US11890844B2
A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity η1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg η1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg η01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.
US11890839B2
The present disclosure relates to multi-layer film constructions and related methods. The multi-layer film constructions can include a first layer joined to a second layer. The first layer can include one or more heat resistant materials. The second layer can include a sealant film, which can be a multi-layer film having one or more sealing layers or sublayers. The sealing layers can include a blend of one or more ionomers and polybutylene. The multi-layer film constructions can also be free from or devoid of wax.
US11890835B2
Electrochromic device laminates and their method of manufacture are disclosed.
US11890834B2
A laminated glazing for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes an exterior glass sheet adhesively bonded to an interior glass sheet by a lamination interlayer, wherein the exterior glass sheet carries a layer of a first enamel, of black color, on the periphery of its face in contact with the lamination interlayer, known as face 2, and the interior glass sheet carries on its face in contact with the lamination interlayer, known as face 3, a layer of a second enamel forming a marking and having a color other than black, located opposite the layer of the first enamel, the laminated glazing further including a polymeric seal on the face of the interior glass sheet, called face 4, opposite face 3, the seal concealing the marking.
US11890829B2
A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device are provided with: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors from above; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box bodies and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device lifting and lowering the lower conveyors and the pressing device.
US11890824B2
A system for manufacturing a thermoplastic part from a blank part having a first moulding member and a second moulding member which are configured to cooperate together. A first heating body configured to heat the first moulding member and conductively heat the blank part. Two thermal insulation members are configured to cooperatively define a closed cavity in which at least the moulding members and the first heating body are arranged. A casing defining an internal volume in which at least the moulding members, the first heating body and the thermal insulation members are arranged, and a suction member is configured to lower the internal pressure in the internal volume to compress the preform part between the moulding members.
US11890813B2
Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer program products for use in manufacturing an anatomical protective item for one or more users. Embodiments of anatomical protective items may comprise a single layer of energy controlling cells. Input data associated with one or more users is obtained. The obtained input data is processed to identify one or more energy controlling criteria for the anatomical protective item. A packing process is employed to generate each energy controlling cell in the single layer. Each energy controlling cell comprises one or more walls which extend from an upper surface of the single layer to a lower surface of the single layer. The packing process is performed at least on the basis of the identified one or more energy controlling criteria. The anatomical protective item comprising the single layer of energy controlling cells is manufactured.
US11890807B1
Systems and methods for controlling additive manufacturing processes are disclosed. The systems can include multiple laser directors, soot-removal devices, magnetic chucks, replenishable powder distribution blades, automated powder level detectors, and/or overall process automation techniques.
US11890797B2
A method for preparing an unsintered PTFE film capable of being continuously formed and with uniform density distribution and high density. The method for preparing the unsintered PTFE film includes filling a mixture obtained by adding a forming aid to PTFE fine powder in an extrusion forming die, extruding the filled mixture from the extrusion forming die to produce an extrusion forming body, rolling the extrusion forming body with a roll to produce a forming aid-removed film without the forming aid, and pinching the forming aid-removed film into a pinch roll made of a rubber roll formed by coating rubber on a metal shaft core at room temperature and compressing the forming aid-removed film so that thickness of the forming aid-removed film is reduced and density thereof is above 2.0 g/cm3.
US11890795B2
A plasticizing device includes a material reservoir which has an input port and is configured to retain a material, a plasticizer which has a screw and a case housing the screw and provided with a feed port communicated with the input port, and which is configured to plasticize the material to generate a plasticized material, a coupling pipe having a coupling path configured to connect the input port and the feed port to each other, a material sensor which has a light emitter configured to emit light toward the screw via the feed port, and a light receiver configured to receive reflected light of the light, and which is configured to detect a remaining amount of the material, and a controller configured to control the material reservoir, wherein the material reservoir has a material feed mechanism configured to feed the material to the coupling path, and the controller controls the material feed mechanism to feed the material to the coupling path when the remaining amount of the material detected by the material sensor is smaller than a reference value.
US11890774B1
Systems, methods, and devices for perforating louver perforations into a pipe are contemplated. Systems, methods, and devices for transporting pipes for perforation are contemplated. Systems, methods, and devices for performing quality control inspections of such perforations contemplated. A pipe may be oriented vertically and raised over a device that punches perforations into the pipe from the inside of the pipe toward the outside of the pipe. Various supports may contact the pipe for stabilization and to facilitate the formation of perforations without removing cut away pieces from the pipe. Electronic monitoring of the features of the pipe facilitate quality control inspection during processing. In this manner, a structurally robust pipe having a series of louver perforations along the pipe may be formed.
US11890773B2
In order to prevent slices separated from a product caliber by a slicer from adhering temporarily to a cutting surface of a blade and not coming to rest on the desired position on a base when the slices are ejected, the arrangement of one or more recesses in the blade back facing away from the product caliber is suggested in a specific way.
US11890772B2
The machine (1;100) comprises a winding station (3; 101), adapted to receive secondary winding cores (T) coaxial with, and adjacent to, one another. The machine further comprises a cutting device (11; 104) with a plurality of blades (13; 105), arranged upstream of the winding station (3; 101) with respect to the feeding direction of the web material (N) and adapted to slit the web material into a plurality of strips (S1-S5) of web material. An in-line measurement arrangement (81-87) is also provided for measuring the Poisson's ratio of the web material (N).
US11890770B2
A blank separating device includes an upper blank separating module and a lower blank separating module. The lower blank separating module includes at least three supporting elements. Each supporting element includes at least one supporting surface for bracing blanks or scrap pieces. Two of the at least three supporting elements are configured as supporting elements of a lower separating tool. The two supporting elements configured as supporting elements of the lower separating tool are each arrangeable in at least three positions in a vertical direction.
US11890769B2
An ultrasonic knife has a cutting portion formed with at least one cutting edge and a fastening portion. The fastening portion has an external thread for connection to a sonotrode. The cutting portion and the fastening portion are formed in one piece from cemented carbide material. The cemented carbide material includes hard particles that are, at least predominantly, formed by tungsten carbide and a metallic binder. The external thread of the fastening portion has a thread pitch p and is shaped such that the root of the thread turns has a rounded shape with a root radius R of 0.2*p≤R≤0.3*p.
US11890767B2
A tool comprises an underbody wall structure having an internal wall and two side walls attached to two ends of the internal wall; and a dual-latch mechanism coupled to the underbody wall structure. The dual-latch mechanism comprises a first latch configured to moveably couple to the underbody wall structure via a first brace affixed to the internal wall; a second latch configured to moveably couple to the underbody wall structure on a side opposite of the first latch, via a second brace affixed to the internal wall; and an integral connection translationally moveable with respect to the underbody wall structure and integrally connecting the first latch to the second latch, wherein moving the first latch in a first direction causes the second latch to move in the first direction. The first latch, the second latch and the integral connection are a monolithic part.
US11890766B1
A modular fabrication tool for prefabricating insulation for a duct segment includes at least three interchangeable and detachably connected panels, each panel of the at least three panels corresponding to a respective side of the duct segment. Each panel includes at least one of a connecting bar extending beyond a periphery of the respective panel or a connecting track. A connecting bar of one panel is received by a connecting track of a neighboring panel when two neighboring panels are properly positioned, adjoined together, whereby a retaining pin of the tool is advanceable through aligned, respective apertures of the connecting track and the connecting bar received therein.
US11890765B2
A retractable utility knife includes a blade carrier having a control pin and a frame liner having a control track, the carrier moveable between a retracted configuration, and deployed configuration, and a removal/replacement configuration, the control pin retaining the blade to the carrier in the retracted configuration and deployed configuration, and the control track being arranged so that the control pin releases the blade from the carrier when in the removal/replacement configuration.
US11890764B2
Artificial intelligence based systems and methods are described for analyzing pixel data of an image of a user's body for determining a hair density value of the user's hair. An example method includes aggregating a plurality of training images of a plurality of users' bodies, and training a hair density model operable to output a hair density value. The example method may further include receiving an image of a user comprising pixel data of a portion of the user's body or body area, and analyzing, by the hair density model, the image to determine a user-specific hair density value of the user's hair. The example method may further include generating a product recommendation, wherein the product is designed to address a feature identifiable within the pixel data of the user's body or body area.
US11890753B2
A cooling medium flow path structure is for use at a joint of a robot. The joint of the robot includes an N-th link and an N+1-th link. A tubular projection extends from a first wall constituting the N-th link, and a motor is located on the first wall. The cooling medium flow path structure is annularly or tubularly shaped such that an inner peripheral surface of the cooling medium flow path structure is located outside an outer peripheral surface of the motor. The cooling medium flow path structure includes an internal cooling medium flow path through which a cooling medium flows.
US11890746B2
A ground reaction force load difference calculation unit configured to calculate a ground reaction force load difference that is an amount of a load relief for a user, on the basis of a first measured value that a weight, based on a weight of the user and a weight of the load reduction device that reduces a load on the user and has a mechanism that holds luggage and is at least worn by the user, is transmitted to a ground contact surface and of a second measured value that a weight based on the weight of the user is transmitted to the ground contact surface; and a torque control unit configured to control, on the basis of the ground reaction force load difference, torque that is output by the load reduction device to reduce the load on the user at an joint of each leg of the user.
US11890745B1
The complete sawhorse is the only product of its kind that offers a foundational table that enables users to cut any specific material that is needed regardless of its weight, size, or texture. This unprecedented product is uniquely designed with a saw line and level bar to allow for a more precise and accurate sawing process, to address commercial or DIY necessities.
US11890737B2
The Overhead Drill and Anchor Press is a single mobile mechanism designed for installation of anchors into a construction surface which is overhead and out of reach of the installer. The overhead drill and anchor press may include a mast, a turret assembly, a controller, and at least one drill. The overhead drill and anchor press can execute the anchor installation sequence automatically or manually with a controller by moving the drill position to drill the hole and set the anchor. The controller may be equipped with a digital display of the turret mounted camera for monitoring the process from the ground. The entire assembly may be manually pushed between target.
US11890727B2
An electric power tool includes: a driving shaft that is rotated by a motor; an output shaft on which a front-end tool is attachable; and a torque transmission mechanism that transmits a torque produced by the rotation of the driving shaft to the output shaft. The torque transmission mechanism includes a magnet coupling including a driving magnet member coupled to a side of the driving shaft and a driven magnet member coupled to a side of the output shaft, and the driving magnet member and the driven magnet member are provided such that respective magnetic surfaces face each other, S-poles and N-poles being alternately arranged on each of the magnetic surfaces.
