US11888048B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a first nanosheet stack and a second nanosheet stack on a semiconductor substrate. The first nanosheet stack includes a plurality of alternating first sacrificial layers and first channel layers. The first sacrificial layers each define a first sacrificial height. The second nanosheet stack includes a plurality of alternating second sacrificial layers and second channel layers. The second sacrificial layers each define a second sacrificial height greater than the first sacrificial height of the first sacrificial layers. The method further includes removing the first and second sacrificial layers respectively from the first and second nanosheet stacks. A metal gate is deposited over the first and second nanosheet stacks to form respective first and second nanosheet transistor structures.
US11888040B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a first insulating layer. A position of the third electrode in a first direction is between a position of the first electrode in the first direction and a position of the second electrode in the first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes Alx1Ga1-x1N and includes a first partial region, a second partial region, and a third partial region. The second semiconductor layer includes Alx2Ga1-x2N. A portion of the second semiconductor layer is between the third partial region and the third electrode in the second direction. The first insulating layer includes a first insulating region. The first insulating region is between the third electrode and the portion of the second semiconductor layer in the second direction.
US11888039B2
An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region disposed on a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a gate line disposed on the fin-type active region and extending in a second horizontal direction intersecting the first horizontal direction, the gate line including, a connection protrusion portion including a protrusion top surface at a first vertical level from the substrate, and a main gate portion including a recess top surface extending in the second horizontal direction from the connection protrusion portion, the recess top surface being at a second vertical level lower than the first vertical level, a gate contact disposed on the gate line and connected to the connection protrusion portion, a source/drain region disposed on the fin-type active region and disposed adjacent to the gate line, and a source/drain contact disposed on the source/drain region.
US11888032B2
A method of producing a silicon carbide (SiC) device includes: forming a stripe-shaped trench gate structure that extends from a first surface of a SiC body into the SiC body, the gate structure having a gate length along a lateral first direction, a bottom surface and a first gate sidewall of the gate structure being connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure; forming at least one source region of a first conductivity type; and forming a shielding region of a second conductivity type in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length. Forming the shielding region includes: forming a deep shielding portion; and forming a top shielding portion between the first surface and the deep shielding portion, the top shielding portion being in contact with the first bottom edge.
US11888024B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a semiconductor body; at least partially filling the trench with a filling material; introducing dopants into a portion of the filling material; and applying a first thermal processing to the semiconductor body to spread the dopants in the filling material along a vertical direction of the filling material by a diffusion process. The vertical doping profile of the dopants within the doped filling material is shaped during the first thermal processing. Additionally, the dopants are substantially confined to within the trench and substantially do not diffuse from the doped filling material into the semiconductor body during the first thermal processing. A second thermal processing is applied to the semiconductor body after the first thermal processing to cause diffusion of the dopants from the doped filling material into the semiconductor body adjoining the trench.
US11888023B2
Devices, methods and techniques are disclosed to suppress electrical discharge and breakdown in insulating or encapsulation material(s) applied to solid-state devices. In one example aspect, a multi-layer encapsulation film includes a first layer of a first dielectric material and a second layer of a second dielectric material. An interface between the first layer and the second layer is configured to include molecular bonds to prevent charge carriers from crossing between the first layer and the second layer. The multi-layer encapsulation configuration is structured to allow an electrical contact and a substrate of the solid-state device to be at least partially surrounded by the multi-layer encapsulation configuration.
US11888021B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit includes etching trenches in a first surface of a semiconductor layer. A trench dielectric layer is formed over the first surface and over bottoms and sidewalls of the trenches and a doped polysilicon layer is formed over the trench dielectric layer and within the trenches. The doped polysilicon layer is patterned to form a polysilicon bridge that connects to the polysilicon within the filled trenches and a blanket implant of a first dopant is directed to the polysilicon bridge and to the first surface. The blanket implant forms a contact region extending from the first surface into the semiconductor layer.
US11888018B2
A capacitor includes a plurality of lower bottom electrodes, a lower supporter supporting the lower bottom electrodes and including a plurality of lower supporter openings, upper bottom electrodes formed on the lower bottom electrodes, respectively, and an upper supporter supporting the upper bottom electrodes and including a plurality of upper supporter openings, wherein the lower supporter openings and the upper supporter openings do not vertically overlap each other.
US11888005B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pixel unit includes first pixel groups having two or more pixels and second pixel groups being different from the first pixel groups, wherein a portion of the pixels in the first pixel groups and a portion of the pixels in the second pixel groups share a floating diffusion element.
US11887995B2
A display panel is provided and includes a substrate and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes a color resist block, a light transmission area, and a non-light transmission area. An opening is defined at an edge of the color resist block in the non-light transmission area, and a through-hole area is defined in the opening. The opening includes a first sidewall near the light transmission area, a compensation member is disposed at an end of the first sidewall near a gap area, and a block angle structure is formed between the compensation member and the first sidewall.
US11887989B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor including a first channel layer of a first conductivity type, a second transistor provided in parallel with the first transistor and including a second channel layer of a second conductivity type, and a third transistor stacked on the first and second transistors. The third transistor may include a gate insulating film including a ferroelectric material. The third transistor may include third channel layer and a gate electrode that are spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction with the gate insulating film therebetween.
US11887985B2
A method includes etching a substrate to form a semiconductor fin, forming a gate stack on a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconductor fin, and forming a first recess in the semiconductor fin on a side of the gate stack, wherein forming the first recess comprises, performing a first etching process to form a first portion of the first recess, depositing a first dielectric layer on sidewalls of the gate stack and the first portion of the first recess, performing a second etching process to form a second portion of the first recess using the first dielectric layer as a mask, wherein the second portion of the first recess extends under the gate stack, and performing a third etching process to remove the first dielectric layer.
US11887976B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate; a semiconductor die mounted on a top surface of the package substrate; a plurality of conductive elements disposed on a bottom surface of the package substrate; and a land-side silicon capacitor disposed on the bottom surface of the package substrate and surrounded by the plurality of conductive elements. The land-side silicon capacitor includes at least two silicon capacitor unit dies adjoined to each other with an integral scribe line region.
US11887974B2
A method of operating a microelectronic package includes a processing device stacking vertically with at least one memory device. The method includes a step of: reading data stored in a plurality of memory cells of a plurality of memory units of the memory device, with the processing device, with a plurality of signal channels each of which is dedicated to transmit signals from the processing device to one of the memory units and vice versa.
US11887973B2
There is provided a full spectrum white light emitting device comprising: a broadband LED flip chip that generates broadband light of dominant wavelength from about 420 nm to about 480 nm and a FWHM from 25 nm to 50 nm; and at least one photoluminescence layer covering a light emitting face of the broadband LED flip chip; wherein the broadband LED flip chip comprises a broadband InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells LED chip comprising multiple different wavelength quantum wells in its active region that generate multiple narrowband light emissions of multiple different wavelengths and wherein broadband light generated by the broadband LED flip chip is composed of a combination of the multiple narrowband light emissions, and wherein the at least one photoluminescence material layer comprises a first photoluminescence material which generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 490 nm to 550 nm; and a second photoluminescence material which generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 600 nm to 680 nm.
US11887971B2
A semiconductor package includes; a lower connection structure, a semiconductor chip on the lower connection structure, an intermediate connection structure on the lower connection structure, a sealing layer covering the semiconductor chip, and an upper connection structure including a first upper insulating layer on the sealing layer, a first upper conductive pattern layer on the first upper insulating layer, and a first upper via penetrating the first upper insulating layer to directly connect the first upper conductive pattern layer to the intermediate connection structure. A height from an upper surface of the lower connection structure to an upper surface of the sealing layer is less than or equal to a maximum height from the upper surface of the lower connection structure to an upper surface of the intermediate connection structure.
US11887963B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a support and a stacked body on the support. The stacked body is formed of a plurality of semiconductor chips that are stacked on each other. The stacked body has a lower surface facing the support and an upper surface facing away from the support. A first wire is connected to one of the semiconductor chips in the stack and extends upward from the semiconductor chip to at least the height of the upper surface of the stacked body. A second wire is connected to the support and extends upward from the support to at least the height of the upper surface of the stacked body.
US11887961B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer or a single semiconductor chip or die, and a layer stack. The layer stack comprises a first layer comprising NiSi, and a second layer comprising NiV, wherein the second layer is arranged between the first layer and the semiconductor wafer or single semiconductor chip or die.
US11887950B2
A solid-state imaging device to be provided includes a first semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer in which a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light and a penetrating via are provided, a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion on the surface side of the semiconductor layer on the side that receives the light, and a connecting wiring line that connects the first connecting portion, the second connecting portion, and the penetrating via. The solid-state imaging device further includes a second semiconductor device that is mounted on the first semiconductor device with the first connecting portion. The solid-state imaging device is connected to an external terminal by the second connecting portion.
US11887940B2
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) structures with a conductive element coupled to a first surface of a package substrate, where the conductive element has cavities for embedding components and the embedded components are electrically connected to the conductive element, as well as related apparatuses and methods. In some embodiments, embedded components have one terminal end, which may be positioned vertically, with the terminal end facing into the cavity, and coupled to the conductive element. In some embodiments, embedded components have two terminal ends, which may be positioned vertically with one terminal end coupled to the conductive element and the other terminal end coupled to the package substrate. In some embodiments, embedded components include passive devices, such as capacitors, resistors, and inductors. In some embodiments, a conductive element is a stiffener.
US11887935B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming semiconductor devices from a semiconductor wafer and identifying a position of the semiconductor device in the semiconductor wafer, wherein the forming the semiconductor devices includes forming a first repeating pattern including i semiconductor devices each having a unique pattern, forming a second repeating pattern including j semiconductor devices each having a unique pattern, defining semiconductor devices on the semiconductor wafer such that each of the k semiconductor devices has a unique pattern based on the first and second repeating patterns, and grinding a backside of the semiconductor wafer, wherein each unique pattern of the k semiconductor devices is composed of a combination of the unique patterns of the first and second repeating patterns, wherein the position of the semiconductor device is identified based on the unique patterns of the first and second repeating patterns and an angle of a grinding mark.
US11887934B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for forming a thin-form-factor semiconductor package. In one embodiment, a glass or silicon substrate is structured by micro-blasting or laser ablation to form structures for formation of interconnections therethrough. The substrate is thereafter utilized as a frame for forming a semiconductor package with embedded dies therein.
US11887932B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a substrate, the substrate comprising crystalline material, a first set of one or more contacts on a first substrate surface, a second set of one or more contacts on a second substrate surface, the second substrate surface opposite the first substrate surface, a first via through the substrate coupled with a first one of the first set of contacts and with a first one of the second set of contacts; a second via through the substrate coupled with a second one of the first set of contacts and with a second one of the second set of contacts, a trench in the substrate from the first substrate surface toward the second substrate surface, wherein the trench is apart from, and between, the first via and the second via, and dielectric material filling the trench. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11887924B2
The present disclosure relates to a chip scale package (CSP) comprising: a first set of CSP contact balls or bumps; a second set of CSP contact balls or bumps; and a channel routing region, the channel routing region being devoid of any CSP contact balls or bumps.
US11887920B2
Embodiments of a redistribution layer structure comprise a low-k dielectric material and incorporating a reinforcement structure proximate and inward of a peripheral edge thereof, the reinforcement structure comprising conductive material electrically isolated from conductive paths through the RDL structure. Semiconductor packages including an embodiment of the RDL structure and methods of fabricating such RDL structures are also disclosed.
US11887917B2
A semiconductor package substrate includes an encapsulated interconnect on a land side of the substrate. The encapsulated interconnect includes an integral metallic structure that has a smaller contact end against the semiconductor package substrate, and a larger contact end for board mounting.
US11887915B2
A semiconductor package includes a die pad; a plurality of external connection terminals located around the die pad; a semiconductor chip located on a top surface of the die pad and electrically connected with the plurality of external connection terminals; and a sealing member covering the die pad, the plurality of external connection terminals and the semiconductor chip and exposing an outer terminal of each of the plurality of external connection terminals. A side surface of the outer terminal of each of the plurality of external connection terminals includes a first area, and the first area is plated.
US11887913B2
An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate, first through-silicon-via (TSV) structures penetrating a first region of the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other by a first pitch, a first individual device between the first TSV structures and spaced apart from the first TSV structures by a distance that is greater than a first keep-off distance, and second TSV structures penetrating a second region of the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other by a second pitch that is less than the first pitch. The second region of the semiconductor device does not include an individual device that is homogeneous with the first individual device and between the second TSV structures.
US11887901B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, and a test apparatus and method thereof, capable of accurately detecting a defect by using a plurality of resistor circuits in a test process. The test apparatus of a semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present disclosure may include semiconductor chips each including an external resistor circuit disposed to be dispersed along an outer region of a chip and an internal resistor circuit disposed in an inner region of the chip in order to test cracks, and test equipment that drives the external resistor circuit and the internal resistor circuit and compares an output of the external resistor circuit with an output of the internal resistor circuit to detect whether a defect occurs in each of the semiconductor chips.
US11887898B2
A method of monitoring a semiconductor process includes the following steps. A process parameter is set to a first condition. A first process is performed to form a first film layer on a first wafer. The first film layer does not cover a wafer edge region of the first wafer. The first wafer having the first film layer is photographed by an image capturing device to obtain a first wafer image. Image recognition is performed to the first wafer image to obtain first data. Whether a position of the first film layer is offset is determined according to the first data.
US11887895B2
Some structures and methods to reduce power consumption in devices can be implemented largely by reusing existing bulk CMOS process flows and manufacturing technology, allowing the semiconductor industry as well as the broader electronics industry to avoid a costly and risky switch to alternative technologies. Some of the structures and methods relate to a Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) design, allowing CMOS based devices to have a reduced σVT compared to conventional bulk CMOS and can allow the threshold voltage VT of FETs having dopants in the channel region to be set much more precisely. The DDC design also can have a strong body effect compared to conventional bulk CMOS transistors, which can allow for significant dynamic control of power consumption in DDC transistors. Additional structures, configurations, and methods presented herein can be used alone or in conjunction with the DDC to yield additional and different benefits.
US11887894B2
A method for processing a wide band gap semiconductor wafer includes: depositing a support layer including semiconductor material at a back side of a wide band gap semiconductor wafer, the wide band gap semiconductor wafer having a band gap larger than the band gap of silicon; depositing an epitaxial layer at a front side of the wide band gap semiconductor wafer; and splitting the wide band gap semiconductor wafer along a splitting region to obtain a device wafer comprising at least a part of the epitaxial layer, and a remaining wafer comprising the support layer.
US11887884B2
Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a body that defines processing and transfer regions. The systems may include a liner atop the body. The systems may include a faceplate atop the liner. The systems may include a support within the body. The support may be vertically translatable between process and transfer positions. The support may include a plate having a heater. The support may include a shaft coupled with the plate. The support may include a bowl about the shaft below the plate. The bowl may be in alignment with the liner. The support may include springs that push the bowl upward as the support translates to the process position. The support may include straps that couple the plate and bowl. The support may include a hard stop. The bowl may contact the liner in the process position and may be spaced apart from the liner in the transfer position.
US11887874B2
A system and method for plating a workpiece are described. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a deposition chamber, a workpiece holder adapted for insertion into and removal from the deposition chamber, a shield with patterns of apertures corresponding to features on the workpiece, a shield holder also adapted for insertion into and removal from the deposition chamber and a positioning mechanism to position the workpiece in the workpiece holder such that the pattern of apertures on the shield will align with the corresponding features on the workpiece when the workpiece holder and shield holder are inserted into the deposition chamber.
US11887870B2
A liquid supply unit includes a tank having an inner space for storing the liquid, an inlet line for supplying the liquid from the liquid supply source to the inner space and having an inlet valve installed thereon, an outlet line for supplying the liquid from the tank to a nozzle or for recollecting the liquid to the tank and having an outlet valve installed thereon, a gas supply line for supplying a gas to the inner space and having a gas control valve installed thereon, an exhaust line for exhausting the inner space and having an exhaust valve installed thereon, a circulation line for circulating the liquid stored in the inner space, and a controller controlling the liquid supply unit so that the circulation line is pressurized while the liquid is supplied to the inner space.
US11887865B2
A method and a system for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The method includes: (a) measuring an amount of a molding powder; (b) controlling the amount of a molding powder; and (c) dispensing the molding powder on an assembly structure including a carrier and at least one semiconductor device disposed on the carrier.
US11887862B2
The disclosure concerns methods of forming a semiconductor device with a repairable redistribution layer (RDL) design, comprising: preparing an original repairable RDL design; forming first conductive segments of the repairable RDL design; inspecting the first conductive segments of the repairable RDL design to detect manufacturing defects; detecting at least one defect in the first conductive segments; and forming second conductive segments of the repairable RDL design according to a new custom RDL design to mitigate the negative effects of the at least one defect among the first conductive segments. The disclosure also concerns semiconductor devices with a repairable RDL design.
US11887856B2
Methods of depositing a film by atomic layer deposition are described. The methods comprise exposing a substrate surface to a first process condition comprising a first reactive gas and a second reactive gas and exposing the substrate surface to a second process condition comprising the second reactive gas. The first process condition comprises less than a full amount of the second reactive gas for a CVD process.
US11887851B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist layer over a mask layer, patterning the photoresist layer, and forming an oxide layer on exposed surfaces of the patterned photoresist layer. The mask layer is patterned using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask. A target layer is patterned using the patterned mask layer as a mask.
US11887846B2
An Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) method to deposit a metal oxide layer onto an organic photoresist on a substrate using a highly reactive organic metal precursor. The deposition method protects the organic photoresist from loss and degradation from exposure to oxygen species during subsequent ALD cycles. The organic metal precursor may be an amino type precursor or a methoxy type precursor.
US11887842B2
A spliced micro light-emitting-diode display panel includes multiple circuit boards spliced with each other and multiple micro light-emitting-diode modules. Each circuit board includes at least one driver IC. The micro light-emitting-diode modules are disposed separately on each circuit board and are electrically connected to the driver IC. Each micro light-emitting-diode module includes multiple light-emitting-diode units arranged in an array. On each circuit board, the driver IC drives the light-emitting-diode units of the micro light-emitting-diode modules to emit light. There is a first gap between any adjacent two of the light-emitting-diode units on any adjacent two of the circuit boards, and there is a second gap between any adjacent two of the light-emitting-diode units on each micro light-emitting-diode module, and the first gap is smaller than the second gap.
US11887839B2
An imaging unit comprising an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside. An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit that includes an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside.
US11887837B2
An ultraviolet light generation target includes a light emitting layer. The light emitting layer contains a YPO4 crystal to which at least scandium (Sc) is added, and receives an electron beam to generate ultraviolet light. Further, a method of manufacturing the ultraviolet light generation target includes a first step of preparing a mixture containing yttrium (Y) oxide, Sc oxide, phosphoric acid, and a liquid, a second step of evaporating the liquid, and a third step of firing the mixture.
US11887835B2
A plasma lamp is disclosed. The plasma lamp includes a gas containment structure configured to contain a gas and generate a plasma within the gas containment structure. The gas containment structure is formed from a glass material transparent to illumination from a pump laser and the broadband radiation emitted by the plasma. The gas containment structure includes a glass wall and the glass within the glass wall includes an OH concentration distribution that varies across a thickness of the glass wall.
US11887832B2
An isotope ratio mass spectrometer has an ion source, a static field mass filter, a reaction cell to induce a mass shift reaction, and a sector field mass analyser for spatially separating ions from the reaction cell according to their m/z. A detector platform detects a plurality of different ion species separated by the sector field mass analyser. The static field mass filter has a first Wien filter that deflects ions away from a longitudinal symmetry axis of the spectrometer in accordance with the ions' m/z, and a second Wien filter that deflects ions back towards the longitudinal symmetry axis in accordance with the ions' m/z. An inverting lens is positioned along the longitudinal axis between the Wien filters to invert the direction of deflection of the ions from the first Wien filter. The static field mass filter provides high transmission and improved spectrometer sensitivity. The first and second Wien filters permit simple tuning.
US11887822B2
An edge ring includes a ramp surface of which a height decreases from an outer edge-side portion toward an inner edge-side portion. The edge ring is configured to satisfy the relation of T2/T1>T4/T3. Where, T1 is a thickness of the edge ring, before plasma treatment, at a first position on the ramp surface of the inner edge-side portion, and T2 is a thickness of the edge ring, before plasma treatment, at a second position on the ramp surface of the outer edge-side portion. T3 is a thickness of the edge ring, after plasma treatment, at the first position, and T4 is a thickness of the edge ring, after plasma treatment, at the second position.
US11887820B2
A radio frequency plasma processing system including a reaction chamber, an electrode having an electrode symmetry axis, the electrode disposed in the reaction chamber, and a plurality of plates, each having an electrically conducting layer, disposed in the reaction chamber azimuthally with respect to the electrode symmetry axis around a perimeter of the electrode at a gap from the electrode surface, each of the plurality of plates connected to an electrical ground through a variable reactance circuit.
US11887819B2
In one embodiment, a plasma processing device may include a dielectric window, a vacuum chamber, an energy source, and at least one air amplifier. The dielectric window may include a plasma exposed surface and an air exposed surface. The vacuum chamber and the plasma exposed surface of the dielectric window can cooperate to enclose a plasma processing gas. The energy source can transmit electromagnetic energy through the dielectric window and form an elevated temperature region in the dielectric window. The at least one air amplifier can be in fluid communication with the dielectric window. The at least one air amplifier can operate at a back pressure of at least about 1 in-H2O and can provide at least about 30 cfm of air.
US11887816B2
There is provided a plasma processing apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a chamber body; and a power supply unit configured to output power for exciting a gas supplied to an inside of the chamber body. The power supply unit supplies, as power having a center frequency, a bandwidth, and a carrier pitch respectively corresponding to a set frequency, a set bandwidth, and a set carrier pitch that are indicated by a controller, power which is pulse-modulated so as to be a pulse frequency, a duty ratio, a high level, and a low level respectively corresponding to a set pulse frequency, a set duty ratio, a high-level set power, and a low-level set power indicated by the controller, and in which a pulse on time determined by the set pulse frequency and the set duty ratio is longer than a power fluctuation cycle of the power having the bandwidth.
US11887815B2
In one example, a plasma processing system includes a vacuum system, a plasma processing chamber including a chamber cavity coupled to the vacuum system, a substrate holder including a surface disposed inside the chamber cavity, a radio frequency (RF) source electrode coupled to an RF power source, the RF source electrode configured to ignite plasma in the chamber cavity. The system includes a microwave source coupled to a microwave oscillator, and a conductive spatial uniformity component including a plurality of through openings, where the conductive spatial uniformity component includes a major surface electromagnetically coupled to the microwave source, the major surface configured to couple microwave power to the plasma in the chamber cavity.
US11887812B2
Bias supplies, plasma processing systems, and associated methods are disclosed. One bias supply comprises a first inductor coupled between a first node of a switch and an output node where a first node of a second inductor is coupled to one of the output node or the first node of the switch. A voltage source is coupled between a second node of the switch and a second node of the second inductor. A connection is made between the return node and one of the second node of the switch and the second node of the second inductor. The bias supply also comprises a controller configured to cause an application of the periodic voltage between the output node and the return node by repeatedly closing the switch so current through the switch completes a full cycle.
US11887796B2
Relays having internal connections on both sides of their switches may be used in conjunction with a connector that integrates both the normal relay switch control lines with the sensing conductors of a control module for a battery module of an energy storage device. In this manner, sensing conductors may be routed along with the switch control lines for the relay instead of separately as described above. This integration reduces the complexity and cost associated with the energy storage device, because it reduces the number of separately routed lines and also eliminates the external connections for at least some of the sensing conductors.
US11887794B2
A breaking device for interrupting current includes an electrically conducting outer member, an electrically conducting inner member arranged radially inside the outer member with respect to a breaking axis and an electrically insulating or semiconducting breaking member arranged radially between the outer member and the inner member with respect to the breaking axis, where the breaking member is arranged to move along the breaking axis from a starting position to a protruding position in which the breaking member protrudes from a space within the outer member for interrupting a current between the outer member and the inner member and the breaking member includes a first tubular including a first insulating material and a second insulating material, where the first insulating material has a higher wear resistance than the second insulating material.
US11887790B2
A multilayer capacitor includes: a capacitor body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes, and having first to six surfaces; first and second side portions disposed on the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and having roughnesses on surfaces thereof; a first external electrode disposed on the third surface of the capacitor body and parts of the first and second side portions and connected to the first internal electrodes; and a second external electrode disposed on the fourth surface of the capacitor body and parts of the first and second side portions and connected to the second internal electrodes.
US11887787B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a first metal terminal including a first plating film on a surface of a first terminal main body, and a second metal terminal including a second plating film on a surface of the second terminal main body. The first metal terminal includes a surface connected to the first external electrode on which a first recess portion is provided such that the first terminal main body is exposed. The second metal terminal includes a surface connected to the second external electrode on which a second recess portion is provided such that the second terminal main body is exposed. The first and second recess portions each include cavities. An exterior material covers the multilayer ceramic electronic component main body, the bonding material, a portion of the first metal terminal, and a portion of the second metal terminal.
US11887785B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer structure in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked; wherein a main component of the dielectric layers is a ceramic material having a main phase having a perovskite structure (ABO3) wherein a B site includes an element solid-solved in the B site and acting as a donor; wherein an A site and the B site of the ceramic material includes a rare earth element, wherein (an amount of the rare earth element substitutionally solid-solved in the A site)/(an amount of the rare earth element substitutionally solid-solved in the B site) is 0.75 or more and 1.25 or less. The amount of the element acting as the donor in the B site is 0.05 to 0.3 atm % relative to a main component element of the B site.
US11887782B2
An asymmetric nanocomposite supercapacitor and a method of making the asymmetric nanocomposite supercapacitor. The asymmetric nanocomposite supercapacitor includes a negative electrode with monoclinic tungsten oxide (m-WO3) nanoplates, and a binding compound coated on one face of a substrate, and a positive electrode with a carbonaceous material and a binding compound coated on one face of a substrate. Where the face of the positive electrode and the face of the negative electrode coated with the carbonaceous material and m-WO3 nanoplates, respectively, are separated by and in direct contact with a porous separator.
US11887781B2
The present invention provides various passive electronic components comprising a layer of coated particles, and methods for producing and using the same. Some of the passive electronic components of the invention include, but are not limited to conductors, resistors, current collectors, capacitors, piezoelectronic devices, inductors and transformers. The present invention also provides energy storage devices and electrode layers for such energy storage devices having passive, electrically-conductive particles coated with one or more thin film materials.
US11887780B2
The present invention comprises: an object to be conveyed that has at least one permanent magnet 10; a magnetic pole 25 that has a core 22 comprising a second magnetic body and a winding 21 wound around the outer periphery of the core 22; a drive circuit 50 for supplying a current to the winding 21 of the magnetic pole 25; a current detection unit 30 for detecting the value of the current flowing through the winding 21; and a computation unit 40 for estimating the position of the permanent magnet 10 on the basis of the current value detected by the current detection unit 30 and controlling the value of the current supplied from the drive circuit 50 to the winding 21 on the basis of information about the estimated position of the permanent magnet 10.
US11887778B2
Generally, a system for generating a magnetic field having a desired magnetic field strength and/or a desired magnetic field direction is provided. The system can include a plurality of magnetic segments and/or a plurality of ferromagnetic segments. Each magnetic segment can be positioned adjacent to at least one of the plurality of magnetic segments. Each ferromagnetic segment can be positioned adjacent to at least one of the plurality of magnetic segments. In various embodiments, a size, shape, positioning and/or number of magnetic segments and/or ferromagnetic segments in the system, as well as a magnetization direction of the magnetic segments can be predetermined based on, for example, predetermined parameters of the system (e.g., a desired magnetic field strength, direction and/or uniformity of the magnetic field, a desired elimination of a magnetic fringe field and/or total weight of the system) and/or based on a desired application of the system (e.g., performing a magnetic resonance imaging of at least a portion of a patient and/or performing a magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a sample).
US11887773B2
A coil winding includes a first part of coils and a second part of coils located on opposite sides of an insulation layer, where the first part of coils comprises a first segment of conducting wire, and the second part of coils comprises a second segment of conducting wire. The first segment of conducting wire and the second segment of conducting wire each includes N cutting openings. Both the first segment of conducting wire and the second segment of conducting wire are divided into N+1 sub conducting wires by the N cutting openings. The N+1 sub conducting wires in the first segment of conducting wire and the N+1 sub conducting wires in the second segment of conducting wire are electrically coupled in a one-to-one manner to form N+1 pairs of sub conducting wires including a crossover structure.
US11887761B2
A soft magnetic alloy including an internal area having a soft magnetic type alloy composition including Fe and P (phosphorous), and a P concentrated area existing closer to a surface side than the internal area and having a higher P concentration than in the internal area.
US11887730B2
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for unobtrusive digital health assessment of high risk subjects, wherein bio-markers pertaining to a disease are identified automatically using physical activity and physiology monitoring on a continuous basis. Identification of bio-markers in the medical domain is conventionally dependent on insights derived from medical tests which are obtrusive in nature. Systems and methods of the present disclosure integrate physical characteristics, lifestyle habits and prevailing medical conditions with monitored physical activities and physiological measurements to assess health of high risk subjects. Systems and methods of the present disclosure also enable automatic generation of control class and treatment class that may be effectively used for health assessment.
US11887729B2
This document presents a system and method for analyzing migraine related sensor and diary data to permit the prediction of migraine headaches for individuals. A mobile device is adapted to collect and transmit to a server data content from sensors associated with the mobile device and self-reported data content indicative of contemporaneous environmental conditions and individual physical conditions when the individual is suffering from a migraine headache. The server uses the data content to develop predictive metrics indicative of a correlation between the migraine events and the sensor data. The predictive metrics will provide an alert to a designated individual if it is likely the individual will experience a migraine within a future time period.
US11887727B2
In aspects, a system includes an on-board storage containing a synthetic quality control material, a plurality of sub-systems having a plurality of operating parameters and including a material analyzer, a database storing quality control results that include results of the material analyzer analyzing the synthetic quality control material over time, one or more processors, and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to, automatically without user intervention: generate a control chart based on the quality control results, determine that a parameter of the plurality of operating parameters is out-of-tolerance based on the control chart, and adjust at least one of the plurality of sub-systems without user intervention to bring the out-of-tolerance parameter to within tolerance.
