block index can be transmitted.
US11778494B2
Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes monitoring for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in each of a plurality of monitoring occasions in a search space, wherein the PDCCHs are associated with the same downlink control information (DCI), and wherein the plurality of monitoring occasions are monitored using different beams; and decoding the PDCCHs after the monitoring.
US11778491B2
Systems and methods for measurement and reporting of average UL and DL delays and delay distributions for an NG-RAN and UPF, as well as gNB-DU DL latency, for the N3 and N9 interfaces, internal UPF delay, and between the PSA UPF and NG-RAN and between the PSA UPF and UE are described. For the UL and DL average delay and delay distributions, the measurements are split into subcounters per 5QI/QCI, S-NSSAI and/or DSCPs, with the delay distributions subcounters in bins with discrete delay ranges. The measurements aon the N3 interface delay are also differentiated between a PSA UPF and an I-UPF.
US11778485B2
A method of operating a repeater comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received communication signal, identifying a time division duplex (TDD) switching pattern based on a power change of the communication signal over time and switching an uplink operation and a downlink operation of the repeater based on the detected synchronization signal and the TDD switching pattern.
US11778484B2
A method for mobility and zone management in zone-based federated learning includes receiving, at a zone management device of multiple zone management devices, a global model from a first network device associated with the global model. Each of the multiple zone management devices is associated with a corresponding zone model of multiple zone models. The zone management device transmits the global model to mobile devices in a first zone associated with the first zone model based on a zone membership. The zone management device receives weights associated with the global model from each mobile device in the first zone. The zone management device updates the first zone model based on the received weights and the zone membership. The zone management device transmits the updated first zone model to each mobile device in the first zone.
US11778482B1
In order to facilitate communication in a shared-license-access band of frequencies, an electronic device (such as an electronic device that implements a spectrum allocation service) allocates, to a radio node in a set of radio nodes, at least a first channel and a second channel in unallocated channels in the shared-license-access band of frequencies. Note that the first channel and the second channel are noncontiguous in the shared-license-access band of frequencies. Then, the electronic device monitors for transmissions by a higher-priority user than the set of radio nodes in the shared-license-access band of frequencies. When the transmissions are detected in the first channel, the electronic device instructs the radio node to discontinue use of the first channel, where allocation of at least the second channel allows uninterrupted communication by the radio node in the shared-license-access band of frequencies.
US11778469B2
A method, performed by a first node (111), for managing data in a database (115) in a communications network (100) is described. The first node (111) operates in the communications network (100). The first node (111) receives (302) a request from a second node (112) operating in the communications network (100). The request is to modify an authorization to manage the data. The request is received as a service operation of a set of service operations provided by a service of the database (115). The first node (111) provides (303) a response to the second node (112) based on the received request, and further based on the authorization as defined by a third node (113) operating in the communications network (100). The first node (111) is a service producer of the database (115), the second node (112) is a service consumer, and the third node (113) is an initial provisioner of the authorization.
US11778464B2
Electronic systems are provided for secure actuation of a remote device such as a moveable barrier operator. The systems address the “man in the middle” problem of persons intercepting and duplicating radio frequency signals from a control device by introducing timing parameters into a bidirectional communication sequence between at least two devices.
US11778462B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclose an electronic greeting card application for creating, editing, distributing, and viewing electronic greeting cards on a portable computing device, wherein the electronic greeting card displays animations and permits users to customize the card by way of adding a message, signature, photo, and sound recording.
US11778460B2
A secure element of a mobile device receives a first authentication token, which may have an encrypted portion and a non-encrypted portion, from a network gateway device to which the mobile device is connected. The secure element determines whether the first authentication token is valid based on a sequence number included in the first authentication token. If the secure element determines that the first authentication token is valid, the secure element generates a second authentication token that indicates a result of an authentication operation performed by the secure element. The second authentication token is sent to the network gateway device. The secure element derives a pre-shared key using a key derivation function, where the pre-shared key is usable to establish a secure communication channel with the network gateway device.
US11778457B2
A device detection system is configured to determine whether a device is located within a venue. The device detection system provides user identifiers associated with a device to an anonymization server. The anonymization server provides anonymous identifiers to the device detection system corresponding to the user identifiers. A content distribution system provides content items for a campaign associated with the venue to users. The content distribution system provides user identifiers to the anonymization server and receives anonymous identifiers from the anonymization server. The content distribution system provides the anonymous identifiers to the device detection system. The device detection system compares the sets of anonymous identifiers to identify users that received a content item and subsequently visited the venue.
US11778456B2
An improved Narrowband Internet of Things device (UE) supporting resource sharing for integrated Subscriber Identity Modules (iSIM) is provided. The cost per UE is reduced by reducing the chip area and energy consumption of an integrated UICC chip therein since identical components of the modem and the iSIM are designed as shared components, whereas a hardware arbiter manages an access to THE shared components by the modem or the iSIM and prevents information leaking.
US11778455B2
A subscriber identity management method, a device, and a system. The method includes: a network device that receives a first message from a terminal device, where the first message includes a first subscriber identity number of the terminal device; the network device sends a second message to a blockchain handling function network element, where the second message includes the first subscriber identity number of the terminal device and is used to query routing information of subscriber data associated with the first subscriber identity number; and the network device receives, from the blockchain handling function network element, the routing information of the subscriber data associated with the first subscriber identity number, where the routing information is used to address the subscriber data associated with the first subscriber identity number.
US11778441B2
An apparatus for protecting a miner from injury by a machine in a mine includes an explosion-proof housing. The apparatus includes a proximity sensing portion disposed in the explosion-proof housing having a magnetic field source which produces a magnetic field that is used to sense a location of the miner relative to the machine. The apparatus includes a wireless communication portion disposed in the explosion-proof housing through which the magnetic field produced by the magnetic field source is changed remotely and wirelessly from outside the explosion-proof housing. A method for protecting a miner from injury by a machine. A system for protecting a miner from injury by a machine in a mine.
US11778440B2
In a handheld communication device capable of a plurality of wireless communication modes, a method of communication begins by receiving, at the handheld communication device, a notification of an available one of the wireless communication modes. Then, in a data communication window of the communication device, a user-indication of an active one of the available wireless communication modes is provided in accordance with the received communication mode indication. The data communication window is configured to facilitate data communication via the plurality of wireless communication modes, and facilitates the data communication via the active wireless communication mode.
US11778437B2
A method for acquiring push information can be applied to a terminal device and include: transmitting a device model of the terminal device to a server; receiving a push software development kit corresponding to the device model, and a configuration file corresponding to the push software development kit transmitted by the server; initializing the push software development kit based on the configuration file, and completing a registration with the server; and receiving, through the push software development kit, push information transmitted by the server. The terminal device can therefore acquire its corresponding push software development kit according to the device model of the terminal device through a plug-in method, thereby increase push arrival rate and improve quality of operational data.
US11778432B2
Vehicular systems/methods are disclosed that perform operations comprising: specifying a geographic area responsive to a weather condition, a time-of-day and/or an event; detecting at least one motor vehicle that is within the specified geographic area; and communicating with the at least one motor vehicle that is detected; wherein said communicating comprises: wirelessly transmitting information to the at least one motor vehicle and/or wirelessly receiving information from the at least one motor vehicle; and wherein said detecting comprises: identifying a motor vehicle by wirelessly detecting a unique code associated therewith; and/or identifying a plurality of motor vehicles by wirelessly detecting, for each motor vehicle of the plurality of motor vehicles, a respective unique code associated therewith.
US11778429B2
Disclosed are a message service provision method for providing a message service via an open chat room corresponding to link information, and a message server and a terminal for executing the message service provision method. The message service provision method comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a message server, a request for issuing link information for an open chat room via a message application; receiving, from the message server, link information generated in response to the request for issuing link information; sharing the link information according to a request for sharing inputted by a user of a host terminal; and performing chatting with a user of a guest terminal participating in the open chat room by means of the shared link information; wherein the user of the guest terminal and the user of the host terminal are users who subscribed to a message service provided via the message server.
US11778426B2
A wireless device receives parameters comprising a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) associated with a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) session; a first scrambling identity associated with the MBS session; and a second scrambling identity associated with unicast transmissions. The wireless device receives, based on the RNTI, a group common downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a transport block (TB) of the MBS session. Based on the group common DCI being received based on the RNTI, the wireless device determines a scrambling identity for the TB being equal to the first scrambling identity, and receives the TB being scrambled with a scrambling sequence initialized by the determined scrambling identity and the RNTI.
US11778425B2
Provided is a method of operating a gateway performing communication between a server and a wireless communication terminal, the method comprises receiving, by the gateway, identification information of the wireless communication terminal and sensing data related to the wireless communication terminal and controlling, by the gateway, setting of the wireless communication terminal based on identification information of the gateway and both the received identification information of the wireless communication terminal and the sensing data, wherein the identification information of the gateway comprises information about an area in which the gateway is installed.
US11778419B2
Disclosed is a location detecting method of an electronic device including determining whether the electronic device enters a first region including a first location that is a specific path and/or specific region, when the electronic device enters the first region, selecting a signal type capable of being supported by the electronic device among a signal type list of items defined as moving path data corresponding to the first location, distinguishing the first data, in which a parameter feature is present, and second data having a maintenance pattern for a moving path, among the signal type, comparing first data of the moving path data with first data of measurement data measured by the electronic device, and when the first data of the moving path data corresponds to the first data of the measurement data, comparing patterns after pre-processing both second data of the moving path data and second data of the measurement data to determine whether to enter the first location.
US11778417B2
There is a growing problem in correctional facilities in which contraband devices may be smuggled into a correctional facility. These devices are not subject to the typical monitoring and control provided by the inmate communication system provided by the correctional facility, and thus pose a significant security risk. The present disclosure provides details of a system and method that leverages the sanctioned mobile devices and the wireless infrastructure of the inmate communication system to scan for and triangulate the location of contraband devices. The mobile and wireless infrastructure devices scan for transmissions indicative of a contraband device and send alerts to each other and to a central monitoring system. The central monitoring system then leverages multiple alerts to determine a location of the contraband device using multiple triangulation techniques. The triangulation may also be performed by the mobile devices themselves.
US11778396B2
An electromechanical stimulation system for treating tinnitus comprising a proximal unit (10), configured to be placed proximate to a user's ear (1), and an input interface (50) configured to be operated by the user. The proximal unit comprises an electromechanical device (30) configured to transmit mechanical vibrations (35) with predetermined frequency (f), intensity (A) and waveform, to tissues proximate to the user's ear; a control unit (20), configured to actuate the electromechanical device in such a way that the frequency, the intensity and the waveform of the mechanical vibrations can be modified; a transceiver element (40) adapted to receive control signals (45) for the control unit. The input interface comprises a transmitter element (60) configured to transmit control signals (45) to the transceiver element; a microcontroller (70) configured to emit the control signals to generate the mechanical vibrations of the electromechanical device at a first frequency between 20 Hz and 20 kHz, and to cause a repetition of the vibrations for all the plurality of frequencies of this range; an input element (80) configured to receive from the user an instruction to start generating said vibrations at a stationary frequency corresponding to a current frequency, to stand by, to receive from the user an instruction to stop modifying the frequency of said vibrations, such that said user can notify to said microcontroller (70) a frequency value at which he/she perceives a significant decrease of tinnitus symptoms; to continue generating mechanical vibrations at this stationary frequency.
US11778389B2
A loudspeaker device includes: a magnetic circuit that includes a yoke, a magnet, and a top plate; a voice coil body; a diaphragm; and a frame that holds the yoke and the diaphragm. The frame includes a through hole that holds the yoke at a predetermined position with the yoke being inserted into the through hole. The yoke includes a protrusion portion that abuts an outer peripheral surface portion of the frame that defines the through hole, with the magnetic gap being inside the frame.
US11778381B2
A sound-producing structure includes: a hollow piece; a sound-producing piece located in a hollow cavity of the hollow piece; and a heat dissipation piece located outside the hollow cavity, a first part of the heat dissipation piece being located below the hollow piece and a second part of the heat dissipation piece being on a side wall of the hollow piece.
US11778373B2
A microphone array is configured to select an optimal pickup pattern of a microphone array including at least two microphones each associated with a predefined microphone pickup pattern. The optimal pickup pattern is selected from a list of predefined pickup patterns including the predefined microphone pickup patterns and predefined mixed pickup patterns. A method of selecting an optimal pickup pattern includes receiving microphone audio signals from the microphones to establish a plurality of microphone audio signals and mixing them in accordance with the plurality of predefined mixed pickup patterns to establish a plurality of mixed audio signals. Individual level characteristics of respective individual microphone audio signals and of respective individual mixed audio signals are determined, and an optimal pickup pattern is selected from the list of predefined pickup patterns based on the individual level characteristics.
US11778366B2
A gaze direction of a user is determined by an eye-tracking system of a head mounted device. Audio data generated by at least one microphone is captured. Gaze-guided audio is generated from the audio data based on the gaze direction of the user.
US11778356B2
A speaker unit is provided with a speaker attached to an opening of a unit housing, a wire spring extending from one side of the opening to the other side and holding the speaker, a first support section for supporting one side of the wire spring in the unit housing, and a second support section for supporting the other side of the wire spring in the unit housing, and the wire spring is formed with a curved portion that is stretchable in the extending direction from one side to the other side.
US11778345B2
Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of reducing a processing load of convolution processing in a convolutional neural network (CNN). An information processing device (1) according to the present disclosure includes a setting unit (51) and a control unit (52). The setting unit (51) sets exposure time of each of imaging pixels in an imaging unit (2), which includes a plurality of imaging pixels arrayed two-dimensionally, to exposure time corresponding to a convolution coefficient of a first layer of a CNN. The control unit (52) causes transfer of signal charges from imaging pixels, which have been exposed, to a floating diffusion (FD), thereby performing convolution processing.
US11778342B2
Image quality is to be improved in a solid-state image pickup element that performs time delay integration. A correlated double sampling circuit generates a frame in which a predetermined number of lines each including a plurality of digital signals are arranged. A TDI frame memory retains a (K−1)-th frame generated before a K-th frame. A time delay integration circuit performs time delay integration processing of adding the line having a predetermined address in the K-th frame and the line having an address at a certain distance from the predetermined address in the (K−1)-th frame.
US11778341B2
An apparatus includes a motion detection unit configured to detect a moving object in an angle of view based on an event signal indicating a location of a pixel where a luminance change occurs and time when the luminance change occurs, a shape detection unit configured to detect a shape of the moving object from frame data generated based on the event signal, and a control unit configured to change the angle of view, wherein in a case where the detected moving object is not currently detected, the shape detection unit detects the shape of the moving object by changing the angle of view by a predetermined value.
US11778339B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.
US11778338B2
An image presentation method includes obtaining a first image and a second image having same contents; size-processing the first image according to at least one of a target resolution, an aspect ratio of the first image, or an aspect ratio of the second image to generate a size-processed first image having the target resolution; generating a presenting image at least by combining the size-processed first image and the second image; and encoding the presenting image in a code stream and transmitting the encoded image to the display device that requires the preset resolution for display. The first and second images include a visible-light image and an infrared image. The presenting image has a preset resolution no less than a sum of the target resolution and a resolution of the second image. The size-processed first image and the second image are arranged in the presenting image without partially blocking each other.
US11778330B2
An image capture device may switch operation between a spherical capture mode or a non-spherical capture mode. Operation of the image capture device in the spherical capture mode includes generation of spherical visual content based on the visual content generated by multiple image sensors. Operation of the image capture device in the non-spherical capture mode includes generation of non-spherical visual content based on visual content generated by a single image sensor.
US11778314B2
An accessory apparatus switches between a first communication mode where a signal for performing flow control is transmitted via a signal line CS each time a frame of data is transmitted via a signal line DATA and a second communication mode where the signal for performing the flow control is received via the signal line CS each time a predetermined number of blocks of data is transmitted via the signal line DATA.
US11778311B2
A camera for capturing an image comprising: an image sensor configured to generate image sensor data in response to received light; a processing resource configured to process the image sensor data to obtain image data and communication data, wherein obtaining the communication data comprises performing a demodulation process in respect of at least part of the image sensor data, wherein the processing resource is further configured to transmit the communication data and the image data to at least one further processing resource.
US11778308B2
An image processing apparatus that generates, from an image data obtained through shooting, image data for display that depends on a display mode being set is disclosed. The image processing apparatus applies, in generation of the image data for display, a tone characteristic that depends on the display mode being set, to the image data. The image processing apparatus controls strength of noise reduction processing and/or sharpness processing depending on a combination of a tone characteristic applied to the image data and a display mode being set.
US11778297B1
A portable stereoscopic image capturing camera of the present invention comprises: a case including an opening; a plurality of lenses disposed in a line at a first interval within the case; and a driving module for rotating each of the lenses, wherein the driving module includes a rotating body combined with the lens to rotate the lens, and rotates each of the lenses toward a subject to form a projection intersection point.
US11778289B2
A plurality of multi-camera systems and methods for imaging faint objects are disclosed, which includes an array of cameras that, when taken alone, are incapable of imaging such objects. The systems and methods may include common field arrays, hybrid field arrays, and/or adaptive field arrays.
US11778282B2
Automatically setting a display mode of a display device, including: receiving a content selection of a content item through a user interface; sending the content selection to a content server; receiving content data from the content server; receiving settings metadata from the content server, wherein the settings metadata indicates a metadata display setting; processing the settings metadata to determine the metadata display settings, wherein the settings metadata is processed to be at least one of: stored in a memory unit of the display device; received with the content data to be processed and used to update the metadata display settings; and associated with at least one application running on the display device; setting a display mode of a display device according to the metadata display setting; and displaying the media content through the display device according to the set display mode.
US11778281B2
A session management involves registering at least one IPTV application in a registration table so that the registration table includes at least a respective identifier of the IPTV applications. The IPTV applications are invokable at a set top box and can be so-called embedded applications and/or browser-based applications. An event requiring the invocation of an IPTV application at the set top box is detected and triggers a look-up in the registration table. The registration table is thus used as source to indicate those IPTV applications that are potentially available and can be launched at the set top box. One of the registered applications is launched for the purpose of handling the detected event.
US11778279B2
Methods and systems for generating social posts for users watching media content include processing inputs provided by one or more users of a group viewing the media content. Mood of each user in the group is predicted based on context of a portion of the media content currently rendering and the inputs of the users. A social post is generated for each user based on the predicted mood of the user. The social post is forwarded for rendering as input from the user.