US11890726B2
A power tool includes a housing, a motor positioned within the housing, and an impulse assembly coupled to the motor to receive torque therefrom. The impulse assembly includes a cylinder at least partially forming a chamber containing a hydraulic fluid, an anvil positioned at least partially within the chamber, and a hammer positioned at least partially within the chamber. The hammer includes a first side facing the anvil and a second side opposite the first side. The impulse assembly further includes a biasing member biasing the hammer towards the anvil, and a valve movable between a first position that permits a first fluid flow rate of the hydraulic fluid in the chamber from the second side to the first side, and a second position that permits a second fluid flow rate of the hydraulic fluid in the chamber from the first side to the second side.
US11890719B2
In a method of polishing a silicon wafer, a final polishing step includes an upstream polishing step and a subsequent finish polishing step. In the upstream polishing step, as a polishing agent, a first alkaline aqueous solution containing abrasive grains with a density of 1×1014/cm3 or more is first supplied, and the supply is then switched to a supply of a second alkaline aqueous solution containing a water-soluble polymer and abrasive grains with a density of 5×1013/cm3 or less. In the finish polishing step, as a polishing agent, a third alkaline aqueous solution containing a water-soluble polymer and abrasive grains with a density of 5×10′13/cm3 or less is supplied. Thus, the formation of not only PIDs but also scratches with small depth can be suppressed.
US11890711B2
There is provided a processing apparatus including a holding table having a holding surface for holding thereon a workpiece with a plurality of devices formed in respective areas demarcated on a face side of the workpiece by a plurality of projected dicing lines, a processing unit that processes the workpiece held on the holding table, an image capturing unit that captures an image of the workpiece held on the holding table, a moving unit that moves the holding table relatively to the processing unit and the image capturing unit in horizontal directions along the holding surface, a touch panel that displays thereon the image captured by the image capturing unit, and a control unit. The control unit detects a line in an image positioned within an allowable region based on a contact line traced on the image displayed on the touch panel and registers the detected line.
US11890707B2
A device assembling system includes a management apparatus, a material apparatus, and an execution apparatus. The management apparatus is communicatively connected to the material apparatus and the execution apparatus, and the material apparatus and the execution apparatus are installed into an overall structure. The management apparatus is configured to obtain a maintenance task of a maintenance device. The maintenance task includes an operation type and an operation object. The management apparatus parses the maintenance task into a first control instruction and a second control instruction. The material apparatus receives the first control instruction, and searches for a to-be-assembled part according to the first control instruction, that is, the material apparatus may determine a position of the to-be-assembled part. The execution apparatus receives the second control instruction, and obtains the to-be-assembled part and assembles the to-be-assembled part to a device according to the second control instruction.
US11890704B2
A welding-type system includes a wire feeder to provide an electrode wire to a welding-type torch. A welding-type power supply to provide power to one or both of the welding-type torch or the wire feeder. A controller is configured to control a sense voltage circuit to provide a sense voltage to charge a control capacitor, monitor a voltage feedback signal, determine that a wire feeder is activated based on a first change in the voltage feedback signal, control the switched mode power supply to provide a constant voltage output signal during a welding operation, control the switched mode power supply to provide the pulsed power output in response to completion of the welding operation, determine that the wire feeder is deactivated based on a second change in the feedback signal, adjust a pulse rate of the output signal to achieve an RMS value below a predetermined RMS level.
US11890695B2
A laser marker includes: a base including: a first guide portion; and a restriction part; a laser oscillator configured to emit laser light, the laser oscillator being removably mounted to the base by sliding in a mounting direction with being placed on the base, the laser oscillator including: a second guide portion extending in the mounting direction, the second guide portion being configured to be engaged with the first guide portion; a contact part configured to be in contact with the restriction part in a case the laser oscillator is mounted to the base; and an expander; and a scanner having an insertion part, the expander being inserted into the insertion part in a case the laser oscillator is mounted to the scanner, and the scanner being configured to scan the laser light emitted from the laser oscillator.
US11890691B2
The object of the present invention is to make it possible to maintain a stable electric discharge and to achieve a stable quality and machining performance even when a work having a non-uniform composition is machined. A wire electric discharge machining device performs electric discharge machining on a work while controlling an inter-electrode distance between a wire and the work based on an inter-electrode voltage between the wire and the work so as to match a set target voltage. The wire electric discharge machining device includes an inter-electrode voltage measuring unit that measures the inter-electrode voltage, an actual amplitude calculating unit that calculates an amplitude of the measured inter-electrode voltage, and a target voltage correcting unit that corrects the target voltage in such a way that the calculated amplitude approaches the target amplitude that is set to a value larger than zero.
US11890685B2
A rotatable cutting tool for machining of a honeycomb core includes a front end; a rear end; a peripheral surface extending between the front and rear ends; a set of helical flutes formed in the peripheral surface at a first helix angle 45°≤α≤65°, having a first depth; and a set of helical ridges. At least one helical groove formed in the peripheral surface at a second helix angle 90°<β≤100°, has a second depth, which is smaller than the first depth. The at least one helical groove intersects the helical ridges so that a plurality of cutting teeth are formed on each helical ridge. Each cutting tooth includes a second ridge formed in a transition between two lands, a cutting edge and a clearance edge join in a tooth tip constituting the radially outermost point of the cutting tooth.
US11890683B2
A parting/grooving insert and a method of grinding a parting/grooving insert including rotating a plane grinding surface having a normal vector parallel to the axis of rotation and a tangential direction of rotation; providing a parting/grooving insert including a rake surface, a main clearance surface, and a main cutting edge formed between the rake and main clearance surfaces; orienting/positioning the insert relative to the grinding surface, such that the main clearance surface is parallel to the grinding surface, the normal vector of the main cutting edge being in the plane of the main clearance surface and with a vector component in the direction of rotation forming an angle to the tangential direction of rotation at the insert of at least 20 degrees from parallel orientation; and grinding the main clearance surface to provide grinding marks having an angle to the normal vector of the main cutting edge corresponding to the angle to the tangential direction of rotation.
US11890680B2
The invention relates to a piston (5) for a printhead (1) of a 3D printer, particularly a metal printer, comprising a piston rod (17) and a ram (18), the ram (18) having a discharge side (19) that has a convex or tapering surface (39). The invention also relates to a printhead (1) for a 3D printer, particularly a metal printer, comprising a housing (3), a device (28) for supplying a metal (14), a reservoir (7, 27) for a liquid phase (8) of the metal (14), a nozzle device (2) comprising a guide sleeve (11) and a nozzle plate (9), and a piston (5) according to one of the preceding claims, the ram (18), the guide sleeve (11) and the nozzle plate (9) forming a displacement chamber (21), and the ram (18) and the guide sleeve (11) forming at least one area (40) for conducting the liquid phase (8) between the reservoir (27) and the displacement chamber (21).
US11890678B2
Systems and methods for removing an oxide layer in an additive manufacturing process are provided. A direct write machine may be used to create wire bonds for semiconductors. The direct write machine may deposit a conductive print material between bond pads to create interconnections. The bond pads may comprise aluminum and an aluminum oxide layer on an outer surface. The presence of an aluminum oxide layer may decrease the electrical connection between the wire bond and the aluminum substrate. To remove the aluminum oxide layer, an abrasive tool is provided to ultrasonically abrade the aluminum oxide layer while the conductive print material is being deposited. The conductive print material may include abrasive additives materials to further aid in abrading the aluminum oxide layer.
US11890673B2
A dross extraction system for a printer is disclosed, which includes an ejector defining an inner cavity associated therewith, the inner cavity retaining a liquid printing material. The dross extraction system also includes a first inlet coupled to the inner cavity of the ejector, a probe external to the ejector, which is selectably positionable to contact the liquid printing material to attract dross thereto, thereby extracting dross from the liquid printing material when the probe is withdrawn from the liquid printing material. A method of extracting dross from a metal jetting printer is also disclosed, which includes pausing an operation of the metal jetting printer, advancing a probe into a melt pool within a nozzle pump reservoir in the metal jetting printer, extracting dross from the metal printing material and onto the probe, retracting the probe from the nozzle pump reservoir, and resuming the operation of the metal jetting printer.
US11890659B2
A method for producing metal-based thin foils is provided, which includes the steps of extruding a metal through an extruder to form a preliminary foil, cooling the preliminary foil in a coolant bath, and rolling the preliminary foil in a rolling system containing at least two rollers to form a metal-based thin foil.
US11890657B2
This present invention relates to compositions and methods of microbial enhanced oil recovery using Bacillus subtilis strains. The invention also relates to compositions and methods for performing oil degradation with Bacillus subtilis strains. The compositions and methods of the present invention are also used for enhanced commercial biosurfactant and enzyme production.
US11890648B2
A pre-cleaning system is provided. The pre-cleaning system is for providing purification of unshelled hazelnut at least partially from foreign substances before processing of unshelled hazelnut. The improvement of the pre-cleaning system is that the pre-cleaning system includes at least one first separation unit where the foreign substances, which are outside the acceptable dimensions of unshelled hazelnut, are sieved and separated, at least one second separation unit positioned in the vicinity of said first separation unit and which can provide separation of foreign substances, which have specific weight lower than the specific weight of acceptable unshelled hazelnut, by means of an artificial air flow provided in at least one flow path provided thereon, at least one third separation unit positioned in the vicinity of said second separation unit and which can provide separation of foreign substances, which have specific weight higher than the specific weight of unshelled hazelnut.
US11890645B2
A piler conveyor system for screening debris such as tare dirt from materials such as beets as the materials are conveyed across a piler. The piler conveyor system generally includes a frame supporting an upper conveyor and a pair of lower conveyors. The upper conveyor is adapted to receive materials such as beets. As the materials are conveyed by the upper conveyor, debris such as tare dirt or the like will fall through screening openings in the upper conveyor and onto the lower conveyor. The lower conveyor may then dispense the debris through a debris opening. The materials will drop off the end of the upper conveyor and fall onto the second lower conveyor, which will convey the screened materials to be dispensed.