US11887726B2
Centralized systems execute one or more applications for monitoring and operating a plurality of network enabled medical devices. An indication to start a selected application at the centralized system or at a network enabled medical device is received at the centralized system/network enabled medical device. The selected application may require a license to operate and, at the time the indication is received, may have a first license available. Instead of using the first license, the centralized system/network enabled medical device may determine to inherit at least a portion of a second license to operate the selected application. The centralized system/network enabled medical device may inherit at least the portion of the second license to form an inherited license, where the inherited license enables features of the selected application. Using the inherited license, the selected application is started with the enabled features. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11887718B2
Generating a prediction for at least one implant size for use in arthroplasty is disclosed. Patient demographic factors are received and processed to generate at least one implant size prediction. The processing includes accessing procedure information representing joint replacement procedures previously performed for a plurality of patients and implant information representing types and sizes of implants from a plurality of manufacturers and determining, as a function of at least one statistical model and the accessed procedural information and implant information, unadjusted probabilities of implant size recommendations in a range of implant sizes. At least one processor is further configured for providing, in a graphical user interface operating on at least one user computing device, information representing the respective implant size recommendations and unadjusted probabilities. Further, the at least one processor is configured for receiving a selection of at least one of the respective implant size recommendations.
US11887717B2
A computer-implemented system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive attribute data associated with a user, generate, based on a pulmonary condition of the user, a selected set of the attribute data, determine, based on the selected set of the attribute data, a first probability of improving a pulmonary condition of the user subsequent to at least one of a pulmonary procedure being performed on the user, a pulmonary treatment being performed on the user, and a pulmonary diagnosis, and generate, based on the first probability, a treatment plan that includes one or more exercises directed to modifying the first probability. A treatment apparatus is configured to enable implementation of the treatment plan.
US11887716B2
A method includes receiving, by a master infusion device from a server, at least one fluid delivery protocol. The fluid delivery protocol includes one or more parameters for delivering a fluid to a user. The method also includes configuring, by the master infusion device, a first slave infusion pump with a first fluid delivery protocol of the at least one fluid delivery protocol. The method further includes configuring, by the master infusion device, a second slave infusion pump with a second fluid delivery protocol of the at least one fluid delivery protocol. The method also includes delivering, by the first slave infusion pump and based on the first fluid delivery protocol, the fluid to the user. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including apparatuses and computer program products, are also disclosed.
US11887715B2
Adaptive on board estimation of exogenous pharmacon responsive to transient (i.e., impermanent) physiological effects is provided. Dynamically estimating an equivalent amount of an exogenous pharmacon on board (XOB), such as insulin and/or carbohydrates, left in the subject, is based on predictions of glucose time-series data. These estimated values, such as insulin on board (IOB), are useful for diabetes management software, including decision support and/or artificial pancreas (AP) algorithms, for example.
US11887700B2
Techniques and apparatus for generating encoded representations of compounds are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured receive analytical information associated with at least one compound, generate at least one encoded representation of the at least one compound, the encoded representation comprising at least one segment representing at least one property of the at least one compound using a plurality of symbols. Other embodiments are described.
US11887692B2
An operation method of a memory device, having a plurality of memory cells, includes receiving a partial write command, which includes a partial write enable signal (PWE) and a plurality of mask signals, during a command/address input interval. A data strobe signal is received through a data strobe line after receiving the partial write command Data is received through a plurality of data lines in synchronization with the data strobe signal during a data input interval. A part of the data is stored in the plurality of memory cells based on the plurality of mask signals, in response to the partial write enable signal, during a data write interval.
US11887689B2
Methods and devices for techniques for precharging a memory cell are described. Precharging a memory cell while the memory cell is coupled with its digit line may reduce a total duration of an access operation thereby reducing a latency associated with accessing a memory device. During a read operation, the memory device may select a word line to couple the memory cell with a selected digit line. Further, the memory device may selectively couple the selected digit line with a reference digit line that is to be precharged to a given voltage. A difference in voltage between the selected digit line and the reference digit line at the completion of precharging may represent a signal indicative of a logic state of the memory cell. The memory device may use a capacitor precharged to a first voltage to capture the signal. In some cases, the memory device may continue to perform a self-reference operation using the same memory cell, the selected digit line, and the reference digit line to produce a reference signal using the capacitor precharged to a different voltage. A similar precharging steps may be repeated during the self-reference operation. The selected word line may remain activated during the read operation and the self-reference operation.
US11887688B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for indicating row activation are described. A memory device may receive an indication associated with an activation command, which may enable the memory device to begin some aspects of an activation operation before receiving the associated activation command. The indication may include a location of a next row to access as part of the activation command. The indication may be included in a previous activation command or in a precharge command. The memory device may begin activation operations for the next row before the precharge operation of the current row is complete. The memory device may receive the activation command for the next row after receiving the indication, and may complete the activation operations upon receiving the activation command.
US11887687B2
Methods, systems, and devices for read operations for a memory array and register are described. In some examples, a memory device may include one or more memory arrays and one or more registers (e.g., one or more mode registers). The memory device may include circuitry that allows for a command to access a memory array and a command to access a register to be received consecutively (e.g., during consecutive sets of clock cycles). Because the commands may be received during consecutive sets of clock cycles, the corresponding data may also be output from the memory array and register during consecutive clock cycles.
US11887679B2
The present disclosure provides a method of data protection for a NAND memory. The method can include programming a selected page of the NAND flash memory device according to programming data. The programming of the selected page can include a plurality of programming operations and a plurality of verifying operations, with ones of the plurality of verifying operations performed after corresponding ones of the plurality of programming operations to determine whether programmed memory cells of the selected page have threshold voltage levels according to the programming data. The method can also include determining a completion of the programming of the selected page based on each of the plurality of verification operations returning a pass result. The method can also include performing, after the determining, a read operation on the selected page by the NAND flash memory device to self-verify data stored at the selected page according to the programming data.
US11887678B2
The present disclosure provides a method for debugging of flash memory devices using NAND self-verification The method can include programming a selected page of the NAND flash memory device according to first and second programming data. The selected page can include a plurality of memory cells corresponding to a word line. The programming of the selected page can include a plurality of programming operations and a plurality of verifying operations. Ones of the plurality of verifying operations can be performed after corresponding ones of the plurality of programming operations to determine whether programmed memory cells of the selected page have threshold voltage levels according to the first or second programming data. The method can also include performing self-verification on the selected page to determine whether data stored at the selected page was overwritten and generating a fail indication upon determining that the data stored at the selected page was overwritten.
US11887675B2
Embodiments are provided that include a memory device having a memory array including a plurality of access lines and data lines. The memory device further includes a circuit coupled to the plurality of access lines and configured to provide consecutive pulses to a selected one of the plurality of access lines. Each pulse of the consecutive pulses includes a first voltage and a second voltage. The first voltage is greater in magnitude than the second voltage, and the first voltage is applied for a shorter duration than the second voltage.
US11887673B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device according to the present technology includes a plurality of memory cells connected to a word line, an operation controller configured to apply a first or a second read voltage to the word line and to obtain data that is stored in the plurality of memory cells through bit lines that are respectively connected to the plurality of memory cells, and a read voltage controller configured to control the operation controller to read the data that is stored in the plurality of memory cells by using the second read voltage, and to read the data that is stored in the plurality of memory cells by using the first read voltage according to the number of off cells that are counted based on the data that is read by using the second read voltage, in response to a read command.
US11887663B2
Methods and systems include memory devices with a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. The memory devices include a control circuit operatively coupled to the memory array and configured to receive a read request for data and to apply a first voltage at a first time duration to the memory array based on the read request. The control circuit is additionally configured to count a number of the plurality of memory cells that have switched to an active read state based on the first voltage and to derive a second time duration. The control circuit is further configured to apply a second voltage at the second duration to the memory array. The control circuit is also configured to return the data based at least on bits stored in a first and a second set of the plurality of memory cells.
US11887662B2
A matrix includes a plurality of volatile switches, each of the volatile switches including an active layer made of an OTS material, the plurality of volatile switches being divided into two groups in such a way as to form a message, each of the volatile switches of the first group having been initialized beforehand by an initialization voltage, none of the volatile switches of the second group having been initialized beforehand, the message being formed by the initialized or non-initialized states of each of the switches of the matrix.
US11887661B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a cross-point pillar architecture for memory arrays are described. Multiple selector devices may be configured to access or activate a pillar within a memory array, where the selector devices may each be or include a chalcogenide material. A pillar access line may be coupled with multiple selector devices, where each selector device may correspond to a pillar associated with the pillar access line. Pillar access lines on top and bottom of the pillars of the memory array may be aligned in a square or rectangle formation, or in a hexagonal formation. Pillars and corresponding selector devices on top and bottom of the pillars may be located at overlapping portions of the pillar access lines, thereby forming a cross point architecture for pillar selection or activation. The selector devices may act in pairs to select or activate a pillar upon application of a respective selection voltage.
US11887658B2
A data writing method and a memory, in which the data writing method is used for writing data to a memory array of the memory. The data writing method includes that: old data is read from a target column of the memory array; the old data is updated according to data to be written which carries target data bits information to generate new data; and the new data is written into the target column, in which the memory includes a plurality of data columns, the data is required to be written into the target column, and the target column includes a part of the data columns.
US11887657B2
The present disclosure relates to an amplifier circuit, a control method, and a memory, including: a sensing amplification circuit, including a readout node, a complementary readout node, a first node, and a second node; an isolation circuit, coupled to the readout node, the complementary readout node, a bit line, and a complementary bit line, wherein the isolation circuit is configured to couple the readout node to the bit line and the complementary readout node to the complementary bit line at a sensing amplification stage; an offset cancellation circuit, coupled to the bit line, the complementary bit line, the readout node, and the complementary readout node, wherein the offset cancellation circuit is configured to couple the bit line to the complementary readout node and the complementary bit line to the readout node at an offset cancellation stage; and a processing circuit, coupled to the offset cancellation circuit.
US11887654B2
A memory device includes: a first memory cell mat that includes first multi-layer level sub word lines positioned over a substrate; a second memory cell mat that is laterally spaced apart from the first memory cell mat and includes second multi-layer level sub word lines; a first sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the first memory cell mat; and a second sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the second memory cell mat, wherein the first sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the first multi-layer level sub word lines, and the second sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the second multi-layer level sub word lines.
US11887648B2
A semiconductor memory device according to the present inventive concept includes: a semiconductor substrate; a common source semiconductor layer doped with impurities of a first conductivity type on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of word line structures alternately stacked on the common source semiconductor layer; and a memory cell dielectric layer penetrating the plurality of insulating layers and the plurality of word line structures and covering an internal wall of a channel hole extending in a vertical direction, and a memory cell structure filling the channel hole. The memory cell structure includes a channel layer, which has the memory cell dielectric layer thereon and fills at least a portion of the channel hole, and a drain layer covering an upper surface of the channel layer, doped with impurities of a second conductivity type, and filling some of an upper portion of the channel hole.
US11887647B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to a Deep Learning Accelerator and memory are described. An integrated circuit may be configured to execute instructions with matrix operands and configured with: random access memory configured to store instructions executable by the Deep Learning Accelerator and store matrices of an Artificial Neural Network; a connection between the random access memory and the Deep Learning Accelerator; a first interface to a memory controller of a Central Processing Unit; and a second interface to a direct memory access controller. While the Deep Learning Accelerator is using the random access memory to process current input to the Artificial Neural Network in generating current output from the Artificial Neural Network, the direct memory access controller may concurrently load next input into the random access memory; and at the same time, the Central Processing Unit may concurrently retrieve prior output from the random access memory.
US11887640B2
A magnetoelectric memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction located between a first electrode and a second electrode. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a reference layer, a nonmagnetic tunnel barrier layer, a free layer, and a dielectric capping layer. At least one layer that provides voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy is provided within the magnetic tunnel junction, which may include a pair of nonmagnetic metal dust layers located on, or within, the free layer, or a two-dimensional metal compound layer including a compound of a nonmagnetic metallic element and a nonmetallic element.
US11887631B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing video and sound in a synchronized state. An information processing device includes a determination unit that determines whether it is content in which sound is delayed with respect to video, and a processing unit that delays the video by a predetermined period and plays the video when the determination unit determines that it is the content in which the sound is delayed with respect to the video. The processing unit delays and plays the video so that the video when a sound source produces the sound is synchronized with the sound. The predetermined period corresponds to a period by which the sound is delayed. The present technology can be applied to an information processing device that processes video.
US11887627B2
An electronic device and an operation method of an electronic device for video editing are provided. The electronic device include a processor electrically connected to display circuitry, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain a video, classify, based on a designated condition, image frames included in the video into at least one first type interval and at least one second type interval, distinguish at least one main part, based on image frames corresponding to at least one element included in the designated condition in the at least one first type interval, set a play speed of the at least one main part to be different from a play speed of at least one different part, control the display circuitry to display an edited preview video including the at least one main part reflecting the set play speed, and store the edited preview video in the memory.
US11887614B2
Provided are a device and a method for transmitting and receiving voice data in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a transmission terminal for transmitting a voice signal comprises the steps of: generating sampling and bitrate request information including sampling information for determining a sampling rate of the voice signal and bitrate information for determining a bitrate of the voice signal, and transmitting the generated sampling and bitrate request information to a reception terminal; receiving, from the reception terminal, combined determination information obtained by at least one combination of the sampling rate determined on the basis of the sampling information and the bitrate determined on the basis of the bitrate information; and compressing the voice signal according to the received combined determination information, and transmitting the compressed voice signal to the reception terminal.
US11887612B2
Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP).
US11887610B2
An audio decoding method includes obtaining an encoded bitstream; performing bitstream demultiplexing on the encoded bitstream, to obtain a high frequency band parameter of a current frame of an audio signal, wherein the high frequency band parameter indicates a location, a quantity, and an amplitude or energy of a tone component comprised in a high frequency band signal of the current frame; obtaining a reconstructed high frequency band signal of the current frame based on the high frequency band parameter; and obtaining an audio output signal of the current frame based on the reconstructed high frequency band signal of the current frame.
US11887596B2
Described herein is a system for enabling a user to perform complex goals using multiple skills/applications of an intelligent assistant device. Skills may register as consumers of an action or providers of an action, and the consumer skills may be configured to invoke provider skills to perform actions. The system receives a request to perform an action from a skill along with some action data. The system validates the action data, selects another skill to perform the action, and forwards the request to the selected skill to perform the action.
US11887578B2
A method and system for automatic dubbing method is disclosed, comprising, responsive to receiving a selection of media content for playback on a user device by a user of the user device, processing extracted speeches of a first voice from the media content to generate replacement speeches using a set of phenomes of a second voice of the user of the user device, and replacing the extracted speeches of the first voice with the generated replacement speeches in the audio portion of the media content for playback on the user device.
US11887571B2
Acoustic structures for a gas turbine engine are disclosed. In various embodiments, the acoustic structures comprise a panel in the form of a cellular structure having a plurality of cells; and a housing configured to house the cellular structure, the housing including a first rail configured for attachment to a static structure within the gas turbine engine and a second rail configured for attachment to the static structure. In various embodiments, the acoustic structures comprise a liner in the form of a non-segmented or two-piece structure configured to extend about the inner barrel of a nacelle structure. The disclosed panels and liners are configured to maximize the operational area of the acoustic structures by eliminating obstructions from adjacent flow paths.
US11887569B2
A performance system can include a primary unit and a secondary unit. The secondary unit is provided for an electronic musical instrument that can be set to a first mode that enables performance by a single individual and a second mode that enables performance by a plurality of individuals, has connecting portions enabling connection of one or a plurality of receivers having at least a receiving function, and is able to communicate with the primary unit. The performance can also include an determining portion for determining whether or not a plurality of the receivers is connected to the connecting portion, and a transmitting portion for transmitting, to the primary unit, a notification that the second mode has been set, upon determining that a plurality of the receivers has been connected to the connecting portion. The secondary unit can include a setting portion for setting the electronic musical instrument to the second mode upon a determination that a plurality of receivers has been connected to the connecting portion.
US11887567B2
Described herein are techniques for adjusting notes of a first musical piece based on chord data of a second musical piece. A first musical piece is accessed, wherein the first musical piece comprises a plurality of notes. Chord data associated with a second musical piece is accessed. One or more of the plurality of notes are compared to the chord data. An aspect of the one or more of the plurality of notes is changed based on the comparison.
US11887559B1
The present application discloses a driving instruction modification method and a receiver applied to a display driver integrated circuit, and relates to the technical field of display integrated circuits, and the main purpose thereof is to normally apply a set global parameter to a driving instruction to be modified even if there is an interference command after setting the global parameter; the main technical solution includes: judging whether a target command received after setting a global parameter satisfies an initialization condition; if so, after modifying a driving instruction corresponding to the target command based on the target command and the global parameter, initializing the global parameter; otherwise, maintaining the global parameters unchanged.
US11887552B1
The disclosure provides a display driving device and a display control device and an operation method thereof. The display control device includes a data analyzing circuit and a data compensation circuit. The data analyzing circuit performs arithmetic operation on multiple sub-pixel data output by a target driving channel of a source driver in a current frame to obtain a resultant value corresponding to the target driving channel. The data compensation circuit determines at least one compensation grayscale value corresponding to the resultant value. The compensation grayscale value is to be displayed by the target driving channel in a vertical blank period of a frame period in which the current frame is displayed. The target driving channel of the source driver outputs at least one compensation voltage corresponding to the at least one compensation grayscale value in the vertical blank period of the frame period.
US11887546B2
A display pixel is provided that is operable to support hybrid compensation scheme having both in-pixel threshold voltage canceling and external threshold voltage compensation. The display may include multiple p-type silicon transistors with at least one n-type semiconducting-oxide transistor and one storage capacitor. An on-bias stress phase may be performed prior to a threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase to mitigate hysteresis and improve first frame response. In low refresh rate displays, a first additional on-bias stress operation can be performed separate from the threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase during a refresh frame and a second additional on-bias stress operation can be performed during a vertical blanking frame. The display pixel may be configured to receive an initialization voltage and an anode reset voltage, either of which can be dynamically tuned to match the stress of the first and second additional on-bias stress operations to minimize flicker.
US11887541B2
A display device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of light-emission control lines; a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element; a scanning line drive circuit that drives the scanning lines based on a first clock signal; a data line drive circuit that drives the data lines; a light-emission control line drive circuit that drives the light-emission control lines based on a second clock signal; and a display control circuit that outputs at least the first and second clock signals. The display control circuit classifies a frame period into a scanning period and a pause period, and during the pause period, the display control circuit stops the first clock signal and makes a frequency of the second clock signal lower than that during the scanning period. This further reduces the power consumption of the display device that performs low-frequency driving.
US11887521B2
A pixel circuit may include a light-emitting element, a driving transistor which applies a driving current to the light-emitting element, a storage capacitor connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor, a data voltage-applying transistor which applies a data voltage to the storage capacitor, an emission transistor which connects the driving transistor to the light-emitting element in response to an emission signal, and a bias capacitor disposed between a first electrode of the driving transistor and a control electrode of the emission transistor.
US11887517B2
A method of displaying an image in a display device may include determining the degree of deterioration of pixels included in a display unit based on image data of a current frame image, determining a shift route of the current frame image so as to correspond to the determined degree of deterioration. The first image data is corrected to second image data so that the current frame image is shifted along the shift route.
US11887509B2
A Method and Apparatus for Comparing Colors have been disclosed. In one implementation a compliant membrane which is substantially transparent with an area having a shade/color is placed on the user's skin to see what the shade/color will look like on the skin. In one implementation a compliant substrate which is largely transparent with an area having a shade/color is placed on an inanimate object to see how the shade/color will appear on the inanimate object without the substrate itself causing an unnecessary barrier between the inanimate object and the shade/color.
US11887507B2
A virtual reality system for use with law enforcement training is described. Simulation software receives a selection of a base scenario layout from a first user and an action associated with a parameter of the scenario to modify the scenario. The simulation software transmits the modified scenario to a user interface of a head-mounted display worn by a second user freely roaming a physical environment of the virtual reality system. The physical environment is defined at least partially by a physical coordinate system. The simulation software receives position data associated with an object and captured by one or more cameras within the physical environment, determines a position of the object from the position data, generates a virtual reality image of the object, adds the virtual reality image of the object into the modified scenario, and transmits the updated scenario to the user interface of the head-mounted display.
US11887503B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include a simulated wound apparatus allowing a wearer to simulate injuries for purposes of casualty simulation and medical response training. Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a wearable medical training device and more specifically a device for training of hemorrhage control procedures on junctional bleeding. The present disclosure, when used by a live actor, may allow users to safely simulate hemorrhaging in some of the most challenging blood vessels in the most challenging anatomical locations such as the carotid artery, the axillary artery, and the femoral artery. The present disclosure may further provide the ability for users to safely perform hemorrhage control procedures, such as compression and ligation. The simulated wound of the present disclosure may be compressed to control hemorrhage. The simulated wound receptacle of the present disclosure may be packed with hemostatic or simple gauze to control hemorrhage. The simulated blood vessel of the device may be ligated with hemostats or other ligating instruments or material and bandaged with pressure dressings to control hemorrhage.
US11887499B2
The present invention relates a virtual-scene-based language-learning system, at least comprising a scheduling and managing module and a scene-editing module, and the system further comprises an association-analyzing module, the scheduling and managing module are connected to the scene-editing module and the association-analyzing module, respectively, in a wired or wireless manner, the association-analyzing module analyzes based on second-language information input by a user and provides at least one associated image and/or picture, and the association-analyzing module displays the associated images and/or picture selected by the user on a client, so that a teacher at the client is able to understand the language information expressed in the second language by the student based on the associated image and/or picture. The present invention displays associated image by setting up an association-analyzing module, which can promote teachers' understanding of students' expression content, thereby providing effective language guidance and improving language learning efficiency.
US11887498B2
A learning system and a method adapted to personalize language learning to individual users. An output device generates and presents learning related data to a user associated with a user ID. An input mechanism receives, in response to the learning related data, response data from the user indicating the users response to the learning related data. A processor associates the learning related data to the response data to couple the response from the user to the learning related data. A database including a storage space associated to the user ID is used for storing the learning related and the associated response data and generates an individualized language knowledge database for the user. The processor is adapted to issue a true (7/) or false (fi) learning related data indicators indicating whether the response data matches the learning related data presented to the user.
US11887496B2
System and method for coaching based on workout history and/or readiness/recovery information. Improved solutions enable intelligent management of a user's personal fitness journey based on workout recommendations that closely align with the user's traits. In one exemplary embodiment, workout data for a population of different individuals is analyzed to identify groups of similarly performing individuals. Each group of individuals is analyzed to generate an expected profile that approximates the physiological and/or psychological traits of the group. An expected profile includes heuristics and/or performance metrics that enable dynamic coaching during workouts. Subsequently thereafter, users can be dynamically coached by their client device, based on the expected profile.
US11887487B2
A method for updating a flight plan comprising, via an avionics device, at least a portion of a flight plan from an external source, authenticating or validating the update, generating a set of updated flight parameters, comparing the set of updated flight parameters with a current set of flight parameters, receiving a set of environmental conditions, performing a series of plausibility checks and automatically updating at least a portion of the flight plan or generating an indication.
US11887483B2
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system trains a predictive request model to generate a metric predicted to trigger an increase in transportation provider activity within the geographic area for a given time period. Furthermore, the system determines a predicted gap between expected request activity and expected transportation provider activity for the geographic area during a future time period, utilizes the predictive request model and the predicted gap to generate a metric for the geographic area, and generates an interactive map associated with a customized schedule for the geographic area and the future time period based on the generated metric.
US11887464B2
A security ecosystem, device and method for distributing physical resources based on workflow interactions is provided. A computing device determines that a trigger, of a safety-workflow, has occurred, comprising: determining, from distribution-tracking data, that distribution of physical resources in a region meets a suboptimal-distribution condition. In response, the computing device implement a first responsive action, of the safety-workflow, comprising generating an indication of the distribution of the physical resources in the region at an electronic map. The computing device implements an analysis component, of the safety-workflow, comprising: determining whether the distribution of the physical resources meeting the suboptimal-distribution condition meets a predetermined exemption condition. In response to the predetermined exemption condition not being met, the computing device implements a second responsive action, of the safety workflow, comprising: providing an alert to one or more notification devices identifying that the distribution of the physical resources meets the suboptimal-distribution condition.
US11887457B2
An information processing device (1) includes: a transmission unit (32) that transmits, on the basis of rule information set in advance and a sensing result by a sensor (2) that senses environment information on a predetermined area, notification information based on the sensing result to a terminal device (10); a reception unit (31) that receives, from the terminal device (10), feedback information for the notification information transmitted by the transmission unit (32); and an update unit (57) that updates the rule information on the basis of the feedback information received by the reception unit (31).
US11887453B2
Example embodiments relate to luminaire networks with sensors. One example luminaire network includes a plurality of luminaires and a central unit that includes a central communication unit. The plurality of luminaires includes a communication unit configured to make it possible for the luminaires to communicate with each other and/or with the central communication unit. The plurality of luminaires also includes a control unit configured to control the luminaire as well as the communication unit. The central unit is configured to have access to information about the location of the luminaires. At least one of the plurality of luminaires in the luminaire network further includes at least one sensor which can sense information relating to the environment. The communication unit of the luminaire is configured to send messages relating to the sensed information to the central communication unit and/or to at least one other luminaire including a communication unit.
US11887451B2
A life safety device includes a housing, a detector for detecting one or more conditions, and an actuatable mechanism coupled to the housing. The actuatable mechanism includes a light assembly operable in response to detection of at least one of the one or more conditions.
US11887448B2
A computer system for digital video alarm guard tour monitoring. The computer system includes a computer having non-transitory memory for storing machine instructions that are to be executed by the computer. The machine instructions when executed by the computer implement the following functions: receiving one or more guard tour parameters; identifying a plurality of digital frames in response to the one or more guard tour parameters; motion analyzing the plurality of digital frames to detect motion between the plurality of digital frames; object analyzing the plurality of digital frames to detect an object and an object class of the object in response to detecting the motion; and transmitting a guard tour event and the plurality of digital frames to an alarm server in response to determining the object class is associated with an alarm analytics tag.
US11887443B2
An electronic gaming machine that includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor configured to control the display device to display a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels and display a first bingo card and a second bingo card wherein the first bingo card includes a first feature indicator and the second bingo card includes a second feature indicator, store in the memory device a first memory structure corresponding to the first bingo card and a second memory structure corresponding to the second bingo card, and in response to determining that a first prize symbol indicator of a first prize symbol displayed in the matrix of symbol positions corresponds to a combination of the first feature indicator and the second feature indicator, populate a position on each of the first bingo card and the second bingo card with the first prize symbol.
US11887441B2
In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.
US11887439B2
Innovations in game design features of an electronic gaming device are presented. Groups of players can be defined that may win an award that is also available to non-group based players. If the award is won by a group-based player, the award can be distributed to at least a portion of the group members in addition to the player who won the award. A group profile can define criteria for group membership, awards associated with the group, how awards will be distributed among the group, and how and when groups can be altered. Groups can be associated with awards other than those associated with gaming activity. In addition, a value of a gaming award can be increased based on non-gaming activity.
US11887438B2
A gaming machine includes an electronic display device configured to display an array of symbol positions and registers. The registers are associated with respective subsets of one or more of the symbol positions of the array. Game-logic circuitry directs the display device to animate a plurality of spins of symbol-bearing reels wherein, in each spin, the reels are spun and stopped to land symbols in the array. The plurality of symbols include value-bearing symbols, redemption symbols, and reset symbols. For each landed value-bearing symbol, the symbol value is added to the applicable register. In response to accumulating a predetermined number of the redemption symbols in a subset, the value in that subset's register is awarded. In response to the reset symbol landing in a subset, the value in that subset's register is reset.
US11887437B2
Gaming systems and method that provide a banked bonus player selection feature including a symbol display such as a displayed wheel having a plurality of displayed player selectable sections for a play of a multi-player game.
US11887425B2
An entry/exit detection locking device includes a knob axle of a lock and an engaging and holding unit and a retention unit. The knob axle includes upper and lower rotary axles each formed with a notch. The engaging and holding unit is arranged at one side of the knob axle. The retention unit is arranged below the knob axle. The retention unit is connected through a control circuit to a card reader at an outdoor side. Through adjustment, the engaging and holding unit is set in engagement with the notch of the upper rotary axle or the notch of the lower rotary axle to achieve a locked state for exit or entry. Rotating the knob axle for entry or exit triggers the retention unit to make a record of the exit or entry. The engaging and holding unit is connected to the card reader to enable unlocking through card swiping.
US11887420B2
A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allow for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.
US11887415B2
An example embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method for monitoring the position of a connection cable of a trailer, having the steps of: capturing a region which lies behind a motor vehicle using a camera, processing the captured image data using an analysis unit, detecting the connection cable, and determining the position of the connection cable, comparing the captured position of the connection cable with a secure position of the connection cable, and outputting a warning signal if the captured position of the connection cable deviates from the secure position. Another example embodiment additionally relates to a camera system and to a motor vehicle including a camera system.
US11887413B2
An example method includes determining identifying information for a vehicle to be serviced. The method further includes receiving at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method further includes sending a request over a communication network to a remote server for a PID filter list for the vehicle, the request comprising the identifying information for the vehicle and the at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method additionally includes receiving a response to the request over the communication network from the remote server, the response comprising the PID filter list for the vehicle. The method further includes determining, based on the PID filter list for the vehicle, a symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle from a set of available PIDs. The method additionally includes displaying, on a display interface, the symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle.
US11887412B1
A system, including a housing having a front and a rear, a controller contained within the housing, a trigger module contained within the housing, the trigger module coupled to the controller, the trigger module receiving a trigger signal and outputting a range measurement signal, a range module contained within the housing, the ranging module coupled to the controller, the range module outputs a range data signal in response to the range measurement signal, a memory module contained within the housing, the memory module coupled to the controller, the memory module storing the range data signal, a wireless transceiver contained within the housing, the wireless transceiver coupled to the controller the wireless transceiver outputting the stored range data signal and an affixment coupled to the housing rear enabling physical connection to a shipping structure.