US11778275B2
The present technology relates to an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program, each of which makes it possible to easily switch a setting regarding playback of content. An information processing terminal according to an aspect of the present technology starts playback of content by using a default value as a setting value of a predetermined setting regarding playback, and controls the playback of the content so that, in a case where a switching operation for switching the predetermined setting is performed, the content is played back by using a setting value selected during previous playback. The present technology is applicable to a smartphone in which various applications can be installed to extend a function thereof.
US11778268B2
Example methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for generating media presentation information includes a comparator to periodically output a value indicative of whether media selected via a set-top box is presented at a media presentation location by comparing a first audio signal associated with the media to ambient audio received in the media presentation location via an audio system associated with a media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a privacy protector to facilitate operation of the comparator by periodically preventing the comparator from receiving of the ambient audio. The example apparatus also includes a metering module to record presentation of the media based on the output.
US11778266B2
Methods and systems of providing alternative targeted advertising (TAD) content are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes outputting a first TAD content during a TAD window, and receiving at least one user input requesting different TAD content during the TAD window. The method additionally includes outputting the different TAD content instead of the first TAD content during the TAD window after at least one predetermined amount of time from start of the TAD window in response to the at least one user input. In some embodiments, the method may further include re-outputting the first TAD content instead of the different TAD content during the TAD window in response to receiving user input requesting different TAD content when the predetermined amount of time associated with each of the different TAD content already has elapsed before receiving the user input.
US11778259B2
In one aspect, a playback device is provided that is configured to identify a trigger event indicating a request to associate the playback device with another playback device. Based on identifying the trigger event, the playback device is configured to create a first sound code based on a first sound specimen detected by the playback device. After identifying the trigger event, the playback device is configured to receive from the other playback device a sound object and based on receiving the sound object, identify a second sound code. The playback device is also configured to, based on the first sound code and the second sound code, determine that it and the other playback device have a spatial relationship. Based on that determination, the playback device is configured to cause it and the other playback device to be associated in accordance with the indicated request.
US11778253B2
Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that manages user subscriptions to content sources by modifying content source bundles to tailor them toward user preferences.
US11778252B2
A playback device may be communicatively connected to a network device at a demonstration location. After connecting to the network device, the playback device may receive from the network device, a message indicating media content for playback by the playback device. In response to receiving the message, the playback device may play the media content, where playing the media content comprises modifying a default configuration of a demonstration mode. After receiving the message, the playback device may be disconnected from the network device. After disconnecting from the network device, the playback device may return to the default configuration of the demonstration mode.
US11778239B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video. According to an embodiment, provided is a method of setting a level for each of one or more regions, including decoding a definition syntax element related to level definition and a designation syntax element related to target designation from a bitstream; defining one or more levels based on the definition syntax element; and setting a target level designated by the designation syntax element among the defined levels for a target region designated by the designation syntax element.
US11778231B2
Processing a 360-degree video content for video coding may include receiving the video content in a first geometry. The video content may include unaligned chroma and luma components associated with a first chroma sampling scheme. The unaligned chroma and luma components may be aligned to a sampling grid associated with a second chroma sampling scheme that has aligned chroma and luma components. A geometric conversion to the video content may be performed. The video content, that may comprise the aligned chroma and luma components, in the first geometry may be converted to a second geometry. The first geometry may be a stitched geometry, and the second geometry may be a coding geometry. The converted video content in the second geometry may include the chroma and luma components aligned to the sampling grid associated with the second chroma sampling scheme.
US11778226B2
The present disclosure relates to storage of motion information for affine mode. A video processing method is provided, including: selecting, during a current affine calculation step in a conversion between a current block and a bitstream representation of the current block, one or more parameters of a set of affine model parameters; storing the one or more parameters for the current block; and performing, based on the one or more parameters, the conversion between the current block and the bitstream representation of the current block.
US11778224B1
Techniques are described for pre-processing frames to apply a temporal filter. A P-frame may be temporally filtered based on neighboring reference frames. The temporal filter may be applied to blocks of the P-frame to improve alignment with dependent frames that are encoded based on blocks of the P-frame.
US11778217B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry can decode coding information for a plurality of blocks from a coded video bitstream. The coding information can indicate a high-level control flag for the plurality of blocks. The high-level control flag can indicate whether a plurality of coding tools is disabled for at least one of the plurality of blocks where at least one of the plurality of blocks includes a current block. The processing circuitry can determine whether the plurality of coding tools is disabled for the at least one of the plurality of blocks based on the high-level control flag. The processing circuitry can reconstruct the current block without the plurality of coding tools based on the plurality of coding tools being determined as disabled.
US11778216B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a current coded picture that is part of a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates a fractional motion vector for the current block. The processing circuitry determines whether one of a block width and a block height of the current block is below a first threshold. The processing circuitry selects one of an integer motion vector, a first interpolation filter, and a second interpolation filter for the current block when the one of the block width and the block height of the current block is determined to be below the first threshold. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the selected one of the integer motion vector, the first interpolation filter, and the second interpolation filter.
US11778214B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes a processor that is configured to decode prediction information of a current block in a current coding tree unit (CTU) from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an intra block copy mode. The processor is configured to determine a search range for the intra block copy mode based on a size of the current CTU, and determine a block vector that points to a reference block in a same picture as the current block and within the determined search range, the reference block having reconstructed samples buffered in a reference sample memory. Further, the processor is configured to reconstruct at least a sample of the current block based on the reconstructed samples of the reference block that are retrieved from the reference sample memory.
US11778206B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding that support a plurality of layers. The method for image decoding that supports a plurality of layers includes decoding information of a first layer which a picture of a second layer including a current decoding target block refers to; mapping the information of the first layer to a picture size of the second layer, configuring a reference picture list for the picture of the second layer by adding the mapped information of the first layer and generating prediction samples of the current decoding target block by predicting the current decoding target block of the second layer based on the reference picture list, and the information of the first layer includes at least one of a sample value and motion information of the first layer picture.
US11778196B2
A method for compressing video signals based on adaptive compression rate and a circuit system thereof are provided. In the method, a digital signal processor is used to process a video so as to frame-by-frame obtain statistical data, for example, a maximum of compressed data. The maximum of compressed data of a previous frame is used to determine a compression state of a current frame. The compression state of the frame allows the processor to decide a direction to adjust a compression ratio. Next, statistical data of the previous frame is used to decide a stride to adjust the compression ratio. The statistical data can be a maximum of compressed data and a quantization table scale referred to rendering a prediction curve that allows the processor to determine the stride. A compression ratio is then determined according to the direction and the stride of adjustment.
US11778195B2
An interpolation method for coded motion information available to a video coder, comprising the steps of incorporating edge information derived from coded video frames to perform an edge-sensitive interpolation of coded motion vectors (“seeds”) in order to obtain a dense motion description.
US11778178B2
An encoding method includes: changing values of luma pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a first boundary between the first block and the second block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values are within respective luma clip widths, the luma pixels in the first block and the second block being arranged along a first line across the first boundary; and changing values of chroma pixels in a third block and a fourth block to filter a second boundary between the third block and the fourth block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values are within respective chroma clip widths, the chroma pixels in the third block and the fourth block being arranged along a second line across the second boundary. The luma clip widths applied to the luma pixels are selected to be asymmetrical relative to the first boundary.
US11778177B2
A video decoder can be configured to apply a first stage adaptive loop filter (ALF) to a reconstructed sample by determining a first class index for the reconstructed sample, selecting a filter from a first set of filters based on the first class index, and applying the filter from the first set of filters to the reconstructed sample to determine a first intermediate sample value; apply a second stage ALF to the reconstructed sample by determining a second class index for the reconstructed sample; select a second filter from a second set of filters based on the second class index, applying the second filter to the reconstructed sample to determine a first sample modification value, and determining a second sample modification value based on the first intermediate sample value; and determine a filtered reconstructed sample based on the reconstructed sample and the first and second sample modification values.
US11778169B2
Disclosed herein are a method, apparatus and storage medium for image encoding/decoding using a reference picture. A picture is divided into multiple sub-pictures. The sub-pictures of the picture share a reference picture list. In order to determine sub-pictures that share the reference picture list, specific information is signaled from an encoding apparatus to a decoding apparatus. For each sub-picture that does not share a reference picture list for an additional sub-picture, a reference picture list for the sub-picture is separately configured.
US11778148B2
This disclosure relates to the use of variable-pitch light-emitting devices for display applications, including for displays in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality environments. In particular, it relates to small (e.g., micron-size) light emitting devices (e.g., micro-LEDs) of variable pitch to provide the advantages, e.g., of compactness, manufacturability, color rendition, as well as computational and power savings. Systems and methods for emitting multiple lights by multiple panels where a pitch of one panel is different than pitch(es) of other panels are disclosed. Each panel may comprise a respective array of light emitters. The multiple lights may be combined by a combiner.
US11778144B2
A monitoring system is configured to monitor a property. The monitoring system includes a property sensor that is configured to generate property sensor data that reflects an attribute of the property. The monitoring system includes a vehicle sensor that is configured to generate vehicle sensor data that reflects an attribute of a vehicle associated with the property. The monitoring system includes a monitor control unit that is configured to analyze the property sensor data and the vehicle sensor data. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on analyzing the property sensor data and the vehicle sensor data, determine that an event associated with the vehicle has likely occurred. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on determining that the event associated with the vehicle has likely occurred, determine a monitoring system action. The monitor control unit is further configured to perform the monitoring system action.
US11778134B2
The present invention relates to a fault detection circuit for detecting one or more column faults in a pixel array of an image sensor. The present invention further relates to a readout circuit for reading out a column line of an image sensor, and to an image sensor comprising the same. The fault detection circuit according to the invention comprises a signal unit for applying an electrical signal to a given column line of the pixel array, a determining unit for measuring a response to the applied electrical signal and for determining whether a fault exists for said given column line in dependence of the measured response, and a controller for controlling the signal unit and the determining unit, and for outputting a fault status for said given column line.
US11778126B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a designating unit configured to designate a color; a reading unit configured to read a document to generate a document image; a conversion unit configured to convert a color of a pixel in the document image to a specific color based on a designated color designated by the designating unit; and a specification unit configured to specify a graphic region in the document image. The conversion unit is configured not to convert a color of a pixel in the graphic region specified by the specification unit to the specific color.
US11778124B2
A computer analyzes submitted data to identify insufficient data among data necessary for executing C×F color conversion process. When spectral characteristic data of a patch constituting a C×F chart is insufficient, a computer supplements the spectral characteristic data. When complete printing order data has not been obtained, the computer supplements printing order data. The color conversion process is performed using the data after supplement.
US11778114B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: prohibit setting performed for automatic execution of a processing instruction causing a series of registered processing steps to be performed, the automatic execution being performed on data stored in a storage area, or prohibit manual execution, of the processing instruction, on the data stored in the storage area.
US11778113B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain characteristic values including smoothness and basis weight of a recording medium; and identify the type of the recording medium on the basis of the smoothness and the basis weight.
US11778108B2
An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.
US11778102B2
A system and method providing an accessibility tool that enhances a graphical user interface of an online meeting application is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method performed by an accessibility tool (128), the method includes accessing (802), in real-time, audio data of a session of an online meeting application (120), identifying (804) a target user, a speaking user, and a task based on the audio data, the speaking user indicating the task assigned to the target user in the audio data, generating (806) a message (318) that identifies the speaking user, the target user, and the task, the message (318) including textual content, and displaying (808) the message (318) in a chat pane (906) of a graphical user interface (902) of the online meeting application (120) during the session.
US11778095B2
A system and method configured to generate a simulated caller dialog including a caller intended issue for a scenario for testing a customer service representative (CSR). A simulated caller dialog is presented to the CSR and a CSR response to the simulated caller dialog is received and includes a CSR interpretation of the caller intended issue to the simulated caller dialog. An understanding determination result based on an intent determination recognition score is generated by an intent determination recognition model is generated in response to a comparison of the CSR interpretation of the caller intended issue matching the caller intended issue in the simulated caller dialog. A CSR score is generated for the scenario based on the understanding determination result. The CSR score is recorded to a database.
US11778085B2
Systems and methods are described herein for facilitating the review of messages (e.g., text messages, instant messages, chat messages, and so on) via a keyboard application of a mobile device. The message review system can facilitate a review of a message before it is sent to a recipient (e.g., a recipient of a text message or another user within a chat conversation).
US11778083B2
Methods and systems are described herein for manipulating a communication acceptance screen, manipulating an interactive communication acceptance icon, and restricting access to accounts based on voice communication parameters. In particular, when a communication is detected from one device to another device, that communication may be risky. Thus, the risk is mitigated by giving a user information about the source of the communication to give a user a chance to reject the communication. In addition, in instances where the user accepts the communication, the system enables monitoring the communication and restricting any accounts that are disclosed within the communication.
US11778080B2
An electronic device with a flexible display screen includes a first housing and a second housing enclosed to form a receiving structure with an opening. A sliding rail mechanism is connected to the second housing, and slidably provided on the first housing along a first direction. The flexible display screen has a first end connected with the sliding rail mechanism and a second end connected with the first housing to cover the opening. A driving mechanism is connected to the first housing, and connected to the sliding rail mechanism for driving the sliding rail mechanism to move. A control mechanism includes a displacement sensor for measuring displacement change of the sliding rail mechanism relative to the first housing; and a controller provided at the first housing and configured to control a first stroke amount that the sliding rail mechanism moves along the first direction according to the displacement change.
US11778072B2
A control and data transfer system for supporting different communication protocols, in which the system includes a control device that can store a plurality of different communication protocols. The control device is adapted for loading and executing at least one of the stored communication protocols. Further, a first adapter module is connectable to the control device. The first adapter module includes an identification device which enables the control device to identify the first communication protocol, and a communications interface for connecting, to the first adapter module, at least one first device that is configured for communication according to one of the stored communication protocols. The control and evaluation device is configured to use the identification device for identifying the first communication protocol when the first adapter module is connected to the control device, and to load and execute the identified first communication protocol from the storage device.
US11778071B2
Disclosed herein are related to communication systems and methods for converting between lossy communication protocol packets and lossless communication protocol packets. In one aspect, the communication system includes a server, a set top box, and an intermediate node. In some embodiments, the intermediate node is configured to receive a lossy communication protocol packet from the server, convert the lossy communication protocol packet to a lossless communication protocol packet, and transmit the converted lossless communication protocol packet to the set top box.
US11778069B2
A customer of a multi-channel message exchange system provides criteria for selecting a service provider using an application programming interface (API). The multi-channel message exchange system selects a service provider that is best suited to deliver each individual message, via a network, for the customer. The message exchange system selects a service provider based on customer criteria, service provider data structures, and other information. The criteria may include a maximum value, a minimum quality score, a maximum latency, or any suitable combination thereof. The data structures may include geographic jurisdictions in which the service provider provides network-based message delivery, channels through which the service provider is willing to deliver messages, or any suitable combination thereof.
US11778062B2
A system architecture can be used to facilitate communication among applications that are native and/or non-native to an application environment. The system architecture can include a first application environment executed on a client-side computing device. The first application environment can execute software applications that are native thereto. The first application environment can further execute software applications that are native thereto, but which software applications themselves comprise second application environments of types different from the first application environment, and which software applications can therefore execute additional software applications that are non-native to the first application environment. The first application environment can further execute a computation engine that is configured to store and execute instructions received from the first software application, the second software application, or both.
US11778055B2
Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing storage-efficient sensors. A method can include: using a discovery service to determine one or more parameters associated with a storage device via a network over a medium; transmitting data from at least one sensor to a storage device via the network over the medium; processing the data and storing at least a portion of the data at the storage device; and transmitting at least a second portion of the data via the network to at least one host.
US11778054B2
In some examples, migration context and flow graph based migration control may include ascertaining an application that is to be migrated from a physical environment to a cloud environment, and determining a migration issue associated with the migration of the application. Migration context and flow graph based migration control may further include identifying, from a historical issue database, a plurality of historical issues, determining, for the migration issue and the plurality of historical issues, unified proximities, sorting, based on the determined unified proximities, the historical issues, selecting, from the sorted historical issues, a topmost historical issue, and determining, from the topmost historical issue, a resolution associated with the topmost historical issue. Further, migration context and flow graph based migration control may include executing the resolution to resolve the migration issue, and performing, based on the resolved migration issue, migration of the application from the physical environment to the cloud environment.
US11778045B2
A communication system for a micro-frontend architecture can include a first message handler associated with a requestor of data and a second message handler associated with a requestee. The requestor can be a wrapper application or a micro-frontend, and the requestee can the other of the wrapper application or the micro-frontend. In response to receiving a data request from the requestor, the first message handler can transmit a request message via a communication channel to the second message handler, where the request message includes a unique identifier assigned to the request. Thereafter, the first message handler can receive a response message from the second message handler via the communication channel, where the response message includes the data and the unique identifier. Based on the unique identifier in the response message, the first message handler can provide the data to the requestor in a response to the request.
US11778044B2
The technology provides a session establishment method and device. The method includes sending, by an SMF entity, a PDU session establishment request message to a terminal, where the PDU session establishment request message is used to request to establish a PDU session; and receiving, by the SMF entity, a PDU session establishment response message from the terminal. A method for actively initiating a PDU session establishment procedure on a network side is provided.
US11778042B2
A system and a method for downloading an application program of an industrial electric vehicle driver are provided. The system includes a downloader, a USB/CAN bus converter and a plurality of drivers. The system is capable of implementing concurrent simultaneous downloads of driver application programs in an online multi-channel and multi-node per channel manner. The downloader and the fully automatic downloading method help to improve the quality of the products leaving the factory and maintain the consistency of the products, thereby not only greatly enhancing product production efficiency and customer satisfaction, but also greatly reducing labor intensity, with significant economic and social benefits.
US11778041B1
A user device may receive a traffic category and/or slice usage policy, and may provide a request for an application. The user device may receive the application with a traffic category and/or slice usage requirement, and may install the application on the user device. The user device may subscribe to traffic categories and/or slices, and may receive approval to utilize the traffic categories and/or slices. The user device may provide, by the application and to an operating system, a connection request for a particular traffic category and/or slice, and may determine whether the application is approved for the particular traffic category and/or slice. The device may provide, to a modem, the connection request and traffic descriptors for the particular traffic category and/or slice based on the application being approved, and may establish a protocol data unit session, for the application, utilizing the particular traffic category and/or slice.