US11890644B2
Ultrasonic devices include a transducer having a piezoelectric element therein that may operate as an acoustic signal receiving surface and/or an acoustic signal generating surface. At least one acoustic matching layer is provided on the piezoelectric element. This at least one acoustic matching layer may be configured as a composite of N acoustic matching layers, with a first of the N acoustic matching layers contacting the primary surface of the piezoelectric element. This first acoustic matching layer may have an acoustic impedance equivalent to ZL1, where N is a positive integer greater than zero. In some embodiments of the invention, the magnitude of ZL1 may be defined as: 0.75 ((Zp)N+1(Zg))1/(N+2)≤ZL1≤1.25 ((Zp)N+1(Zg))1/(N+2), where Zp is the acoustic impedance of the piezoelectric element (e.g., lead zirconate titanate (PZT)) and Zg is the acoustic impedance of a compatible gas.
US11890642B2
Methods of modifying a medical device and manufacturing a medical device are disclosed. One embodiment of a method of modifying a medical device includes treating a portion of the medical device with cold plasma and functionalizing the plasma-treated portion with a polymer. One embodiment of a method of manufacturing a medical device includes providing a subcutaneous part configured to be positioned subcutaneously in a user and performing a surface treatment on a portion of the subcutaneous part.
US11890641B2
A masking member used to coat a pipe inner circumferential surface of a vent stringer, wherein the masking member comprises: a sponge for blocking a pipe internal space of the vent stringer, the sponge having an outer circumferential surface capable of contacting the pipe inner circumferential surface; and a support member for supporting the sponge.
US11890636B2
A spray gun and a detachable liquid reservoir releasably attached to the spray gun by engagement of mateable, non-threaded formations provided on the spray gun and the reservoir. The spray gun has an integral connector boss with a socket for reception of a connector tube of the reservoir. The boss has an external flange at the distal end and the reservoir has hook members separate from the connector tube. The hook members are co-operable with the flange when the connector tube is received in the socket to secure releasably the reservoir to the spray gun. In another arrangement, the connector tube is an interference friction-fit in the socket to secure releasably the reservoir to the spray gun. In yet another arrangement, the connector tube has bayonet lugs co-operable with bayonet grooves in the wall of the socket when the connector tube is received in the socket to secure releasably the reservoir to the spray gun. In a still further arrangement, the reservoir has an integral spout received in the socket integral with the spray gun and provided with a helical projection co-operable with the underside of a radial lug externally of the socket to secure the reservoir.
US11890627B2
A coupling device is disclosed for coupling a container to a closure. The container has a container sidewall extending between a first container end and a second container end. A container undercut is defined in an outer surface of the container sidewall. The closure has a closure sidewall extending between a first closure end and a second closure end. A closure outer sidewall is located radially outward from the closure sidewall and defines a slot between the closure sidewall and the closure outer sidewall. The second container end is received within the slot of the closure. A major projection and a major depression are located between the second container end and the slot of the closure cooperating for securing the closure to the container. A minor projection and a minor depression located between the container sidewall and the closure sidewall for cooperating for additionally securing the closure to the container.
US11890624B2
A shower head includes a shower head body having a water inlet channel, a first leather cup, a surface cover assembly, a water dispensing plate located between the shower head body and the surface cover assembly, and an adjusting device having a driving mechanism and a rotating mechanism. A first water outlet communicating with the water inlet channel penetrates the first leather cup. Two sides of the water dispensing plate respectively cooperate with the shower head body and the surface cover assembly to enclose an installation cavity and a water outflow cavity. The water dispensing plate has a first water passage hole communicating with the water outflow cavity. The driving mechanism is rotatably connected to the shower head body. The rotating mechanism is located inside the installation cavity and abuts against the first leather cup and the water dispensing plate. The driving mechanism drives the rotating mechanism to rotate to adjust a water outflow area.
US11890612B2
A multi-channel pipetting assembly includes a linkage member and a plurality of pipetting structures arranged in parallel. Each pipetting structure includes a pipette body, a piston rod, a piston tube, and an elastic element. The pipette body has a plurality of air chambers with different inner diameters, and the air chambers are arranged axially and communicate with each other. The piston rod is fixed to the linkage member. The piston tube is sleeved on the piston rod. The piston rod and the piston tube are located in the pipette body, and are axially and reciprocatingly movable in the pipette body. The piston rod matches the air chamber with the smallest inner diameter, and the piston tube matches the remaining air chambers. The elastic element is telescopically sleeved on the piston rod and corresponds to the piston tube. Therefore, a plurality of volume ranges meeting the accuracy requirements can be provided.
US11890606B2
The present disclosure relates generally to reactor systems that include (a) a housing having an interior surface that may be at least partially reflective, (b) at least one reactor cell disposed within an interior of the housing, the at least one reactor cell including an enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the at least one enclosure, where the enclosure is optically transparent and includes at least one input for a reactant to enter the at least one cell and at least one output for a reformate to exit the at least one cell and (c) at least one light source disposed within the interior of the housing and/or external to the housing.
US11890595B2
A nanocomposite photocatalyst is provided. The nanocomposite photocatalyst contains a carbon nanomaterial made of amorphous carbon and graphitic carbon, metal oxide nanoparticles disposed on the carbon nanomaterial, and noble metal nanoparticles disposed on the metal oxide nanoparticles and/or the carbon nanomaterial. Also provided is a method of forming the nanocomposite photocatalyst and a method of photodegrading an organic pollutant in water using the nanocomposite photocatalyst and visible light irradiation.
US11890589B2
An alkylation reaction apparatus has n reactors. In the n reactors, there are m reactors including the first reactor that have three reaction zones as defined below. According to the flow direction order of alkylation reaction streams, the three reaction zones are an x reaction zone, a y reaction zone and a z reaction zone respectively; based on the mixing intensity, the mixing intensity of the y reaction zone>the mixing intensity of the x reaction zone>the mixing intensity of the z reaction zone, wherein n≥1 and n≥m. An alkylation reaction system includes the aforementioned alkylation reaction apparatus, and a liquid acid catalyzed alkylation reaction process by using the aforementioned alkylation reaction apparatus or the aforementioned alkylation reaction system.
US11890588B2
A custom cosmetic dispensing device includes a communication enabled automated dispenser for dispensing a user-specified cosmetic product. The dispenser has a housing with a plurality of liquid-ingredient cartridges removably coupled to a motor, each cartridge used to dispense a processor memory specified volume of liquid-ingredients. The dispenser interfaces with a software application that accepts, stores and interprets user inputs, assists users in custom formulation, and relays said inputs to the device controller unit for production of a customized cosmetic formula. A collection container may be used for immediate, stored or transported final compositions.
US11890587B2
An apparatus can include a hollow tube, central shaft, agitation components, and bidirectional fluted auger. The hollow tube can have an inlet, outlet, and longitudinal central axis, and can facilitate the conveyance of foodstuff materials from the inlet to the outlet. The central shaft can extend along the longitudinal axis and can be rotationally driven both clockwise and counterclockwise. The agitation components can be coupled to the central shaft and can agitate and mix foodstuff materials being conveyed along the hollow tube. The bidirectional fluted auger can be coupled to the central shaft proximate the outlet, can rotate with the central shaft when the central shaft is rotationally driven, and can have a flow rate limiting inner cylinder, clockwise-progressing flute features, and counterclockwise-progressing flute features. The clockwise and counterclockwise progressing flute features can convey foodstuff materials toward the outlet when the bidirectional fluted auger is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise.
US11890575B2
The present disclosure is directed to an emission treatment system for NOx abatement in an exhaust stream of an ammonia-fueled engine, the emission treatment system including a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst disposed on a substrate in fluid communication with the exhaust stream, an oxidation catalyst disposed on a substrate positioned either upstream or downstream of the SCR catalyst and in fluid communication with the exhaust stream and the SCR catalyst, and optionally, one or more adsorption components disposed on a substrate positioned upstream and/or downstream of the SCR catalyst and in fluid communication with the exhaust stream and the SCR catalyst, the adsorption component chosen from low temperature NOx adsorbers (LT-NA), low temperature ammonia adsorbers (LT-AA), low temperature water vapor adsorbers (LT-WA), and combinations thereof. The disclosure further provides a related method of treatment of an exhaust gas.
US11890565B2
Air cleaner assemblies, components therefor, and features thereof are described. Also described are methods of assembly and use. In depicted examples, the air cleaner assemblies and components optionally use advantageous housing seal features. Methods of assembly and use are described.
US11890564B2
A perception and planning system includes a system frame and one or more cooling fans mounted on a first side of the system frame to generate an airflow flowing outwardly to remove at least a portion of the heat generated by the processors. The system further includes an air filtering module mounted on a second side of the system frame to filter the air flow flowing inwardly to remove durst or contaminated material from the airflow. The air filtering module includes an air filter, a mounting plate, and a cover plate. The mounting plate can be mounted on the second side of the system frame to receive the air filter. The mounting plate includes one or more magnets. The cover plate can be attached to the mounting plate by a magnetic force generated from the magnets to keep the air filter between the mounting plate and the cover plate.
US11890559B2
A liquid recovery filter assembly for recovering filtered liquid trapped within a core or downstream side of a filter element. Multiple embodiments each include a recovery port and a recovery filter in fluid communication with the core or downstream side of the filter element. The recovery port is opened following filtration operations to permit and to facilitate filtered liquid to flow from a downstream or outlet port, thus allowing recovery of liquid remaining in the filter core or downstream side following filtering operations. The recovery filter permits the introduction of pressurized gas to force the filtered liquids from the filter assembly without compromising the sterility and/or non-contaminant condition of the liquid. Additional aspects include exchangeable filter cartridges or filter elements in single and multi-round configurations, embodiments with aspiration tubes and dip tubes and still others with hydrophilic/hydrophobic recovery filters that function as filters and as valves for the recovery port.
US11890556B2
A filter cartridge (1) comprising a filter medium (2) of cylindrical shape defining a central axis (3), a first flange (4), said first flange (4) being a flange plate which comprises a central opening (5) defining a fluid outlet, a first face (4a) and a second face (4b) opposite the first face (4a), said face (2) being fixed to the second face (4b) of the first flange (4), and a filtering medium (6) extending from said first face (4a) along the central axis and projecting outwardly from said central opening (5), said cylindrical extension (6) having an outer face (6a) and an inner face (6b); characterized in that said cylindrical extension (6) is traversed by at least one vent (7), and in that a first joint element (8) is provided at a first position of the cylindrical extension (6) and a second sealing element (9) is provided on a second position of the cylindrical extension (6), the first joint element (8) being axially offset from the second joint member (9) with respect to the central axis so that said at least one at least one vent (7) is positioned between the first seal member (8) and the second seal member (9) with respect to the central axis (3). Filtration system incorporating such a cartridge.
