US11870798B2
A method for minimizing scan disruptions includes receiving a scan request requesting to scan a set of network-connected assets. Each network-connected asset is associated with corresponding network characteristics. The method includes partitioning the set of network-connected assets into a plurality of groups based on the corresponding network characteristics. For each respective group, simultaneously, the method includes determining an ordered list for scanning each network-connected asset in the respective group, scanning a first network-connected asset of the respective group based on the ordered list, and, after scanning the first network-connected asset, determining a post-scan health status of the first network-connected asset. The method includes determining, using the post-scan health status, that a health of the first network-connected asset is degraded. The method also includes, in response to determining that the health of the first network-connected asset is degraded, halting scanning of further network-connected assets in the respective group.
US11870789B2
An unauthorized message in an in-vehicle network is more accurately detected. A detection device includes: a monitoring unit configured to monitor, as target messages, an authorized message being periodically transmitted and the unauthorized message in the in-vehicle network, and monitor a reference message being periodically transmitted; a calculation unit configured to, based on a monitoring result of the monitoring unit, calculate a time difference between a time corresponding to a transmission time of the target message and a time corresponding to a transmission time of the reference message; and a detection unit configured to, based on the time difference calculated by the calculation unit, perform a detection process of detecting the unauthorized message.
US11870776B2
A method, system, and apparatus, including a program encoded on computer-readable medium, for routing communications to a mobile device includes registering a cellular telephone identifier with a visitor location register associated with a bridge mobile switching center adapted to receive communication through a cellular backbone network and route communications over a packet-switched network and determining that cellular communications using the cellular telephone identifier are disabled. A home location register associated with the cellular telephone is notified that the cellular telephone is roaming in a network served by the visitor location register. A communication directed to the cellular telephone is received at the bridge mobile switching center. The received communication is routed to the cellular telephone.
US11870775B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a computer-implemented method comprising, receiving a first request that includes a token associated with a first computing device to utilize a shared resource implemented by a federated network of computing devices. The method further comprises identifying that the first computing device is an unknown entity based in part on the token and one or more signature used to sign the token. The method further comprises transmitting, to a trust management system, a second request to authenticate the first computing device using the token. The method further comprises, receiving an authentication message that verifies the first computing device within an open trust network. The authentication message may be generated in response to the trust management system communicating with a plurality of registrar computers in the open trust network about the signatures associated with the token.
US11870770B2
Embodiments are directed to a multi-tenant cloud system. Embodiments receive a request for an authentication action for a user and create an authenticate target action. Embodiments register a cache listener to listen for a target action response that is responsive to the authenticate target action and initiate the authentication action for the user at an on-premise active directory (“AD”) via a bridge. Embodiments wait for a cache callback and, at the cache callback, receive a target action response comprising a result of the authentication action.
US11870763B2
Systems and methods for identifying and transacting with accounts across multiple external systems using inter-system account identifiers, without exposing internal account identifiers of an originating system, are disclosed. An example method, executed by the originating system, includes generating a first and a second inter-system account identifier based on a first and a second request, respectively, received at the originating system from a first and a second external system, respectively, that provide different services to an internal account of the originating system. The first and second inter-system account identifiers are communicated to the first and the second external system, respectively. When a data communication including the first inter-system account identifier and payload data is received from the first external system, the first internal account is retrieved using the first inter-system account identifier, the payload data is associated with the first internal account, and stored in an originating system data store.
US11870757B1
Techniques are described that include detecting customer personal information within any appropriate set of data, such as customer communications produced by customer-facing services offered by an organization. Once detected, the customer personal information may be tokenized within the customer communications, making the data appropriate for external systems, such as cloud-hosted applications. The disclosed techniques include a masking service that may be plugged into an on-premises pipeline of any customer-facing service that makes requests to an off-premises, cloud-hosted application. The masking service may apply rule-based detection and/or machine learning-based detection to detect both structured and unstructured customer personal information included in customer communications. The masking service may further tokenize or otherwise obfuscate or replace the detected customer personal information. The tokenized customer communications may then be included in the requests to the cloud-hosted application or otherwise transmitted to external systems without exposing the customer personal information.
US11870753B2
A network system is provided between at least a first client site and a second client site, the first and the second client site are at a distance from one another. A client site network component is implemented at least at the first client site, the client site network component bonding or aggregating one or more diverse network connections so as to configure a bonded/aggregated connection that has increased throughput. At least one network server component may be configured to connect to the client site network component using the bonded/aggregated connection. A cloud network controller may be configured to manage the data traffic and a virtual edge providing transparent lower-link encryption for the bonded/aggregated connection between the client site network component and the network server component.
US11870751B2
An approach to establish connections between clusters having overlapping IP address ranges. A method includes receiving, at a service discovery server, from a first node in a first cluster, a service discovery request including a unique name, determining, at the service discovery server, that the unique name resolves to a destination IP address of a second node in a second cluster, determining that the destination IP address overlaps with an IP address range associated with the first cluster, in response to determining that the destination IP address overlaps with the IP address range belonging to the first cluster, configuring a gateway to expect a network connection request from the first node that includes an IP address of the gateway, and sending a service discovery response to the first node, the service discovery response including the IP address of the gateway, but not the destination IP address.
US11870748B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to subjecting a message to a group rule that causes any message, in a message thread that includes the message, to include certain addresses, regardless of the addresses that are incorporated, by a user, into an address field of a reply message. The group rule can reduce a number of messages that are not provided to a group of intended recipients because of message originators omitting the intended recipients on important messages. Furthermore, this can reduce a number of messages that are sent to compensate for certain reply messages not being received by all intended recipients. A group rule can be modified by any recipient that does not desire to be included in the group rule, and a group rule can expire when one or more conditions are satisfied, thereby causing certain messages to no longer be subject to the group rule.
US11870746B2
Provided is a method for chatting messages by topic based on subscription channel reference in a server. The method may include: receiving a message transmission request from a first user terminal corresponding to a first user to a second user terminal corresponding to a second user; extracting a subscription channel to be referred to by parsing the received message; reading a corresponding client handler with reference to a subscription channel stored in a subscription channel storage; and transmitting a message to the first and second user terminals through the read client handler.
US11870745B1
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.
US11870741B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for efficiently and dynamically integrating a chatbot into an application service. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that dynamically build custom components that enable the chatbot to communicate and facilitate the use of the application service directly from the chatbot application. Accordingly, the systems and methods described herein provide the benefit of integrating the chatbot application into an application service without having the application developer write code for the integration, thereby enhancing the computational efficiency of the integration and the reliability of the application service when new services or service functionality are added or modified.
US11870740B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to chatbot conversation management. In one example of the technology, a generic model associated with a first property associated with a chatbot manager is received. The generic model is generated based on machine learning. A refined model that is associated with the first property is generated based on the generic model and a first plurality of phrases. A first conversation is held between a chatbot and an end user. Upon determining that the value of the first property for the end user is not stored in the database, via the chatbot, during the first conversation, the refined model is used to dynamically ask questions to the end user to determine a value of the first property for the end user. In a second conversation between the chatbot and the end user, the value of the first property for the end user is referenced.
US11870732B2
A method in a User Equipment (UE) for activation or deactivation of a carrier in a communication network supporting carrier aggregation is provided. The method comprises: receiving a control signal for a transmission of a carrier activation or deactivation message command, the control signal including an indication of a first resource for the UE to transmit a feedback message to a network node; receiving a carrier activation or deactivation message; wherein the carrier activation or deactivation message comprises an indication of a second resource for the UE to transmit the feedback message to the network node; decoding the received carrier activation or deactivation message; and sending the feedback message using one of the first resource and the second resource based at least on a result of the decoding of the carrier activation or deactivation message. A UE for performing this method is also provided.
US11870728B2
In multi-beam communication, the UE may assist in the scheduling of beams utilized during the multi-beam communication by improving the manner in which the quality of the beam is reported to the network. The apparatus may measure a signal received from a base station on at least one beam. The apparatus may detect a triggering event for providing CSI for the at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an uplink transmission comprising a CSI report in response to detecting the triggering event. The apparatus may receive an uplink request from a UE for providing CSI for at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an indication scheduling a CSI report in response to the uplink request. The apparatus may receive an uplink transmission from the UE comprising the CSI report for the at least one beam.
US11870718B2
A method for wireless communication by a first wireless device is provided. The method includes receiving one or more instances of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS), generating CSI based on one or more of the CSI-RS instances, determining timing for transmitting the CSI based, at least in part, on at least one condition involving the CSI-RS instances, and transmitting the CSI in accordance with the determined timing.
US11870717B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a method for receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, CSI-RS configuration information indicating a CSI-RS configuration about mapping of the CSI-RS; and receiving, from the base station, the CSI-RS which is transmitted through multiple antenna ports, on the basis of the received CSI-RS configuration information, wherein, when the CSI-RS configuration is a 32-port CSI-RS configuration into which four 8-port CSI-RS configurations are aggregated, a code division multiplexing (CDM)-8 pattern, in which the number of orthogonal weight vectors is 8, is applied to the 32-port CSI-RS configuration, wherein the CDM-8 pattern may be applied to one resource element (RE)-pair selected for each of the aggregated 8-port CSI-RS configurations.
US11870714B2
A device and method in which a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences is allocated to a frame, a value of a parameter in the Zadoff-Chu sequence is different among the plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences, and the Zadoff-Chu sequence allocated to the frame is different among a plurality of cells.
US11870712B1
Technologies are provided for distributed network management. An access-point computing device is configured to receive commands that target network devices in different computer networks. When a command is received, the access-point device determines which network is targeted by the command and stores the command in a queue associated with that network. Other computing devices are configured to access the multiple computer networks and to execute commands that target devices in the multiple networks. These other computing devices can be configured to transmit requests for commands to the access-point device. When such a request is received, the access-point device determines which network the request is for, retrieves a command from the queue associated with the computer network, and transmits the command to the requestor. The requestor, upon receipt of the command, executes the command against network device(s) in the computer network and transmits any result back to the first computing device.
US11870711B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically changing a network system. A method includes receiving a set of first intents that describe a state of a first switch fabric; receiving a set of second intents that describe a state of a second switch fabric; computing a set of network operations to perform on the first switch fabric to achieve the second switch fabric, the set of operations also defining an order in which the operations are to be executed, and the set of operations determined based on the set of first intents, the set of second intents, and migration logic that defines a ruleset for selecting the operations based on the set of first intents and the second intents; and executing the set of network operations according to the order, to apply changes to elements within the first switch fabric to achieve the state of the second switch fabric.
US11870701B2
A data transmission method for to a data center including a first site and a second site is disclosed. According to the data transmission method, after obtaining a first data packet sent by a virtual machine at the first site, a switch at the first site identifies a service type of the first data packet, and determines routing information of the first data packet based on the service type of the first data packet; and after determining the routing information, the switch sends the first data packet based on the routing information, where the routing information is used to indicate a bearer link for transmitting the first data packet, and a link through which the first data packet is transmitted to the second site is the bearer link. In this way, the first data packet may be transmitted through a link that corresponds to the service type of the first data packet.
US11870699B1
A system and method for multi-channel network congestion control. A method includes establishing multi-channel control over a plurality of communication channels by connecting each of the plurality of communication channels to a scheduling component and to a synchronizing component; determining a packet routing scheme for a plurality of packets of a data stream based on feedback from each of the plurality of communication channels, wherein the packet routing scheme includes a routing of each packet to a respective communication channel of the plurality of communication channels; and sending the plurality of packets via their respective communication channels, wherein each of the sent packets includes timing data, wherein the synchronizing component is configured to synchronize the plurality of packets based on the timing data of each packet and to reconstruct the data stream using the synchronized packets.
US11870696B2
A method and system for increasing the collection of network traffic data in a network based on the occurrence of predetermined criteria. A network appliance manages network traffic in the network and passes data traffic on the network. Network traffic data is collected based on the data traffic passing through the network appliance at a normal level. It is determined whether the network traffic data indicates an abnormal condition. The collection of network traffic data is increased through the network traffic appliance when an abnormal condition is detected. The network traffic data from the increased collection is stored in a memory device.
US11870694B2
A CPE receives, over a first connection with a wireless network, a network-assigned prefix for the CPE. The CPE creates a prefix based on a subset of bits from the network assigned prefix. The CPE transmits, over a second connection with a LAN router device, the prefix created by the CPE as a WAN prefix for the LAN router device and the network assigned prefix as a LAN prefix for the LAN router device.
US11870686B2
A routing information processing method and apparatus. The method includes a first network device determines a first segment identifier corresponding to a second network device and a first locator. The first network device determines a second segment identifier corresponding to a third network device and a second locator. The first network device sends routing information that includes the first segment identifier and the second segment identifier. A fourth network device advertises mirror routing information specific to the first network device, where the mirror routing information includes the second segment identifier or the second locator.
US11870684B2
Systems and methods for micro-loop avoidance include detecting a remote link failure in a network and identifying an associated Point of Local Repair (PLR); determining destinations in the network that are impacted due to the remote link failure; and installing of a temporary tunnel to the PLR. The steps can further include sending traffic destined for nodes impacted by the remote link failure via the temporary tunnel to the PLR. The temporary tunnel can be implemented by a node Segment Identifier (SID) for the PLR.
US11870683B2
A method for improving availability of a type of network element in a mobile network includes receiving a first message from a source network element at a first network element instance that belongs to a network element anycast set. The first message is addressed to an anycast address that is assigned to the network element anycast set. The first network element instance processes the first message and accesses an anycast set data store in relation to processing the first message. The method also includes receiving a second message from the source network element at a second network element instance that also belongs to the network element anycast set. The second message is also addressed to the anycast address and can be received when the first network element instance is unavailable. The second network element instance processes the second message and accesses the anycast set data store in relation thereto.
US11870675B1
Systems and methods include transmission of a first request for a first connection to a first service, usage of a first reverse proxy process to manage a first connection based on a first service configuration, change, in response to the first request, the first service configuration to a second service configuration, instantiate, in response to the change to the second service configuration, a second reverse proxy process based on the second service configuration, transmit, in response to the change to the second service configuration, a second request for a second connection to the first service an use of the second reverse proxy process to manage the second connection in response to the second request, wherein the first reverse proxy process and the second reverse proxy process execute simultaneously.
US11870673B2
Various methods and systems for facilitating network traffic monitoring in association with an application running on a client device are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention facilitate monitoring network traffic being transmitted to and/or from a client device, such as a mobile device, so that network performance can be analyzed. In various implementations, one or more default classes associated with an application on a device are replaced with one or more custom monitoring classes designed to facilitate monitoring data packets being communicated to or from the application. The custom monitoring classes can then be utilized to facilitate monitoring a plurality of data packets communicated to or from the application.
US11870662B2
Embodiments may be generally directed to techniques to cause communication of a registration request between a first end-point and a second end-point of an end-to-end path, the registration request to establish resource load monitoring for one or more resources of the end-to-end path, receive one or more acknowledgements indicating resource loads for each of the one or more resources of the end-to-end path, at least one of the acknowledgements to indicate a resource of the one or more resources is not meeting a threshold requirement for the end-to-end path, and perform an action for communication traffic utilizing the one or more resources based on the acknowledgement.
US11870658B2
A method and an apparatus for updating a gateway resource, and an Internet of Things (IoT) control platform, which belong to the field of IoT. The method is applicable to the IoT control platform connected to each gateway device, and the gateway device is connected to an IoT device. The method includes: acquiring a model change message including a change model identifier of a changed model, wherein different IoT devices correspond to different models, and each model contains measuring point information of a measuring point in the IoT device; determining an associated template based on the change model identifier and updating the associated template, the associated template containing a corresponding relationship between the measuring point information and a measuring point identifier in the changed model, and the measuring point identifier being applicable to a measuring point data message sent by the IoT device; determining a target gateway device that uses the associated template; and issuing a gateway resource update package to the target gateway device, the target gateway device being configured to update the gateway resource based on the gateway resource update package.
US11870644B2
Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present. In some situations, the networking functionality provided for a managed computer network of a client includes receiving routing communications directed to the virtual networking devices and using included routing information to update the configuration of the managed computer network, such as to allow at least some computing nodes of a managed computer network to dynamically signal particular types of uses of one or more indicated target network addresses and/or to dynamically signal use of particular external public network addresses based on such routing information.
US11870638B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring status of a network configured to provide end-to-end delivery of services to priority user equipment authorized according to a prioritized class of service and other user equipment not authorized for the prioritized class of service. The prioritized class of service extends a reserved network capacity for end-to-end delivery of a service via first domain including first network slices and a second domain including second network slices. A network interruption compromising the reserved capacity is determined based on the monitored status and integration of an alternate group of slices into one of the first network domain, the second network domain, or both to replace the compromised group of slices, is orchestrated. Integration of the alternate group of slices restores reserved network capacity according to the prioritized class of service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11870635B2
Disclosed here are systems and methods for integration of third-party, dynamic embedded processes into a single process residing within a server or network. The disclosed technology enables entities and third-party service providers to communicate and share data and processes with each other on a single platform, which a user can engage with to access both the embedded processes and other processes internal to the platform. Integration of embedded-process communications also generates visualization of the processes between the entities responsible for completion of the process and the third-party service providers they engage to assist them in its completion. Sharing processes and relaying corresponding data between entities, third parties, and users is live and continually updated. This allows for information to be transmitted to/from various different parties and allows for live application of any changes in process or data.
US11870623B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to a wireless local area network data transmission method and apparatus, which are used for improving data transmission efficiency. The method of the embodiments of the present invention includes: carrying, by a control domain of a PLCP header domain in a PPDU constructed by an AP, identifier information of the AP, duration information, and an identifier of at least one STA, so that a STA may obtain the identifier information of the AP, the duration information, and the identifier of at least one STA by parsing only the control domain of the PLCP header domain.
US11870621B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a control system for communicating with a remote device. In at least some examples, the method includes determining a frequency of operation of the remote device and determining whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes determining a frequency scaling factor based on whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes generating a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal, scaling the FSK signal to generate a frequency scaled shift keying (FSSK) signal, and transmitting the FSSK signal to the remote device.
US11870616B2
Methods, systems, and devices for postamble for multi-level signal modulation are described. One or more channels of a bus may be driven with a multi-level signal having at least two (2) distinct signal levels. After driving the bus with the multi-level signal, at least one (1) of the channels may be terminated. In some examples, the channel may be terminated to a relatively high signal level. Before termination, the channel may be driven with a postamble having an intermediate signal level. Driving the channel to an intermediate signal level before terminating the channel (e.g., to a high signal level) may avoid maximum transitions of the signal. For example, transitions between a lowest potential signal level and the high signal level (e.g., the termination level) may be avoided.
US11870615B2
Provided are a summing circuit and an equalizer including the summing circuit. The summing circuit includes: a reference signal generator generating a first reference signal and a second reference signal, based on a coefficient code; a first non-overlap clock buffer generating a first switching signal and a second switching signal by using the first reference signal; and a first current source receiving the first switching signal and the second switching signal generated by the first non-overlap clock buffer, generating a first output current by using a bias voltage, and outputting the first output current to an output line, wherein the first switching signal includes a switching signal and a complementary switching signal that is a complementary signal to the switching signal, and wherein a logic low period of the second switching signal is included in a logic high period of the complementary switching signal of the first switching signal.
US11870613B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal based on a clock signal; a comparator configured to determine first data having data of a first number of bits per symbol and second data having data of a second number of bits, less than the first number, per symbol based on the digital signal; a recovery circuit configured to recover the clock signal; and a control circuit configured to input the digital signal and the first data to the recovery circuit in a case where a condition is not satisfied, and to input the digital signal and the second data to the recovery circuit in a case where the condition is satisfied.
US11870612B2
Methods and apparatus for adaptive termination calibration of high-speed links. The methods provide a novel termination calibration obtained in conjunction with link training without using an external reference under which the termination resistors for transmitters (Rtx) and receivers (Rrx) are calibrated to the real channel impedance as part of the link training. The techniques may be implemented to optimize high-speed link operation in terms of impedance match between a channel's characteristic impedance and the source termination of a transmitter and the receiver termination of a receiver. During link training, both Rtx and Rrx are adjusted to maximize a peak amplitude of a received signal. Under one approach for bi-directional links, the Rrx for the receivers at both ends of the link are calibrated substantially concurrently. Under another approach, a calibrated Rrx for a first receiver is used for calibrating the Rrx for the second receiver. An Rtx may be set equal to an calibrated Rrx or may be calibrated separately.
US11870608B2
A network gateway device (10) for determining information related to a designated data transmission rate for a wireless link includes at least one means for communicating (12) for communicating with a wireless modem means (200). The network gateway device (10) includes a means for controlling (14) configured for obtaining information related to an instantaneous data transmission capacity of the wireless link via the at least one means for communicating (12). The means for controlling (14) is configured for determining the information related to the designated data transmission rate based on the information related to the instantaneous data transmission capacity of the wireless link. The designated data transmission rate is lower than an average data transmission capacity of the wireless link. An availability of the designated data transmission rate over the wireless link is higher than an availability of the average data transmission capacity over the wireless link.
US11870603B2
A Controller Area Network (CAN) system, method, and circuit are provided with a dual mode bus line termination circuit connected between signal lines of a serial bus and optimized for both differential and single-ended communication modes over the serial bus, where the dual mode bus line termination circuit includes first and second resistance termination paths connected in parallel between first and second bus wires of the serial bus to provide an odd mode termination impedance (RODD) that matches an impedance of the serial bus when operating in the differential communication mode, and to also provide an even mode termination impedance (REVEN) that matches an impedance of the serial bus when operating in the single-ended communication mode.
US11870602B2
To reduce the man-hours of software development when vehicle types are deployed an in-vehicle equipment control device includes a CPU and a memory. The CPU has an application layer, a middleware layer, and a device driver unit as software components. First communication packets on the application side and second communication packets on the device driver side are implemented in the middleware layer. The memory stores an internal mapping table that defines the connection relationships between the first communication packets and the second communication packets and an external mapping table that defines the direct communication routes between the first communication packets or the second communication packets and an in-vehicle network.
US11870590B2
A method for data transfer includes transmitting a sequence of data packets from a first computer over a network to a second computer in a single RDMA data transfer transaction. Upon receipt of a second packet in the sequence without previously having received the first packet, the second computer sends a NAK packet over the network to the first computer, indicating that the first packet was not received. A retransmission mode is selected responsively to the type of the transaction, such that when the transaction is of a first type, the first packet is retransmitted from the first computer to the second computer in response to the NAK packet without retransmitting the second packet, and when the transaction is of a second type, both the first and second packets are retransmitted from the first computer to the second computer in response to the NAK packet.
US11870585B1
An apparatus is configured to transmit a preconfigured number of transmissions of a first data with hybrid automatic repeat requests consecutively without waiting between the transmissions for response to any of the requests, wherein the preconfigured number is an integer and greater than one.
US11870570B2
A signal receiving device includes a sampling device configured to sample an input signal to output a plurality of sampling values, and an output circuit configured to output data based on the sampling values. The output circuit outputs the data by performing majority voting based on first to third sampling values of the sampling values in response to a first control signal, and outputs the data and first and second error count signals based on the first sampling value and fourth and fifth sampling values of the sampling values in response to a second control signal. The first error count signal is generated by comparing the first sampling value sampled under a reference condition with the fourth sampling value sampled under a first offset condition, and the second error count signal is generated by comparing the first sampling value with the fifth sampling value sampled under a second offset condition.
US11870565B2
A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for radio link adaptation. In an example implementation, the method may include a user equipment receiving a channel quality report configuration from a network node, the channel quality report configuration including a first transport block size. The method may further include determining a channel quality indicator based at least on the first transport block size and transmitting the channel quality indicator to the network node. In another example implementation, the method may include a network node determining a first transport block size, the first transport block size being a target transport block size, and transmitting a channel quality report configuration to a user equipment, the channel quality report configuration including the first transport block size. The method may further include receiving a channel quality indicator from the user equipment, the channel quality indicator determined at the user equipment based at least on the first transport block size transmitted from the network node.
US11870562B2
A named function network (NFN) system includes a routing node, a function generation node, and a server node. The routing node receives requests for new functions, the requests including data values for generating the new functions. The function generation node receives the data values from the routing node and generates a new function for the NFN using the data values. The server node receives a request from the routing node to execute the new function, executes the new function, and transmits results of the execution to the routing node.
US11870561B2
An example intermediary system allows a control system to securely identify and communicate with a device. The device uses master secret and time data shared with the control system to generate and advertise a time-dependent device identifier and potentially an encrypted device message. The intermediary system augments the received device data with a message (e.g., an estimate of the device's location) encrypted using the time-dependent device identifier as an encryption key. Furthermore, it hashes the time-dependent device identifier for additional security. The augmented data is provided for retrieval and processing by the control system. The owner uses the shared master secret, time data and hash function to generate a hashed time-dependent device identifier used to retrieve matching augmented data from the server. The retrieved message data is decrypted using the reverse of the encryption operations.
US11870555B2
Synchronization of clocks among computing devices in a network includes determining master/slave relations among the computing devices. Some computing devices (e.g., switches) include trunk ports configured to carry traffic for several logical networks; e.g., virtual local area networks, VLANs. A trunk port can be associated with a master/slave setting for each logical network that it is configured for. Synchronization of clocks among the computing devices further includes running a synchronization sequence between a trunk port and each computing device on each of the logical networks configured on the trunk port.
US11870548B2
A mobile terminal having an integrated radio function according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna configured to receive a digital radio signal, a radio connection module configured to support connection and communication with an analog radio, a display configured to play at least one of an audio signal, an image signal, and additional information, and a radio application configured to restore the audio signal, the image signal, and the additional information by decoding the digital radio signal and then play the audio signal, the image signal, and the additional information through the display, and transmit the audio signal to the analog radio when the analog radio is connected.
US11870546B2
The present application relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence and a fourth scrambling sequence determined by the second short sequence; scrambling the short sequences with the respective scrambling sequences; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the first short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence and the first short sequence scrambled by the second scrambling sequence and the fourth scrambling sequence to a frequency domain.
US11870543B2
A radio communication system transmits data between terrestrial sites using one or more stochastically distributed orbiting satellites. The satellites and ground stations have the capability of sending and receiving data content in different radio technologies (signal formats) and over different satellite routes. Data content is assembled into packets and divided into segments and transmitted multiple times in different signal formats and/or over different routes, with each segment including error correction coding. A system node (satellite or ground station) that receives the multiple data packets applies error correction to each segment and re-assembles the data content from the separate segments in each transmission deemed to have the fewest errors.
US11870540B2
A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command and relay satellite, the satellites are separated and flight in carefully design formations that allows the creation of very large aperture or apertures in space drastically reducing cost and weight and enabling high throughput capabilities by spatially reuse spectrum.
US11870538B2
Technology for a repeater with a trumped amplifier network is disclosed. The repeater can include two or more signal paths corresponding to two or more bands. The repeater can include a first coupler network communicatively coupled to the two or more signal paths. The repeater can include a second coupler network communicatively coupled to an antenna port. The repeater can include two or more amplifier networks between the first coupler network and the second coupler network. A signal received via the first coupler network can be distributed to the two or more amplifier networks for amplification and combined using the second coupler network to produce an amplified output signal.
US11870536B2
A terminal (200) configures PCell and SCell simultaneously. The terminal (200) includes a receiving unit (220) that receives a reference signal for use in a detection of a beam failure in the SCell, and a controller (270) that performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and a beam failure recovery request based on a reception quality of the reference signal. The controller (270) performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and the beam failure recovery request when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11870532B2
A system operative to replicate an exact frequency match among multiple signals associated with spatial multiplexing. The system includes twisted pairs and a converter configured to receive multiple input signals, in which each of the input signals is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal comprising multiple sub-carriers, and in which input signals are associated respectively with multiple streams generated in conjunction with spatial multiplexing. The converter utilizes a reference signal, associated with an original conversion signal(s) used outside the converter to establish respective frequency ranges associated with the input signals, to reproduce the original conversion signal(s) as respective replica conversion signal(s). The replica conversion signal(s) are used to respectively convert the input signals into output signals all occupying a same single frequency range such that the sub-carriers of each output signal exactly match in frequency, thus enabling wireless transmission and successful decoding of output signals in conjunction with spatial multiplexing.
US11870527B2
A radio access network operates by obtaining, at a scheduler, CSI corresponding to a plurality of RUs associated with a master DU and another plurality of RUs associated with at least one other DU, wherein the CSI associated with the another plurality of RUs is obtained via another scheduler or via the at least one other DU; allocating, based on the CSI, a resource allocation for resource blocks associated with the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs; negotiating with the another scheduler to obtain PRB resources of RUs controlled by the another scheduler; generating, based on the CSI, precoders associated with the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs; and facilitating, via the master DU and based on the precoders and the resource allocation, contemporaneous transmission to a user equipment UE via the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs and contemporaneous reception from the user equipment UE via the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs.
US11870505B2
A message-transmission method for transmitting a message from a first node device to a second node device belonging to a network neighbourhood of said first node device is described. The first and second node devices belong to an electrical supply network using powerline and/or radio-frequency communications. The first node device transmits said message to said second node device on a first frequency band and at least one second frequency band of a set of frequency bands comprising at least two frequency bands. The message being on each occasion modulated according to a robust mode, a modulation according to said robust mode comprising successively a Reed-Solomon coding, a convolutional coding, a code repetition coding and a BPSK modulation.
US11870499B2
Methods for configuring an optical link in which a distribution of transmission data rates and line rates are configured for a predetermined amount of optical bandwidth to maximize transmission capacity. In these methods, a controller of an optical network obtains input parameters that include a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for optical signals and an allocated bandwidth of the optical link, further obtains, for each line rate, a mapping of transmission data rates along a frequency spectrum of the allocated bandwidth compatible with the SNR, and generates a channel plan in which a number of traffic modes and a distribution of a plurality of channels in the allocated bandwidth are set to maximize transmission capacity. The plurality of channels is used for transmitting the signals on the optical link. The controller configures at least one optical network element in the optical network to establish the optical link based on the channel plan.
US11870497B2
An optical reception device including: a local light transmission unit configured to generate a plurality of local lights having different wavelengths, select a local light having a wavelength that is close to the wavelength of a received optical signal from among the plurality of generated local lights having different wavelengths, and transmit the selected local light to a coherent receiver; a demultiplexing unit configured to demultiplex a received optical signal and transmit the demultiplexed optical signal to the coherent receiver via a first path; and a wavelength detection unit configured to input the optical signal demultiplexed by the demultiplexing unit via a second path, split the input optical signal into different paths according to wavelengths by using a wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer, and output, to the local light transmission unit, a control signal for causing the local light transmission unit to output a local light having a frequency that corresponds to a path in which the optical signal is included.