US11778029B2
An improved system detects an environmental anomaly in a shipping container and initiates a mediation response through a generated layered alert notification. The system includes sensor-based ID nodes associated with packages within the container, and a command node mounted to the container communicating with the ID nodes and an external transceiver on a vehicle transporting the container. The command node is programmed to detect sensor data from the ID nodes; compare the sensor data to package environmental thresholds in context data related to each ID node; detect the environmental anomaly when the comparison indicates an environmental condition for at least one package exceeds its environmental threshold; responsively generate a layered alert notification identifying a mediation recipient and mediation action, and establishing a mediation response priority based upon the comparison; and transmit the layered alert notification to the transceiver unit to initiate a mediation response related to the mediation action.
US11778028B2
Implementations relate to automatic sharing of images with designated users over a communication network. In some implementations, a method includes causing display of images in a user interface on a first device, each of the images depicting a different person. The images are obtained from a library of images associated with a first user. A selection of a particular image of the images is received based on user input, and a person identifier is determined indicating a particular person depicted in the selected image. The person identifier is designated as a person sharing criterion. A first image not included in the images is obtained and programmatically analyzed to determine that the first image depicts a person that matches the person sharing criterion, and an access permission is updated to grant access to the first image to a second user of a second device over a communication network.
US11778024B2
Described are systems, methods, and media for providing secure and scalable decentralized computation for one or more decentralized applications. Features include a blockchain, and a plurality of nodes that are separated into at least a first specialized node type and a second specialized node type. Nodes of the first specialized node type can be assigned non-deterministic tasks to perform, and each of the nodes of the second specialized node type can be assigned deterministic tasks to perform. Thus, the disclosed systems and methods can achieve improvements in speed and cost that scale with hardware capacity without compromising decentralization.
US11778014B2
Streaming content protocols typically provide playlists, a file that lists the location of each segment of a content stream. The playlist may change as the content server adds content to the content stream or because the length of the content stream continues to grow. Client devices periodically fetch the playlist, and are unaware whether the playlist has changed, and thus may needlessly use bandwidth repeatedly fetching the same playlist. Throttling content download o provides systems and methods for controlling the download of streaming content-related data according to the current status of the playlist and possibly also current bandwidth availability. Content server, by monitoring client device related playlist position and client device content buffer can regulate content streaming, to improve network bandwidth distribution. A content server determines whether the playlist has changed since the last time the playlist was requested and denies a request for the playlist when the playlist has not changed. Similar mechanisms can be employed to improve bandwidth usage by a server that is not aware of changes to the playlist.
US11778013B2
Methods and systems are described for delivering and playing streaming content. A plurality of adaptations sets may be generated for a content asset. The plurality of adaptation sets may have segments encoded according to different segment durations. A media device may transition between adaptation sets to perform a content transition operation.
US11778007B2
A content providing server provides virtual reality content. The content providing server includes a requesting unit configured to receive a request for virtual reality content from a user device; a dynamic object image processing unit configured to render an image of a dynamic object contained in the virtual reality content; a static object image processing unit configured to render an image of a static object contained in the virtual reality content; and a streaming unit configured to separately stream the image of the dynamic object and the image of the static object to the user device.
US11778005B2
Systems and methods for facilitating intercom communication for one or more quick-service restaurant drive-throughs are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: capture sound from a customer placing an order; generate order information signals that represent the captured sound; encode signals to form order data packets; transmit the order data packets to a base station through a single pair of wires that is also used to provide power; decode information from the order data packets; and generate order sound based on the decoded information, such that the generated order sound is audible to a staff member of the quick service restaurant through a headset.
US11778004B2
Methods and systems provide for dynamically presenting at least one attentional element within a communication session. The system presents, to each of a number of participants within a communication session, a user interface (“UI”) for the communication session. The system receives a signal of an event associated with a first participant intending to communicate with a second participant, with the second participant not acknowledging the intended communication. The system determines, after a predefined period of time, that the intended communication from the first user has not been acknowledged by the second user and that the event has not yet terminated. The system then initiates an attentional element within the UI of the second participant, the attentional element being more pronounced than the notification.
US11777999B2
Provided is a server system robust against a communication path failure. A first server system 2-1 and a second server system 2-2 are respectively installed on a first network 3-1 and a second network 3-2 provided by common carriers different from each other. The first and second server systems are connected to each other by a dedicated line 6. Even when a failure occurs in the first network, communication through the second network can be maintained, and even when a failure occurs in the second network, communication through the first network can be maintained. Further, when a failure occurs in the dedicated line, operations can be performed within each of the first and second networks in a degeneracy mode.
US11777995B2
Resource state validation may be performed for access management policies by an identity and access management system. An access management policy associated with an account for network-based services may be received and validated according to resource state obtained for resources associated with the account. A correction for a portion of the access management policy may be identified according to the validation and provided via an interface for the identity and access management system.
US11777993B2
Disclosed is a unified security system of cloud-based components configured for (a) packet-level and (b) protocol-level access control and traffic inspection, (c) threat detection and (d) activity contextualization. Packet-level inspects and classifies headers in requests or responses, sets a first restrictive state or passes the request or response. Protocol-level performs deep packet inspection for malicious signatures then sets a second state or passes. Threat detection, when the request or response is an HTTP/S stream, classifies as directed to a threat destination or not, then sets a third state or passes the request or response and activity contextualization, when the request is an HTTP/S stream seeking access to a cloud-based application, recognizes, processes and classifies content-containing activity as compromising or not, then sets a fourth state or passes. A restrictive state analyzer determines whether the first, second, third or fourth restrictive state has been set and takes restrictive steps in response.
US11777992B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are utilized dynamically discovering components of a computer network environment. The processing circuit of a data acquisition engine configured determine a domain name associated with an entity profile, determine an IP range, validate at the domain name, the IP range, and the IP address, collect additional device connectivity data, and provide the additional device connectively data.
US11777985B2
A method of determining the level of maliciousness of an element using a directed hypergraph to classify the element based on information aggregated from its locally identified close neighbors, queried in a data base such as VirusTotal (VT). A crawling procedure is used starting from elements needing classification and collecting a set of their neighbors forming neighborhoods. These neighbors are then used to classify the elements. The neural network classifier is able to obtain as input an entire neighborhood. The input includes several feature vectors, one for each element in the neighborhood. In addition, a mapping of interconnections can be provided for each group of elements. Finally, a maliciousness level is provided for the elements in question. For an incriminated file one or more actions can be taken, such as isolating a machine that received the file, killing processes started by the file, removing persistence of the file on the network or affected computer, cleaning infected samples, modifying risk assessment for computer or network, generating a report, collecting additional artifacts, triggering a search for related elements, blocking a user from taking actions and sending information to other IT or security systems. For other element types, some of the above actions are applicable as well. In addition, there are other actions specific to particular element types, e.g. blocking an IP address or a web domain from network access, restricting user authorization, blocking access to an external device, shutting down computers, erasing memory devices, filtering e-mail messages, and many more.
US11777984B1
Threats to systems and data captured by such systems can be automatically detected and remediated. Inbound traffic on an enterprise network can be monitored and analyzed to detect a threat based on parameters of the inbound traffic. In response, a patch can be identified or generated to address known or unknown threats based on a comparison of parameters. Once identified or generated, the patch can be conveyed to a target computing resource for deployment to address the threat.
US11777967B2
A method, an intelligent switch, a device, and a network for recognizing deviations in communication behavior of the network are provided. Characteristics of communication are monitored and evaluated regarding security behavior of the network using a model of a communication behavior of the network. For each communication over a switch of the network, at most three security values are derived from communication metadata of the respective communication using the model of the communication behavior. For each communication, it is checked whether the respective at most three security values meet respective predetermined threshold values. When the respective predetermined threshold values are not met by at least one of the security values, a security warning is generated.
US11777966B2
Systems and methods for causation analysis of network anomalies in a network include detecting an alarm condition at a network device, the alarm condition pertaining to an anomaly or increase in a traffic condition such as packet loss. A dominant key is identified in each of one or more key types which contributed to the alarm condition, the key types including dimensions of traffic flow. Two or more dominant keys of two or more key types are aggregated and clustered to determine a combination of dominant keys which contributed to the alarm condition. A dominant traffic flow comprising the combination of dominant keys which contributed to the alarm condition is identified based on the aggregation and clustering. Malware or security threats can be identified from detecting a dominant source IP address or host which contributed to a predominant number of packet drops or retransmissions at ports of the network.
US11777962B2
A method for machine learning-based detection of an automated fraud or abuse attack includes: identifying, via a computer network, a digital event associated with a suspected automated fraud or abuse attack; composing, via one or more computers, a digital activity signature of the suspected automated fraud or abuse attack based on digital activity associated with the suspected automated fraud or abuse attack; computing, via a machine learning model, an encoded representation of the digital activity signature; searching, via the one or more computers, an automated fraud or abuse signature registry based on the encoded representation of the digital activity signature; determining a likely origin of the digital event based on the searching of the automated fraud or abuse signature registry; and selectively implementing one or more automated threat mitigation actions based on the likely origin of the digital event.
US11777959B2
A computing system determines that a third party system has been exposed to a digital security violation. The computing system identifies a first user account of a user registered with the computing system that has a corresponding account associated with the third party system. The computing system determines that the first user account has stored a first set of user credentials for the corresponding account associated with the third party system at a storage location accessible by the computing system. The computing system launches a series of web browsers configured to access a first website associated with the third party system. The computing system executes, via a first web browser of the series of web browsers, a first automated script specific to the first website associated with the third party system. The computing system performs at least one of a plurality of remedial operations with respect to the corresponding account.
US11777949B2
An illustrative computing system for a dynamic user access control management system classifies users and data resources according to their risk and importance by a user management engine with artificial intelligence, machine learning characteristics. The dynamic user access control management system analyzes the log files of data resources to measure system performance characteristics and user access behavior. This system monitors the device and network by which a data access request to a data resource is made. The dynamic user access control management system validates the leave status of a user initiating a data access request. The dynamic user access control management system automatically determines a user access level for a data resource through intelligent analysis of collected information and defers to a user's manager for an access level determination when the determination to grant an access level is outside of the knowledge base of the user management engine.
US11777943B2
An interactive platform for controlling interactive features in an amusement park, wherein the interactive platform includes a control center that receives an account request from a user computer system, populates forward facing data fields based on user inputs from the user computer system, coordinates authentication of the account request with a separate system configured to utilize a login application programming interface to share authentication data, receives the authentication data from the separate system, provides access to a user account based on the authentication data, and populates hidden data fields of the control center based on user data provided by the separate system.
US11777941B2
Disclosed is a method performed by an authentication server for authentication of users requesting access to a restricted data resource from a communication device, the authentication server being situated in the restricted data resource. After checking that a username and password received from a communication device matches a stored username and password, the authentication server sends, using the RADIUS protocol, a request to the communication device to enter an approver ID. After receiving an approver ID from the communication device in response to the request, via the RADIUS protocol, the authentication server sends an approval request including user ID to an approver device indicated by the approver ID, and if the approver approves the request, the authentication server receives an accept to the approval request and grants the user access to the restricted data resource.
US11777936B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to sharing access to electronically-secured property. In some embodiments, a first computing device having a first secure element receives, from a second computing device associated with an owner of the electronically-secured property, an indication that the second computing device has transmitted a token to server computing system, the token permitting a user of the first computing device access to the electronically-secured property. Based on the received indication, the first computing device sends a request for the transmitted token to the server computing system and, in response to receiving the requested token, securely stores the received token in the first secure element of the first computing device. The first computing device subsequently transmits the stored token from the first secure element of the first device to the electronically-secured property to obtain access to the electronically-secured property based on the token.
US11777934B2
A method and system for provisioning credentials is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a token provider computer, a token request message from a token requestor computer that comprises an initial access identifier. The token provider computer transmits the initial access identifier to a first authorization computer, and then the token provider computer receives an intermediate access identifier. The token provider computer then transmits a token activation request message to a second authorization computer based at least in part on the intermediate access identifier. The token provider computer then receives a token activation response message from the second authorization computer. The token provider computer then provides the token to the token requestor computer.
US11777933B2
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture for authentication of payment cards. A server may assign, in a database, an expected card identifier to a contactless card, the contactless card associated with an account. The server may receive, from a client device, a request comprising a uniform resource locator (URL), a parameter of the URL comprising a card identifier, wherein the URL is transmitted by the contactless card to the client device. The server may extract the card identifier from the URL and compare the extracted card identifier to the expected card identifier in the database. The server may determine, based on the comparison, that the extracted card identifier matches the expected card identifier. The server may authenticate the request based on the extracted card identifier matching the expected card identifier, and transmit, to the client device, an indication specifying that the request was authenticated.
US11777931B2
A system includes an intelligent electronic device (IED) and a proxy device communicatively coupled to the TED via a Media Access Control (MACsec) communication link. The proxy device is configured to perform operations that include receiving permissions data, receiving a request to perform an action associated with the TED, determining whether the action is authorized based on the permissions data, and transmitting data to the TED via the MACsec communication link in response to determining that the action is authorized.
US11777923B2
A server may include at least one server processor configured to execute an application. A desktop virtualization system may include at least one desktop virtualization processor. The desktop virtualization processor may be configured to instantiate a virtual desktop; authenticate a user of a client device; in response to authenticating the user of the client device, place the client device in communication with the virtual desktop through at least one network; launch a secure browser in the virtual desktop; and using the secure browser, place the client device in communication with the server through the at least one network. The application may be configured to perform processing in response to at least one command from the client device. The processing may include generating a one-time passcode, establishing a code word not communicated through the at least one network, and sending a message including the one-time passcode to a sender client device.
US11777922B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device that is configured to maintain a list of a managed devices, to generate a seed value and to submit a login request to a first managed device. The processing device is configured to generate a value based at least in part on the seed value and to select a second managed device from the list based at least in part on the value. The processing device is further configured to receive a second factor authentication challenge from the first managed device and to obtain a device key encrypted passcode from the second managed device. The processing device is further configured to provide the device key encrypted passcode to the first managed device and to receive a successful authentication of the login request from the first managed device based at least in part on providing the device key encrypted passcode to the first managed device.
US11777918B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically and securely augment participants in programmatically established chatbot sessions. For example, an apparatus may obtain messaging data generated during a first communications session involving a first device and based on the messaging data, detecting an occurrence of an event that triggers an establishment of a second communications session involving the first device and a second device. The apparatus may generate and transmit, to the second device, notification data causing the second device to validate one or more authentication credentials, and may receive confirmation data indicative of the one or more validated authentication credentials from the second device. Based on the confirmation data, the apparatus may perform operations that establish the second communications session in accordance with at least a portion of the messaging data.
US11777916B2
A wireless local area network (WLAN) access method includes sending, by a terminal, a request for querying an available wireless access point to a server. The method further includes sending, by the server according to the query request, obtained information about the available wireless access point. The method further includes receiving, by the terminal, wireless access point information returned by the server, and determining a specific wireless access point from the received wireless access point information. The method further includes sending, by the terminal, an authentication information request of the specific wireless access point to the server. The method further includes when receiving the request, sending, by the server, authentication information corresponding to the specific wireless access point to the terminal, where the authentication information is used to connect the terminal to the specific wireless access point.
US11777911B1
Requests are pre-generated to include a cryptographic key to be used in fulfilling the requests. The requests may be encoded in uniform resource locators and may include authentication information to enable a service provider to whom the requests are submitted to determine whether the requests are authorized. The requests may be passed to various entities who can then submit the requests to the service provider. The service provider, upon receipt of a request, can verify the authentication information and fulfill the request using a cryptographic key encoded in the request.
US11777906B2
A method for enforcing entitlements includes configuring a wide variety of entitlements at a server; determining applicable combination of entitlements for a given client request; sending entitlements to the requesting client securely; handling entitlement information securely on a plurality of client devices at run time; storing entitlement information securely on a plurality of client devices for offline use; and enforcing entitlements on a plurality of client devices. The method employs manipulation of manifest files by a proxy that may be included in the client device or located in the network.
US11777901B2
Systems and methods for receiving information on network firewall policy configurations are disclosed. Based on the received firewall configuration information, a configuration of a firewall and/or subnet of network devices is automatically provisioned and/or configured to control network traffic to and from the subnet.
US11777899B1
In general, techniques are described for a hierarchical, distributed DHCP system for managing IP address assignment among distributed networks of computing devices. For example, a system may include a central DHCP server configured to manage a plurality of distributed DHCP servers, each distributed DHCP server configured to perform DHCP using IP addresses allocated from a common prefix for a tenant associated with computing devices managed by multiple DHCP servers. The central DHCP server allocates IP addresses to the distributed DHCP servers, e.g., on an on-demand basis from the common pool and may handle concurrent requests for IP addresses from distributed DHCP servers. Each of the distributed DHCP servers may store records for IP addresses and media access control (MAC) addresses for computing devices managed by that distributed DHCP server, and the DHCP servers may send these records to the central DHCP server to facilitate IP assignment coherency.
US11777897B2
Techniques for providing, to a resource on a private network of a service provider, access to a resource on a private network of a customer. Service to customer (S2C) resources deployed on a cloud infrastructure to facilitate the access. Whereas IP address ranges may overlap between private networks and/or private IP addresses may be used in one or more of the private networks, the S2C resources enable the data exchange between the private networks. For example, the S2C resources translate between IP addresses such that data within each private network uses IP addresses that can be properly processed by the private network.
US11777894B2
A system and method for providing a social networking service to a plurality of devices. A social networking server for facilitating social information exchange among the plurality of devices through a socially aware network. A social profiles manager is coupled to the social networking server that creates and manages individual centric profiles of the plurality of devices. The individual centric profiles of the plurality of devices are social representation of individual devices within the socially aware network. The plurality of devices are identifiable by other participants and the social networking server through their social profiles.
US11777893B1
A method and system for providing a common group suggestion as a recipient of a message in a communication service are disclosed, comprising receiving a request to create a message, receiving first and second recipients of the message, identifying one or more common groups of a communication service based on received first and second recipients of the message, receiving a selection of one or more of the identified common groups, and transmitting a message to the selected common group.