US11890554B2
A degassing chamber for an ozone solution system includes a cylindrical housing defining a cavity. A mixture of water and ozone gas is delivered to the cavity, the mixture containing excess ozone gas. A cylindrical float is positioned centrally within the cavity to rise in accordance with the mixture column within the cavity. A piston is connected to move in accordance with the float. When the mixture level rises above a threshold, the piston the piston moves upward and seals an ozone outlet. As a pressure of ozone gas in the degassing chamber increases, the float is forced downward causing the piston to open a channel to an upper ozone outlet through which excess ozone gas is released. After removal of excess ozone gas, a mixture of water and ozone gas is output from the degassing chamber which is suitable for use as a general purpose cleaner.
US11890552B2
The present invention provides a drone-passing multiple detection sensor gate comprising: a gate having a ring-like structure through which a drone can pass during flight; a first sensor, disposed on the front or the inner front of the gate, for detecting whether the drone approaches the gate or passes through the front side of the gate; a second sensor, disposed on the inner rear of the gate, for detecting whether the drone sensed by the first sensor passes through the rear side of the gate; a detection signal transmitter, disposed inside or on a surface of the gate, for receiving, from the first sensor and the second sensor, the detection signal indicating whether the drone approaches or passes through the gate, and wirelessly transmitting the detection signal. In addition, the present invention provides a drone game system using a multiple detection sensor gate.
US11890547B2
Systems and methods of conducting a fantasy sport contest are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the fantasy sport contest is provided for participants to join. The fantasy sport contest includes one or more fantasy teams where each fantasy team includes a multiplicity of real-life players. A player adjustment value (PAV) is determined for each of the real-life players. Accumulated statistics of the real-life player during real-life games are converted into a baseline fantasy score according to a baseline scoring system. The baseline fantasy score is adjusted according to the real-life player's PAV to produce an adjusted fantasy score of the real-life player.
US11890545B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) based method for calibration of a gaming ecosystem and to maximize satisfaction of a player involved in a gaming session such as single-player gaming session, multi-player online gaming session, and a videogame recommendation system is provided. The system detects the gaming session that includes an execution of a video game for a first gameplay and acquires sensor data associated with a player involved in the first gameplay. The sensor data corresponds to a duration of the detected gaming session. The system determines one or more indicators of a dissatisfaction of the player with the first gameplay based on application of one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on the sensor data. The system controls the execution of the video game to modify one or more aspects associated with the first gameplay or a second gameplay of the video game that is different from the first gameplay.
US11890544B2
Techniques are described herein for facilitating the placement of props on maps by an automated prop placement tool that makes use of a trained machine learning mechanism. The machine learning mechanism is trained based on one or more training maps upon which props have been placed. The machine learning mechanism may be trained to suggest placement based on (a) spatial rules relating, (b) prop-specific rules, (c) prop-to-fixed-object distances between props and map structures, and (d) distances between props. Once the machine learning mechanism is trained, the prop placement tool may be provided as input (a) map data that defines a target map and (b) prop data that specifies the set of target props to be placed on the target map. Based on this input and the machine learning mechanism's trained model, the prop placement tool outputs a suggested placement, for each of the target props, on the target map.
US11890542B2
A virtual object control method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene interface, the virtual scene interface including a first virtual object, second virtual objects, and ability controls; determining, in response to a first trigger operation on a first ability control, a target virtual object from the second virtual objects and according to the first trigger operation, and controlling the first virtual object to cast a first ability on the target virtual object; determining the target virtual object as an ability casting target corresponding to a second ability when a second trigger operation on a second ability control meets an ability continuous casting condition, the second trigger operation being triggered during ability casting of the first ability; and controlling the first virtual object to cast the second ability on the target virtual object.
US11890538B2
In a multi-GPU simulation environment, frame buffer management may be implemented by multiple GPUs rendering respective frames of video, or by rendering respective portions of each frame of video. One of the GPUs controls HDMI frame output by virtue of receiving frame information from the other GPU(s) and reading out complete frames through a physically connected HDMI output port. Or, the outputs of the GPUs can be multiplexed together.
US11890537B2
During execution of a game, a user terminal sends, to a first server, a message sending request for sending a message without specifying a recipient. Responsive to receiving the message sending request, the first server selects a user specified as the recipient of the message. The first server sends, to a second server, a message sending request for sending the message while specifying the selected user as the recipient and indicating a game management account as a sender.
US11890529B2
An individual movement equipment item, which is constituted by a pair of motorized skates, each of the motorized skates comprising: a plate in the form of a sole and having a front portion, which is articulated transversely relative to a rear portion, the plate having means for connecting to the foot or the shoe of the user, motorized means, which are formed by two portions, which are articulated transversely in order to form a front train and a rear train, connection means between the articulated plate and the motorized means, which connect the front portion to the front train and the rear portion to the rear train, characterized in that the angle of the longitudinal axis of the at least one of the trains of each of the skates forms an angle between 10° and 20°, and preferably of from 12° to 15°, with the longitudinal axis of the plate.
US11890527B1
Fender assemblies are disclosed, each assembly including a frame and a fender. The frame has a first leg including a first coupling portion and a second leg including a first latch portion, and the frame is configured to be coupled to the vehicle with the first leg and the second leg on opposite sides of a wheel. The fender has a first end and a second end, the first end having a second coupling portion configured to releasably mate with the first coupling portion of the frame to form a manually releasable joint, the second end comprising a second latch portion configured to mate with the first latch portion of the frame to releasably secure the second end to the frame.
US11890526B2
A batting glove for baseball or softball may include a glove base and a reinforcement layer set. The glove base may include a palmar region, a dorsal region located on an opposite exterior side of the batting glove from the palmar region, a plurality of finger regions, a wrist region at a bottom of the glove base, and an ulnar border region. The ulnar border region may be located along an outermost edge region of the glove base following a length of the little finger region along an outermost side of the little finger region. The reinforcement layer set may be connected to and exterior of the glove base in a manner that covers at least a portion of each of (a) the palmar region, (b) the ulnar border region, and (c) the dorsal region.
US11890519B2
A method and an apparatus for impact position detection of impact sport equipment are provided. The method includes following steps: retrieving a vibration signal generated by a vibration sensor detecting vibration caused by impact of impact sport equipment and a ball; performing a spectrum analysis on the vibration signal to obtain eigenfrequencies of the vibration signal in a frequency domain; and calculating at least one piece of characteristic information by using an amplitude of each eigenfrequency and inputting the same into a prediction model established in advance by using machine learning, so as to estimate an impact position of the ball on the impact sport equipment, in which the prediction model is trained by using characteristic information of multiple vibration signals and corresponding impact positions.
US11890517B2
A ball bat, extending along a longitudinal axis. The bat includes a barrel portion, an end cap and a handle portion. The barrel portion is formed of a fiber composite material and includes a proximal region having a continuous single wall construction, a central region and a distal region. The central region includes at least first and second central region walls longitudinally extending from the proximal region, and a distal region includes first and second distal region walls longitudinally extending from the central region. The central region walls and the distal region walls form a first inner barrel wall and an outer barrel wall, respectively. The barrel walls are spaced apart by a first separation. The first separation is unfilled and longitudinally extends over the central region and the first distal region wall. The end cap and the handle portion are coupled to the distal and proximal region, respectively.
US11890516B2
Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head that comprises a strike plate, an enclosed internal cavity, and a rear aperture formed in a rear wall. The iron-type golf club head also comprises a stiffening plug, within the internal cavity and compressed between the back surface of the strike plate and the rear wall. The stiffening plug is insertable, through a rear aperture, into the internal cavity. The iron-type golf club head further comprises a rear fascia covering the rear aperture and at least a portion of the rear wall. A characteristic time (CT) at a geometric center of the strike face is at least 250 microseconds. A maximum thickness of the strike plate, at the strike face, is less than 3.5 millimeters, inclusive. The strike plate, excluding grooves, has a minimum thickness between 1.1 millimeters and 2.2 millimeters.
US11890512B2
Embodiments of a golf club head comprising a body having a body material density, a strike face having a strike face material density, and a coating comprising a coating material having a coating material density greater than the body material density or the strike face material density are described herein.
US11890507B2
Systems and methods are described for providing asynchronous race functionality and simulation for users of exercise equipment. In some aspects fitness performance data may be obtained, corresponding to performance of a race course by a user using exercise equipment, where the fitness performance data is sampled at a sample rate selected based on a type of the exercise equipment. The fitness data may then be modified and used to simulate the user performing the race course by providing the movement data to and concurrently with a second user performing the race course using second exercise equipment.
US11890502B2
A range of motion limiting device, in one example comprising a first armature configured to engage a carriage moving on at least one rail having a first surface and a second surface transversely offset from the first surface of the rail. Also disclosed is an example utilizing a first bumper adjacent the first longitudinal end of the first armature. The first bumper extending transversely from the first transverse side of the first armature, optionally having a distal end with a non-slip surface engaging the first surface of a rail. Also disclosed is a second bumper longitudinally offset from the first bumper on the first armature, the second bumper extending transversely from the second transverse side of the first armature, also optionally having a distal end with a non-slip surface engaging the second surface of the rail.
US11890492B2
The present invention provides a device for treating dementia, including: a plurality of ultrasound probes; an ultrasound transducer arranged in each of the ultrasound probes and configured to propagate unfocused ultrasound energy to a brain; and an ultrasound generator connected to each of the ultrasound probes.
US11890491B2
Various embodiments are directed to a method of driving an end effector coupled to an ultrasonic drive system of a surgical instrument. The method comprises generating at least one electrical signal. The at least one electrical signal is monitored against a first set of logic conditions. A first response is triggered when the first set of logic conditions is met. A parameter is determined from the at least one electrical signal.
US11890490B2
A quality assurance device for a medical accelerator includes a housing having an inner radioluminescent layer adapted to provide a visual indication when contacted with invisible radiation generated by the medical accelerator. In addition, the quality assurance device includes one or more passive optical components within the housing adapted to deliver an image of the inner radioluminescent layer of the housing including the visual indication to one or more cameras located outside of the housing.