US11870495B2
A smart light source configured for visible light communication. The light source includes a controller comprising a modem configured to receive a data signal and generate a driving current and a modulation signal based on the data signal. Additionally, the light source includes a light emitter configured as a pump-light device to receive the driving current for producing a directional electromagnetic radiation with a first peak wavelength in the ultra-violet or blue wavelength regime modulated to carry the data signal using the modulation signal. Further, the light source includes a pathway configured to direct the directional electromagnetic radiation and a wavelength converter optically coupled to the pathway to receive the directional electromagnetic radiation and to output a white-color spectrum. Furthermore, the light source includes a beam shaper configured to direct the white-color spectrum for illuminating a target of interest and transmitting the data signal.
US11870477B2
The present application provides a transmission structure of an antenna and a proximity sensing circuit. The transmission structure includes a transmission line and at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element, a first coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to an antenna, and a second coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to a proximity sensing circuit, and the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element is coupled between the transmission line and a ground, and is located between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit. Utilizing the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element in conjunction with the transmission line so that the transmission path between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit has the high impedance, and hence preventing a radio-frequency signal from the antenna from affecting the sensing accuracy of the proximity sensing circuit.
US11870470B2
A software-defined radio equipment includes a hardware/module, implements radio equipment functions by downloading radio communication software that controls the hardware/module from an external source, and switches the radio communication software by using a distributed object. The software-defined radio equipment includes a first means that transmits, when a hardware to be used by the radio communication software is selected from the hardware/module, first predetermined information of the selected hardware, a second means that interrupts an execution of the radio communication software before selection when the selection is reselection and transmits second predetermined information of a selected hardware after the reselection, and a third means that transmits predetermined information of a hardware that is currently being selected. Further, if the selected hardware is the hardware that is currently being selected, an error is detected.
US11870467B2
A data compression method, comprising: obtaining a plurality of values of a parameter and an occurrence probability of each of the plurality of values (S101); comparing the occurrence probability with a predetermined threshold, wherein values with the occurrence probability less than the predetermined threshold are first set of values, and values with the occurrence probability greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold are second set of values (S102); performing pretreatment on the first set of values (S103); and encoding the second set of values and the pretreated first set of values (S104). By means of the data compression method, the maximum codeword length can be effectively reduced, so as to reduce the requirements of a code table to the storage space.
US11870454B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is an analog to digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises an analog amplification unit and a flash conversion unit, wherein the analog amplification unit may have a structure in which in which two input terminal circuits that alternately operate share a single amplifier. Accordingly, the analog-to-digital converter according to one embodiment of the present invention can be implemented in a smaller area and operate at low power, and can have a high resolution while operating at a high speed.
US11870445B2
A radio frequency (RF) device and a voltage generation and harmonic suppressor thereof are provided. The RF device includes the voltage generation and harmonic suppressor and a RF circuit. The voltage generation and harmonic suppressor is configured to receive a RF signal to output at least one direct current (DC) voltage related to the RF signal, and configured to suppress a harmonic generated by the RF signal in the voltage generation and harmonic suppressor. The RF circuit is configured to receive the RF signal, and configured to perform an operation according to the at least one DC voltage.
US11870441B2
A clock gating circuit includes a NOR logic gate, a transmission gate, a cross-coupled pair of transistors, and a first transistor. The NOR logic gate is coupled to a first node, and receives a first and a second enable signal, and outputs a first control signal. The transmission gate is coupled between the first and a second node, and receives the first control signal, an inverted clock input signal and a clock output signal. The cross-coupled pair of transistors is coupled between the second node and an output node, and receives at least a second control signal. The first transistor includes a first gate terminal configured to receive the inverted clock input signal, a first drain terminal coupled to the output node, and a first source terminal coupled to a reference voltage supply. The first transistor adjusts the clock output signal responsive to the inverted clock input signal.
US11870440B2
A method for controlling a high-power drive device includes providing a current having a first predetermined current level to an output node during a first phase of a multi-phase turn-on process for the high-power drive device coupled to the output node. The method includes transitioning from the first phase to a second phase of the multi-phase turn-on process based on a first indication of a sensed voltage level on the output node during the first phase and a second indication of a time elapsed from a start of the first phase during the first phase. The method includes providing the current having a second predetermined current level to the output node during the second phase.
US11870436B2
A semiconductor device that can perform product-sum operation with low power is provided. The semiconductor device includes a switching circuit. The switching circuit includes first to fourth terminals. The switching circuit has a function of selecting one of the third terminal and the fourth terminal as electrical connection destination of the first terminal, and selecting the other of the third terminal and the fourth terminal as electrical connection destination of the second terminal, on the basis of first data. The switching circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor each having a back gate. The switching circuit has a function of determining a signal-transmission speed between the first terminal and one of the third terminal and the fourth terminal and a signal-transmission speed between the second terminal and the other of the third terminal and the fourth terminal on the basis of potentials of the back gates. The potentials are determined by second data. When signals are input to the first terminal and the second terminal, a time lag between the signals output from the third terminal and the fourth terminal is determined by the first data and the second data.
US11870435B2
A control circuit for controlling a data input/output is provided. The control circuit comprises a plurality of control level circuits that include a first control level circuit and a last control level circuit. Each control level circuit has a control element, with a number of control elements of the last control level circuit being greater than a number of control elements of the first control level circuit. Each control element is configured to receive a first control signal and a second control signal, and controls a current for the data input/output depending on the first and second control signals. The control circuit is configured to provide the first control signal to the control elements in a sequence starting at the first control level circuit and ending at the last control level circuit, and then to provide the second control signal to the last control level circuit in reverse order.
US11870432B2
Electronic circuitry includes a control circuit controlling a drive circuit for a semiconductor device; and a delay circuit receiving a first signal instructing the drive circuit to drive the semiconductor device with first driving force and output the first signal to the control circuit. The delay circuit receives a second signal at an interval of a first time or “n” times of the first time after the first signal is received, “n” being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the second signal instructing the drive circuit to drive the semiconductor device with second driving force, delays outputting of the second signal for a delay time shorter than the first time, and outputs the second signal to the control circuit after the first signal is outputted and further after the first time or “n” times of the first time and the delay time elapses.
US11870430B2
An over-current protection circuit for composite transistor devices is provided, connected between an input terminal and a load, and including: a control-terminal voltage-generation module whose output voltage varies with its input voltage when driven by a first voltage, wherein the output voltage of the control-terminal voltage-generation module serves as a control-terminal voltage; a composite transistor device, connected between the control-terminal voltage-generation module and the load, configured to conduct in response to the control-terminal voltage and a second voltage to generate an output current flowing through the load; and an over-current protection module, connected between the composite transistor device and the load, wherein when the output current of the composite transistor device exceeds a preset limit, a clamping voltage is applied to the composite transistor device by the over-current protection module to limit a current flowing through the composite transistor device, thereby limiting the output current of the composite transistor device.
US11870428B1
A method of controlling current through a transistor is provided. A voltage and current through the transistor are measured. A safe operating current for the voltage is determined. For each of a first sequence of current pulses, a voltage of a voltage pulse applied to a control node of the transistor using a feedback controller is adjusted until the current measured through the transistor is not greater than a first function of the safe operating current. For each of a second sequence of current pulses after the first sequence of current pulses, the voltage of the voltage pulse applied to the control node of the transistor using the feedback controller is adjusted until the current measured through the transistor is not greater than a second function of the safe operating current.
US11870423B2
Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal lithium niobate (LN) plate having front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the LN plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the LN plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. A half-lambda dielectric layer is formed on one of the front surface and back surface of the diaphragm. Euler angles of the LN plate are [0°, β, 0°], where 20°≤β≤25°.
US11870422B2
A device includes a piezoelectric layer on a substrate and including a portion included in an acoustic resonator, a first conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer and including a first electrode of the acoustic resonator on a first side of resonator portion of the piezoelectric layer, and a second conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer and including a second electrode of the acoustic resonator on a second side of the resonator portion of the piezoelectric layer. An insulating layer is disposed on the second conductive layer and an interconnection metal layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer or the first conductive layer and has a portion extending onto the insulating layer and overlapping a portion of the second conductive layer to provide a capacitor electrode of a capacitor coupled to the first electrode and/or the second electrode.
US11870420B2
There are disclosed acoustic diplexers and radios incorporating the acoustic diplexers. A diplexer includes common port, a low band port, a high band port, n low band sub-filters, and n high band sub-filters, where n is an integer greater than one. Each low band sub-filter has a first sub-filter port connected to the common port and a second sub-filter port connected to the low band port. Each high band sub-filter has a first sub-filter port connected to the common port and a second sub-filter port connected to the high band port. A first acoustic resonator is connected from the common port to ground and a second acoustic resonator is connected from the low band port to ground. The first and second acoustic resonators are configured to create respective transmission zeros adjacent to a lower edge of a passband of the diplexer.
US11870414B2
A film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) chip and package structure with an improved temperature coefficient that is capable of being more stable with respect to surrounding temperature changes, without any decrease in performance of Q factor or k2e. The FBAR chip and package structure includes a plurality of FBARs located on a central area of one surface of a substrate and each having a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric material, and a top electrode; and a temperature compensation layer formed around the central area of one surface of the substrate.
US11870410B2
A packaging method and a packaging structure of a film bulk acoustic resonator are provided. The packaging method includes: providing a resonant cavity main structure including a first substrate and a film bulk acoustic resonant structure having a first cavity formed therebetween; forming a resonator cover by providing a second substrate and forming an elastic bonding material layer containing a second cavity; bonding the resonant cavity main structure and the resonator cover together through the elastic bonding material layer and removing elasticity of the elastic bonding material layer, where the second cavity is at least partially aligned with the first cavity; forming a through-hole penetrating through the resonator cover and exposing a corresponding electrical connection part of the film bulk acoustic resonant structure; and forming a conductive interconnection layer on a sidewall of the through-hole and on a portion of a surface of the resonator cover.
US11870407B2
Improved dither detection, measurement, and voltage bias adjustments for an electro-optical modulator are described. The electro-optical modulator generally includes RF electrodes and phase heaters interfaced with semi-conductor waveguides on the arms of Mach-Zehnder interferometers, where a processor is connected to output a bias tuning voltage to the electro-optical modulator for controlling optical modulation. A variable gain amplifier (VGA) can be configured with AC coupling connected to receive a signal from a transimpediance amplifier (TIA) that is configured to amply a photodetector signal from an optical tap that is used to measure an optical signal with a dither signal. The analog to digital converter (ADC) can be connected to receive output from the VGA. The processor can be connected to receive the signal from the ADC and to output the bias tuning voltage based on evaluation of the signal from the tap.
US11870402B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to an impedance transformation circuit for use in an amplifier, such as a low noise amplifier. The impedance transformation circuit includes a matching circuit including a first inductor. The impedance transformation circuit also includes a second inductor. The first and second inductors are magnetically coupled to each other to provide negative feedback to linearize the amplifier.
US11870400B2
A class-D amplifying system includes: a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a class-D amplifier circuit and a second DAC. The first DAC generates an analog input signal according to a digital input signal. The class-D amplifier circuit generates an output signal according to the analog input signal in a pulse width modulation (PWM) manner. The second DAC generates a common mode (CM) adjustment current for adjusting a CM voltage of the analog input signal according to one or more of the following parameters: (1) the CM voltage of the analog input signal; and/or (2) a driving power. A power stage circuit of the class-D amplifier circuit is powered by the driving power. The second DAC determines which parameter the CM adjustment current is correlated to according to: (A) A level state of the output signal; and/or (B) A level state of a PWM signal of the class-D amplifier circuit.
US11870399B2
A receiver for cancelling common mode offset and crosstalk that amplifies a voltage difference between an input signal and a reference voltage to generate first and second output signals and an internal signal, that generates the same third and fourth output signals as the first and second output signals, generates average voltage levels of the third and fourth output signals by using first and second switching elements and low pass filters to output the average voltage levels as first and second feedback signals, and cancels a common mode offset between the first output signal and the second output signal based on a voltage difference between the first feedback signal and the second feedback signal, and that generates a control signal to cancel crosstalk of the internal signal by turning on/off the first and second switching elements connected to the low pass filters.
US11870397B2
The invention provides a radio frequency (RF) module and associated method with envelope tracking (ET) power supply in a device. The RF module may comprise a plurality of transmitters, an ET output, and an ET multiplexer. Each said transmitter may comprise an ET port and one or more RF outputs, and may be configured for providing an RF signal to one of said one or more RF outputs, and providing an ET signal, which reflects an envelope of the RF signal, to the ET port. The ET multiplexer may be coupled between said ET ports of the plurality of transmitters and the ET output, for selectively relaying one of said ET ports to the ET output.
US11870395B2
The present invention provides a detection circuit for a connection impedance and an electronic device. The detection circuit includes: a detection operational amplifier module, wherein the detection operational amplifier module includes: a first buffer, a switch unit, and a main operational amplifier; a first input terminal of the first buffer is connected to a first acquisition electrode through a first front-end circuit, an output terminal of the main operational amplifier is connected to a back-end circuit, and an output terminal of the first buffer is connected to a second input terminal of the first buffer; a first terminal of the switch unit is directly or indirectly connected to the first front-end circuit, and a second terminal of the switch unit is connected to the back-end circuit; and the switch unit is configured to: control the first front-end circuit to be directly connected to the back-end circuit, to form a straight-through channel.
US11870392B2
A modular, solar energy system comprising one or more modular solar panels. The solar panels include a pair of general planar, plates that are secured together to form a narrow channel therebetween for the circulation of a liquid. The solar panels have inlet and outlet fluid lines in fluid communication via manifolds with a cold fluid supply line and a warm fluid return line, respectively. The plates are preferably constructed of aluminum and one plate has a photovoltaic cell matrix affixed thereto to face the sun. The plates have dividers or partitions that enhance the heat transfer characteristics with respect to the liquid flowing though the channel between the plates.
US11870389B2
A controller of a power generation system provides, in response to a request or a determination to initiate a heating mode for a photovoltaic (PV) array, a first instruction to an inverter coupled between the PV array and a power grid to apply an initial backfeed voltage on PV modules of the PV array. The PV array comprises a plurality of strings of PV modules coupled in parallel, and a first subset of the strings of PV modules are online and a second subset of the strings of PV modules are offline. The controller monitors current data from a set of current sensors that each measure current provided from a corresponding set of strings of PV modules of the plurality of strings of PV modules of the PV array. The controller also provides a second command to the inverter to adjust the backfeed voltage.
US11870385B2
A linear motor includes a magnetic assembly and a coil assembly having at least one coil positioned to magnetically engage the magnetic assembly for linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly. The linear motor further includes an encoder strip attached to one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly and an encoder reader attached to the other one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly to read the encoder strip during the linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly.
US11870380B2
The invention relates to a method (100) for operating an inverter (1) which selectively connects each of three alternating current phases (U, V, W) of an inductive load (4) to the plus pole or minus pole of a direct current (2) provided at the input (1a) of the inverter (1) by actuating switching elements (3a-3f) arranged in three half bridges (5a-5c), wherein the switch states of the switching elements (3a-3f) are modified (110) by a rotating space vector modulation. Additionally, in the event of a modulation between space vectors (6a-6f) which have the same switch element (3a, 3d; 3b, 3e; 3c, 3f) switch states with respect to at least one half bridge (5a-5c), such a half bridge (5a-5c) remains completely deactivated (120).
US11870375B2
A motor apparatus is provided. The motor apparatus includes a motor having a rotor and a stator, an inverter used to covert an input voltage into a three-phase alternating current (AC) voltage and provide the three-phase AC voltage to the motor, an inverter controller used to control the inverter, and a rotation angle sensor. The rotation angle sensor is fixed to the motor and is used to detect a rotation angle of the motor. The inverter controller includes a calculator. The calculator calculates an offset angle of an installation position of the rotation angle sensor according to a difference between a measured value and a theoretical value of a voltage phase of the motor.
US11870373B2
Capacitor balancing of a dual three-level (3L) T-type converter based on silicon carbide (SiC) discrete semiconductors was performed with the converter feeding an open-ends induction motor (OEIM). A model predictive control (MPC) using a two step cost function calculation was developed to balance the DC link capacitors and control the machine torque simultaneously. The number of redundant switching states used was reduced without affecting the operating voltage vectors, which substantially reduced the computational time. A simulation and experimental results are in good agreement.
US11870372B2
Disclosed are device implementations for a hybrid energy harvesting device and methods for harvesting mechanical energy from the ambient. The various device implementations utilize a combination of electrostatic energy conversion and piezoelectric energy conversion elements. The method simultaneously converts mechanical energy into electrical charge by electrostatic and piezoelectric energy harvesting. The devices include a piezoelectric harvester including a pair of electrodes and piezoelectric nanocomposite polymer, an electrostatic harvester including an electret film and a pair of electrostatic electrodes.
US11870367B2
Energy harvesters (EH) which can effectively harvest wasted vibrational/kinematic energy and convert it into electrical energy for battery-free sensor operation are described herein. The target application of the energy harvesters includes powering wireless sensors used for wind turbine blade structural monitoring.
US11870364B2
A bidirectional switch and dimmer for the control of power from an AC source to a load is described. The approach uses power MOSFETs in a bidirectional switch subcircuit configuration that includes a floating AC/DC power supply and a solid state double pole switch that alternates between connection of the AC source to the load and periodic connection of the AC source to the AC/DC power supply. The switch and dimmer circuit configuration allows insertion into an existing single-phase circuit using only two wires. The design allows for manufacturing the entire circuit on a single chip.
US11870361B2
The present disclosure relates to solutions for operating a flyback converter comprising an active clamp. The flyback converter comprises two input terminals and two output terminals. A first electronic switch and the primary winding of a transformer are connected in series between the input terminals. An active clamp circuit is connected in parallel with the primary winding. The active clamp circuit comprises a series connection of a clamp capacitor and a second electronic switch. A third electronic switch and the secondary winding of the transformer are connected in series between the two output terminals. In particular, the present disclosure relates to solutions for switching the first, second and third electronic switch in order to achieve a zero-voltage switching of the first electronic switch.
US11870360B2
The bidirectional insulating DC-DC converter shares high/low voltage terminals, a cooling passage, a housing, and a control board, and two independent step-down circuit (10) and step-up circuit (20) are formed in parallel to perform a bidirectional DC power conversion. A high voltage applied from a high voltage battery HV is stepped down through the step-down circuit (10) and output to a low voltage battery LV. On the other hand, a low voltage applied from the low voltage battery LV is stepped up through the step-up circuit (20) and output to the high voltage battery HV. The step-down circuit (10) is formed as an active clamp forward converter circuit, and the step-up circuit (20) is formed as an active clamp flyback converter circuit.
US11870358B2
A system and method of fault detection based on a detailed waveform analysis is presented for transient and steady-state fault operation of 3-Φ DAB converter. Main symptoms of the converter during normal and fault conditions have been identified and a unique pattern in DC bias of phase currents under fault mode is noted. The logic-based fault diagnosis scheme is used to detect the fault and identify the faulty transistor.
US11870357B2
A DC-DC converter, an on-board charger, and an electric vehicle are disclosed. The DC-DC converter includes: a first adjustment module, a resonance module, a second adjustment module, a current detection module, and a controller. The current detection module is configured to detect a current signal of the resonance module; and the controller is configured to control the first adjustment module and the second adjustment module to reduce an output power when the current signal is greater than a current threshold. By directly detecting the current signal of the resonance module, a high precision and a faster response are achieved.
US11870348B1
An integrated circuit device includes: an input stage configured to receive first and a second input signals and generate a first voltage based on the first input signal and generate a second voltage based on the second input signal; an amplification stage configured to generate a first output current based on the first voltage and a second output current based on the second voltage; a bias stage configured to generate a bias voltage for the amplification stage based on the first and second voltages; a load stage configured to output a differential voltage signal proportional to a current through a device for which current is sensed based on a comparison of the first and second output currents; and an output stage configured to output a signal to control a duty cycle of the device for which current is sensed.
US11870327B2
A vehicle drive device includes: a first electric machine; an electric machine housing accommodating the first electric machine; a live part that is provided inside the electric machine housing and is electrically connected to the first electric machine; and a temperature-control circuit for temperature control for the first electric machine. The temperature-control circuit includes: a first temperature-control circuit through which a non-conductive first temperature-control medium circulates; a second temperature-control circuit through which a conductive second temperature-control medium circulates; and a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first temperature-control medium and the second temperature-control medium. A protection cover including a first protection wall is provided inside the electric machine housing.
US11870316B2
A motor is provided including a motor housing having an open end; a stator disposed within the motor housing and including a stator core, stator windings, and an end insulator that electrically insulate the stator core from the stator windings and includes an annular body; a rotor rotatably received within the stator and including a rotor shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and permanent magnets; and a bearing bridge including a center pocket arranged to support a bearing of the rotor shaft. The bearing bridge is received at least partially within the end insulator. The annular body of the end insulator includes at least one peripheral opening located within the motor housing, and the bearing bridge is radially piloted relative to the motor housing via a retaining member received through the at least one peripheral opening.
US11870313B2
A rotary electric machine includes a first coil including a winding start and a winding end, a first crossover wire connecting to the winding start of the first coil, a second crossover wire connecting to the winding end of the first coil, and an insulator including a tubular part wound around with the first coil and an outer circumferential lateral surface coupled with the tubular part. The outer circumferential lateral surface of the insulator is formed with a plurality of recess parts in a rotation axis direction, and the first crossover wire and the second crossover wire are disposed in two recess parts located at different positions in the rotation axis direction, among the plurality of recess parts.
US11870310B2
A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the spider arms. The method for repair includes supporting the rim from the top of the spider and thereby relieving some or all of the weight of the rim being supported by the rim support ledges.
US11870307B2
The present invention relates to a method for increasing the efficiency of an energy transfer device (100) with which electrical energy is converted contactlessly into electrical energy with the aid of a magnetic field in order to electrically excite a rotor of an electrical machine, comprising the step of: arranging an additional electrically conductive material layer (13) on at least one active part (12, 19, 35, 45) of the energy transfer device (100), wherein an active part of the energy transfer device (100) is a part of the energy transfer device (100) which is at least partially exposed to the magnetic field used for energy transfer, and wherein the electrical conductivity of the additional material layer (13) is greater than the electrical conductivity of the at least one active part (12, 19, 35, 45). Moreover, the invention relates to an energy transfer device (100) and to a use of an electrically conductive material.
US11870306B2
A wave energy conversion device includes a permanent magnet generator, a first driving component and a second driving component. The permanent magnet generator includes a stator structure and a rotor structure. The stator structure includes a stator body. The rotor structure includes a rotor body. The rotor body is disposed inside the stator body in a swinging manner or in a rotatable manner. The first driving component is coupled to the rotor structure. The second driving component is coupled to the stator structure. The wave energy conversion device of the present invention requires a low speed/angle of a swinging/rotating movement of the rotor body relative to the stator body to generate electricity, which facilitates electricity generation from wave energy.
US11870301B2
A radial flux electrical machine is disclosed. The machine comprises a body of the stator having a body that defines a longitudinal axis a substantially cylindrical inner surface and an inner volume, and having a plurality of electromagnetic elements, each of which includes a stator core of ferromagnetic material and a winding of electrically conductive material located around at least part of the stator core of the electromagnetic element, the electromagnetic elements being arranged around the inner surface of the stator, and operable to induce a magnetic flux field in a radial direction in the inner volume of the stator, and a rotor located within the inner volume of the stator, and rotatable with respect to the stator. The inner surface of the body of the stator and the electromagnetic elements of the stator define cooperating engagement features of shape that serve to prevent relative rotation between the body of the stator and the electro-magnetic elements, and which allow relative longitudinal movement between the body of the stator and the electromagnetic elements.
US11870299B2
A motor assembly comprises a composite housing having a core of sprayed magnetic particles and a winding on the core; and a rotor having a magnet located thereon, the rotor being rotatably mounted within the winding. The core of sprayed magnetic particles comprises particles of an iron-containing material that when deposited results in an aggregate of small micro-domains separated by insulation boundaries.
US11870298B2
A traffic signal back-up system assembly is provided for supplying traffic signals and other traffic control devices with electrical energy if the primary supply of electrical energy from the utility company is interrupted or disconnected. With the use of a lithium-ion battery bank, this assembly can store enough electrical energy to power a traffic signal for several days without restoration of the primary source of electrical energy. This assembly can be installed inside, on, or apart from the traffic signal control box as needed.
US11870291B2
In at least one embodiment, a vehicle battery charger is provided. The charger includes at least one transformer, a first active bridge, a second active bridge, and at least one controller. The first active bridge includes a first plurality of switching devices being positioned with the primary. The second active bridge includes a second plurality of switching devices being positioned with the secondary to generate. The controller is configured to activate the first plurality of switching devices based on a primary control signal and to activate the second plurality of switching devices based on a secondary control signal. The controller is configured to generate the secondary control signal in accordance to a first control variable. The controller is further configured to generate a second control variable that corresponds to a phase shift between the primary control signal and the secondary control signal.
US11870281B2
The invention provides a voltage balancing system for balancing controlling of voltage of battery cells including a first set of battery cells and a second set of battery cells connected in series. The system includes a high-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the first set of battery cells, a low-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the second set of battery cells, a microcontroller communicating with the high-side AFE and the low-side AFE, and a communication isolating module interconnecting between the high-side AFE and the microcontroller. The system further includes a balancing module arranged at a back end of the low-side AFE or the high-side AFE to equalize voltages output by the low-side AFE and the high-side AFE. Compared with the prior arts, the system employs a balancing module to balance the voltages of the two sets of battery cells, which can shorten the voltage difference therebetween.
US11870279B2
A device charging system including a battery module and a central charging station. The battery module is configured to supply a type of power to at least one load device. The battery module has an identifier. The central charging station is in communication with the battery module. The central charging station includes an electronic processor configured to: receive the identifier from the battery module, determine if the identifier is stored in a memory of the central charging station, charge the battery module when the battery module is coupled to the central charging station when the identifier is stored in the memory, and generate an alert if the identifier is not stored in memory.
US11870276B2
A wireless power transfer system includes a wireless terminal apparatus, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless base station (a wide-area base station and a narrow-area base station). The wireless base station creates schedule information containing allocation of wireless resources regarding the wireless data communication and the wireless power transfer on the basis of grasp of a request of the wireless data communication and a request of the wireless power transfer from the wireless terminal apparatus, and transmits the schedule information to the wireless power transmitter and the wireless terminal apparatus. The wireless power transmitter executes the wireless power transfer to the wireless terminal apparatus in accordance with the schedule information. The wireless terminal apparatus receives the wireless power transfer from the wireless power transmitter in accordance with the schedule information, and executes the wireless data communication via the wireless base station.
US11870275B2
An apparatus and a method for detecting a metal foreign matter in a wireless charging system, and a device are provided. The apparatus includes a phase-lock control module, an excitation module, a resonance module, a signal collection module, and a determining module. The phase-lock control module is configured to: adjust a frequency of a first signal and output the first signal to the excitation module and the determining module. The excitation module is configured to: generate a second signal based on the first signal, and output the second signal to the resonance module. The resonance module is configured to output the third signal to the signal collection module under excitation of the second signal. The determining module is configured to determine whether there is a metal foreign matter in an area of the target coil.
US11870274B2
A wireless charging device is disclosed, which includes: a charging pad and a first controller. The charging pad includes a plurality of charging units, the plurality of charging units include a first charging unit and a second charging unit. When a first electromagnetic coupling strength between the first charging unit and the to-be-charged device is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the first controller is configured to control the first charging unit to separately charge the to-be-charged device. When both the second electromagnetic coupling strength between the second charging unit and the to-be-charged device and the first electromagnetic coupling strength are less than a first threshold, and are greater than or equal to a second threshold, the first controller is configured to control the first charging unit and the second charging unit to jointly charge the target to-be-charged device.
US11870270B2
A medical system comprising internal parts for implantation in a patient and external parts for use externally to the patient is provided. The external parts comprise an external energy source equipped with a primary coil for wirelessly transmitting energy to the internal parts. The internal parts comprise an electrically powered medical device, an energy receiver equipped with a secondary coil for inductively receiving energy for the medical device from the external energy source, and an internal control unit for controlling the internal parts. The internal control unit is adapted to determine at least one parameter relating to the wireless energy transfer, wherein the internal control unit is arranged to control the energy transfer based on the at least one parameter.
US11870268B2
A power management server comprises a controller configured to select, from a plurality of facilities having storage battery apparatuses, two or more first facilities applying first processing configured to suppress a discharge amount of the storage battery apparatuses. The controller is configured to apply, to the two or more first facilities, a same condition as a suppression condition of the discharge amount of the storage battery apparatuses.
US11870260B2
A method and system for controlling voltage and reactive power for electrical grids includes monitoring the output of the energy generation facilities at the point of interconnection (POI) of each energy generation facility to the power transmission system of the electrical grid. In addition, the voltage at a point of utilization (POU) is monitored to determine when the output voltage of the energy generation facilities must be adjusted to maintain voltage at the POU. In addition, when it is determined that energy generation facilities are exchanging reactive power, the voltage set points of the energy generation facilities are adjusted to reduce the exchanged power.
US11870257B1
An impedance control transformer assembly includes and/or may be coupled with a main transformer having a nominal impedance, the assembly configured to be coupled to an electrical source and a distribution load. The assembly includes actuatable bypass contactors that couple the main transformer in a series circuit to a high-Z transformer configured to establish a combined impedance that exceeds the nominal impedance. Also included is a current sensor coupled to an output of the main transformer and which detects power demand of the distribution load. At least one processor is coupled to the current sensor and the bypass contactors, and are configured to actuate the bypass contactors responsive to detection of a predetermined power demand. When the distributed loads require less than the predetermined power demand, the processor automatically opens the bypass contactors to couple the main and high-Z transformers, which establishes a combined, increased impedance and a low power mode that decreases power consumption of the impedance control transformer assembly.
US11870246B2
A positive overshoot detection circuit comprises a transistor coupled to a current mirror, a reference current source coupled to the current mirror, and a comparator coupled to the reference current source and the current mirror. The comparator output indicates whether the current mirror's current is greater than the reference current source's current. A control input and a current terminal of the transistor are coupled to a clamping circuit. A negative overshoot detection circuit comprises a biasing sub-circuit coupled to a transistor, a resistor coupled to the transistor, and a comparator coupled to the transistor and the resistor. The comparator output indicates whether the transistor is in an on or off state. The biasing sub-circuit is coupled to a clamping circuit. In some implementations, the comparator outputs from the positive and negative overshoot detection circuits are provided to a driver circuit, which modifies its operation.
US11870239B2
A circuit interrupting device includes an input conductor for electrically connecting to an external power supply, a load conductor for electrically connecting to a downstream load, a face conductor for electrically connecting to an external load, and a brush conductor in electrical communication with the input conductor and movable between a closed position and an open position. The brush conductor includes a second portion offset from a first portion such that a first terminal and a second terminal are positioned on separate planes. When the brush conductor is in the closed position, the first terminal contacts the load terminal and the second terminal contacts the face terminal to provide electrical communication between the input conductor, the load conductor, and the face conductor. When the brush conductor is in the open position, the first terminal is spaced apart from the load terminal and the second terminal is spaced apart from the face terminal.