US11887411B2
A system comprising one or more computing devices implements a vehicle information extraction service. The vehicle information extraction service enables customers to provide access to proprietary encoding protocols used by the customers to communicate over a bus of a vehicle, wherein the proprietary protocols are used by the vehicle information extraction service to perform vehicle information monitoring, while at the same time protecting the confidentiality of the proprietary protocols from being accessed by third parties. Also, the vehicle information extraction service enables streaming of relevant vehicle information corresponding to customer defined event criteria without requiring non-relevant vehicle information to be streamed, which would consume considerable network resources.
US11887409B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for self-detection of fault conditions experienced by vehicle components, generation of device health codes indicative of the fault conditions, and broadcasting of the device health codes over mixed vehicle communication networks. The device health codes can be parsed to identify fault information, and the fault information can be assessed along with current vehicle operational data to determine a recommended vehicle response measure to one or more fault conditions experienced by one or more vehicle components.
US11887404B2
Techniques and systems are provided for authenticating a user of a device. For example, input biometric data associated with a person can be obtained. A similarity score for the input biometric data can be determined by comparing the input biometric data to a set of templates that include reference biometric data associated with the user. The similarity score can be compared to an authentication threshold. The person is authenticated as the user when the similarity score is greater than the authentication threshold. The similarity score can also be compared to a learning threshold that is greater than the authentication threshold. A new template including features of the input biometric data is saved for the user when the similarity score is less than the learning threshold and greater than the authentication threshold.
US11887399B2
A biometric information detecting device includes a measurer, a determiner, a controller, and a processor. The measurer measures biometric information of a user as an electrical signal. The determiner is connected to the measurer to receive the electrical signal, processes the electrical signal according to a first reference condition to output a first result signal, and processes the electrical signal according to a second reference condition to output a second result signal. The controller controls the determiner such that the determiner is operated in the first reference condition or the second reference condition, and the processor processes the first and second result signals to obtain the biometric information of the user.
US11887375B2
This disclosure describes techniques for capturing still images during video streaming to identify patterns in a region-of-interest on the captured still images. The video streaming may be performed by an imaging device that includes or is communicatively connected to one or more sensors (e.g., radar, light sensor, etc.) The one or more sensors may be configured to perform data measurements such as vehicle speed measurements, light intensity measurements, and/or the like. In one example, during the video streaming, the data measurement may be compared with a corresponding threshold. In this example, the imaging device may be triggered to capture still images of the surrounding area based on the comparison between the data measurement and the corresponding threshold. Thereafter, the still images may be processed to identify the region-of-interest on the still images.
US11887368B2
A system for enhanced sports analytics and/or content creation includes: an object tracking system that generates coordinate data corresponding to object motion in a sports event; a data processing module that receives the coordinate data from the object tracking system, analyzes the coordinate data with an event recognition algorithm that identifies and characterizes events and outcomes of interest, and catalogs the data in accordance with the identified events and outcomes into event profile data; a database that receives and stores the event profile data generated by the data processing module; a user application that accesses the event profile data from the database; and at least one processing unit that executes instructions stored in at least one non-transitory medium to implement at least one of the object tracking system, the data processing module, or the user application.
US11887350B2
A system for vector extraction comprising a vector extraction engine stored and operating on a network-connected computing device that loads raster images from a database stored and operating on a network-connected computing device, identifies features in the raster images, and computes a vector based on the features, and methods for feature and vector extraction.
US11887348B2
A processor-implemented image processing method and apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes receiving an input image and rotation information associated with the input image, generating a feature vector of the input image based on pose information corresponding to the input image, generating an assistant feature vector which represents a target component according to a pose corresponding to the rotation information, based on the feature vector, the pose information, and the rotation information, and generating a target image which has the pose corresponding to the rotation information based on the feature vector and the assistant feature vector.
US11887346B2
An example image feature extraction system comprises an encoder neural network having a first set of layers and a decoder neural network having a second set of layers and a third set of layers. The encoder neural network receives an input image, processes the input image through the first set of layers, and computes an encoded feature map based on the input image. The decoder neural network receives the encoded feature map, processes the encoded feature map through the second set of layers to compute a keypoint score map, and processes the encoded feature map through at least a portion of the third set of layers to compute a feature description map.
US11887342B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of encoding a three-dimensional image including a point cloud. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of encoding a three-dimensional image may include determining a spatial area in a three-dimensional space represented by the point cloud, projecting, onto a two-dimensional plane, a plurality of points included in the point cloud to generate a plurality of patches, determining at least one patch corresponding to the determined spatial area, down-sampling at least one patch according to a predefined rule, generating a two-dimensional image by packing the at least one down-sampled patch and the plurality of patches corresponding to areas other than the determined spatial area, and generating and outputting a bitstream including data in which the two-dimensional image is compressed and information related to the down-sampling performed to generate the two-dimensional image.
US11887338B2
Provided are methods for maintaining calibration of an IBIS camera, which can include receiving a first initial extrinsic calibration of a first camera having a first sensor; determining a first translation of the first sensor based on a second position thereof when the first camera captures a first image; determining a first extrinsic translation shift based at least upon the first translation; and updating the first initial extrinsic calibration to yield a first modified extrinsic calibration for the first camera. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11887327B2
A microscopic examination device includes: a camera that images an observation area of an examination subject observed with a microscope device so as to acquire an image of the observation area; and one or more processors including hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: align the image of the observation area with an area in a reference image, the area corresponding to the image of the observation area; generate a navigation map from the reference image by recording, on the reference image, a position of the image of the observation area in the reference image; calculate a direction of movement to an unobserved area in the navigation map, the unobserved area being an area where the position of the image of the observation area is not recorded; and present an access method to the unobserved area on a basis of the direction of movement.
US11887319B2
Various methods for reducing artifacts in OCT images of an eye are described. In one exemplary method, three dimensional OCT image data of the eye is collected. Motion contrast information is calculated in the OCT image data. A first image and a second image are created from the motion contrast information. The first and the second images depict vasculature information regarding one or more upper portions and one or more deeper portions, respectively. The second image contains artifacts. Using an inverse calculation, a third image is determined that can be mixed with the first image to generate the second image. The third image depicts vasculature regarding the same one or more deeper portions as the second image but has reduced artifacts. A depth dependent correction method is also described that can be used in combination with the inverse problem based method to further reduce artifacts in OCT angiography images.
US11887299B2
An image processing system includes an ophthalmoscope device and a processor. The ophthalmoscope device is configured to obtain a color fundus image. The processor is configured to receive the color fundus image; generate a blood vessel segmentation image that corresponds to the color fundus image using a computer vision algorithm or a deep learning model; preprocess the color fundus image and the blood vessel segmentation image to obtain an initial input image; and input the initial input image into a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network outputs a value. In addition, the processor generates fundus image analysis information from the cup-to-disc ratio and the value.
US11887291B2
Systems and methods for generating and processing images captured while inspecting above-ground pipelines are disclosed. Embodiments may include a robotic crawler or other devices which carry imaging equipment and traverse a target pipe which are configured to capture image data simultaneously from a plurality of angles. Such systems may substantially reduce and in some cases overcome the need to take multiple traversals of a pipeline under inspection. Embodiments may also be directed toward control systems for such devices as well as image processing systems which process the multiple image sets to produce a composite imaging result.
US11887286B2
An image that enables proper object recognition is generated. An image processing device includes an image processing unit that processes an image. The image processing unit included in this image processing device corrects the level of a pixel constituting the image. That is, the image processing unit corrects the level of a target pixel constituting the image on the basis of a low-frequency component in a peripheral image of a pixel constituting the target image. Here, the peripheral image is made up of a plurality of pixels that includes the target pixel and is located around the target pixel.
US11887284B2
A method for image combination may include obtaining a first image and a second image; dividing the first image into a plurality of first image blocks and dividing the second image into a plurality of second image blocks; for each of the plurality of first image blocks, determining a first block weight based on edge information of the first image block and determining a second block weight based on overall information of the first image block; for each of the plurality of second image blocks, determining a third block weight based on overall information of the second image block; determining an exposure gain ratio based on the second block weights and the third block weights; determining a first combination weight and a second combination weight based on the exposure gain ratio; generating a third image based on the first combination weights and the second combination weights.
US11887276B2
An image processing method and a display apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes: acquiring an input image and an image output specification; determining image processing information for the input image; performing image processing, in accordance with the image processing information, on a plurality of images in the input image in a parallel and matrix manner. The performing image processing on the plurality of images in the parallel and matrix manner is referred to as performing processing on the plurality of images in parallel, and processes performed on each image include a preprocessing process, an image quality enhancement process and a post-processing process.
US11887270B2
The technology employs a patch-based multi-scale Transformer (300) that is usable with various imaging applications. This avoids constraints on image fixed input size and predicts the quality effectively on a native resolution image. A native resolution image (304) is transformed into a multi-scale representation (302), enabling the Transformer's self-attention mechanism to capture information on both fine-grained detailed patches and coarse-grained global patches. Spatial embedding (316) is employed to map patch positions to a fixed grid, in which patch locations at each scale are hashed to the same grid. A separate scale embedding (318) is employed to distinguish patches coming from different scales in the multiscale representation. Self-attention (508) is performed to create a final image representation. In some instances, prior to performing self-attention, the system may prepend a learnable classification token (322) to the set of input tokens.
US11887259B2
A system configured for full-body tracking with magnetic fields in virtual reality (“VR”) and augmented reality (“AR”) applications includes at least one tracker, at least one wearable article, and a computational device. Each of the at least one trackers hosts a joint sensor suite. The joint sensor suite is configured to track positions, orientations, and joint angles of a joint along a body. Each of the at least one trackers is configured to be attached to the body. Each of the at least one wearable articles is configured to enable one of the at least one trackers to be fastened to the joint along the body. The computational device is configured to capture real-time user generated movements via each of the at least one trackers and digitize user poses and body positions.
US11887258B2
A computer implemented method and a virtual and physical environment integration system (VPEIS) for dynamically integrating a virtual environment with a physical environment are provided. The VPEIS receives dimensions and an orientation of the physical environment, and a user device's reference position in the physical environment. The VPEIS dynamically integrates the virtual environment with the physical environment on the user device by orienting the virtual environment relative to the orientation of the physical environment and the user device's reference position, dynamically updating a position, a movement including a user's step, and a direction of movement of the user device in the oriented virtual environment using sensors internal to the user device, and dynamically tracking a position, a movement, and a direction of movement of virtual objects and the user device, interactions between the virtual objects, and interactions of the virtual objects with the user device in the oriented virtual environment.
US11887256B2
Novel images may be generated using an image generator implemented on a processor. The image generator may receive as input neural features selected from a neural texture atlas. The image generator may also receive as input one or more position guides identifying position information for a plurality of input image pixels. The novel images may be evaluated using an image discriminator to determine a plurality of optimization values by comparing each of the plurality of novel images with a respective one of a corresponding plurality of input images. Each of the novel images may be generated from a respective camera pose relative to an object identical to that of the respective one of the corresponding plurality of input images. The image generator and the neural features may be updated based on the optimization values and stored on a storage device.
US11887255B2
A method and a system for rendering a boundary of a map area within a game map, a computer readable storage medium, and a method for rendering includes: obtaining a boundary of a map area within a game map, and expanding the boundary toward the inside of the boundary along a normal direction of the boundary to form a fuzzy boundary; obtaining each boundary vertex of the fuzzy boundary, and linearly extending a preset distance from the boundary vertex along the normal direction of the fuzzy boundary to form a boundary grid; rendering a boundary color within a first range between the fuzzy boundary and the boundary grid, and rendering a boundary transparency within a second range that expands a preset distance from the fuzzy boundary to the inside of the boundary; rendering the boundary color from the first range with convolutional incremental expansion until the second range is covered.
US11887249B2
A method includes receiving video data of a user, the video data comprising a first captured image and a second captured image, generating a two-dimensional planar proxy of the user, determining a pose comprising a location and orientation of the two-dimensional planar proxy within a three-dimensional virtual environment, rendering one or more display images for one or more displays of an artificial-reality device based on the two-dimensional planar proxy having the determined pose and at least one of the first and second captured images, displaying the rendered one or more display images using the one or more displays, respectively, determining that a viewing angle of the artificial-reality device relative to the two-dimensional planar proxy exceeds a predetermined maximum threshold, and based on the determination that the viewing angle exceeds the predetermined maximum threshold, ceasing to display the one or more display images.
US11887248B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to reconstructing a scene in three dimensions from a two-dimensional image. One embodiment processes an image using a detection transformer to detect an object in the scene and to generate a NOCS map of the object and a background depth map; uses MLPs to relate the object to a differentiable database of object priors (PriorDB); recovers, from the NOCS map, a partial 3D object shape; estimates an initial object pose; fits a PriorDB object prior to align in geometry and appearance with the partial 3D shape to produce a complete shape and refines the initial pose estimate; generates an editable and re-renderable 3D scene reconstruction based, at least in part, on the complete shape, the refined pose estimate, and the depth map; and controls the operation of a robot based, at least in part, on the editable and re-renderable 3D scene reconstruction.
US11887246B2
Systems and methods of generating ground truth datasets for producing virtual reality (VR) experiences, for testing simulated sensor configurations, and for training machine-learning algorithms. In one example, a recording device with one or more cameras and one or more inertial measurement units captures images and motion data along a real path through a physical environment. A SLAM application uses the captured data to calculate the trajectory of the recording device. A polynomial interpolation module uses Chebyshev polynomials to generate a continuous time trajectory (CTT) function. The method includes identifying a virtual environment and assembling a simulated sensor configuration, such as a VR headset. Using the CTT function, the method includes generating a ground truth output dataset that represents the simulated sensor configuration in motion along a virtual path through the virtual environment. The virtual path is closely correlated with the motion along the real path as captured by the recording device. Accordingly, the output dataset produces a realistic and life-like VR experience. In addition, the methods described can be used to generate multiple output datasets, at various sample rates, which are useful for training the machine-learning algorithms which are part of many VR systems.
US11887245B2
One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; computing one or more surface normals associated with intersections of the one or more rays with one or more surfaces, where computing each surface normal includes: computing a plurality of intermediate surface normals associated with a plurality of adjacent voxels of a grid, and interpolating the plurality of intermediate surface normals; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more surface normals.
US11887230B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for generating data. The method includes obtaining a multi-modality embedding by encoding multi-modality data, the multi-modality data comprising text data and image data. The method further includes obtaining a table embedding by encoding table data associated with the multi-modality data. The method further includes generating a condition embedding based on the multi-modality embedding and the table embedding. The method further includes generating multi-modality table data based on the condition embedding. In this way, it is possible to combine table data generation with multi-modality learning, which improves the characterization capability of the generated data and makes the generated data have sufficient information to describe a real scenario. At the same time, it is possible to reduce the model configuration cost and save computational and storage resources.
US11887221B2
System for image correction in PET is provided. The system may acquire a PET image and a CT image of a subject. The system may generate, based on the PET image and the CT image, an attenuation-corrected PET image of the subject by application of an attenuation correction model. The attenuation correction model may be a trained cascaded neural network including a trained first model and at least one trained second model downstream to the trained first model. During the application of the attenuation correction model, an input of each of the at least one trained second model may include the PET image, the CT image, and an output image of a previous trained model that is upstream and connected to the trained second model.
US11887220B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth techniques for mitigating ghost images in a heads-up display. A computer-implemented method includes generating content for display on a heads-up display system, inserting into the content a version of a display element, wherein the version of the display element comprises one or more visual characteristics configured to reduce a perceivability of a ghost image of the display element, and causing the content, including the version of the display element, to be displayed by the heads-up display system.
US11887212B2
A graphics processing system includes a tiling unit configured to tile a scene into a plurality of tiles. A processing unit identifies tiles of the plurality of tiles that are each associated with at least a predetermined number of primitives. A memory management unit allocates a portion of memory to each of the identified tiles and does not allocate a portion of memory for each of the plurality of tiles that are not identified by the processing unit. A rendering unit renders each of the identified tiles and does not render tiles that are not identified by the processing unit.
US11887209B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a 2D or 3D object, including training an autoencoder on a first set of training data to identify a first set of latent variables and generate a first set of output data; training an hourglass predictor on a second set of training data, where the hourglass predictor encoder converts a set of related but different training input data to a second set of latent variables, which decode into a second set of output data of the same type as the first set of output data; and using the hourglass predictor to predict a 2D or 3D object of the same type as the first set of output data based on a 2D or 3D object of the same type as the second set of input data.
US11887201B2
Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
US11887198B2
A system and method for calculating variable consideration for performance obligations. The method can involve, checking a database for historical transaction data, accessing the historical transaction data, and applying one or more predetermined variable consideration rules to the historical transaction data. The method can include automatically analyzing the historical transaction data generating an analysis report based on the data. The method can include uploading predetermined corrections to variable consideration transactions to a database or other storage medium and applying the corrections to historical performance obligation transaction data. The method can include determining whether variable consideration changes should be applied to individual transaction lines within the variable consideration transactions.
US11887193B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for determining an action with respect to a given portfolio of items for supply chain management. The method includes acquiring, by a hardware processor, a feature vector for supply chain delivery trends, the given portfolio, and a current investment amount. The method further includes determining, by the hardware processor, whether a current supply chain delivery situation is normal or abnormal based on the feature vector. The method also includes performing a risk-avoidance action to reduce the current investment amount and avoid potential supply chain delivery losses, responsive to a determination that the current supply chain delivery situation is abnormal. The method additionally includes performing a risk adaptive action to increase the current investment amount and incur potential supply chain delivery gains by using a distributional reinforcement learning process, responsive to a determination that the current supply chain delivery situation is normal.
US11887189B2
A computer implemented method for a tracking platform comprises receiving a plurality of data records for the financial instrument; determining a number of units of the futures contract associated with a starting capital amount based on the near settlement price of the data record with the earliest timestamp; processing the data records in sequence based on the timestamp by setting a value for a roll indicator; updating the number of units of the financial instrument if necessary; and determining a profit and loss (“PNL”) for the data record based on the number of units of the financial instrument and a change in settlement price; calculating a tracking value for the financial instrument based on the PNLs of the processed data records; and generating at least one financial instrument having a value that is determined from the calculated tracking value.
US11887184B2
The present disclosure is directed to techniques to facilitate online commerce by leveraging user activity, specifically search activity for goods/services on an online platform. As described herein, the online platform refers to a turnkey e-commerce solution that enterprises use to manage electronic transactions involving their goods/services. Some techniques are directed to an improved online platform operative to predict a user's intention behind a search query and after a consider number of search queries, to have that search query as a dynamic search filter for the online platform. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11887183B2
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing an interactive virtual environment. The system may receive environmental data, and augment the environmental data by adding virtual environmental data. The system may then provide this virtual environment to two or more devices. The system can then receive user input, and modify the virtual environment in response to those inputs.
US11887172B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent transactions. The embodiments may employ machine learning processes to detect fraudulent activity. In some examples, a computing device determines customer data and device data for a customer and device involved in a transaction. The customer data may include previous transactions by the customer, and the device data may include previous transactions involving the device. The computing device generates features based on the customer data and the device data, and applies one or more machine learning models to the generated features to generate a trust score. The trust score is indicative of how likely a transaction is to be fraudulent. In some examples, the transaction is not allowed if the trust score is beyond a threshold. In some examples, the computing device trains the machine learning models based on customer data and device data for a plurality of customers and devices.
US11887164B2
Personalized information from venues of interest to a user is provided to the user. The information may comprise messages, notifications, or other information determined to be relevant to the user, and may be timely provided to the user in an appropriate format such that the user is better able to respond to the information. A set of venues that are relevant to the user and corresponding information sources associated with the venue are determined. Information published by these sources may be analyzed for relevance to the user, and the relevant information items may be provided to the user via notifications or applications and services. Further, the notifications may be scheduled for presentation to the user at appropriate times, such as prior to a predicted visit of the venue. One embodiment includes a venue-information clearinghouse for receiving information from venues and making it available for user applications or services.
US11887156B2
Systems and methods of dynamically varying the intensity of providing content items in a remarketing campaign based on tracking client device interactions are provided. The system can assign an account identifier to a first segment for a pre-conversion model, responsive to receiving a first interaction associated with a content provider from a client device. The system can assign the account identifier to a second segment for the pre-conversion model, responsive to receiving a second interaction. The system can assign the account identifier to a third segment, responsive to receiving a third interaction. The third interaction can include a conversion event. The system can generate a post-conversion model based on the third segment and the pre-conversion model. The system can determine an intent index for the account identifier based on the post-conversion model. The system can store the account identifier into an interest cluster based on the intent index.
US11887153B2
A method for identifying, contracting, evaluating, bounding, and filtering out uncertainty in survey data is provided. The method includes: receiving survey responses with respect to a customer survey; constructing a simulated numerical model that replicates the structure of the original survey by using responses that are generated randomly from distribution of responses with constraint variability that specifically account for the uncertainty that arises from the subjective nature of sampling response from an ordinal range of possible options; matching between the original survey and the numerical model using a machine learning algorithm; and evaluating and filtering out the uncertainty of the original survey. In addition, a method is offered to constrain and contract the uncertainty by assigning survey responses to corresponding evenly distributed bins and by calibrating the survey responses by attaching a short textual description to each of the ordinal values in the original survey.
US11887152B2
Methods, systems, and programs are presented for determining exposure rate. One method includes an operation for operation for receiving a request, from a client device, for a value of an exposure rate of a zone within a webpage, the request comprising at least one search parameter and information about a viewport of the presented webpage. A check is made to determine if the exposure rate has been previously calculated. When the exposure rate has not been previously calculated, a visibility height of the zone is calculated and stored in a memory. When the exposure rate has been calculated, the visibility height is retrieved from the memory. Recordings of members accessing the webpage are analyzed to determine when the visibility height of the zone is visible in member devices accessing the webpage. The exposure rate of the zone is calculated based on the determinations of visibility of the zone.
US11887145B2
A server computer system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to during an active web session within a web browser executing on a computing device determine that a web page active within the web browser is eligible for loyalty point redemption; and send, via the communications module and to the computing device, a signal to modify the web page active within the web browser to display at least one selectable option associated with offsetting a purchase price of at least one item using loyalty points from a loyalty points account.
US11887141B2
A method includes training artificial neural network models; analyzing first data to determine vehicle imperatives; and generating a respective action value by analyzing actions using the of trained artificial neural network models. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer system to: train artificial neural network models; analyze first data to determine vehicle imperatives; and generate a respective action value by analyzing actions using the of trained artificial neural network models. A computing system includes: a processor; and a memory having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to: train artificial neural network models; analyze first data to determine vehicle imperatives; and generate a respective action value by analyzing actions using the of trained artificial neural network models.
US11887135B2
Provided is an information processing system including an accumulating unit that accumulates an emotion history in which a level of a specific emotion calculated on a basis of a behavior history of a user, a date and time and a position at which the specific emotion occurs, and an associated keyword are associated, and a control unit that predicts a level of the specific emotion in a specific place at a specific date and time from a relation between at least any one of the specific date and time, the specific place, and a keyword associated with the date and time or the place and the emotion history accumulated in the accumulating unit.
US11887129B1
A networked data processing system that provides an application programming interface (API) for consumer-permissioned data, such as academic data, employment data and income data. In some implementations, the data processing system enables application developers to integrate consumer-permissioned data (such as academic data) into their applications. In some implementations, the API enables a developer to focus on other aspects of a given application, while leveraging the data processing system to handle aspects of gathering and processing the source data, such as authenticating the provenance of the source data, handling user permissions, extracting the source data, reviewing the source data, verifying the source data, generating one or more scores from the source data, analyzing the source data relative to a defined purpose, providing the information sought from the analyzed data, and the like.
US11887120B2
A system and method is described for the touchless entry of a personal identification number (PIN) at a self-service terminal such as an automated teller machine (ATM). A mobile device includes a PIN entry application. The self-service terminal includes a wireless interface for communicating wirelessly with the PIN entry application in the mobile device. A communication channel is established between a particular customer's mobile device and the self-service terminal. The PIN entry application verifies a public key for the self-service terminal at the mobile device. The customer's PIN is encrypted by the PIN entry application at the mobile device using either an ephemeral symmetric encryption key or a one-time RSA PIN transport public key. The encrypted PIN is transmitted to an encryption processor at the self-service terminal. The encryption processor decrypts the PIN using the appropriate encryption key.
US11887118B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, program, and apparatus that may identify a device by using a virtual code generated based on a unique value of a chip inside a device without a separate procedure for identifying the device. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention provide a method, program, and apparatus that may generate a virtual code, which is not matched with any other code, whenever a code for identifying a device is requested. Moreover, embodiments of the present invention provide a method, program, and apparatus for identifying a device that may add and use only an algorithm without changing a conventional process.
US11887115B2
A system for validating the integrity of blockchain transactions prior to such transactions being added to the electronic blockchain using, in part, an automated, protocol-based methodology is disclosed. Use of such a system circumvents current costly consensus mechanisms for validating transactions prior to inclusion onto the underlying electronic blockchain. In a preferred embodiment, the disclosed system may be implemented within blockchain environments where the transacting parties “trust” each other where trust may be evidenced in different ways. In such an example, the system provides an automated, protocol-based validation of transactions that have been approved by the transacting parties, such that record of the validated transaction may be appended to a blockchain.
US11887089B2
Implementations described herein relate to dynamic and predictive updating of a payment attribute of a payment instrument. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, at a computing device, route data for a plurality of trips, receiving, at the computing device, first trip data for the first trip from the user device, wherein the first trip data includes at least location data of the user device, calculating, based on the received first trip data, a fuel likelihood score for the first trip, comparing the fuel likelihood score to a first threshold, based on a determination that the fuel likelihood score meets the first threshold: transmitting, to a computer associated with a payment network, a message to update one or more payment attributes stored at the payment network and associated with the first payment instrument, and displaying an indication that the first payment instrument is approved for the fuel transaction.
US11887054B2
Systems and methods of constructing and managing virtual planograms are presented. Contemplated systems allow for construction of a virtual planogram, which can be used to present consumers virtual inventory items as being available for purchase via a display device. The display device can include an electronic billboard within an establishment, a mall for example, or include a user's smart device, a cell phone or tablet for example.
US11887048B2
Detecting, locating, identifying, engaging, and/or shifting objects in automated or semi-automated fashion as well as methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-program products therefor. Embodiments used for shifting objects in automated or semi-automated fashion may be implemented in stationary environments, and/or in moving, e.g., in-transit, environments, and may be used to transfer, route, and/or organize objects based on their designated destinations. The embodiments may further be implemented in a logistics network, thereby increasing the efficiency and capacity of the logistics network, among other benefits.
US11887047B2
A refrigerator is provided with a container for storing a substance and that has a sensing and reporting system configured to determine an amount of the substance within the container. The sensing and reporting system includes a sensor configured to sense the amount of the substance, a transmitter, and a processor in communication with the sensor and the transmitter.
US11887038B2
A cargo-sensing unit including: an image sensor; a transceiver; at least one processor; and a memory having stored thereon computer program code that, when executed by the processor, controls the at least one processor to: receive, from a controlling server and through the transceiver, an instruction to capture an image of cargo space within a cargo container; control the image sensor to capture an image of the cargo space in response to receiving the instruction; and operate in accordance with a determined cargo container status based on an analysis of the captured image.
US11887036B2
The invention is related to pairing a customer with the best service provider upon a selection from the customer in on-demand transportation service. A platform in the invention provides a graphical representation of the electronic interface displaying sets of indicators that reflect transportation service relevant data corresponding to each of the available service providers and containing two or more identifications through at least a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. The display is corresponding to the one or more inputs provided by the customer to the two or more search parameters including a maximum number of available service providers and at least one of the following groups comprising the one or more available service providers within a time span or a distance span for arrival to a pick-up location of the customer. The sets of indicators corresponding to each of the available service providers that match the preset preferences.
US11887034B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for an application that optimizes the design element and workflow configuration of a target computer program. Generally, the application automatically displays preview images of graphical user interface in response to a user-input answer in a questionnaire, where the preview image accounts for design element and/or workflow impacts to the graphical user interface of the target computer program. The application also predicts performance indicators for target computer programs that account for design elements and/or workflow steps directly or indirectly selected through the user-input answers.
US11887032B2
An on-demand transportation management system can collect vehicle fleet utilization data corresponding to human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) operating within a given region in connection with an on-demand transportation service. The on-demand transportation management system can then establish a set of selection priorities for respective areas of the given region based on the vehicle fleet utilization data, each selection priority indicating whether a respective area of the given region is to favor HDVs or AVs for servicing transport requests.
US11887025B1
Systems and methods to generate predicted variances of an operation based on data from one or more connected databases.
US11887017B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically predicting transaction likelihood information and transaction-related temporal information using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining historical data pertaining to completed transactions within an enterprise system; determining, for at least one of the completed transactions, a set of multiple transaction-related features by processing at least a portion of the obtained historical data; training at least one machine learning model using at least a portion of the set of multiple determined transaction-related features; predicting transaction likelihood information and transaction-related temporal information associated with input data attributed to at least one pending transaction within the enterprise system by processing at least a portion of the input data using the at least one machine learning model; and performing one or more automated actions based on one or more of the predicted transaction likelihood information and the predicted transaction-related temporal information.
US11887016B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing actionable suggestions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving (i) an indication that an event detection module has determined that a shared event of a particular type is presently occurring or has occurred, and (ii) data referencing an attribute associated with the shared event. The method includes selecting, from among multiple output templates that are each associated with a different type of shared event, a particular output template associated with the particular type of shared event detected by the module. The method generates a notification for output using at least (i) the selected particular output template, and (ii) the data referencing the attribute associated with the shared event. The method then provides, for output to a user device, the notification that is generated.
US11887000B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an action to be performed by a reinforcement learning agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a current observation; for each action of a plurality of actions: randomly sampling one or more probability values; for each probability value: processing the action, the current observation, and the probability value using a quantile function network to generate an estimated quantile value for the probability value with respect to a probability distribution over possible returns that would result from the agent performing the action in response to the current observation; determining a measure of central tendency of the one or more estimated quantile values; and selecting an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation using the measures of central tendency for the actions.
US11886997B2
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.