US11777888B2
The present application relates to the technical field of computers, and provides a user request response method, a user request response apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The user request response method comprises: upon the reception of a user request sent from a first-type terminal, sending reminder messages to a plurality of second-type terminals according to the user request; receiving message receipts for the reminder messages within a preset time period; selecting a target message receipt from among the message receipts according to a preset rule; and using the second-type terminal corresponding to the target message receipt as a target second-type terminal and determining to respond to the user request according to the target second-type terminal.
US11777886B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for handling email messages. An application may identify, via the user interface, one or more properties defining a distribution list to assign a user of the client device. The application may transmit, to the server, the one or more properties to assign the user of the client device to the distribution list, with which at least one of a plurality of email messages to is selected for sending to the client device. The application may receive, from the server, an identification of a subset of email messages selected from the plurality of email messages based on an assignment of the user of the client device to the distribution list and content in the subset of email messages. The application may present, in the user interface, a message list of the subset of email messages.
US11777881B2
In some embodiments, a first electronic device shares a portion of a content item corresponding to a respective portion of lyrics for the content item with a second electronic device. In some embodiments, a system facilitates securely sharing a portion of a content item between two devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a server address for accessing a portion of a content item. In some embodiments, a uniform resource locator includes an identification of content, an indication of a first subset of the content, and authentication data.
US11777871B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media may be configured for establishing at least one session for delivery of multimedia. In an aspect, a first transmission of data fragments of a first component and a second transmission of data fragments of a second component may be transmitted and synchronized for presentation. If an inactivity event is detected the session may be maintained while reducing bandwidth consumption.
US11777863B2
A system for optimizing routes for time-critical messages in a mesh network is provided. For example, a child node in a mesh network can communicate with the root node through any of its parent nodes. The child node is configured to transmit regular data to the root node through a primary route associated with its primary parent. When there is a time-critical message to be transmitted to the root node, the child node estimates a round trip time (RTT) for each route between the child node and the root node. The child node selects, among its parent nodes, a parent node whose associated route has the lowest RTT and transmits the time-critical message to the root node through the selected parent node. After the transmission of the time-critical message, the child node switches back to the primary route to transmit additional regular data to the root node.
US11777862B2
Disclosed is a method of operating a low power wireless receiver in which a radio is periodically operable for receive intervals with sleep intervals therebetween and comprising a sleep clock having a sleep clock accuracy. A first transmission or packet is received. Based on a start moment of the first received packet, and an expected interval between packets, a nominal start moment is determined to start the radio for a packet window until a nominal end moment, for receiving a second packet; the packet window duration is extended in dependence on an estimated drift based on the SCA to provide a widened window. A start moment of a second received packet is measured within the widened window. An actual drift is calculated, from the start moment of the second packet; and an actual start moment and an actual window duration is determined, for receiving a third packet, based on the actual drift.
US11777854B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains, from a plurality of routers in a network, a set of routing policies that collectively specify a first set of paths in the network, a second set of paths in the network, and time periods during which traffic is to be rerouted from one of the first set of paths to one of the second set of paths in the network. The device identifies overlapping path segments of the second set of paths in the network. The device makes, based in part on the overlapping path segments, a prediction that two or more of the set of routing policies will cause congestion along paths with overlapping path segments. The device adjusts, based on the prediction, the set of routing policies, to avoid causing the congestion.
US11777851B2
Enabling routing of traffic to/from a roaming host node roaming from a subnet of a home network to a visited network, the host node assigned an IP address in the home network, comprising configuring, in a router of the visited network, a subnet by assigning an IP address range to the subnet, which is in the same IP address range of the subnet of the home network; configuring a tunnel between a router of the home network and the router; configuring a static route to route traffic from a host node destined to the roaming host node; and configuring the router by applying a routing policy enabling the roaming host node to reply to received traffic from said host node received from a first interface and route traffic from the roaming host node through a network interconnecting the router of the visited network and the router of the home network.
US11777849B2
Systems and methods for transparent high availability for multi-customer support with hypervisor based bond implementation. The method can include creating a network path bond between a plurality of compute instances and a plurality of Network Virtualization Devices (“NVD”), the network path bond comprising a plurality of network paths, identifying a monitoring bond coupling the plurality of NVDs to a monitoring agent, creating a number of monitoring VNICs, each of the number of monitoring VNICs residing in one of the plurality of NVDs, overlaying a unique IP address to each of the monitoring VNICs, determining with the monitoring agent a health of at least one of network paths, the network paths including an active network path and an inactive network path, and activating the inactive network path when the active network path fails.
US11777837B2
A method is disclosed for autonomously discovering and utilizing low-latency routing paths in a distributed data routing network. The method includes automatically measuring one-way latencies between a plurality of nodes, and automatically calculating relay health scores of potential relayed data routing paths in the distributed network. A relayed data routing path is automatically selected based on the one-way latencies and relay health scores of potential relayed data routing paths. A relay health score for a potential relayed data routing path is based on uptimes of the potential relay node, or bandwidths, jitters, data package losses, or amount of data routed through the routing segments in the potential relayed data routing path. The selected relayed routing path has a routing health score that meets a pre-determined criterion. The selected relayed data routing path has a total one-way latency smaller than a one-way latency associated with in a direct path.
US11777834B2
Systems and methods for testing performance of communications over an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) or Evolved Packet Core (EPC) are disclosed. Based on simulated communications that appear initiated from user devices, performance measures can be determined from monitored responses to the simulated communication as well as information obtained from nodes in the IMS or EPC.
US11777830B2
A virtual machine status probe method includes obtaining an invocation message and an identifier of a first virtual machine, invoking a probe script based on the invocation message, and transferring the identifier of the first virtual machine to the probe script, sending a probe packet to a source device by running the probe script, receiving feedback information sent by the source device, where the feedback information is used to indicate the status of the first virtual machine, and determining, based on the feedback information, whether to recreate the first virtual machine in the destination device.
US11777828B2
A customizable filtering method for a counter, apparatus, and a computer storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: configuring a first filter condition according to a filter parameter table, at least one category of first filter parameters being configured in the first filter condition (S101); converting the first filter parameters into second filter parameters by means of category uniformization (S102); analyzing a second filter condition according to the filter parameter table, converting the second filter condition into a first data structure that facilitates local filter processing and saving the first data structure (S103); collecting performance data, the performance data comprising filter indication information (S104); processing the filter indication information according to the filter parameter table, and storing the filter indication information in a second data structure (S105); and performing filter processing on the filter indication information stored in the second data structure, and recording the filter result (S106).
US11777825B2
Media stream monitoring includes initiating, by a processing device, a media-stream-monitoring-application configured to monitor a plurality of media streams including packetized media content. A plurality of media stream records associated with the plurality of media streams are obtained. The media stream records include addresses used to connect to the plurality of media streams The media-stream-monitoring-application attempts to connect to a first media stream associated with a first media stream record, wherein connecting to the first media stream includes requesting a sample packet from the address associated with the first media stream. An error associated with the sample packet is identified. At least in part based on identifying the error associated with the sample packet: disconnecting from first media stream; generating an error report; and discarding the first media stream record.
US11777814B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a set of computing servers configured to provide a respective set of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. The apparatus also includes a processing circuit communicatively-coupled to the set of computing servers. The processing circuit is configured to determine an operating state of the respective set of virtual servers provided for each account. For each account, the processing circuit is also configured to provide an alert message to one or more users specified in a respective alert policy of the account in response to the operating state of the virtual servers satisfying a set of alert criteria indicated in the alert policy.
US11777803B2
A first server device obtains first device information of the first server device. The first device information may include an event or a device identifier. The first server device determines a first condition corresponding to the first device information of the first server device, and performs a first processing action corresponding to the first device information when determining that the first device information meets the first condition.
US11777801B1
An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. A system comprising a server can determine a change associated with a CI, send, to a configuration management database (CMDB), a message that updates the CMDB based on the determined change associated with the CI, determine, for the CI, a monitor configuration that describes one or more variables and corresponding one or more parameters with which the CI is to be monitored, and send the CI with the monitor configuration to a plurality of monitoring software tools operating on a plurality of servers, where each monitoring software tool is configured to monitor the CI based on the monitor configuration.
US11777798B2
A settings management system in a remote server environment generates user interface displays with settings management user input mechanisms, and detects actuation of those user input mechanisms. Settings configuration metadata is generated, for a given setting, based upon the detected actuation. The settings metadata is output for access by a plurality of different, heterogeneous, computing environments, and the settings metadata is consistent across all of those environments.
US11777794B2
A cloud radio access network (C-RAN) includes a plurality of remote units (RUs), each with a wireless transceiver to exchange RF signals with at least one UE. The C-RAN also includes a central controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of RUs via a fronthaul comprising one or more ETHERNET switches. The central controller is communicatively coupled to an activation server via a backhaul network. The central controller also includes at least one processor configured to, following initial power up, establish a connection to the activation server indicated by activation server information pre-configured on the central controller. The at least one processor is also configured to receive a commissioning package, which includes commissioning information, from the activation server. The at least one processor is also configured to configure the central controller based on the commissioning information.
US11777792B2
The present disclosure relates to a timeline visualization to enable users to more quickly find information and limit the amount of displayed information associated with one or more records. The timeline visualization displays events associated with a record as areas that are positioned along the timeline visualization. In some embodiments, the events displayed on the timeline visualization may be selected based on properties of the events and timeline parameters, such as dimensions of the timeline visualization and the areas to be displayed using the timeline visualization.
US11777791B2
Example implementation relates to a method of failure detection and seamless traffic switchover in a VPN system. A cluster of nodes exchange heartbeat messages to detect a failure at a first node in the cluster. When failure is detected at the first node, a master node transmits a failover message to a network end node connected to the first node. The failover message includes a list of active nodes to which traffic may be routed. The network end node updates its routing table based on the failover message and switches the traffic to a second node in the cluster of nodes.
US11777787B2
A video based maintenance method, a maintenance terminal, a server, a system, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a maintenance terminal, a maintenance order sent by a server, wherein the maintenance order is generated according to a maintenance request sent by a client, and the maintenance order comprises customer information, faulty product information and fault information; and wherein the fault information comprises one or more troubleshooting points; receiving, by the maintenance terminal, a video stream sent by the client; and recording, by the maintenance terminal, troubleshooting information of the troubleshooting points, and sending the troubleshooting information to the server.
US11777786B2
A method includes, for each feature, performing an anomaly detection process. The anomaly detection process includes selecting, from a plurality of historical data points of the feature, a set of historical data points. Using a machine learning module, a set of scores, each corresponding to one historical data point, is selected. An anomaly threshold is determined based on the set of scores, and compared with a score corresponding to a current data point of the feature to determine whether the current data point is anomalous or not. When the current data point is anomalous, the anomaly detection process includes identifying the feature as an anomalous feature, and including the anomalous feature and the current data point in an anomaly detection report.
US11777781B2
There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, at a first network function from a second network function, a subscription request for notification of at least one event, wherein the subscription request comprises at least one condition to trigger notification of the at least one event, and providing a notification of the at least one event to the second network function accoriding to the at least one condition.
US11777778B2
A transmitter includes a mapping circuit and a framing circuit. The mapping circuit is configured to combine and map a first data sequence and a second data sequence onto orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers which include first subcarriers and second subcarriers. The framing circuit is configured to generate an OFDM signal from the OFDM subcarriers. The mapping circuit is configured to: map first data included in the first data sequence and second data included in the second data sequence onto the first subcarriers; and map the second data onto the second subcarriers. The first data are not mapped on the second subcarriers.
US11777758B2
A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a digital twin of the building comprising a graph data structure, the graph data structure comprising a plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive an modification to the digital twin of the building, generate a change feed event of a change feed, the change feed event recording the modification to the graph data structure, and synchronize, based on the change feed event, an external digital twin of the building of an external system with the digital twin of the building by communicating with the external system.
US11777756B2
A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an action for an entity. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify a service configured to perform the action based on a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, wherein the plurality of nodes represent entities of the building, the service, and one or more other services, wherein the plurality of edges represent relationships between the entities and communication actions of the service with the one or more other services and cause the service to perform the action by causing the service to perform one or more communication actions with the one or more other services indicated by the building graph.
US11777754B1
The number of persons in a still image acquired during a videoconference may change over time due to movement or persons entering or exiting a conference room. Minimizing the number of person identifiers that are tracked is beneficial for framing purposes. Typically, a stream of frames is sent to a far side, such as another endpoint device, for viewing. If the number of persons identified keeps changing, the composition of the stream of frames will be constantly changing as well. By using person identification and the use of timers, movement by the same person or a temporary change in a number or set of persons may be detected without making changes to the number of identifiers and persons being framed. It is only when a change has persisted past a period of time that changes are made to the frames, thereby improving the overall viewing experience.
US11777753B2
An apparatus for managing an online conference according to one embodiment includes a group identification information receiver configured to receive group identification information regarding an offline conference room from a user terminal of a user who intends to attend an online conference in the offline conference room, an online conference identifier configured to identify an online conference connected to the offline conference room based on the received group identification information, and an online conference manager configured to transmit online conference entry information for attending the identified online conference to the user terminal.
US11777751B1
A proof of time (PoT) protocol implemented on a network of nodes to add a block to a timechain is provided. In order to participate in the consensus process, the nodes in the network have to stake a predefined number of tokens with the network. Further, the nodes have to register their participation keys with the network. Thereafter, the nodes of the network are classified into time nodes and time electors. Determination of the nodes which will serve as the time nodes and which will serve as the time electors is done by running a verifiable delay function (VDF) based on a ranking score and fixed stake of each node. The block is added to the timechain in a period called a slot. The network releases a random number called a seed that each node uses to compute VDF based on its ranking score and the fixed stake.
US11777748B2
A method, computer program product and computer system for trusted timestamping is provided. A processor generates a first key pair, where the key pair includes a public key and a private key. A processor publishes the public key of the first key pair to an immutable data structure. A processor receives a first digital file for timestamping. A processor signs the first digital file with the private key of the first key pair.
US11777745B2
The present invention discloses a cloud-side collaborative multi-mode private data circulation method based on a smart contract, including: S1, a system is initialized; S2, the original data are encrypted into private data, an encryption certificate z′ for storage is generated, and z′ includes metadata and a data certificate key′; S3, the DO calls a smart contract program to realize uplink of the encryption certificate z′ and releases z′ to a block chain through a smart contract, wherein the smart contract is open to all user accounts; S4, rapid data circulation is realized: when DO releases the data certificate, DU has been identified, a DU's account IDDU is set through an access policy, the DU obtains an encryption key for data access by executing a smart contract and a key algorithm, private data are obtained through metadata and decrypted to obtain a plaintext; and S5, the data circulation is confirmed.
US11777733B2
Techniques are described for managing master keys for token requestors to use in generating cryptograms such as TAVVs. A processor computer generates a first master key for a token requestor, the first master key being generated based on (a) a second master key managed by the processor computer and (b) an identifier of the token requestor. The processor computer transmits, to a token requestor computer corresponding to the token requestor, the first master key. The processor computer receives, from the token requestor computer, a request for a token. Responsive to receiving the request for the token, the processor computer transmits the token to the token requestor computer; and receives, from the token requestor computer, an authorization request message comprising the token and a cryptogram generated by the token requestor computer using the first master key and the token.
US11777729B2
Provided are methods and systems for performing secure analytics using term generations and a homomorphic encryption. An example method includes receiving, by at least one server from a client, a term generation function, a hash function, a public key of a homomorphic encryption scheme, and a homomorphically encrypted list of indices, wherein the list of indices is generated using the term generation function and the hash function, applying, by the server, the term generation function, the hash function, and the public key to a data set to determine a further homomorphically encrypted list of indices, extracting, by the server and using the homomorphically encrypted list of indices and the further homomorphically encrypted list of indices, data from the encrypted data set to obtain an encrypted result, and sending the encrypted result to the client to decrypt the encrypted result using a private key of the homomorphic encryption scheme.
US11777728B2
The present invention overcomes problem of pseudonymous Blockchain transactions that preclude the identification of an individual or institutional identity that rely solely on a Blockchain address of a recipient in a Blockchain transaction. A system and method is provided that verifies transfers in an on-chain Blockchain Bitcoin transaction by using a sequence of Blockchain Bitcoin transactions that establish and confirm an identity of one or more parties to the transaction.
US11777721B2
A system and method for signing data is presented. In one embodiment, the method comprises: generating a data signing key; transforming the data signing key into a first subkey and a second subkey; encrypting the first subkey according to a secret key of an ODSS; generating a signature verification public key; providing the signature verification public key, the encrypted first subkey, and the second subkey for storage in a client device; accepting a request to sign the data, the request having a representation of the data and the encrypted first subkey; generating a partially computed signature of the data according to the representation of the data and the encrypted first subkey; and providing the partially computed signature of the data to the client device.
US11777718B2
Provided herein are systems, devices and methods for opening a connection in a gateway of a cloud based network for a client device connected via two different network links to the gateway and to a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) controller of a cloud based network. The SDP controller may receive a request from a client device to connect to a gateway of the cloud based network, generate a one-time SPA key for the client device (after authenticated), transmit the SPA key to the gateway, and transmit, via the first network link, the SPA key to the client device. The client device may transmit the SPA key to the gateway via the second network link and the gateway may be configured to open a connection for the client device via the second network link in case the SPA key is valid.
US11777712B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving an event from a node, extracting an identifier from the event, determining whether the event is authorized, and generating a notification of the event when the identifier is authorized, wherein the identifier includes a hashed value of an event counter and wherein the identifier is authorized when the hashed value matches a hashed value of the event counter stored in a storage area of or coupled to the client.
US11777704B1
A concurrent multistandard detection receiver with prepacket transmission detection capabilities is disclosed. In one aspect, a receiver is configured to switch between two different wireless protocols, alternately listening for incoming messages on one then the other protocol. For at least one listening period, the receiver uses two pretransmission detectors that are configured to detect predictable pretransmission emissions. A third detector may detect traditional transmissions. On detection of a signal that matches a predictable pretransmission emission or a traditional transmission, the receiver confirms that an incoming signal according to that standard is being received and acts in accordance with that signal. If no such emission or transmission was received, or if after trying to confirm the presence of an incoming signal fails, the receiver switches back to listening according to the other protocol.
US11777701B2
A phase synchronization circuit which includes a first delay circuit for adjusting a first delay amount, delaying a first reference clock signal by the first delay amount, and outputting a first delayed reference clock signal. The phase synchronization circuit further includes a first clock control circuit that compares phases of the first delayed reference clock signal and a first output clock signal and generates a first clock control signal based on a result of the comparison; a first clock signal generation circuit that generates the first output clock signal based on the first clock control signal; and a first monitoring circuit that monitors jitter in the first output clock signal and adjusts the first delay amount based on a result of monitoring the jitter in the first output clock signal.