US11870237B2
A surge suppression circuit is used in a rotating electrical machine system including a switching circuit composed of a plurality of switching elements and a rotating electrical machine connected thereto via an electrically conducting path comprising a plurality of electrically conductive bodies. The surge suppression circuit suppresses surge voltage generated in a plurality of connecting lines connecting the plurality of electrically conductive bodies to windings of plural phases of the rotating electrical machine. The surge suppression circuit includes a plurality of upper diodes with anodes respectively connected to the plurality of connection lines, a plurality of lower diodes with cathodes respectively connected to the plurality of connection lines, an upper line connected to respective cathodes of the plurality of upper diodes, a lower line connected to respective anodes of the plurality of lower diodes, and a voltage holding circuit connected between the upper line and the lower line. The voltage holding circuit includes a charging unit to store electric charge by the surge voltage and a discharge unit to discharge the electric charge stored in the charging unit.
US11870223B2
A method for removing a shielding foil of an electrical cable includes creating an incision of a first depth in an insulating sheath of the electrical cable wherein the first depth is smaller than or the same as the thickness of the insulating sheath; creating a predetermined breaking point in the shielding foil through at least one radially adjustable perforation tool until the perforation tool has reached a second depth, wherein the second depth corresponds to at least the thickness of the insulating sheath plus at least half of the thickness of the shielding foil; tearing the shielding foil at the predetermined breaking point; and removing the shielding foil.
US11870220B2
A semiconductor layer stack, a component made therefrom, a component module, and a production method is provided. The semiconductor layer stack has at least two layers (A, B), which, as individual layers, each have an energy position of the Fermi level in the semiconductor band gap, E F - E V < E G 2 applying to the layer (A) and E L - E F < E G 2 applying to the layer (B), with EF the energy position of the Fermi level, EV the energy position of the valence band, EL the energy position of a conduction band and EL−EV the energy difference of the semiconductor band gap EG, the thickness of the layers (A, B) being selected in such a way that a continuous space charge zone region over the layers (A, B) results.
US11870210B2
The present invention discloses a transverse mode switchable all-fiber high-order mode Brillouin laser. The laser comprises a narrow linewidth pump laser, an optical amplifier, a 1×N optical switch (N≥2), a fiber mode selection coupler group, a first polarization controller, a fiber circulator, a fiber coupler, a second polarization controller, and a few-mode fiber. Based on the Brillouin nonlinear gain of a few-mode fiber in a ring cavity, the present invention realizes the resonance amplification of a specific order transverse mode in the cavity, and obtains the transverse mode switchable high-order mode laser beam output. The present invention, adopting an all-fiber structure, has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, easy fiber system integration, high stability and narrow linewidth of outputted laser beams, etc., and improves the practicality and reliability of high-order mode lasers.
US11870207B1
A laser device includes a gain medium, a zero-degree reflective mirror, a first retro-reflective mirror, a second retro-reflective mirror, and an output coupling mirror. The gain medium is used to generate radiation light; the zero-degree reflective mirror has a common optical axis with the gain medium, and the zero-degree reflective mirror is used to totally reflect second-direction radiation light that is incident on the zero-degree reflective mirror in an optical-axis direction; the first-direction radiation light and the first emitted light are spaced from and parallel to each other in opposite directions; the first emitted light and the second emitted light are spaced from and parallel to each other in opposite directions; a resonant cavity is formed between the zero-degree reflective mirror and the output coupling mirror; the output coupling mirror is used to transmit and output first partial radiation light, and reflect second partial radiation light.
US11870199B2
A terminal protection voltage detector circuit is provided for protecting a terminal block having output terminals in a power supply apparatus. A current detector detects output currents flowing from the power supply apparatus to loads via output terminals, and a first comparator configured to compare a sum of the detected output currents with a predetermined first threshold and output a first comparison result signal when the sum of output currents is larger than or equal to the first threshold. A second comparator configured to compare a maximum value of detected output currents with a predetermined second threshold and output a second comparison result signal when the maximum value is equal to or larger than the second threshold. A current stop circuit stops a current from flowing from the power supply apparatus to the output terminals based on the first or second comparison result signal.
US11870197B2
Systems and methods for determining a status of an action performed by a power tool. For example, the power tool includes a power tool housing, an accessory, and an electronic processor. The housing includes a recess and an input device. The accessory is configured to be received by the recess. The accessory includes an identifier. The electronic processor is connected to the input device. The electronic processor is configured to receive a first signal from the identifier, determine an accessory type based on the first signal, receive a second signal from the input device, initiate an action based on the second signal, determine an outer diameter of the workpiece, calculate a force applied by the power tool, determine a distance traveled by the accessory during the action, and determine a status of the action based on the force applied to the workpiece and the distance.
US11870194B2
A flag shape contact includes a substrate, and a plug-in structure for receiving a mating contact. The plug-in structure extends from the substrate in a first direction. A riveting structure is provided for riveting or connecting a wire conductor to the contact. The riveting structure extends from the substrate in a second direction, distinct from the first direction. The riveting structure is disposed outside an extension area of the plug-in structure in the first direction.
US11870193B2
Provided are a busbar unit and a method of manufacturing thereof configured to prevent an increase in resistance at a connection portion therebetween, to provide a good connection condition, and to easily achieve even a complicated wiring structure, in the case of connecting between a busbar and a pre-welded member (a terminal, another busbar, or the like) made of a metal material different from that of the busbar. A busbar unit includes a busbar made of a first metal material, and a welded member made of a second metal material to be connected to an end portion of the busbar. A welded portion between the end portion of the busbar and the welded member is configured by pressure welding between end surfaces butted against each other.
US11870192B2
This invention relates to a charging adapter 30, 40 for charging a battery 20, 50 of a solar blind, a roller blind, a roman blind, a Venetian blind, a pleated blind, an electric curtain all having the battery 20, 50, the battery 20, 50 being charged by an output 14 of an external power supply 10, the charging adapter 30, 40 comprising a first plug converter 30 and a second plug converter 40, the first plug converter 30 having a first plug 34 and a second plug 36, the first plug converter 30 connectable to the second plug converter 40, the second plug converter 40 comprising a flexible cord 42 having a third plug 44 at one end of the flexible cord 42, and a fourth plug 46 at the other end of the flexible cord 42, the fourth plug 46 magnetically connectible with the second plug 36.
US11870191B2
An automobile connection cable is configured with a controller area network (CAN-bus) circuit design and provided with a protocol interface between the J533 connector and USB Type-C. The function of switching between different protocols is achieved through the configuration of the cable assembly, so that the driver-assistance system ensures a better adaptability to the VAG vehicle models of Volkswagen Corporation (VAG). When the vehicle is shut off, the circuit control board can also control the constant power supply system between the external device and the vehicle, thereby reducing power consumption.
US11870186B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a power distribution device. The power distribution device includes an input to receive power, a plurality of outputs, each output of the plurality of outputs being configured to provide output power, and being coupled to the input, a plurality of switching devices, each switching device of the plurality of switching devices being coupled to a respective output of the plurality of outputs, and a controller coupled to each of the plurality of switching devices. The controller is configured to receive power information indicative of the output power provided by each output of the plurality of outputs, determine, based on the power information, that an overcurrent condition exists, select, based on the power information and based on the determination that the overcurrent condition exists, at least one of the plurality of switching devices to disable, and disable the at least one switching device.
US11870177B1
The present invention discloses a protective cover plate for a flat plug and the flat plug with the same. A limit slot is arranged on a cover plate body of the protective cover plate and is configured to be sheathed outside the flat plug and to limit the flat plug, so that the flat plug is located in a protective space of the cover plate body. The flat plug can be inserted into or pulled from a plugboard by operating the protective cover plate. The flat plug is used in cooperation with the protective cover plate, and a positioning insert matched with the limit slot is arranged on the flat plug, thereby improving the safety of use.
US11870163B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there is an antenna package using a ball attach array to connect an antenna and base substrates of the package. One example is an RF module package including an RF antenna package having a stack material in between a top and a bottom antenna layer to form multiple antenna plane surfaces, a base package having alternating patterned conductive and dielectric layers to form routing through the base package, and a bond between a bottom surface of the antenna package and to a top surface of the base package.
US11870161B2
A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a substrate and a first antenna module. The first antenna module includes a first magnetic core and a first antenna wire coil. The first magnetic core is disposed on the substrate. A first angle is formed between the first magnetic core and the substrate. The first antenna wire coil is wound disposed on the first magnetic core.
US11870160B2
A multiband antenna, having a reflector, and a first array of first radiating elements having a first operational frequency band, the first radiating elements being a plurality of dipole arms, each dipole arm including a plurality of conductive segments coupled in series by a plurality of inductive elements; and a second array of second radiating elements having a second operational frequency band, wherein the plurality of conductive segments each have a length less than one-half wavelength at the second operational frequency band.
US11870156B2
Different approaches that aim to extend scan range of phased array antennas by means of altering surface waves and/or altering the coupling are disclosed. One approach includes providing a phased array antenna where a surface of a substrate that houses antenna elements of the array includes openings such as trenches or grooves. Such openings in the surface effectively reduce the dielectric constant of the substrate, are easy to manufacture, and may reduce or eliminate the need to use exotic and expensive low-k dielectric materials. Another approach includes providing a phased array antenna where antenna elements are disposed over a substrate in the form of surface mount (SMT) components that are reduced in size/footprint. Using SMT antenna elements with a reduced size allows achieving the same gain while spacing antenna elements farther apart with gaps in between the antenna elements, thus also reducing the overall dielectric constant of the substrate.
US11870148B2
A planar conductive millimeter-wave lens includes: a planar conductive plate with a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is parallel to the second surface; a plurality of openings from the first surface through the planar conductive plate to the second surface, where an axis of each opening is perpendicular to the first surface and the second surface. A size of each opening is a function of a position of said each opening on the planar conductive plate such that an insertion phase collectively imposed by the openings on an incident wave causes the incident wave to pass through the first surface and the planar conductive plate, exit from the second surface and to focus at a predetermined distance from the second surface.
US11870146B2
A waveguide antenna (200) is disclosed, comprising: a first plurality (220) of slots (222,224), for producing a beam having a first radiation pattern (301) at a first resonant frequency (f1); and a second plurality (230) of slots (232, 234), for producing a beam having a second radiation pattern (302) at a second resonant frequency (f2). A method of operation of the waveguide antenna (200) is also disclosed, comprising: operating the transceiver at a first frequency (f1) to detect objects in a first field of view; and operating the transceiver at a second frequency (fa) to detect objects in a second field of view
US11870141B2
An antenna package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna device including an antenna unit, and a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the antenna unit. The flexible circuit board includes a core layer having a first surface and a second surface that face each other, a circuit wiring layer disposed on the first surface of the core layer and including a signal wiring electrically connected to the antenna unit, and a ground layer disposed on the second surface of the core layer to cover the circuit wiring layer in a planar view. The ground layer partially includes a mesh structure.
US11870139B2
A vehicle, an antenna assembly of the vehicle, and a method of assembling the antenna is disclosed. The vehicle includes a housing having a passage formed therethrough. A circuit board is disposed within the housing. An antenna element is coupled to the circuit board and passes through the passage. A plug fills an annular volume of the passage between the antenna element and the housing.
US11870137B2
Disclosed is a slot antenna provided in a radar, the antenna comprising a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) having a plurality of a plurality of slots, wherein each of the plurality of slots includes a first elongated opening, a second elongated opening, and a connecting opening connecting the first and second elongated openings, wherein a first center axis of the first elongated opening is offset from a second center axis of the second elongated opening.
US11870136B2
A wireless communication device includes a metallic chassis, a slot extending through a sidewall of the metallic chassis, and a slot antenna secured to an inner surface of the metallic chassis and adjacent the slot. The slot antenna is integrated into the metallic chassis, giving the appearance and function of an internal antenna used with wireless communication devices having non-metallic chassis.
US11870128B2
Exemplary embodiments are described herein for compactable antennas. Exemplary compactable antennas include a support structure and a reflector surface. The support structure may directly or indirectly define the reflector shape. Exemplary embodiments comprise deployable support structures to permit the compactable antenna to have a smaller volume stowed configuration and a larger volume deployed configuration.
US11870124B2
Embodiments of this application provide a balance-unbalance conversion apparatus. The apparatus includes an insulation substrate, a first microstrip, a second microstrip, and a conductive ground. The first microstrip includes a first balance signal connection section, a first impedance matching section, and an unbalance signal connecting section. The unbalance signal connecting section is configured to transmit an unbalance signal. The second microstrip includes a second balance signal connecting section, a second impedance matching section, and a ground section. The second balance signal connecting section is configured to transmit a second component of the balance signal. The ground section is configured to connect to a ground signal. The first microstrip, the second microstrip, and the conductive ground are all disposed on the insulation substrate, and a cross-sectional area of at least a part of the first microstrip and/or at least a part of the second microstrip is gradient.
US11870118B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that generates power using a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas, a reformer including a vaporizing section and a reforming section, a raw fuel supply that supplies raw fuel, a reformed water supply that supplies reformed water, and a controller. The controller has multiple calculation formulas for calculating an amount of reformed water to be used in the reforming section in response to a requested power level from an external unit, and selects, based on an increase or a decrease in a requested current level from the external unit, a formula from the multiple calculation formulas in response to the increase in the requested current level, and a formula different from the formula to be selected for the increase from the multiple calculation formulas in response to the decrease in the requested current level.
US11870116B2
A power management system includes a plurality of power adjustment resources electrically connected to a microgrid, and a CEMS server that manages the plurality of power adjustment resources. The plurality of power adjustment resources include a plurality of FCEVs that supply electric power to the microgrid. Each of the plurality of FCEVs executes a refresh process that removes an oxide film formed on a catalyst electrode of an FC stack by causing the FC stack to generate electric power exceeding prescribed electric power. The CEMS server adjusts execution timings of the refresh process in the plurality of FCEVs during power supply to the microgrid, so as to respond to a request to adjust power supply and demand in the microgrid.
US11870112B2
An apparatus for sensing voltage information of a fuel cell includes: a sensing unit configured to sense voltages of each cell and all cells included in a fuel cell; a controller configured to control the sensing unit to sense the voltages of each cell and all the cells of the fuel cell according to a command of an upper controller, or to transmit information of the sensed voltages of each cell and all the cells to the upper controller; and the upper controller configured to detect an error cell by calculating output power of the fuel cell based on the information of the voltages received from the controller, to substantially prevent damage to a surrounding cell by stopping an operation of the error cell, and to control the output power in real time in correspondence with a state of the fuel cell.
US11870104B2
Aspects relate to systems and methods of use for a crash safe battery pack that includes a case, a first battery module located within the case and mounted to the case with at least a breakaway mount, a second battery module located within the case, a frangible connection configured to provide electrical conduction between the first battery module and the second battery module, and a die configured to contact and separate the frangible connection when the crash safe battery pack is impacted with a sufficiently great connection breaking force.
US11870103B2
An electrode assembly according to the present disclosure includes one or more unit cells each equipped with a pair of electrodes having different polarities with a separator interposed therebetween, an electrode mixture coated on one or both surfaces of the pair of electrodes, and electrode tabs located on the edges of the respective electrodes and not coated with the electrode mixture, and the electrode tabs include an electrode parallel connection tab and an electrode lead connection tab, and any one or more of the electrode parallel connection tab and the electrode lead connection tab are formed on the electrodes, and an outermost electrode is a negative electrode.
US11870100B2
Batteries according to embodiments of the present technology may include a housing including a first terminal disposed on a first side of the housing and a second terminal disposed on the first side of the housing. The batteries may include an electrode stack positioned within the housing. The electrode stack may include an anode current collector. The anode current collector may define an anode tab along a first side of the anode current collector, and be electrically coupled with the first terminal. The electrode stack may include a cathode current collector. The cathode current collector may define a cathode tab along a second side of the cathode current collector. The cathode tab may extend from the cathode current collector in a direction normal to a direction the anode tab extends from the anode current collector. The cathode tab may be electrically coupled with the second terminal.
US11870082B2
The present invention is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. An electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated into a body of a battery case. The body of the battery case has an accommodation part and a gas pocket part, and a passage that extends from the accommodation part to the outside discharges an internal gas from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part. The battery case is seated in a seating step on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the battery case. The body is pressed to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case. This method allows easy discharging of internal gas while reducing discharge of the electrolyte with the gas.
US11870077B2
Provided are a binder composition for a secondary battery and an electrode mixture including the same. More particularly, provided are a binder composition for a secondary battery, the binder composition having excellent characteristics of binding strength, mechanical properties, etc., while maintaining structural stability of an electrode even after repeated charge/discharge cycles, thereby improving performances of a secondary battery, and an electrode mixture including the same.
US11870072B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a halide including at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of copper, iron, nickel, cobalt, tin, and zinc. The negative electrode includes at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium metal, a lithium alloy, and a compound capable of having Li inserted and extracted. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes an ionic liquid including chlorine ions. The separator has lithium ion conductivity, and is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US11870062B2
The present invention relates to a metal oxide coated with a conductive polymer, including: a metal oxide; and a coating layer which is formed on the surface of the metal oxide and includes a conductive polymer, wherein the conductive polymer is a polymer of protonated monomers.
US11870059B2
In a method of preparing an immobilized selenium system or body, a selenium-carbon-oxygen mixture is formed. The mixture is then heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of selenium and the heated mixture is then cooled to ambient or room temperature, thereby forming the immobilized selenium system or body.
US11870056B2
A method for forming a cathode includes milling a suspension of precursors via a micromedia mill to form a mixture of primary particles in the suspension. The precursors include one or more metal compounds. The method includes spray drying the suspension after the milling to form secondary particles. The secondary particles are agglomerations of the primary particles. The method also includes annealing the secondary particles to form a disordered rocksalt powder.
US11870047B2
A vehicle includes a traction battery having a plurality of cells arranged in arrays and grouped into a plurality of cooling zones. A thermal management system includes a plurality of distinct circuits each associated with one of the zones. The thermal management system is configured to provide individual heating or cooling to each of the circuits to independently control temperatures of the zones. A controller is programmed to, in response to one of the zones exceeding a first threshold temperature and another of the zones being less a second threshold temperature, command the thermal management system to provide cooling to the circuit associated with the one of the zones and command the thermal management system to provide heating to the circuit associated with the another of the zones.
US11870043B2
A wireless battery management system, a manager node for the same, and a channel operating method, which operate a channel so as to stably support wireless communication in the wireless battery management system, are provided. The wireless battery management system includes a manager node and a monitor node. The manager node establishes a first network being a short-range wireless network by using at least one of a first channel and a second channel, and when a second network using the same communication channel and modulation method as a communication channel and a modulation method of the first network is detected, changing the first channel to a third channel and changing the second channel to a fourth channel.
US11870039B2
An electrode assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object comprises: a first electrode formed in the form of a single sheet and repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval; a second electrode formed into a plurality of pieces and respectively interposed in spaces formed by folding the first electrode; and a separator formed in the form of a single sheet and interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode so as to be repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval together with the first electrode, wherein the first electrode is a single-sided electrode in which a first electrode active material is applied to only one surface of a first electrode collector, and the second electrode is a double-sided electrode in which a second electrode active material is applied to all both surfaces of a second electrode collector.
US11870038B2
A method of manufacturing a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes at least four steps as follows: an initial charging step of charging the lithium-ion secondary battery, which has not been subjected to initial charging, under a temperature environment ranging of equal to or higher than −20° C. and equal to or lower than 15° C.; an aging step of leaving the lithium-ion secondary battery under a temperature environment ranging of equal to or higher than 30° C. and equal to or lower than 80° C. after the initial charging step; a short circuit detecting step of detecting the presence or absence of a short circuit of the lithium-ion secondary battery by measuring a voltage drop quantity of the lithium-ion secondary battery and comparing the voltage drop quantity with a reference value; and a sorting step of sorting out a lithium-ion secondary battery in which no short circuit is detected.
US11870036B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery includes an organic solvent, LiPF6 as a first lithium salt, a second lithium salt excluding the LiPF6, an oligomer represented by Formula 1, as a first additive, and a mixed additive of lithium difluorophosphate (LiDFP), fluorobenzene (FB), and tetravinylsilane (TVS), as a second additive.
US11870022B2
A package includes a substrate, a first light-emitting unit, a second light-emitting unit, a light-transmitting layer, and a light-absorbing layer. The substrate has a first surface and an upper conductive layer on the first surface. The first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit are disposed on the upper conductive layer. The first light-emitting unit has a first light-emitting surface and a first side wall. The second light-emitting unit has a second light-emitting surface and a second side wall. The light-transmitting layer is disposed on the first surface and covers the upper conductive layer, the first light-emitting unit, and the second light-emitting unit. The light-absorbing layer is disposed between the substrate and the light-transmitting layer, covers the upper conductive layer, the first side wall, and the second side wall, and exposes the first light-emitting surface and the second light-emitting surface.
US11870021B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor light-emitting element, and a resin member. The substrate includes a base member and a conductive part. The semiconductor light-emitting element is supported on the substrate. The resin member covers at least a portion of the substrate. The base member has a front surface and a back surface that face opposite to each other in a thickness direction. The conductive part includes a front portion formed on the front surface. The semiconductor light-emitting element is mounted on the front portion. The resin member includes a frame-shaped portion surrounding the semiconductor light-emitting element as viewed in the thickness direction, and a front-surface covering portion connected to the frame-shaped portion and covering a portion of the front surface of the base member that is exposed from the front portion.
US11870010B2
A light-emitting diode includes an N-type cladding layer, and a superlattice structure, an active layer, a P-type electron-blocking layer, and a P-type cladding layer disposed on the N-type cladding layer in such order. The superlattice structure includes at least one first layered element which has a sub-layer made of a nitride-based semiconductor material including Al, and having an energy band gap greater than that of said electron-blocking layer. The P-type electron-blocking layer is made of a nitride-based semiconductor material including Al, and has an energy band gap greater than that of the P-type cladding layer.
US11870008B2
A nanorod light-emitting device is provided. The nanorod light-emitting device includes a first semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed on the light-emitting layer, at least one conductive layer disposed between a central portion of a lower surface of the light-emitting layer and the first semiconductor layer, or between a central portion of an upper surface of the light-emitting layer and the second semiconductor layer, at least one current blocking layer that surrounds a side surface of the at least one conductive layer, and an insulating film that surrounds a side surface of the second semiconductor layer, a side surface of the light-emitting layer, and a side surface of the at least one current blocking layer.
US11870007B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element, includes: providing a base having an upper surface and a lower surface; forming a semiconductor stack on the upper surface; removing part of the semiconductor stack to form an isolation region surrounding the semiconductor stack; forming a dielectric stack covering the semiconductor stack and the isolation region; and applying a first laser having a first wavelength to irradiate the base along the isolation region; wherein the dielectric stack has a reflectance of 10%-50% and/or a transmittance of 50%-90% for the first wavelength.
US11870005B2
An optoelectronic device comprising at least one quantum well (QW) and at least one quantum dot (QD) incorporated in the quantum well with the band gap of the quantum well being larger than the band gap of the quantum dot. The QDs and QD arrays are embedded in various QW, thus providing higher yields in optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting diodes, lasers, and photodetectors. This is achieved by a nearly complete suppression of the nonradiative Auger recombination and enhancement of the light extraction efficiency.
US11869995B2
The invention relates to a new way of stabilizing and mounting solar panels in the form of conventional heat exchangers comprising a trough and a glass cover or of a photovoltaic panel on house walls with the aid of frames made of natural or artificial stones which are made break-resistant using fiber materials and are stabilized in such a way that the panels are also break-resistant on impact and can be mounted as self-supporting structures on a wall; furthermore, the panels in particular satisfy high standards in respect of esthetics and are low-maintenance and thus permanently appealing. Multiple solar panels comprising stone frames can form entire stone-solar panel facades.
US11869983B2
A Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) has a source and a drain disposed on a substrate. The source and drain have an S/D doping with an S/D doping type. Two or more channels are electrically connected in parallel between the source and drain and can carry a current between the source and drain. Each of the channels has two or more channel surfaces. The channel has the same channel doping type as the S/D doping type. A first gate is in direct contact with one of the channel surfaces. One or more second gates is in direct contact with a respective second channel surface. The gates are doped with a gate doping that has a gate doping type opposite of the channel doping type. A p-n junction (junction gate) is formed where the gates and channel surfaces are in direct contact. The first and second gates are electrically connected so a voltage applied to the first and second gates creates at least two depletion regions in each of the channels. In some embodiments, the junction gates are formed all-around the channel surfaces. As a result, the current flowing in the channels between the source and drain can be controlled with less voltage applied to the gates and less power consumption.
US11869970B2
A semiconductor device includes an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a substrate positioned between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; a buried electrode part positioned between the substrate and the upper electrode, the buried electrode part including a gate electrode; and a silicon layer positioned between the substrate and the upper electrode. The silicon layer includes a mesa part next to the buried electrode part, a first region positioned between the mesa part and the substrate, and a second region positioned between the buried electrode part and the substrate. An energy level density of the first region is greater than an energy level density of the second region.
US11869965B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and first transistors, and at least one first metal layer-which includes interconnects between the first transistors forming control circuits-which overlays the first single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying first metal layer; a second level including second transistors, first memory cells (each including at least one second transistor) and overlaying second metal layer; a third level including third transistors (at least one includes a polysilicon channel), second memory cells (each including at least one third transistor and cell is partially disposed atop control circuits) and overlaying the second level; control circuits control data written to second memory cells; third metal layer disposed above third level; fourth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, has a thickness at least twice the second metal layer, and is disposed above third metal layer.
US11869964B2
A transistor device includes a semiconductor epitaxial layer structure including a channel layer and a barrier layer on the channel layer, wherein the barrier layer has a higher bandgap than the channel layer. A modified access region is provided at an upper surface of the barrier layer opposite the channel layer. The modified access region includes a material having a lower surface barrier height than the barrier layer. A source contact and a drain contact are formed on the barrier layer, and a gate contact is formed between source contact and the drain contact.
US11869948B2
Strategic placement and patterning of electrodes, vias, and metal runners can significantly reduce strain in a power semiconductor die. By modifying the path defining electrodes, vias, and metal runners, as well as patterning the material layers thereof, strain can be better managed to increase reliability of a power semiconductor die.
US11869947B2
The present disclosure relates to a Gallium-Nitride (GaN) based module, which includes a module substrate, a thinned switch die residing over the module substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The thinned switch die includes an electrode region, a number of switch interconnects extending from a bottom surface of the electrode region to the module substrate, an aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier layer over a top surface of the electrode region, a GaN buffer layer over the AlGaN barrier layer, and a lateral two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer realized at a heterojunction of the AlGaN barrier layer and the GaN buffer layer. The first mold compound resides over the module substrate, surrounds the thinned switch die, and extends above a top surface of the thinned switch die to form an opening over the top surface of the thinned switch die. The second mold compound fills the opening.
US11869946B2
Devices and methods of a field effect transistor device that include a source, a gate and a drain. The transistor includes a semiconductor region position is under the source, the gate and the drain. Such that the semiconductor region can include a gallium nitride (GaN) layer and an III Nitride (III-N) layer. Wherein the GaN layer includes a band gap, and the III-N layer includes a band gap. Such that the III-N layer band gap is higher than the GaN layer band gap. A sub-region of the semiconductor region is located underneath the gate and is doped with Mg ions at selective locations in the sub-region.
US11869932B2
A manufacturing method of a capacitive structure includes: providing a semiconductor base; forming a first mask layer on the semiconductor base, the first mask layer having a plurality of first round hole patterns distributed uniformly; forming first openings distributed uniformly on the semiconductor base by etching based on the first round hole patterns; forming a second mask layer on one side, away from the semiconductor base, of the first openings, and forming a plurality of second round hole patterns on the second mask layer; forming second openings distributed uniformly on the semiconductor base by etching based on the second round hole patterns, and meanwhile continuously etching the first openings; and etching the first openings and the second openings to form capacitive holes, and depositing a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer within the capacitive holes to form the capacitive structure.
US11869930B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes: a stacked structure is formed on a surface of a substrate, the stacked structure including supporting layers and sacrificial layers which are alternately stacked; a buffer layer is formed on a surface of the stacked structure facing away from the substrate; capacitor holes penetrating through the stacked structure and the buffer layer and exposing capacitor contacts are formed; a first electrode layer covering inner walls of the capacitor holes is formed; an etching window penetrating through the buffer layer is formed; part of the supporting layers and all of the sacrificial layers in the stacked structure are removed along the etching window; the buffer layer is removed; and a dielectric layer and a second electrode layer are formed to form a capacitor.
US11869928B2
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
US11869922B2
LED apparatuses and corresponding manufacturing techniques are described. In some examples, an LED apparatus includes a mesa etched from a layered epitaxial structure. The layered epitaxial structure includes a quantum well layer and a barrier layer adjacent to the quantum well layer. The barrier layer overhangs the quantum well layer as a result of the quantum well layer having been etched to a greater depth compared to the barrier layer. In some examples, the quantum well layer and the barrier layer are etched together to produce an area where the barrier layer overhangs the quantum well layer. Etching of the quantum well layer and the barrier layer can be performed after the layered epitaxial structure has been etched to form the mesa, in order to reduce surface imperfections leftover from the mesa etch. In some examples, one or more regrowth semiconductor layers are formed over etched facets of the mesa.
US11869920B2
An ultra-small light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly having an improved luminance is provided. More particularly, an ultra-small LED electrode assembly in which light, which is blocked by an electrode and cannot be extracted, is minimized, an ultra-small LED device is connected to an ultra-small electrode without a defect such as an electrical short-circuit, and a very excellent luminance is exhibited even at a direct current (DC) driving voltage, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided.
US11869912B2
According to an aspect, a method for fabricating an image sensor package to define a gap height includes coupling an image sensor die to a substrate, forming a plurality of pillar members on the image sensor die, dispensing a bonding material on the image sensor die, contacting a transparent member with the bonding material such that a height of the pillar members defines a gap height between an active region of the image sensor die and the transparent member, and curing the bonding material to couple the transparent member to the image sensor die.
US11869910B1
The present disclosure provides a light sensing element including a unit. The unit includes a plurality of photodiodes, a color filter disposed above the photodiodes, and a light host embedded in the color filter. The light host is a hollow structure disposed above the photodiodes. The color filter includes a first portion surrounding the light host, a second portion surrounded by the light host, and a third portion covering and physically contacting the first portion, the light host, and the second portion.