US11886996B2
An input of a first observation signal corresponding to an incoming signal from a first direction is received, an angular rotation operation of the first observation signal is performed to obtain a second observation signal corresponding to an incoming signal from a second direction that is different from the first direction and the second observation signal is added to a set of training data.
US11886989B2
Using a deep learning inference system, respective similarities are measured for each of a set of intermediate representations to input information used as an input to the deep learning inference system. The deep learning inference system includes multiple layers, each layer producing one or more associated intermediate representations. Selection is made of a subset of the set of intermediate representations that are most similar to the input information. Using the selected subset of intermediate representations, a partitioning point is determined in the multiple layers used to partition the multiple layers into two partitions defined so that information leakage for the two partitions will meet a privacy parameter when a first of the two partitions is prevented from leaking information. The partitioning point is output for use in partitioning the multiple layers of the deep learning inference system into the two partitions.
US11886984B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to expose embedded cast operations in at least one of a load instruction or a store instruction; determine a target precision level for the cast operations; and load the cast operations at the target precision level. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11886976B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating output sequences using auto-regressive decoder neural networks. In particular, during generation, adaptive early exiting is used to reduce the time required to generate the output sequence.
US11886974B1
A hearing aid may include a neural network chip having tiles arranged in an array, each tile including memory, 16-128 multiplier-accumulator circuits (MACs), and routing circuitry. The memory of each tile may be configured to store a portion of elements of a matrix A comprising weights of a recurrent neural network. Each tile may be configured to receive and store elements of an activation vector X, and all tiles in a column of the array may be configured to receive the same elements of X. The plurality of tiles may be configured to perform a matrix-vector multiplication A*X by performing multiply-and-accumulate sub-operations in parallel among the plurality of tiles. The routing circuitry from the tiles in each respective row of tiles may be configured to combine results of the multiply-and-accumulate sub-operations.
US11886967B1
The present invention provides a long-term streamflow forecast method and system based on process-data synergic drive. The long-term streamflow forecast method includes: step 1, collecting data; step 2, constructing a VIC model; step 3, performing interpolation, bias correction, and disaggregation to obtain daily data; step 4, by using climate model forecasts, driving the VIC model; step 5, constructing an improved VIC model by selecting grid cells from the distributed hydrological model, among which the series of monthly soil moisture forecasts in the third layer in all grid cells are treated as independent variables and the monthly streamflow of the outlet hydrological station of the studied watershed is treated as the dependent variables; step 6, driving the improved VIC model to perform the gridded runoff yield calculation of a full time period; step 7, forming a candidate predictor set; step 8, screening predictors and training a deep learning model to obtain a composite model, and performing long-term streamflow forecast.
US11886960B2
Parallel training of a machine learning model on a computerized system may be provided. Computing tasks can be assigned to multiple workers of a system. A method may include accessing training data. A parallel training of the machine learning model can be started based on the accessed training data, so as for the training to be distributed through a first number K of workers, K>1. Responsive to detecting a change in a temporal evolution of a quantity indicative of a convergence rate of the parallel training (e.g., where said change reflects a deterioration of the convergence rate), the parallel training of the machine learning model is scaled-in, so as for the parallel training to be subsequently distributed through a second number K′ of workers, where K>K′≥1. Related computerized systems and computer program products may be provided.
US11886953B2
Computer vision system and method of label detection, reading, and registration of labels on objects
A computer vision system for automatic identification, tracking and management of inventory and/or assets, wherein: the computer vision system is programmed with predetermined and configurable image data conditions that identify and capture certain types of movement; the computer vision system is programmed to constantly capture and process image data from one or more sets of sensors to detect the image data conditions; the computer vision system is programmed to trigger the process of identifying all objects and extracting label information from objects present in a field of view of the system if the image data conditions are fulfilled; the computer vision system processes the image data with one or more object detection algorithms and label detection algorithms and generate correspondences between objects and labels identified; and the computer vision system running change detection algorithms and semantic analysis to detect if any object was moved, removed, occluded and if any new objects were added in to the system.
US11886949B2
The invention relates to the field of radio frequency identification, in particular, to the one containing a radio frequency tag in printing paper for typographical printing. The technical result is the creation of the technical solution as an alternative to the known one. The sheet material with the radio frequency identification is characterized in by the fact that it is made in the form of a rectangular sheet with a layer for printing, a length of 480 mm and a width of 325 mm, and it contains an antenna and a chip placed inside the sheet, what's more one of the sheet angles is made with a 45° bevel and a length of 10 mm.
US11886944B1
A spot color adjustment system allows an operator to adjust spot colors through the use of test charts printed at a printing device. A target color swatch is determined from a first spot color. A test chart is generated based on the target color swatch that includes a plurality of rings of color swatches centered on the target color swatch. Each ring of color swatches is positioned around the target color swatch at an adjustment value. The adjustment value for each ring of color swatches corresponds to a color change from the target color swatch. The system allows for determining a number of rings of color swatches depending on a selected paper size. The outer rings of a large number of rings of color include intermediary color swatches. A midpoint color is determined from a plurality of selected color swatches. The system provides color swatches showing gray component replacement.
US11886943B2
A printing unit that prints an inspection image, a reading unit that reads the inspection image printed by the printing unit, and an analysis unit that performs analyzation based on a reading result read by the reading unit are provided. The inspection image includes an inspection pattern of a plurality of colors, the inspection pattern including a first position detection mark printed in a first color, a second position detection mark printed in the first color, and a second color inspection pattern printed in a second color different from the first color, the printing unit prints the second color inspection pattern at a position adjacent to the first position detection mark, and the analysis unit specifies a first position of the first position detection mark in a first region, and specifies a second position of the second position detection mark in a second region smaller than the first region.
US11886938B2
One example provides an integrated computing device, comprising one or more computing clusters, and one or more network controllers, each network controller comprising a local data notification queue to queue send message notifications originating from the computing clusters on the integrated computing device, a remote data notification queue to queue receive message notifications originating from network controllers on remote integrated computing devices, a local no-data notification queue to queue receive message notifications originating from computing clusters on the integrated computing device, and a connection scheduler configured to schedule sending of data from memory on the integrated computing device when a send message notification in the local data notification queue is matched with a receive message notification in the remote data notification queue, and to schedule sending of receive message notifications from the local no-data notification queue.
US11886927B2
An ICT resource management device that manages a physical node and a virtual node as ICT resources includes: a configuration information management part configured to manage configuration information; a cloud infrastructure selection part configured to select a cloud infrastructure in response to a request for a configuration change concerning a connection of a device that uses a cloud service to a physical node; a layer mapping part configured to perform a mapping between the physical layer and the virtual layer; a blueprint creation part configured to create, in response to the request for a configuration change, a blueprint based on the configuration information, the selected cloud infrastructure, and mapping information, wherein the blueprint is design information of an infrastructure that is required for the configuration change; and an orchestrator part configured to perform orchestration based on the blueprint.
US11886923B2
A system includes a processor and memory that stores asset identifiers. The asset identifiers correspond to a respective index and a respective category. The memory stores instructions for execution by the processor. The instructions include, in response to receiving a request signal from a user device, obtaining a set of asset identifiers corresponding to a first index indicated in the request signal and filtering the set of asset identifiers based on a first category indicated in the request signal. The instructions include generating an adjusted set of asset identifiers by, for each category represented in the filtered set of asset identifiers, adjusting a representation ratio of the asset identifiers associated with the corresponding category in response to the request signal including the representation ratio associated with the corresponding category, and transforming an interface of the user device by rendering a graphical depiction of the adjusted set of asset identifiers.
US11886919B2
Example implementations relate to edge acceleration by offloading network dependent applications to a hardware accelerator. According to one embodiment, queries are received at a cluster of a container orchestration platform. The cluster includes a host system and a hardware accelerator, each serving as individual worker machines of the cluster. The cluster further includes multiple worker nodes and a master node executing on the host system or the hardware accelerator. A first worker node executes on the hardware accelerator and runs a first instance of an application. A distribution of the queries is determined among the worker machines based on a queuing model that takes into consideration the respective compute capacities of the worker machines. Responsive to receipt of the queries by the host system or the hardware accelerator, the queries are directed to the master node or one of the worker nodes in accordance with the distribution.
US11886908B2
A processing is executed with respect to a key value of a key field included in a sequence of one or more key fields expressing a received intent which is associated with a specific system. Based on a result of the processing, one or more instructions associated with the specific system are generated for one or more control functions controlling an infrastructure for carrying out the received intent.
US11886907B2
At an interface an analytic model for processing data is received. The analytic model is inspected to determine a language, an action, an input type, and an output type. A virtualized execution environment is generated for an analytic engine that includes executable code to implement the analytic model for processing an input data stream.
US11886899B2
A system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, a hypervisor, and a trusted execution environment (TEE). The TEE is provisioned with a workload and includes an introspection module. The introspection module is configured to execute an introspection command according to an introspection policy. The introspection command is configured to validate at least one memory access associated with the workload. The introspection module is also configured to determine a status of a result of the introspection commands, wherein the status is one of a failure status and a success status.
US11886896B2
Digital workspace ergonomics apparatuses, method and systems (“DWE”) transform user multi-element touchscreen gestures via DWE components into updated digital collaboration whiteboard objects. In one embodiment, the DWE obtains user whiteboard input from a client device participating in a digital collaborative whiteboarding session. The DWE parses the user whiteboard input to determine user instructions, and modifies a tile object included in the digital collaborative whiteboarding session according to the determined user instructions. The DWE generates updated client viewport content for the client device. Also, the DWE determines that client viewport content of a second client device should be modified because of modifying the tile object included in the digital whiteboard. The DWE generates updated client viewport content for the second client device after determining that the content of the second client device should be modified, and provides the updated client viewport content to the second client device.
US11886894B2
Display control method and terminal device for determining a display layout manner of an application
A display control method applied to a terminal device, and includes: determining, in response to a first operation of a user, an application that is running on the terminal device, where the first operation is used to trigger display of an interface of the application that is running on the terminal device; obtaining a display layout manner of the application; and displaying the interface of the application in a display region corresponding to the display layout manner. A display interface of the terminal device includes display regions respectively corresponding to N display layout manners, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. Display regions respectively corresponding to a plurality of display layout manners are displayed on the display interface of the terminal device.
US11886893B2
A method for capturing a screen includes obtaining a display device list. The display device list at least includes a physical display device and a first category of virtual display device. It is identified whether a value of a flag bit of the first category of virtual display device is a preset value. In response to the value of the flag bit of the first category of virtual display device being the preset value, a video merging result of the physical display device as the screen capturing result.
US11886889B2
A method of managing configurations of a plurality of system services, including a first system service and a second system service, in each of a plurality of hosts, wherein each of the hosts is configured with a virtualization software for supporting execution of virtual machines therein includes steps of: upon receiving an application programming interface (API) call to apply configurations of the system services defined in a desired configuration file to the system services, parsing the desired configuration file to identify a first configuration for the first system service and a second configuration for the second system service, and storing the first and second configurations in accordance with a configuration schema defined for the first and second system services, wherein the first system service executes with the stored first configuration applied thereto and the second system service executes with the stored second configuration applied thereto.
US11886881B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided, relating to the control of data processing in devices which comprise both decoupled access-execute processing circuitry and prefetch circuitry. Control of the access portion of the decoupled access-execute processing circuitry may be dependent on a performance metric of the prefetch circuitry. Alternatively or in addition, control of the prefetch circuitry may be dependent on a performance metric of the access portion.
US11886880B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing apparatus and related products. The products include a control module including an instruction caching unit, an instruction processing unit, and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is configured to store computation instructions associated with an artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is configured to parse the computation instructions to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; and the storage queue unit is configured to store an instruction queue, where the instruction queue includes a plurality of operation instructions or computation instructions to be executed in the sequence of the queue. By adopting the above-mentioned method, the present disclosure can improve the operation efficiency of related products when performing operations of a neural network model.
US11886875B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing nibble-sized operations on matrix elements. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction the fetched instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination matrices, the opcode to indicate the processor is to, for each pair of corresponding elements of the first and second source matrices, logically partition each element into nibble-sized partitions, perform an operation indicated by the instruction on each partition, and store execution results to a corresponding nibble-sized partition of a corresponding element of the destination matrix. The exemplary processor includes execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction as per the opcode.
US11886874B2
An arithmetic operation device causes a convolution arithmetic unit to perform a convolution arithmetic operation between a filter and target data corresponding to a size of the filter in each of a plurality of convolution layers constituting a neural network. The arithmetic operation device includes: a bit reduction unit that reduces a bit string corresponding to a first bit number from a least significant bit of the target data and reduces a bit string corresponding to a second bit number from a least significant bit of a weight that is an element of the filter for each convolution layer; and a bit addition unit that adds a bit string corresponding to a third bit number obtained by adding the first bit number and the second bit number to a least significant bit of a convolution arithmetic operation result output from the convolution arithmetic unit by inputting the target data and the weight after being reduced by the bit reduction unit to the convolution arithmetic unit.
US11886871B2
A vehicle control system includes a plurality of devices, a first device included in the devices including: a storage configured to store consistency information including a permitted combination of versions of software installed on each of one or more devices in association with each of the control functions; a determination unit configured to determine whether the consistency information consistent with versions of software installed on a part of the devices exists when consistency does not exist in the versions of all software installed on each of the devices; and a performance control unit configured to permit performance of a part of control functions associated with the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices when the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices exists.
US11886867B2
Various embodiments are provided for patching of workflows in a computing environment by one or more processors in a computing system. One or more patches may be extracted from a source workflow. The target workflow in a plurality of nodes may be statically or dynamically modified by applying the one or more patches to the target workflow. The one or more of the plurality of nodes may be added, removed, or modified in the target workflow while the target workflow is active according to applying the one or more patches.
US11886866B2
A process for management of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices includes a management system for identifying, interrogating, and updating devices connected to one or more networks. The management system can include a data store for storing various data related to the devices and the various processes of the management system. The management system can include a controller for executing processes such as interrogation processes, firmware change processes, credential change processes, and other processes. The controller can determine versions of firmware and other configuration properties of a device and generate various profiles for updating the firmware and other configuration properties. The controller can determine upgrade paths for updating the firmware and other configuration properties from a first version to a second version, the upgrade paths including one or more intermediary versions for facilitating the upgrade path. The management system can update devices individually, on a device family basis, or on a system-wide basis.
US11886862B2
A system includes a source vehicle and a destination vehicle. The destination vehicle is configured to determine that the source vehicle and the destination vehicle are suitably close to exchange data through a wireless communications channel, compare current version numbers in the destination vehicle with approved version numbers in the source vehicle, approve an update for one or more current software components in the destination vehicle in response to one or more criteria, receive one or more approved software components at the destination vehicle from the source vehicle via the wireless communications channel in response to the current version numbers of the current software components approved for the update being different from corresponding ones of approved version numbers of the approved software components, and update the one or more current software components in the destination vehicle with the one or more approved software components received from the source vehicle.
US11886857B2
In an ECU reprogram data DB of a center device, data of an update program for a target ECU for a program update among a plurality of EUCs mounted in a vehicle is stored. In a configuration information DB, an “ECU ID” corresponding to each ECU and vehicle-related information such as an “ECU SW ID” for each application program stored in the ECU are stored along with the vehicle type. An ECU metadata database stores update data-related information pertaining to update data and attributes of the rewrite target ECU. A specification data generation unit generates specification data, based on the information stored in the configuration information database and the information stored in the ECU metadata database, to be transmitted to the vehicle together with update data to be written in the target ECU such that the data includes information related to the type, attributes, and update data for the target ECU and information indicative of a rewrite environment related to the data update.
US11886844B1
Techniques are described for enabling users of an information technology (IT) and security operations application to create highly reusable custom functions for playbooks. The creation and execution of playbooks using an IT and security operations application generally enables users to automate operations related to an IT environment responsive to the identification of various types of incidents or other triggering conditions. Users can create playbooks to automate operations such as, for example, modifying firewall settings, quarantining devices, restarting servers, etc., to improve users' ability to efficiently respond to various types of incidents operational issues that arise from time to time in IT environments.
US11886841B2
A method for Python programming on a handheld device is provided that includes activating, by a Python program editor executing on the handheld device and responsive to programmer input, a first argument helper for a first parameter of a Python function, wherein the first argument helper includes first valid argument values for the first parameter, receiving, by the Python program editor, programmer selection of a first valid argument value of the first valid argument values, and displaying, by the Python program editor, the Python function with the first valid argument value in an editor screen.
US11886839B2
Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a function generation program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including referring to a storage unit that stores instruction information about an instruction to generate a first function that corresponds to the instruction and receives one or more arguments representing one or more operands of the instruction, generating first code inside the first function, where the first code calls a second function that returns machine language representing a process executed by the instruction for the one or more operands represented by the one or more arguments, and generating second code inside the first function, where the second code writes the machine language in a memory.
US11886836B2
The instant invention provides a Dynamic Enterprise Application Platform and a method accordingly for development of application software in a computer system in which users develop application software for their enterprise without the assistance of software consultants. The platform comprises an Enterprise Software Design Model which works with and an Enterprise Software Engine. Data and information gathered by users are configured by the Enterprise Software Design Model and saved into database in the Enterprise Software Engine. The Enterprise Software Engine performs a mapping and reduction procedure to create functional enterprise software application using visual editor with drag and drop interface.
US11886830B2
A voice call translation capability negotiation method and an electronic device are provided, and relate to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: After a first electronic device establishes a communication link with a second electronic device, if a voice call translation function is enabled, the first electronic device receives first indication information sent by the second electronic device. The first indication information is used to indicate that a voice call translation function of the second electronic device is enabled. The first electronic device automatically disables the voice call translation function.
US11886828B1
At least selectively utilizing a large language model (LLM) in generating a natural language (NL) based summary to be rendered in response to a query. In some implementations, in generating the NL based summary additional content is processed using the LLM. The additional content is in addition to query content of the query itself and, in generating the NL based summary, can be processed using the LLM and along with the query content—or even independent of the query content. Processing the additional content can, for example, mitigate occurrences of the NL based summary including inaccuracies and/or can mitigate occurrences of the NL based summary being over-specified and/or under-specified.
US11886823B2
An approach is described with respect to dynamically constructing and configuring a conversational agent learning model. Various aspects of the conversational agent learning model may be constructed and updated without continuous intervention of a domain administrator. A method pertaining to such approach may include retrieving a corpus of information. The corpus of information may include records from a set of repositories and external data, including data from social networks or applications. The method further may include configuring the conversational agent learning model based upon the retrieved corpus of information. The method further may include deploying the conversational agent learning model by facilitating interaction between the conversational agent learning model and a plurality of clients. The method further may include updating the conversational agent learning model to address any modification to the corpus of information.
US11886821B2
Automated response generation systems and methods are disclosed. The systems can include a deep learning model specially configured to apply inferencing techniques to redesign natural language querying systems for use over knowledge graphs. The disclosed systems and methods provide a model for inferencing referred to as a Hierarchical Recurrent Path Encoder (HRPE). An entity extraction and linking module as well as a data conversion and generation module process the content of a given query. The output is processed by the proposed model to generate inferred answers.
US11886819B2
A classification code parser and method can include: reading a classification code having a description; reading a required keyword, and a total number of keywords associated with the classification code; reading text of a note; tokenizing the text of the note to create a note token stream, the note token stream having a note token and a position of the note token within the note token stream; creating a keyword map including a total number of matched keywords; determining a match ratio from the total number of the matched keywords and the total number of the keywords; determining a proximity factor based on a shortest span of tokens within the note token stream containing all the matched keywords; and determining a strength of a match between the classification code and the note based on the match ratio being multiplied by the proximity factor.
US11886810B2
A system and method for electronic document management including: creating an executable document object, wherein the executable document object comprises at least one programmable element; constructing an interaction schema object, wherein each interaction schema comprises: executable logic and a trigger as part of an inbound interaction schema or an outbound interaction schema that associates an external resource with the executable document object; and bundling the interaction schema object with the executable document object. The method further includes: in response to triggering an inbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the inbound interaction schema, initiating at least one programmable element of the executable document object, and updating the state of the executable document object; and in response to triggering an outbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the outbound interaction schema, and modifying the associated external resource with respect to the state of the executable document object.
US11886807B2
Disclosed is a method and system for providing an object for content arrangement. A content arrangement method includes providing a cue card list that is a card-type dedicated object for content arrangement; and arranging a content set in a card unit using a cue card selected from the cue card list.
US11886804B2
Systems and methods for self-configuring table automations. A system may include at least one processor configured to present a plurality of alternative automation packages for application to a table, wherein each package includes a plurality of automations, and wherein each automation is configured to cause an action in response to at least one condition detected in the table; identify a selection of a package from the plurality of packages; automatically configure a first condition in a particular automation in the selected package based on data in the table; display a second undefined condition of the particular automation, wherein the second undefined condition requires further configuration; receive an input for configuring the second undefined condition; configure the second undefined condition using the input to cause the second undefined condition to become a second defined condition; and apply the particular automation to the table.
US11886789B1
Circuit design development using block design containers can include opening, within a development environment generated by an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system, a top-level block design specifying a circuit design and inserting, within the top-level block design using the EDA system, a block design container. The block design container specifies a source block design used as a sub-design within the top-level block design.
US11886786B2
The invention relates to the technical field of computer-aided design of integrated circuits, and provides a two-step X-architecture Steiner minimum tree construction method for very large scale integration (VLSI). Based on the advantages of an X-architecture model and a particle swarm optimization technique, the method is implemented through two steps: (1) the stage of social learning discrete particle swarm search, which comprises: using an edge-vertex encoding strategy capable of maintaining optimal topological information of particles, designing a fitness function taking wirelength into consideration; and using a chaotic decreasing mutation strategy and a new social learning strategy to design a new discrete particle swarm update formula; and (2) a stage of wirelength optimization, which comprises: designing a local topological optimization strategy to minimize the wirelength of an X-architecture Steiner tree. The method guarantees short total wirelength of nets and has high stability, thus being able to construct a high-quality X-architecture Steiner minimum tree.
US11886781B2
A three-dimensional shape data generation apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain three-dimensional shape data in which a three-dimensional shape is represented by plural three-dimensional elements and an attribute is assigned to each of the plural three-dimensional elements, and divide the three-dimensional shape into plural partial shapes according to the attributes to generate plural pieces of three-dimensional shape data.
US11886780B2
An optimization device includes: a memory; and a processor and configured to: store a coefficient indicating magnitude of an interaction between bits in a bit string representing a state of an Ising model; output, when any bit in the bit string is inverted, a signal indicating inversion availability of an own bit according to calculation of energy change in the Ising model using the coefficient corresponding to the inverted bit and the own bit read from the memory as bit operations; output a signal indicating a bit to be inverted in the bit string selected on the basis of the signal indicating inversion availability output from bit operations of a first number of bits of the bit string, of the bit operations; and change the first number of bits and change a second number of bits of the coefficient for each bit operations of the first number of bits.
US11886772B2
A method and system for controlling at least one robotically controlled surgical tool via vocal activation include detecting a vocal command generated by a surgeon, converting said at least one surgeon in said surgical setting via said voice sensor. The vocal command is converted to operative instructions associated with a robotically controlled surgical tool to generate instructions according to a predetermined set of rules including at least one of a no fly zone rule and collision prevention rule.
US11886762B2
A printing control system comprising: a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as parent units; and a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as child units, all of which are connected together through a network, wherein a child of the child units unit obtains a job list response from any one of the parent units either storing a print data item to be identified with a job name of a print data item included in a job list information item requested by a job list request, or not storing the print data item.
US11886756B2
A non-transitory storage medium stores a supporting program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. When executed by the computer, the supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to execute registering, in a printing program of an operating system, image data in a predetermined file format as data in a file format for which intermediate data does not need to be generated, in a case where the intermediate data is received from the printing program, generating print data based on the received intermediate data and transmitting a print job including the generated print data to a particular printer; and, in a case where the image data in the predetermined format is received from the printing program, receiving an edit of the image indicated by the received image data and transmitting the print job including the edited image data to the particular printer.
US11886753B2
A controller provides a plurality of first sections with numerical information on a first scale. The plurality of first sections are obtained by dividing a recording surface of a magnetic disk in units of first memory areas in each of which a first volume of data can be written by an SMR method. The first scale corresponds to a sequence of the first sections. The controller provides a plurality of second sections with numerical information on a second scale. The plurality of second sections are obtained by dividing the recording surface of the magnetic disk in units of second memory areas in each of which the first volume of data can be written by a CMR method. The second scale corresponds to a sequence of the second sections. The controller executes a plurality of commands in order based on a numerical information on the first scale or the second scale.
US11886751B2
Embodiments are described for storing array snapshots of a block-based system in networked storage, such as an NAS or SAN device. A system and process determines a size of the block device and splits it into a number of slices based on the size of the block device, with each slice comprising slice data. The slice data is written to protection storage either directly or through temporary buffer memory. The slice number and memory location for the slice data is stored in a key/value map, where the key comprises the slice number, and the value comprises the location. Backup agents are deployed to back up the slice data for each slice of the block device to the networked storage, and the slice data is stored as array snapshots in the network storage.
US11886736B2
A method includes determining respective memory access counts of a plurality of blocks of non-volatile memory cells that are grouped into a plurality of respective groups, comparing the respective memory access counts to respective memory access thresholds, determining a respective memory access count of a block of non-volatile memory cells exceeds a respective memory access threshold, and performing a media scan operation on the block of non-volatile memory cells.
US11886735B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data movement based on address table activity are described. A memory system may support a first type of data movement operation and a second type of data movement operation. The memory system may select between the first type of data movement operation and the second type of data movement operation for a region based on address table activity for the region.
US11886715B2
Apparatuses and methods for memory array accessibility can include an apparatus with an array of memory cells. The array can include a first portion accessible by a controller of the array and inaccessible to devices external to the apparatus. The array can include a second portion accessible to the devices external to the apparatus. The array can include a number of registers that store row address that indicate which portion of the array is the first portion. The apparatus can include the controller configured to access the number of registers to allow access to the second portion by the devices external to the apparatus based on the stored row addresses.
US11886713B2
A memory control device 100 of the present invention includes a data storage processing unit 101 that stores, in an additional data area that is an area for storing additional data in memory-stored data including compressed data and the additional data to be stored in a memory, an error correcting code of the compressed data and compression information representing the degree of compression of the compressed data, and a read processing unit 102 that controls readout of the memory-stored data on the basis of the degree of compression represented by the compression information in the additional data area of the memory-stored data, when reading out the memory-stored data from the memory.
US11886704B2
A method of managing a memory system is described, the memory system having a processor with a client interface, a buffer memory, and a storage memory. A LUN (logical unit) is exposed to the client, the LUN having a memory size, and QoS specification. When the processor receives a command from the client to write data to the LUN, determining if the QoS specification includes deduplication and: if the QoS does not include deduplication, processing the command by storing the data in the storage memory and creating metadata uniquely referencing a storage location of the data that is written; or if the QoS includes deduplication, determine if deduplication is possible while meeting a latency value as specified in the QoS specification and performing deduplication.
US11886697B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a display panel including a touch sensor, and a processor configured to: based on receiving a touch input signal for an area of the display panel from the touch sensor, control the display panel to display a touch trajectory corresponding to the touch input signal in the area, and based on touch context information including speed information corresponding to the touch input signal, determine whether to display a subsequent trajectory of the displayed touch trajectory.
US11886686B2
A user interface, system and method for optimizing a patient problem list in an electronic medical record or electronic health record in which entries in the problem list are removable or otherwise editable if they were entered into the problem list longer ago than a limited duration window to which the entries are categorized. In order to determine that categorization, the problem list entries are mapped to concepts or lexicals of an interface terminology, which in turn is mapped to concepts of another terminology, and those concepts are analyzed with respect to one or more criteria used to establish the limited duration window.
US11886684B2
An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof include obtaining usage history for a plurality of applications in a horizontal display mode and a vertical display mode of a display, displaying a plurality of first icons corresponding to the plurality of applications in a first sorted order, and displaying a plurality of second icons corresponding to the plurality of applications in a second sorted order based on usage history for the plurality of applications in the vertical mode.
US11886683B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for presenting board graphics are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve receiving a request to present, on a display, a board having a plurality of document object models (DOMs) arranged in rows and columns. A canvas layer of the board may be generated, including a graphical representation of each of the plurality of DOMs. A library of locations on the canvas layer may be generated, storing an arrangement of the plurality of DOMs. Disclosed embodiments may present, on the display, a portion of the canvas layer, where the presented portion of the canvas layer is be determined by a size of the display. The graphical representation of each of the plurality of DOMs presented on the display may be transformed into a corresponding DOM of the plurality of DOMs.
US11886674B2
A touch display apparatus senses a touch of a user and/or a tool. In the touch display apparatus, an upper electrode of each light-emitting device may include a first electrode region overlapping with an emission area and a second electrode region being spaced away from the first electrode region. The second electrode region may be connected to a link wire different from the first electrode region. Thus, in the touch display apparatus, at least one of the first electrode region and the second electrode region of each upper electrode may be used for sensing the touch of the user and/or the tool. Therefore, in the touch display apparatus, a process of forming components for sensing the touch may be simplified.
US11886668B1
A touch sensor includes: a transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic transmit wave towards a touch structure; a receiver configured to receive an ultrasonic reflected wave produced from the ultrasonic transmit signal being at least partially reflecting by the touch structure; a receiver circuit configured to convert the ultrasonic reflected wave into a measurement signal; the receiver circuit configured to generate an error value representative of a difference between a measured value of the measurement signal and a reference value; a programmable voltage source configured to provide a bias voltage to the transmitter or to the receiver; a controller configured to adjust the bias voltage based on the error value; a measurement circuit configured to measure the DC bias voltage and determine whether a no-touch event or a touch event has occurred at the touch structure based on at least one measurement of the bias voltage.
US11886667B2
A finger device initiates actions on a computer system when placed in contact with a surface. The finger device includes instrumentation that captures images and gestures. When in contact with a surface, the finger device captures images of the surface and gestures made on the surface. The finger device also transmits the images and gesture data to the computer system. An application on the computer system matches the images received from the finger device to a representation of the surface, identifies an action associated with the surface representation and gesture, and executes the action. Instrumenting the finger instead of the surface, allows a user to configure virtually any surface to accept touch input.