US11890486B2
Systems and methods for increasing skin rejuvenation of a region of a patient's skin. The system includes: a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) frequency generator that emits electromagnetic pulses to the region of the patient's skin; and a deep tissue diathermy device that applies heat to the region of the patient's skin up to temperature T. The system simultaneously applies the heat and the PEMF to the region of a patient's skin.
US11890485B2
An apparatus includes a power adapter having a housing and a circuit at least partially disposed in the housing. The housing is configured to be coupled to an implantable device for disposition in a body. The circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a power circuit of the implantable device when the housing is coupled to the implantable electrical conductor. When the housing is coupled to the implantable electrical conductor and implanted in a body, the circuit is configured to (1) receive, transcutaneously from a power supply, a first energy, (2) convert the first energy to a second energy, and (3) transfer, to the implantable device, the second energy such that the second energy powers the implantable device.
US11890480B2
A neuromodulation system for use with electrodes to modulate a volume of neural tissue may include a waveform generator and a controller. The waveform generator may be configured to be electrically connected to the electrodes and provide an electrical waveform through at least some of the electrodes to provide a neuromodulation therapy. The controller may be configured to use a program to control the waveform generator to deliver a neuromodulation therapy by delivering both a fast-acting sub-perception neuromodulation and a slow-acting sub-perception neuromodulation. The fast-acting neuromodulation has a wash-in transition period less than a first time duration, and the slow-acting sub-perception neuromodulation has a wash-in transition period more than a second time duration, the second time duration being longer than the first time duration.
US11890478B2
A method of monitoring neural activity responsive to a stimulus in a brain, the method comprising: applying the stimulus to one or more of at least one electrode implanted in a target neural structure of the brain; detecting a resonant response from the target neural structure evoked by the stimulus at one or more of the at least one electrode in or near the target neural structure of the brain; and determining one or more waveform characteristics of the detected resonant response.
US11890471B2
Diagnostic screening tests that can be used to identify if a patient is a good candidates for an implantable vagus nerve stimulation device. One or more analyte, such as a cytokine or inflammatory molecule, can be measured from a blood sample taken prior to implantation of a vagus nerve stimulator to determine the patient's responsiveness to VNS for treatment of an inflammatory disorder.
US11890469B2
A system for controlling blood pressure includes a wearable interface having an internal contact surface, the wearable interface configured to at least partially encircle a first portion of a first limb of a subject, a sensing module carried by the wearable interface and configured to determine at least a change in blood pressure of the first limb of the subject, and an energy application module carried by the wearable interface and configured to apply energy of two or more types to the first limb of the subject.
US11890464B2
A microelectrode comprises an oblong electrically conducting electrode body covered by distal and proximal sections of a layer of insulating material except for an annular contact section disposed between them, a blunt distal bulge at the distal end of a radial extension substantially greater than that of the proximal section of non-conducting material. For implantation into soft tissue the microelectrode is provided with a support of a material dissolvable in body fluid. Also disclosed is a set of microelectrodes sharing such support, a method of manufacture of the microelectrode and the set, and uses of the microelectrode and the set.
US11890447B2
Valve assemblies having improved ability to selectively control flow of fluids through the catheter and prevent leakage of fluids from the proximal end of a catheter that is positioned within a patient. Such improved catheter valve assemblies also prevent leakage of fluids after repeated insertion and removal of medical instruments through the valve.
US11890446B2
A cap for disinfecting a needleless connector is described herein. The cap includes a housing having a cavity and an insert disposed within. The insert includes one or more cantilevered prongs disposed on a distal wall of the insert. The one or more cantilevered prongs are configured to bend upon insertion of the needleless connector. On an outer sidewall of the one or more cantilevered prongs are one or more ledges extending at essentially a right angle to the one or more cantilevered prongs, the one or more ledges being configured to push against the sidewall of the housing to resist further bending of the one or more cantilevered prongs upon advancement of the needleless connector.
US11890443B2
A method of making an access port, includes providing a port body defining a fluid cavity, positioning a septum over the fluid cavity, and securing the septum to the port body. The septum includes a lower portion having a first diameter, an upper portion joined to the lower portion at a juncture, the upper portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter at the juncture, and a plurality of palpation features joined to the upper portion. Each of the palpation features includes a first end adjacent a central axis of the septum, and a second end extending radially outward, overlapping the juncture.
US11890441B2
An automatic tattoo apparatus can be used to robotically apply tattoos. A customer can shop on an online tattoo marketplace to select designs created by various artists located anywhere. The online tattoo marketplace can process and manage payments, artist and/or customer profiles, bookings, tattoo design uploads, browsing and design selection, design changes, and/or perform other actions. The automatic tattoo device can apply tattoos precisely, quickly, and may with reduced pain. The tattoo apparatus can apply a wide range of different types of tattoos, including but not limited to micro tattoos, dotwork, blackwork tattoos, realism tattoos, fine-line tattoos, etc.
US11890434B2
The present disclosure relates to guidewire devices having shapeable tips and effective torquability. A guidewire device includes a core having a proximal section and a tapered distal section. A tube structure is coupled to the core such that the tapered distal section of the core extends into and distally beyond the tube structure. The portion of the core extending distally beyond the tube forms a shapeable tip. One or more coils also extend distally beyond the tube. The tip is configured to reduce the tendency of resilient forces from the tube structure to disrupt a customized shape of the tip.
US11890424B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for reducing a motion sickness episode experienced by a user. The present invention may include detecting a triggering environment associated with the user, wherein detection of such environment utilizes a plurality of analyzed data associated with a plurality of sensors. The present invention may then include extracting a piece of data associated with the environment in further association with the motion sickness episode experienced by the user. The present invention may also generate one or more responses based on the extracted piece of data associated with the motion sickness episode. The present invention may then implement the generated one or more responses associated with the motion sickness episode by utilizing an augmented reality (AR) device. The present invention may further include providing a piece of feedback associated with the generated one or more responses associated with the motion sickness episode.
US11890423B2
A device and method for inducing sleep, improving blood circulation, and correcting autonomous imbalances. The device includes a heat exchange member mounted on top of housing, the heat exchange member can receive a neck of a user and apply alternate hot and cold stimuli to the neck. The hot and cold stimuli improve blood circulation and correct the autonomous imbalances. The device includes a drive module and a heat sink to quickly switch from hot to cold.
US11890419B2
An elbow configured to connect to a positive pressure ventilation mask and to a ventilator circuit that provides a source of pressurized air. The elbow includes an access valve that opens to provide access to the mouth of the patient without removing the mask and seals from ventilator pressure pushing the valve to the closed position.
US11890408B2
A motorized medical suction pump has a pump assembly for generating an underpressure, a pump assembly carrier for supporting the pump assembly, and a seat for receiving an energy accumulator. The pump assembly arranged in the pump assembly carrier defines a first longitudinal axis, and the seat defines a second longitudinal axis. The pump assembly carrier forms the seat. The second longitudinal axis extends at an angle to the first longitudinal axis. This suction pump is small and compact and has good sound damping.
US11890398B2
Invention relates to air cleaning systems, particularly to electric air cleaners, and may be used for decontamination of air in different industries. Invention is directed to attaining a technical effect of providing an air cleaning device, where air is cleaned owing to action of corona discharge streamers on air molecules and contamination particles. Technical effect is attained by air cleaning device that contains a high-voltage pulse generator, an outer electrode provided as a grounded metal tube, and an inner electrode rigidly secured along the tube axis by a fastening member and provided in form of a metal rod and configured so as pulsed corona discharge streamers are formed in between the inner and outer electrodes, wherein the inner electrode is spaced by a gap from an output electrode of high-voltage pulse generator and size of the gap assures breakdown of the gap with pulses formed by high-voltage pulse generator.
US11890386B2
Disinfecting particulate material includes combining the particulate material with a photocatalyst to yield a mixture, irradiating the mixture for a length of time with pulses from a light source having broadband emission spectrum between 190 nm-1100 nm to yield an irradiated mixture, and separating the photocatalyst from the disinfected mixture to yield the disinfected particulate matter. Irradiating the mixture inactivates microorganisms in the mixture to yield a disinfected mixture. A system for disinfecting particulate material includes a pulsed light source having a broadband emission spectrum in a range between about 190 nm and about 1100 nm, a chamber defining a cavity optically coupled to the pulsed light source, a humidifier, a fan, and one or more sensors. The chamber includes a conveyor configured to accept the particulate material and arranged such that the pulses emitted by the pulsed light source irradiate the particulate material on the conveyor.
US11890377B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of delivering mRNA in vivo, including administering to a subject in need of delivery a composition comprising an mRNA encoding a protein, encapsulated within a liposome such that the administering of the composition results in the expression of the protein encoded by the mRNA in vivo, wherein the liposome comprises a cationic lipid of formula I-c: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11890373B2
The present invention relates to delivery devices adapted to mechanically dilate a pelvic anatomical canal, the delivery devices comprise a composition formulated as a gel comprising a beneficial or therapeutic agent, said delivery devices being capable of releasing the beneficial or therapeutic agent into the pelvic anatomical canal, specifically into the vaginal canal, and thereby treat vaginal conditions associated with vaginal narrowing, atrophy, or dryness.
US11890370B2
An ultrasound-induced drug delivery system is described, using a drug carrier containing a plurality of nanobubbles and a high concentration of a drug in one microcapsule, and a method for preparing the drug delivery system, by generating the nanobubbles in an oil into which the drug is dissolved using a nanobubble generator, and then microencapsulating them. The drug delivery system has an effect of maximizing a drug delivery efficiency as the nanobubbles collapse or aggregate when the ultrasound is applied to the drug delivery system. Since the drug delivery system contains a plurality of nanobubbles within the microcapsules, it can also be used as a contrast agent, or can be used to simultaneously perform in vivo diagnosis and treatment.
US11890366B2
A method for coloring keratinous material, in particular human hair, includes the step of applying on the keratinous material: a first composition (A) comprising: (A1) one or more organic C1-C6 alkoxysilanes and/or condensation products thereof, and (A2) at least one colorant compound selected from the group comprising pigments and direct dyes, and a second composition (B) comprising (B1) a copolymer of styrene and maleic acid (anhydride).