US11777699B2
A wireless access point device is full-duplex capable and serves wireless communication for at least first and second wireless client devices. The wireless access point device sends to the first wireless client device a trigger frame that causes the first wireless client device to send an uplink transmission to the wireless access point after a first time interval. The wireless access point device waits a second time interval after the first wireless client is expected to begin sending the uplink transmission. The wireless access point device receives the uplink transmission from the first wireless client device. After the second time interval, and while receiving the uplink transmission from the first wireless client device, the wireless access point device sends to the second wireless client device a downlink transmission that overlaps at least partially in frequency and time with the uplink transmission from the first wireless client device.
US11777696B2
A wireless device is configured to receive an activation command that commands the wireless device to activate a serving cell. The wireless device is configured to activate the serving cell within a maximum delay since receiving the activation command. The maximum delay depends on whether there is at least one other serving cell already activated for the wireless device in the same frequency band as that in which the serving cell is to be activated.
US11777695B2
Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for efficiently operating a dormant BWP.
US11777692B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communication. The communication node first receives first information and second information, and then transmits a first radio signal in W1 time sub-window(s); the first information is used for determining X candidate time window(s), any one of the X candidate time window(s) has a time length equal to a first time length, and the first time length is fixed; for a subcarrier spacing of a subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal, one of the X candidate time window(s) comprises Y candidate time sub-window(s), and the Y is related to the subcarrier spacing of the subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal; the second information is used for indicating W candidate time sub-window(s) out of the Y candidate time sub-window(s); and each of the W1 time sub-window(s) is one of the W candidate time sub-window(s).
US11777684B2
A method for transmitting information, a network device and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: a network device sends first configuration information to a terminal device through a first control channel on a first carrier, wherein the first configuration information is used for indicating a configuration on a second carrier, and the first carrier and the second carrier are different.
US11777682B2
A method, an apparatus, a base station, a user equipment, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The base station may configure resource allocation for wakeup signaling based at least in part on one or more resource patterns corresponding to different user equipment groups and/or antenna port configurations. The user equipment may receive a wakeup signal based at least in part on the resource allocation, detect the wakeup signal based at least in part on a preamble of the wakeup signal, and receive a subsequent communication based at least in part on the wakeup signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11777674B2
A communication system for statically allocating physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources on a PUCCH. The communication system includes a base station configured to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with a plurality of user equipment terminals (UEs). The base station is also configured to identify two PUCCH resources, each sharing the same orthogonal code sequence and located in different resource block of adjacent slots of a subframe. The base station is also configured to statically allocate the two PUCCH resources to two of the UEs, where both UEs are legacy UEs or Category-M1 (Cat-M1) UEs.
US11777672B2
A method for equalizing a wireless communication channel includes transmitting a data signal over a primary channel. During transmission of the data signal, a corresponding data signal is sent over a secondary channel. The information received from the secondary channel is compared to the information received from the primary channel and differences between the information received from each of the channels are observed. These differences are used as inputs to an equalizer algorithm that may be used to reduce distortion of the data signal sent over the primary channel.
US11777666B2
A UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure receives DCI of a DL grant format through a PDCCH and transmits a HARQ-ACK report, in a state in which the DCI of the DL grant format indicates a specific type codebook-based HARQ-ACK report for one-shot-based transmission of ACK/NACKs for all HARQ processes of serving cells, the UE may determine a time resource for the specific type codebook-based HARQ-ACK report based on whether a PDSCH is scheduled by the DCI.
US11777663B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) message, the DCI message including at least a first field and a second field, the first field indicating a request for Type 3 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK), the second field indicating a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication is not scheduled when a value of the second field includes: all zeros if resource allocation Type 0 is configured, all ones if resource allocation Type 1 is configured, or all ones or all zeros in a dynamic switch configuration. The UE may transmit the Type 3 HARQ-ACK based at least in part on the DCI message. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11777658B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a plurality of downlink shared channel transmissions. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a sequence indicating that a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (ACK) feedback associated with the plurality of downlink shared channel transmissions includes only ACK bits for the plurality of downlink shared channel transmissions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11777656B2
Embodiments may relate to group addressed frame delivery over multi-link systems. Systems and methods are configured for identifying, by an access point (AP) multilink device (MLD) in a wireless network, a first sequence number space (SNS) that is to be used by the AP MLD to transmit data to a non-AP MLD over a first communications link and a second communications link, wherein frames with identical data that are transmitted over the first and second communications links will have an identical first SN based on the first SNS; identifying, by the MLD in the wireless network, the first SN based on the first SNS; and transmitting, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a frame that includes the data to the non-AP MLD based on the first SN.
US11777649B2
Methods and devices in a wireless communication system are provided. Information on a number of code block group per transport block (TB) is received from a base station. Each code block group includes at least one code block. A TB and control information scheduling the TB are received from the base station. Code block groups for the TB are identified based on a number of code blocks for the TB and the information. The number of the code blocks for the TB being determined based on the control information. The TB is decoded based on the identified code block groups. Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information is transmitted to the base station based on a result of the decoding.
US11777648B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for error check-based synchronization. Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) data may be determined. A scrambling (e.g., a first scrambling) of the PBCH data may be scrambled via a sequence (e.g., a first sequence). The first sequence may be based on a cell ID and/or timing information. Error check bits may be attached to the scrambled PBCH data and to the timing information. The error check bits may include one or more cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits. The scrambled PBCH data, the timing information (e.g., the unscrambled timing information), and/or the attached error check bits may be polar encoded. The polar encoding may result in polar encoded bits. A scrambling (e.g., a second scrambling) of the polar encoded bits may be scrambled via a sequence (e.g., a second sequence). The first sequence and the second sequence may be different. The polar encoded bits may be transmitted.
US11777641B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify radio access technology (RAT) state information associated with the UE, the RAT state information including an indication of whether the UE is operating in a steady state or is operating in a transition state. The UE may adapt a codec rate associated with an application of the UE based at least in part on whether the UE is operating in the steady state or is operating in the transition state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11777633B2
A TORminator module is disposed with a switch linecard of a rack. The TORminator module receives downlink electrical data signals from a rack switch. The TORminator module translates the downlink electrical data signals into downlink optical data signals. The TORminator module transmits multiple subsets of the downlink optical data signals through optical fibers to respective SmartDistributor modules disposed in respective racks. Each SmartDistributor module receives multiple downlink optical data signals through a single optical fiber from the TORminator module. The SmartDistributor module demultiplexes the multiple downlink optical data signals and distributes them to respective servers. The SmartDistributor module receives multiple uplink optical data signals from multiple servers and multiplexes them onto a single optical fiber for transmission to the TORminator module. The TORminator module coverts the multiple uplink optical data signals to multiple uplink electrical data signals, and transmits the multiple uplink electrical data signals to the rack switch.
US11777631B2
An in-packaged multi-channel light engine is packaged for four or more sub-assemblies of optical-electrical sub-modules. Each is assembled with at least four laser chips, one or more driver chip, and one or more trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) chip separately flip-mounted on a silicon photonics interposer and is coupled to an optical interface block and an electrical interface block on a sub-module substrate. The in-packaged multi-channel light engine further includes a first frame fixture holding the four or more sub-assemblies and a second frame fixture configured to hold the first frame fixture with the four or more sub-assemblies. The in-packaged multi-channel light engine further includes an interposer plate inserted between the sub-module substrates and a module substrate and is compressed between a backplate member attached to a bottom side of the module substrate and a top plate member configured as a heatsink with a plurality of fin structures.
US11777630B2
A radio receiver device comprises an analogue-to-digital converter clocked by a first clock signal which receives a radio signal. A digital circuit portion receives a digital signal produced by the analogue-to-digital converter and comprises digital processing units clocked by a second clock derived from the first clock and which produce an output signal at an output sample rate. A counter clocked by the second clock counts samples at the output sample rate. A network timer clocked by a reference of a network clock produces a receiver enable flag synchronised to the first clock. The counter is enabled when the flag is set and sets a trigger flag when the count exceeds a predetermined threshold. A buffer receives the output signal and is enabled when the trigger flag is set.
US11777619B2
Methods for determining calibration parameters to correct for frequency responses of one or more dielectric waveguides coupling a control unit to a first antenna node or to a series of antenna nodes that includes the first antenna node. An example method comprises transmitting, via a first dielectric waveguide coupling the control unit to the first antenna node, a radiofrequency (RF) test signal having a signal bandwidth covering a bandwidth of interest. The method further comprises receiving, via a second dielectric waveguide coupling the control unit to the first antenna node, a looped-back version of the transmitted RF test signal, and estimating a first one-way frequency response corresponding to the first (or second) dielectric waveguide, based on the RF test signal and the received loop-back version of the transmitted RF test signal.
US11777617B2
A method is provided for generating test data for testing radio equipment. The method includes: determining, by a test apparatus, one or more beam identifiers; selecting, by the test apparatus, based on the one or more beam identifiers, one or more radio channel models; receiving, by the test apparatus, a baseband signal representing I/Q data of one or more beamforming antennas; processing, by the test apparatus, the baseband signal representing I/Q data according to the selected radio channel model; and transmitting, by the test apparatus, the processed baseband signal representing I/Q data to a radio equipment under test.
US11777615B2
Disclosed are an ultrasonic processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium, wherein same relate to the technical field of mobile terminals. The method includes: when it is monitored that an electronic device outputs a ringing sound, acquiring audio data of an ultrasonic signal received by an ultrasonic receiving apparatus, wherein the ultrasonic signal is a signal that is transmitted by an ultrasonic transmitting apparatus and returned after same is reflected by an object; determining, according to the audio data, a change in the distance between the electronic device and the object; and adjusting the volume of the ringing according to the change in the distance.
US11777609B2
A method for optical transceiver misconnection identification that allows a simple low-level process to monitor and communicate optical transceiver characteristics information between two optical transceiver modules regardless of their transceiver type to determine if they are correctly connected or mismatched. If a mismatch is determined, the knowledge gained about the transceiver type of a far end module may be obtained (and presented to an installer) and used by an installer to select and install a module that is operationally compatible with the far end optical module.
US11777601B1
Methods and systems for providing wireless communications for a device. The methods can include receiving an indication from a device that the device is capable of receiving data via optical transmission. The methods can also include utilizing an optical transmitter to transmit one or more packets of data to the device via optical transmission. The methods can also include utilizing an antenna element to transmit one or more packets of data to the device via radio frequency (RF) transmission.
US11777596B2
An optimisation method is presented for the transmission of data along any radio frequency link which can be split into distinct transmission blocks, an example being a beam hopping system. By reordering the packets to be transmitted, it is possible to send packets either at, or nearer to, their optimal modulation and encoding configuration. This will allow for a higher bit to symbol conversion for the majority of packets and hence more data bits can be sent for the same number of symbols.
US11777583B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for beam training resource selection by a sidelink UE. A first UE may determine to perform beam training with a second UE in a set of beam training resources. The set of beam training resources may include a first subset of beam training resources for UEs without a RRC connection and a second subset of beam training resources for UEs with a RRC connection, where the first subset of beam training resources and the second subset of beam training resources are non-overlapping. The first UE may determine whether the first UE is RRC connected with the second UE and perform beam training in one of the first subset of beam training resources or the second subset of beam training resources based on whether the first UE is RRC connected with the second UE.
US11777582B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) reporting with frequency domain (FD) compression. More particularly, aspects of the present disclosure provide for codebook subset restriction (CBSR) on per spatial domain (SD) basis amplitude.
US11777581B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides an operation method in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) device mounted on a vehicle. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a capability enquiry message from a base station; and transmitting capability information to the base station. The capability information includes information on whether a wireless link with the base station and a sidelink with a neighboring V2X device are supported through the same antenna. The method comprises a step of receiving, from the base station, information about a default beam set on the basis of the capability information.
US11777579B2
Provided in some implementations is a sidelink-related operation method of a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including the steps in which: a first UE receives, from a second UE, a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) including modulation coding scheme (MCS) information; a channel status information reference signal (CSI-RS) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH are received; CSI is derived on the basis of the CSI-RS; and the first UE transmits, to the second UE, a CSI report including the CSI, wherein the CSI is derived on the basis of the determination of an MCS table.
US11777572B2
A process for generating at least one backscattering zone, by at least one transmitter device and to at least one receiver device, of an ambient radio signal emitted by at least one source; and a process for generating at least one reception zone, by the receiver device, of the backscattered ambient signal. The process for includes: determining an emission constraint, when it is respected by the source, for generating at least one backscattering zone in which the received electromagnetic power is greater than a determined threshold, called “backscattering threshold”, and/or generating at least one reception zone in which the received electromagnetic power is less than a determined threshold, called “reception threshold”; and transmitting, by the source, with respect to the emission constraint.
US11777570B2
Systems and methods for wireless communications comprising a plurality of agents, which together as the group, are configured to: (i) wirelessly broadcast an interference signal by forming a radiation pattern having null vectored substantially toward a client; (ii) wirelessly transmit a communication signal to the client by forming a radiation beam carrying the communication signal vectored substantially toward the client; and (iii) wirelessly broadcast a combined communication signal and interference signal to the client using phases of processes (i) and (ii). In some embodiments, the agents together as a group may be further configured to: allocate and adjust power for performing processes (i) and (ii) at substantially the same time.
US11777568B2
Apparatuses and methods for precoding matrix indicator (PMI)-based data beam nulling with a channel state information (CSI) report. An apparatus includes a transceiver configured to communicate via a wired or wireless communication medium and a processor coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to identify restricted PMI beams in a nulling direction for supported ranks; receive, via the transceiver from a user equipment (UE), a CSI report including a rank, a PMI, and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback; and determine whether the reported PMI is restricted. The processor is further configured to select an alternative PMI among a number of unrestricted PMIs for the reported rank; boost a reported CQI if a reduced transmit power is configured; and select a modulation coding scheme (MCS) and generate a precoder for a data beam based on at least one of: the CSI report, the alternative PMI, and the boosted CQI.
US11777566B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may precode a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission using a delay-Doppler precoder. The UE may transmit, after precoding the SRS transmission using the delay-Doppler precoder, the SRS transmission in an SRS symbol in a slot. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11777563B2
Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
US11777560B2
Aspects described herein relate to partitioning slots in wireless communications into virtual mini-slots at least for the purpose of transmitting multiple feedback transmissions within the slot.
US11777545B2
An interference cancellation device includes a data symbol extraction unit that extracts a data symbol portion from a received signal, a null symbol extraction unit that extracts a null symbol portion from the received signal, a data symbol power calculation unit that calculates a data symbol power estimated value, a null symbol power calculation unit that calculates a null symbol power estimated value, a null symbol spectrum calculation unit that calculates a null symbol spectrum from a null symbol signal, and an interference center frequency estimation unit that eliminates the effect of an image for an interference in calculation of an interference bandwidth when is calculating an interference center frequency estimated value, using a data symbol signal, the data symbol power estimated value, the null symbol power estimated value, and the null symbol spectrum.
US11777543B2
A DPD (1) includes: a polynomial structure including a pseudo-interpolation/sub-sample-shift processing unit (101) configured to operate at a sampling rate for sampling an input signal not upsampled in a previous stage of the DPD (1), pseudo-interpolate a sample point between sample points of the input signal, and shift the pseudo-interpolated sample point by a sub-sample and a multiplexer (109) configured to select a combination of a sub-sample shift amount; and an FIR filter (107) configured to be provided in a subsequent stage of the polynomial structure and include a sub-sample delay filter delaying a sample point of the input signal by a sub-sample. The DPD (1) compensates for distortion due to a sample point of the input signal and compensates for distortion due to a sub-sample point between sample points of the input signal for the DPD (1), by using the polynomial structure and the FIR filter (107).
US11777539B2
A transmit power optimization and rate-control system includes a transmitter circuit having one or more power amplifiers transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals at a transmission (Tx) rate and a Tx power level. A receiver circuit receives RF signals, decodes the received RF signals and provides one or more Tx status feedbacks. A rate-control module adjusts the Tx rate based at least on a channel condition. A probing engine generates at least two consecutive frames at a first Tx power level, and a second Tx power level in response to a trigger causes the transmitter to transmit the at least two consecutive frames, and processes respective Tx status feedbacks received in response to transmission of the two consecutive frames in order to optimize the Tx power of the transmitter.
US11777533B2
It provides a method (300) for polar decoding a received signal into a number, N, of bits with Successive Cancellation List, SCL. The method (300) includes: at the i-th level of a binary tree for decoding the i-th bit of the N bits, where 1≤i≤N: when the i-th bit is an information bit, calculating (310) a path metric for each of 2*Li-1 candidate paths at the i-th level, where Li-1 is an SCL size at the (i−1)-th level and L0=1; setting (320) an SCL size at the i-th level, Li, based on Li-1 and a statistical distribution of the path metrics calculated for the 2*Li-1 candidate paths; and selecting (330) Li surviving paths from the 2*Li-1 candidate paths based on their respective path metrics.
US11777525B2
A method for encoding a quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (LDPC) code according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating a multi-edge LDPC code matrix including a high rate code matrix and a single parity check code matrix; and encoding a signal by using the multi-edge LDPC code matrix, wherein the single parity check code matrix includes a first matrix having a non-row-orthogonal structure matrix and a second matrix having a pure row-orthogonal structure, which are concatenated.
US11777520B2
A compression ratio (CR) adapter (CRA) for end-to-end data-driven compressive sensing (CS) reconstruction (EDCSR) frameworks is provided. EDCSR frameworks achieve state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in terms of reconstruction speed and accuracy for images and other signals. However, existing EDCSR frameworks cannot adapt to a variable CR. For applications that desire a variable CR, existing EDCSR frameworks must be trained from scratch at each CR, which is computationally costly and time-consuming. Embodiments described herein present a CRA framework that addresses the variable CR problem generally for existing and future EDCSR frameworks with no modification to given reconstruction models nor enormous additional rounds of training needed. The CRA exploits an initial reconstruction network to generate an initial estimate of reconstruction results based on a small portion of acquired image measurements. Subsequently, the CRA approximates full measurements for the main reconstruction network by complementing the sensed measurements with a re-sensed initial estimate.