US11886663B2
A display apparatus with a touch function and an operating method thereof are provided. The display apparatus with a touch function according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a touch line connected to a touch electrode disposed in a display area of the display apparatus, a noise sensing line disposed to be spaced apart from the touch line by a first distance in a non-display area of the display apparatus, a driving signal line for providing a driving signal of the display apparatus in the non-display area, and a touch driving circuit for identifying information on a touch input using a touch input signal acquired through the touch line and a noise signal acquired through the noise sensing line. Accordingly, the information on the touch input can be more accurately identified by controlling a touch input signal using a line for detecting a noise.
US11886662B2
A sensing device includes a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged in a row direction and a column direction, a sensing circuit including a plurality of read-out circuits respectively connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes and a control circuit for controlling the plurality of read-out circuits, and an arithmetic circuit that arithmetically is configured to process a sensing signal output from the sensing circuit. The plurality of sensing circuits and the plurality of read-out circuits are connected one-to-one via wiring. The sensing circuit is configured to store a driving table storing multiple sampling frequencies different from each other. The control circuit is configured to read out the multiple sampling frequencies, drives simultaneously the plurality of read-out circuits at the multiple sampling frequencies, and output a plurality of output signals to the arithmetic circuit. The arithmetic circuit is configured to calculate the amount of noise using the multiple sampling frequencies.
US11886661B2
A display device according to an example embodiment includes a display portion displaying an image, and a sense portion that is disposed over one side of the display portion, and senses an external input, wherein the sense portion includes: at least one of first sense electrodes receiving a first sense signal that is changed in response to the external input, at least one of second sense electrodes that are disposed at a distance from the first sense electrodes, wherein the first sense electrodes are disposed between the second sense electrodes, and at least one of compensation electrode that are disposed spaced apart from and between the first sense electrodes, and to which a compensation signal is applied, wherein the compensation signal and the first sense signal are inverted in phase.
US11886642B2
A system including a first luminaire housing, a second luminaire housing, and a controller. The first luminaire housing includes a first light source configured to provide illumination to a first location, and a first I/O device configured to sense a first data set corresponding the first location. The second luminaire housing is separate from the first luminaire housing and includes a second light source configured to provide illumination to a second location, and a second I/O device configured to sense a second data set corresponding to the second location. The controller is configured to receive a portion of the first data set and a portion of the second data set, combine the portion of the first data set and the portion of the second data set to form a third data set corresponding to the first location and second location, and output the third data set.
US11886639B2
Described herein are “Ultrahapticons,” which are a set of tangible and recognizable mid-air haptic icons that have been derived from research study participants' metaphorical associations with car infotainment features. In line with semiotic theory (the study of signs), data from the study was analyzed to identify key characteristics that when realized in mid-air haptic form, would enable a user to “feel” the feature they are interacting with. Their use is not limited to an automotive context, they can be instrumented to any application that exhibits the same feature functionality i.e. home entertainment system, laptop UI's, digital communication, Extended Reality (XR), and the like.
US11886632B2
A method which makes it possible to immerse a user in a virtual reality application is described. The method includes controlling the movement of an avatar of a user in a synthetic scene and controlling the movements of a video acquisition system depending on the detected movements of the head of the user. The method also includes playing back content on a screen of a virtual reality helmet of the user, the content being a video stream acquired by the video acquisition system if the position of the eyes of the avatar is in a synthetic object whose volume can be included in a volume in which the video acquisition system is likely to move.
US11886623B2
Systems and methods for integrated communication security are described. One aspect includes a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal at a first frequency, and a circuit utilizing the clock signal. The circuit may include a port configured to receive an encryption sequence at the first frequency, and a first unidirectional data path between the port and a memory configured to permit data transfer from the port to the memory. The memory may be configured to access the encryption sequence from the port via the first unidirectional data path and store the data. The circuit may further include a clock divider configured to divide the first frequency by a divisor deriving another clock signal at a second frequency, and an encryption/decryption module configured to read a portion of the encryption sequence from the memory, process input using the portion of the encryption sequence, and generate output responsive to the processing.
US11886618B1
Systems and processes for improved processing of biometric data may include a hash controller including a processor, a server, and a registry. The hash controller can receive biometric information, such as a biometric scan, and apply an EGH transformation to convert the biometric information into an irreversible, unlinkable, and revocable EgHash. The EGH transformation can include blending biometric information with non-biometric information and permuting the biometric representation for additional security. The permuted biometric representation can be projected based on a randomly generated matrix and the output permuted to obtain an EgHash. The resultant EgHash can be lossy such that the EGH transform causes an irreversible loss of biometric information between the original biometric information and the EgHash. The EgHash can be compared and retrieved at speed and scale by the processor to support operations including, but not limited to, verification, identification, and database deduplication.
US11886617B1
Protecting membership and data in secure multi-party computation and communication is provided. A method of protecting membership and data includes generating a padding dataset. A size of the padding dataset is determined based on a data privacy configuration. The method also includes up-sampling a first dataset with the padding dataset, transforming the first dataset, dispatching the first dataset, performing an intersection operation based on the first dataset and a second dataset to generate a third dataset, generating a first share based on the third dataset, and constructing a result based on the first share and a second share.
US11886615B2
An example operation includes one or more of encrypting, by a transport, received data based on a first biometric associated with an occupant, unencrypting, by the transport, the encrypted data, based on a verification of a second biometric, wherein the second biometric is a continuum of the first biometric, and providing, by the transport, the unencrypted data to the occupant.
US11886613B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use user data and to manage accounts at multiple entities. A central portal may allow a user to manage all access to account data and personal information as well as usability and functionality of accounts. The user need not log into multiple third-party systems or customer devices to manage previously provided access to the information, provision new access to the information, and to manage financial or other accounts. A user is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. The user is able to impose restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems, and control such features as recurring payments and use of rewards, via a central portal.
US11886605B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable instructions stored on machine-readable media are disclosed for copying a first permission of a file to a second permission of the file, wherein the file is stored on a host file system. The first permission is changed to a third permission. A request is received to access the file from a container file system. In response to the request and before providing the container file system with access to the file, changing the third permission to the second permission. The file is provided to the container file system based on the second permission.
US11886598B2
A method of cyber risk assessment includes receiving request for a quantitative cyber risk assessment from an entity associated with a domain name. Entity information is non-intrusively gathered from a plurality of data sources about the entity based on the domain name. A digital footprint of the entity is discovered based the associated domain name using non-intrusive information gathering. At least one characteristic of the entity is classified to determine an entity classification and at least one entity risk quantification parameter. At least one control item is fetched from the knowledge database. An entity technical finding is determined based on the fetched at least one control item and based on the discovered digital footprint. At least one industry-related quantification parameter is fetched based on the entity technical finding and based on the entity classification. A quantitative risk value is calculated from a determination of loss frequency and loss magnitude.
US11886595B2
Embodiments of this application describe a computer boot method, a controller, a storage medium, and a system, to improve a boot security level of a computer, and avoid a security risk caused by using a tampered boot program file. In a method, a controller is separately connected to a computer hardware system and a BIOS file storage apparatus. The controller obtains a first boot program file in the BIOS file storage apparatus when the controller is powered on and run. The controller establishes a connection between the BIOS file storage apparatus and the computer hardware system when the first boot program file is successfully checked, so that when the connection between the BIOS file storage apparatus and the computer hardware system is successfully established, the computer hardware system completes power-on and running by using the first boot program file.
US11886594B2
The disclosed method is performed by a cloud system for changing a registration of a network access device. The method includes initiating a change of a registration of a network access device. The registration is stored at a cloud system and indicates ownership of the network access device by a first user. The method further includes receiving an authorization from the first user to dissociate the ownership of the network access device by the first user, and receiving an indication of a physical reset occurring locally at the network access device. The physical reset allows the first user to dissociate the ownership of the network access device. The method further includes, upon receiving both the authorization by the first user and the indication of the physical reset, releasing the ownership by the first user of the network access device at the cloud system.
US11886591B2
There is provided a system and a computerized method of remediating one or more operations linked to a given program running in an operating system, the method comprising: querying a stateful model to retrieve a group of entities related to the given program; terminating at least a sub set of the group of entities related to the given program; generating a remediation plan including one or more operations linked to the given program, the one or more operations being retrieved based on the group in the stateful model; and executing the remediation plan by undoing at least part of the one or more operations linked to the given program thereby restoring state of the operating system to a state prior to the given program being executed. There is further provided a computerized method of detecting malicious code related to a program in an operating system in a live environment.
US11886590B2
Systems and methods for emulator detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user agent string may be embedded into a first numerical data vector representation. Hardware characteristics of a client device corresponding to the user agent may be embedded into a second numerical data vector representation. Based on the first numerical data vector representation of the user agent and the second numerical data vector representation of the hardware characteristics, and their consistency, the client device may be determined to be an emulator or a non-emulator device.
US11886585B1
A computing system including a processor and a memory, which includes a first memory region operating as a kernel space and a second memory region operating as a user space. Maintained within the kernel space, a first logic unit receives a notification identifying a newly created thread and extracts at least meta-information associated with the newly created thread. Maintained within the user space, a second logic unit receives at least the meta-information associated with the newly created thread and conducts analytics on at least the meta-information to attempt to classify the newly created thread. An alert is generated by the second logic unit upon classifying the newly created thread as a cyberattack associated with a malicious position independent code execution based at least on results of the analytics associated with the meta-information associated with the newly created thread.
US11886578B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for detecting data anomalies on a device. The method may include determining data patterns for data input to the device, data output from the device, and/or data stored in a memory of the device; monitoring the data input, data output, and the data stored in the memory at least based on the determined data patterns in parallel with processing of the data input, data output, and/or the data stored in the memory; and detecting whether an anomaly exists in the data input, data output, and/or the data stored in the memory of the device based on the monitoring.
US11886572B2
Upgrade to a Trusted Application in a Trusted Execution Environment compliant to a Trusted Execution Environment standard to an as-a-server functioning by running, inside the Trusted Execution Environment, each instance of a Multi Instance/Single Session Trusted-Server Trusted Application compliant to the TEE standard in an infinite state-full loop polling a session of a Single Instance/Multi Session Trusted-Pipe Trusted Application, the single session of each of the instance of the Trusted-Server Trusted Application being adapted to perform a task as a server, said Trusted-Pipe Trusted Application being further polled by the Customer Application and opening session depending on command coming from the Customer Application.
US11886571B2
An entity may generate digital account credentials when a new account is approved for generation by an authorizing entity that controls or issues new accounts. A user may contact an authorizing entity to open a new account with the authorizing entity. The authorizing entity may authenticate the user and may approve a new account to be generated for the user. The user may wish to conduct transactions immediately upon approval. However, the authorizing entity may not immediately generate a physical identification device along with an actual account identifier associated with the new account. An intermediary entity may generate digital account credentials for the new account immediately after the authorizing entity approves generation of the new account, provide the digital account credentials to the account holder, and process transactions using the digital account credentials.
US11886564B2
Examples are directed toward a system and method relating to mobile screening. For example, a mobile screening vehicle includes a passenger scanner that performs security scanning of a passenger on the mobile screening vehicle. The mobile screening vehicle also includes a verification system that verifies, consistent with the security scanning of passengers, that passengers on the mobile screening vehicle are approved to proceed to a secure area of a travel venue.
US11886563B2
A continuous authentication system and related methods are provided. The system detects requests to perform user actions. A security value is associated with each user action. The system determines a subsequent session security level in response to an adjustment to a session security level by a security value of a requested user action. The requested user action is permitted and the session security level is adjusted based on the security value of the requested user action in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is greater than or equal to a threshold session security level. A user authentication challenge is caused (e.g., prompted) in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is less than the threshold session security level. The requested user action is permitted and the session security level is adjusted based on the security value of the requested user action in response to a successful user authentication challenge. The requested user action is rejected in response to an unsuccessful user authentication challenge.
US11886557B1
A blockchain based system for managing credentials in batch with selective attributes disclosing/hiding capability and auditable Merkle tree are disclosed with include a SmartCert unit coupled to a blockchain ecosystem and a public key infrastructure (PKI); the SmartCert unit further includes an issuer SmartCert and SmartCert verifier interface so that the holder can select to hide optional components completely from the verifier; and the verifier can check the certificate using the auditable Merkle tree.
US11886552B2
A method of integrating a cryptographic digital asset into a digital software application includes receiving a digital asset identification (ID) code, the digital asset ID code existing together with a unique owner ID code on a distributed blockchain ledger, the digital asset ID code including a code string segmented into a series of code subsets, wherein a first plurality of the code subsets includes data indicative of a plurality of attributes of the digital asset. The cryptographic digital asset is then represented on a display, wherein the cryptographic digital asset comprises a virtual object having an appearance based on the first plurality of code subsets, the virtual object further includes a plurality of object attributes. At least one of the object attributes is modified according to an aspect of the digital software application or interaction between a character avatar and the virtual object.
US11886543B2
A system and computer-implemented method are provided for annotation of image data. A user is enabled to iteratively annotate the image data. An iteration of said iterative annotation comprises generating labels for a current image data part based on user-verified labels of a previous image data part, and enabling the user to verify and correct said generated labels to obtain user-verified labels for the current image data part. The labels for the current image data part are generated by combining respective outputs of a label propagation algorithm and a machine-learned classifier trained on user-verified labels and image data and applied to image data of the current image data part. The machine-learned classifier is retrained using the user-verified labels and the image data of the current image data part to obtain a retrained machine-learned classifier.
US11886542B2
Systems and processes for prediction using generative adversarial network and distillation technology are provided. For example, an input is received at a first portion of a language model. A first output distribution is obtained, based on the input, from the first portion of the language model. Using a first training model, the language model is adjusted based on the first output distribution. The first output distribution is received at a second portion of the language model. A first representation of the input is obtained, based on the first output distribution, from the second portion of the language model. The language model is adjusted, using a second training model, based on the first representation of the input. Using the adjusted language model, an output is provided based on a received user input.
US11886541B2
A method includes generating one or more nominal images of at least a portion of a digital twin of an environment, defining one or more anomalous characteristics of the one or more components, generating one or more anomalous images of the portion of the digital twin of the environment based on the field of view and the one or more anomalous characteristics, performing a tessellation routine and a texture mapping routine on the one or more nominal images and the one or more anomalous images to generate a plurality of synthetic images, and labeling, for each synthetic image from among the plurality of synthetic images, the synthetic image as one of an anomalous type, a nominal type, or a combination thereof.
US11886538B2
A processor-in-memory device includes a memory array, a sense amplifier, and a processing unit that has an accumulator. The processing unit is configured to receive a set of data. The processing unit then uses the sense amplifier and the accumulator to generate a first histogram of the set of data.
US11886535B2
An oscillating shear valve of a continuous pulse generator comprises a rotator and a stator which are coaxially mounted, valve orifices are formed on the rotator and the stator, each of the valve orifices comprises a circular arc line, two straight line segments and two fillets, and is designed by establishing polar coordinate equations of the circular arc line, the straight line segments and the fillets and calculating a mud throttling area formed when the oscillating shear valve moves and determining parameters of structures of the valve orifices by a correlation coefficient index of the fluid differential pressure and a standard sinusoidal wave.
US11886532B1
A system and method for technology agnostic page editing and/or rendering that includes receiving a first modification request associated with a first page, the first modification request generated by an agnostic page editor, the agnostic page editor compatible with a plurality of renderers from which an administrative user identifies a first set of renderers to be associated with the first page; modifying a first meta model associated with the first page based on the first modification request, the first meta model using a data interchange format; obtaining, by a first renderer belonging to the first set of renderers, the meta model associated with the first page; rendering, by the first renderer belonging to the first set of renderers, the first page for presentation to the administrative user using the first meta model; and sending first rendered content for presentation of the first page.
US11886524B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for limiting provision and display of redundant digital components on a client. Methods can include storing, by a client device, a list of digital components specifying digital components available for provision to the client device. For a first digital component received within a first application, the client device detects a set of signals specifying a first user interaction with the first digital component and a second user interaction with content provided in response to the first user interaction. Based on whether an affirmative user action was performed, the client device can modify the list of digital components. When a request to access a content page within a second application is received, the client device can receive the second digital component, which can be selected from among digital components included on the modified list of digital components.
US11886516B1
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating synthetic data based on time series predictions and plural machine learning models. Generating the synthetic data may include receiving one or more data records that include transaction data of a user, categorizing and/or segmenting the one or more data records, determining a first predicted time step based on the categorizing and/or segmenting, and performing an iterative process that determines further predicted time steps. The first predicted time step may be determined using one model of a plurality of machine learning models. The iterative process may determine the further predicted time steps using the plural machine learning models. Based on iterations of the iterative process, potential time series may be determined. The synthetic time series may be determined from the potential time series. The synthetic time series may be used by additional processes, such as additional machine-learning processes.
US11886510B2
Implementations can identify a given assistant device from among a plurality of assistant devices in an ecosystem, obtain device-specific signal(s) that are generated by the given assistant device, process the device-specific signal(s) to generate candidate semantic label(s) for the given assistant device, select a given semantic label for the given semantic device from among the candidate semantic label(s), and assigning, in a device topology representation of the ecosystem, the given semantic label to the given assistant device. Implementations can optionally receive a spoken utterance that includes a query or command at the assistant device(s), determine a semantic property of the query or command matches the given semantic label to the given assistant device, and cause the given assistant device to satisfy the query or command.
US11886508B2
A storage node of a database replica group may distribute different portions of data in local storage and external storage, where local storage and external storage are organized using different types of index structures. Responsive to receiving an access request for a database, a storage node may determine that an item of the database to be accessed by the request does not reside within a first portion of the database stored locally at the storage node. Responsive to this determination, the storage node may obtain from an external storage service a second portion of the database, the second portion including a plurality of items including the item, and the second portion organized according to a structure different from the first portion. The storage node may then store the plurality of obtained items in the first portion and process the request using the first portion of the database.
US11886504B2
A database comprising a digital signature of a smell, the digital signature comprising a smell data, the smell data comprising a response signal that is a function of a first data corresponding to a generator generating the response signal and a second data corresponding to a predetermined stimulus for generating the response signal, wherein the digital signature comprises binary data, wherein the response signal is a measurable response of the generator to the predetermined stimulus that is a function of change in electrical properties of resistance or impedance in the generator. wherein the generator generating the smell-related response signal is a Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) in a sensor or a sensor pixel of a sensor array having a plurality of MOS sensor pixels having an MOS active material exposed to an analyte in the gas environment and the predetermined stimulus is a sequence of predetermined temperatures.
US11886503B2
The disclosure provides examples of methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for implementing a search indexer. One example method includes receiving, by index workflow circuitry, a search index update indicator, causing, by the index workflow circuitry and in response to receiving the search index update indicator, index generation circuitry to retrieve data sets from a plurality of data sources, calculating a checksum for each of the data sets, comparing the checksum for each of the data sets to a set of search index metadata, in response to determining that at least one checksum for at least one of the data sets does not match a metadata checksum from the set of search index metadata, generating a set of search index data from the data set corresponding to the at least one checksum, generating a search index using at least the set of search index data, and transmitting the search index to a search service for use in responding to at least one search query.
US11886489B2
A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the processor compares the information retrieved in connection with one image with information retrieved in connection with subsequent images. The processor uses the result of such comparison to determine the object that is likely to be of greatest interest to the user. The display simultaneously displays the images the images as they are captured, the location of the object in an image, and information retrieved for the object.
US11886486B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for augmenting a group of media content items by forming a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, where each node represents a segue option at a position in the graph and each edge represents a connection between a first node in the graph at a first position and a second node in the graph at a second position and finding a path in the graph.
US11886485B1
The embodiments described herein are directed to computer-implemented visual query matching methods and systems for implementing thereof. An example method includes storing first query data including queries associated with a first set of users, wherein each query includes selected criteria from multiple query criteria and first filter data for the multiple query criteria: storing second query data including metadata and queries associated with a second set of users, wherein each query includes selected criteria from the multiple query criteria and second filter data for the multiple query criteria: determining, by a processor, matching users from the second set of users for a first user of the first set of users; and providing, by the processor to the first user, a dashboard display including a matrix of the matching users.
US11886484B2
A music playing method and apparatus based on user interaction, a device and a storage medium, which relate to the technical field of music videos. The method includes: capturing a target video through a video capturing apparatus; determining an audio processing mode corresponding to a target action when it is identified in the target video that a target object presents the target action; and playing music according to the audio processing mode. The target video is captured by the video capturing apparatus, and when the target object in the target video is identified to generate the target action, the corresponding audio processing mode is determined based on the target action, and music is played according to the audio processing mode.
US11886482B2
Implementations described herein relate to receiving user input directed to an automated assistant, processing the user input to determine whether data from a server and/or third-party application is needed to perform certain fulfillment of an assistant command included in the user input, and generating a prompt that requests a user consent to transmitting of a request to the server and/or the third-party application to obtain the data needed to perform the certain fulfillment. In implementations where the user consents, the data can be obtained and utilized to perform the certain fulfillment. In implementations where the user does not consent, client data can be generated locally at a client device and utilized to perform alternate fulfillment of the assistant command. In various implementations, the request transmitted to the server and/or third-party application can be modified based on ambient noise captured when the user input is received.
US11886476B2
Systems and methods for determining and rewarding accuracy in predicting user-provided ratings of content provided by other users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: maintain user accounts associated with users including the first providing user and the second rating user; obtain individual items of user-provided content; effectuate presentations of the individual items of user-provided content through user interfaces to the individual users such that a first presentation is presented, through the second client computing platform, to the second rating user; receive rating information based on input received from the individual users through the user interfaces; determine values for ranking metrics of the individual items of user-provided content; compare the first value for the first ranking metric of the first item with the first rating information; determine, based on the comparison, a first correlation of the first rating information; and distribute an award to the second rating user in accordance with the determined first correlation, responsive to the determined first correlation breaching a threshold.
US11886470B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to receive from a network connection different sources of unstructured data, where the unstructured data has multiple modes of semantically distinct data types and the unstructured data has time-varying data instances aggregated over time. An entity combining different sources of the unstructured data is formed. A representation for the entity is created, where the representation includes embeddings that are numeric vectors computed using machine learning embedding models. These operations are repeated to form an aggregation of multimodal, time-varying entities and a corresponding index of individual entities and corresponding embeddings. Proximity searches are performed on embeddings within the index.
US11886468B2
Systems and methods are provided for automated classification of data using fingerprints. In embodiments, a method includes: generating, by a computing device based on predetermined rules, a fingerprint of a data column in a data set to be classified, the fingerprint comprising dimensions, wherein each of the dimension is assigned an attribute representing a characteristic of data in the data column; determining, by the computing device, that the fingerprint matches one or more target fingerprints by comparing the fingerprint to the target fingerprints, wherein each target fingerprint is associated with a class and includes dimensions, and each dimension is assigned an attribute representing a characteristic of data in the class; and assigning, by the computing device, one or more classes to the data column based on the one or more target fingerprints, thereby generating classified data.
US11886467B2
An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for efficiently classifying a data object, including representing the data object as a data object vector in a vector space, each dimension of the data object vector corresponding to a different feature of the data object, determining a distance between the data object vector and centroids of data domain clusters in the vector space, each data domain cluster comprising data domain vectors representing data domains, sorting the data domain clusters according to their respective distances to the data object vector, and iteratively applying data domain classifiers corresponding to data domains represented in a closest data domain cluster in the sorted data domain clusters to the data object.
US11886460B2
In some examples, a computing device is able to communicate with a plurality of data clusters. For example, a first data cluster may be configured with a first version of data cluster software including a first library version, and a second data cluster may be configured with a second version of data cluster software including a second library version that is different from the first. The computing device may execute a single instance of an application to send, based at least on information in the first library version, to the first data cluster, a request for first data, and may receive the first data from the first cluster. Further, the computing device may send, based at least on information in the second library version, second data that is based on the first data to the second data cluster to store the second data with the second data cluster.
US11886451B2
Described are systems, methods, and techniques for collecting, analyzing, processing, and storing time series data and for evaluating and determining whether and how to include late or delayed data points for inclusion when publishing or storing the time series data. Maximum delay values can identify a duration for waiting for late or delayed data, such as prior to publication. In some examples, maximum delay values can be dynamically adjustable based on a statistical evaluation process. For late or delayed data points that are received after the maximum delay elapses, some data points can be included in the stored time series data, such as if they are received in the same order that they are generated.
US11886443B2
A method and system for intelligently organizing one or more groups of relevant files may include retrieving a user data signal including user-specific data, analyzing the user data signal to identify a parameter relating to file relevance, identifying one or more relevant files in a storage medium based on the parameter at least one of a user category property, a lifecycle stage property, a relevant activity property, or an activity level property of one or more files in the storage medium, organizing the one or more relevant file into the one or more groups of relevant files, and providing for display data relating to the one or more groups of relevant files.
US11886442B1
A method for soil data interpolation includes collecting first and second agricultural field point data values corresponding to a variable grid and generating interpolated point data values by analyzing the first and second agricultural field point data values. A computing system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to collect first and second agricultural field point data values corresponding to a variable grid and generate interpolated point data values by analyzing the first and second agricultural field point data values. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to collect first and second agricultural field point data values corresponding to a variable grid and generate interpolated point data values by analyzing the first and second agricultural field point data values.
US11886438B2
Methods and systems for an improved Enterprise Matching Service (“EMS”) that is designed to match incoming data records to a database of records, using less system resources and using those resources more efficiently. The EMS identifies potential matches by generating unique identifiers and match codes for incoming data records, and then, using a series of sequential matching strategies, matching the unique identifiers and match codes to pre-generated unique identifiers and match codes for database records to identify a subset of potential matches. If no matches are identified, the next matching strategy is executed. Once a subset of potential matches are identified, the methods and systems may weigh the subset of potential matches to determine whether there is a match.
US11886424B2
A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the database. A validity period for the record may be determined based on a first commit time at which the first transaction is committed and a second commit time at which the second transaction is committed. A current table and/or a history table of a system versioned table may be updated to include the record based on the validity period of the record. One or more temporal operations may be performed based on the system versioned table. For example, a time travel operation may be performed to retrieve, based on the system versioned table, one or more records that are valid at a given point in time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11886423B2
Implementations of this specification provide blockchain-based recording and querying methods and apparatuses. An example method includes operations performed by an access gateway, including receiving, from a first service system, user data including a user identifier of a user; transmitting, to an identifier hash system, a first hash request for the user identifier; receiving, from the identifier hash system, a hash digest of the user identifier; replacing the user identifier in the user data with the hash digest of the user identifier, and packaging the user data into a storage transaction; transmitting, to a blockchain, the storage transaction; receiving, from the blockchain, a result of the storage transaction having been performed by a smart contract published by the first service system on the blockchain; and providing, to the first service system, the result of the storage transaction.
US11886413B1
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a bounded group by query system that computes approximate time-sliced statistics for groups of records in a dataset according to a group by query. In embodiments, a single pass scan of the dataset is performed to accumulate exact results for a maximum number of groups in a result grouping structure (RGS) and approximate results for additional groups in an approximate result grouping structure (ARGS). RGSs and ARGSs are accumulated by a set of accumulator nodes and provided to an aggregator node, which combines the received structures to generate exact or approximate statistical results for at least a subset of the groups in the dataset. Advantageously, the disclosed query system is able to produce approximate results for at least some of the groups in a single pass of the dataset using size-bounded data structures, without predetermining the actual number of groups in the dataset.
US11886407B2
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method of processing a query using a columnstore comprising a plurality of segments, the method comprising: receiving a query comprising a parameter; determining a key corresponding to the parameter; identifying a mapping structure, from a plurality of mapping structures, relating to said key, wherein each mapping structure corresponds to a respective segment of the columnstore; interrogating the identified mapping structure to determine a value corresponding to the key, wherein the value identifies an entry of an index table of a plurality of index tables that corresponds to the respective segment, wherein the entry of the index table identifies a row of the respective segment of the columnstore relating to the parameter; and retrieving data relating to the parameter from a data source based on data stored in the entry of the index table.
US11886406B2
The invention relates to electronic indexing, and more particularly, to the indexing, in a cloud, data held in a cloud. Systems and methods of the invention index data by accessing the data in place in the cloud and breaking a job into work items and sending the work items to multiple cloud processes that can each determine whether to index data associated with the work item or to create a new work item and have a different cloud process index the data. Each cloud process is proximal to an item that it indexes. This gives the system scale as well as an internal load-balancing.
US11886402B2
Systems, methods, and media for generating analytical data from actions performed on one or more publishing servers. Methods may include capturing one or more audit trails by determining actions performed on the one or more publishing servers via one or more client devices, the one or more publishing servers adapted to publish informational content; generating analytical data from the one or more audit trails; and storing the generated analytical data in a database.
US11886401B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to compressing database keys. A computer system may receive a request to write a database record to a storage medium. The database record may include a database key and a corresponding data value. The computer system may compress the database key by replacing a portion of the database key with particular data that identifies a location of a reference database key and an amount of similarity determined between the database key and the reference database key. The computer system may write the database record to the storage medium. The database record may include the compressed database key and the corresponding data value.
US11886393B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire: when an electronic document is posted to a message exchange service, information on a person who has posted the electronic document and information on update history of the electronic document; specify, based on the acquired information on the person who has posted the electronic document and the acquired information on the update history, a notification destination to whom a notification indicating that the electronic document has been posted is to be provided; and perform control for providing notification information containing at least information indicating the specified notification destination to the notification destination.
US11886382B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for customizing pipelines for integrating data. A file to be ingested into a data analysis platform may be determined. The file type of the file may be detected. The file may be transformed based on the file type. The transformation may include applying a set of operations to the file. The set of operations may correspond to a pipeline of operations associated with the file type.
US11886374B2
Examples relate to apparatuses, devices, methods and computer programs for a Root Complex (RC) and/or for an Endpoint (EP) of a PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect express) system, to a PCIe system and to a gateway device comprising a PCIe system. An apparatus configured for a RC of a PCIe system comprises a memory and one or more processors, which are configured to generate a PCIe VDM (Vendor Defined Message) message for an EP of the PCIe system.
US11886370B2
A semiconductor package includes multiple dies that share the same package pin. An output enable register provided on each die is used to select the die that drives an output to the shared pin. A hardware arbitration circuit ensures that two or more dies do not drive an output to the shared pin at the same time.