US11890357B2
Excessive deposition of extracellular matrix is a hallmark of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), it is advantageous to target the cells and the mechanisms associated with this process. By targeting myofibroblasts (specialized contractile fibroblasts) that are key for the development of IPF with drugs conjugated with fibroblast activation protein (FAP), this technology helps minimize the production of extracellular matrix in the lungs and provides a new treatment option for patients diagnosed with IPF.
US11890350B2
Agents having cytotoxic activity, as well as compositions, uses, and methods relating thereto, are described herein. Certain steroid acid-peptide conjugates or moieties have the ability to induce killing or inhibition of proliferation of mammalian cells, in vitro or in vivo upon administration to a subject. The steroid acid-peptide conjugates include bile acids and bile acid analogs and peptides that may include a nuclear localisation signal or a portion thereof. Also described herein is a method for treating cancer, an autoimmune disease, or any other disease or disorder ameliorated by treatment with an antiproliferative drug in a subject in a subject with the cytotoxic agents described herein.
US11890344B2
The application of a highly controlled, micron-sized, branched, porous architecture to enhance the handling properties and degradation rate of hydrogels is described in the instant invention. A previously described pattern created through one-step nucleated crystallization in a hydrogel film creates tunable mechanical properties and/or chemical stability for use in tissue engineering applications. The bulk mechanical properties and the degradation rate of the material can be tuned easily by the addition or subtraction of crystalline structure or by the addition and subtraction of backfill material, making this useful for a variety of applications. Relevant mechanical properties that can be tuned through the application of this unique porosity are moduli, elasticity, tensile strength, and compression strength. The method of the present invention can be applied to biopolymers and natural materials as well as synthetic materials.
US11890341B2
The subject invention provides materials and methods for preventing, inhibiting or reducing biofilm formation and biofilm infections, in particular, in the respiratory tract of a subject. The invention utilizes growth by-products of beneficial microorganisms to enhance the effectiveness of biocidal substances in the treatment, disruption and/or prevention of biofilms. Advantageously, the subject invention is useful against antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, such as MRSA, Helicobacter pylori, S. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa and A. fumigatus.
US11890339B2
Embodiments of immunogens comprising a recombinant Nipah virus (NiV) F ectodomain trimer stabilized in a prefusion conformation are provided. Also provided are embodiments of immunogens comprising chimeric proteins comprising the recombinant NiV F ectodomain trimer and one or more G ectodomains, a multimer of NiV G ectodomains, and protein nanoparticles comprising the recombinant NiV F ectodomain trimer or an NiV G ectodomain. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding the immunogens and methods of their production. Methods for inducing an immune response in a subject by administering a disclosed immunogen to the subject are also provided. In some embodiments, the immune response treats or inhibits NiV infection in a subject.
US11890337B2
Disclosed herein are virus-like particle (VLP)-based bivalent vaccine compositions. The compositions may comprise a spherical retroviral Group-specific Antigen (“Gag”) protein core and at least two Ebola glycoproteins. The at least two Ebola glycoproteins may be located at the exterior surface of the spherical Gag protein core, such that the VLP-based vaccine presents at least two Ebola glycoprotein antigens. In one aspect, the at least two Ebola glycoproteins are a Zaire (EBOV) glycoprotein, and a Sudan (SUDV) glycoprotein.
US11890329B2
A co-therapeutic regimen comprising AAV9-mediated intrathecal/intracisternal and/or systemic delivery of an expression cassette containing a hIDUA gene and two or more immunosuppressants is provided herein. Also provided are methods useful for treating hIDUA deficiency (MPSI) and the symptoms associated with Hurler, Hurler-Scheie and Scheie syndromes.
US11890309B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for preventing visual dysfunction caused by exposure to light, such as so-called blue light. The present invention provides a composition comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient for use in suppressing or improving conditions caused by retinal inflammation resulting from light damage. Eye discomfort is an exemplary condition caused by retinal inflammation resulting from light damage.
US11890307B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, enema products, and enema delivery systems used for gastric, gastrointestinal and/or colonic treatments; and methods for making and using them. Methods of the invention are used for the stabilization, amelioration, treatment and/or prevention of constipation, for the treatment of abdominal pain, particularly non-specific abdominal pain, and diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by a drug side effect, a psychological condition, a disease or a condition such as Crohn's Disease, a poison, a toxin or an infection, e.g., a toxin-mediated traveler's diarrhea, or C. difficile or the pseudo-membranous colitis associated with this infection.
US11890304B2
The present invention provides methods to promote the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. In particular, the present invention provides an improved method for the formation of pancreatic endoderm, pancreatic hormone expressing cells and pancreatic hormone secreting cells. The present invention also provides methods to promote the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells without the use of a feeder cell layer.
US11890300B2
The present invention provides an immune effector cell that comprises a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific for a tag of a tagged polypeptide, wherein said polypeptide binds to an antigen of a target cell, and a chimeric costimulatory receptor (CCR) specific for a further antigen. The CCR is not able to mediate said immune response on its own but boosts the immune response of said immune effector cell triggered by the CAR.
US11890295B2
The present application relates to an orally administered pharmaceutical composition or kit for eradicating Helicobacter pylori, including a complex of a non-absorbable antibiotic and a clay mineral. The pharmaceutical composition and kit of the present invention may further include a β-lactam antibiotic and/or a gastric acid inhibitor.
US11890293B2
A method includes selecting a non-infant patient having an obesity-related metabolic disorder and being diagnosable with one or more of obesity, obesity-induced pre-diabetes, and obesity-induced type 2 diabetes. The method further includes selecting an effective amount of one or more human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) selected from: fucosylated HMOs 2′-fucosyllactose (2′-FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL), lacto-N-fucopentaose I (LNFP-I), and difucosyllactose (DFL); non-fucosylated HMOs lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), 3′,6-disialyllacto-N-tetraose (DSLNT), 6′-sialyllactose (6′-SL), and 3′-sialyllactose (3′-SL); and mixtures thereof. The method further includes increasing the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium adolescentis in the non-infant patient by administering the selected effective amount of the selected one or more HMOs and improving in the non-infant patient at least one condition selected from increased insulin sensitivity, reduced insulin resistance, improved gut barrier function, and reduction of metabolic inflammation. In various examples, the method includes increasing levels of at least one glucagon-like peptide.
US11890291B2
Nanogel and nanoparticles comprising vitamin D encapsulated in agar-agar and a polymer selected from poly(acrylamidoglycolic acid) and pectin are provided. Also provided is aqueous nanogel compositions which can be used for prevention or treatment of vitamin D deficiency and methods for encapsulating vitamin D in nanogels and nanoparticles. The nanogel and nanoparticles and compositions thereof are cost-effective, have a considerable shelf life, a faster rate of absorption in the body leading to faster bioavailability. Further, the nanogels and nanoparticles are made with vegetarian sources and causes no changes in the organoleptic properties. The Vitamin D nanogels and nanoparticles developed can be used for fortification of any food, aqueous medium or beverage, including bottled drinking water.
US11890284B2
The invention comprises a shampoo apparatus and method of use thereof, comprising: (1) a pressurized container, a pressure in the container in a range of seventy to two hundred pounds per square inch and (2) a shampoo in the container, the shampoo comprising greater than five thousand parts per million carbon dioxide, where the shampoo optionally contains a detergent, zinc pyrrolidone carboxylic acid, and/or minoxidil. The carbon dioxide in the container is optionally added as a solid or a liquid and/or is chemically formed inside the container, such as from any of a carbonic acid, a bicarbonate, a bicarbonate salt, and/or a carbonate. The carbon dioxide solvates/makes soluble and aids removal of sebacic acid on the scalp.
US11890277B2
Provided herein is an ophthalmic composition. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic composition includes a low concentration of an ophthalmic agent for treatment of an ophthalmic disorder or condition; and an ophthalmically acceptable carrier, wherein the ophthalmic agent is distributed with substantial uniformity throughout the ophthalmically acceptable carrier. Further disclosed herein include an ophthalmic composition including a low concentration of an ophthalmic agent and deuterated water. Also disclosed herein are methods of arresting or preventing myopia development by administering to an eye of an individual in need thereof an effective amount of an ophthalmic composition as described herein.
US11890259B2
An occlusion clearing device for a patient has a housing with a motor(s) that generates repetitive motion, which is reciprocating, rotational or both. A clearing stem including a sheath that has a lumen, wherein aspiration is conducted through the sheath lumen. A wire is located in the sheath lumen and receives repetitive motion from the controller. The sheath terminates in a sheath end having at least one sheath opening. The wire terminates in a wire tip, which may be flat, helical, or tubular. The wire tip is positioned within the sheath end, in proximity to the sheath opening(s), and movement of the wire tip and/or sheath end relative to each other creates shearing forces that break up an adjacent occlusion.
US11890257B2
A device for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient, the device comprising a user interface configured to deliver prompts to a caregiver to assist the caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient; at least one sensor configured to detect the caregiver's progress in delivering the cardiac resuscitation, wherein the sensor is configured to provide a signal containing information indicative of ventilation; a memory in which a plurality of different prompts are stored, including at least one ventilation progress prompt to guide the rescuer's performance of ventilation; a processor configured to process the output of the sensor to determine a parameter descriptive of ventilation progress and to determine whether the ventilation progress prompt should be selected for delivery. Possible parameters descriptive of ventilation progress include ventilation rate, delivered tidal volume, and flow rate.
US11890256B2
An active rollator includes an auxiliary frame, a driving assembly, a sensing assembly, and a controller. The sensing assembly is configured to sense an operation area and output a sensing signal. When a user holds handlebars of the auxiliary frame and stands in the operation area, the controller is configured to, according to the sensing signal and a sensing threshold, control the driving assembly to make the auxiliary frame have a motion. Therefore, the active rollator aids the travel of the user.
US11890255B2
A reclined forearm crutch includes a leg; and a cradle attached to the leg for supporting the forearm and elbow of a use. The cradle has a bounding surface area corresponding to at least 20 in2. The cradle is angled about 5 to about 50 degrees relative to vertical.
US11890254B2
A neck massaging device includes an elastic arm, a handle, a connecting member, an electrode assembly, and an electric pulse generating device. The handle includes a first outer shell and a first inner shell. The first outer shell includes a connecting end and a free end opposite to the connecting end, and the first inner shell is buckled with the first outer shell. The connecting member is for connecting the handle to the elastic arm. The connecting member is connected to the connecting end of the handle and buckled with the first inner shell. The electric pulse generating device is electrically connected with the electrode assembly. The free end of the handle may swing with the connecting member as a pivot under an action of external force to drive the first inner shell to be separated from the connecting member.