US11777517B2
An integrated circuit having multiple switched-capacitor delta-sigma data converter circuits includes compensation for voltage reference error due to leakage current that causes reference voltage droop. The reference filter capacitor terminal voltage is maintained by periodic connection to the reference feedback capacitor(s) that are alternately connected to a voltage reference buffer, and the leakage into the reference feedback capacitor networks of disabled converter circuits causes reference voltage droop. The compensation is either determined from the number of converter circuits that are disabled, or from an error between the filter capacitor voltage and a separate voltage reference, and may be applied by adjusting a resistance selectively coupled between the voltage reference buffer output and the filter capacitor, feedback applied to the voltage reference buffer or its input source. Alternatively, or in combination, correction may be applied to the output of the active converters by digital adjustment of output values.
US11777516B2
A signal processing system may include a sensor readout channel configured to convert an electronic signal into a digital quantity. The sensor readout channel may include a first-order sigma-delta modulator having a modulator input and a modulator output, first outside chopping switches located at the modulator input, second outside chopping switches located at the modulator output, an auxiliary path having an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an auxiliary path input and an auxiliary path output, the auxiliary path input configured to receive as its input signal a signal output by a memory element of the first-order sigma-delta modulator, and a signal combiner configured to combine a modulator output signal generated by the first-order sigma-delta modulator with an auxiliary path output signal generated by the auxiliary path to generate a combined output signal.
US11777510B2
A fractional divider processing circuitry is to receive one of a plurality of clock signals as an input clock signal, and generate a first division clock signal based on the input clock signal and a first control signal. Phases of the plurality of clock signals partially overlap each other. The processing circuitry generates a delta-sigma modulation signal based on the first division clock signal and a frequency control word, and generates a second division clock signal based on the plurality of clock signals, the first division clock signal and a second control signal. The second control signal corresponds to a quantization noise of the delta-sigma modulation signal. The processing circuitry generates the second control signal and a digital control word based on the quantization noise of the delta-sigma modulator. The processing circuitry generates a final division clock signal based on the second division clock signal and the digital control word.
US11777507B2
A phase-locked loop (PLL) device includes: 1) a detector configured to output an error signal to indicate a phase offset between a feedback clock signal and a reference clock signal; 2) a charge pump coupled to the detector and configured to output a charge pump signal based on the error signal; 3) an integrator with a feedback path, an input node, a reference node, and an output node, wherein the input node is coupled to the charge pump and receives the charge pump signal; 4) a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) coupled to the output node of the integrator via a resistor; and 5) a feedforward circuit coupled directly to the detector and configured to apply an averaged version of the error signal to correct a voltage level received by the VCO.
US11777501B2
A method includes: forming first, second, and third NWs; forming form first to fourth transistors in corresponding first to fourth groups of active regions, connecting selected transistors amongst the first and second transistors to form first and second input circuits respectively receiving a first input signal in a first domain and a second input signal in the first domain; connecting selected transistors amongst the first and third transistors and amongst the first and fourth transistors to respectively form a first single bit level shifter (SBLS) and a second SBLS; each SBLS operates in the second domain and receives correspondingly versions of the first and second input signals; and connecting selected transistors amongst the first and third transistors to form a control circuit for toggling the first and second SBLSs between a normal and a standby state, a portion of the control circuit and the first SBLS sharing the second NW.
US11777499B2
A switching circuit comprises a first series switch coupled to a first output port, the first series switch including a first field-effect transistor (FET), a second FET, a third FET, a fourth FET, a fifth FET, and a sixth FET, a second series switch coupled to a second output port, and coupling circuitry configured to couple a gate of the fifth FET and a gate of the sixth FET to a first node, a source of the fifth FET and a drain of the sixth FET to a second node, a source of the first FET and a drain of the second FET to a third node, a gate of the first FET and a drain of the fifth FET to a fourth node, a gate of the second FET and a source of the sixth FET to a fifth node, the fourth node and the fifth node to a first gate voltage, and the first node to a second gate voltage that is different than the first gate voltage.
US11777495B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for driving a transducer with switching drivers where the switching driver has an output bridge stage for switching an output node between switching voltages and a modulator for controlling the duty cycle of the output bridge stage based on an input signal. The switching driver also includes a voltage controller for providing the switching voltages which is operable to provide different switching voltages in different driver modes. A controller is provided to control the driver mode of operation and the duty cycle of the switching driver based on the input signal, and the controller is configured to transition from a present driver mode to a new driver mode by controlling the voltage controller to provide the switching voltages for the new mode and controlling the modulator to vary the duty cycle of the output bridge stage. The change in duty cycle is controlled such that there is no substantial discontinuity in switching ripple due to the mode transition.
US11777490B2
A solid-state relay includes a semiconductor switch and a voltage boost block. The semiconductor switch has a control input, which causes the semiconductor switch to shift from an open, non-conducting position to a closed, conducting position when a voltage is applied to the control input. The voltage boost block includes a boost converter and a ground connector. A voltage output of the semiconductor switch is electrically connected to a voltage input of the boost converter. A voltage output of the boost converter is electrically connected to the control input. The ground connector of the boost converter is electrically connected to a voltage input of the semiconductor switch When the semiconductor switch is in the closed position, the semiconductor switch is maintained in a closed position in the absence of another control signal.
US11777477B2
A digital circuit device includes a power supply circuitry, a digital circuitry, a digital circuitry, and a protection circuitry. The power supply circuitry is configured to output a supply voltage. The digital circuitry is configured to be driven by the supply voltage, and is configured to perform at least one operation according to a first clock signal. The protection circuitry is configured to generate the first clock signal according to at least one of a voltage drop of the supply voltage and a load signal sent from the digital circuitry.
US11777474B2
A signal generation circuit includes a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, and a duty control circuit. The first delay circuit delays a first input signal to generate a first output signal. The second delay circuit delays a second input signal to generate a second output signal. The duty control circuit compares phases of the first and second output signals and changes the value of the second delay control signal, and then decreases the times, by which the first and second input signals are delayed, by the same value.
US11777466B2
A matching circuit includes first and second input/output ports; first, second, and third coils; and a capacitor. The first coil is connected in series between the first and second input/output ports, and the second coil is connected in shunt between a ground and an input/output line between the first and second input/output ports. The first and second coils are magnetically coupled to each other, the third coil is magnetically coupled to at least one of the first and second coils, the capacitor is directly or indirectly connected to the third coil, and a closed circuit including the capacitor and the third coil is provided.
US11777464B2
A method and system for a headset with programmable modes, where the headset comprises a beamforming microphone: sensing an ambient sound level near the headset, and configuring the headset in one of a plurality of modes by configuring a beam pattern of the beamforming microphone based on at least the sensed ambient noise level. A user of the headset may configure the headset in the one of the plurality of modes or it may be automatically configured. The beamforming microphone may comprise an array of sound sensing elements. The headset may be configured in a quiet mode when the sensed ambient sound level is below that of a desired sound source and may be configured with a wide beam pattern. The headset may be configured in a loud mode when the sensed ambient sound level is above that of a desired sound source.
US11777462B2
A quantum computing devices includes: a qubit; a readout device coupled to the qubit, the readout device including a frequency filter having a filter frequency range; and an amplifier device coupled to the readout device, in which the amplifier device is configured to amplify a measurement signal from the readout device upon receiving a pump signal having a pump frequency that is outside of the filter frequency range of the frequency filter.
US11777461B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a series or source feedback is provided to a solid-state power amplifier to achieve improved amplifier output power, good impedance match, and low voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). In an embodiment, an inductive element is coupled to the source of the power amplifier transistor to serve as a series or source feedback for the transistor. In an embodiment, a high-impedance microstrip is provided as an inductive element coupled to the source of the transistor. In an embodiment, a series or source feedback is provided to each amplifier in a multistage amplifier circuit. In an embodiment, a greater series or source feedback is provided at a later stage of a multistage amplifier circuit, whereas a smaller series or source feedback is provided at an earlier stage of the multistage amplifier circuit.
US11777436B2
A method for a safety concept for an AC battery, in which the AC battery includes a central controller, a plurality of battery modules which respectively have a power board with a plurality of switching states, a plurality of contactors, a plurality of current sensors, a fault loop and a high-speed bus and is connected to a traction machine. The central controller has a hardware-programmable processor unit with at least one microprocessor core on which a control program is configured to control the battery modules, the plurality of contactors and the fault loop. A state machine is implemented by the control program. The battery modules are connected, starting from the central controller, via the high-speed bus and the fault loop. If an abort fault occurs, the AC battery is changed to a safe operating state. The safe state is achieved at least by emergency disconnection of the central controller.
US11777429B2
A failure phase of an AC current sensor is determined without providing a DC current sensor. A control device that controls a motor via an inverter circuit that supplies power converted from direct current to three-phase alternating current to the motor, in which a current sensor that detects alternating current of each phase of three-phase alternating current is provided at an output of the inverter circuit, and the control device calculates estimated DC current values by using a duty value of a PWM signal for controlling switching of the inverter circuit and an AC current value of two phases among three phases detected by the current sensor, and determines a failure of the current sensor on the basis of a change in the estimated DC current values that have been calculated.
US11777428B2
A higher control unit 1 generates a command current i* based on a command value. A model predictive control unit 2 sets a plurality of assumed voltage vectors for each switching cycle of an output voltage, divides the switching cycle of the output voltage into two periods according to a ratio between a dead time and the switching cycle of the output voltage, calculates a predicted current of the assumed voltage vector for each of the two periods obtained by the two-dividing, determines an evaluation function between the assumed voltage vector and the predicted current, sets the assumed voltage vector which has highest evaluation function result, as a command voltage vector. A gate signal g for outputting a voltage expressed by the command voltage vector from the power converter is output. The power converter is driven and controlled based on the gate signal.
US11777427B2
An estimated value of frequency of a vibration component for automatically adjusting a control unit that suppresses resonance characteristics of a machine is stably and reliably estimated without depending on the magnitude of amplitude of the vibration component and without risk of arithmetic overflow. A motor control device including an automatic adjustment device that adaptively adjusts a controller included in a motor control system based on a frequency of a vibration component superimposed on a response of the motor control system, the automatic adjustment device including a vibration extraction unit that receives the response of the motor control system and extracts the vibration component from the response of the motor control system; a notch filter unit that receives the vibration component from the vibration extraction unit; an encoding unit; a limiter unit that receives an output of the notch filter unit; an adaptive updating unit; and a unit conversion unit.
US11777426B2
A controller may use energy packets to control a prime mover of a machine. The controller may include an energy packet measurement control to calculate energy packets, perform post-processing actions on the energy packets to generate processed energy packets, and convert the processed energy packets into a fuel valve reference. Post-processing may include a calibration correction to remove measurement artifacts.
US11777422B2
An actuator with a stack of thin layers operates by electrowetting droplets between the layers. The actuator includes a first layer structure and a second layer structure positioned adjacent to the first layer structure. One or more liquid droplets are pinned to one of the layers and are positioned between the layers. The other layer includes electrodes. When the electrodes are energized, they electrostatically attract the liquid droplets to create relative motion between the two layers.
US11777421B2
In a method for adjusting a device voltage of a power storage device, when this device is represented as an equivalent circuit in which a parallel circuit of a capacitive device component and a short-circuit resistance indicating a magnitude of self-discharge of the device component is connected in series with a DC resistance of the power storage device, the power storage device has a property that, while the power storage device is pressed under a load and the device component is charged to generate a component voltage, the component voltage lowers when the load is reduced, but rises when the load is increased. The method includes a) component-voltage changing by load change of changing the load applied to the power storage device under a first load, generating a first component voltage in the device component, from the first load to change the component voltage from the first component voltage.
US11777403B2
An elevator monitoring device that can compensate for system voltage when an unbalanced short circuit occurs. A control device for a power conversion device includes: a current command value generator configured to generate a provisional normal phase d-axis current command value, a provisional normal phase q-axis current command value, a provisional reversed phase d-axis current command value, and a provisional reversed phase q-axis current command value to compensate for an alternating current (AC)-side voltage of a power converter; a limiter configured to respectively set limit values of a provisional normal phase d-axis current command value, a provisional normal phase q-axis current command value, a provisional reversed phase d-axis current command value, and a provisional reversed phase q-axis current command value so that the AC-side current value of the power converter does not exceed a preset value; and a controller configured to control the power converter within the limit values.
US11777401B2
A converter including a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal configured for connection to a first network, the second terminal configured for connection to a second network; at least one switching module arranged to interconnect the first terminal and the second terminal, the switching module including at least one module switching element and at least one energy storage device, the module switching element and the energy storage device arranged to be combinable to selectively provide a voltage source, the switching module switchable to control a transfer of power between the first and second networks; the switching module including a discharge circuit, the discharge circuit including a discharge switching element and a discharge resistor, the discharge switching element switchable to switch the corresponding discharge resistor into and out of the corresponding switching module; and a controller configured to selectively control the switching of the discharge switching element.
US11777399B2
A power drive circuit includes a power conversion module, a plurality of gate drivers, a waveform processing unit, a control unit, a weighting unit, and a comparator. Each gate driver includes a drive resistance setting value. The waveform processing unit outputs a current absolute value waveform of an AC power. The weighting unit generates a trigger voltage. When the comparator determines that the current absolute value waveform is greater than the trigger voltage, the comparator outputs a slew rate control signal to each of the gate drivers. When the gate driver receives the slew rate control signal, each of the gate drivers decreases the drive resistance setting value of the gate driver.
US11777397B2
A multilevel conversion circuit having a flying capacitor is provided, including: a first bridge arm; a second bridge arm including a flying capacitor, the midpoints of the second and first bridge arms connected to a series branch defined by a first current limiting circuit, a power supply and an inductor; a DC bus capacitor connected in parallel to the first and second bridge arms; a rectifier circuit having an input end coupled to the power supply and an output end connected to a first auxiliary power supply; and a controller coupled to the first auxiliary power supply and the plurality of switches of the second bridge arm to control corresponding switches of the second bridge arm, the power supply charges the flying capacitor through the corresponding switches of the first and second bridge arms and the first current limiting circuit.
US11777394B1
A control method improves the efficiency profile of a power supply across a wide range of output loading. The method includes obtaining a measure of output power for a power supply, which includes one or more output modules and an auxiliary power supply. The method determines whether a maximum power rating of the auxiliary power supply is sufficient to provide the measure of output power. Responsive to a determination that the maximum power rating of the auxiliary power supply is sufficient to provide the measure of output power, the controller of the power supply directs the auxiliary power supply to provide the output power.
US11777389B2
Disclosed is a voice coil motor, the motor including a mover having a bobbin equipped with a lens and a coil block secured to an outer circumference of the bobbin; a stator having a magnet that is disposed in such a way as to face the coil block; elastic members coupled to a lower end of the bobbin and connected to both ends of the coil block; a base supporting the elastic members and the stator; and a cover can covering the mover, the stator and the base, with an opening being formed in the cover can to expose the lens therethrough, wherein each of the elastic members includes a terminal portion that extends between the cover can and a side surface of the base, the terminal portion including a short-circuit prevention portion so as to inhibit a short-circuit between the terminal portion and the cover can.
US11777388B2
A transport system includes: a mover having a first magnet group arranged in parallel to a first direction and a second magnet group arranged in parallel to a second direction crossing the first direction; and a plurality of coils arranged in parallel to the first direction so as to be able to face the first magnet group and the second magnet group, and the mover is able to move in the first direction along the plurality of coils by electromagnetic force received by the first magnetic group from the plurality of coils while an attitude of the mover is controlled by electromagnetic force received by the first magnetic group or the second magnetic group from the plurality of coils.
US11777381B2
An electric machine, comprising: a housing enclosing an inner space, a stator and a rotor disposed in the inner space, an axis of rotation of the rotor defining an axial direction. The housing comprises an end wall extending transverse to the axial direction and closing the inner space in the axial direction. A separator element disposed in between the stator and the end wall along the axial direction, and the separator element delimiting a volume within the inner space for receiving an electrical conductor within said volume.
US11777380B2
A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.
US11777367B2
An electric actuator includes a casing having a base, on which an electric motor is fixed having a stator with radially extending straight teeth and having a plurality of coils and a rotor formed by a plurality of magnets. The coils extend in a plane parallel to the base of the casing and the rotor is extended by a pinion forming a worm gear with an axis perpendicular to the orientation of the coils. The worm gear meshes with a threaded rod extending parallel to the base of the casing, wherein the threaded rod is guided at the rear by a fixed smooth bearing or by a fixed nut, with the smooth bearing or nut being rigidly connected to a cover of the casing. The axial end of the worm gear is guided by the cover and a printed circuit, to which the plurality of coils is connected, is positioned between the stator and the threaded rod.
US11777366B2
An electric motor that can facilitate a process of manufacturing the electric motor. The electric motor includes a substrate mounted with an electronic component, a first connector provided on a stator, the first connector configured to receive a power signal input to a coil and a communication signal with the electronic component, and a wiring structure communicably connecting the electronic component and the first connector. The wiring structure has a second connector mounted on the substrate, and a third connector fixed to the stator, the third connector configured to be connected to the second connector and configured to attach the substrate to the stator by an operation of moving the substrate toward the stator.
US11777365B1
A motor includes a flexible variable flow channel arranged in the motor along a heat source distribution direction. The flexible variable flow channel includes a flow channel main body, at least one flexible component module mounted in the flow channel main body, a support body, and a quick adapter. The flow channel main body is configured to store and transfer a heat transferring liquid. The heat transferring liquid is configured to dissipate heat from the heat sources. The at least one flexible component module is configured to change a flow and a flow state of the heat transferring liquid flowing through the at least one flexible component module. The support body is configured to support the at least one flexible component module. The quick adapter is configured to quickly mount the at least one flexible component module. The at least one flexible component module is selected from four structures.
US11777356B2
A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core that has a plurality of slots that are arranged in a circumferential direction and a stator winding that has a plurality of phase coils that are wound in the slots. The rotor is arranged so as to oppose the stator in a radial direction and has a plurality of magnetic poles in the circumferential direction. In the rotating electric machine, each of the phase coils has a plurality of series-connection coil groups that each includes n unit coils that are arranged to be wound in the circumferential direction. In each of the series-connection coil groups, a first end thereof is connected to a phase terminal for a respective phase and a second end is connected to a neutral point, and the series-connection coil groups are connected in parallel.