US11886362B2
A gateway for use in a computing system to interface a host with the subsystem for acting as a work accelerator to the host, the gateway having an streaming engine for controlling the streaming of batches of data into and out of the gateway in response to pre-compiled data exchange synchronisation points attained by the subsystem, wherein the streaming of batches of data is selectively via at least one of an accelerator interface, a data connection interface, a gateway interface and an memory interface, wherein the streaming engine is configured to perform data preparation processing of the batches of data streamed into the gateway prior to said batches of data being streamed out of the gateway, wherein the data preparation processing comprises at least one of: data augmentation; decompression; and decryption.
US11886348B2
A method includes receiving, at a direct memory access (DMA) controller of a memory device, a first command from a first cache controller coupled to the memory device to prefetch first data from the memory device and sending the prefetched first data, in response to receiving the first command, to a second cache controller coupled to the memory device. The method can further include receiving a second command from a second cache controller coupled to the memory device to prefetch second data from the memory device, and sending the prefetched second data, in response to receiving the second command, to a third cache controller coupled to the memory device.
US11886338B2
Methods, systems, and devices for forwarding a code word address are described. A memory subsystem, for example, may configure a code word including user data as a forwarded code word when the code word becomes unreliable or invalid close to or beyond an error recovery capability of the memory subsystem. The memory subsystem may configure the forwarded code word using a forwarded code word format and structure, which may include a bit field in the forwarded code word to indicate a code word condition and to store a quantity of duplicates of a forwarding address. When the memory subsystem receives a code word, the memory system may determine the code word as a forwarded code word such that the memory system may determine a forwarding address (e.g., from the code word). The memory subsystem may then use the forwarding address to access user data.
US11886334B2
A storage system has NVRAM (non-volatile random-access memory), solid-state storage memory, and a processor to perform a method. The method includes allocating virtual units of NVRAM with mapping of the virtual units to physical memory. The method includes writing data having various sizes into allocated first virtual units of memory and into allocated second virtual units of memory. The first virtual units of memory each include a first contiguous physical addressed amount of NVRAM having a first size. The second virtual units of memory each include an amount of NVRAM having a second size. The method includes relocating at least some of the data such that a portion of the allocated second virtual units of memory become available for the allocating.
US11886328B2
A test information extraction device improves efficiency in testing applications by including: an obtainment unit that obtains, from a first source code group of an application that implements methods corresponding to requests of a plurality of types received via a network, first information used for generating the requests; and an extraction unit that specifies, from among the methods implemented in response to the requests, a method being a caller of a method included in a second source code group being a part of the first source code group and that further extracts, from the first information, second information used for generating one of the requests corresponding to the specified method.
US11886324B2
A relay and metering test instrument includes an application processor circuitry to control functional operation of the relay and metering test instrument. The application processor circuitry may receive a user selected source code state program, and operational parameters input by the user. The application processor circuitry may compile the source code state program and the operational parameters into a test routine for storage in a memory circuitry with other test routines. The relay and metering instrument may also include a real time processor circuitry and an input/output processor circuitry. The real time processor circuitry may selectively and independently execute the test routine or one of the other test routines to perform one or more respective testing stages. The input/output processor circuitry may cooperatively operate with the real time processor circuitry to output test signals and monitor for receipt of input test signals according to execution of the test routine.
US11886323B2
A system, method and software product emulate and profile an application playing on a mobile device. The mobile device is emulated using a model based upon characteristics related to performance of the mobile device. The application is played and monitored within the model to determine resource utilization of the application for the mobile device.
US11886320B2
Identifying a likely cause of a problem in an application can include: injecting a series of a set of predetermined faults into the application; sampling a subset of a set of training features from the application during each predetermined fault injected into the application and labeling each subset with an identifier of the corresponding predetermined fault; and training a classifier to identify the likely cause by associating a set of real-time features sampled from the application that pertain to the problem to one or more of the predetermined faults in response to the training features.
US11886302B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for execution of applications in a container. An exemplary method comprises receiving, by at least one computing device, a request to an application, wherein the application includes a set of instructions for processing the request, determining whether a state snapshot is available for the computing device, restoring state of the process from the state snapshot in a container on the computing device and processing the request based on the set of instructions by the process when the state snapshot is available, preparing at least one new process in the container on the computing device for processing the request, creating a new state snapshot for the application and processing the request based on the set of instructions by the new process when the state snapshot is not available, wherein creating the new state snapshot is performed after preparing the new process and before processing the request.
US11886301B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for encryption key management. An embodiment operates by executing an initial non-backup instance of an application and generates a primary key using a cryptographic algorithm. The embodiment requests a customer to create a passphrase configured to encrypt and decrypt the primary key. The embodiment generates a derived key using a cryptographic algorithm and the customer passphrase as input. The embodiment then encrypts the primary key using the generated derived key and stores the encrypted primary key in a catalog.
US11886300B2
The data duplication system comprises a first storage device having a first data protection area for storing backup images of multiple generations of a first volume for data read/write by an external device. The first data protection area is inaccessible to the external device. A second storage device coupled to the first storage device. The first storage device creates a second volume for storing a backup image of a particular generation of the plurality of generations of backup images stored in the first data protection area. The second storage device creates a third volume for storing the copy data, and a virtual volume that is mapped to the second volume of the first storage device. The second storage stores the backup data of a specific generation stored in the second volume in the third volume via the virtual volume by forming a pair that copies the data in the virtual volume and the third volume.
US11886299B2
The described embodiments set forth techniques for providing a backup progress estimate for a backup of a source file system volume (FSV). The techniques involve determining, for the source FSV, a backup size during performance of backup operations. The operations can include determining the backup size based on a number of files on the source FSV. Additionally, the operations can include copying files of the source FSV and/or propagating corresponding files of a destination FSV to a location of the backup of the source FSV on a destination storage device and updating one or more metrics using a number of files and/or a number of bytes copied and/or propagated to the backup. In this manner, a progress indication for the backup may be determined based on the one or more metrics responsive to files and/or directories of the source file system volume being stored on a destination storage device.
US11886288B2
A method for storing data in a storage system having solid-state memory is provided. The method includes determining portions of the solid-state memory that have a faster access rate and portions of the solid-state memory that have a slower access rate, relative to each other or to a threshold. The method includes writing data bits of erasure coded data to the portions of the solid-state memory having the faster access rate, and writing one or more parity bits of the erasure coded data to the portions of the solid-state memory having the slower access rate. A storage system is also provided.
US11886287B2
A read and write method includes: applying a read command to a memory device, the read command indicating address information; reading data to be read from a storage unit corresponding to the address information indicated by the read command; and if an error occurs in the data to be read, associating the address information indicated by the read command with a spare storage unit, and backing up the address information indicated by the read command and association information between the address information and the spare storage unit in a non-volatile storage unit based on a preset rule.
US11886280B2
Systems and methods provide for managing faulting network devices. A first network device can receive an error. The first network device can generate one or more frames including data indicative of the error. The first network device can broadcast the one or more frames to one or more neighboring network devices. It may be determined that the first network device is inaccessible. The first data can be retrieved and presented from a second network device among the one or more neighboring network devices. In some embodiments, a network management system can utilize the first data to generate a machine learning model that classifies whether network devices are instances of network devices designated for a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) process. In some embodiments, the network management system can apply the first data to a machine learning classifier to determine whether to initiate the RMA process for the first network device.
US11886274B2
This application discloses a voltage scaling method and an electronic device. The method is applied to an electronic device having a processor and a power supply that supplies power to the processor. The method includes the processor sending power supply scaling information to the power supply based on an operating frequency in a next time period. The method further includes the power supply determining, based on the power supply scaling information, a supply voltage Vout used to supply power to the processor. The supply voltage Vout decreases as a load current of the power supply increases. Vmin≤Vout≤V, where Vmin is a lowest supply voltage of the processor at the operating frequency in the next time period, and V is a specified supply voltage of the processor at the operating frequency in the next time period.
US11886262B2
A method for managing power in a multiple processor computing device includes detecting a first amount of power being used by a first processor of the computing device; determining an amount of extra power available based on the first amount of power and a power budget for the first processor; and transmits a value to a driver associated with a second processor of the computing device, wherein the value indicates the amount of extra power available, wherein the driver adjusts at least one operating parameter of the second processor based on the amount of extra power available.
US11886259B2
A method by a computing system associated with a set of disjoint devices that includes at least one wearable device includes receiving a request to perform a task. The method further includes determining, based on sensor data associated with the set of disjoint devices, a thermal-constraint differential for each device of the set of disjoint devices. The method further includes determining a plurality of workload assignments needed to be performed to accomplish the task. The method further includes distributing, based on the thermal-constraint differentials of the set of disjoint devices, the plurality of workload assignments to one or more devices of the set of disjoint devices to satisfy one or more power or thermal constraints associated with each device of the set of disjoint devices. The method further includes performing the task by causing the one or more devices to execute the distributed plurality of work assignments.
US11886256B2
A hinge and an electronic device are provided. The hinge includes a hinge body and a bendable assembly. The bendable assembly is in movable connection with one of opposite sides of the hinge body. The bendable assembly includes a first swing arm, a sliding member and a guide member. The first swing arm is in movable connection with the hinge body. A side wall of the sliding member is provided with a chute, and an end, close to the hinge body, of the chute is provided with a gap. The guide member is connected to the first swing arm and is configured to be engaged with or exited from the chute through the gap.
US11886254B2
Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a flexible display, a first housing and a second housing, a hinge housing, and a hinge structure. The hinge structure includes a first rotary member coupled to the first housing, a second rotary member coupled to the second housing, a first arm part coupled to the first rotary member and including a first rotary cam, a second arm part coupled to the second rotary member and including a second rotary cam, a fixed cam part including a first fixed cam engaged with the first rotary cam, a second fixed cam engaged with the second rotary cam, and a cam body connecting the first fixed cam and the second fixed cam, a stopper that restricts rotational angles of the arm parts, and an additional structure disposed between the stopper and the fixed cam part.
US11886253B1
This application relates to improving kinematics in a computing device such as a laptop computer. A magnetic latch mechanism includes a magnetic array and an attractor plate. The magnetic array is secured in a top portion of the laptop computer and the attractor plate is secured in a base portion of the laptop computer. An attractive force of the magnetic latch mechanism is calibrated by selectively demagnetizing a portion of one or more magnetic elements in the magnetic array to reduce the attractive force proximate a target force. The calibration technique can include exciting a demagnetizing element, such as a pair of conductive coils, with a short, high frequency demagnetization pulse to create a demagnetized zone within the magnetic array that is completely demagnetized, irrespective of unit to unit variations of magnetic properties in the initially magnetized magnetic array. This technique ensures an accurate kinematic user experience.
US11886252B2
A foldable device includes: a flexible display configured to display an execution screen of an application; and a controller configured to control the flexible display to display an execution screen of at least one first application on a first surface of the flexible display that is used as a display of the foldable device when the flexible display is folded, and control, in response to the flexible display being unfolded, the flexible display to display the execution screen of the at least one first application and an execution screen of at least one second application related to the at least one first application to be displayed on a second surface of the flexible display that is used as a display of the foldable device when the flexible display is unfolded.
US11886248B2
A folding display device includes a display panel and a support plate configured to support the display panel. The display panel includes a flexible display area. A bending area corresponding to the flexible display area is provided on the support plate, and an extensible hollow structure is provided in the bending area. By providing the hollow structure, deformability and extensibility of the bending area are improved, and a risk of peeling or cracking between layers of the display device is reduced.
US11886242B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing and that performs a sliding operation, a display, of which a size of a visual exposure area is changed in correspondence to the sliding operation of the second housing, a first variable magnetism member disposed at a first location of the first housing, and of which a magnetic force varies depending on a current or a voltage that is supplied thereto, a second variable magnetism member disposed at a second location of the first housing, and of which a magnetic force varies depending on a current or a voltage that is supplied thereto, a magnet member fixed to an inner surface of the second housing, and that moves between the first variable magnetism member and the second variable magnetism member during the sliding operation, and a processor operatively connected.
US11886232B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing a mobile communications device with access to a provider with a plurality of security levels. The security state of the device varies according to severity levels of device security events. The mobile communications device generates data regarding security events and provides the data to the provider, which compares that security state to a policy associated with the provider. The mobile communications device is allowed to access to a provider service where the device's current security state meets or exceeds the security state required for the provider service.
US11886230B2
A computer-implemented system and method for predicting and flagging an anomaly entered in a digital form. A server computing device classifies a plurality of data fields of the digital form to identify a set of non-zero value data fields; and obtains an anomaly detection model comprising a statistical tree structure associated with the data field of the digital form. The server computing device receives datasets including a target value of a data field and values of a set of cohorting data features; traverses a statistical tree structure of the anomaly detection model with the target dataset to form a set of target cohorts to determine a target statistic value for the data field; flags the data field value of the target dataset as an anomaly item; and generates one or more confidence scores for a runtime prediction based on one or more variance changes for the data field.
US11886228B2
Circuits and methods enabling common control of an agent device by two or more buses, particularly MIPI RFFE serial buses. In essence, the invention provides flagging signals designating completed register write operations to denote which of two registers are active, such that synchronization is accomplished in a clock-free manner. One embodiment includes at least two decoders, each including a common register and a bus (S/P) decoder coupled to a respective bus and to the common register. The S/P decoder asserts a write-complete signal when a write operation to a corresponding common register is completed. A multiplexer has at least two selectable input bus ports coupled to the common registers within the at least two decoders. A selection circuit selects an input bus port of the multiplexer in response to the assertion of a last write-complete signal from the S/P decoders.
US11886221B2
An image system is provided by the present disclosure. The image system includes a display device displaying at least one floating image layer on a top surface of the display device and a frame disposed on the display device and partially exposing the top surface of the display device, wherein the frame has a height with reference to the top surface of the display device. The at least one floating image layer is aligned with a top surface of the frame in a direction parallel to a height direction of the frame.
US11886212B2
A pneumatic valve for attachment to a source of high pressure gas comprises a valve body which comprises a gas inlet and a gas outlet. A rupturable membrane extends across the gas inlet. A membrane support element is slidably supported in the valve body for movement between an extended position and a retracted position, the membrane support element having a lower end engageable, in the extended position, with the rupturable membrane to support the rupturable membrane against rupture. The valve body further comprises a bore through which the membrane support element extends and one or more gas supply passages bypassing the bore for providing a gas flow path from the gas inlet to the gas outlet. The membrane support element is configured to be movable from the extended position to the retracted position to permit the rupturable membrane to rupture under the pressure of the high pressure gas.
US11886211B2
A method may include orienting a set of solar power units in a first position in which rows of solar power units are shaded by adjacent rows of solar power units; and monitoring energy generated by the set of solar power units over a window of time, that includes from when the set of solar power units are oriented in the first position until a sun angle corresponds to none of the rows being shaded by the adjacent rows. The method may include identifying a knee in energy generation during the first window of time, where the knee indicates a transition from higher to lower rates of change of energy generation at a given solar angle. The method may include plotting a trajectory of future orientation positions over time of the set of solar power units that include an orientation and time corresponding to the given solar angle.
US11886205B2
A servo motor controller capable of eliminating inconvenience that the position of a shaft or the like of a servo motor is detected or set erroneously due to influence of noise or the like is provided. A servo motor controller that detects Z-phase signals of an incremental-type encoder that detects rotation of a servo motor to perform driving control of the servo motor includes: a position detection unit that detects a reference position of a rotating shaft of the servo motor on the basis of the Z-phase signal of the encoder; a signal interval detection unit that measures intervals of a plurality of detected Z-phase signals; and an abnormality determination unit that determines that the Z-phase signal is abnormal when the interval measured by the signal interval detection unit is equal to or larger than a prescribed threshold.
US11886202B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for switching between local and remote guidance instructions for autonomous vehicles. For example, the method includes, in response to monitoring one or more actions of objects detected in a scene in which the autonomous robotic system is moving, causing the autonomous robotic system to slow or cease movement in the scene. The method includes detecting a trigger condition based on movement of the autonomous robotic system in the scene. In response to the one or more monitored actions and detecting the trigger condition, the method includes transmitting a remote guidance request to a remote server. After transmitting the remote guidance request, the method includes receiving remote guidance instructions from the remote server and causing the autonomous robotic system to begin operating according to the remote guidance instructions.
US11886199B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, method includes obtaining multi-level environment data corresponding to a plurality of driving environment levels, encoding the multi-level environment data at each level, extracting features from the multi-level environment data at each encoded level, fusing the extracted features from each encoded level with a spatial-temporal attention framework to generate a fused information embedding, and decoding the fused information embedding to predict driving environment information at one or more driving environment levels.
US11886197B2
An electronic device and a method of driving the same are provided. The electronic device includes a container; a sensor; a driving unit; and a processor configured to: based on sensing data received through the sensor, measure, at a predetermined time interval, external forces exerted on the electronic apparatus from a ground on which the electronic apparatus is located, identify, based on frequency characteristics of the external forces and a natural vibration frequency of a liquid contained in the container, a frequency having frequency characteristics corresponding to the natural vibration frequency among frequencies of the external forces, and input a driving signal to the driving unit, based on a size of the identified frequency, the driving signal controlling a velocity of the electronic apparatus according to a natural vibration period of the liquid.
US11886195B2
A method includes generating a parameter of a trajectory associated with a scenario using a path planner. The parameter is generated based on a training dataset. The method includes comparing the parameter of the trajectory against a validation parameter associated with a validation dataset. The validation parameter is based on human-based vehicle driving trajectory data associated with scenarios that satisfy a level of similarity with the scenario. The method further includes determining a level of similarity between the parameter associated with the scenario and the validation parameter associated with the scenarios, and, subsequent to determining that the level of similarity fails to satisfy a similarity threshold, the method concludes with providing training data associated with the scenario to the training dataset so that a subsequent parameter of a subsequent trajectory generated by the path planner and associated with the scenario satisfies the level of similarity against the validation parameter.
US11886191B2
The present application discloses is a scheduling method and system for fully autonomous waterborne inter terminal transportation, and belongs to the field of transportation. The method includes: establishing a dynamic scheduling model for waterborne Autonomous guided vessels (wAGVs); quickly inserting the dynamically arriving transportation tasks into all the existing wAGV paths, calculating the insertion cost and selecting the path and position with the lowest insertion cost to obtain updated initial paths; improving the initial path using a heuristic algorithm based on tabu search to obtain quasi-optimal wAGV paths; executing the scheduling wAGV paths.
US11886189B2
A navigation program for an autonomous vehicle, the navigation program configured to: receive an initial model of an object to be inspected by the autonomous vehicle; identify an inspection target associated with the initial model of the object; and determine an inspection location for the autonomous vehicle from which inspection target is inspectable by an inspection system of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the initial model includes one or more convex shapes representing the object.
US11886186B2
A terminal apparatus includes a camera, a display that displays a display screen including a mobile robot that autonomously travels, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a first planned route of the mobile robot, displays, on the display, a screen having the first planned route superimposed on a camera image taken by the camera, detects a contact point on the display on which the screen is displayed, generates a second planned route of the mobile robot that travels through the contact point, and transmits the second planned route to the mobile robot.
US11886184B2
An autonomous vehicle receives geographic location data defined via a mobile computing device operated by a user. The geographic location data is indicative of a device position of the mobile computing device. The autonomous vehicle also receives image data generated by the mobile computing device. The image data is indicative of a surrounding position nearby the device position. The surrounding position is selected from an image captured by a camera of the mobile computing device. A requested vehicle position (e.g., a pick-up or drop-off location) is set for a trip of the user in the autonomous vehicle based on the geographic location data and the image data. A route from a current vehicle position of the autonomous vehicle to the requested vehicle position for the trip of the user in the autonomous vehicle is generated. Moreover, the autonomous vehicle can follow the route to the requested vehicle position.
US11886178B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a fault diagnosis method, a method for building a fault diagnosis model, fault diagnosis equipment, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The fault diagnosis method, for diagnosing a fluid device, which includes a suction end and a discharge end, includes: obtaining a data set for diagnosing the fluid device, wherein the data set includes first characteristic data about the suction end, second characteristic data about the discharge end, and input-output difference data, and the input-output difference data represents data difference between the suction end and the discharge end; obtaining a fault diagnosis model; and determining whether the fluid device is in failure based on the fault diagnosis model and the data set.
US11886176B2
A process and/or a bioreactor control system for controlling a bioreactor. The bioreactor control system includes a bioreactor, a sensor, an electronic card, and a bioreactor controller. The sensor is proximate to the bioreactor and configured to generate a signal indicative of an operating condition of the bioreactor. The signal is then transmitted to the electronic card. Receiving the signal, the electronic card processes the signal to generate a converted signal. The converted signal is then transmitted to the bioreactor controller. The bioreactor controller, in turn, processes the converted signal and generates a control signal to modify the operating condition of the bioreactor.
US11886159B2
A system and method of configuring monitor blocks and effect blocks associated with a process control system for a process plant includes causing a display device to display a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface indicating a first monitor block, a second monitor block, and an effect block. The system and method further includes enabling a user to input configuration data via the input device, including: (i) configuring one of the outputs of the first monitor block to serve as one of the inputs of the second monitor block, (ii) configuring an additional one of the outputs of the first monitor block and one of the outputs of the second monitor block to serve as inputs to the effect block, and (iii) designating at least one of the plurality of cells of each of the first monitor block, the second monitor block, and the effect block as a trigger associated with the respective input/output pair for the respective cell and corresponding to a condition in the process plant.
US11886158B2
A system architecture encoded on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the system architecture includes a first protocol. The first protocol is configured to receive a plurality of outputs from an ICS used in controlling an industrial system. The first protocol is configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a physical module. The physical module includes at least one of a component, a sensor, or the ICS. Additionally, the system architecture includes a second protocol, wherein the second protocol is configured to validate the plurality of inputs from the first protocol. Moreover, the system architectures includes a third protocol, wherein the third protocol is configured to validate the plurality of outputs from the first protocol. Further, the system architecture includes a fourth protocol, wherein the fourth protocol is configured to manage the ICS based on the second protocol and the third protocol.
US11886153B2
A method of operating a building management system is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a processing circuit, policy rankings for a plurality of control policies based on building operation data of a first previous time period, selecting, by the processing circuit, a set of control policies from among the plurality of control policies based on the policy rankings of the set of control policies satisfying a ranking threshold, generating, by the processing circuit, a plurality of prediction models for the set of control policies, selecting, by the processing circuit, a first prediction model of the plurality of prediction models based on building operation data of a second previous time period, and responsive to selecting the first prediction model, operating, by the processing circuit, the building management system using the first prediction model.
US11886151B2
A rotary wheel set system of a horological movement with a rotary wheel set, a first and a second bearing, for a first and a second pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the wheel set including a mass center in a position of its arbor, the first bearing including an endstone including a main body equipped with a pyramidal cavity configured to receive the first pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the cavity having at least three faces giving its pyramidal shape, the first pivot being capable of cooperating with the cavity of the endstone to rotate in the cavity, at least one contact zone between the first pivot and a face being generated, the normal at the contact zone or zones forming a contact angle (αh) relating to the plane perpendicular to the arbor of the pivot, wherein the contact angle (αh) is less than 45°.
US11886150B2
A push button system for activating an actuation member, the system including a button head, a pusher actuator integral with the button head, a first hollow guide member, the pusher actuator being mounted to slide inside the first hollow guide member, the first hollow guide member being intended to be secured to a fixed element relative to the button head and to the pusher actuator, a second hollow guide member arranged in the button head, and a pin mounted to slide inside the second hollow member, and intended to be secured to the fixed element. The pusher actuator has an upper portion provided on the periphery thereof with a collar intended to cooperate with an internal face of the first hollow guide member to guide the pusher inside the member.
US11886142B2
A rotating device includes: a first rotating body capable of forward rotation; a second rotating body capable of forward rotation and reverse rotation; a drive unit outputting drive forces in a forward rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction; and a transmission mechanism transmitting the drive force in the forward rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the forward direction and transmitting the drive force in the reverse rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body in the forward direction and rotate the second rotating body in the reverse direction.
US11886141B2
An image forming apparatus to and from which a replenishment container accommodating toner is attachable and detachable includes an opening/closing portion moving from a closed position to an open position in a case where the toner replenishment container attached to a replenishment port is rotated, and a locking membered to move between a restricting position restricting movement of the opening/closing portion from the closed position to the open position, and an allowing position in which the movement of the opening/closing portion from the closed position to the open position is allowed. In addition, a controller, in a case where a replenishment operation, in which toner is supplied from the replenishment container to the replenishment port, displays, on a display, a ratio corresponding to an amount of toner accommodated in the developer container after the replenishment operation.
US11886136B2
A drum frame includes a first regulating portion located between a transfer nip and a downstream end of a conveyance surface in a conveyance direction. The first regulating portion faces the conveyance surface from above the conveyance surface. The first regulating portion includes a first horizontal portion and a pair of first inclined portions. The first horizontal portion extends in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction. The pair of first inclined portions extends from both ends of the first horizontal portion in the width direction. Each first inclined portion has one end adjacent to the first horizontal portion and an other end away from the one end in the width direction. Each first inclined portion is inclined to be closer to an endless belt from the one end toward the other end.
US11886131B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a rotatable transfer member, a first driving source to drive the image bearing member, a second driving source to drive the transfer member, and a control portion. Based on a toner amount per unit area of the toner image transferred to each of a plurality of first divided regions on a plane of a recording material in a feeding direction, the control portion controls a driving speed of the transfer member while each of the plurality of the first divided regions passes through a transfer portion. The control portion acquires an index value correlating with a toner amount of the toner image transferred to each of a plurality of second divided regions of each first divided region in a widthwise direction, and controls the driving speed based on the index value while the first divided region passes through the transfer portion.
US11886129B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge; a transfer unit; a solvent cartridge accommodating solvent for dissolving toner; an applicator applying the solvent to the toner on a sheet; and a cover movable between an open position and a closed position. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are detachably attachable to the main casing independently of each other. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are positioned between the applicator and the cover in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the solvent cartridge is positioned closer to the applicator than the developing cartridge is to the applicator in a state where the developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are attached to the main casing and the cover is at the closed position.
US11886122B2
A method comprising providing a carbonaceous material, the substrate having a first thermal conductivity. The method further comprises depositing a first masking layer having a second thermal conductivity on at least a portion of the substrate, a ratio of the second thermal conductivity to the first thermal conductivity being less than or equal to 1:30. The method further comprises depositing a second masking layer on the first masking layer to form an etch mask, and etching an exposed portion of the substrate.
US11886121B2
A method of forming a patterned photoresist layer includes the following operations: (i) forming a patterned photoresist on a substrate; (ii) forming a molding layer covering the patterned photoresist; (iii) reflowing the patterned photoresist in the molding layer; and (iv) removing the molding layer from the reflowed patterned photoresist. In some embodiments, the molding layer has a glass transition temperature that is greater than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the patterned photoresist. In yet some embodiments, the molding layer has a glass transition temperature that is 3° C.-30° C. less than the glass transition temperature of the patterned photoresist.
US11886118B2
A material for forming an organic film, including: a compound for forming an organic film shown by the following general formula (1A); and an organic solvent, where W1 represents a tetravalent organic group, n1 an integer of 0 or 1, n2 an integer of 1 to 3, and R1 an alkynyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms. A compound for forming an organic film is cured not only under air, but also under film formation conditions of inert gas, and forms an organic film having not only excellent heat resistance and properties of filling and planarizing a pattern formed on a substrate, but also favorable adhesion to a substrate, and a material for forming an organic film containing the compound, and a substrate for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the material, a method for forming an organic film using the material, and a patterning process using the material.
US11886116B2
Multiple patterning approaches using radiation sensitive organometallic materials is described. In particular, multiple patterning approaches can be used to provide distinct multiple patterns of organometallic material on a hardmask or other substrate through a sequential approach that leads to a final pattern. The multiple patterning approach may proceed via sequential lithography steps with multiple organometallic layers and may involve a hardbake freezing after development of each pattern. Use of an organometallic resist with dual tone properties to perform pattern cutting and multiple patterning of a single organometallic layer are described. Corresponding structures are also described.
US11886115B1
A positive photosensitive resin composition comprises a resin, a diazonaphthoquinone compound and a solvent. The resin comprises a combination of any one or more of polyamic acid, polyamic ester and polyimide of a segment shown in the following structure; . The resin film formed by the positive photosensitive resin composition is applied to a semiconductor passivation film, a semiconductor element protective film, an insulating layer of an organic electroluminescent element, a flat film of a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a wiring protective insulating film of a circuit board and a flat film for displays and solid camera elements. The photosensitive resin film formed by the positive photosensitive resin composition has the characteristics of low shrinking rate and excellent heat resistance and resolving power, and has good application effect in electronic elements.
US11886111B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods of forming a substrate having a target thickness distribution at one or more eyepiece areas across a substrate. The substrate includes eyepiece areas corresponding to areas where optical device eyepieces are to be formed on the substrate. Each eyepiece area includes a target thickness distribution. A base substrate thickness distribution of a base substrate is measured such that a target thickness change can be determined. The methods described herein are utilized along with the target thickness change to form a substrate with the target thickness distribution.
US11886105B2
The present disclosure provides a base assembly of voice coil motor and a voice coil motor. The base assembly includes a base body having a first elastic piece connecting area, a lower elastic piece disposed on the first elastic piece connecting area, and a first terminal disposed in the base body. The first terminal has: a first conductive part disposed in the base body; a first terminal connecting part disposed on one side of the first conductive part and extending toward a direction away from the first conductive part, wherein a part of the first terminal connecting part protrudes from the first elastic piece connecting area and is connected with the lower elastic piece; and an engaging part disposed on one side of the first terminal connecting part and extending toward a direction away from the first terminal connecting part.
US11886101B2
A projector is provided with a CPU, a first memory which is a volatile memory to be reset when the projector makes the transition to a standby state, and a second memory which is a volatile memory capable of keeping data in the standby state of the projector. The CPU stores OSD data in the second memory when the projector makes the transition to the standby state.
US11886099B2
An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. The contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. The attachment detection and communication request contacts are disposed between a contact closest one end and a contact closest to another end in the first direction. The attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the one end. In the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than that between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the other end.