US11869903B2
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes forming a first conductive layer on a base substrate including a panel area and a margin area disposed next to the panel area, the margin area including a dummy pattern area, forming a photoresist layer on the first conductive layer, forming a photoresist pattern by exposing and developing the photoresist layer, forming a first conductive pattern by etching the first conductive layer using the photoresist pattern, and removing the photoresist pattern. The forming the first conductive pattern includes forming a first pixel circuit pattern in the panel area, and forming a dummy pattern in the dummy pattern area of the margin area. An opening ratio of a portion where the dummy pattern is not formed with respect to the dummy pattern area is about 30% or more.
US11869902B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes a substrate, at least one thin film transistor, a capacitor, an interlayer insulating layer, and a node connection line. The at least one thin film transistor is on the substrate. The capacitor is on the substrate and includes: a bottom electrode on the substrate; a top electrode overlapping the bottom electrode, the top electrode including an opening having a single closed curve shape; and a dielectric layer between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The interlayer insulating layer covers the capacitor. The node connection line is on the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connects the capacitor to the least one thin film transistor. An overlapping area of the bottom electrode and the top electrode is divided by the opening into two separate areas.
US11869897B2
An array substrate including a display area having a plurality of subpixels is provided. The plurality of subpixels includes a plurality of first subpixels in a display-bonding sub-area and a plurality of second subpixels in a regular display sub-area. The array substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors on a first side of the base substrate and respectively in the plurality of subpixels. A respective one of the plurality of first subpixels includes a bonding pad on a second side of a base substrate; a lead line electrically connecting a respective one of a plurality of thin film transistors to the bonding pad; and a via extending through the base substrate. The lead line is unexposed in the array substrate. The lead line extends from the first side to the second side of the base substrate through the via, to connect to the bonding pad.
US11869893B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for forming a complementary field effect transistor (CFET) structure having a wrap-around contact. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a complementary nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The complementary nanosheet stack includes a first nanosheet and a second nanosheet separated by a dielectric spacer. A first sacrificial layer is formed over a source or drain (S/D) region of the first nanosheet and a second sacrificial layer is formed over a S/D region of the second nanosheet. A conductive gate is formed over channel regions of the first nanosheet and the second nanosheet. After the conductive gate is formed, the first sacrificial layer is replaced with a first wrap-around contact and the second sacrificial layer is replaced with a second wrap-around contact.
US11869884B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first hard macro; a second hard macro spaced apart from the first hard macro in a first direction by a first distance; a head cell disposed in a standard cell area between the first hard macro and the second hard macro, the head cell being configured to perform power gating of a power supply voltage provided to one from among the first hard macro and the second hard macro; a plurality of first ending cells disposed in the standard cell area adjacent to the first hard macro; and a plurality of second ending cells disposed in the standard cell area adjacent to the second hard macro, the head cell not overlapping the plurality of first ending cells and the plurality of second ending cells.
US11869883B2
A flexible electronic assembly includes an electronic component, a flexible substrate and a supporting layer. The flexible substrate includes a first surface coupled to the electronic component and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The supporting layer is coupled to the second surface, and the supporting layer includes a plurality of protrusions. In a plan view of the flexible electronic assembly, one of the plurality of protrusions includes at least a rounded corner.
US11869882B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the substrate, a plurality of electronic units comprising a first electronic unit corresponding to a sub-pixel, a second electronic unit corresponding to another sub-pixel, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to the first electronic unit and the second electronic unit, and the second electrode is electrically insulated from the first electrode.
US11869877B2
A bonded assembly includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die that are bonded to each other by dielectric-to-dielectric bonding. First conductive via structures vertically extend through the second semiconductor die and a respective subset of the first dielectric material layers in the first semiconductor die, and contact a respective first metal interconnect structure in the first semiconductor die. Second conductive via structures vertically extend through a second substrate and a respective subset of the second dielectric material layers in the second semiconductor die, and contacting a respective second metal interconnect structure in the second semiconductor die. Redistribution metal interconnect structures located over a backside surface of the second substrate electrically connect the first conductive via structures and the second conductive via structures, and provide electrical interconnection between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die.
US11869874B2
A stacked die system includes at least three dies. A first die has a same design as a second die. The first die includes a first circuit, and the second die includes a corresponding second circuit. A signal is received at the first die and sent to the third die via the second die. The signal is routed through either the first circuit or the second circuit but not both. Accordingly, an operation is performed on the signal prior to the signal reaching the third die but the operation is not performed by both the first circuit and the second circuit.
US11869863B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an adhesive layer formed on a lower surface of the substrate, a semiconductor element adhered to a lower surface of the adhesive layer, a through hole extending through the substrate and the adhesive layer and exposing a first electrode arranged on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, a via wiring formed in the through hole, a wiring layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode through the via wiring, and a protective insulation layer formed on the lower surface of the adhesive layer. The protective insulation layer covers an entirety of all side surfaces of the semiconductor element and a peripheral part of a lower surface of the semiconductor element and exposes a central part of the lower surface of the semiconductor element.
US11869857B2
A semiconductor package component and a semiconductor package including the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package component for an RF power transistor and a semiconductor package including the same. Further particularly, it relates to a semiconductor package component for an RF power transistor and a semiconductor package including the same, capable of adjusting impedance matching of an RF transistor by connecting a die chip and a lead frame with a wire so that a length of the wire is reduced as much as the protruding height of the base substrate.
US11869853B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate, and at least one guard structure including a first guard element, a second guard element, and a third guard element. The first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate are bonded to one another at a bonding interface between a surface of the first semiconductor substrate and a surface of the second semiconductor substrate. The first guard element is in the first semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from the third guard element by a portion of the first semiconductor substrate. The second guard element is in the second semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from the third guard element by a portion of the second semiconductor substrate, and the third guard element includes portions in the first surface and the second surface to bond the first semiconductor substrate to the second semiconductor substrate.
US11869845B2
A semiconductor wiring substrate includes a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer and a first dielectric layer. The first circuit layer includes a plurality of first signal traces and a plurality of first ground traces, wherein the first signal traces and the first ground traces are alternatively arranged on the first circuit layer, and one of the first signal traces is spaced at a first spacing from adjacent one of the first ground traces. The first dielectric layer is between the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer and has a first thickness in an arrangement direction of the first circuit layer, the first dielectric layer and the second circuit layer, wherein the first spacing substantially ranges from 0.78 to 1.96 times the first thickness.
US11869835B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, a redistribution structure below the semiconductor chip, a first insulating layer below the redistribution structure, a pad below the first insulating layer, the pad being in contact with the redistribution structure, and a bump below the pad, wherein a horizontal maximum length of an upper portion of the pad is greater than a horizontal maximum length of a lower portion of the pad.
US11869831B2
A semiconductor package includes a die attach pad, a plurality of lead terminals positioned about the die attach pad and disposed along side edges of the semiconductor package, a semiconductor die mounted on the die attach pad, a molding compound encapsulating the plurality of lead terminals and the semiconductor die, and at least one dummy lead disposed in a corner region of the semiconductor package between the plurality of lead terminals.
US11869829B2
In accordance with the present description, there is provided multiple embodiments of a semiconductor device. In each embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a conductive pattern formed thereon. In addition to the substrate, each embodiment of the semiconductor device includes at least one semiconductor die which is electrically connected to the substrate, both the semiconductor die and the substrate being at least partially covered by a package body of the semiconductor device. In certain embodiments of the semiconductor device, through-mold vias are formed in the package body to provide electrical signal paths from an exterior surface thereof to the conductive pattern of the substrate. In other embodiments, through mold vias are also included in the package body to provide electrical signal paths between the semiconductor die and an exterior surface of the package body. Other embodiments of the semiconductor device comprise one or more interposers which are electrically connected to the through-mold vias, and may be covered by the package body and/or disposed in spaced relation thereto. In yet other embodiments of the semiconductor device, the interposer may not be electrically connected to the through mold vias, but may have one or more semiconductor dies of the semiconductor device electrically connected thereto.
US11869828B2
A semiconductor package includes a first die. The first die includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a through hole between the first surface and the second surface and having an inner wall. The inner wall has a first lever arm. A length of the first lever arm is less than a thickness of the semiconductor substrate.
US11869827B2
The invention pertains to the technical field of semiconductor devices, and specifically relates to a three-dimensional capacitor-inductor based on a high-functional-density through silicon via structure and a manufacturing method, The three-dimensional capacitor-inductor of the present invention includes: a substrate formed with a through silicon via; a three-dimensional capacitor, formed on a sidewall of the through silicon via, and sequentially including a first metal layer, a second insulating layer; and a second metal layer; and a three-dimensional inductor, composed of center-filled metal of the through silicon via and planar thick metal rewiring, wherein a first insulating layer is provided between the sidewall of the through silicon via and the three-dimensional capacitor, and a third insulating layer is provided between the three-dimensional capacitor and the three-dimensional inductor, The invention can effectively increase the values of capacitance and inductance in an integrated system, and at the same time can integrate capacitors and inductors near the chip in three-dimensional integration, and can also improve the functional density of through silicon via in three-dimensional integration and increase the utilization rate of silicon in system integration. Compared with discrete capacitors and inductors on other organic substrates, the integration can be greatly improved.
US11869824B2
A thermal interface structure may be formed comprising a thermally conductive substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a first liquid metal layer on the first surface of the thermally conductive substrate, and a second liquid metal layer on the second surface of the thermally conductive substrate. The thermal interface structure may be used in an integrated circuit assembly or package between at least one integrated circuit device and a heat dissipation device.
US11869816B2
A package substrate comprises first, second and third electrical test contacts, wherein the package substrate is provided with an upper element plane and a lower SMD electrode plane on two sides. The side edge of the upper element plane is provided with first and second electrodes of the main element and first and second electrodes of the secondary element. The main element of LED chip is electrically connected between the first and second electrodes of the main element, a parallel circuit secondary element is electrically connected between the first and second electrodes of the secondary element. The electrical characteristics of the main element of LED chip and the parallel circuit secondary element are measured through the first, second, and third electrical test contacts when electrically connected.
US11869814B2
Types, sizes, and locations of crystal defects of an epitaxial layer of a semiconductor wafer containing silicon carbide are detected. Next, a predetermined device element structure is formed and based on location information of the crystal defects of the semiconductor wafer, semiconductor chips free of crystal defects and semiconductor chips containing only extended defects (Frank dislocations, carrot defects) are identified as conforming product candidates among individual semiconductor chips cut from the semiconductor wafer while semiconductor chips containing foreign particle defects and triangular defects are removed as non-conforming chips. Next, electrical characteristics of all the semiconductor chips that are conforming product candidates are checked. Next, based on a conforming product standard obtained in advance, a standard judgment is performed for all the semiconductor chips that are conforming product candidates, whereby semiconductor chips that are conforming products are identified.
US11869810B2
The invention relates to a method for separating at least one solid-state layer (4) from at least one solid (1). The method according to the invention includes the steps of: producing a plurality of modifications (9) by means of laser beams in the interior of the solid (1) in order to form a separation plane (8); producing a composite structure by arranging or producing layers and/or components (150) on or above an initially exposed surface (5) of the solid (1), the exposed surface (5) being part of the solid-state layer (4) to be separated; introducing an external force into the solid (1) in order to create stresses in the solid (1), the external force being so great that the stresses cause a crack to propagate along the separation plane (8), wherein the modifications for forming the separation plane (8) are produced before the composite structure is produced.
US11869806B2
Methods for forming a semiconductor structure are described. The method includes cleaning a substrate to form a substrate surface substantially free of oxide, exposing the substrate surface to a first molybdenum precursor, and exposing the substrate surface to a reactant to selectively deposit a first molybdenum film on the substrate surface. The method may be performed in a processing chamber without breaking vacuum. The method may also include forming one or more of a cap layer and a liner and annealing the substrate. The method may also include depositing a second molybdenum film on the substrate surface.
US11869800B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes receiving a silicon substrate having an isolation feature disposed on the substrate and a well adjacent the isolation feature, wherein the well includes a first dopant. The method also includes etching a recess to remove a portion of the well and epitaxially growing a silicon layer (EPI layer) in the recess to form a channel, wherein the channel includes a second dopant. The method also includes forming a barrier layer between the well and the EPI layer, the barrier layer including at least one of either silicon carbon or silicon oxide. The barrier layer can be formed either before or after the channel. The method further includes forming a gate electrode disposed over the channel and forming a source and drain in the well.
US11869793B2
An electrostatic chuck is configured to adsorb and retain an object thereon. The electrostatic chuck includes: a base body on which the object is mounted; an electrostatic electrode that is provided in the base body; a plurality of heating elements that are provided in the base body; a plurality of current control elements that are provided in the base body, and each of which is connected in series with a corresponding one of the heating elements; and a control circuit that is provided in the base body, and that is connected to the current control elements and configured to control operations of the current control elements.
US11869782B2
A valve assembly may provide a body comprising a bottom portion and a top portion having a threaded region, a closing mechanism situated above the top portion of the body, an actuator in communication with the closing mechanism, a nut configured to attach to the threaded region, and a threaded hole extending into at least one of the bottom portion of the body or the nut.
US11869777B2
A substrate processing method includes: increasing a temperature of a substrate by heating the substrate; after the increasing the temperature of the substrate, forming a liquid film of a pre-wetting liquid on a first surface of the substrate by supplying the pre-wetting liquid to the first surface of the substrate while heating and rotating the substrate at a first rotational speed; after the forming the liquid film, processing the first surface of the substrate with a chemical liquid by supplying the chemical liquid to the first surface of the substrate while heating and rotating the substrate at a second rotational speed that is lower than the second rotational speed; and after the processing the first surface of the substrate, decreasing the temperature of the substrate.
US11869763B2
An apparatus and system for treating a substrate includes a chamber having an inner space, a support unit in the inner space and configured to support and rotate the substrate, and first and second laser irradiation unit configured to irradiate first and second laser beams onto the substrate. The first laser irradiation unit includes a first laser light source configured to generate the first laser beam, and a first wavelength adjusting member configured to adjust a range of a wavelength of the first laser beam received from the first laser light source. The second laser beam, and a second wavelength adjusting member configured to adjust a range of a wavelength of the second laser beam received from the second laser light source.
US11869757B2
Ion detectors of the type used in scientific instrumentation, such as mass spectrometers. More particularly, a self-contained particle detector includes an enclosure formed in part by a transmission mode secondary electron emissive element, the enclosure defining an internal environment and an external environment, wherein the transmission mode secondary electron emissive element has an externally facing surface and an internally facing surface and is configured such that impact of a particle on the externally facing surface causes emission of one or more secondary electrons from the internally facing surface.
US11869755B2
A method for cleaning a substrate processing apparatus includes mounting a substrate on a mounting portion of an electrostatic chuck of the substrate processing apparatus to process the substrate; mounting a protector including a small diameter portion that covers the mounting portion and a large diameter portion that is disposed apart from an edge ring disposed on an outer periphery of the mounting portion and has a diameter larger than that of the small diameter portion, on the mounting portion; and supplying a cleaning gas, thereby removing by-products deposited between the mounting portion and the edge ring.
US11869754B2
System and methods of improving dynamic pressure response during recipe step transitions. An exemplary method may include changing at least one of a plurality of recipe parameters in accordance with a processing recipe while running the processing recipe on a semiconductor substrate in a processing chamber. The method may further include measuring a pressure response in the processing chamber responsive to the changing of the at least one of the plurality of recipe parameters, and determining a response error based on the pressure response and a model pressure response calculated based on the processing recipe. The method may further include, in response to determining that the response error may be greater than a threshold value, calculating an adjustment to an operation of a valve downstream of the processing chamber when changing the at least one of the plurality of recipe parameters in accordance with the processing recipe in subsequent runs.
US11869742B2
An X-ray beam is generated in an interaction zone of an electron beam and a target, the zone being an annular layer of a molten fusible metal in an annular channel of a rotating anode assembly. The channel has a surface profile which prevents slopping of the molten metal in the radial direction and in both directions along the rotation axis. The liquid-metal target forms a circular cylindrical surface due to the centrifugal force acting thereupon. The linear velocity of the target is preferably higher than 80 m/s; in a vacuum chamber, a changeable membrane made of carbon nanotubes is installed in the X-ray beam path and a protective screen with apertures for electron beam entry and X-ray beam exit is arranged around the interaction zone. The technical result consists in an X-ray source with increased power, brightness, lifetime and ease of use.
US11869733B2
A power transfer switch suitable as a bypass switch connecting a utility feed to a load comprises a bi-stable actuator selectively driven by a compression means charged by a handle. A latch retains the actuator until suitable power source conditions are detected to allow the transfer to proceed. The controller releases the latch and the actuator abuts breakers in sequence to effect a reliable make-before-break or break-before-make transfer.
US11869726B2
A stacked aluminum electrolytic capacitor includes a lead frame, a capacitor set, and at least one laser welding area. The lead frame includes a positive electrode end and a negative electrode end spaced from the positive electrode end. The capacitor set includes a plurality of stacked capacitor elements each having a positive electrode portion electrically connected to the positive electrode end and a negative electrode portion electrically connected to the negative electrode end. The at least one laser welding area is configured by a laser source capable of emitting a laser beam to perform laser welding on the positive electrode end and the positive electrode portion to form a fusion connection therebetween.
US11869723B2
A multilayer capacitor includes: a capacitor body including first and second internal electrodes alternately stacked with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and having first to six surfaces, the first internal electrode being exposed through the third, fifth, and sixth surfaces, the second internal electrode being exposed through the fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces; first and second side portions disposed on the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body; and first and second external electrodes. The capacitor body includes upper and lower cover portions disposed on an upper surface of an uppermost internal electrode and a lower surfaces of a lowermost internal electrode, respectively, in a stacking direction of the first and second internal electrodes. The first and second side portions and the upper and lower cover portions include zirconium (Zr).
US11869714B2
A nanocomposite electrode and a method of making the nanocomposite. The nanocomposite electrode includes an electrode substrate, nitrogen-doped molybdenum carbide nanosheets, at least one electrolyte, at least one binding compound, and at least one conductive additive. The electrode substrate is coated with a mixture of the nitrogen-doped molybdenum carbide nanosheets, at least one binding compound, at least one conductive additive, and at least one electrolyte, where the electrolyte penetrates the pores of the nitrogen-doped molybdenum carbide nanosheets, and where the nitrogen-doped molybdenum carbide nanosheets are an outer layer of the electrode.
US11869712B2
There is provided an electromagnetic solenoid including: a stator including a stator core; a coil configured to generate an electromagnetic attractive force by energizing the stator core; a mover configured to be attracted toward the stator by the electromagnetic attractive force; and a magnetic elastic admixture including a resin material with soft magnetism and elasticity, wherein the mover is configured to be capable of reciprocating by being released by an elastic body that generates a biasing force in a direction opposite to a direction in which the electromagnetic attractive force acts, a proximal end of the mover is located at a first proximal end position upon the mover being electromagnetically attracted toward the stator during energization of the coil, and is located at a second proximal end position upon the mover being electromagnetically released and moved to a side opposite to the stator during de-energization of the coil, and the magnetic elastic admixture is configured to elastically deform between the mover and the stator and not to be separated from a contact surface with the mover and a contact surface with the stator.
US11869700B2
An inductor device includes first trace, second trace, third trace, fourth trace, first capacitor, and second capacitor. One terminal of each of the at least two sub-traces of first trace are coupled to each other at first node. One terminal of each of the at least two sub-traces of second trace are coupled to each other at second node. One terminal of third trace is coupled to second trace, and another terminal of third trace is coupled to first input/output terminal. One terminal of fourth trace is coupled to first trace, and another terminal of fourth trace is coupled to second input/output terminal. First capacitor is coupled to first node and second node. Second capacitor is coupled between first node and first input/output terminal, or coupled between first node and second input/output terminal, or coupled between first input/output terminal and second input/output terminal.
US11869698B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other, and one side surface and the other side surface, each connecting the one surface and the other surface to each other, opposing each other, a recess formed in each of the one side surface and the other side surface of the body to extend to the one surface of the body, a support substrate disposed inside the body, a coil portion, disposed on the support substrate, having one end portion and the other end portion exposed to the recess, an oxide insulating layer disposed on a surface of the body, and a first insulating layer disposed along a surface of the oxide insulating layer to cover the surface of the body.
US11869692B2
A magnetic material includes a soft magnetic metal grain containing Fe, and a multilayer oxide film covering the surfaces of the soft magnetic metal grain. The multilayer oxide film has a first oxide layer of crystalline nature containing Fe, and a second oxide layer of amorphous nature containing Si. In an embodiment, the silicon oxide film of amorphous nature is formed by dripping, divided into multiple sessions, a treatment solution containing TEOS (tetraethoxy silane), ethanol, and water into a mixed solution containing the soft magnetic metal grain, ethanol, and ammonia water, to mix the solutions.
US11869684B2
A wire harness including: a wire bundle that includes a plurality of wires, each wire of the plurality of wires includes a conductor and an insulating covering that covers an outer circumference of the conductor, and each wire of the plurality of wires includes an exposed portion at which the conductor is exposed from the insulating covering; a splice body; and a waterproofing cover, wherein: at the splice body, the exposed portions of the wires forming the wire bundle are bonded to each other, a portion of the wire bundle that is adjacent to the splice body and at which the conductors are covered by the insulating coverings is a covered region, the waterproofing cover integrally covers the splice body and the covered region with a resin material.
US11869682B2
An electrical cable manufacturing method includes: in a joining device including a first facing surface and a second facing surface facing each other in a first direction, and a pressing member and a vibrating member facing each other in a second direction, setting an interval between the first facing surface and the second facing surface to a first distance; placing core wires between the first facing surface and the second facing surface having the interval set at the first distance; and joining the core wires by ultrasonic vibration. The core wires include core wires having different outer diameters. The first distance is larger than a maximum value between values of outer diameters of the core wires and smaller than the sum of the maximum value and a minimum value.
US11869680B2
A control circuit optimizes a radiation treatment plan for a patient treatment volume using an automatically iterating optimization process that optimizes as a function, at least in part, of predetermined cost functions, wherein at least one of the cost functions favors apertures for the multi-leaf collimation system having local curvature that deviates only minimally from a reference curvature. By one approach the control circuit determines the reference curvature as a function, at least in part, of at least one of setting the reference curvature to a static minimal local curvature, a shape of a projective mapping of the treatment volume onto an isocenter plane, and/or a fluence map associated with an amount of radiation to be administered to the treatment volume from a particular direction. By one approach the control circuit dynamically determines when to employ one or more such cost functions.
US11869679B2
In some variations, an interferometric frequency-reference apparatus comprises: an atom source configured to supply neutral atoms to be ionized; an ionizer configured to excite the neutral atoms to form ionized atoms; an ion collimator configured to form a collimated beam of the ionized atoms; probe lasers; and a Doppler laser configured to determine a ground-state population of the ionized atoms, wherein the atom source, the ionizer, and the ion collimator are disposed within a vacuum chamber. Other variations provide a method of creating a stable frequency reference, comprising: forming ionized atoms from an atomic vapor; forming a collimated beam of ionized atoms; illuminating ionized atoms with first and second probe lasers; adjusting the frequencies of the first probe and second probe lasers using Ramsey spectroscopy to an S→D transition of ionized atoms; and determining a ground-state population of the ionized atoms with another laser.
US11869678B2
Examples include a method to position atoms. The method comprises considering a target Hamiltonian encoding a specific problem to resolve using an optical tweezer traps quantum computing system. The method also comprises considering a set of representative Hamiltonians function of a position configuration of atoms in the quantum computing system. The method further comprises determining a specific position configuration whereby a specific similarity measure between the target Hamiltonian and a specific Hamiltonian of the representative Hamiltonians function of the specific position configuration is improved compared to another similarity measure between the target Hamiltonian and at least one other representative Hamiltonian function of a position configuration differing from the specific position configuration. In response to the determination of the specific position configuration, the method comprises positioning atoms in the specific position configuration in order to attempt to resolve the specific problem using the quantum computing system.
US11869677B2
A breeder blanket for generating tritium using neutrons produced by nuclear fusion of deuterium and/or tritium within a plasma confined within a fusion reactor. The breeder blanket comprises: a plasma-facing first wall; a breeder layer comprising lithium containing material for generating tritium from the neutrons; and neutron moderator material comprising metal hydride and/or deuteride arranged between the first wall and the lithium-containing material.
US11869675B2
Methods of providing provider information to a client device includes receiving, from a client device, a request for information for a provider within a user's provider network, generating and providing a request for location information; receiving a location response, determining whether a location identified by the location response is currently supported by the provider determination system, generating and providing a provider type request, receiving a provider type response; determining whether there are providers within the user's provider network that match both the location identified in the location response and a provider type identified in the provide type response, generating and providing a provider list, receiving a provider selection response selecting a provider from the provider list, generating and providing a provider information including information related to the selected provider.
US11869673B1
The embodiments disclose a medical product processing system including a first graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to an EHR platform and configured to display to a medical provider (MP) predefined conditions of a patient of the MP, a database with records stored therein containing predefined information relating to medical products related to the predefined conditions, a second GUI coupled to the database and configured to display to a medical product provider (MPP) adjustable condition trigger (CT) settings, wherein the adjustable CT settings are configurable by the MPP to associate a predefined condition with related predefined information, a processor coupled to the database, the first GUI and the second GUI, and wherein when the first GUI displays at least one condition to the MP, the processor automatically sends related predefined information from the database to be displayed on the first GUI based on the adjustable CT setting configured by the MPP.
US11869672B2
Contract tracing systems and methods for infectious disease tracking are disclosed. An infectious disease tracking system includes a plurality of user devices, each user device configured to detect, using a wireless communication module, a signal emitted by another one of the plurality of user devices. The user device can determine that a strength of the signal exceeds a predetermined event initiation signal strength threshold corresponding to a physical proximity between users of the devices and can store a contact tracing event record in response to determining that the strength of the signal exceeds the predetermined event initiation signal strength threshold. The user device can transmit the contact tracing event records to a data center where they can be stored and used to identify close contacts when an index case of an infectious disease is identified.
US11869671B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating patient health care through automatic discovery, establishment, and statistical validation of safety signals in repositories of EMR information, identifying safety signals regarding therapeutics or therapeutics combinations administered to patients. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, from a dataset of health care records, a first group of patients that received a drug; extracting one or more medical events that the first group experienced; identifying a second group of patients similar to the first group who have received one or more concomitant comparator drugs that address the same set of conditions that prevail in both the first group and second group; extracting one or more medical events that the second group of patients have experienced; and comparing the medical events of the first group to the medical events of the second group to determine statistically significant differences in occurrences between the groups.
US11869670B2
Systems and methods are provided for multi-schema analysis of patient specific anatomical features from medical images. The system may receive medical images of a patient and metadata associated with the medical images indicative of a selected pathology, and automatically classify the medical images using a segmentation algorithm. The system may use an anatomical feature identification algorithm to identify one or more patient specific anatomical features within the medical images by exploring an anatomical knowledge dataset. A 3D surface mesh model may be generated representing the one or more classified patient specific anatomical features, such that information may be extracted from the 3D surface mesh model based on the selected pathology. Physiological information associated with the selected pathology for the 3D surface mesh model may be generated based on the extracted information.
US11869661B2
Systems and methods for determining whether a subject has a cancer condition using transfer learning
Systems and methods for classifier training are provided. A first dataset is obtained that comprises, for each first subject, a corresponding plurality of bin values, each for a bin in a plurality of bins, and subject cancer condition. A feature extraction technique is applied to the first dataset thereby obtaining feature extraction functions, each of which is an independent linear or nonlinear function of bin values of the bins. A second dataset is obtained comprising, for each second subject, a corresponding plurality of bin values, each for a bin in the plurality of bins and subject cancer condition. The plurality of bin values of each corresponding subject in the second plurality are projected onto the respective feature extraction functions, thereby forming a transformed second dataset comprising feature values for each subject. The transformed second dataset and subject cancer condition serves to train a classifier on the cancer condition set.
US11869646B1
A medication validation system may include a camera to capture an image of a medication container that may have physical container characteristics associated therewith and a computer-readable indicia affixed thereon. A validation server may obtain stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia, and obtain image data associated with the image from the camera. The image data may be representative of the physical container characteristics of the medication container. The validation server may determine the physical container characteristics of the medication container from the obtained image data, and determine the computer-readable indicia from the obtained image data. The validation server may also determine whether the medication container is mislabeled based upon an attempted matching of both of the stored and obtained medication container characteristics and the stored and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is mislabeled, and communicate a notification that the medication container is mislabeled.
US11869633B2
The present disclosure provides methods for accurately predicting the dynamics of symptom response to drugs or other interventions for the treatment of major depressive disorder or other psychological conditions. These methods can allow for a shortening of the time period necessary for the evaluation of a drug or other therapeutic intervention. These predictive methods are based on measured and/or self-reported symptom severity measures at two or more points in time. These measures are then discretized into symptom classes (e.g., low, moderate, severe) and the symptom classes are then applied to the predictive model to predict the progression of symptoms and/or the effectiveness of a drug or other therapeutic intervention. The predictive methods may be augmented by metabolomics data, genomics data, or other objective measures taken from a patient, allowing the use of objective physiological measures to diagnosis and treat psychological conditions heretofore diagnosed and assessed using only subjective, self-reported measures.
US11869629B2
Described herein are systems and methods for designing and testing custom biologic molecules in silico which are useful, for example, for the treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease. In particular, in certain embodiments, the biomolecule engineering technologies described herein employ artificial intelligence (AI) software modules to accurately predict performance of candidate biomolecules and/or portions thereof with respect to particular design criteria. In certain embodiments, the AI-powered modules described herein determine performance scores with respect to design criteria such as binding to a particular target. AI-computed performance scores may, for example, be used as objective functions for computer implemented optimization routines that efficiently search a landscape of potential protein backbone orientations and binding interface amino-acid sequences. By virtue of their modular design, AI-powered scoring modules can be used separately, or in combination, such as in a pipeline approach where different structural features of a custom biologic are optimized in succession.
US11869613B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a transistor and a memory device. The transistor includes a source, a drain, and a gate. The memory device is disposed at a drain side of the transistor and coupled to the drain. The memory device includes a first electrode, a switch layer, a memory layer, and a second electrode disposed sequentially. The first electrode is coupled to the drain.
US11869595B2
A command to program data to a memory device is received. Target charge levels of a set of memory cells in the memory device for a first programming step are determined based on the data. A first set of indicators are provided to the memory device. The first set of indicators indicate the target charge levels for the first programming step. Target charge levels of the set of memory cells for a second programming step are determined based on the data. A second set of indicators are provided to the memory device. The second set of indicators indicate the target charge levels for the second programming step.
US11869592B2
Apparatuses and methods for decoding addresses for memory are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a memory cell array and a row decoder. The memory cell array includes a bank of memory including a plurality of groups of memory. Each of the groups of memory includes sections of memory, and each of the sections of memory including memory cells arranged in rows and columns of memory. The row decoder decodes addresses to access a first group of memory to include rows of prime memory from a first block of memory and to include rows of prime memory from a second block of memory. The row decoder decodes the addresses to access a second group of memory to include rows of prime memory from the second block of memory and to include rows of redundant memory. The rows of redundant memory are shared with the first and second blocks of memory.