US11777353B2
A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding formed of a bundle of conducting wires; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is disposed; and an insulating paper disposed between the stator core and the winding in the slot, wherein the conducting wires have a self-fusing property, the insulating paper has a foam layer, and a coolant channel is formed between the conducting wires of the winding.
US11777331B2
This application provides a motor control unit, an electric drive system, a powertrain. A first terminal of a power transmission interface of the motor control unit is connected to a first input terminal of an inverter circuit by using a first direct current switch, and a second terminal of the power transmission interface is connected to a first terminal of a switch circuit. The switch circuit includes three switch branches, where first terminals of the three switch branches are connected to the first terminal of the switch circuit, second terminals of the three switch branches are respectively connected to one-phase output terminals of the inverter circuit, and each switch branch includes a controllable switch. The input terminal of the inverter circuit is connected to a power battery pack by using a second direct current switch. Using the motor control unit reduces a volume and hardware costs, and improves applicability.
US11777315B2
A power converter, a voltage detector that detects a system voltage at an AC wiring side of the power converter; and a controller that performs power conversion control between AC wiring and DC wiring by transmitting a drive signal to the power converter. The controller includes: a phase calculator that calculates a current phase from the system voltage detected by the voltage detector; a phase jump angle calculator that calculates a virtual phase that follows temporal changes in the current phase in a lagging manner, and calculates a phase difference between the current phase and the virtual phase as a phase jump angle; and a drive signal generator that generates the drive signal to the power converter, which is a signal for adjusting active power that is inputted to/outputted from the power converter so as to suppress the phase jump angle.
US11777312B2
A power distribution arrangement for distributing AC power to loads requiring AC power is disclosed. The power distribution arrangement comprises a power distribution substation comprising transformers, switches, buses, and feeders, a DC transmission line, and at least one control unit. The control unit may control operation of the switches to selectively connect or disconnect one or more feeders to or from at least one transformer via one or more buses and to selectively connect or disconnect the DC transmission line to or from one or more feeders via at least one bus, whereby AC power is distributed to the loads via the feeders. The control unit may control operation of the switches based on: loading in and a power transfer rating of respective feeders and transformers, and any power transfer via the DC transmission line from the other power distribution substation to the at least one bus.
US11777307B2
An electronic valve apparatus for a high voltage direct current, HVDC, power transmission system. The electronic valve apparatus includes a first device chain including a number of first devices connected in series between an input node and an output node. Each of the first devices has an asymmetric transfer function configured substantially to block current flow through the device in a first direction, and the first devices are connected such that they all block current flow in the same direction. The electronic valve apparatus also includes a second device chain including a number of second devices connected in series between the input node and the output node. Each of the second devices has an asymmetric transfer function configured substantially to block current flow through the device in a first direction, and the second devices are connected such that they all block current flow in the same direction.
US11777305B2
An electrical apparatus configured to electrically connect to a multi-phase alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution network includes: an input electrical network including: a plurality of input nodes, each configured to electrically connect to one phase of the multi-phase AC electrical power distribution network; at least one non-linear electronic component electrically connected to the input electrical network; an impedance network electrically connected between the input electrical network and ground; and a control system configured to: access a voltage signal that represents a voltage over time at the input electrical network; determine a frequency content of the voltage signal; determine a property of the frequency content; and determine whether an input current performance condition exists in the electrical apparatus based the property of the frequency content.
US11777290B1
The plastic gang box with metal threaded nut attachment is a containment structure. The plastic gang box with metal threaded nut attachment forms a protection space. The protection space contains one or more electrical connections. The plastic gang box with metal threaded nut attachment comprises a gang box, and an insert structure. The gang box is formed from plastic. The insert structure inserts into the gang box. The insert structure is a metal device that is formed with an interior screw thread. The insert structure provides a more durable threaded connection than is available with a traditional plastic gang box.
US11777284B2
Proposed is a pull-out type buried underground field monitoring control panel with a flood double safety structure, in which it allows to control in a pull-out type manner by burying a control panel for controlling traffic lights, street lights, or water supply pipes in the ground, protect various types of electronic devices from moisture or water in the ground using a double sealing structure based on an air pocket principle, and have a double safety structure against flooding by generating internal pressure at a dangerous time point and applying the pressure to the water flowing into the inner box to push it out of the inner box although the air pocket function is degraded as an abnormal condition occurs in the structure of a “Π” shape due to long-time flooding.
US11777278B2
An apparatus is configured to operate in a single fundamental transverse mode and the apparatus includes a waveguide layer between an n-doped cladding layer and a p-doped cladding layer. The waveguide layer includes a first waveguide part, and an active layer located between the first waveguide part and the p-doped cladding layer, the active layer being asymmetrically within the waveguide layer closer to the p-doped cladding layer than the n-doped cladding layer. The refractive index of the n-doped cladding layer being equal to or larger than the p-doped cladding layer. A first end of the first waveguide part is adjacent to the n-doped cladding layer. A second end of the first waveguide part is adjacent to a first end of the active layer. A desired donor density is doped in the first waveguide part for controlling the carrier density dependent internal optical loss in the first waveguide part at high injection levels.
US11777276B2
The present embodiment relates to a single semiconductor light-emitting element including a plurality of light-emitting portions each of which is capable of generating light of a desired beam projection pattern and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor light-emitting element. In the semiconductor light-emitting element, an active layer and a phase modulation layer are formed on a common substrate layer, and the phase modulation layer includes at least a plurality of phase modulation regions arranged along the common substrate layer. The plurality of phase modulation regions are obtained by separating the phase modulation layer into a plurality of places after manufacturing the phase modulation layer, and as a result, the semiconductor light-emitting element provided with a plurality of light-emitting portions that have been accurately aligned can be obtained through a simple manufacturing process as compared with the related art.
US11777264B2
A fuel pump component is provided, including a housing and a cover that fit each other. A fuel pump core is provided in the housing and the fuel pump core is provided with an electrically conductive plate extending outside. A wiring terminal is provided on the cover. The wiring terminal is in electrical contact with the electrically conductive plate when the housing is fitted with the cover. A portion of the wiring terminal that extends outside the cover is bent laterally. A wiring holder covering the wiring terminal is provided on the cover, and the wiring holder has a lateral opening. The new fuel pump component prevents rainwater or dust from entering the wiring holder to ensure a reliable power supply.
US11777260B2
The present invention discloses a charging socket lead frame assembly and a charging socket. The charging socket lead frame assembly has a lead frame which has a frame body and an electrical connection structure arranged in the frame body. The lead frame is adapted to be installed in a cavity of a charging socket, and a plurality of terminals of the charging socket are adapted to pass through the frame body. One end of the electrical connection structure is exposed from the frame body to electrically connect with a lead of a temperature sensor. The lead frame is arranged in non-electrical contact with at least one signal terminal of the charging socket. Therefore, the structure of the lead frame can be simplified and the manufacturing difficulty and cost can be reduced.
US11777253B2
A receptacle connector 20 includes a housing 200 in which a recess 203 for housing a plug connector 30 is formed on a side opposite to a surface mounted on a substrate of the housing, a required number of contacts 220 arranged between end portions of the housing 200, and reinforcement metal fittings 230 each of which is provided on one of the end portions of the housing 200. The reinforcement metal fitting 230 has a cantilever resilient piece 235 that extends in the arrangement direction of the contacts 220, and a contact piece 236 that extends from a free end portion of the cantilever resilient piece 235 and comes into contact with the plug connector 30 when the receptacle connector 20 and the plug connector 30 are fitted to each other.
US11777250B2
An electro-mechanical connection apparatus. The apparatus includes a connection base configured to mechanically support an external device, and a first connection device operably connected to the connection base, wherein the first connection device is configured to operably connect with a second connection device associated with the external device. The first connection device includes a first electrical contact configured to establish an electrical connection with a second electrical contact of the external device, wherein the first electrical contact establishes the electrical connection with the second electrical contact while the connection base mechanically supports the external device.
US11777248B2
An electronic assembly including: a housing for enclosing electronic components within. The housing includes an opening; an input-output port for allowing connection of at least one of the electronic components with at least one input-output device. The input-output port extends through the opening; and a flexibly resilient material integrated with the housing and arranged to partially cover the opening. The flexibly resilient material being dimensioned to complement the dimensions of the input-output port. Also provided is a method of producing the electronic assembly.
US11777247B2
A housing assembly for a connector includes a securing mechanism for securing the connector to a mating connector in a securing position, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism in a locking position locks the securing mechanism in the securing position. The locking mechanism is latchable in a holding position in which the securing mechanism can be moved out of the securing position.
US11777238B2
A receptacle assembly is configured to be disposed on a circuit board and to receive a pluggable module and includes a cage member and a connector. The cage member includes a housing portion and at least one fin portion. The housing portion defines an accommodation space and an insertion hole in fluid communication with the accommodation space. The insertion hole is located at one end of the accommodation space. The fin portion is integrally formed with the housing portion and extends outwardly from an outer surface of the housing portion. The connector is located at another end of the accommodation space. The insertion hole is configured for an insertion of the pluggable module into the accommodation space and the connector is configured to be electrically connected to the pluggable module.
US11777233B2
A conductor connection terminal having an insulating material housing that includes a conductor insertion opening having a conductor insertion channel attached to the conductor insertion opening and a contact pin insertion opening having a contact pin insertion channel attached to the contact pin insertion opening. The conductor connection terminal also has a busbar and a clamping spring. The busbar includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion and the clamping spring has a first clamping limb having a first clamping edge oriented towards the first contact portion of the busbar, a first spring bow, a bearing limb, a second spring bow and a second clamping limb.
US11777230B2
According to one embodiment, an antenna device comprises an antenna panel including a first transmission antenna, a first reception antenna, and a second reception antenna, and a rotation device configured to rotate the antenna panel. A first radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when a rotation angle of the antenna panel is a first angle and a reflected radio wave of the first radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna. A second radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when the rotation angle is a second angle and a reflected radio wave of the second radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna.
US11777223B2
A waveguide 200 for a leaky wave antenna 20 is described. The waveguide 200 comprises a male member 210 (210A-210T) and a corresponding female member 220 (220A-220T) arranged to receive the male member 210 (210A-210T) therein. The waveguide is arrangeable in a first configuration and a second configuration. The male member 210 (210A-210T) is received in the female member 220 (220A-220T) spaced apart therefrom in the first configuration and the second configuration. The first configuration defines a first effective delay line. The second configuration defines a second effective delay line. The first effective delay line is different from the second effective delay line. The leaky wave antenna 20 is also described.
US11777220B2
An apparatus includes a horn having a horn body including at least one horn sidewall defining a first opening that tapers down to a second opening in a direction of elongation and a port that is tubular and dimensionally uniform transverse to the direction of elongation and extends in the direction of elongation from a first port end that is in communication with the second opening to a second port end that defines an external opening. A dielectric rod includes a rod length extending between a first rod end and a second rod end with the first rod end extending through the external opening of the second port end and into the port cavity such that the first rod end is in a spaced apart relationship from the port sidewall along the light path.
US11777209B1
Technologies directed to a hybrid-feed network of a parallel feed network and series-fed sub-arrays are described. The hybrid-feed network includes a parallel feed network and multiple groups of series-fed tiles, each tile including a beamforming integrated circuit (IC) and a set of antenna elements.
US11777208B2
A phase shifter element includes: a first signal path and a second signal path extending in parallel between an input node of the phase shifter element and an output node of the phase shifter element; at least one first signal path e-fuse in the first signal path; and at least one second signal path e-fuse in the second signal path. The phase shifter element is programmable to select one of the first signal path and the second signal path. The phase shifter element has a first phase shift when the first signal path is selected and a second phase shift, different than the first phase shift, when the second signal path is selected.
US11777207B2
A virtual phased-array and associated methods are disclosed for coherent transmission and/or reception of radio signals among antenna elements of the array, where the antenna elements are wirelessly interconnected and one or more of the elements may be moving. In one embodiment, clocks of the antenna elements are synchronized based on a first set of measurements of wireless signal(s) transmitted by one or more of the antenna elements. Relative positions and orientations of the antenna elements are determined based on a second set of measurements of wireless signal(s) transmitted after the synchronizing of the clocks. Weight(s) of a manifold vector are determined based on the relative positions and orientations, to calibrate the manifold vector. A plurality of coherent wireless signals are transmitted via two or more of the antenna elements based on the calibrated manifold vector.
US11777205B2
A periodic metal array structure can be disposed between two antenna modules and include rows of metal unit assemblies that each includes metal units connected to each other in a longitudinal direction. Each metal unit has a first longitudinal strip, two first transverse strips, two second transverse strips, and two second longitudinal strips having shorter longitudinal lengths than that of the first longitudinal strip, and being respectively disposed on the left and right sides of the first longitudinal strip and respectively spaced apart therefrom by intervals at which the second transverse strips are located. The top and bottom ends of the first longitudinal strip are respectively connected with the first transverse strips. At least one first transverse strip can be connected to a first transverse strip of an adjacent metal unit. Each second transverse strip can be connected to the first longitudinal strip and a corresponding second longitudinal strip.
US11777202B2
An antenna module includes an integrated circuit (IC), a substrate having a first region having one or more antenna disposed on a surface thereof and a second region flexibly bent and electrically connected to the IC to provide an electrical connection path to the one or more antenna and the IC, a set substrate electrically connected to the IC, and a set module disposed on the set substrate between the set substrate and the first region.
US11777198B1
A communication system using vector and scalar potential is disclosed. The system uses field-free potentials signaling for many applications where the absence of shielding effects in sea water, plasma or other dense media due to the fact that the absence of (E,B) fields eliminates the possibility of induced charge and current response in the media being transited.
US11777191B2
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication module. The wireless communication module includes a first antenna layer and a second antenna layer non-coplanar with the second antenna layer. An electromagnetic wave of the first antenna and the second antenna are configured to have far-field interference to each other.
US11777188B2
The present disclosure relates to a waveguide arrangement including a mounting printed circuit board, PCB, and at least a first waveguide layer. Each waveguide layer comprises at least a first waveguide conducting tube, each waveguide conducting tube having an electrically conducting inner wall. The PCB includes a signal interface for each waveguide conducting tube. The waveguide arrangement further includes at least a first coupling layer that is positioned between the PCB and the first waveguide conducting tube such that at least the first waveguide conducting tube of the first waveguide layer is connected to the corresponding signal interface via the first coupling layer.
US11777168B2
A battery protection member includes a main body portion and a fixation portion, wherein the battery protection member is connected with a bottom portion of a vehicle via the fixation portion, and the battery protection member is disposed at a front-end side of a battery pack and to be apart from the battery pack. At least a part of a front-end portion of the battery pack is in a range with the fixation portion as a center and having a rotation radius of the battery protection member as a radius. An inclination surface is formed at the front-end side of the main body portion to extend from an upper side toward a rear side and a lower side, and when the inclination surface receives a collision, the angle between the inclination surface and a horizontal direction is decreased.
US11777163B2
To reduce influence of external force on a current collection tab lead and a current collection tab in a laminated cell type battery. A single film of an exterior body contacts and covers a top surface, a bottom surface, and two side surfaces of a battery perpendicular to an end surface of the battery from which a current collection tab and a current collection tab lead are provided to extend, covers the end surface of the battery from which the current collection tab and the current collection tab lead protrude, and is folded in from both short sides of the end surface such that triangular pyramid-shaped spaces are formed on both sides. A reinforcement member is arranged in and joined to each triangular pyramid-shaped space.
US11777162B2
The present disclosure relates to a cap assembly and a secondary battery. The cap assembly includes a cap plate provided with an electrode lead-out hole; an electrode terminal, covering the electrode lead-out hole and including a main body, wherein the main body is provided with a recess on a side wall; an isolating member including a receiving portion, wherein the main body is received in the receiving portion; and a protrusion, connected to an inner wall of the isolating member and extending towards an axis of the electrode lead-out hole, wherein the protrusion is received in the recess so as to prevent the main body from rotating relative to the isolating member. The cap assembly according to the embodiments of the present application can improve an overcurrent capacity and stability of the electrode terminal.
US11777159B2
A traction battery module for a vehicle, with a battery housing, the battery housing having a preferably extruded housing part with hollow chambers formed in it, which extend alongside one another along a central longitudinal direction and are open at the ends. The hollow chambers respectively define a cooling channel. At least one cooling connection adapter is provided, having a non-circular outer circumferential surface in an insertion portion and having been introduced or pressed at the end into one of the hollow chambers with an inner circumferential surface corresponding to the outer circumferential surface of the insertion portion. A pressing engagement is formed, at least in certain portions, between the outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface.
US11777154B2
An open cell detection system includes a battery management system. The battery management system includes a control unit that transmits an open cell detection signal, to enable a balance unit for a first time period and to disable it for a second time period, and to enable an under-voltage comparison unit and an over-voltage comparison unit for a third time period. The under-voltage comparison unit compares a voltage with a first open cell threshold and outputs a first comparison result in the third time period. The over-voltage comparison unit compares a voltage with a second open cell threshold and outputs a second comparison result in the third time period. A judging unit determines whether a connection between a first battery unit and the battery management system is inoperative based on the first and second comparison results.
US11777150B2
A battery module includes a set of power contacts, a set of signal contacts and a battery pack operable to deliver electrical power to the set of power contacts. An electronic isolation system is operable to electrically disconnect and connect the battery pack and the set of power contacts. An electronic control system is electrically connected to the electronic isolation system and to one of the set of signal contacts or the set of power contacts. The electronic control system is operable to measure a parameter associated with one of the battery module and an electrical device and to compare the parameter to a predefined value. The electronic isolation system connects the battery pack to the set of power contacts based on a positive result of the comparison, and disconnects the battery pack and the set of power contacts based on a negative result of the comparison.
US11777149B2
A stackable electrical-energy bussing system, for energy storage battery cells constructed according to the present invention includes a battery cell case having electrically conductive terminals that fit together with the terminals of a similar battery cell in order to enable multiple battery cells to be interconnected physically and electrically by stacking them atop each other. A Stackbatt bussing system housing contains the electricity-producing elements for each cell, connected from each opposing side. Preferably, the battery cell includes at least two such male terminals in spaced-apart relationship on the top side of the cell case, and at least two such female bus tubes that mate and receive with a spaced-apart relationship on both sides of the Stackbatt bussing system. Preferably, a multi-cell battery bussing system constructed to the invention includes multiple battery cells as described above, stacked when desired to achieve desired battery voltage for series and or parallel configurations.