US11886085B2
Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of touch signal lines disposed on the base substrate. The data lines have a plurality of first extending parts and a plurality of second extending parts which are in an alternating arrangement. When the array substrate is used to prepare a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panel is displaying, in each column of the sub-pixels, the voltage polarities of the two adjacent sub-pixels which respectively belong to two adjacent first pixel regions are opposite.
US11886079B2
The wavelength conversion member includes a wavelength conversion layer containing quantum dots, in which the wavelength conversion layer is provided between two substrates, at least one of the two substrates has a barrier layer, the wavelength conversion member has a total thickness of 120 μm or less, the wavelength conversion member has a rub resistance of 100 g or more, and the wavelength conversion member exhibits a bend resistance of a mandrel diameter of 4 mm or less in a bend resistance test carried out according to a cylindrical mandrel method specified in JIS K 5600-5-1:1999.
US11886070B2
A display panel and a method of manufacturing the display panel are provided. The display panel includes a color filter substrate, a first conductive layer, a thin film transistor substrate, a second conductive layer, a first pad group, a second pad group, and a conductive adhesive strip. The conductive adhesive strip includes a plurality of metal particles, and different metal particles have different contact resistances and voltage drops, so that the signal voltage is effectively distributed during alignment.
US11886066B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel and a light-emitting module. The light-emitting module includes a first light source having a first light-emitting point, a second light source having a second light-emitting point, a first light guide and a second light guide forming a contact portion in contact with the first light guide. The first light guide and the second light guide are arranged in a first direction, and a distance between the contact portion and the first light-emitting point along the first direction is equal to a distance between the contact portion and the second light-emitting point along the first direction.
US11886050B2
An electro-optic medium is disclosed including a continuous phase comprising a binder and a discontinuous phase comprising electro-optic material. The binder may include one or more elastomers having a Young's modulus less than 25 MPa. The electro-optic material may include capsules that encapsulate various kinds of materials capable of switching optical states, such as a plurality of charged particles dispersed in a suspending fluid and capable of moving upon application of an electric field to the suspending fluid. The electro-optic medium may be incorporated into a laminated flexible electro-optic display having an outer light-transmissive protective layer and conductive material on either side of the electro-optic medium. The conductive material on at least one side of the electro-optic medium may also be light-transmissive. The opposing side of the display relative to the outer protective layer may also include a substrate.
US11886048B2
A lens that includes an electroactive region where an optical characteristic changes by electric control comprises: a transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate disposed facing the first transparent substrate; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate; and including a mark including information.
US11886047B2
A lens, system for designing, computer program for designing and a method for designing, with a computer, a progressive addition lens including a distance vision region, a near vision region, and an intermediate vision region, wherein a power gradually changes between the distance vision region and the near vision region, and wherein the progressive addition lens is based on prescription data, the method including: determining a transmission astigmatic performance parameter corresponding to a sum of a prescribed astigmatism included in the prescription data and of a predetermined amount of extra astigmatism; determining lens surface data corresponding to the determined transmission performance parameter.
US11886043B2
A modular wearable optics device including: at least one wearable support element; one or more active optical elements adapted in use to display an image to a user; one of a plurality of bridging elements selected to position or orientate the one or more active optical elements in a predetermined location based on one or more anthropometric characteristics of the user.
US11886029B2
Cable managers are provided. A cable manager includes a body configured to be selectively engaged with a loose end of a first cable, wherein the body defines an effective unbiased length, as measured in an unbiased state, and an effective biased length, as measured in a biased state, and wherein the effective biased length is greater than the effective unbiased length.
US11886028B1
A rollable ribbon separator tool for separating fibers in a rollable ribbon, the rollable ribbon separator including a chassis having a length and a guide surface along the chassis length for receiving a first portion of a rollable ribbon in a flattened position, the guide surface for positioning the first portion of the rollable ribbon having a first node with selected fibers to be separated, the selected fibers being positioned flat on the guide surface. The rollable ribbon separator includes a blade securable to the chassis, the blade having a cutting edge positioned toward the guide surface at an acute angle to the guide surface. The angle of the blade cutting edge with respect to the guide surface allows the cutting edge to urge the first portion of the flattened ribbon fibers against the guide surface when the fibers are drawn through the chassis along the guide surface.
US11886023B2
In one example, an optoelectronic module may include a stack assembly including an electrical integrated circuit and an optical integrated circuit electrically and mechanically coupled to one another, an interposer electrically and mechanically coupled to the stack assembly, and an optical connector to optically couple the optical integrated circuit with an array of optical fibers.
US11886002B2
An optical multiplexing circuit capable of accurately monitoring light of a plurality of wavelengths is provided. An optical multiplexing circuit includes a plurality of branching units configured to each divide light output from a corresponding one of a plurality of input waveguides, a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex a plurality of first beams of the light, each obtained by dividing the light by a corresponding one of the plurality of branching units, an output waveguide configured to output the light multiplexed by the multiplexing unit, a plurality of monitoring multiplexing units that are optical circuits identical to the multiplexing unit, a plurality of first monitoring waveguides configured to output a plurality of second beams of the light, each obtained by dividing the light by a corresponding one of the plurality of branching units, to corresponding ones of the plurality of monitoring multiplexing units, and a plurality of second monitoring waveguides configured to each output an output of a corresponding one of the plurality of monitoring multiplexing units.
US11885993B2
An optical filter (1a) includes a UV-IR-absorbing layer and has the following characteristics (i) to (v) when light with wavelengths of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident at an incident angle of 0°: (i) an average transmittance of 78% or more in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 600 nm; (ii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 750 nm to 1080 nm; (iii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 350 nm; (iv) a decreasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 600 nm to 750 nm and a first IR cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 620 nm to 680 nm; and (v) an increasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 450 nm and a first UV cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 430 nm.
US11885989B2
A light control film, comprises a light input surface and alight output surface opposite the light input surface. Alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions are disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface. The absorptive regions have an aspect ratio of at least 30 and the alternating transmissive region and absorptive regions have a relative transmission at a viewing angle of 0 degrees of at least 75%.
US11885984B2
A housing including a first viewing direction and a second viewing direction opposite to the first viewing direction, a first display unit disposed to be spaced from a top surface on a side of one end of the housing at a first interval with a display surface facing the housing, a second display unit disposed on a side of the other end of the housing, a first optical element configured to transmit a portion of light emitted from the first display unit and reflect a portion of the light, a second optical element configured to transmit a portion of light emitted from the second display unit and reflect a portion of the light, and a third optical element configured to transmit a portion of the light emitted from the first display unit and the second display unit and reflect a portion of the light.
US11885978B2
Disclosed are a micro-lens structure, a displaying device, and a machining method of the micro-lens structure. The micro-lens structure specifically comprises: micro-lens units distributed in an array, wherein each micro-lens unit comprises at least two micro-lenses made of a photoresist, and the at least two micro-lenses have different arch heights.
US11885976B2
An optical module includes a first side and a second side, and includes a movable portion, a fixed portion, a driving portion, a position-sensing portion, and a circuit board. The movable portion includes a holder for holding an optical element with an optical axis. The fixed portion includes a base and a circuit component, wherein the circuit component has an external electrical connection portion, and the movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion. The driving portion is configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The position-sensing portion includes a position-sensing element, and the position-sensing element is configured to sense the position of the movable portion relative to the fixed portion. The circuit board is electrically connected to the position-sensing component, and the position-sensing element is disposed on the circuit board; wherein the circuit board is disposed on the first side, and the external electrical connection portion is disposed on the second side.
US11885969B2
An example head-mounted display device includes a plurality of optical elements in optical communication. The optical elements are configured to project an image in a field of view of a user wearing the head-mounted display device. A first optical element is configured to receive light from a second optical element. The first optical element defines a grating at along a periphery of the first optical element. The grating includes a plurality of protrusions extending from a base portion of the first optical element. The protrusions include a first material having a first optical dispersion profile for visible wavelengths of light. The grating also includes a second material disposed between at least some of the plurality of protrusions along the base portion of the first optical element. The second material has a second optical dispersion profile for visible wavelengths of light.
US11885965B1
A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules are coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer layers of adhesive. The lens is removably coupled to the display indirectly by the stiffener. The head support is coupled to the housing for supporting the housing on a head of a user with the two display modules positioned to provide the graphical content to eyes of the user.
US11885964B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. An electronic device according to the present disclosure may include: an optical system generating light for implementing an image; and a display emitting the light provided from the optical system to an exit location set according to an incident location and an incident angle, in which the optical receiver may include a light source, and a reflector has a shape bent at a different angle with respect to the display while reflecting the light generated by the light source to the display. The electronic device according to the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
US11885955B2
A circuit board includes a flexible circuit board layer, a rigid circuit board layer, a chip connection portion, and a bending portion. The chip connection portion includes at least part of the flexible circuit board layer and at least part of the rigid circuit board layer overlapping the flexible circuit board layer. The bending portion includes at least part of the flexible circuit board layer and at least part of the rigid circuit board layer overlapping the flexible circuit board layer. The bending portion is connected to the chip connection portion in an invertible manner, after the bending portion is inverted to the rear side of the chip connection portion, a part of the flexible circuit board layer of the bending portion and a part of the flexible circuit board layer of the chip connection portion are arranged face-to-face.
US11885947B2
A lattice light sheet microscope includes a single spatial light modulator (SLM), the optical modulation plane of which conjugates to an image plane of an excitation objective and which is configured to: generate an optical lattice by loading a phase map obtained from a central cross section of a corresponding optical lattice of a desired lattice light sheet, and tile the optical lattice by loading a phase map obtained from an off-center cross section of the corresponding optical lattice. The lattice light sheet microscope also includes a transparent annular diaphragm arranged at a plane conjugating to the entrance pupil of the excitation objective lens. The lattice light sheet microscope further includes a first galvanometer configured to: scan each optical lattice in the extending direction thereof so as to form a tiled lattice light sheet.
US11885935B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: eight lenses which are, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, and an eighth lens having a positive refractive power; and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 2.00≤f2/f≤5.00; and 2.50≤(R15+R16)/(R15−R16)≤15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for ultra-thinness and long focal length.
US11885932B2
A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −5.00≤f2/f≤−2.50; 2.00≤d5/d6≤4.00; −4.00≤R7/R8≤−1.30; and −2.00≤(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≤−1.00. The above camera optical lens may meet design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness, while maintaining a high imaging quality.
US11885926B2
An electronic device includes: a housing including a first surface facing a first direction; and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein an inner space is formed between the first surface and the second surface; a board disposed in the inner space; a geomagnetic sensor disposed on the board; and a processor. The geomagnetic sensor is configured to detect a first magnetic force, when a first cover part of the cover, including a first magnetic member, is disposed to cover the first surface from the first direction of the electronic device, and detect a second magnetic force, when a second cover part of the cover, including a second magnetic member, is disposed to cover the second surface from the second direction of the electronic device in a state where the first cover part is disposed to cover the first surface from the first direction of the electronic device.
US11885922B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting at least one natural contour of a geologic object in 3D seismic data may comprise: (a) receiving at least one first predetermined data set from said 3D seismic data comprising a plurality of phase events; (b) selecting at least one first seed phase event having a first phase characteristic from said plurality of phase events; (c) determine a characterizing score between said selected at least one first seed phase event and each one of a predetermined number of candidate phase events of said at least one first predetermined data set; (d) assigning said characterizing score to each one of said predetermined number of candidate phase events; (e) adjusting said characterizing score of at least one of said predetermined number of candidate phase events in accordance with at least one first boundary condition; (f) determining at least one natural contour between said at least one first seed phase event and at least a second phase event, utilizing an optimization algorithm; (g) generating a visual representation of said at least one natural contour within said at least one first predetermined data set.
US11885917B2
Estimation and imaging of linear and nonlinear propagation and scattering parameters in a material object where the material parameters for wave propagation and scattering has a nonlinear dependence on the wave field amplitude. The methods transmit at least two pulse complexes composed of co-propagating high frequency (HF) and low frequency (LF) pulses along at least one LF and HF transmit beam axis, where said HF pulse propagates close to the crest or trough of the LF pulse along at least one HF transmit beam, and where one of the amplitude and polarity of the LF pulse varies between at least two transmitted pulse complexes. At least one HF receive beam crosses the HF transmit beam at an angle, to provide at least two HF cross-beam receive signals from at least two transmitted pulse complexes with different LF pulses.
US11885913B2
The present application discloses a LiDAR, which includes a base including a bearing surface, an adjusting structure located on the bearing surface, and a laser transceiving module including a plurality of laser transceiving devices. A galvanometer module of the LiDAR is fixed on the bearing surface. Each laser transceiving device is fixed on the adjusting structure, respectively. Each laser transceiving device is able to generate an outgoing laser emitted to the galvanometer module, respectively. The adjusting structure is configured so that each of the laser transceiving devices has a corresponding distance from the bearing surface, and therefore, the outgoing lasers generated by each of the laser transceiving devices form a preset laser detection field of view outside the LiDAR.
US11885911B2
An efficient approach to reconstruct the scanner trajectory of the mobile LIDAR system from the point cloud with minimal user parameters. The process of reconstructing trajectory comprises four steps: (1) spin rate estimation, (2) scan plane estimation, (3) scan origin estimation, and (4) global smoothing.
US11885899B2
Methods and systems for generating map information of an environment using channel state information (CSI) of wireless signals received by access points (APs) in the environment are disclosed. In some implementations, a system uses CSI of a wireless signal received by a respective AP to determine a time-of-flight (ToF) and an angle-of-arrival (AoA) of one or more reflected path signal components of the wireless signal, and estimates the locations of points or surfaces in an area of the respective AP based on the ToF and AoA of the reflected path signal components. The estimated locations of the points or surfaces can be used to generate map information for the area. The system aggregates map information generated for different areas of the environment to determine map information for the entire environment. The wireless signals may be received from wireless stations or user equipment, or may be received from the respective AP.
US11885895B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for determining a joint priority of sidelink and access link (Uu) positioning reference signal (PRS) transmissions in a wireless communication system. A joint priority of a PRS transmission may refer to a priority of the PRS transmission over the entire set of PRS transmissions including sidelink PRS transmissions and Uu PRS transmissions transmitted to a target UE in a sidelink positioning session. In aspects, a joint priority of a sidelink PRS transmission from an anchor UE may be determined with respect to not only other sidelink transmissions, but also with respect to other Uu PRS transmissions from other anchor base stations. Similarly, a joint priority of a Uu PRS transmission from an anchor base station may be determined with respect to not only other Uu transmissions, but also with respect to other sidelink PRS transmissions from other anchor UEs.
US11885892B2
A method for ascertaining output data of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) locating device based on GNSS satellite signals in a vehicle, includes a) receiving surroundings data from the surroundings of the vehicle, b) generating a surroundings model to describe the surroundings of the vehicle using the surroundings data received in step a), c) receiving GNSS satellite signals from GNSS satellites using a GNSS receiver, and d) ascertaining output data of the GNSS locating device from the GNSS satellite signals received in step a). The surroundings model generated in step b) is used to compensate for anomalies caused by the surroundings of the propagation of the GNSS satellite signals from the GNSS satellites to the GNSS receiver.
US11885888B2
A satellite for implementing a protocol associated with a distributed satellite position verification system is provided. The satellite, on implementing the protocol, verifies records of positions of one or more other satellites in the distributed satellite position verification system. According to the protocol, the satellite performs, at different time instances, a first operation, a second operation, or a third operation to act as a first satellite, a second satellite, or a third satellite, respectively in the distributed satellite position verification system. When the first satellites performs the first operation, the first satellite verifies at least some positions in the records of positions of the second satellite such that the first satellite: determines a verified position of the second satellite; calculates a deviation between the verified position and a prior estimated position of the second satellite; and records the verified position into the records, based on the calculated deviation.
US11885878B2
In an embodiments, a method for operating a time-of-flight (ToF) ranging array includes: illuminating a field-of-view (FoV) of the ToF ranging array with radiation pulses; receiving reflected radiation pulses with a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) in a region of interest (ROI) of the ToF ranging array, the plurality of SPADs arranged in a plurality of SPAD clusters; determining an ambient count of ambient light events generated by SPADs of a first SPAD cluster of the plurality of SPAD clusters; and gating an output of the first SPAD cluster based on the ambient count.
US11885876B2
An underwater ultrasonic device includes a curvilinear ultrasonic transducer and a plurality of straight linear ultrasonic transducers. The straight linear ultrasonic transducers are disposed with respect to the curvilinear ultrasonic transducer. A first angle is included between the straight linear ultrasonic transducers. One of the curvilinear ultrasonic transducer and the straight linear ultrasonic transducer is configured to transmit a plurality of ultrasonic signals. Another one of the curvilinear ultrasonic transducer and the straight linear ultrasonic transducer is configured to receive a plurality of reflected signals of the ultrasonic signals.
US11885875B2
Devices and methods for aiding a large area search for objects. A searcher transmits interrogation signals of long range relative to the return range to be received by a device at the target object. The target device responds with a ping signal modified to be more easily found by means of information contained in the interrogation signal. The information may be in the nature of the received signal or data encoded and embedded. The target device may use a microprocessor to do complex operations using the information from the interrogation signal and other information. Detection of a weak ping is facilitated by such means as being beamed in the direction of the interrogation, arriving at a predictable time, or having parameters adapted to values requested by the searcher. The object is then intercepted with help of the ping or other signals from the device.
US11885872B2
A method for camera radar fusion includes receiving, by the processor, radar object detection data for an object and modeling, by a processor, a three dimensional (3D) physical space kinematic model, including updating 3D coordinates of the object, to generate updated 3D coordinates of the object, in response to receiving the radar object detection data for the object. The method also includes transforming, by the processor, the updated 3D coordinates of the object to updated two dimensional (2D) coordinates of the object, based on a 2D-3D calibrated mapping table and modeling, by the processor, a two dimensional (2D) image plane kinematic model, while modeling the 3D physical space kinematic model, where modeling the 2D image plane kinematic model includes updating coordinates of the object based on the updated 2D coordinates of the object.
US11885866B2
Auto-calibrating current sensor integrated circuits (ICs) are configured for mounting at a position relative to a conductor. The auto-calibrating current sensor ICs can include a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements disposed at different locations within the integrated circuit, respectively, and can be configured to measure a magnetic field produced by a current carried by the conductor. The auto-calibrating sensors can include an electromagnetic model of the IC and the conductor. The model can be operative to determine a magnetic field at points in space due to a given current in the conductor at a known location of the conductor from the IC, and also the inverse situation of determining an unknown current and/or location of the conductor based on measurements of a magnetic field at known locations in space due to an unknown current in the conductor. Related auto-calibration methods are also described.
US11885863B2
A method to reconstruct images from raw MRI data, and recover an image by solving an optimization problem. Hence, the method is an image reconstruction system for image recovery contrary to similar methods, the method reconstructs all images using both joint and individual objective functions. The method includes: acquiring with the MRI system, multiple images under an influence of different contrast mechanisms, wherein the different contrast mechanisms belong to a same anatomy, solving an optimization problem with an optimization algorithm using both joint and individual objective functions simultaneously for each of multiple image contrasts or a subset of the multiple image contrasts, to reconstruct the multiple images from acquired data.
US11885848B2
A device for assessing remaining life of a rotating electrical machine includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire actual running performance data and electrical data about the rotating electrical machine to be assessed; an index value calculation unit configured to calculate a first index value to a third index value based on the acquired data, and to calculate, as a fourth index value, an estimation value of a residual withstand voltage value of the rotating electrical machine by performing analysis that uses an MT method on each piece of the electrical data; and an insulation deterioration estimation unit configured to assess the remaining life of the rotating electrical machine by estimating the remaining life of the rotating electrical machine with use of four index values from the first index value to the fourth index value.
US11885846B2
A system for testing a semiconductor may include a transfer chamber, at least one loadlock chamber and at least one test chamber. The transfer chamber may include a plurality of sidewalls. The loadlock chamber may be arranged on a first sidewall of the sidewalls of the transfer chamber. The loadlock chamber may include a carrier configured to receive a plurality of wafers. The test chamber may be arranged on a second sidewall of the sidewalls of the transfer chamber. When the transfer chamber is connected to the loadlock chamber, a pressure of the transfer chamber may be changed into a pressure of the loadlock chamber. When the transfer chamber is connected to the test chamber, the pressure of the transfer chamber may be changed into a pressure of the test chamber.
US11885835B2
A magnetic field detection apparatus includes a magnetoresistive effect element and a coil. The coil includes first and second tier parts opposed to each other in a first axis direction, with the magnetoresistive dal element interposed therebetween. The coil is configured to be supplied with a current and thereby configured to generate an induction magnetic field to be applied to the magnetoresistive effect element in a second axis direction. The first tier part includes first conductors extending in a third axis direction, arranged in the second axis direction and coupled in parallel to each other. The second tier part includes a second conductor or second conductors extending in the third axis direction, the second conductors being arranged in the second axis direction and coupled in parallel to each other. The first conductor each have a width smaller than a width of the second conductor or each of the second conductors.
US11885830B2
In some implementations, a probe tip assembly includes a driver printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and a probe tip subassembly. The probe tip subassembly includes a plurality of probe tips, wherein a probe tip, of the plurality of probe tips, extends beyond an end of the PCBA, and the PCBA and the probe tip are configured to transmit an electric signal to test an optical component. The probe tip may include a material comprising at least one of copper (Cu), a beryllium copper (BeCu) alloy, tungsten (W), Paliney, Neyoro, and/or another conductive material.
US11885826B2
A biochemical analysis apparatus includes a piercer for piercing a cover member, a nozzle that passes through the piercer which has pierced the cover member and suctions a specimen, a liquid surface sensor that detects contact of the nozzle with the specimen, and a controller that drives the nozzle and the piercer, in which the controller provides an error notification upon detection of contact of the nozzle with the accommodation object inside the piercer, and upon detection of a collision of the nozzle with the cover member.
US11885823B2
The present invention describes an integrated incubator and image capture module that regulates the incubator atmosphere and obtains high-resolution digital images of sample specimens. The incubator has a cabinet type enclosure that enables the provision of a controlled environment to the contents of the incubator by having at least three ports on one face of the cabinet for the passage of sample containers. Additionally, an image capture module is located immediately adjacent to the incubator. In this regard, using at least three separate access/egress points for the sample containers streamlines operation of the system and enhances preservation of the incubator environment. Furthermore, locating the image capture module directly adjacent to the incubator reduces the amount of time a sample container is exposed to the external environment, thereby reducing the extent to which samples are exposed to potential contaminants and reducing the exchange of the lab and ambient atmospheres.
US11885818B2
The present invention relates to reagents which are suitable to be used in mass spectrometry as well as methods of mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules using said reagents.
US11885813B2
This disclosure relates to methods of diagnosing and predicting renal disease, using one, two, or more biomarkers, including sTN-FR1, sTNFR2, sFAS, TNF, and IL-6.
US11885811B2
The present invention provides rapid, sensitive high-throughput methods and systems for characterizing peptides or proteins using hydrophobic interaction chromatography-coupled native mass spectrometry to improve manufacturing process of biopharmaceutical products, such as identifying impurities during antibody purification, monitoring post-translational modification variants during production, or characterizing drug-to-antibody ratio of antibody-drug conjugates. The separation profiles of the peptides or proteins are generated and compared to identify or qualify the peptides or proteins.
US11885809B2
A method for determining a presence of at least one guest structure at a host structure. The method comprises a light-sensitive system receiving light from the host structure. The host structure hosts one or more optically active entities at at least one part of the host structure. The at least one part does not host the at least one guest structure. Furthermore, the optically active entities cause light emission from the at least one part. The method also comprises the light-sensitive system outputting a signal based on the received light a step of determining a light value based on the output signal. The light value indicates an amount of light from the host structure incident on the light-sensitive system. The method also comprises determining on the basis of the light value at least one of a quantity and a position of the at least one guest structure.
US11885796B2
An in vitro method for identifying an anti-cancer agent, the therapeutic efficacy of which is enhanced upon administration with a second agent that increases the expression of OPRK1 and/or BAD, comprising the steps of: a. co-incubating a population of cells with a target anti-cancer agent and said second agent and b. measuring the cytotoxicity and/or cytostasis in the population of cells; wherein the therapeutic efficacy of the target anti-cancer agent is enhanced if the cytotoxicity and/or cytostasis of the target anti-cancer agent is increased compared to a control.
US11885782B2
A first method for determining an amount of water in a sample includes the step of providing a reagent including: sulfur dioxide or a derivative thereof; a base; an optional hydrogen halide or hydrogen halide donor; a solvent; and a sulfonic acid; and the step of titrating the sample with the reagent. A second method for determining an amount of water in a sample includes the step of providing the aforementioned reagent, combining the sample with the reagent; and adding a source of iodine to the sample and/or the reagent. The reagent may alternatively consist essentially of sulfur dioxide or a derivative thereof; imidazole and/or a derivative thereof; an optional hydrogen halide or hydrogen halide donor; acetonitrile; methane sulfonic acid; and methanol and/or ethanol.
US11885759B2
Methods, systems, and program products of inspecting solar panels using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are disclosed. A UAV can obtain a position of the Sun in a reference frame, a location of a solar panel in the reference frame, and an orientation of the solar panel in the reference frame. The UAV can determine a viewing position of the UAV in the reference frame based on at least one of the position of the Sun, the location of the solar panel, and the orientation of the solar panel. The UAV can maneuver to the viewing position and point a thermal sensor onboard the UAV at the solar panel. The UAV can capture, by the thermal sensor, a thermal image of at least a portion of the solar panel. A server onboard the UAV or connected to the UAV can detect panel failures based on the thermal image.
US11885756B2
A method for examining a biological fluid whereby quantitative examinations of various minerals and methionine, one of essential amino acids, contained in a biological fluid can be conducted simply, accurately, and at a low price is provided, wherein using an X-ray fluorescence analysis device, content ratios of minerals contained in a biological fluid of a subject which can be taken by the subject to sulfur originating in methionine contained therein are measured, contents of the sulfur and the minerals contained therein are calculated using the measured content ratios and calibration curves previously prepared by X-ray fluorescence analysis of standard solutions of the sulfur and the minerals, and a content of the methionine contained therein is calculated on the basis of the calculated content of the sulfur.
US11885748B2
Nephelometric measuring devices are described. The nephelometric measuring devices can be configured such that an amount of scattered light having different pathlengths impingent upon one or more scattered-light detectors from a beam propagating through a suspension can result in substantially equivalent sensitivity and in correlation between the scattered-light detectors' response and a turbidity value of the suspension. The response of the scattered-light detector(s) receiving scattered light at a nephelometric angle of 85-110° from a beam of light propagating through the suspension can be in accordance to an equation selected from a group of non-linear equations where: x/y=anxn+an−1xn−1+ . . . +a2x2+a1x+a0; where “n” is an integer greater than 0; “x” is equal to the turbidity value of the suspension; “y” is equal to the response of the scattered-light detector; and “an” are calibration coefficients. The maximum response of the scattered-light detector occurs at a turbidity value dependent upon the effective scattered-light pathlength.
US11885739B2
Methods and assemblies may be used for determining and using standardized spectral responses for calibration of spectroscopic analyzers. The methods and assemblies may be used to calibrate or recalibrate a spectroscopic analyzer when the spectroscopic analyzer changes from a first state to a second state, the second state being defined as a period of time after a change to the spectroscopic analyzer causing a need to calibrate or recalibrate the spectroscopic analyzer. The calibration or recalibration may result in the spectroscopic analyzer outputting a standardized spectrum, such that the spectroscopic analyzer outputs a corrected material spectrum for an analyzed material, and defining the standardized spectrum. The corrected material spectrum may include signals indicative of material properties of an analyzed material, the material properties of the material being substantially consistent with material properties of the material output by the spectroscopic analyzer in the first state.
US11885736B2
A method is disclosed. In one example, the method includes bonding a first panel of a first material to a base panel in a first gas atmosphere, wherein multiple hermetically sealed first cavities encapsulating gas of the first gas atmosphere are formed between the first panel and the base panel. The method further includes bonding a second panel of a second material to at least one of the base panel and the first panel, wherein multiple second cavities are formed between the second panel and the at least one of the base panel and the first panel.
US11885728B2
A measurement system includes a vessel for containing a fluid and at least one solid material and a probe assembly for disposing partially into the fluid within the vessel. The probe assembly includes a hollow tube having an open lower longitudinal end and at least one pressure sensor within the hollow tube, the at least one pressure sensor configured to measure pressures of the fluid within the hollow tube at at least two different elevations. A method of measuring a mass of suspended solids within a fluid, the method includes receiving pressure measurements representing two different elevations of the fluid within a hollow tube and substantially free of the suspended solids and based at least partially on the received pressure measurements, determining a mass of the suspended solids.
US11885726B2
A particulate matter sensor module includes a light source and a light detector mounted on a substrate. A housing is attached to the substrate and includes first and second sections attached to one another in a stack over the substrate such that the first section is disposed between the substrate and the second section. The first and second sections, in combination, define a light reflection chamber, a fluid flow conduit, a particle-light interaction chamber, and a light trap chamber. The first section has a first aperture through which light emitted by the light source can pass to a reflective surface within the light reflection chamber. The reflective surface is configured to reflect the light toward the particle-light interaction chamber where the light can interact with particles in a fluid flowing in the fluid flow conduit. The first section has a second aperture through which light scattered in the particle-light interaction chamber as a result of interaction with one or more of the particles can pass for sensing by the detector. The fluid flow conduit includes a fluid inlet portion having an end coupled directly to the particle-light interaction chamber.
US11885722B2
A sampling device is provided for concentrating a liquid specimen sample, including a filtration assembly, which includes a tubular container and a plunger. The plunger includes a plunger head and a plunger rod that is shaped so as to define an internal plunger space having a plunger-space proximal opening through a proximal end of the plunger rod. The sampling device is configured such that a filter is removable from the tubular container via the plunger-space proximal opening while the plunger head is within the tubular container. Other embodiments are also described.
US11885721B2
An abnormality determination method includes: a first distance calculation step of calculating, based on measurement data of an object, a first Mahalanobis distance in a first unit space corresponding to a normal mode of the object; a second distance calculation step of calculating, based on the measurement data, an (i+1)-th Mahalanobis distance in an (i+1)-th unit space corresponding to an i-th abnormal mode of the object for each integer i greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and an abnormality determination step of determining, based on the second to (N+1)-th Mahalanobis distances, one of the first to N-th abnormal modes where the object is when the first Mahalanobis distance exceeds a threshold value.