US11869588B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for three-state programming of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to one of three possible data states by applying a voltage pulse to the memory cell, determining whether the memory cell snaps back in response to the applied voltage pulse, and applying an additional voltage pulse to the memory cell based on the determination of whether the memory cell snaps back.
US11869587B2
Methods, systems, devices, and techniques for read operations are described. In some examples, a memory device may include a first transistor (e.g., memory node transistor) configured to receive a precharge voltage at a first gate and output first voltage based on a threshold of the first transistor to a reference node via a first switch. The device may include a second transistor (e.g., a reference node transistor) configured to receive a precharge voltage and output a second voltage based on a threshold of the second transistor to a memory node via a second switch. The first voltage may be modified by a reference voltage and input to the second transistor. The second voltage may be modified by a voltage stored on a memory cell and input to the first transistor. The first and second transistor may output third and fourth voltages to be sampled to a latch.
US11869572B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to device having a memory array that operates with an applied core voltage. The device includes a power gating switch that receives a core supply voltage and provides the applied core voltage to the memory array. The device includes a biasing stage that selectively activates the power gating switch based on sensing a changing voltage level of the applied core voltage.
US11869568B2
A memory device may include: a memory bank comprising a first cell mat used as a normal area and a second cell mat used as a row hammer area and a redundancy area; a target address generation circuit suitable for: saving, in the row hammer area, a count of a received address for an active operation on the memory bank by performing an internal access operation on the row hammer area during the active operation, and setting, a particular count which satisfies a preset condition, an address corresponding to the particular count as a target address; a refresh control circuit suitable for controlling a smart refresh operation on the target address; and a column repair circuit suitable for repairing, when a bit line of the normal area has a defect, the bit line of the normal area with a bit line of the redundancy area.
US11869562B1
Endurance mechanisms are introduced for memories such as non-volatile memories for broad usage including caches, last-level cache(s), embedded memory, embedded cache, scratchpads, main memory, and storage devices. Here, non-volatile memories (NVMs) include magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), resistive RAM (ReRAM), ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM), phase-change memory (PCM), etc. In some cases, features of endurance mechanisms (e.g., randomizing mechanisms) are applicable to volatile memories such as static random-access memory (SRAM), and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The endurance mechanisms include a wear leveling scheme that uses index rotation, outlier compensation to handle weak bits, and random swap injection to mitigate wear out attacks.
US11869558B2
A magnetic tape in which a tape thickness of the magnetic tape is 5.2 μm or less, and in an environment with a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an AlFeSil abrasion value45° of a surface of the magnetic layer measured at a tilt angle of 45° of an AlFeSil prism is 20 μm to 50 μm, a standard deviation of an AlFeSil abrasion value of the surface of the magnetic layer measured at each of tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° of the AlFeSil prism is 30 μm or less, and the tilt angle of the AlFeSil prism is an angle formed by a longitudinal direction of the AlFeSil prism and a width direction of the magnetic tape.
US11869552B2
A magnetic tape in which a tape thickness of the magnetic tape is 5.2 μm or less, and in an environment with a temperature of 32° C. and a relative humidity of 80%, a frictional force F45° on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to an LTO8 head measured at a head tilt angle of 45° is 4 gf to 15 gf, and a standard deviation of a frictional force F on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to the LTO8 head measured at each of head tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° is 10 gf or less.
US11869551B2
A magnetic tape device. The angle θ formed by the axis of the element array of the magnetic head with respect to a width direction of the magnetic tape is changed during running of the magnetic tape in the magnetic tape device. In a case where predetermined storage is defined as one cycle, a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before performing the storage and a servo band spacing obtained after the storage of N cycles is defined as A, and N is set to 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, a medium life calculated by a linear function of A and a logarithm loge T of T, that are derived from a value of A and a value of the logarithm loge T of total storage time T of the storage of N cycles is 5 years or longer.
US11869549B2
A suspension for a disk drive includes a plate member having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first penetration portion penetrating the first surface and the second surface, and a second penetration portion spaced from the first penetration portion and penetrating the first surface and the second surface, an actuator provided on the second surface and having an electrode located in the first penetration portion, and a flexure having an electrode connection portion connected to the electrode. The electrode connection portion includes a first region and a second region having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first region, and the second region overlaps the second penetration portion.
US11869542B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform speed-enhanced playback of recorded media are disclosed. Example apparatus to playback media disclosed herein comprise at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to parse an audio frame included in the media to determine a number of skip bytes included in the audio frame, compare the number of skip bytes to a threshold, associate the audio frame with a plurality of candidate frames identified in the media when the number of skip bytes satisfies the threshold, and calculate a speed-enhanced playback rate for the media based on the plurality of candidate frames identified in the media.
US11869539B2
An information processing device includes a plurality of buffers and a file recording processing unit. Different pieces of buffer data (BD) are accumulated in the plurality of buffers. The file recording processing unit secures two or more consecutive allocation units (AU) included in a recording medium as a ring buffer. The file recording processing unit extracts a plurality of pieces of buffer data (BD) each accumulated in one of the plurality of buffers at regular time intervals and records the plurality of pieces of buffer data (BD) in the ring buffer as a salvage file (SF) for data recovery.
US11869537B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for language agnostic automated voice activity detection. Example methods may include determining an audio file associated with video content, generating audio segments using the audio file, the audio segments including a first segment and a second segment, and determining that the first segment includes first voice activity. Methods may include determining that the second segment comprises second voice activity, determining that voice activity is present between a first timestamp associated with the first segment and a second timestamp associated with the second segment, and generating text data representing the voice activity that is present between the first timestamp and the second timestamp.
US11869536B2
Techniques for automatically muting or unmuting an acoustic transducer include receiving a signal representing an output by a voice accelerometer of a device, determining whether the signal is indicative of a presence or absence of voice activity by a user of the device, and generating a control signal that causes an acoustic transducer to be muted responsive to determining that the signal is indicative of an absence of voice activity by the user, or that causes the acoustic transducer to be unmuted response to determining that the signal is indicative of a presence of voice activity by the user.
US11869535B1
Described is a system and method that determines character sequences from speech, without determining the words of the speech, and processes the character sequences to determine sentiment data indicative of emotional state of a user that output the speech. The emotional state may then be presented or provided as an output to the user.
US11869533B2
A method and apparatus (100) are provided for detecting tiredness of a vehicle driver. The apparatus (100) is configured to receive a signal from at least one microphone (104), to acquire a time characteristic of yawning actions in the signal, and to use an analysis of the time characteristic to detect or not detect a tiredness of the driver (106) from a frequency of yawning, a yawn intensity and/or a temporal compression between successive yawning actions.
US11869531B1
Systems and methods for acoustic event detection model selection are disclosed. For example, models may be calibrated utilizing audio samples from sound output by specific audio-output devices. Thereafter, a determination may be made as to which audio-input devices are near a give audio-output device and a model selector may select a model trained to detect an acoustic event produced by the audio-output device. The proximate audio-input device(s) may be configured with the selected model to detect the acoustic event.
US11869526B2
Different embodiments on hearing enhancement methods and systems to enhance a user's hearing. In one embodiment, a system includes a headset. The headset can access audio signals from other portable or non-portable instruments, wired or wirelessly, such as from home entertainment units, phones, microphones at a conference or speakers at a movie theater. The headset includes a wireless communication component to receive signals from an instrument, a down-convert circuitry, a speaker and a microphone to pickup sound in a headset environment. The headset is configured to modify audio output signals based on the pickup sound to at least reduce noise in the audio output signals to help the user hear audio signals.
US11869525B2
A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
US11869509B1
Methods and systems for natural language processing/understanding of voice conversations are provided. Using natural language processing, a clinical condition is extracted from a voice conversation. A clinical ontology identifies clinical concepts associated with the clinical conditions. The clinical concepts are classified for documentation. The clinical concepts are searched and validated from within an individual's longitudinal record.
US11869508B2
Computer-implemented method and system for receiving and processing one or more moment-associating elements. For example, the computer-implemented method includes receiving the one or more moment-associating elements, transforming the one or more moment-associating elements into one or more pieces of moment-associating information, and transmitting at least one piece of the one or more pieces of moment-associating information. The transforming the one or more moment-associating elements into one or more pieces of moment-associating information includes segmenting the one or more moment-associating elements into a plurality of moment-associating segments, assigning a segment speaker for each segment of the plurality of moment-associating segments, transcribing the plurality of moment-associating segments into a plurality of transcribed segments, and generating the one or more pieces of moment-associating information based on at least the plurality of transcribed segments and the segment speaker assigned for each segment of the plurality of moment-associating segments.
US11869505B2
Embodiments herein relate to a local assistant system responding to voice input using an ear-wearable device. The system detects a wake-up signal and receives a first voice input communicating a first query content. The system includes speech recognition circuitry to determine the first query content, speech generation circuitry, and an input database of locally-handled user inputs. If the first audio input matches one of the locally-handled user inputs, then the system takes a local responsive action. If the first audio input does not match one of the locally-handled user inputs, then the system transmits at least a portion of the first query content over a wireless network to a network resource.
US11869504B2
Systems and methods of verifying trigger keywords in acoustic-based digital assistant applications are provided. A system can receive, from an application developer computing device, a request to generate a voice-based software application. The request can include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a service provided by the voice-based software application and an identifier corresponding to the URL. The system can identify a plurality of links that include the URL as a target. The system can determine a subset of the plurality of links having a respective character string that includes a reference to the identifier for the URL. The data processing system can compare the subset of the plurality of links to a threshold to determine a match level, and can determine a verification status of the request based on the match level.
US11869500B2
A voice recognition apparatus includes a communication part configured to communicate with a voice recognition server, a voice receiver configured to receive a user's voice signal, a storage part configured to store guide information comprising at least an example command for voice recognition; and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a guide image comprising at least a part of the example command, transmit the received user's voice signal to the voice recognition server through the communication part in response to receiving the user's voice signal by the voice receiver, and update the stored guide information based on update information received through the communication part.
US11869493B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses processing audio data. The method can include: acquiring audio data by an audio capturing device, determining feature information of an enclosure in which the audio capturing device is located, and reverberating the feature information into the audio data.
US11869492B2
An anomaly detection apparatus includes a device identification database that stores device identification information for identifying a specific device for each type of a device, a hierarchical conditional vector generation unit that generates a hierarchical conditional vector based on the device identification information, an extraction unit that extracts a target device feature amount vector indicating a feature amount of an acoustic signal acquired from a target device by analyzing the acoustic signal, a hierarchical condition adversarial neural network that outputs background noise level information indicating a background noise level of a surrounding environment of the target device and true/false determination information indicating true/false of the target device feature amount vector by analyzing the hierarchical conditional vector and the target device feature amount vector, and an anomaly determination unit that determines whether an anomaly exists in the target device feature amount vector.
US11869491B2
A speech recognition unit converts an input utterance sequence into a confusion network sequence constituted by a k-best of candidate words of speech recognition results; a lattice generating unit generates a lattice sequence having the candidate words as internal nodes and a combination of k words among the candidate words for an identical speech as an external node, in which edges are extended between internal nodes other than internal nodes included in an identical external node, from the confusion network sequence; an integer programming problem generating unit generates an integer programming problem for selecting a path that maximizes an objective function including at least a coverage score of an important word, of paths following the internal nodes with the edges extended, in the lattice sequence; and the summary generating unit generates a high-quality summary having less speech recognition errors and low redundancy using candidate words indicated by the internal nodes included in the path selected by solving the integer programming problem, under a constraint on the length of a summary to be generated.
US11869488B2
In cases in which a confidence score of an inferred intent label is a predetermined threshold or less, an intent inference section searches for whether or not wording pertaining to a location, such as “on the door”, is present in a question. In cases in which a word relating to a location is present, the intent inference section consults individual function identification data associated with OM item codes in order to find intent labels including individual functions relevant to the location (such as “door”). In cases in which an intent label including an individual function relevant to the “door” is found, an OMA interaction control section consults QA data to find and acquire associated response information based on the found intent label and the OM item code, and notifies a HMI interaction control section of such response information.
US11869480B2
An intelligence-driven virtual assistant for automated documentation of new ideas is provided. During a brainstorming session, one or more user participants may discuss and identify one or more ideas. Such ideas may be tracked, catalogued, analyzed, developed, and further expanded upon through use of an intelligence-driven virtual assistant. Such virtual assistant may capture user input data embodying one or more new ideas and intelligently process the same in accordance with creativity tool workflows. Such workflows may further stimulate creativity for capturing ideas, while continuing to document, analyze, and identify further aspects to develop and expand.
US11869474B2
A sound absorbing light fixture comprising at least one light emitting element comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs) extending along a first side with at least one perforated panel comprising perforations selected to create an acoustic resonance condition within a cavity of the light fixture comprising a sound absorbing core. The perforated panels are additionally configured to conceal at least a portion or an entirety of the sound absorbing core.
US11869467B2
An information processing apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure includes an extraction unit 131 that extracts first data from an element constituting first content, and a model generation unit 132 that generates a learned model that has a first encoder 50 that calculates a first feature quantity which is a feature quantity of first content, and a second encoder 55 that calculates a second feature quantity which is a feature quantity of the extracted first data.
US11869465B2
An apparatus is provided that accurately estimates a point at which a musical performance is started by a player. The apparatus includes the musical performance analysis unit 32, and the musical performance analysis unit 32 obtains action data that includes a time series of feature data representing actions made by a player during a musical performance for a reference period and estimating a sound-production point based on the action data at an estimated point using a learned model L.
US11869464B2
An apparatus for mounting musical instruments is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a backplate fastened to a wall. A front portion of the backplate may comprise a pair of vertically positioned elevated guides. A bridge member having a top end and a bottom end may pivotably connect the backplate to a bracket. A cushioning member having a U-shaped opening for mounting the musical instruments may encase the bracket. A pair of grooves may be provided at a bottom portion of the cushioning member abutting the elevated guides of the backplate and allowing vertical translation of the cushioning member in accordance with the movement of the bracket and the bridge member. An encasing shaped like the cushioning member may be connected to a front portion of the cushioning member. The musical instruments may be mounted by their necks within the U-shaped opening of the cushioning member and the encasing.
US11869462B2
A tremolo clamp for attaching to a tremolo-equipped musical instrument having a tremolo arm and retaining the tremolo arm in a selected position. The tremolo clamp includes a clamp rod extending in a longitudinal direction, a fixed clamp arm fixedly attached to a first end of the clamp rod, a first positionable clamp arm slidingly attached along the clamp rod, and a second positionable clamp arm slidingly attached along the clamp rod. The first positionable clamp arm is arranged between the fixed clamp arm and the second positionable clamp arm.
US11869455B2
Novel methods and systems for compensating for ambient light around displays are disclosed. A shift in the PQ curve applied to an image can compensate for sub-optimal ambient light conditions for a display, with the PQ shift being either an addition to a compensation value in PQ space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in linear space, or an addition to the compensation value in linear space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in PQ space. Further adjustments to the PQ curve can also be made to provide an improved image quality with respect to image luminance.
US11869446B2
A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including switching elements of a first type and a second type different from the first type, a gate driver for generating a gate signal based on a gate clock signal and providing the gate signal to the display panel, a data driver for providing data voltage to the display panel, an emission controller for providing an emission controlling signal to the display panel, and a driving controller for generating control signals for controlling the gate and data drivers, and the emission controller. In a low-frequency driving mode, the display panel operates in a writing frame for writing data in the pixel and in a holding frame for holding the data written in the pixel, and the driving controller provides the gate driver with a gate clock signal having a direct current (DC) voltage during the holding frame.
US11869437B2
A display device including pixels connected to a data line and a sensing line; a data driver supplying one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data line; a sensing unit supplying an initialization voltage to at least one of the pixels through the sensing line and obtaining a sensing current value from at least one of the pixels through the sensing line; and a compensator generating compensation image data according to a sensing pixel current value among the sensing current value using an artificial neural network model learned to output reference image data corresponding to at least one reference sensing current value among the sensing current value.
US11869436B2
A subpixel circuit, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. A subpixel circuit for operating a subpixel of a display panel may include: a light emitting circuit including an light emitting element to receive a high-potential voltage, the light emitting circuit being configured to control the light emitting element according to a driving voltage and to output a control voltage; a reference circuit configured to receive the control voltage and a low-potential voltage and to control a driving current flowing through the light emitting element; an amplification circuit configured to compare the control voltage and a data voltage to generate the driving voltage for controlling the light emitting circuit; and an input circuit configured to receive the data voltage and a first scan signal and to control a timing of applying the data voltage to the amplification circuit based on the first scan signal.
US11869434B1
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area. The display panel includes a plurality of first subpixels on the substrate. A first subpixel of the plurality of first subpixels includes a first pixel circuit and a light-emitting element electrically connected to the first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit at least includes a first type of double-gate transistor. A first gate of the first type of double-gate transistor is connected to a first control line. A second gate of the first type of double-gate transistor is connected to a second control line. The display panel further includes a second detection line having a same width as the second control line.
US11869420B2
Provided is a driving device for a display panel. The driving device includes a temperature sensor, a timing controller, and a source driving circuit. The temperature sensor is connected to the timing controller, and is configured to sense a target temperature and output the target temperature to the timing controller, the target temperature including an operating temperature of the display panel; and the timing controller is further connected to the source driving circuit, the source driving circuit is further connected to a pixel in the display panel, and the timing controller is configured to control, based on the target temperature, the source driving circuit to output a drive signal with a target parameter to the pixel to drive the pixel to emit light; wherein target temperatures within different temperature ranges correspond to drive signals with different target parameters.
US11869419B2
A display device includes a first source printed circuit board connected to a control printed circuit board through a cable, a second source printed circuit board connected to the first source printed circuit board through a flexible printed circuit board, a display panel connected to the first source printed circuit board and the second source printed circuit board through a connection part, and a timing controller determining predicted power currents based on input image data, determining a target gain based on the predicted power currents and a maximum allowable power current of the flexible printed circuit board, and correcting the input image data corresponding to a gain reduction region of the display panel based on the target gain. Accordingly, the display device may reduce a power current flowing through the flexible printed circuit board and may include a flexible printed circuit board including a small number of pins.
US11869417B2
The power consumption of a display device is reduced. The power consumption of a driver circuit in a display device is reduced. A pixel included in the display device includes a display element. The pixel is configured to have a function of retaining a first voltage corresponding to a first input pulse signal and a function of driving the display element with a third voltage obtained by addition of a second voltage corresponding to a second input pulse signal to the first voltage.
US11869414B2
A panel repairing method includes detecting a defective portion of a panel, providing primary ink, which is ejected from an ink ejection pin, onto a first portion of the defective portion, spreading the primary ink in a direction parallel to a plane defined on the panel, temporarily curing the primary ink, providing secondary ink, which is ejected from the ink ejection pin, onto a second portion of the defective portion disposed adjacent to the first portion, and curing the primary ink and the secondary ink.
US11869410B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel unit groups. Each pixel unit group includes a first row of pixel units and a second row of pixel units, which are adjacently disposed. A first gate driver on array (GOA) circuit unit electrically connected to the first row of pixel units and a second GOA circuit unit electrically connected to the second row of pixel units are further disposed between the first row of pixel units and the second row of pixel units. The first GOA circuit unit and the second GOA circuit unit share at least one signal transmission line.
US11869409B2
An image enhancement system in a vehicle includes a forward looking light sensor, an ambient light sensor, and an electronic control unit. The forward looking light sensor is configured to sense a forward looking light seen by a driver to generate a forward luminance value. The ambient light sensor is configured to sense an ambient light seen by the driver to generate an ambient luminance value. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate a display luminance control value based on the forward luminance value and the ambient luminance value, analyze a video image in a video input signal to determine multiple shades of gray within the video image, adjust the shades of gray in the video image based on the forward luminance value, the ambient luminance value, and the display luminance control value to generate the enhanced video image, and present the enhanced video image to the display.
US11869405B2
Provided display panel includes display region and non-display region. The display region includes display units arranged in array and scan signal lines. At least part display units in same row share respective scan signal line. The non-display region includes shift register circuit and connection lines. The shift register circuit includes cascaded shift register unit groups each including at least two shift register units each including signal input terminal, reset control terminal, and signal output terminal. Signal output terminal of first shift register unit in (i+1)-th shift register unit group electrically connected to signal input terminal of respective shift register unit in (i+2)-th shift register unit group through same connection line. Signal output terminal of second shift register unit in (i+1)-th shift register unit group electrically connected to reset control terminal of respective shift register unit in i-th shift register unit group through same connection line. i is positive integer.
US11869402B2
Provided are a pixel circuit and a display panel thereof. The pixel circuit includes: a drive module, a data write module, an initialization module, a light emission control module and a light emission module, where the initialization module is electrically connected to a control terminal of the drive module and configured to write an initialization voltage to the control terminal of the drive module at an initialization stage, the light emission control module, the drive module and the light emission module are connected in series to form a driving branch, and the light emission control module is configured to be turned on at a light emission stage under a control of a first light emission control signal and under a control of a second light emission control signal so that the driving branch is turned on.
US11869400B2
A display apparatus is disclosed that comprises a display panel. The display panel includes a display region that includes a first display area and a second display area. A data driver is configured to provide a data voltage to the display region. A gate driver is configured to provide a compensation gate signal and an initialization gate signal to the display region. The gate driver includes a first stage and a second stage. A driving controller is configured to control the gate driver and the data driver. The driving controller is configured to determine a first driving frequency for the first display area and a second driving frequency for the second display area. The second stage is configured to provide the compensation gate signal having a pulse duration shorter than a pulse duration of the compensation gate signal provided to the display region by the first stage.
US11869396B2
The present disclosure relates a display device and a method of driving the same. For example, a display device according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure includes pixels, a sensing unit, and a compensator calculating a current compensation value for each of the pixels based on a sensing value of the sensing unit, a first pixel among the pixels includes at least two light emitting diodes connected in series with a first transistor that controls a current, the sensing unit outputs a sensing value by sensing a voltage of the light emitting diodes in a sensing period, and the compensator increases the current compensation value for the first pixel as a voltage of the second node decreases in the sensing period.
US11869394B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel provided with a plurality of pixels; and a light source provided with a plurality of light emission points. The ratio of a pitch of the pixels arranged in a predetermined direction to a pitch of the light emission points arranged in the predetermined direction is 1:4n or 1:6n, and n is a natural number.
US11869392B2
Provided are a display substrate, a preparation method and a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a circuit substrate, a plurality of elastic electrode pillars disposed on the circuit substrate, and a plurality of second addressing electrodes and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the elastic electrode pillars, the circuit substrate includes an addressing circuit and a plurality of first addressing electrodes, wherein the addressing circuit is configured to provide a first electrostatic voltage to the first addressing electrodes and a second electrostatic voltage to the second addressing electrodes; the first electrostatic voltage and the second electrostatic voltage are configured to control the deflection angle of the elastic electrode pillar.
US11869390B2
A printed sign that includes a material printed with visual content. The material is rectangular and folded along an x-axis forming a first part and a second part. Prior to the folding, the x-axis divides the material horizontally and a y-axis divides the material vertically. A u-stake is oriented at the x-axis of the material in contact with an inner surface of the first part and an inner surface of the second part. The visual content appears on an outer surface of the first part and on an outer surface of the second part. Either the first part or the second part comprises an even number of sets of holes and a u-stake is threaded through each hole of the even number of the sets of holes and the third portion is oriented adjacent to the x-axis of the material.
US11869374B2
A system includes a reception unit to receive current flight data of the aircraft and current meteorological data, a data processing unit to perform an iterative computation to determine, as a function at least of a set of predetermined rules, of a set of constraints and of current values including current meteorological data, an optimal flight trajectory making it possible to generate a dissipation of the energy of the aircraft to bring it, at a stabilized final position, into a final energy state with a minimum ground distance, the optimal flight trajectory defining positions at which actions must be implemented on the aircraft, and a data transmission unit to transmit at least the minimum distance to at least one user system.
US11869372B2
In some examples, a system is configured to mount on a first vehicle. The system include an antenna configured to transmit a first surveillance message by forming an omni-directional beam. The antenna is also configured to receive a second surveillance message from a second vehicle during a first time period. The antenna is further configured to receive a third surveillance message from a third vehicle during a second time period, where the first and second time periods at least partially overlap in time. The system also includes processing circuitry configured to demodulate the second surveillance message by forming a first beam and demodulate the third surveillance message by forming a second beam. The second beam is different than the first beam, and the first beam is simultaneous with the second beam.
US11869366B1
A method of displaying an electronic report on a GUI that includes receiving a user identifier and an authentication identifier associated with a user gaining access to a first application; displaying, on the GUI, a first window associated with the first application; displaying, via the first window, a listing of monitored flights; receiving, via the first window, a request; accessing, using the first application, a second application and a third application that are different from each other and the first application; updating the displayed listing of monitored flights using information accessed from the second and third applications; wherein a flight has a delay greater than two hours; and receiving, via the first window, a request for the electronic report for the flight; displaying, on the GUI and via a second window, the electronic report for the flight that includes information from each of the second and third applications.
US11869365B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for detecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method of detecting a UAV includes receiving images from one or more cameras positioned in a UAV protected area; analyzing the received image to extract a UAV from the received image; and providing data related to the extracted UAV to train a UAV detection model, wherein photographing times or photographing positions of the one or more cameras are variably controlled.
US11869361B2
The disclosed technology provides solutions for improving the operational efficiency and safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In some implementations, the disclosed technology encompasses methods for performing vehicle clustering or platooning, for example, that can include steps for computing navigation routes for each of a plurality of autonomous vehicles (AVs), identifying a route overlap for a first AV and a second AV selected from among the plurality of AVs, and transmitting a clustering instruction to the first AV and the second AV based on the route overlap, wherein the clustering instruction is configured to cause the first AV and the second AV to initiate a clustering configuration. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11869360B2
An autonomous vehicle is provided. The autonomous vehicle includes a vehicle body, sensors and a processing element. The sensors are deployed on the vehicle body to sense surroundings of the vehicle body. The processing element is coupled to the vehicle body and the sensors. The processing element is configured to receive information from the sensors and to control driving operations of the vehicle body in accordance with the received information. The processing element is also configured to interpret at least a portion of the received information as being indicative of a troublesome incident and to deduce that a need for help to address the troublesome incident exists.
US11869349B2
[Solving Means] A traffic control device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a traffic control device that controls a traffic light installed on a route of a vehicle running on the basis of an operation diagram, including: an acquisition unit; a determination unit; and a signal generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from the vehicle, vehicle information including information regarding the operation diagram and a current position of the vehicle. The determination unit calculates, on the basis of the vehicle information, an estimated time of arrival at the traffic light, and determines whether or not the estimated time is on a scheduled time. The signal generation unit generates, where it is determined that the estimated time is delayed from the scheduled time, a control signal for causing the traffic light to execute signal control for preferentially causing the vehicle to pass therethrough.
US11869337B2
An emergency alarm system peripheral, such as a hazard detector, intrusion detector, or a notification appliance, includes a base that is permanently installed on a wall or ceiling, and a head which mounts to the base. Various embodiments and methods are provided to easily and efficiently assign addresses to the peripherals in the system.
US11869336B2
A method, executable at a first communication device, for enabling communication between a group of communication devices, including the first communication device is suggested. The suggested method comprise activating the first communication device in response to recognizing a cause for triggering such activation, recognizing at least one second communication device, exchanging data between the first and the at least one second communication device, in response to recognizing the at least one second communication device, determining, based on the exchanged data, rules to be applied for a coordinated signaling, from the first communication device and at least one of the at least one second communication device, and initiating the coordinated signaling, based on the determined rules.
US11869333B2
A handling alert apparatus configured to detect a predefined event and output an alert responsive to detecting the predefined event. The handling alert apparatus includes a housing connected to an article of merchandise. The handling alert apparatus includes a handling sensor configured to detect when a customer handles the article of merchandise. Responsive to detecting handling of the article of merchandise, the housing outputs a visual, audible, or wireless notification alert. The alert remains active until an authorized user prepares the article of merchandise for subsequent customer interaction and deactivates the alert by using a wireless controller or manually operating a designated deactivation button or switch.
US11869317B2
A method for playing a cooperative card wagering game for a plurality of players and a dealer using a customer cooperative wagering table and a deck of cards with each card having a numerical value, the cooperative wagering table having a dealer table edge, a community table edge, and a community line positioned therebetween, each player has an individual hand, and contributes a card to form a community hand by placing the card upon the community line, the players cooperate to maximize the value of the community hand, while also maximizing their respective individual hands, whereby the players cannot obtain a player win result if the community hand is less than the dealer's hand in value.
US11869315B2
A system and method for sports gaming and wagering. A game system includes a game server and user gaming devices in communication over a network. A wagering game involves multiple players in virtual gaming rooms, each player must complete a series of bets over a predefined time period or over a predefined sporting event or tournament, with the participating players competing against each other to achieve the highest score, winnings, or ranking.
US11869309B2
A system which makes available game outcome data to a player to enable the player to access a post-play reproduction of a game outcome previously determined utilizing the game outcome data.
US11869308B2
A casino cage cashout system includes integrated chip validation and transaction record generation. The system includes an interface to a chip reader. An output of the chip reader is used to generate chip information, including chip value, such as for causing an automated cash dispenser to dispense cash in an amount equal to the value of the chips being redeemed. The cage cashout system is also integrated with an anti-money laundering (AML) system, wherein the cage cashout system automatically generates a transaction report which include information regarding the chip cashout and transmits that report to the AML system.
US11869294B2
An identification systems maintains digital identities for people and uses such digital identities to generate and/or provide one or more digital identification objects to one or more checkpoints. Such digital identification objects may be generated on the fly using identity information stored in association with the digital identities, stored, and so on. The identification system may generate the digital identification object in a format expected by the checkpoint, may have a trusted relationship with the checkpoint and/or may be configured to securely communicate with the checkpoint, and so on. In this way, the identification system may enable use of the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints discussed above without requiring that people have a mobile driver's license and/or other government-issued digital identification stored on a mobile device that is capable of communicating with the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints.
US11869285B2
The present invention relates to an axle-monitoring system of a chassis of a utility vehicle for acquiring data on at least one axle of the chassis, wherein at least one sensor for acquiring at least one physical variable is arranged on the at least one axle, wherein the at least one sensor is configured to acquire a multiplicity of different physical variables, and to the use of an axle-monitoring system.
US11869281B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, at a server, sensor data from one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle, receiving, at the server, additional sensor data from a computing device operating inside the vehicle, determining the sensor data and the additional sensor data correspond to the vehicle's operational status, determining whether one or more of the sensor data and the additional sensor data exceed one or more thresholds, and when one or more of the sensor data and the additional sensor data exceed the one or more thresholds, providing a value to the vehicle.