US11890250B2
An inflatable penile prosthesis can include, a reservoir, an inflatable member and a pump assembly. The pump assembly can include at least one valve comprising an entry portion, a middle portion, an exit portion, and exit tube interface, and a valve member. The exit portion can include a first landing portion including an interior portion, the interior portion of the first landing portion being semicircular about a longitudinal exit axis, the longitudinal exit axis extending through a center of the exit portion parallel to a direction that an exit tube interface extends from the exit portion, and a first channel portion adjacent to the first landing portion and including an interior portion, the interior portion of the first channel portion being farther from the longitudinal exit axis than the interior portion of the first landing portion.
US11890247B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for providing a blood pressure control massage. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is disclosed a method for providing blood pressure control massage, the method including acquiring blood pressure information of a user, determining a blood pressure control massage pattern on the basis of the blood pressure information, and providing a massage on the basis of the determined massage pattern.
US11890244B2
A wheeled nursing and medical device includes a wheeled seat mechanism, a driving module, a bed mechanism and a linking mechanism. The wheeled seat mechanism includes an expandable base frame and front and rear wheel assemblies. The driving module is operable to drive expanding and retraction of the expandable base frame. The bed mechanism includes a main bed plate and a backrest plate pivotally connected with the main bed plate. The linking mechanism includes at least one inclined bracket pivotally connected with the expandable base frame and the backrest plate. The device is shiftable between a bed state and a wheelchair state to render traveling of the device in the wheelchair state convenient.
US11890241B2
A system and a method for managing patient therapy protocols are disclosed. The system includes a patient support apparatus for supporting a patient, a first input device for use by a first caregiver, a location system for determining a location of the first caregiver, and a therapy management system. The therapy management system receives a location of the first caregiver and a selection of a patient therapy protocol, which includes a location requirement. The therapy management system then determines whether the first caregiver location input signal satisfies the location requirement before initiating the selected patient therapy protocol or notifying the second caregiver if the location of the first caregiver does not satisfy the location requirement.
US11890236B2
Disclosed are enclosures for establishing a sterile environment over a patient for a medical procedure, as well as systems and methods thereof. An enclosure can include an expandable portion of a barrier separating a sterile environment inside of the enclosure from a non-sterile environment outside of the enclosure and a patient-interfacing portion of the barrier. The enclosure can also include a support system coupled to the patient-interfacing portion of the barrier in some embodiments. The patient-interfacing portion of the barrier can include one or more fenestrations for placement directly over one or more areas of interest of the patient, as well as for access to the areas of interest from within the sterile environment. When present, the support system can flank the fenestration. The support system is configured to support the enclosure on a surface when placed over an appendage of the patient or a main body of the patient.
US11890233B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of methods and systems for inducing drug to thoroughly mix in a patient's vitreous humor. One of the systems includes: a heat transfer pad that transfer heat to or from the eyeball; and a control module electronically coupled to the heat transfer pad for controlling one or more heat transfer elements disposed thereon.
US11890231B2
An ophthalmic surgical laser system includes a laser beam delivery system having multiple moving components for scanning a laser focal spot in a target eye tissue, where the motors that actuate some of the moving components are equipped with respective digital encoders that measure actual motor positions. A controller controls the laser beam delivery system to perform a treatment scan, while recording the actual motor positions from the encoders. Using the actual motor positions and a calibration relationship between actual motor positions and delivered laser focal spot positions in a target tissue, a laser cutting pattern is digitally reconstructed, which represents the incisions actually achieved by the treatment scan. The reconstructed laser cutting pattern may be visually inspected and further analyzed, e.g. to compare it to the intended laser cutting pattern used to execute the treatment scan, to calculate the achieved refractive correction, or to simulate tissue resetting.
US11890230B2
The present invention generally relates to an image-guided laser irradiation device for targeted ablation, stimulation, molecular delivery and therapy. Specifically, the invention relates to application of the device in therapies needing precise and targeted removal of a sample, or delivery of impermeable molecules for therapeutic outcome. More specifically, the invention relates to the application of the device in the therapy of visual disorders.
US11890226B2
A method, system, and device for magnetically pushing agents into an eye. The agents are magnetic or magnetizable or magnetically responsive.
US11890218B2
Ostomy appliances with a filter system that is resistant to clogging by waste expelled by the stoma are provided for waste management.
US11890216B2
A knee brace includes a support module including a first body, a second body, and a hinge movably coupling the first body to the second body. The hinge includes a pin and a receptacle in the first and second bodies. The pin defines a plurality of teeth thereon and the receptacle defines a plurality of teeth therein. The plurality of teeth on the pin are configured to engage with the plurality of teeth in the receptacle such that the pin is rotatable and translatable within the receptacle. The knee brace also includes a fastener configured to releasably attach the knee brace to a leg. The first and second bodies couples with a first portion of the leg and with a second portion of the leg via the fastener. The first and second portions of the leg are separated by a knee joint of the leg.
US11890202B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, methods and surgical procedures for altering and/or correcting the alignment of adjacent bones, including bones of the spine.
US11890190B2
A catheter, advanced toward an anatomical site, has a proximal end and a steerable distal end. An anchor is advanced through the catheter. An anchor driver drives the anchor out of the catheter's distal end, anchoring the anchor at the site. A first constraining member engages tissue, and inhibits, after the anchor has been driven out of the catheter and before the anchoring, movement of at least the anchor driver's distal end, on a first axis between the anchor driver's distal end and a site at which the first constraining member engages the tissue. A second constraining member inhibits, after the anchor has been driven out of the catheter and before the anchoring, movement of at least the anchor driver's distal end, on a second axis. Other embodiments are also described.
US11890182B2
A coated stent (100,200,300,400), comprises a coated unit (110,210,310,410), and an exposed unit (120,220,320,420) which is a ring-shaped structure and which is provided on the periphery (113,213,313) of an end portion (112,212,312) of the coated unit (110,210,310,410); the exposed unit (120,220,320,420) comprises an inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422), the inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422) comprising at least a first wave crest (122a,222a,322a) and a first wave rod (122c) connected to the first wave crest (122a,222a,322a); the position of the first wave crest (122a.222a,322a) is farther away from the coated unit (110,210,310,410) than other positions on the inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422); the first wave rod (122c) is planar, and from the first wave crest (122a,222a,322a) to an end of the exposed unit (120,220,320,420) near the coated unit (110,210,310,410), the radial distance from the inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422) to the central axis (102,202,302,402) of the coated unit (110,210,310,410) gradually increases. When the coated stent (100,200,300,400) is implanted into an arterial vessel (10), the inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422) forms a certain avoidance space due to the tilt to adapt to the curvature of a large curved side (11) of the arterial vessel (10), and prevents the inward-tilting wave body (122,222,322,422) from directly piercing a branch vessel (20).
US11890178B2
Artificial contractile structure (1) for a medical device, said artificial contractile structure (3) comprising: —an elongated member (3) adapted to contact a hollow body organ; —a closure (9) adapted to form the artificial contractile structure (1) into a closed loop around said hollow body organ; —a tension system (11) arranged to be connected to a control unit (28), said tension system (1) being adapted to modify an internal diameter of said closed loop in response to a force applied by said control unit (28). According to the invention, said elongated member (3) comprises a resilient core (5) and a biocompatible outer sheath (7). Said tension system (11) furthermore comprises a first tensile element (13) attached to a first point (3c) of said elongated member, and a second tensile element (15) attached to a second point (3d) of said elongated member, each of said tensile elements (15, 17) passing through an adaptor (17) situated between said first point (3c) and said second point (3d).
US11890176B2
An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent body provided between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent body includes a crotch-corresponding region corresponding to the wearer's crotch when worn, and a front region being adjacent to and forward of the crotch-corresponding region, and a rear region being adjacent to and rearward of the crotch-corresponding region, and has a variable-density portion with a density increasing stepwise or gradually from a front toward a rear, the variable-density portion being located in a region extending at least from the crotch-corresponding region to the rear region.
US11890175B2
An absorbent article may include an inner elasticised chassis. An opening may be formed through the inner elasticised chassis. The absorbent article may include an outer elasticised chassis, and an absorbent member located between the inner elasticised chassis and the outer elasticised chassis. The inner elasticised chassis may include sets of clastic strands surrounding the absorbent member. The opening may be located in a space between the sets of elastic strands.
US11890174B2
A stretchable sheet 10 includes: a plurality of attached portions 3 spaced apart from each other in the direction of stretch Df, wherein the first surfaces 1f and 2f of a pair of sheets 1 and 2 are attached to each other by being welded without using an adhesive, at the attached portions 3, the attached portions 3 hold elastic members F, and the attached portions 3 extend in a direction Dp crossing the direction of stretch Df of the elastic members F; and a plurality of folds P that appear between the attached portions 3 while the elastic members F are shrunk, wherein the attached portions 3 include: a plurality of strongly-attached portions 3s arranged on opposite sides of each elastic member F in the crossing direction Dp; and a plurality of weakly-attached portions 3w arranged between adjacent elastic members F and between adjacent strongly-attached portions 3s.
US11890161B2
The present invention relates to an orthodontic gripping device having a body made of a superelastic metal alloy, cold worked titanium beta III, or solution heat treated and aged titanium beta III. The body has first and second, spaced apart arm portions connected to each other. Each arm portion includes a jaw portion having an inner, arch wire-gripping, surface. The inner gripping surfaces are disposed opposite one another in spaced relation with a station defined therebetween for receiving the arch wire. At least a portion of the station is sized smaller than the arch wire. The arm portions are resiliently deflectable outwardly away from each other to admit the arch wire into the station. Once seated in the station, the arch wire is tightly held by inner gripping surfaces so as to resist displacement of the gripping device relative to the arch wire.
US11890160B2
Orthodontic positioning devices, and related methods and systems, are disclosed for use with one or more orthodontic elastic members. The disclosed devices may comprise a pair of orthodontic aligners for use as part of an orthodontic treatment plan. The pair of orthodontic aligners may include an upper aligner with a first integrally formed hook and a lower aligner with a second integrally formed hook. The first integrally formed hook and the second integrally formed hook may be configured to engage with an orthodontic elastic member so as to react a force to, for example, generate orthodontic forces on the patient's teeth. Each of the first integrally formed hook and the second integrally formed hook may extend buccally from the upper aligner and the lower aligner, respectively.