US11885720B2
A time series data processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an extracting unit configured to extract, from normal period time series data that is time series data of a period during which a measurement target is determined to be in a normal state of time series data including a plurality of parameters based on data measured from the measurement target, a combination of the plurality of parameters in which a value of another parameter with respect to a value of a predetermined parameter is maximum among combinations of the plurality of parameters, as a normal period maximum value.
US11885719B2
Provided is a measurement data recording apparatus including: an acquisition portion configured to acquire time-series measurement data obtained by measuring a state of a target; a recording portion configured to record the acquired measurement data; a measurement data transmission portion configured to transmit the measurement data recorded in the recording portion to a generation apparatus configured to generate a determination model for determining a quality of the state of the target; a model reception portion configured to receive the determination model generated by the generation apparatus; and a determination portion configured to determine the quality of the state of the target from newly acquired measurement data using the received determination model.
US11885718B2
A system for determining parameters of a cloud atmosphere within a wind tunnel. The system includes: a light projector configured to project a pulse of light energy into a projection field of view; at least one light detector having a detection field of view that forms a range-limited intersection with the projection field of view, the range-limited intersection having a maximum sampling range so as to exclude wall structures of the wind tunnel, wherein the at least one light detector is configured to detect a backscattered portion of the projected pulse of light energy backscattered from within the range-limited intersection; and a cloud parameter calculator configured to determine parameters of the cloud atmosphere based on the backscattered portions detected.
US11885709B2
A method including acquiring a first test pattern in which an operation variable for an engine test is changed in time series, inputting a first operation variable to a mathematical model representing a time series response obtained by inputting a test pattern as a simulation of the engine test, monitoring a first monitoring parameter obtained by inputting the first operation variable to the mathematical model, holding the first operation variable until the first monitoring parameter is less than a first threshold value, creating a history of the first operation variable in the simulation as a second test pattern, monitoring a second monitoring parameter obtained by inputting a second operation variable to a real engine based on the second test pattern, holding the second operation variable until the second monitoring parameter is less than a second threshold value, acquiring time series data of the second operation variable and a controlled variable.
US11885702B2
A power measurement device, which may be mounted to an inside area of a crank arm, includes processing circuitry within a housing. The processing circuitry is coupled with strain gauges mounted on the crank arm, and produces a power value that is wireless transmitted to a separate display that may receive and display power measurements. The housing may include a mounted portion and a cantilever portion where the mounted portion houses the processing circuitry and the cantilever portion houses batteries supply energy for the processing circuitry and other features.
US11885700B2
A stretchable strain sensor includes a light-emitting element, an optical structure, and a photo-detective element. The stretchable strain sensor is located in a path of light emitted from the light-emitting element. The optical structure is configured to have optical properties that change in response to stretching of at least a portion of the stretchable strain sensor. The photo-detective element is configured to detect light transmitted through the optical structure or reflected through the optical structure.
US11885698B2
Mechanoluminescent devices and articles, such as wearable articles, that include mechanoluminescent devices. The mechanoluminescent devices may have a lateral type architecture or a vertical type architecture. The mechanoluminescent devices may be sensors, including pressure sensors.
US11885693B2
A method for measuring heat dissipation of electromechanical device includes: S1. establishing a measuring apparatus; S2. measuring and obtaining data: a mass flow m corresponding to each cooling medium flowing through a housing, a temperature T1 of a liquid inlet, a temperature T2 of a liquid outlet, a temperature T3 of an air inlet, a temperature T4 of an air outlet, a temperature T5 of the inside wall of the housing, a temperature T6 of the outside wall of the housing, a total area A of the inside wall of the housing, and a wall thickness L of the housing are measured by the measuring elements; S3. calculating the heat dissipation. The heat dissipation of the electromechanical device under a working condition is measured so as to provide a reference for the heat dissipation design of electromechanical device.
US11885689B2
The present invention discloses a wearable device with combined sensing capabilities, which includes a wearable assembly and at least one multi-function sensor module. The wearable assembly is suitable to be worn on apart of a user's body. The wearable assembly includes at least one light-transmissible window. The multi-function sensor module is located inside the wearable assembly, for performing an image sensing function and an infrared temperature sensing function. The multi-function sensor module includes an image sensor module for sensing a physical or a biological feature of an object through the light-transmissible window by way of image sensing; and an infrared temperature sensor module for sensing temperature through the light-transmissible window by way of infrared temperature sensing.
US11885686B2
A color measuring system includes a color measuring section configured to perform color measurement, a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color sample book, a selecting section configured to, in response to the color measurement being performed, compare colors of the color sample book and a color measured by the color measuring section and automatically select colors close to the measured color out of the color sample book, and a notifying section configured to notify the selected colors to a user as approximate colors of the measured color.
US11885678B2
An image processing device includes a light receiving element, a light emitting element, a battery, a power source circuit electrically coupled to the battery, a wireless communication module, a first substrate provided with the light receiving element, a second substrate provided with the light emitting element, a third substrate provided with the power source circuit, a fourth substrate provided with the wireless communication module, and a casing storing the first substrate, the second substrate, the third substrate, and the fourth substrate, in which the battery is located between the first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate, and the fourth substrate.
US11885660B2
A device for precise dispensing of liquids utilizing pressure-operated valves to control fluid travel. Use of a flexible bulb within a fluid vessel provides manual actuation of the valves through application of pressure to the exterior of the fluid vessel.
US11885648B2
A method for determining a rotation angle of a magnet includes measuring a 3D magnetic field vector of a magnetic field generated by the magnet, wherein the 3D magnetic field vector describes at least a part of an ellipse in 3D space during a rotational movement of the magnet. The method further includes mapping the measured 3D magnetic field vector to a 2D vector based on a compensation mapping, wherein the compensation mapping is configured to map the ellipse in 3D space to a circle in 2D space. The method further includes determining the rotation angle of the magnet based on the 2D vector.
US11885643B2
A tool, such as a level, including one or more polymer/plastic body segment, protective cover and/or seal is provided. The covers discussed herein may limit or prevent dirt or construction materials, such as concrete, from entering into the level body. The cover may also be a non-stick material, such as a polymer outer sleeve, that limits the ability of dirt and construction material to adhere to the level. The level may also include scratch resistant vial windows.
US11885635B2
Examples are provided for identifying charging options for charging an electric vehicle. In one method, the charging options may be identified by receiving a charging station query including one or more parameters, accessing a charging station database, the charging station database storing connector codes identifying a connector type and a connector power level for charging connectors provided at a plurality of charging stations, and comparing parameters of the charging station query to the connector codes of the charging station database to identify a first subset of the plurality of charging stations that fit the parameters of the charging station query. The method may also include transmitting mapping data for the first subset of the plurality of charging stations to a client device.
US11885630B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for simulating outcomes for use in navigating procedures for resource acquisition. The system is configured for identifying initiation of at least one event by a user via an entity application, wherein the at least one event is associated with acquisition of a first resource, in response to identifying initiation of the at least one event, extracting user data associated with the user, identifying one or more procedures associated with the acquisition of the first resource, compiling the user data and the one or more procedures to generate one or more navigational recommendations associated with the acquisition of the first resource, transmitting the one or more navigational recommendations to a user device of the user, and transmitting a set of control signals to display the one or more navigational recommendations on a graphical user interface of the user device, via the entity application.
US11885622B2
A fiber-optic interferometer is designed to receive and propagate a first single-mode wave along a first optical path and, respectively, a second single-mode wave along a second optical path, the second optical path being the reverse of the first optical path, and to form a first output wave and, respectively, a second output wave, having a modulated phase difference Δϕm(t). According to the invention, the modulated phase difference Δϕm(t) is equal to sum of a first periodic phase difference Δϕπ(t) having a level equal to ±π, a second periodic phase difference Δϕalpha(t) having a level equal to ±alpha and a third periodic phase difference Δϕbeta(t) having a variable level between −beta and +beta, said modulated phase difference Δϕm(t) comprising per modulation period T at least eight modulation levels among twelve modulation levels and said modulated phase difference between such that: Δϕm(t+T/2)=−Δϕm(t).
US11885618B2
One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a three-axis micromachined gyroscope which improves the detection sensitivity for detecting angular velocity. Accordingly, the present invention provides a three-axis micromachined gyroscope, including: a base; a vibration part suspended by the base, including a vibration assembly for receiving Coriolis force and generating a position change; a drive electrode for driving the vibration part; a detection part connected with the vibration part for detecting position change of the weights after receiving Coriolis force, and converting the position change of the weight into an electrical signal for outputting; and a swing center of each weight being outside the corresponding weight. When the three-axis micromachined gyroscope receives an angular velocity, the swinging weight is subjected to Coriolis force and a corresponding position change occurs.
US11885611B2
A detection device includes: a first detector which irradiates light onto the target object and detects light emitted from the target object; a first shape information generator which generates first shape information representing a first shape of the target object on the basis of a detection result of the first detector; and a second shape information generator which adds a second shape, which is based on information different from the detection result of the first detector, to the first shape, and which generates second shape information representing a shape including the first shape and the second shape.
US11885610B2
A method for determining the thickness of a plurality of coating layers. The method comprises the steps of performing a calibration analysis on calibration data to determine initial values and search limits of optical parameters of the plurality of coating layers, irradiating the plurality of layers with a pulse of THz radiation in the range from 0.01 THz to 10 THz, detecting the reflected radiation to produce a sample response derived from the reflected radiation, producing a synthesized waveform using the optical parameters and predetermined initial thicknesses of the layers, varying the thicknesses and the optical parameters within the search limits to minimize the error measured between the sample response and the synthesized waveform, and outputting the thicknesses of the layers.
US11885609B2
The invention describes a metrology system allowing for the reduction of the errors caused by vibration of the production floor and allowing for measurements of the thickness of wafers in motion. This is accomplished by performing simultaneous measurements of spectra containing interference signals containing distance information using a plurality of probes positioned on both sides of the measured wafer on the same detector at the same time or by means of plurality of synchronized detectors. System is also able to measure thickness of the individual optically accessible layers present in the sample.
US11885608B2
An ellipsometer is provided. The ellipsometer includes: a polarizing optical element, comprising a prism, that is configured to split reflected light into two linearly polarized components of light having polarization directions orthogonal to each other, the reflected light generated by reflecting illuminated light, including linearly polarized light that is polarized in one direction, from a measurement surface of a sample; an interference member, comprising at least one body, that is configured to form at least one interference fringe in which the two linearly polarized components of light interfere with each other in directions different from the polarization directions; an image detector configured to detect the at least one interference fringe; and an analysis device including at least one processor, the analysis device configured to calculate ellipsometry coefficients Ψ and Δ based on the at least one interference fringe that is detected.
US11885607B2
An interferometric distance-measurement device includes a multi-wavelength light source which provides a beam having at least three different wavelengths. An interferometer unit splits the beam into measuring and reference beams. The measuring beam propagates in the direction of a measuring reflector movable along a measuring axis and undergoes a back-reflection, and the reference beam propagates in the direction of a stationary reference reflector and undergoes a back-reflection. The back-reflected measuring and reference beams interfere with each other in an interference beam. A detection unit splits the interference beam such that several phase-shifted partial interference signals result for each wavelength. A signal processing unit determines absolute position information regarding the measuring reflector from the partial interference signals of different wavelengths and an additional coarse position signal.
US11885605B2
A load scanning apparatus for taking physical measurements from a load. The load scanning apparatus has a scanning robot including a plurality of sensors arranged in an array spanning substantially across at least one load dimension in a first direction. The array of sensors moves together in a second direction, in a scanning plane. The plurality of sensors are configured to take images of the load from the scanning plane, and are configured to capture distance information about the distance of said load from the scanning plane.
US11885597B2
The present disclosure provides a modular armored vehicle system that includes a plurality of armored components removably affixed to a vehicle frame, wherein the plurality of armored components includes an armored roof component comprising a forward roof section, a middle roof section, and a rear roof section, wherein each of the plurality of armored components comprise a plurality of bends to form-fit onto the vehicle frame. The modular armored vehicle system further includes a first side armored component of the plurality of armored components removably affixed to the vehicle frame, wherein the first side armored component comprises a flange portion to overlap the armored roof component. Further, the modular armored vehicle component further includes a side pillar armored component of the plurality of armored components removably affixed to the vehicle frame.
US11885576B2
Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling device and method for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling device includes a solar spectrum reflecting structure configured and arranged to suppress light modes, and a thermally-emissive structure configured and arranged to facilitate thermally-generated electromagnetic emissions from the object and in mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths.
US11885574B2
A hygienic food product to food product heat exchanger (1). The heat exchanger (1) has an elongated and hollow housing (4), a metal tube plate (6) arranged at each of the opposite ends of the elongated housing (4) for defining a closed interior space (10) inside the elongated and hollow housing (4), a plurality of tightly spaced metal tubes (2) axially extending between the tube plates (2) with the ends of the tubes being received in correspondingly tightly spaced holes the tube plates (6) or with the lumen of the tubes being aligned with said correspondingly tightly spaced holes in the tube plates. The metal tubes (2) are sealingly secured to the metal tube plates (6) by a welding joint (20) on the inwardly facing side of the tube plates (6).
US11885571B2
A pulsating vapor chamber has an inner board, a first outer board, a second outer board, an asymmetric loop, and a working fluid. The inner board has a first surface and a second surface. The first and second outer boards are mounted on the first surface and the second surface of the inner board respectively. The asymmetric loop is located between the first and second outer boards and has multiple channels communicating with each other in sequence. A part of the channels are formed between the first outer board and the inner board, and the remaining channels are formed between the second outer board and the inner board. With the asymmetric loop, even if the vapor chamber is disposed horizontally, pressure may be changed by different amount in the channels so that the working fluid is still able to oscillate or circulate.
US11885568B2
The present disclosure relates to a transport mechanism apparatus for transporting at least one of a gas or a fluid. The transport mechanism may have an inlet, an outlet and an engineered cellular structure forming a periodic nodal surface, which may include a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structure. The structure is formed in a layer-by-layer three dimensional (3D) printing operation to include cells propagating in three dimensions, where the cells include non-intersecting, continuously curving wall portions having openings, and where the opening in the cells form a plurality of flow paths throughout the transport mechanism from the inlet to the outlet, and where portions of the cells form the inlet and the outlet.
US11885560B2
The present application generally relates to devices and methods for transporting, delivering, and storing items, and it more specifically relates to insulated carriers for use in transporting, delivering, and storing temperature controlled items such as perishable food and beverage items. The containers are collapsible and insulated to allow for the efficient storage and transport of the containers while empty.
US11885557B2
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet and a door configured to open and close the cabinet. The door includes a cap decoration defining an upper surface of the door and having an opening; an outer plate defining a front appearance of the door and including a display configured to indicate operation information; a door liner coupled to the outer plate and defining a rear surface of the door; an insulating material filled between the outer plate and the door liner; an inner case coupled to the outer plate and the cap decoration inside of the door and including an accommodating space that communicates with the opening; and a display assembly inserted through the opening from an outside of the door and disposed inside of the case, and the cap decoration includes a case inserting portion into which the inner case is inserted and restrained.
US11885555B2
A drain harness for a device with a drain. The drain harness may define at least a portion of one or more through openings. The drain harness may include one or more electrical wirings. The drain harness may include one or more electrical components. The drain harness may be flexible or flexed between one or more configurations. The drain harness may include one or more caps and/or seal mechanisms.
US11885552B2
A method for building an ice structure includes making a plurality of ice logs or ice beams and attaching the ice logs together to form a support structure. The support structure may be two or more stories high and may be constructed by freezing the ice logs or ice beams together.
US11885551B2
An icemaker assembly includes a mold body defining a plurality of cavities. A working fluid line is directly attached to the mold body, and a drain duct is disposed below the mold body. A defrost heating element is positioned below the mold body and within the drain duct. The defrost heating element is spaced from the mold body, and the defrost heating element is operable to melt frost on the mold body with radiant heat from the defrost heating element. A related appliance is also provided.
US11885550B2
Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein, and an ice maker disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice maker includes an upper tray made of an elastic material, and having a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers defined therein, a lower tray made of an elastic material, wherein the lower tray comes into contact with the upper tray by pivoting to define a plurality of spherical ice chambers therebetween, a driver for pivoting the lower tray to open and close the upper tray and the lower tray, and each rib formed along a circumference of each upper chamber or each lower chamber in contact with each other.
US11885536B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a clothes treating apparatus, the method comprising: a circulation step of circulating air by operating a fan; a heat exchange step of opening a refrigerant pipe by controlling an expansion valve, and circulating a refrigerant by operating a compressor; a circulation termination step of terminating the operation of the fan when the dryness level of clothes stored in a receiving part reaches a predetermined reference dryness level or when the elapsed time of the heat exchange step reaches a predetermined reference time; and a return step of closing the refrigerant pipe by controlling the expansion valve, and returning the refrigerant and lubricant in the refrigerant pipe to the compressor by operating the compressor.
US11885533B2
A refrigerant vapor compression system includes a compression device having at least a first compression stage and a second compression stage arranged in series refrigerant flow relationship. A first refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger is disposed downstream with respect to refrigerant flow of the second compression stage. A first refrigerant intercooler is disposed intermediate the first compression stage and the second compression stage. The first refrigerant intercooler is disposed downstream of the first refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger with respect to the flow of the first secondary fluid. An economizer includes a vapor line in fluid communication with a suction inlet to the second compression stage. A second refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger is disposed intermediate with respect to refrigerant flow of the second compression stage and the first refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger. A second refrigerant intercooler is disposed intermediate the first compression stage and the second compression.
US11885531B2
A fluid heating system including a burner unit is operated based on feedback control loops. The fluid heating system comprises a burner unit configured to heat a fluid, a sensor configured to sense a characteristic of the appliance, and a controller coupled to the burner unit and the sensor. The controller includes an electronic processor and a memory. The controller is configured to receive a first signal corresponding to the characteristic from the sensor, determine, based on the first signal, a first feedback loop control, control combustion of the burner unit based on the first feedback loop control, determine, based on the first feedback loop control, a second feedback loop control, and control combustion of the burner unit based on the second feedback loop control.
US11885524B2
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a refrigerant circuit configured to circulate a refrigerant to condition an air flow within an air flow conduit and a reheat system fluidly separate from the refrigerant circuit, wherein the reheat system is configured to utilize a waste fluid from a waste heat source to reheat the air flow conditioned by the refrigerant circuit.
US11885520B2
A machine learning apparatus determines an operation condition of a precooling operation or preheating operation of an air conditioner. The machine learning apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a learning unit. The acquisition unit acquires, as state variables, room temperature data at a time of the precooling operation or preheating operation, set temperature data, and outside air temperature data. The learning unit learns the operation condition of the precooling operation or preheating operation based on the state variables, a room temperature after start of the precooling operation or preheating operation, and a set temperature.
US11885518B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, an air-conditioning load state detection unit, an operation-state detection unit, and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The air-conditioning apparatus has a simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode. In the simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode, the controller controls a compressor, a pressure reducing device, and a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device such that control amounts of the compressor, the pressure reducing device, and the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device reach respective normal-time control target values that are set based on an air-conditioning load state and an operation state.
US11885516B2
A refrigeration system of a building includes: a compressor module configured to, in response to a determination that an amount of a refrigerant of the refrigeration system that is present outside of the refrigeration system and within the building is greater than a first predetermined amount, maintain a compressor off continuously for a predetermined period; and a fan module configured to, in response to the determination, maintain a fan on continuously for at least the predetermined period, and where the compressor module is further configured to, without receiving input indicative of a reset of the refrigeration system, after the compressor has been off for the predetermined period and the amount of refrigerant that is present outside of the refrigeration system within the building is less than a second predetermined amount, selectively turn the compressor on.
US11885515B2
An air conditioning system includes: a sensor; an obtainer that obtains information indicating air quality in an indoor space, which is output by the sensor; and a controller that calculates an air quality index based on the information obtained, and controls a ventilator, based on the air quality index calculated. The air quality index is expressed by f(Xn)×g(T, H), where f(Xn) denotes a function with respect to Xn that indicates at least one of a CO2 concentration, a concentration of total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), a concentration of particulate matter (PM), an NOX concentration, an SOX concentration, an O3 concentration, a mold count, or a dust count, and g(T, H) denotes a function with respect to T denoting temperature and H denoting humidity in the indoor space.
US11885512B2
A heat exchanger has first and second heat exchange units disposed one above the other. In a case where the heat exchanger functions as a condenser, refrigerant flows through the second heat exchange unit after having flowed through the first heat exchange unit. An intermediate header unit through which the first heat exchange unit and the second heat exchange unit communicate with each other causes at least a portion of refrigerant having flowed through a first heat transfer pipe group on the windward side of the first heat exchange unit to flow to a fourth heat transfer pipe group. Further, the intermediate header unit causes at least a portion of refrigerant having flowed through a second heat transfer pipe group on the leeward side of the first heat exchange unit to flow into a third heat transfer pipe group or the fourth heat transfer pipe group.
US11885503B2
The present double walled grease duct includes a tubular outer shell surrounding a tubular inner liner, wherein a spacer is positioned perpendicular to the walls of the outer shell and the inner liner. The spacer can include a plurality of vertical metal strips extend from a top edge of the spacer to the bottom edge of the spacer, wherein the top edge of the spacer contacts the walls of the outer shell and wherein the bottom edge of the spacer contacts the walls of the inner liner. The metal strips resist the different rates of thermal expansion between the outer shell and inner liner ultimately preventing the collapse of the inner liner under pressure from thermal expansion.
US11885500B1
An insert ring that suspends a fire pit at least partially within an opening of a support structure, and provides ventilation into the support structure to an outer wall of the fire pit.
US11885497B2
A fuel nozzle assembly comprising an annular slot surrounding a fuel nozzle, the annular slot having gas passages for feeding a gas into the slot and against an opposing wall of the slot. A method of operating a gas turbine engine including directing a gas flow into and across the slot against an opposing wall of the slot to generate a circulating gas flow filling the slot, the gas flow passing into the slot through one or more gas outlets within the slot and thereafter said gas flow exiting the slot into the combustion chamber, the gas outlets spaced away from the closed end of the slot. A gas turbine engine comprising a slot formed in a fuel nozzle assembly, the slot having one or more gas passages extending through a wall of the slot and feeding a gas into the slot against a another wall of the slot.
US11885495B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine, wherein the liner comprises a looped feature.
US11885493B2
A flue damper may include a vent pipe with a first side leading to an outlet of the flue damper and a second side leading to an inlet of the flue damper. A damper gate of the flue damper may be movable between an open state and a closed state, where in the open state, the first side of the vent pipe is in fluid communication with the second side, and where in the closed state, the damper gate interrupts fluid communication between the first side and the second side. A drainage port may also be included, and a plug may be movable relative to the drainage port to selectively seal the drainage port when the damper gate remains in the closed state.
US11885488B2
The invention relates to a CLC plant for the combustion of solid hydrocarbon feedstocks generating particles of unburnt residues, comprising a solid/solid separator above the combustion reactor in order to efficiently separate the particles of the oxygen-carrying solid from the particles of unburnt residues contained in the gas/solid mixture (14) exiting from the combustion reactor. The chamber (1) of the solid/solid separator, the combustion reactor and the inlet (2) for the gas/solid mixture (14) of the chamber have a parallelepiped shape. The inlet (2) is equipped at its top with means (3) for distribution of said gas/solid mixture in the chamber which extend over the entire length of the inlet, improving the solid/solid separation.
US11885467B2
An electric candle device that resembles a real was candle includes an outer shell with an uneven edge around the top of the outer shell. The device includes one or more light emitting elements positioned within a cavity inside the outer shell and that emit beams at a non-zero angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the electric lighting device to provide illumination from within the cavity in an upward direction and reaching above the top surface after passing through the opening. An optical element is positioned to receive light from the one or more light emitting elements and to direct the received light toward the top surface. The optical element has a focal point to change one or both of a size and direction of the light received prior to projecting the light in the direction of the top surface.
US11885462B2
Embodiments relate to an atomizer unit that has a chamber assembly with an injection chamber and an atomizer chamber. The injection chamber is connected to the atomizer chamber by a nozzle, and the atomizer unit has a first feed channel for feeding a first compressed air flow into the injection chamber, a second feed channel for feeding a second compressed air flow into the atomizer chamber, and an injection valve for injecting a coolant and/or lubricant into the first compressed air flow in the injection region of the injection chamber. The first compressed air flow flows from the injection chamber into the atomizer chamber through the nozzle, is atomized in the atomizer chamber by the nozzle, is combined with the second compressed air flow in the atomizer chamber in order to form a transport flow for transporting the injected coolant and/or lubricant, and can be conducted to the machining location.
US11885460B1
A system and method for securing a cable with decorative lights to an existing cable is disclosed. An outdoor lighting clip which comprises a curve and annular portion for securing two cables in proximity to each other. In use, the annular portion has a slot which may be secured over a first cable such that the clip hangs from the first cable. A second cable may then be hung on the curve of the clip, such that the first cable and second cable remain in proximity to each other. This allows the second cable to have lighting decorations hanging without sagging in the middle of cable and without the cable needing to be in tension between two anchor points. Many lighting decorations include a loop on their cable for hanging from hooks, and this clip is compatible with allowing the second cable to hang from the clip by the loop.
US11885457B2
A method manufacturing a spacer for a pipe-in-pipe system includes mixing aerogel particles with a polymer to form a mixture in which the particles are dispersed in the polymer. The resulting mixture is moulded and the polymer is solidified to form the spacer or a component of the spacer, in which the dispersed, particles are suspended in a matrix of the solidified polymer.
US11885456B2
A multilayer tape assembly is described which can be used with insulation jacketing and particularly for self-sealing lap (SSL) applications. The tape assembly includes two adhesive layers with associated carrier and release layers in conjunction with a differential release system. Various methods of use are also described, including a method of insulating an object.
US11885454B2
To inhibit damage to or failure of the bladder within a bladder-type pulsation dampener, an internal passage of a bladder saver device carrying pumped fluid from the pulsation bleed plate mounted within the internal passage and movable between a first position in which the pulsated fluid flow is unencumbered by the bleed plate and a second position in which the pulsated fluid flow is restricted by the bleed plate.
US11885452B2
A termination fitting assembly for use with a conduit includes the conduit comprising a primary pipe positioned centrally within a secondary pipe along a longitudinal axis of the conduit and the conduit having an interstitial space defined between the primary pipe and secondary pipe. The termination fitting assembly includes an interior fitting having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall sized and shaped for insertion into and sealing with the primary pipe, and the outer wall extending circumferentially around the secondary pipe of the conduit. The termination fitting assembly includes an annular channel defined between the inner wall and the outer wall of the interior fitting and in fluid communication with the interstitial space of the conduit and an exterior fitting positioned around the conduit.
US11885450B2
A quick connect coupler includes a female connector having a central bore and a plurality of recesses, and a male connector having a post insertable into the central bore. The male connector has a first tab row with a plurality of first tabs and a second tab row with a plurality of second tabs axially spaced from the plurality of first tabs. The first and second tabs are shaped corresponding to the recesses in the female connector. The first and second tab rows are circumferentially offset to effect a two- or multi-step connection between the female connector and the male connector.
US11885440B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a laminated rubber hose that includes a first layer and a second layer laminated on an outer surface of the first layer, the first layer containing a thermosetting resin in an amount of 4.5 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, the method including laminating the second layer on the outer surface of the first layer with the outer surface of the first layer maintained at a temperature range of 65° C. or more and 105° C. or less.
US11885421B2
A rotary-type valve device includes: a tubular valve having an inner passage and opening parts opened in an outer circumferential wall from the inner passage toward an outward side in a radial direction; a housing accommodating the valve and turnably supports the valve; a tubular passage member assembled in the housing such that the passage member abuts on the outer circumferential wall of the valve and defining a radial-direction passage; and a biasing spring biasing the passage member toward the outer circumferential wall The passage member includes an abutting member abutting on the outer circumferential wall, and an intervening member having an annular pressing part intervening between the abutting member and the biasing spring and partially pressurizing the abutting member. The abutting member includes an annular sealing surface aligned with the annular pressing part in a biasing direction of the biasing spring.
US11885420B2
A high purity control valve for use in high conductance, proportional control applications includes a moveable control plate having a flow-through passage to enhance fluid sweep of the internal valve volume. Nested orifice ridges are used to achieve high conductance with small actuator movement. Enhanced leak tightness can be provided by incorporating into the control plate materials softer than the material comprising the orifice ridge. The control plate comprises a control plate body having a counterbore in fluid communication with a conduit, radial fluid flow paths and axial fluid flow paths. A flat side of the control plate includes a continuous uninterrupted flat portion to shut-off fluid flow in the valve. The radial fluid flow paths provide fluid communication from the counterbore to a circumferential perimeter of the control plate and the axial fluid flow paths provide fluid communication with the fluid conduit through an intermediate valve chamber portion.
US11885416B2
The invention relates to a dynamic shaft seal which comprises (a) elastomer material and (b) graphene without a chemically modified surface in an amount of from 0.1 to 2 phr, in relation to 100 parts by weight of the elastomer material, as the sole constituent of the dynamic shaft seal made of elemental carbon.
US11885414B2
A parking apparatus for a vehicle and a transmission for a vehicle are provided. The parking apparatus for the vehicle includes an actuator, a pinion gear mounted in an end portion of the actuator and rotating in a same direction as the actuator rotates, a rack gear engaged with one side of the pinion gear and linearly moving in a tangential direction to the pinion gear as the pinion gear rotates, a push assembly including a push shaft extending from an end portion of the rack gear and a push head provided on one side of the push shaft, a parking sprag rotating according to an operation of the push assembly, and a parking gear mounted in a driver and selectively engaged with the parking sprag as the parking sprag rotates.
US11885413B2
A torque convertor and direct drive unit arrangement and operating methods are provided herein. In one example, a prime mover may be configured to be coupled to a transmission via one of a torque convertor and a direct drive unit, the direct drive unit including a higher range clutch and a lower range clutch.