US11869263B2
A computer-implemented tool for automated classification and interpretation of documents, such as life science documents supporting clinical trials, is configured to perform a combination of raw text, document construct, and image analyses to enhance classification accuracy by enabling a more comprehensive machine-based understanding of document content. The combination of analyses provides context for classification by leveraging relative spatial relationships among text and image elements, identifying characteristics and formatting of elements, and extracting additional metadata from the documents as compared to conventional automated classification tools.
US11869245B2
The invention relates to a monitoring device (10) for recognizing persons in a monitoring region (2), the monitoring region (2) being video-monitored by means of at least one camera (6) and the camera (6) being designed to provide monitoring images (7) to the monitoring device (10) as video data, the monitoring device comprising: —a feature determination apparatus (13), the feature determination apparatus (13) being designed to determine a feature vector (19) for each object in at least one of the monitoring images (7); —a person recognition apparatus (16), the person recognition apparatus (16) being designed to detect in the monitoring images (7) a person to be recognized (11), on the basis of the determined feature vector and/or the determined feature vectors (19) of the feature determination apparatus (13) and/or a combined feature vector (18); —an association apparatus (14), the association apparatus (14) being designed to determine a feature vector (19) for each person to be recognized (11) and each associated environment object of the person to be recognized (11), the association apparatus (14) being designed to determine the combined feature vector (18) on the basis of the feature vector (19) of the person to be recognized (11) and the feature vector or the feature vectors (20) of the associated environment objects.
US11869242B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for recording a portion of content of a sports game. A request to record the portion of the content, which specifies game clock time criteria, is received by user equipment. During transmission of the content, frames of the content including a game progress graphic are analyzed to determine time values representing progress points of the sports game. In response to determining that a first time value representing a first progress point of the sports game matches the game clock time criteria of the request, the user equipment begins to record the portion of the content. In response to determining that a second time value does not match the game clock time criteria of the request, the user equipment stops the recording of the portion of the content and stores the recorded portion of the content.
US11869231B2
A method includes detecting a user input comprising an incomplete three-dimensional (3D) gesture performed by one or more hands of a first user by a virtual-reality (VR) headset, selecting candidate 3D gestures from pre-defined 3D gestures based on a personalized gesture-recognition model, wherein each of the candidate 3D gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate 3D gesture, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate 3D gestures at the VR headset.
US11869226B2
A computer readable recording medium storing at least one program, wherein an image pattern determining method for determining a stripe image can be performed when the program is executed. The image pattern determining method comprises: (a) classifying a single target image to a plurality of image blocks, wherein each of the image blocks comprises at least one pixel; (b) calculating pixel differences between pixel value sums of at least one of the image blocks and neighboring image blocks of the image block; (c) calculating image variation levels of each of the image blocks in a plurality of directions according to the pixel differences; and (d) determining whether the single target image comprises the strip image or not according to the image variation levels. An image pattern determining method for determining a check board image is also disclosed.
US11869220B2
A G-PCC coder is configured to receive the point cloud data, determine a final quantization parameter (QP) value for the point cloud data as a function of a node QP offset multiplied by a geometry QP multiplier, and code the point cloud data using the final QP value to create an coded point cloud.
US11869218B2
A system and/or method for imaging system calibration, including: determining a dense correspondence map matching features in a first image to features in a second image, and determining updated calibration parameters associated with the image acquisition system based on the matching features.
US11869207B2
Methodology of unwrapping of phase from an optical image in the presence of both noise and unreliable phase fringes configured to tackle both problems simultaneously and, in the most efficient of multiple related implementations, including at least three prongs: i) SD-ROM based denoising procedure, ii) reliable estimation of the gradient of both the wrapped and unwrapped phase with the use of the forward and inverse Laplacian operators; and iii) fringe quality improvement with the use of Fuzzy Logic based Edge Detection. Transformation of optical images with the use of such methodology to provide an image representing visually-perceivable representation of the object's shape. Computer program product configured to implement the same.
US11869205B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate determining a three-dimensional surface representation of an object. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer, a calibration module, which is configured to determine a camera geometry of a set of cameras, and an imaging module, which is configured to capture spatial images using the cameras. The computer is configured to determine epipolar lines in the spatial images, transform the spatial images with a collineation transformation, determine second derivative spatial images with a second derivative filter, construct epipolar plane edge images based on zero crossings of second derivative epipolar planes image based on the epipolar lines, select edges and compute depth estimates, sequence the edges based on contours in a spatial edge image, filter the depth estimates, and create a three-dimensional surface representation based on the filtered depth estimates and the original spatial images.
US11869188B1
Systems and methods are provided for aiding the detection and diagnosis of critical heart defects during fetal ultrasound examinations, in which motion video clips are analyzed with machine learning algorithms to identify and select within the motion video clips image frames that correspond to standard views recommended by fetal ultrasound guidelines, and selected image frames are analyzed with machine learning algorithms to detecting and identify morphological abnormalities indicative of critical CHDs associated with the standard views. The results of the analyses are presented for review to the clinician with an overlay for the selected image frames that identifies the abnormalities with graphical or textual indicia. The overlay further may be annotated by the clinician and stored to create documentary record of the fetal ultrasound examination.
US11869186B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for making patient-specific therapy recommendations of a combination of any two or more therapies selected from a lipid-lowering therapy, an anti-inflammatory therapy for patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease, such as atherosclerosis.
US11869180B1
The invention provides a measurement method and system of undeformed chip thickness in micro-milling. This method includes the steps of: S1: acquiring a surface topography picture of the bottom of a flute after micro-milling; S2: extracting a tool mark at the central line of the flute from the surface topography picture; S3: calculating a spacing distance between adjacent tool marks and calculating the difference of equivalent cutting radius between adjacent cutter teeth based on the spacing distance between adjacent tool marks; and S4: reconstructing the instant undeformed chip thickness in micro-milling based on the difference of equivalent cutting radius between adjacent cutter teeth. The measurement method and system of undeformed chip thickness in micro-milling allow undeformed chip thickness measurement in micro-milling without measuring the tool runout and wear in advance, which significantly shortens the measurement flow and improves the measurement efficiency while effectively ensuring the measurement accuracy.
US11869175B2
An image reproduction system and methods for providing colorant data to an end device. A method includes extracting general HSV value data for each pixel of an image from image data. For each pixel, the general HSV value data is transformed to generate universal perceived brightness, Bp, and universal perceived chroma, Cp, value data. End-device colorant data associated with the general HSV value data is retrieved for each pixel and scaled using the Bp and Cp value data to obtain scaled end-device colorant data. The scaled end-device colorant data is transmitted to the end device.
US11869167B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for transmitting reduced depth information and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a first depth map of an image frame, wherein the first depth map includes a plurality of first depth pixels corresponding to multiple image pixels in the image frame; downscaling the first depth map as a second depth map, wherein the second depth map includes multiple second depth pixels, and each second depth pixel has a depth value; adjusting the second depth map as a third depth map by scaling up the depth value of each second depth pixel based on a specific ratio; dividing the third depth map into multiple fourth depth maps; appending the fourth depth maps to the image frame; encoding the image frame appended with the fourth depth maps; and transmitting the encoded image frame to a client device.
US11869166B2
A microscope system comprising an eyepiece, an objective that guides light from a sample to the eyepiece, a tube lens that is disposed on a light path between the eyepiece and the objective and forms an optical image of the sample on the basis of light therefrom, a projection apparatus that projects a projection image including a first assistance image onto an image plane on which the optical image is formed, and a processor that performs processes. The processes include generating projection image data representing the projection image. The first assistance image is an image of the sample in which a region wider than an actual field of view corresponding to the optical image is seen, The first assistance image is projected onto a portion of the image plane that is close to an outer edge of the optical image.
US11869161B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques of overlaying a virtual object on a physical object in augmented reality (AR). A computing device may receive one or more images of the physical object, perform analysis on the images (such as image segmentation) to generate a digital outline, and determine a position and a scale of the physical object based at least in part on the digital outline. The computing device may configure (e.g., rotate, scale) a 3D model of the physical object to match the determined position and scale of the physical object. The computing device may place or overlay a 3D virtual object on the physical object in AR based on a predefined location relation between the 3D virtual object and the 3D model of the physical object, and further, generate a composite view of the placement or overlay.
US11869154B2
A method and system are for acquiring a dataset created via an imaging modality, the dataset describing a 3D-shape of a 3D-object; adapting, in dependence on the 3D-shape of the 3D-object, a flat 2D-grid of intersecting grid lines to follow a surface curvature of the 3D-object to create an adapted grid, a distance between two neighbouring intersections, along the grid lines of the adapted grid following the surface curvature of the 3D-object, being equal to a respective corresponding distance between a respective two neighbouring intersections of the flat 2D-grid before the adapting; and outputting the adapted grid for display over at least one of the 3D-object and a virtual model of the 3D-object.
US11869153B1
Provided is a system for structured and controlled movement and viewing within a point cloud. The system may generate or obtain a plurality of data points and one or more waypoints for the point cloud, present a first subset of the plurality of data points in a field-of-view of a camera at an initial position and an initial orientation of a first waypoint, change the camera field-of-view from at least one of (i) the initial position to a modified position within a volume of positions defined by orientation controls of the first waypoint or (ii) the initial orientation to a modified orientation within a range of orientations defined by the orientation controls of the first waypoint, and may present a second subset of the plurality of data points in the camera field-of-view at one or more of the modified position and the modified orientation.
US11869152B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for generating a 3D product mesh model and product dimensions from user images. The system is configured to receive one or more images of a user's body part, extract a body part mesh having a plurality of body part key points, generate a product mesh from an identified subset of the body part mesh, and generate one or more product dimensions in response to the selection of one or more key points from the product mesh. The system may output the product mesh, the product dimensions, or a manufacturing template of the product. In some embodiments, the system uses one or more machine learning modules to generate the body part mesh, identify the subset of the body part mesh, generate the product mesh, select the one or more key points, and/or generate the one or more product dimensions.
US11869151B2
Aspects of the technology described herein relate to systems and techniques for finite element analysis of alternating electric fields such as tumor treating fields. A system may be configured to receive medical data of the patient, generate segmented medical data by performing segmentation using the medical data of the patient, generate a model for a transducer array configuration and the generated segmented medical data, wherein the transducer array configuration is configured to produce alternating electric fields, and determine one or more metrics of the alternating electric fields for each of the one or more transducer array configurations. The system may further compare the metrics to reference values and/or metrics of another transducer array configuration and/or determine and/or recommend a transducer array configuration based on the metrics.
US11869147B2
A computer-implemented method of machine-learning including obtaining an architecture for a neural network which is configured to take as an input a 2D sketch, and to output a 3D model represented by the 2D sketch. The 3D model is a parameterized 3D model defined by a set of parameters consisting of a first subset of one or more parameters and a second subset of one or more parameters. The neural network is configured to selectively output a value for the set and take as input a value for the first subset from a user and output a value for the second subset. The method of machine-learning also includes teaching the neural network.
US11869142B2
The disclosure provides a method, device and a computer-readable medium for performing three-dimensional blood vessel reconstruction. The device includes an interface configured to receive a single-view two-dimensional image of a blood vessel of a patient, where the single-view two-dimensional image is a projection image acquired in a predetermined projection direction. The device further includes a processor configured to estimate three-dimensional information of the blood vessel from the single-view two-dimensional image using an inference model, and reconstruct a three-dimensional model of the blood vessel based on the three-dimensional information.
US11869134B2
A system includes at least one imaging sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire detected data describing an environment of an autonomous vehicle using the imaging sensor; derive reference data which describes the environment from a predefined map; compute difference data representing a difference between the detected data and the reference data; and transfer the difference data, wherein an image computed based on the difference data and the reference data represents the detected data. Other embodiments are also described.
US11869133B2
A system and method for performing intersection testing of rays in a ray tracing system. The ray tracing system uses a hierarchical acceleration structure comprising a plurality of nodes, each identifying one or more elements able to be intersected by a ray. The system makes use of a serial-mode ray intersection process, in which, when a ray intersects a bounding volume, a limited number of new ray requests are generated.
US11869122B2
A method is disclosed for generating an image. An embodiment of the method includes detecting a first projection data set via a first group of detector units, the first group including a first plurality of first detector units, each having more than a given number of detector elements; detecting a second projection data set via a second group of detector units, the second group including a second plurality of second detector units, each including, at most, the given number of detector elements; reconstructing first image data based on the first projection data set; reconstructing second image data based on the second projection data set; and combining the first image data and the second image data. A non-transitory computer readable medium, a data processing unit, and an imaging device including the data processing unit are also disclosed.
US11869119B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.
US11869108B1
A system for effective, efficient and controlled public disclosure of inventions, developments and/or discoveries for protecting patent rights includes a publicly accessible central server to which a public at large is connected via a global communication network. The publicly available central server is composed of an interface module through which either a member of the public at large or an inventor, patent applicant or patent assignee is guided to either a public disclosure module or a database module. The public disclosure module provides inventors, patent applicants, and patent assignees with the ability to upload their disclosure materials relating to their inventions, developments and/or discoveries for public access via the database module. Once the disclosure material is uploaded via the public disclosure module, disclosure of the invention, development and/or discovery is incorporated into the database module for access by the public at large.
US11869105B1
Systems and methods for establishing a living arrangement between a staker of cryptocurrency and an owner of a real property are described. Distributed ledger technology may be leveraged to facilitate arrangements between a staker (e.g., a cryptocurrency staker) and an owner (e.g., a real property owner). The staker may receive aspects (e.g., staying rights, etc.) of a real property by locking cryptocurrency to a smart contract, where a portion or all of the residuals from decentralized financial activities may be earmarked for the owner. In some cases, maturity of the arrangement may be residual dependent (e.g., where the arrangement terminates once the sum of the residues to the owner reaches a threshold). At the maturity of an arrangement, the staked amount may be unlocked and available for the staker, and the owner's interest in the title (or deed) is transferred and claimable to the staker.
US11869102B2
Systems and methods for providing distance-based indicators for electric vehicles are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a dynamic task list, having a plurality of tasks associated with a vehicle location of a vehicle, in response to a parking event. Each task of the plurality of tasks has a task period. The method also includes determining a charge period for the vehicle at a charging station based on one or more vehicle charging parameters. The method further includes calculating a user return period based on a return distance between a user and the vehicle. The method yet further includes displaying a timing indicator with one or more of the plurality of tasks on the dynamic task list based on the task period and the user return period.
US11869098B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for presenting information associated with content creators. The techniques comprise receiving information about a first subset of users selected based on information about a first users, displaying information about a second user among the first subset of users in a first area of a user interface, displaying information about a plurality of users among a second subset of users in a second area of the user interface while displaying the information about the second user in the first area, determining that the first user has a desire to review information about a third user among the first subset of users based on user input, displaying information about the third user in the first area, and displaying information about a plurality of users among a third subset of users in the second area while displaying the information about the third user in the first area.
US11869097B2
A system for viewing shopping information on a social networking platform is disclosed. At the social networking platform, the system receives a request from a user device corresponding to a first user of the social networking platform to view a list of a second user of the social networking platform. The list may include items offered for transaction on a network-based commerce server. In response to receiving the request from the user device, the system forwards the request to the network-based commerce server, and then receives updated information for at least one item on the list from the network-based corner server. Then, the system communicates the updated information received from the network-based commerce server to the user device.
US11869093B2
A computing system may be configured to receive and analyze movement data. A stopping point within the movement data may be determined. Additional data related to the determined stopping point may be received from one or more roadway infrastructure devices. A time interval of data may be determined and analyzed based on the additional data. A driving pattern may be determined based on the analyzed determined time interval of data. A driver of a driving trip may be determined based on the driving pattern. Data corresponding to the driver and the driving trip may be outputted. Drivers associated with driving trips may be identified based on the movement data. In some cases, a driving pattern may be determined based on the movement data.
US11869088B2
Systems and methods for converting live weather data to a weather index for offsetting weather risk. Weather data source systems generate one or more weather data streams that include weather forecast model and observations data. A data distribution system receives a weather index request, identifies at least one instrument and at least one location associated with the request. Weather risk indication data is extracted among the weather data streams associated with the identified location based on predefined parameters associated with the identified instrument. The extracted data is converted into a set of weather index values corresponding to the location, based on a predetermined algorithm associated with the identified instrument. A weather index presentation package is generated that includes the set of weather index values for distribution to at least one user device. The weather index presentation package being distributed is updated concurrent with changes to weather risk indication data.
US11869086B2
Methods and systems for user definable prioritization of market information are disclosed. An example method to prioritize market information displayed in a window within a trading interface includes updating the market information displayed in the window at a first frequency, wherein the first frequency is to correspond to a first window priority. The example method also includes, based on a trigger activation, assigning a second window priority to the window, wherein the second window priority is to cause the market information displayed in the window to update at a second frequency, the second frequency different from the first frequency.
US11869071B1
Disclosed is an example approach in which news alerts are scanned in real-time or near real-time, relevant alerts identified through a topic extraction model, and associated actors identified through an entity extraction model. An entity resolution model may be applied to determine which actors are clients. The topic extraction, entity extraction, and/or entity resolution models may apply, for example, natural language processing models. The alert may be enriched by being packaged with client and transactional data to generate an enriched alert. A predictive model may be applied to the enriched alert to identify events with a high probability of law enforcement referral, and the enriched alert may be automatically transmitted to certain identified devices. The predictive model is trained using a combination of news alerts and data on clients and transactions, yielding enhanced predictions. The disclosed approach reveals relevant underlying associations and connections between entities and transactions not otherwise feasibly discoverable.
US11869066B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to an automatic ordering method including a network-connected machine-readable code scanner identifying a product, and a network-connected weigh scale identifying a current weight of the product, the method further triggering an automatic order process when the current weight crosses a predetermined threshold. In an illustrative example, the automatic order process may send a signal to a user's network-connected personal device containing a notification that the products current weight has crossed the predetermined threshold. The user may be presented one or more options, for example, regarding product purchase. In some examples, user setup selections may provide input to a function that determines the predetermined weight threshold. Various examples may include a network server. Online merchants providing online ordering of the product may also connect to the network server, for example. Various automatic ordering methods may advantageously facilitate and/or promote just-in-time delivery of consumable products.
US11869065B1
This disclosure describes systems and techniques for identifying events that occur within an environment using image data captured at the environment. For example, one or more cameras may generate image data representative of a user interacting with an item on the shelf. This image data may be used to generate feature data associated with the user and the item, which may be analyzed by one or more classifiers for identifying an interaction between the user and the item. The systems and techniques may then generate interaction data, which in turn may be analyzed by one or more additional classifiers for identifying an event, such as the user picking a particular item from the shelf within the environment. Event data indicative of the event may then be used to update a virtual cart of the user.
US11869064B1
A properly sized article of clothing, such as footwear, can be identified by performing a 3D scan of a corresponding portion of a user's body and comparing the size, shape, and external volume of the corresponding portion of the user's body with known sizes, shapes, and internal volumes of articles of clothing offered by a retailer. This process can increase the ability of retailers to match consumers with properly fitting articles of clothing, such as footwear. Additionally, the proper size, and best fitting styles of footwear can be recommended to the user from a variety of offerings provided by the retailer. 3D scanning the user's body allows both retailers and customers to account for subtle size differences that exist in various clothing products and allow consumers to be matched with the best fitting clothing without the need to purchase or return multiple items.
US11869048B2
The subject disclosure provides techniques for enriching user reviews and providing improved user recommendations using data collected by autonomous vehicles (AVs). In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a ride request wherein the ride request specifies a pick-up location associated with a user identifier (ID), navigating an autonomous vehicle to the pick-up location to provide ride service for a user associated with the user ID, and receiving review information from the user, wherein the review information relates to a product or service consumed by the user. In some aspects, the process can also include steps for associating the review information with the user ID, and enriching the review information using trip information associated with the user ID. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US11869046B2
Users form custom-defined communities for performing a defined activity amongst themselves. An actor defines the activity and restrictions associated with the activity. Members of the community place requests for the actor to perform member-specific actions during the activity on behalf of the members. The actor performs the activity with the member-specific actions and arranges procurement of results associated with each of the members. The actor and the members may also settle up with one another at least upon procurement. The activity is crowd sourced within the custom-defined community, thereby reducing the need for the members to each individually perform the activity.
US11869044B2
A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network, interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.
US11869035B1
An advertisement distribution system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “System”) is provided. The System may request posts containing a subject tag from social media operators. The posts may be made by merchants having a relationship with the System. The System may filter the posts based on filters, geographic data, and member preferences. The System may distribute the posts to members having a relationship with the System.
US11869028B2
The invention is a system 3-00 and method for presenting off-platform incentive information 14C during shopping sessions conducted on a merchant platform by a consumer. The system 3-00 comprises: (a) a merchant server 31 in data communication with a network 15 during each shopping session; (b) one or more computing devices, each computing device including a display window, a user interface, and a page viewer; (c) one or more payment servers 30A; (d) one or more affiliate servers 30B; and (e) an extension module integrated with the page viewer. The extension module captures merchant platform product pricing and merchant coupon incentives details during the shopping session. The extension also stores or accesses the off-platform incentive information 14C of payment service programs and affiliate programs. The price impact from all the available incentives are presented on at least one modified checkout page 14 for consumer viewing and approval of the transaction.
US11869027B1
The present invention generally relates to a system, method, and computer program for providing coupons and cash back in electronic commerce. Specifically, electronic coupon code(s) are tested against various retailer websites to ascertain the best combination and automatically applied into a user's cart during electronic checkout. Various embodiments of the present invention also provide the user-less tracking of an affiliate purchase in order to apportion user cash back without first requiring the creation of a user account.
US11869020B1
Systems and methods for remotely verifying an identity of a minor to open an account at a financial institution for the minor are provided. A method includes, responsive to verification of an identity of an adult associated with the minor, receiving, by a provider institution computing system of a provider institution, information relating to the minor from a minor computing device associated with the minor, and scraping, by the provider institution computing system, data from one or more social media profiles associated with the adult. The method includes comparing, by the provider institution computing system, the scraped data to information from the adult regarding the minor, and in response to a match, remotely verifying, by the provider institution computing system, the identity of the minor based on the information relating to the minor, such that the account for the minor is authorized to be opened at the provider institution.
US11869004B2
Embodiments include systems and techniques to perform secure transactions including processing registration information for each computing device of a plurality of computing devices having authority over a financial account. In one example, embodiments include receiving a pending transaction against the financial account from a computing device. Embodiments include executing an authentication protocol to determine the computing device is a member of the plurality of computing devices based upon the registration information, and processing data identifying another computing device within a configurable distance from the computing device. Embodiments further include the system to execute the authentication protocol to determine the other computing device is a member of the plurality of computing devices based upon the registration information and bypass a portion of a security procedure for authorizing execution of the pending transaction.
US11869000B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for updating and processing payment device transaction tokens. The method includes receiving a first notification based on issuance of a first new payment device, generating a first new token associated with the first new payment device, and linking the first new token to a previous token. The method also includes receiving a second notification based on issuance of a second new payment device, generating a second new token associated with the second new payment device, and linking the second new token to the first new token in a chain. The method further includes determining to deactivate the first new payment device and modifying the chain to remove the first new token. The method further includes receiving a transaction request and processing the transaction request by communicating second new token to an issuer.
US11868996B1
A transaction is conducted between a merchant site and a customer's electronic device using a payment processor. The merchant site is associated with a client-side application and a server-side application. The client-side application executes on the customer's electronic device. The client-side application electronically sends payment information retrieved from the customer's electronic device to the payment processor. The client-side application does not send the payment information to the server-side application. The payment processor creates a token from the payment information sent by the client-side application. The token functions as a proxy for the payment information. The payment processor electronically sends the token to the client-side application. The client-side application electronically sends the token to the server-side application for use by the server-side application in conducting the transaction. The payment information can thus be used by the server-side application via the token without the server-side application being exposed to the payment information.
US11868978B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11868976B2
Systems and methods for secure purchasing are provided in which an invoice comprising an amount to be remitted and a merchant identification is generated. The invoice is transmitted to a remote invoice database. At a device associated with a consumer, the invoice identification is received. A request including the invoice identification is sent to the remote invoice database thereby retrieving information about the invoice including an amount to be remitted and a merchant identification. Responsive to receiving consumer confirmation of the invoice, an approval of the invoice is transmitted to an account database comprising at least one account corresponding to the consumer. At a device associated with the account database, after receiving invoice approval, the invoice amount is remitted to the merchant in the form of a bank check that identifies the merchant and a notification of the check and the merchant is stored in the remote account database.
US11868969B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing a calendar application. A need to optimize a calendar is identified. Furthermore, a period of time to optimize the calendar is received or identified. All the scheduled events (e.g., scheduled meetings) in the calendar are then selected during that period of time. The attendees, topics and flags, if any, for each of the selected scheduled events during the period of time are extracted. Prior collaborations with the user involving the extracted attendees and/or topics of the selected scheduled events are identified. Collaboration data (e.g., participants/senders/attendees, topics) is then extracted from the identified prior collaborations. A list of actions (e.g., delegate scheduled event to another user) is generated to be performed on a selected scheduled event based on the extracted collaboration data. The generated list of actions to be performed on the selected scheduled event is then presented to the user.
US11868968B1
A system and method for analyzing wearable sensor data in reconciliation with calendar entry data. A computer processor is coupled to a user configurable calendar system and a user wearable device. The processor detects one or more user activity events from one or more electronic wearable devices associated with the user and detects one or more user calendar events from a user configurable calendar system. The processor is configured to determine a course of action to be taken by the user based upon the one or more calendar events and the detected one or more user events.
US11868959B2
Examples provide an item storage cart for verifying correct item placement into containers on the item storage cart. A cart manager component outputs planogram data identifying a location of a selected item. Weight data generated by one or more weight sensors associated with the set of item storage containers is analyzed to verify whether a correct item is placed in a given storage container on the cart and/or verify a selected item is placed into a correct storage container. The cart manager component determines if an unselected item is removed from a storage container and/or if an unselected item is added to a storage container. A notification is output if an incorrect item is added to a cart, an incorrect item is removed from the cart, an item is added to the wrong container or removed from the wrong container.
US11868950B2
Input data provides an order of a quantity of finished goods to a site. Software is programmed for: accessing data defining an architecture of the supply chain network with sites, and a location of each site; enumerating one or more path solutions along the supply chain network to fulfill the order, each path solution comprising path fragments connecting two sites, a path fragment defining movement of a sub-quantity of the finished goods or raw materials; determining a cost associated with each of the plurality of path fragments, the cost comprising a duty rate, the duty rate associated with a particular path fragment based on the locations of the two sites connected by the particular path fragment and the sub-quantity of the finished goods or finished goods raw materials moved between the two sites; determining one or more optimal path solutions; and outputting the optimal path solutions for display.
US11868937B1
A clustered application infrastructure troubleshooting system performs a set of queries on a database of infrastructure data to retrieve a set of metrics for each of a plurality of issues. For each issue, the system analyzes a corresponding set of metrics based on detection criteria associated with the issue to detect one or more issues. The system identifies a set of remediation steps for resolving each issue and infrastructure objects affected by each of the one or more detected issues. The system performs queries on the database of infrastructure data to retrieve a set of data associated with the affected infrastructure objects. The system generates a GUI with advisories corresponding to the detected issues. Responsive to the user selecting an advisory, the system causes the GUI to present the remediation steps and the set of data associated with the one or more affected infrastructure objects corresponding to the selected advisory.
US11868930B2
Generating a model for evaluating organizational skills to determine cost of entering a new market includes training a machine learning model to define business capabilities, processes and required skills of an organization based on a current business strategy, training the machine learning model to define a plurality of skill classes of the required skills of the organization using the cognitive computing processor device, training the machine learning model to define skill profiles of the available talent of the organization based on the plurality of skill classes, determining skill gaps of the available talent of the organization by analyzing the required skills of the organization and the skill profiles, assessing skills required for a new business strategy for the organization, and determining a cost of the organization executing the new business strategy based on the skill profiles, the at least one skill gap and the new business strategy skills.
US11868925B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a reservation process of making a reservation for use of a facility, accept input of one purpose of use among plural purposes of use provided for the facility, and in accordance with the accepted purpose of use, change at least one of a function provided in the reserved facility or information for which input is accepted in the reservation process.
US11868921B2
An approach to facilitate providing an event space associated with a primary virtual space is provided. An event space is provided to users of a primary virtual space, wherein the event space comprises one or more event objectives. Users of the primary virtual space having primary user accounts have associated event space accounts indicating event user parameters, event game parameters, and event inventory information for the first user. The user may be provided with event virtual items for purchase wherein the event virtual items are used in the event space during the event period. In response to a determination of the progress of the user associated with one or more event objectives an event award is determined for distribution to the user, wherein the event award may be used within the primary virtual space.
US11868918B2
Methods of managing a fleet of devices are provided, as are methods for configuring a standby device for a job in a workflow environment, and methods for performing a job in a workflow environment. Device information is analyzed, such as information pertaining to verification systems. Device instructions are sent to various locations on a device network in response to a deviation from a parameter value having been detected. The deviation from the parameter value may correspond to printed media and/or indicia produced by one or more devices. A workflow device and a standby device are provided, and the workflow device sends configuration data to the standby device. The standby device installs configuration data and is introduced into the workflow environment.
US11868914B2
A system and method for updating and correcting facts that receives proposed values for facts from users and determines a correctness score which is used to automatically accept or reject the proposed values.
US11868911B1
Disclosed are various approaches for managing the status of machine-learning models using distributed ledgers. A registration request for a machine-learning model can be received. The registration request can include a model name for the machine-learning model, a version identifier for the machine-learning model, a network address from which the machine-learning model can be retrieved, a source code hash for a source code version of the machine learning model, and a runtime hash for a binary executable version of the machine-learning model. A registration identifier can then be created based at least in part on the source code hash and the runtime hash. Subsequently, an entry in the distributed ledger can be created for the machine-learning model. The entry can include the registration identifier, the model name, the model version, the network address, the source code hash, and the runtime hash.
US11868909B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to predict a time to failure of a vehicle component according to a damage model generated from vehicle operating data, based on the predicted time to failure, retrieve a schematic of the vehicle component and input the schematic to an additive printer to manufacture a replacement vehicle component, and replace the vehicle component with the replacement vehicle component according to maintenance instructions that, based at least in part on the predicted time to failure, specify a time and location to replace the vehicle component.
US11868908B2
A system receives a predictive model and receives one or more runtime constraints. The system generates a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the predictive model indicating dependencies. The system compiles the predictive model into first instructions for a first processor based on the one or more runtime constraints and the DAG. The system packages first instructions, the one or more runtime constraints, and the DAG of the predictive model in a first binary. The system recompiles the predictive model into second instructions for a second processor based on the runtime constraints and the DAG stored in the first processor. The system packages the second instructions, the DAG, and the runtime constraints in a second binary.