US11777140B2
A solid electrolyte according to the present disclosure is represented by the following compositional formula (1). Li7-x(La3-zYz)(Zr2-xMx)O12 (1) In the formula (1), x and z satisfy 0.00
US11777128B1
Provided are flow batteries that include a fluidic train within a dynamic fluidic network system which fluidic train is convertible between a first state and a second state, the first state the first state placing a main electrolyte source and a dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and an electrode region, into fluid communication with the electrode region and the second state placing the main electrolyte source and the dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and the electrode region, into fluid isolation from the electrode region and placing the electrode region into fluid communication with a sampling segment. Also provided are methods of operating flow batteries.
US11777127B2
Provided is a microbial fuel cell including a cathode and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a waterproof gas diffusion layer including a siloxane and a catalyst layer including a binder, wherein a surface of the gas diffusion layer opposite the catalyst layer contacts air, and the anode includes electrogenic bacteria. Also provided is a method for making a microbial fuel cell, including fabricating a cathode, wherein fabricating includes disposing a siloxane solution onto a surface of a substrate, wherein the siloxane solution includes a siloxane and a solvent, drying the siloxane solution to form a waterproof gas diffusion layer, and placing the gas diffusion layer on a catalyst layer including a binder, and facing an anode with the cathode whereby the gas diffusion layer faces away from the anode and contacts air.
US11777119B2
In a tubular body mounting step, a tubular body is connected to a first end constituting member and a second end constituting member of a fuel cell stack, respectively. At this time, a first opening and a second opening formed at both ends of the tubular body are closed by the first end constituting member and the second end constituting member, respectively. Accordingly, the fuel cell stack is surrounded by the tubular body. A gap is formed between the outer wall of unit cells of the fuel cell stack and the inner wall of the tubular body. In a determination step, a test gas is supplied into the fuel cell stack. Further, whether the test gas exists in the gap is determined.
US11777117B2
A connector system (1) for coupling one fluid conduit to another fluid conduit comprises a first connector element (2) having a mating surface extending around an insertion axis of the connector element. The mating surface incorporates first and second resilient peripheral seals (7, 9) extending around the mating surface, the first and second peripheral seals (7, 9) having different diameters and being separated along the insertion axis. The first connector element (2) bearing the peripheral seals (7, 9) can be the female connector (2), such as shown, or can be the male connector (3).
US11777114B2
A fuel cell comprising a series of cascaded cell stacks comprising at least one humidifier-degasser coupled to the cell stacks proximate a stack inlet; the at least one humidifier-degasser comprising at least one degasification section fluidly coupled upstream of at least one humidifier section; and at least one inert concentrator cell coupled downstream from the cell stacks proximate a stack vent.
US11777105B2
A method of manufacturing a proton-conducting fuel cell includes assembling a green anode-electrolyte half-cell by forming an anode substrate layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, forming an anode functional layer on the upper surface of the anode substrate layer, forming an electrolyte layer on an upper surface of the anode functional layer, and forming a stress balancing layer on the lower surface of the anode substrate layer. The method further includes positioning the green anode-electrolyte half-cell on kiln furniture inside a sintering kiln and sintering the green anode-electrolyte half-cell using SSRS to an anode-electrolyte half-cell.
US11777098B2
Systems and methods for conductive polymer monomers as cathode additives for silicon-based lithium ion batteries may include a silicon-based anode, an electrolyte, and a cathode. The cathode may include an active material and small amounts of dispersed conductive polymer monomer additive. The cathode active material may include one or more of nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA), nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NCM), lithium iron phosphate (LFP), lithium cobalt oxide (LCO), and lithium manganese oxide (LMO). The conductive polymer monomer additive may any known monomer based on thiophene, aniline, and/or pyrrole core structures alone or in combination. The conductive polymer monomer additive may comprise 5% or less by weight of the active material, or 1% or less by weight of the active material, or 0.5% or less by weight of the active material.
US11777087B2
A system for electrical energy production from chemical reagents in a compartmentalized cell includes: at least two electrodes, comprising at least one anode and at least one cathode; at least one separator, that separates the anodes and the cathodes; and an ionic liquid electrolyte system. The system can be a battery or one or more cells of a battery system. The ionic liquid electrolyte system comprises an ionic liquid solvent; an ether co-solvent, comprising a minority fraction, by weight, of the electrolyte; and a lithium salt. In preferred variations, the anode is a lithium metal anode and the cathode is a metal oxide cathode and the separator is a polyolefin separator.
US11777083B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, and the positive electrode active material includes a positive electrode active material particle containing a lithium transition metal compound, and a coating portion coating at least a part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle. The coating portion contains a lithium ionic conductor containing lithium, a phosphoric acid group, and at least one element of lanthanum (La) and cerium (Ce).
US11777081B2
The present invention provides a multilayer assembly comprising a metallic layer that is at least partially coated with a hybrid inorganic/organic composition, a method for its preparation and an electrochemical cell comprising said multilayer assembly.
US11777077B2
Silicon particles for use in an electrode in an electrochemical cell are provided. The silicon particles may have outer regions extending about 20 nm deep from the surfaces, the outer regions comprising an amount of aluminum such that a bulk measurement of the aluminum comprises at least about 0.01% by weight of the silicon particles. The bulk measurement of the aluminum may provide the amount of aluminum present at least in the outer regions.
US11777076B2
An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer including a solid electrolyte, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer includes an anode current collector, a first anode active material layer in contact with the solid electrolyte layer, and a second anode active material layer disposed between the anode current collector and the first anode active material layer, wherein the first anode active material layer includes a first carbonaceous anode active material, and the second anode active material layer.
US11777075B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, a preparing method thereof, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are provided. The positive active material includes: a first positive active material in a form of secondary particles in which a plurality of primary particles are aggregated, wherein at least a portion of the primary particles have a radially arranged structure, and a second positive active material having a monolithic structure, wherein both the first positive active material and the second positive active material are nickel-based positive active materials, each of the first positive active material and the second positive active material is coated with cobalt, and a maximum roughness of the surface of the second positive active material is greater than or equal to about 15 nm.
US11777069B2
A light emitting module includes a board, light sources, first and second wirings, and an insulating member. Each of the light sources includes first and second electrodes exposed from an upper side. The first wiring includes first extending portions and first connecting portions. The second wiring includes second extending portions and second connecting portions. The insulating member covers the first wiring and the second extending portions of the second wiring while a portion of each of the second extending portions of the second wiring is exposed from the insulating member through a corresponding one of the openings. The second connecting portions of the second wiring are arranged on or above a part of the insulating member positioned on or above the first connecting portions of the first wiring. The second connecting portions of the second wiring are respectively connected to the second extending portions at the openings.
US11777065B2
A white-light-emitting inorganic light-emitting-diode (iLED) structure comprises first iLEDs electrically connected in series, each first iLED emitting a different color of light from any other first iLED when electrical power is provided to the first iLEDs, and a second iLED electrically connected to one of the first iLEDs, the second iLED emitting the same color of light as the one of the first iLEDs when electrical power is provided to the first iLEDs. The second iLED can be electrically connected in series or in parallel with the one of the first iLEDs. Such iLED structures can be used at least in displays, lamps, and indicators.
US11777063B2
A method for manufacturing a planar light source includes: preparing a structure body including a wiring substrate, a light guide plate including a first major surface, a second major surface, and an inner side surface defining a first hole with an opening on a first major surface side, and a light source arranged on the wiring substrate in the first hole; injecting a first resin material downward through the opening of the first hole, the first resin material including a light-diffusing agent; and curing the first resin material to form a first resin layer on a wiring substrate between the inner side surface of the first hole and a first side surface of a first light-transmitting member.
US11777058B2
A light-emitting device (LED) includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer facing the first semiconductor layer, an insulating layer arranged to at least partially surround outer surfaces of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a first ligand bonded to a surface of the insulating layer and a second ligand bonded to the first ligand.
US11777057B2
A spherical LED chip, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display panel, and a method for spherical LED chip transfer are provided. The spherical LED chip includes a first electrode, a second electrode surrounding the first electrode and having magnetism, and a first insulating protective layer arranged at the outside of the first electrode. The first insulating protective layer and the second electrode form an LED housing configured to wrap the first electrode and with a spherical outer contour.
US11777056B2
Provided is a nanorod light-emitting device including a first semiconductor layer doped with a first conductive type impurity, an emission layer disposed above the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed above the emission layer and doped with a second conductive type impurity that is electrically opposite to the first conductive type impurity, a conductive layer disposed between at least one of a center portion of a lower surface of the emission layer and the first semiconductor layer and a center portion of an upper surface of the emission layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a current blocking layer surrounding a sidewall of the conductive layer.
US11777054B1
A light-emitting diode includes a first semiconductor region of one of p- or n-conductivity types, a second semiconductor region of the other one of p- or n-conductivity types, forming a p-n junction with the first semiconductor region, and a quantum well layer at the p-n junction between the first and second semiconductor regions. A hyperbolic metamaterial structure is provided in the second semiconductor region. The hyperbolic metamaterial structure is coupled to the quantum well layer for extracting light from the quantum well layer. The hyperbolic metamaterial structure may be patterned to provide an array of nanoantennas to apodize the emitted beam, and to control the polarization state of the emitted beam.
US11777052B2
A method of repairing a light emitting device, comprises: providing a light emitting device comprising a carrier board and a first light emitting unit; destroying the first light emitting unit and forming a removal surface on the light emitting device; planarizing the removal surface; providing a bonding structure on the removal surface; and fixing a second light emitting unit on the planarized removal surface through the bonding material.
US11777048B2
A sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a light absorbing layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light absorbing layer may have a first absorption spectrum having a first absorption peak in a first infrared wavelength region and a second absorption peak in a second infrared wavelength region, the second infrared wavelength region being a longer wavelength region than the first infrared wavelength region. The second absorption spectrum does not at least partially overlap with the first absorption spectrum. The second absorption spectrum may have a lower absorption intensity than the first absorption spectrum. An external quantum efficiency (EQE) spectrum that is amplified in the second infrared wavelength region is exhibited in the sensor.
US11777043B1
A substrate is formed to include a substrate base and a substrate extension. A photodiode contacts the substrate base. The substrate extension is adjacent the photodiode. An additional device contacts the substrate extension. A sidewall spacer contacts the photodiode and the substrate extension. The additional device includes conductive elements within the substrate extension adjacent the sidewall spacer.
US11777040B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a photo sensing region, and a plurality of semiconductor plugs. The photo sensing region is in the substrate. The photo sensing region forms a p-n junction with the substrate. The semiconductor plugs extend from above the photo sensing region into the photo sensing region.
US11777033B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first isolation feature and a second isolation feature, a fin structure extending lengthwise along a first direction and sandwiched between the first isolation feature and the second isolation feature along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first channel member disposed over the first isolation feature, a second channel member disposed over the second isolation feature, and a gate structure disposed over and wrapping around the first channel member and the second channel member.
US11777026B2
A semiconductor device is described. The semiconductor device includes: a Si substrate having a first main surface; a plurality of gate trenches extending from the first main surface into the Si substrate; a semiconductor mesa between adjacent gate trenches; a first interlayer dielectric on the first main surface; a plurality of first metal contacts extending through the first interlayer dielectric and contacting gate electrodes disposed in the gate trenches; a plurality of second metal contacts extending through the first interlayer dielectric and contacting the semiconductor mesas; and an air gap or a dielectric material having a lower dielectric constant than the first interlayer dielectric between adjacent first and second metal contacts. Methods of producing the semiconductor device are also described.
US11777023B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first GaN-based high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT), a second GaN-based HEMT, a first interconnection, and a second interconnection is provided. The substrate has a plurality of first-type doped semiconductor regions and second-type doped semiconductor regions. The first GaN-based HEMT is disposed over the substrate to cover a first region on the first-type doped semiconductor regions and the second-type doped semiconductor regions in the substrate. The second GaN-based HEMT is disposed over the substrate to cover a second region. The first region is different from the second region. The first interconnection is disposed over and electrically connected to the substrate, forming a first interface. The second interconnection is disposed over and electrically connected to the substrate, forming a second interface. The first interface is separated from the second interface by at least two heterojunctions formed in the substrate.
US11777015B2
Microfabrication of a collection of transistor types on multiple transistor planes in which both HV (high voltage transistors) and LV (low-voltage transistors) stacks are designed on a single substrate. As high voltage transistors require higher drain-source voltages (Vds), higher gate voltages (Vg), and thus higher Vt (threshold voltage), and relatively thicker 3D gate oxide thicknesses, circuits made as described herein provide multiple different threshold voltages devices for both low voltage and high voltage devices for NMOS and PMOS, with multiple different gate oxide thickness values to enable multiple transistor planes for 3D devices.
US11777011B2
Integrated circuitry comprises an electronic component. Insulative silicon dioxide is adjacent the electronic component. The insulative silicon dioxide has at least one of (a) and (b), where: (a): an average concentration of elemental-form H of 0.002 to 0.5 atomic percent; and (b): an average concentration of elemental-form N of 0.005 to 0.3 atomic percent. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US11777010B2
A semiconductor structure includes a gate stack over a substrate and a blocking layer disposed between the gate stack and the substrate. The gate stack includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a ferroelectric layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, and a first seed layer disposed between the ferroelectric layer and the lower electrode. The blocking layer includes doped hafnium oxide.
US11777009B2
A semiconductor device and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, first and second source/drain (S/D) regions, a channel between the first and second S/D regions, a gate engaging the channel, and a contact feature connecting to the first S/D region. The contact feature includes first and second contact layers. The first contact layer has a conformal cross-sectional profile and is in contact with the first S/D region on at least two sides thereof. In embodiments, the first contact layer is in direct contact with three or four sides of the first S/D region so as to increase the contact area. The first contact layer includes one of a semiconductor-metal alloy, an III-V semiconductor, and germanium.
US11777008B2
A gate-all-around structure is provided. The gate-all-around structure includes a plurality of nanostructures stacked over a substrate in a vertically direction, and the nanostructures extends from a gate region to a source/drain (S/D) region. The gate-all-around structure includes a gate structure formed in the gate region around the first nanostructures, and a S/D structure formed in the S/D region. The S/D structure is in direct contact with a top surface of one of the nanostructures.
US11777003B2
A semiconductor structure includes an epitaxial region having a front side and a backside. The semiconductor structure includes an amorphous layer formed over the backside of the epitaxial region, wherein the amorphous layer includes silicon. The semiconductor structure includes a first silicide layer formed over the amorphous layer. The semiconductor structure includes a first metal contact formed over the first silicide layer.
US11777002B2
A transistor includes a trench formed in a semiconductor substrate with the trench having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A gate region includes a conductive material filled in the trench. A drift region having a first conductivity type is formed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second sidewall. A drain region is formed in the drift region and separated from the second sidewall by a first distance. A dielectric layer is formed at the top surface of the semiconductor substrate covering the gate region and the drift region between the second sidewall and the drain region. A field plate is formed over the dielectric layer and isolated from the conductive material and the drift region by way of the dielectric layer.
US11776997B2
In a general aspect, a semiconductor device can include a semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a well region of a second conductivity type. The well region can be disposed in the semiconductor region. An interface between the well region and the semiconductor region can define a diode junction at a depth below an upper surface of the semiconductor region. The semiconductor device can further include at least one dielectric region disposed in the semiconductor region. A dielectric region of the at least one dielectric region can have an upper surface that is disposed in the well region at a depth in the semiconductor region that is above the depth of the diode junction; and a lower surface that is disposed in the semiconductor region at a depth in the semiconductor region that is the same depth as the diode junction or below the depth of the diode junction.
US11776996B2
An ESD protection device includes a semiconductor body having an upper surface, a plurality of p-type wells that each extend from the upper surface into the semiconductor body, a plurality of n-type wells that each extend from the upper surface into the semiconductor body, first isolation regions comprising an electrical insulator that laterally surrounds the p-type wells and extends from the upper surface into the semiconductor body at least as deep as the p-type wells, and second isolation regions comprising an electrical insulator that laterally surrounds the n-type wells and extends from the upper surface into the semiconductor body at least as deep as the n-type wells, wherein the p-type wells and the n-type wells alternate with one another a first direction, and wherein an isolating area of the first isolation regions is greater than an isolating area of the second isolation regions.
US11776994B2
A silicon carbide MOSFET device and method for making thereof are disclosed. The silicon carbide MOSFET device comprises a substrate heavily doped with a first conductivity type and an epitaxial layer lightly doped with the first conductivity type. A body region of a second conductivity type opposite the first is formed in epitaxial layer and an accumulation mode region of the first conductivity type is formed in the body region and an inversion mode region of the second conductivity type formed in the body region. The accumulation mode region is located between the inversion mode region and a junction field effect transistor (JFET) region of the epitaxial layer.
US11776986B2
Disclosed herein are various methods of packaging a semiconductor X-ray detector. The methods may include bonding chips including an X-ray absorption layer or including both an X-ray absorption layer and an electronic layer onto another support such as an interposer substrate or a printed circuit board.
US11776983B2
Image sensor structures are provided. The image sensor structure includes a substrate and a light-sensing region formed in the substrate. The image sensor structure further includes a first isolation structure surrounding the light sensing region and having an opening region in a top view and a second isolation structure formed in the substrate. In addition, the second isolation structure surrounds the light-sensing region and vertically overlaps both the opening region and the first isolation structure. The image sensor structure further includes a first gate structure formed over the substrate and overlapping the opening region, the first isolation structure, and the second isolation structure.
US11776981B2
A method of eliminating interconnect strains in a stack-up is provided. The method includes providing a detector portion including a detector substrate and detector layers, providing a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) stack-up including ROIC layers and an initial ROIC substrate, removing the initial ROIC substrate from the ROIC layers, attaching a new ROIC substrate to a first surface of the ROIC layers, the new ROIC substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that matches a CTE of the detector substrate and hybridizing the detector layers to a second surface of the ROIC layers by way of interconnects.
US11776979B2
A photosensitive device includes a semiconductor substrate and a photodiode. The semiconductor substrate has a patterned semiconductor polarizer having a semiconductor surface. The photodiode is in the semiconductor substrate.
US11776977B2
A laminate includes a colored layer and a light attenuating layer, in which the colored layer and the light attenuating layer are laminated, and a difference ΔT1 between a maximum value and a minimum value of light transmittance of the light attenuating layer in a wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm is 10% or less.