US11868907B2
In an approach to improve chatbot workspaces by updating chatbot workspaces through documentation updating and chatbot skill updating. Embodiments determine a chatbot knowledge base contains a set of updated information and updates a chatbot dialog decision tree based on one or more identified new topics in a set of updated information using natural language processing techniques to determine a set of intents, a set of entities, and a set of keywords. Further, embodiments identify a starting decision for traversing the chatbot dialogue decision tree based on the updated set of entities and the updated set of keywords. Additionally, embodiments interact, via a user interface, with an end user according to one or more interactions traversing the chatbot dialogue decision tree for a response.
US11868905B1
A system includes a centralized repository for tracking rule content and managing subscriptions to rule content by organizations and providers utilizing the system; a rule-evaluation server for receiving requests for rule-evaluations for specific patients, wherein the server determines content needing to be evaluated and retrieves the content to be used; a rule engine for performing the evaluations, wherein content, patient data, and rule evaluation parameters are provided to the engine, and the engine returns recommendations triggered by the evaluation, if any; an aggregator for aggregating recommendations from multiple sources, detecting and coordinating related recommendations, and applying configuration settings based on the patient and/or provider in context; and a client component for coordinating communication between an electronic health records system, the server, and the aggregator.
US11868902B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient data evaluation. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for data evaluation in accordance with a shared decision tree data object. In one example, a method includes generating, using a plurality of feature extraction threads, shared evidentiary data; generating, based on a selected shared evidentiary data subset of the shared evidentiary data that correspond to one or more selected nodes of the shared decision tree data object, refined evidentiary data; processing the refined evidentiary data in accordance with the shared decision tree data object to generate an evaluation output and an explanation output; and displaying an evaluation output user interface comprising user interface data describing the evaluation output and the explanation output.
US11868896B2
The AI engine operates with the common API. The common API supports i) any of multiple different training sources and/or prediction sources installed on ii) potentially different sets of customer computing hardware in a plurality of on-premises' environments, where the training sources, prediction sources as well as the set of customer computing hardware may differ amongst the on-premises' environments. The common API via its cooperation with a library of base classes is configured to allow users and third-party developers to interface with the AI-engine modules of the AI engine in an easy and predictable manner through the three or more base classes available from the library. The common API via its cooperation with the library of base classes is configured to be adaptable to the different kinds of training sources, prediction sources, and the different sets of hardware found a particular on-premises environment.
US11868895B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a neural network model that includes a tensor operation, dividing the tensor operation into a set of sub-operations, and generating instructions for performing a plurality of sub-operations of the set of sub-operations on respective computing engines of a plurality of computing engines on a same integrated circuit device or on different integrated circuit devices. Each sub-operation of the set of sub-operations generates a portion of a final output of the tensor operation. An inference is made based on a result of a sub-operation of the plurality of sub-operations, or based on results of the plurality of sub-operations.
US11868885B2
According to an embodiment, a learning device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: generate a transformation matrix from learning data in which feature quantities and target values are held in a corresponding manner; and learn about parameters of a neural network which includes nodes equal in number to the number of rows of the transformation matrix, a first output layer representing first estimation distribution according to the values of the nodes, and a second output layer representing second estimation distribution decided according to the product of the transformation matrix and the first estimation distribution.
US11868884B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing machine learning model service. The method may comprise: (a) generating, by a first computing system, a first output data using a first machine learning model, wherein the first machine learning model is trained on a first training dataset; (b) transmitting the first output data to a second computing system, wherein the first training dataset and the first machine learning model are inaccessible to the second computing system; (c) creating an input data by joining the first output data with a selected set of input features accessible to the second computing system; and (d) generating a second output data using a second machine learning model to process the input data.
US11868883B1
A system and method of detecting an aberrant message is provided. An ordered set of words within the message is detected. The set of words found within the message is linked to a corresponding set of expected words, the set of expected words having semantic attributes. A set of grammatical structures represented in the message is detected, based on the ordered set of words and the semantic attributes of the corresponding set of expected words. A cognitive noise vector comprising a quantitative measure of a deviation between grammatical structures represented in the message and an expected measure of grammatical structures for a message of the type is then determined. The cognitive noise vector may be processed by higher levels of the neural network and/or an external processor.
US11868882B2
An off-policy reinforcement learning actor-critic neural network system configured to select actions from a continuous action space to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment to perform a task. An observation defines environment state data and reward data. The system has an actor neural network which learns a policy function mapping the state data to action data. A critic neural network learns an action-value (Q) function. A replay buffer stores tuples of the state data, the action data, the reward data and new state data. The replay buffer also includes demonstration transition data comprising a set of the tuples from a demonstration of the task within the environment. The neural network system is configured to train the actor neural network and the critic neural network off-policy using stored tuples from the replay buffer comprising tuples both from operation of the system and from the demonstration transition data.
US11868870B2
A neuromorphic apparatus configured to process a multi-bit neuromorphic operation including a single axon circuit, a single synaptic circuit, a single neuron circuit, and a controller. The single axon circuit is configured to receive, as a first input, an i-th bit of an n-bit axon. The single synaptic circuit is configured to store, as a second input, a j-th bit of an m-bit synaptic weight and output a synaptic operation value between the first input and the second input. The single neuron circuit is configured to obtain each bit value of a multi-bit neuromorphic operation result between the n-bit axon and the m-bit synaptic weight, based on the output synaptic operation value. The controller is configured to respectively determine the i-th bit and the j-th bit to be sequentially assigned for each time period of different time periods to the single axon circuit and the single synaptic circuit.
US11868864B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for implementing neural networks in fixed point arithmetic computing systems. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a request to process a neural network using a processing system that performs neural network computations using fixed point arithmetic; for each node of each layer of the neural network, determining a respective scaling value for the node from the respective set of floating point weight values for the node; and converting each floating point weight value of the node into a corresponding fixed point weight value using the respective scaling value for the node to generate a set of fixed point weight values for the node; and providing the sets of fixed point floating point weight values for the nodes to the processing system for use in processing inputs using the neural network.
US11868863B2
A method for performing automatic visual inspection includes: capturing visual information of an object using a scanning system including a plurality of cameras; extracting, by a computing system including a processor and memory, one or more feature maps from the visual information using one or more feature extractors; classifying, by the computing system, the object by supplying the one or more feature maps to a complex classifier to compute a classification of the object, the complex classifier including: a plurality of simple classifiers, each simple classifier of the plurality of simple classifiers being configured to compute outputs representing a characteristic of the object; and one or more logical operators configured to combine the outputs of the simple classifiers to compute the classification of the object; and outputting, by the computing system, the classification of the object as a result of the automatic visual inspection.
US11868859B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining data structures. In some embodiments, a classifier may be used to determine one or more attributes of an entity. In some embodiments, a clustering algorithm may be used to determine an attribute cluster. In some embodiments, an impact metric machine learning model may be used to determine an outlier cluster. In some embodiments, an outlier process may be determined as a function of the outlier cluster. In some embodiments, a visual element may be determined as a function of an outlier process and may be displayed to a user.
US11868847B2
A method of reducing stray coupling in a qubit array, includes turning ON a first coupler between a first qubit and second qubit of the qubit array by providing a pulse having a first amplitude to the first coupler. A stray coupling between the first coupler and a spectator qubit is reduced by turning ON a second coupler coupled to the spectator qubit, by providing a compensation pulse having a second amplitude, to the second coupler, based on the pulse having the first amplitude.
US11868845B2
A system and method for counting items are described. A photocell detects an item, after which a converter converts the generated digital signal to an audio signal that a computing device can recognize. Data from the counting of items is displayed on a user interface of the computing device and/or other visual interfaces.
US11868841B1
At least some embodiments of the present invention are directed to barcode readers having weigh platters. In an example, a barcode reader includes a weigh platter having a central region, a proximal edge region, a first lateral edge region, a second lateral edge region, and a distal edge region, where a the first lateral edge of the first lateral edge region and a second lateral edge of the second lateral edge region extends above a transverse plane defined by the central region.
US11868837B2
The disclosure provides an electronic cigarette with NFC anti-counterfeiting code and an anti-counterfeiting method thereof. The electronic cigarette comprises a vaporizer arranged with an insertion portion, and a battery rod arranged with a receiving portion for accommodating the insertion portion. The battery rod comprises a battery, and a control circuit board arranged with a microcontroller and a switching circuit. When the insertion portion is inserted in the receiving portion such that the NFC tag and the NFC tag antenna of the insertion portion are close to the NFC card reader and the NFC card reader antenna of the receiving portion, the NFC card reader automatically reads the anti-counterfeiting code preset in the NFC tag and sends it to the microcontroller for identification. If the anti-counterfeiting code is correct, the microcontroller MCU controls switching on of the switching circuit to allow the electronic cigarette to enter a standby state.
US11868836B2
An IC card according to an embodiment includes a contact communication interface, a non-contact communication interface, and a processor. A contact communication means is configured to perform contact communication with a reader/writer. A non-contact communication means is configured to perform non-contact communication with the reader/writer. The processor is configured to set an Answer To Reset (ATR) in the contact communication and an Answer To Select (ATS) in the non-contact communication based on a predetermined command including historical bytes.
US11868835B2
Provided are approaches for customizing transaction cards using a multi-part card body. In some approaches, the transaction card may include a first section comprising a first outer perimeter, a first interior edge, and a second interior edge extending from the first interior edge, wherein the first and second interior edges form an obtuse angle, and wherein a slot is formed in the first interior edge. The transaction card may further include a second section couplable with the first section, wherein the second section comprises a second outer perimeter, a third interior edge, and a fourth interior edge extending from the third interior edge, wherein a protrusion extends from the third interior edge, and wherein the protrusion is retained within the slot when the first section and the second section are joined together. The transaction card may further include a chip coupled to the first section.
US11868833B2
A modular transaction card assembly includes a card frame having the traditional dimensions of a credit card, and a transaction card that is smaller than a traditional card and that fits into a receptacle of the card frame. Each of the card frame and the transaction card may be capable of performing contactless data transactions individually. The combined assembly of the card frame with the transaction card secured in the receptacle is also capable of performing contact data transactions, and in some instances, with an identifier that is distinct from the card frame or the transaction card alone. The card frame may include a processor enabling it to perform data encryption and authentication of the smaller transaction card.
US11868831B2
A system and method for capturing media and for printing the captured media onto an article of merchandise. The system includes a mobile application that overlays one or more print dielines corresponding to the printable areas of one or more types of merchandise onto an associated camera display. In this way, the system provides, prior to the capturing of the photograph, a visual indication of the subject matter within the photograph (e.g., within the overlaid print dielines) that will be cropped and printed onto the merchandise. As such, a user may properly arrange the subject matter of the photograph (e.g., people) within the print dieline prior to capturing the photograph. The system subsequently communicates the portion of the photograph within the print dieline to a printing system to print the portion onto the merchandise. The system derives the print dielines from graphic files that correspond to the merchandises' printable areas.
US11868824B2
Systems, methods, and devices for offloading network data to a datastore. A system includes a plurality of instances of a datastore node in a single networking device, each of the plurality of instances of the datastore node comprising: a datastore; a publisher independent of the datastore for publishing data to the datastore; a subscriber independent of the datastore for receiving information from the datastore; a replicator agent configured to connect to the datastore as a publisher or a subscriber; and a persistent storage agent configured to connect to the datastore as a publisher or a subscriber.
US11868821B2
A system and method for launching parallel processes on a server configured to process a number of parallel processes. A request is received from a parallel application to start a number of parallel processes. In response to this request a launcher creates a surrogate. The surrogate inherits communications channels from the launcher. The surrogate then executes activities related to the launch of the parallel processes, and then launches the parallel processes. The parallel processes are launched and the surrogate is terminated.
US11868818B2
Techniques for selectively executing a lock instruction speculatively or non-speculatively based on lock address prediction and/or temporal lock prediction. including methods an devices for locking an entry in a memory device. In some techniques, a lock instruction executed by a thread for a particular memory entry of a memory device is detected. Whether contention occurred for the particular memory entry during an earlier speculative lock is detected on a condition that the lock instruction comprises a speculative lock instruction. The lock is executed non-speculatively if contention occurred for the particular memory entry during an earlier speculative lock. The lock is executed speculatively if contention did not occur for the particular memory entry during an earlier speculative lock.
US11868810B2
Techniques are provided for allocating resources for one or more workloads. One method comprises obtaining a current performance of a workload; determining an adjustment to a current allocation of a resource allocated to the workload by evaluating a representation of a relationship between: (i) the current allocation of the resource allocated to the workload, (ii) a performance metric, and (iii) the current performance of the workload; and initiating an application of the determined adjustment to the current allocation of the resource for the workload. The performance metric may comprise a nominal value of a predefined service metric and the current performance of the workload may comprise a current value of a variable that tracks a given predefined service metric of the workload. An amount (or percentage) of the adjustment permitted for each iteration may be controlled. A sum of allocated resources can be constrained to an amount of available resources.
US11868808B2
An automatic driving simulation task scheduling method and apparatus, a computer device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: constructing a network flow block diagram on the basis of the number of cluster racks, the number of nodes, and the number of processes, and coding information of the network flow block diagram (S01); setting information of a task to be simulated, and performing shortest path computation on a simulation task flow by means of the network flow block diagram (S02); and updating the state of a scheduling system in real time according to a fair policy and a preemptive scheduling policy, and executing scheduling on the basis of the state of the scheduling system (S03).
US11868806B2
A simulated annealing-based metaheuristic method for scheduling tasks in the infrastructures that use cloud computing service with multitasking and multi-node structure that can perform the big data analysis.
US11868800B1
A system and methods for enhancing content collaboration by conflict detection and resolution. A hybrid cloud cache receives a request from a client to upload an object to the cloud. The hybrid cloud cache may perform an internal lookup to find the latest version of the object known to it. This lookup may return a local identifier or a cloud identifier. The cache may compare a client-provided identifier to the local identifier or to the cloud identifier that is mapped to the local identifier to determine if the client-provided identifier refers to the latest uploaded version of the object. The system may determine that a conflict exists if the client-provided identifier does not match either identifier. The system may generate an alternate name for the object and upload the renamed object to the cloud from the hybrid cloud cache.
US11868799B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a command information transmission method, applied to a Physical Function (PF) port. The method includes: parsing a received interrupt request to obtain a target Virtual Function (VF) port; determining a target physical-side interrupt handler corresponding to the target VF port; obtaining target command information corresponding to the target physical-side interrupt handler in a device memory overlap region, where the device memory overlap region is an overlap region obtained by performing memory mapping on the PF port and each VF port in a host address space by a device memory overlap mapping technology; and executing switching to the target physical-side interrupt handler, and performing a response operation on the target command information.
US11868790B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating new content using a trained 1-to-N generative adversarial network (GAN) model. In disclosed techniques, a computer system receives, from a computing device, a request for newly-generated content, where the request includes current content. The computer system automatically generates, using the trained 1-to-N GAN model, N different versions of new content, where a given version of new content is automatically generated based on the current content and one of N different style codes, where the value of N is at least two. After generating the N different versions of new content, the computer system transmits them to the computing device. The disclosed techniques may advantageously automate a content generation process, thereby saving time and computing resources via execution of the 1-to-N GAN machine learning model.
US11868788B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for obtaining a simulated preview that depicts a representation of one or more user interface changes associated with an application plug-in. The approach involves, for example, rendering the simulated preview overlaid on a user interface of an application executing on a device. The rendering aligns the representation of the one or more user interface changes over the user interface to depict a preview of the one or more user interface changes that will occur after an installation of the application plug-in. The approach also involves rendering the simulated preview along with one or more simulated previews of installed plug-ins overlaid in a staked view on the user interface of the application. Addition and/or deletion of plug-ins can be managed in the stacked view.
US11868787B2
Systems and methods are included for managing persistent enrollment of a user device. The persistent enrollment can be controlled by an administrator at an administrator console. The administrator can enable or disable persistent enrollment for the user device at the admin console. A deployment agent can be provided to the user device. During the boot process, the deployment agent can verify the persistent enrollment status of the user device. The deployment agent can retrieve and install a software package for a management agent. The management agent can enroll the user device with an enterprise under a staging user profile. The management agent can install a provisioning package associated with the staging user profile. The management agent can receive user input login credentials. The management agent can change the ownership of the user device with the enterprise. The management agent can configure the user device for the user profile.
US11868782B2
Methods and systems are disclosed using an execution pipeline on a multi-processor platform for deep learning network execution. In one example, a network workload analyzer receives a workload, analyzes a computation distribution of the workload, and groups the network nodes into groups. A network executor assigns each group to a processing core of the multi-core platform so that the respective processing core handle computation tasks of the received workload for the respective group.
US11868780B2
An electronic device that includes a central processor and a coprocessor coupled to the central processor. The central processor includes a plurality of registers and is configured to decode a first set of instructions. The first set of instructions includes a command instruction and an identity of a destination register. The coprocessor is configured to receive the command instruction from the central processor, execute the command instruction, and write a result of the command instruction in the destination register. The central processor is further configured to set a register tag for the destination register at the time the central processor decodes the first set of instructions and to clear the register tag at the time the result is written in the destination register.
US11868748B2
A deployment platform, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for intelligent execution of a solution on a computer network, including receiving an instruction to execute a solution in a local runtime environment on the deployment platform, the solution including solution code written in a solution language, determining, by a helper program on the deployment platform, whether the solution is executable on the deployment platform based on the solution language and either launching, by the helper program, the solution on the deployment platform when the solution is executable on the deployment platform or launching, by the helper program, the solution on a remote platform on the computer network that is configured to execute the solution when the solution is not executable on the deployment platform, the helper program being configured to communicate with the launched solution to enable the launched solution to interface with the local runtime environment on the deployment platform.
US11868743B2
A method for supporting block coding is provided. The method includes the steps of: determining an arrangement position of a coding block selected by a user on the basis of a sentence component-specific arrangement order specified from a sentence structure of a spoken language; and providing the user with an arrangement result of the coding block specified on the basis of the arrangement position.
US11868725B2
Provided are a server, a client device, and operation methods thereof for training a language model. The server, the client device, and the operation methods thereof identify a word or phrase including a named entity that is incorrectly pronounced by a user or is difficult for the user to accurately pronounce from an input text for use in training a natural language understanding (NLU) model, generate text candidates for use in training the NLU model by replacing the identified word or phrase with a word or phrase predicted to be uttered by the user and having high phonetic similarity to the identified word or phrase, and train the NLU model by using the generated text candidates.
US11868716B2
One or more computer processors parse a received natural language question into an abstract meaning representation (AMR) graph. The one or more computer processors enrich the AMR graph into an extended AMR graph. The one or more computer processors transform the extended AMR graph into a query graph utilizing a path-based approach, wherein the query graph is a directed edge-labeled graph. The one or more computer processors generate one or more answers to the natural language question through one or more queries created utilizing the query graph.
US11868711B2
A method for using a user-fillable form in a host container includes receiving, at a host container, a user-fillable form bound to dynamic data from an underlying data source where the user-fillable form has a data structure generated by prepopulated coding. The method further includes translating the user-fillable form into a hostable format for the host container. The method also includes rendering, using the hostable format for the host container, the user-fillable form in a user interface. The method further includes receiving, at the user interface of the host container, from a user of the host container, a data entry for input to the user-fillable form and updating, by the host container, the dynamic data from the underlying data source by persisting data from the data entry in a data store associated with the underlying data source.
US11868706B1
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for syncing content across workspace pages. The system creates a first synced block on a first workspace page. Content on workspace pages rendered by the system is stored in blocks and each of the workspace pages has a hierarchy of blocks. The system adds one or more child blocks to the first synced block as content to be synced. The system creates a reference synced block on a second workspace page and adds a pointer to the reference synced block that points to the first synced block. This is done in order to sync the one or more child blocks of the first synced block across the first and second workspace pages, where editing the first synced block or the reference synced block includes editing the one or more child blocks of the first synced block.
US11868699B2
An integrated circuit includes a first and second active region, a first insulating region, and a first and second contact. The first and second active regions extend in a first direction, are in a substrate, and are located on a first level. The first active region includes a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region. The second active region includes a third drain/source region. The first insulating region is over the first drain/source region. The first contact extends in a second direction, overlaps the third drain/source region, is electrically coupled to the third drain/source region and is located on a second level. The second contact extends in at least the second direction, overlaps the first insulating region and the first contact. The second contact is electrically insulated from the first drain/source region, is electrically coupled to the third drain/source region, and is located on a third level.
US11868696B2
A method for designing a circuit includes adding, to a circuit design, a power switch configured to produce only one output over an acknowledgement port. The power switch does not include input and output supply ports. The method also includes adding, to the circuit design, an isolation circuit in which only one select pin is used to produce an output. The isolation circuit does not include isolation power and retention circuitry. The method also includes adding, to the circuit design, a retention circuit. The retention circuit includes a clock gating enabled register, a first AND gate connected to a clear pin of the register, and a second AND gate connected to a chip enable pin of the register. The method further includes compiling, by a processing device, the circuit design.
US11868692B2
Address generators for use in verifying an integrated circuit hardware design for an n-way set associative cache. The address generator is configured to generate, from a reverse hashing algorithm matching the hashing algorithm used by the n-way set associative cache, a list of cache set addresses that comprises one or more addresses of the main memory corresponding to each of one or more target sets of the n-way set associative cache. The address generator receives requests for addresses of main memory from a driver to be used to generate stimuli for testing an instantiation of the integrated circuit hardware design for the n-way set associative cache. In response to receiving a request the address generator provides an address from the list of cache set addresses.
US11868686B2
A method for simulating a product in a computing environment includes analyzing data related to at least constructional representation, determining a requirement of prefabricating at least one custom construction artefact for a construction project based on the analysis of the data, determining at least one of: an intent or at least one objective associated with the at least one custom construction artefact, and enabling simulation of the at least custom construction artefact based on the determination of the intent or the at least one objective to render a digital representation of the product in a graphical user interface.
US11868680B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a microphone, a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, implement the method. The method includes determining whether the electronic device is communicatively coupled to an external display device, when the electronic device is not communicatively coupled to the external display, receiving a first user utterance, executing a task corresponding to at least one of a word, phrase or sentence included in the first user utterance as indicated by the mapping, the task preconfigured by a user, and when the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the external display device, displaying at least one of a text and a graphical user interface (GUI) indicating the at least one word, phrase, and sentence on the external display.
US11868677B1
A remote test infrastructure can enable a developer to use a local browser to run and test an application on a remote device. The remote device is coupled to a host machine and connected via a communication network to the browser. The infrastructure can stream a video feed of the display of the remote device to the browser, enabling the developer to examine the result of testing and development of the application running on the remote device. For applications that have features requiring audio input, the infrastructure can pair an external component, such as the host machine, as a virtual audio input device, mimicking an external microphone. The virtual audio input device can capture an audio file or an audio stream and provide the audio as input to the application running on the remote device thereby simulating the application receiving an input from an external microphone.
US11868672B1
Systems and methods are described for improving the utilization of an extended display system. Some aspects relate to an extended display generator having an input stream module to generate or receive input streams. Input streams may be generated locally (e.g., by a game engine) or remotely (e.g., from the internet). A function module of the generator provides functions that modify or extract information from the input streams. Then extended display generator applies a template to the input streams and function outputs, defining how such display content is presented to a user. A graphical user interface is used to specify which input streams, functions, and visual template should be used. The extended display shows the selected input stream(s) and the functional output(s) in a format defined by the visual template.
US11868671B2
A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication includes a first touch display forming a portion of a first surface of the mobile communication device, a second touch display forming a portion of a second surface of the mobile communication device, and a processor configured to display in the first touch display a first screen corresponding to an application executed in a first folding state while a state of the device is the first folding state, identify the state of the mobile communication device changing to a second folding state, and display in the second touch display, based on the identification, a second screen corresponding to the application and an image partially overlapping the second screen, a touch input on the second touch display while the second screen and the image are displayed in the second touch display as overlapping is configured to not be processed as an input.
US11868661B2
An apparatus having counters for sub-addresses in segments of row address to count activation commands applied to row addresses including the sub-addresses. The counters are configured to count activation commands applied to row addresses containing the sub-addresses in accessing rows of memory cells in a memory device; For example, in response to an activation command applied to a row address having first sub-addresses, counts stored in a portion of the counters corresponding to the first sub-addresses are increased for the count of the activation command. For each respective segment, counts stored in counters for sub-addresses in the respective segment are used to determine whether at least one of the sub-addresses has seen more activation commands than a threshold. An alert is generated for risk mitigation operations in response to each segment having at least one sub-address that has seen more activation commands than the threshold.
US11868656B2
A method for managing data storage using a distributed file system. A file system volume associated with a write request received at a data management subsystem is identified. A logical block device associated with the file system volume is identified. A plurality of data blocks is formed based on the write request. The plurality of data blocks is distributed across a plurality of node block stores in a distributed block layer of a storage management subsystem of the distributed file system. Each of the plurality of node block stores corresponds to a different node of a plurality of nodes in the distributed storage system. The storage management subsystem operates separately from but in communication with the data management subsystem.
US11868643B2
The memory sub-systems of the present disclosure selects, for memory scans, a memory block which has a highest page fill ratio. In one embodiment, the memory sub-system identifies a number of block stripes located on a logical unit (LU) identified by a logical unit number (LUN), where the LU is one of a plurality of LUs of a memory device. The sub-system determines a fill ratio for each of the plurality of block stripes. The sub-system selects, among the block stripes, a block stripe with a highest fill ratio. The sub-system identifies, from the selected block stripe, a memory block of the LU. The sub-system performs a memory scan operation on the memory block of the memory device.
US11868642B2
Disclosed is a system that comprises a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations that include receiving, by the processing device, a trim command on the memory device, wherein the trim command references a range of logical block addresses (LBAs). The operations performed by the processing device further include identifying a group of memory cells corresponding to the range of LBAs, wherein the group of memory cells comprises one or more management units (MUs). The operations performed by the processing device further include updating a data structure associated with the group of memory cells to reference the request; receiving a memory access command with respect to the group of memory cells. The operations performed by the processing device further include responsive to determining that the data structure associated with the group of memory cells references the trim command, blocking the memory access command; performing, on the group of memory cells, a trim operation specified by the trim command; updating the data structure to indicate the completion of the trim operation; and responsive to determining that the data structure indicates the completion of the trim operation, performing a memory access operation specified by the memory access command.
US11868640B2
One example method includes intercepting an IO issued by an application, writing the IO and IO metadata to a splitter journal in NVM, forwarding the IO to storage, and asynchronous with operations occurring along an IO path between the application and storage, evacuating the splitter journal by sending the IO and IO metadata from the splitter journal to a replication site. In this example, sending the IO and IO metadata from the journal to the replication site does not increase a latency associated with the operations on the IO path.
US11868639B2
At least one data of a set of data stored at a memory cell of a memory component is determined to be associated with an unsuccessful error correction operation. A determination is made as to whether a programming operation associated with the set of data stored at the memory cell has completed. The at least one data of the set of data stored at the memory cell that is associated with the unsuccessful error correction operation is recovered in response to determining that the programming operation has completed. Another memory cell of the memory component is identified in response to recovering the at least one data of the set of data stored at the memory cell that is associated with the unsuccessful error correction operation. The set of data including the recovered at least one data is provided to the other memory cell of the memory component.
US11868638B2
Methods, systems, and devices for improved inter-memory movement in a multi-memory system are described. A memory device may receive from a host device a command to move data from a first memory controlled by a first controller to a second memory controller by a second controller. The memory device may use the first and second controllers to facilitate the movement of the data from the first memory to the second memory via a path external to the host device. The memory device may indicate to the host device when to suspend activity to the first memory or the second memory and when to resume activity to the first memory or second memory.
US11868632B2
Methods, systems, and devices for power control for boot-up of memory systems are described. A memory system may be configured to boot-up using two different power modes: a lower-power mode, and a higher-power mode. The memory system may perform a series of evaluations to determine whether the memory system is to switch to the lower-power mode during boot-up operations, or stay in the higher-power mode. For example, the memory system may check one or more of: a history of previous boot-up failures, a voltage of an associated power management integrated circuit, a history of asynchronous power loss at the device, a power-mode configuration of the host device, or a history of host-initiated power-down commands. In some examples, by switching to the lower-power mode, the memory system may avoid repeatedly failing multiple boot-up cycles and may instead successfully boot-up the memory system.
US11868628B2
A hardware-assisted Distributed Memory System may include software configurable shared memory regions in the local memory of each of multiple processor cores. Accesses to these shared memory regions may be made through a network of on-chip atomic transaction engine (ATE) instances, one per core, over a private interconnect matrix that connects them together. For example, each ATE instance may issue Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), with or without responses, to an ATE instance associated with a remote processor core in order to perform operations that target memory locations controlled by the remote processor core. Each ATE instance may process RPCs (atomically) that are received from other ATE instances or that are generated locally. For some operation types, an ATE instance may execute the operations identified in the RPCs itself using dedicated hardware. For other operation types, the ATE instance may interrupt its local processor core to perform the operations.
US11868624B2
An electronic device is provided. A computing system includes a storage device and a host. The storage device includes a memory device including a write protection area. The host performs an operation of providing, to the storage device, a first request regarding security write and write data in parallel with an operation of generating a host authentication code based on the write data and a key shared with the storage device.
US11868622B2
A system and methods for application recovery across storage systems is provided. In some examples, the method includes replicating, from a source storage system to a target storage system, a volume including an application configuration for an application utilizing the volume, wherein the application is executing within a source application host. The method also includes detecting that the application executed in the source application host is unavailable. The method also includes retrieving, from the volume on the target storage system, the application configuration for the application. The method also includes instantiating the application on a target application host using the application configuration retrieved from the volume on the target storage system, wherein the application on the target application host is configured to direct data requests to the volume on the target storage system.
US11868618B2
A device includes a host including a main memory, and semiconductor memory including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, memory unit, and controller. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory stores first address information. The memory unit stores second address information as part of the first address information. The controller accesses the nonvolatile semiconductor memory based on the second address information. Third address information is stored in the main memory, and is part or all of the first address information. The controller uses the third address information when accessing the nonvolatile semiconductor memory if address information to be referred is not stored in the second address information.
US11868605B2
A method includes invoking, by a user through continuous sliding, a first application bar and a second application bar that includes more application icons than the first application bar, to help the user perform an operation on an application icon included in the first application bar or the second application bar to quickly start an application. In addition, the method is further combined with a return function. After a first identifier appears, for example, when a first slide gesture goes to a second point, if a touch point of the user leaves a screen, an electronic device performs the return function, for example, display an interface previous to a first interface on a display, or the electronic device performs a function of returning to a home screen, for example, display the home screen of the electronic device on a display.
US11868602B2
A method includes receiving, during playback of a content item in a content player of a first mobile application presented on a client device of a first user, an indication of a user request pertaining to a second mobile application, the user request corresponding to a first point in the content item played in the content player of the first mobile application. The method additionally includes causing the playback of the content item to continue in the content player presented on a client device while a user interface of the second mobile application is displayed on the client device, wherein the content player persists on top of the user interface of the second mobile application to provide the playback of the content item in a continuous manner from the first point in the content item. The method further includes causing the content item to be shared with a second user in response to an input event initiating sharing of the content item, the input event following a user interaction by the first user with the content player persisting on top of the user interface of the second mobile application.
US11868600B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory machine-readable mediums for ranking on an absolute scale include displaying, on an electronic display, a first handle, a second handle, and an interactor, determining a value of the first handle and a value of the second handle based on their respective positions on the interactor, in response to a user dragging the first and second handles on the interactor, and determining a rank of the first and second handles based on the values of the first and second handles, in response to the user dragging the first and second handles on the interactor.
US11868592B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a virtual keyboard, wherein the virtual keyboard includes a plurality of selectable representations of a plurality of graphical objects. In some embodiments, the electronic device receives a user input selecting a first selectable representation of a first graphical object, wherein the first graphical object is associated with a first customizable visual element and a second customizable visual element. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that one or more first criteria are satisfied, the electronic device displays, via the display device, a customization user interface, including a first section for customizing the first customizable visual element, a second section for customizing the second customizable visual element, and a third section for displaying a first respective representation of the first graphical object that indicates a current state of customization of the first graphical object.
US11868589B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a data structure that includes an array of data blocks, each of which stores one or more strings of text of a document. The processor displays a sequence of elements, each associated with one or more consecutive data blocks of the array, and a sequence of parts, each corresponding to a data block and displaying the strings of text stored by the data block, on a GUI. The processor receives information identifying a modification of a first element, which is associated with a first data block, to which a first part corresponds. The modification is associated with an equivalent modification of the first part. The processor updates the sequence of elements according to the modification and the sequence of parts according to the equivalent modification. The processor converts the updated sequence of elements into an updated data structure.
US11868586B2
A user interface display method, apparatus, and system are provided. The method includes: displaying a first user interface for a first application program in a main display region; displaying a program icon of a second application in an auxiliary display region when a first sliding signal on the auxiliary display region is received; when a first operation signal on the program icon of the second application is received, displaying a floating window on the first user interface; and canceling displaying of the program icon of the second application program in the auxiliary display region when a second sliding signal on the first auxiliary display region is received.
US11868583B2
Systems and methods are provided in which physical objects in the ambient environment can function as user interface implements in an augmented reality environment. A physical object detected within a field of view of a camera of a computing device may be designated as a user interface implement in response to a user command. User interfaces may be attached to the designated physical object, to provide a tangible user interface implement for user interaction with the augmented reality environment.
US11868582B2
An augmented reality-based device control method and a control apparatus thereof are disclosed. The augmented reality-based device control method includes obtaining a real image with a device to be controlled as a subject, as an image which configures an augmented reality (AR)-based remote controller and detecting a remote control (RC) protocol of the device to be controlled by recognizing the real image. The detecting of an RC protocol of the device to be controlled includes verifying whether the device to be controlled is controllable through a candidate RC protocol based on whether the device to be controlled operates according to the real image. According to the present disclosure, the device can be controlled based on the augmented reality using artificial intelligence (AI)-based image recognition through a 5G network.
US11868579B2
There is provided a terminal device including electronic paper and a position detection sensor disposed on a lower side of a display screen of the electronic paper and configured to detect a position indicated by an electronic pen on the display screen. The position detection sensor includes an insulating substrate having a first surface on a side facing the display screen, and a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a first direction on the first surface of the insulating substrate. One or more first linear members extended in a direction along the first electrodes are arranged in each space between two of the first electrodes having a predetermined distance from each other in the first direction, among the plurality of first electrodes, on the first surface of the insulating substrate.
US11868575B2
An electronic device includes a display panel that displays an image and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and that includes an active area that senses an external input and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area. The input sensor includes a sensing electrode disposed in the active area, a signal line disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected with the sensing electrode, a ground line disposed further away from the active area than the signal line, a sensing line that includes a first portion that overlaps the ground line, a signal pad disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected with the signal line, a ground pad connected with the ground line, and a dummy pad disposed adjacent to the ground pad. One end of sensing line is connected with the dummy pad and an opposite end is connected with the ground line.
US11868569B2
A system for interacting with a screen without touching it, comprising a source of radiating energy directed into a predefined area, at least one directionally sensitive sensor that detects the radiation when it's reflected off of an object within the predefined area, and a processor that calculates position and motion information of the object and generates therefrom image information, which it sends to a screen where it is displayed.
US11868565B2
Systems, methods, and devices improve the sensitivity of capacitive sensors. Devices may include an attenuator configured to receive an input from at least one sense electrode of a capacitive sensing device. The attenuator may be included in a sensing channel of a capacitive sensor. Devices may further include a signal generator coupled to an input of the attenuator. The signal generator may include one or more processors configured to generate a sinusoidal signal based, at least in part, on one or more noise characteristics of a scan sequence associated with one or more transmit electrodes of the capacitive sensing device, and provide the sinusoidal signal to the input of the attenuator.
US11868559B2
A detection function-equipped display device includes: a display unit provided with pixels; drive electrodes disposed along a display surface of the display unit and arranged in a first direction; detection electrodes disposed along the display surface, arranged in a second direction, and facing the drive electrodes; a potential selection circuit that performs switching control; a scanning circuit that outputs a scanning signal; a detection circuit that performs detection of a touch on the display surface based on potentials from the detection electrodes; and a signal selection circuit that supplies, to the potential selection circuit, either a first signal corresponding to the scanning signal or a second signal from the detection circuit. The switching control includes processing of applying the drive potential to one or more of the drive electrodes based on one of the first signal and the second signal and applying the non-drive potential to the other drive electrodes.
US11868551B1
Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a human interface device may be used. Interpretation of actuation of the human interface device may be customized to the types of actuations that users are able to perform. To customize the types of the actuations, users may perform actuations of the human interface device for various types of user input to establish associations between the actuations and the user input. The associations may be used to train an inference model usable to identify user input based on performed actions of the human interface device.
US11868549B2
Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
US11868548B2
In one embodiment, a stylus with one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for transmitting signals wirelessly to a device through a touch sensor of the device has one or more sensors for detecting movement of the stylus.
US11868545B2
A first electronic device controls a second electronic device to measure a position of the first electronic device. The first electronic device includes a motion sensor, a network interface circuit, a processor, and a memory. The motion sensor senses motion of the first electronic device. The network interface circuit communicates with the second electronic device. The memory stores program code that is executed by the processor to perform operations that include, responsive to determining that the first electronic device has a level of motion that satisfies a defined rule, transmitting a request for the second electronic device to measure a position of the first electronic device. The position of the first electronic device is sensed and then stored in the memory. An acknowledgement is received from the second electronic device indicating that it has stored sensor data that can be used to measure the position of the first electronic device.
US11868541B2
An optical detection device includes a substrate, a housing, an optical modulating component, an optical sensor and a cover. The housing is disposed on the substrate and includes a first aperture. The housing is unvaried due to inspection standard or design requirement of the optical detection device. The optical modulating component is disposed on the housing and aligning with the first aperture. The optical sensor is disposed on the substrate and adapted to receive an optical signal passing through the optical modulating component and the first aperture. The cover is disposed on the housing to cover the first aperture. The cover is replaceable for attaching the cover varied for the inspection standard or the design requirement to the unvaried housing in response to a surface of the cover opposite to the housing matched and engaged with a light penetrating area on the optical navigation apparatus.
US11868540B2
A method for determining sensor parameters of an actively-driven sensor system may include obtaining as few as three samples of a measured physical quantity versus frequency for the actively-driven sensor system, performing a refinement operation to provide a refined version of the sensor parameters based on the as few as three samples and based on a linear model of an asymmetry between slopes of the measured physical quantity versus frequency between pairs of the as few as three samples, iteratively repeating the refinement operation until the difference between successive refined versions of the sensor parameters is below a defined threshold, and outputting the refined sensor parameters as updated sensor parameters for the actively-driven sensor system.
US11868535B2
A wearable device to assist with memory that includes a processor, a haptic output device, and a button. When a wearer of the device encounters a piece of information they want to remember but thinks they may forget (e.g. the name of someone they just met; a phone number; a coupon code; an address; a new word definition, etc.) they simply press the single button on the device. The single button press initiates a pre-set schedule of tactile reminders about that piece of information. The reminders are vibrational and/or haptic outputs triggered by the processor that come quickly at first, and then become more spaced out over time. The device beneficially assists users in implementing the empirically supported ‘spaced retrieval’ memory strategy—where spaced retrieval refers to a method of retrieving information at longer and longer intervals to aid memory retention for selected pieces of information.
US11868532B2
A shape changeable apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a space forming section, a fluid controller, a signal emitter, a detector, and a generator. The space forming section forms a space, and includes a deformable member that is arranged in contact with the space. The fluid controller is capable of deforming the member by controlling a flow of fluid with respect to the space. The signal emitter emits a signal into the space. The detector is arranged out of contact with the member within the space, and detects the emitted signal. The generator generates information regarding the deformation of the member on the basis of a result of the detection performed by the detector.
US11868528B2
A method for a user activity recognition for data glasses. The data glasses include at least one integrated sensor unit. An activity of a user of the data glasses is recognized, via an evaluation of data that are detected by the integrated sensor unit, in at least one user activity recognition step carried out by a classifying unit. It is provided that when the user activity recognition step is carried out, the classifying unit takes into account information that has been ascertained in a (preferably) user-specific training step chronologically preceding the user activity recognition step, by training the classifying unit.
US11868527B2
An eye tracking system can include a first camera configured to capture a first plurality of visual data of a right eye at a first sampling rate. The system can include a second camera configured to capture a second plurality of visual data of a left eye at a second sampling rate. The second plurality of visual data can be captured during different sampling times than the first plurality of visual data. The system can estimate, based on at least some visual data of the first and second plurality of visual data, visual data of at least one of the right or left eye at a sampling time during which visual data of an eye for which the visual data is being estimated are not being captured. Eye movements of the eye based on at least some of the estimated visual data and at least some visual data of the first or second plurality of visual data can be determined.
US11868526B2
In one implementation, a method for recording an XR environment. The method includes: presenting, via the display device, a graphical environment with one or more virtual agents, wherein the graphical environment corresponds to a composition of extended reality (XR) content, including the one or more virtual agents, and an image stream of a physical environment captured from a first point-of-view (POV) of the physical environment; detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input selecting a first virtual agent from among the one or more virtual agents; and in response to detecting the user input, recording a plurality of data streams associated with the graphical environment including a first image stream of the graphical environment from the first POV and one or more data streams of the graphical environment from a current POV of the first virtual agent.
US11868524B2
An augmented reality (AR) device is provided. The AR device includes a display module configured to output light of a virtual image, a waveguide configured to transmit the output light of the virtual image to an eye of a user and to pass external light therethrough, a gaze tracking sensor configured to obtain information on the eye of the user, the information including a pupil size, a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control the display module to adjust a brightness of the light of the virtual image based on the pupil size.
US11868523B2
Techniques of tracking a user's gaze includes identifying a region of a display at which a gaze of a user is directed, the region including a plurality of pixels. By determining a region rather than a point, when the regions correspond to elements of a user interface, the improved technique enables a system to activate the element to which a determined region is selected. In some implementations, the system makes the determination using a classification engine including a convolutional neural network; such an engine takes as input images of the user's eye and outputs a list of probabilities that the gaze is directed to each of the regions.
US11868517B2
An information processing apparatus including circuitry that acquires information indicating a spatial relationship between a real object and a virtual object, and initiate generation of a user feedback based on the acquired information, the user feedback being displayed to be augmented to a generated image obtained based on capturing by an imaging device, or augmented to a perceived view of the real world, and wherein a characteristic of the user feedback is changed when the spatial relationship between the real object and the virtual object changes.
US11868512B2
A pattern detector circuit is provided in a security chip, wherein the pattern detector circuit monitors accesses of a plurality of configuration registers, each of the plurality of configuration registers having a corresponding address. In response to receiving from a host a predefined sequence of accesses of the plurality of configuration registers for one or more operations to the plurality of configuration registers, a processor in the pattern detector circuit determines a value indicative of a current version of a netlist for the security chip. The determined value is made available to be obtained by a read operation by the host at a specific configuration register address.
US11868510B2
To efficiently determine cross tabulation while keeping confidentiality. A flag conversion unit (11) converts a format of a share of a flag that represents a boundary between groups. A boundary number setting unit (12) generates a share of a vector in which the next element number is set when the flag representing a group boundary is true and the number of records is set when the flag is false. A sorting unit (13) generates a share of a sorted vector which has been sorted by a permutation that moves vectors such that the last elements of each group are sequentially arranged from beginning A count calculation unit (14) sets a difference between the value of one element and the value of the preceding element in the sorted vector and generates a share of a vector representing the number of records in each group.
US11868501B2
A system device and a method for managing access to data in an automation environment are disclosed. The data is associated with assets in an automation environment, where the data includes one of restricted data and unrestricted data. The automation environment is accessible via one or more computing platforms including a plurality of computing resources that are classifiable into a trusted computing platform and a non-trusted computing platform. The method includes classifying analytics operations performable on the data into a first operation set that is executable on the trusted computing platform. The analytics operations are associated with one or more applications executable on at least one of the computing platforms. The method includes enabling access to at least one of the unrestricted data and a first unrestricted output of the first operation set outside the trusted computing platform by a communication operation.
US11868499B2
An internally-constructed permissions graph database enabling a user to construct and alter the graph database permissions within the graph database. Edge permissions define whether a one node can View, Edit, or Manage another node. A node can view another node if there is at least one edge path connecting the nodes having a “View” permission. Similarly, a node can “Edit” or “Manage” another node if there is at least one edge path connecting the nodes having allowing “Edit” and/or “Manage” permissions, respectively. If a contiguous path of permission edges does not exist from the “caller node” to the “requested node” to be acted upon, then permission to perform the desired action or operation on that node is not granted. Edges have permissions, and Nodes have properties. A “Caller Node” makes Requests upon and “Requested Node,” which are limited by edge permissions.
US11868478B2
Configuration monitoring is performed using a computer-based system and method by identifying misconfigured settings through the collection of large amounts of configuration data from diverse sources. The configuration data is then analyzed to identify misconfigured items. Automation of such configurations is implemented using machine learning to analyze existing configurations as well as new configurations. By using machine learning, the computer-based system and method can predict a pass state or a fail state of the configuration of a newly connected system in an organization. A logistic regression classifier is trained using old complying configuration data and data reflecting industry standards. The trained classifier can predict and classify whether a new configuration passes or fails the industry standards based on the training data of old configuration data. The computer-based system and method using the trained classifier generate and output a report indicating a pass or fail state of the new configuration.
US11868459B2
An operation method with fingerprint event recognition, an apparatus, and a mobile terminal relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes receiving a fingerprint event from a user at a preset position on a mobile terminal, and displaying on a display screen of the mobile terminal at least one shortcut when the fingerprint matches a stored fingerprint event. A sliding gesture input from the user is detected, the sliding gesture starting at the preset position and extending from the preset position to select a first shortcut from the at least one shortcut, thereby improving operation efficiency.
US11868450B2
A system, apparatuses, and methods for device and network security are discussed herein. In an example, a security device for providing security to user-entered inputs includes a universal serial bus (“USB”) port configured to receive a connector of an input device and a USB connector configured to connect to a port of a user device. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to receive a string of characters from the input device that correspond to inputs made by a user into a web browser or application on the user device. The processor adds at least one security character to the string of characters to generate a watermark string, and transmits the watermark string to the user device. The processor is configured to format the at least one security character such that only the string of characters are displayed in the web browser or the application at the user device.
US11868449B2
Disclosed is a system and method for the monitoring and authorization of an optimization device in a network. In exemplary embodiments, an optimization device transmits an authorization request message to a portal to receive authorization to operate. The portal transmits an authorization response message to the optimization device with capability parameters for operation of the device, including at least one expiration parameter for the authorization. The optimization device sends updated authorization request messages to the portal with its device usage information, such that the portal can dynamically monitor the optimization device and continue to authorize its operation.
US11868447B2
The present invention relates to data rights management and more particularly to a secured system and methodology and production system and methodology related thereto and to apparatus and methodology for production side systems and are consumer side systems for securely utilizing protected electronic data files of content (protected content), and further relates to controlled distribution, and regulating usage of the respective content on a recipient device (computing system) to be limited strictly to defined permitted uses, in accordance with usage rights (associated with the respective content to control usage of that respective content), on specifically restricted to a specific one particular recipient device (for a plurality of specific particular recipient devices), or usage on some or any authorized recipient device without restriction to any one in specific, to control use of the respective content as an application software program, exporting, modifying, executing as an application program, viewing, and/or printing of electronic data files.
US11868440B1
Subsets of training data are selected for iterations of a statistical model through a training process. The selection can reduce the amount of data to be processed by selecting the training data that will likely have significant training value for the pass. This can include using a metric such as the loss or certainty to sample the data, such that easy to classify instances are used for training less frequently than harder to classify instances. A cutoff value or threshold can also, or alternatively, be used such that harder to classify instances are not selected for training until later in the process when the model may be more likely to benefit from training on those instances. Sampling can vary between passes for variety, and the cutoff value might also change such that all data instances are eligible for training selection by at least the last iteration.
US11868434B2
A method for creating training data for an artificial intelligence system to classify hyperspectral data. The method including receiving a hyperspectral image from a data source, wherein the hyperspectral image includes a first pixel group associated with a first classification, forming from the hyperspectral image a first augmented image using a first augmentation algorithm and a second augmented image using a second augmentation algorithm, selecting a first group of sample pixels from the hyperspectral image, the first augmented image and the second augmented image, wherein each pixel of the selected first group of sample pixels is having an association with the first classification or with a second classification and providing the selected first group of sample pixels and the associated classifications of each pixel for an artificial training system to be used as a training data.
US11868430B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes first storage and a processor. The first storage is configured to store a first statistical model generated by learning bokeh which occurs in a first image. The processor is configured to acquire a second image, acquire a bokeh value which indicates bokeh occurring in the second image and an uncertainty level which indicates a level of uncertainty for the bokeh value, generate a first bokeh map based on the bokeh value and uncertainty level, and acquire a second bokeh map obtained by interpolating a bokeh value with respect to the first bokeh map. The bokeh value and the uncertainty level are output from the first statistical model by inputting the second image into the first statistical model.
US11868425B2
A system and method is described herein for data filtering to reduce functional, and trend line outlier bias. Outliers are removed from the data set through an objective statistical method. Bias is determined based on absolute, relative error, or both. Error values are computed from the data, model coefficients, or trend line calculations. Outlier data records are removed when the error values are greater than or equal to the user-supplied criteria. For optimization methods or other iterative calculations, the removed data are re-applied each iteration to the model computing new results. Using model values for the complete dataset, new error values are computed and the outlier bias reduction procedure is re-applied. Overall error is minimized for model coefficients and outlier removed data in an iterative fashion until user defined error improvement limits are reached. The filtered data may be used for validation, outlier bias reduction and data quality operations.
US11868424B2
In a computer; a computer readable medium for providing rapid syndrome analysis includes instructions for measuring a plurality of CUSUMs simultaneously and generating CUSUM data in response to an observed value. It also includes instructions for comparing the CUSUM data with a predetermined plurality of threshold values and instructions for generating a signal when the CUMSUM data exceeds any of the plurality of threshold values by a predetermined amount.
US11868419B2
Methods, systems, and devices for sharing a physical location with online users by requiring the online users to be in physical proximity of a specific physical location before the users can experience media content associated with the physical location. A user can mark a physical location when that user is at the location by associating a virtual anchor with that location. The virtual anchor creates a data structure that contains the location's geographic coordinates as well as other details regarding the anchor. The user can also associate media content with the virtual anchor. The virtual anchor can be shared with other users and these other users are notified of the presence of the virtual anchor when they are within a physical proximity from the physical location. Only when the other users are at the location can these users access the media content associated with the virtual anchor.
US11868415B1
A system and method for generating and publishing inferential newsfeeds captures actively and passively provided user data elements which are processed into user facts. A Cache Management Module maintains updated cached copies of rules and execution plans. The cached copies of rules and execution plans are applied to the user facts, to inferentially generate newsfeed posts. An Inferential Data Mining Module runs each execution plan in a multi-threaded process for each user, and processes each rule within the context of the execution plan to generate the newsfeed posts. A Newsfeed Generation Module applies newsfeed templates to format the newsfeeds for various platforms. The Inferential Data Mining Module mines the Data Store for a determination of which user facts should be used to create the newsfeed posts, and of which users should be designated as subscribers to the newsfeed posts, said determination taking place independently of individual users' direct actions.
US11868411B1
Improved crawling and curation of data and metadata from diverse data sources is described. In some embodiments, improvements are achieved by interpreting the context, vocabulary and relationships of data element, to enable relational data search capability for users. The user querying process is improved by systematic identification of the data objects, context, and relationships across data objects and elements, aggregation methods and operators on the data objects and data elements as identified in the curation process. User query suggestions and recommendations can be adjusted based on the context, relationships between the data elements, user profile, and the data sources. When the user query is executed, the query text is translated into an equivalent of one or more query statements, such as SQL or PostGre statements, and the query is performed on the identified data sources. Results are assembled to present the answer in a meaningful visualization for the user query.
US11868410B2
A method and system for controlling processing by a data server. An example method includes a computing system receiving from a client entity a request for information, and, responsive to receiving from the client entity the request, the computing system (i) determining, based on the client entity from which the computing system received the request, a processing time limit for the data server to apply in processing a query for the information and (ii) generating and sending to the data server the query, including in the query an indication of the determined processing time limit. The data server could thus receive and process the query and impose the specified processing time limit on the processing of the received query.
US11868403B2
A method for utilizing a graph path cache to facilitate real-time data consumption by a plurality of machine learning models is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input from a source, the input relating to a request to characterize a data element; retrieving a data attribute that corresponds to the data element from a data management system; determining, in real-time using the graph path cache, a graph attribute that corresponds to the data element by performing deep link analysis on a graph database; executing, in real-time, a model by using the data attribute and the graph attribute, the model corresponding to the request in the input; and transmitting, in real-time, a result of the executed model to the source in response to the input.
US11868398B1
Dynamic determination of video correlation is disclosed, including: obtaining a plurality of recorded video interactions; obtaining a plurality of recorded non-video interactions; storing, at a database, event data determined based at least in part on the plurality of recorded video interactions and the plurality of recorded non-video interactions; and determining a subset of the event data that comprises correlations between a video and non-video interactions.
US11868385B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements of managing summaries provided to end users. In one implementation, a summary service identifies data objects that correspond to an event and classifies each of the data objects into classifications of interest. Once classified, data objects are compared between the different classifications to identify information differences, and the information differences are used to generate a summary for an end user of the summary service.
US11868383B2
Methods and system for text conversion are described. In one embodiment, free-form text associated with an item may be received. The item may be identified based on the free-form text. The item may be compatible with a parent item. The parent item may be identified based on the free-form text. An item descriptor may be identified in the free-form text. The item descriptor may be a particular term of the free-form text. Compatibility-based text may be constructed for the item based on identification of the parent item and the item descriptor. The compatibility-based text may be capable of being used to identify a plurality of matching items. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US11868382B1
A toolbox application presents a user interface on a client device, and receives a natural language search query provided by a user of the client device that identifies a desired functionality to be performed for the user. The toolbox application determines whether any of a plurality of accessible utility components accessible is capable of performing the desired functionality specified in the search query. Responsive to determining that none of the accessible utility components is capable of performing the desired functionality, the toolbox application sends a request comprising the natural language search query to a server that maintains library of a plurality of utility components.
US11868380B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for hierarchical categorical and sub-categorical topic modeling allowing, in response to a query in natural language, a set of results to be determined which are both semantically relevant to the user and diverse, by containing information complementary or adjacent to that of the query. Such a paradigm permits exploration and discovery of new topics and ideas in large collections of documents. In some embodiments, one or more non-negative matrix factorization (“NMF”) algorithms are applied in determining a hierarchical topic model including the semantically-related categories and sub-categories. The dataset may include authorized social media data collection, and machine learning techniques can optimize the generation of the topic model and/or the search results.
US11868370B2
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for accessing volumes of data records structured to include sets dimensions, each dimension labelled in a manner specific to respective entities; identifying candidates data records keyed by managed keys that span a subset of dimensions even though at least one dimension from the subset of dimensions is labelled differently between the different volumes; comparing the candidate data records from the different volumes to determine whether a particular managed key is valid based on contents of the candidate data records from the different volumes; in response to determining that the particular managed key is valid, combining the candidate data records keyed by the valid managed key to be merged and accessible as one continuous entry; and in response to determining that the particular managed key is invalid, combining the candidate data records from the different volumes as separate entries.
US11868362B1
An example system for programmatically extracting data from a big data source includes: a processor; and system memory encoding instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: extract metadata from the big data source using the utility; transform the metadata into a standard format; and load the metadata in a repository.
US11868361B2
The present disclosure relates data distribution process configuration methods and apparatuses, electronic devices and storage media. The method includes: in response to detecting a trigger operation that represents creating a service process of a data distribution service, displaying a workbench of the service process; the workbench includes an area for displaying node plug-ins and an area for displaying a canvas; in response to detecting a trigger operation that represents dragging a node plug-in to the canvas, obtaining node plug-ins of the service process; in response to detecting a trigger operation that represents connecting the node plug-ins, obtaining configuration information of the service process, the configuration information represents a data distribution process from a data source end to a data receiving end. In the embodiment, the device data at the data source end can be distributed to various receiving ends according to the configuration information, and the rule setting can be completed without the user focuses on the specific implementation logic.
US11868360B2
The technology disclosed relates to a method for storing and time-correlating real-time and queryable test results of a test of a device under test (DUT). The method includes initiating the test applied to the DUT to collect real-time data from a multitude of data streams for multiple aspects of the DUT, the collected data including counters and fact-type values, the collected data having imperfectly synchronized time bases and the collected data being collected from different sources asynchronously at different times, specifying a recording time interval for recording the data collected among multiple databases, recording data according to the specified recording time interval, such that each piece of the recorded data is associated with a particular time interval, and at a conclusion of the test, correlating the recorded data with the test configuration data about a test state in the respective time intervals.
US11868358B1
A data processing system implements obtaining query parameters for a query for content items in a datastore, the query parameters including attributes of content items for which a search is to be conducted; obtaining a first set of content items from a content datastore based on the query parameters; analyzing the first set of content items using a first machine learning model trained to generate relevant content information that identifies a plurality of relevant content items included in the first set of content items; and analyzing the plurality of relevant content items using a second machine learning model configured to output novel content information, the novel content information including a plurality of content items predicted to be relevant and novel, the novel content information ranking the plurality of content items predicted to be relevant and novel based on a novelty score associated with each respective content item.
US11868348B2
The present invention relates to join acceleration. In an embodiment, a computer receives a request for a relational join of build data rows with probe data rows. Based on the request for the relational join, a particular kind of data map from many kinds of data map that can implement the relational join is dynamically selected. Based on the build data rows, an instance of the particular kind of data map is populated. A response is sent for the request for the relational join that is based on the probe data rows and the instance of the particular kind of data map.
US11868343B2
A method utilizes data discovery to support visual analysis of datasets. A user selects a data source, and the method presents a natural language interface for analysis of the data source. A user specifies an incomplete natural language command directed to the data source, and the method correlates words in the incomplete natural language command with a data field in the data source. The method determines the data type of the data field and a range of data values for the data field. According to the data type and the range of data values, the method presents one or more autocompletion options for the incomplete natural language command. Each option includes respective text and a respective corresponding visual graphic. The user selects one of the autocompletion options, and the method forms a complete natural language command. The method then displays a data visualization according to the complete natural language command.
US11868335B2
A space-efficient change journal for a storage system is provided. The storage system includes a memory having computer readable instructions stored therein. The system further includes a processor configured to access a log structure merge (LSM) tree-based metadata index having metadata for the storage system. The LSM tree-based metadata index includes indices placed in a plurality of indexing layers and one or more indices are merged within the indexing layers in response to updates to metadata, or as a background task. The processor is configured to identify one or more indices of the LSM tree-based metadata index as entries of a change journal of the storage system. The processor is further configured to maintain the change journal of the storage system based upon the identified entries.
US11868331B1
First and second big data tables may be aligned into compacted and reordered tables, respectively, such that each row of the compacted table and the corresponding similarly-indexed row of the reordered table have equal keys. Advantageously, the time complexity of alignment scales linearly with the number of rows of the data tables, and the compacted and reordered tables may be subsequently joined by parsing once through the tables. Alignment may be extended to three or more big data tables.
US11868322B2
Pieces of information on multiple file management systems are managed by one contract in a distributed ledger. An administrator terminal includes: a file management system generation unit that issues a contract generation transaction for generating, in blockchain data, a contract in which a network identifier that identifies a file management system is associated with an identifier of a participant terminal in a blockchain system, and notifying the participant terminal of the network identifier and an identifier of the contract; and a file management control unit that issues a registration transaction for registering, in the contract, connection information of the administrator terminal in the file management system, acquires connection information of the participant terminal in the file management system from the contract, and establishes a P2P connection with the participant terminal based on the acquired connection information.
US11868319B2
Providing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) based system and method that predicts the chronological requirements for various components of the file-being-stored, and then takes an appropriate storage action on each component based on the predicted chronological requirements.
US11868318B1
End-to-end encryption in a storage system with multi-tenancy, includes: performing deduplication on a first tenant dataset, the first tenant dataset including data encrypted using a first storage system encryption key; and performing deduplication on a second tenant dataset, the second tenant dataset including data encrypted using a second storage system encryption key, where deduplication is not performed between the first and second tenant datasets.
US11868316B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an event management device for managing events comprising an event detector configured to detect the occurrence of an event related to data delivered by a data delivery system and to extract user data related to the detected event from a user data storage, the extracted user data comprising user data stored in at least one entry of the user data storage. The event management device further comprising a rule manager configured to determine one or more actions to be executed by applying one or more rules using the extracted user data, the event management device being configured to trigger execution of at least one determined action. The system may further dynamically update the rules using feedback data received for the executed actions.
US11868314B2
A file processing method includes obtaining a first operation from a user, displaying a first file on a first screen of a first application, obtaining a second operation from the user on the first screen, displaying, in response to the second operation, the first file on a recycle bin screen of the first application, deleting, by the mobile terminal, a first data table, where the first file is invisible to the user on the recycle bin screen of the first application due to deletion of the first data table, obtaining a third operation from the user, and generating, in response to the third operation, a second data table, where the first file is visible to the user on the recycle bin screen of the first application due to existence of the second data table.
US11868313B1
An apparatus and method for generating an article, the apparatus including at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a content category, receive a data file comprising content data, import the content data from the data file, generate an article as a function of the imported content data and content category, and export the article.