US11890148B2
A system for dynamic augmented reality imaging of an anatomical site includes at least one image capturing device for capturing first real-time images of the site, at least one display device for displaying first images captured by the device, storage means for storing at least one second anatomical image of the site and an electronic device having a controller configured to receive and process the images. The controller is configured to display an augmented reality image obtained by superimposing images on the first image by identifying common reference elements of the images, and the common reference elements are identified automatically or manually. The second image is in 3D made up of portions of fan or cone beam computed tomography or magnetic resonance images depicting internal structures of the site. The augmented reality image is clipped to the site by the elements, irrespective of the spatial position of the electronic device.
US11890146B2
An illumination system for monitoring and illuminating an operating region includes at least one light assembly including at least one illumination source configured to selectively direct a light emission in a portion of the operating region. At least one imager is configured to capture image data in a field of view in the operating region. A controller is in communication with the light assembly and the imager. The controller is configured to process image data captured in the field of view and identify a plurality of objects detected in the image data based on an object library. Track a location of each of the plurality of objects and store the location of each of the objects.
US11890141B2
An ultrasonic blood flow parameter displaying method, comprises: acquiring, by means of a probe, an ultrasonic signal from an object to be scanned; acquiring, according to the ultrasonic signal, a plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow within the object to be scanned; extracting the plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow; quantifying the dispersion of the plurality of velocities and directions of the blood flow extracted; and displaying the quantization result of the dispersion. The present invention provides a method for quantifying and evaluating the direction of the motion of blood flow, and provides a better perspective of observation for a user.
US11890139B2
Disclosed herein are portable ultrasound systems and methods. In an example, a portable ultrasound system can include a handheld computer, a case holding the handheld computer, a probe head coupled to the case, and a communicating means for communicating between the probe head and the handheld computer. The handheld computer can include a display. The case can also include an anterior opening framing the display of the handheld computer. The case can include a rechargeable battery integrated into the case opposite the anterior opening. The probe head can include an array of ultrasonic transducers powered by the battery. In another example, a method of the portable ultrasound system includes a method of using the portable ultrasound system.
US11890135B2
An integrated imaging and device deployment platform and method may include a catheter, at least one imaging unit, at least one deployment unit, and at least one device configured to be deployed by the at least one deployment unit. The integrated imaging and device deployment platform facilitates improved navigation and deployment of a therapeutic or medical device by providing the at least one imaging unit proximate the deployment unit. Information generated from the at least one imaging unit may be utilized with additional imaging modalities to provide improved imaging and delivery of devices while reducing use of X-ray radiation and contrast injection.
US11890124B2
A low-dose imaging method includes receiving a sparse image set of a portion of a patient's anatomy; up-sampling the sparse image set, in the sinogram domain and using a first neural network, to yield an up-sampled sinogram; generating, from the up-sampled sinogram, an initial reconstruction; and removing, from the initial reconstruction and using a second neural network, one or more artifacts in the initial reconstruction to yield a final output volume.
US11890120B2
A compression arm device for compressing a breast in an imaging system with a compression paddle. The compression arm device includes a drive for moving the compression paddle towards the breast such that the drive provides a variable resistance during a contact of the compression paddle with the breast.
US11890119B2
Methods of using a soft tissue cutting device are disclosed. The methods include providing the soft tissue cutting device, positioning the soft tissue cutting device in a priming slot of a tray configured for receiving and holding the soft tissue cutting device, attaching a priming syringe to the soft tissue cutting device, priming a balloon disposed on a distal end of the soft tissue cutting device by equalizing a first pressure inside the balloon to a second pressure inside the priming syringe, removing the soft tissue cutting device from the priming slot, and positioning the distal end of the soft tissue cutting device on a safety slot included in the tray to determine whether the tissue cutting device has been properly primed.
US11890113B2
A method for processing a neural measurement obtained in the presence of artifact, in order to detect whether a neural response is present in the neural measurement. A neural measurement is obtained from one or more sense electrodes. The neural measurement is correlated against a filter template, the filter template comprising at least three half cycles of an alternating waveform, amplitude modulated by a window. From an output of the correlating, it is determined whether a neural response is present in the neural measurement.
US11890110B2
An electronic device includes a biological information acquirer that acquires biological information of a target; an error factor detector that detects a factor that causes an error in the biological information; a display; and at least one processor. The error factor detector includes a motion detection sensor that detects a direction of motion of the electronic device, and the processor is that determines whether the factor is detected, based on the direction of the motion of the electronic device; and to cause, when the processor determines that the factor is detected, the display not to display the biological information acquired by the biological information acquirer, or to cause the biological information acquirer to stop acquisition of the biological information, in a period determined based on a timing when the factor is detected.
US11890109B2
Treatment controllers and methods are provided that can be integrated with treatment systems, such as peritoneal dialysis systems, hemodialysis systems, and nocturnal treatment systems, to manage execution of treatment operations or a course of treatment based on timing information and/or patient sleep state.
US11890104B2
Systems and methods for determining timing of parturition onset in non-human animals are provided. Specifically, a software application platform which provides a user with the ability to receive customized information relating to an animal's estimated parturition onset as displayed on a user interface. A user can input data, for example, one or more animal specific biomarkers, and subsequently receive identification of a predicted parturition onset timing and customized recommendations and/or intervention steps for the specific animal.
US11890102B2
Systems and methods for providing an alert indicating battery removal from a wearable medical device
An externally worn cardiac monitoring and/or treatment system with battery detachment detection is provided. The system includes detachment circuitry and audible and/or vibrational alarm circuitry operably coupled to the detachment circuitry. The detachment circuitry is configured to detect whether the rechargeable battery is detached from the battery-powered externally worn cardiac device by monitoring a connection established between the rechargeable battery and the at least one processor and output a battery status signal indicating whether the rechargeable battery is detached from the battery-powered externally worn cardiac device. The audible and/or vibrational alarm circuitry is configured to receive the battery status signal and output an audible alert in a predetermined frequency range and/or a tactile alert if the rechargeable battery is detached.
US11890100B2
A delivery device for delivering a pacing lead to the His bundle of a patient's heart includes an elongated sheath having a distal end, and a plurality of mapping electrodes positioned at the distal end. The distal end of the sheath may have a distal tip, and the mapping electrodes may include two electrodes that diametrically oppose one another at a position spaced from the distal tip of the sheath. The sheath includes a plurality of flexible sections spaced apart from one another, and a pull wire that causes the sheath to deflect from a straight configuration to a dual hinged curved configuration that positions the electrodes in the vicinity of the bundle of His.
US11890099B2
A system including a medical device is provided. The medical device includes at least one sensor configured to acquire first data descriptive of a patient, first memory storing a plurality of templates, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one sensor and the first memory. The at least one processor is configured to identify a first template of the plurality of templates that is similar to the first data, to determine first difference data based on the first template and the first data, and to store the first difference data in association with the first template. The system may further include the programmable device.
US11890097B2
Medical diagnostic devices and related methods of use are described in which one or multiple coils in a sensor, each coil connected with an RLC circuit and frequency counter, are held against a patient's head at predetermined cranial locations. Frequencies of the RLC circuit are measured and compared against those taken from known, control heads, to determine whether there is a medical problem and what type of problem. In some instances, too high of frequencies can reveal pooled blood in the head, a sign of hemorrhagic stroke, while too low of frequencies imply lack of blood supply, a sign of ischemic stroke. A head-mountable frame can assist a first responder in securing and guiding the coils and, along with fiducials, allow for automatic comparison of frequencies with the correct control data.
US11890096B2
A method for measuring flicker fusion threshold. Set a measurement scheme, including setting N 8-shaped digital frames in a background light area that flickers within a set frequency. Set ten groups of different frequency combinations being applied to the N 8-shaped digital frames. Assign each frequency in each group of the frequency combinations with a stroke of the 8-shaped digital frame. Randomly select, for each of the N 8-shaped digital frames, one from the ten groups of the frequency combinations. Determine the value of each frequency in each group of frequency combinations in the N groups of frequency combinations. Recognize, by the subject, the flickering digits on the N 8-shaped digital frames in the background light area within the set frequency range. Determine the range of the flicker fusion threshold or the final flicker fusion threshold of the subject according to the result that can be seen by the subject.
US11890095B2
A sensor head for a compact oximeter sensor device includes light sources and light detectors. A compact oximeter sensor device implementation is entirely self-contained, without any need to connect, via wires or wirelessly, to a separate system unit. The sources and detectors are arranged in a circular arrangement having various source-detector pair distances that allow for robust calibration and self-correction in a compact probe. Other source-detector arrangements are also possible.
US11890092B2
A system, a wearable device, and a method are provided which can increase the accuracy of physiological metrics while detecting if the patient ingested digital medicine and/or improve performance of the wearable device. The wearable device can comprise machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform various algorithms, such as, for example, at least one of a step count algorithm, a body angle algorithm, a heart rate algorithm, a peak finder algorithm, an adaptive thresholding algorithm, a heart rate variability algorithm, a R-R cleaning Algorithm, a deltaR-R cleaning algorithm, a merge twin interval algorithm, a split tall intervals algorithm, an absorb short intervals algorithm, a bimodal detection algorithm, and a resting algorithm.
US11890081B2
An apparatus for estimating blood pressure, includes a pulse wave sensor configured to measure a first pulse wave signal from a user, and a processor configured to differentiate or integrate the measured first pulse wave signal to obtain a reference signal, correct the measured first pulse wave signal, based on the obtained reference signal, to obtain a second pulse wave signal, and estimate the blood pressure, based on the obtained second pulse wave signal.
US11890078B2
A method includes receiving, by an electronic device, sensor data during a spirometry test of a user, the sensor data comprising audio data of the user and distance data of a distance from a face of the user to the electronic device. The method also includes obtaining, by the electronic device, an amount of air volume exchange and at least one pulmonary health parameter that are determined based on the audio data and the distance data. The method also includes presenting an indicator on a display of the electronic device for use by the user or a medical provider, the indicator representing the amount of air volume exchange.
US11890074B2
A surgical guidance system for use with a robotic device configured to support and move a surgical tool includes a tracking system configured to track the surgical tool and at least one bone, a display device, and a control system coupled to the tracking system and the display device. The control system is configured to register a plurality of target trajectories to the at least one bone, determine a distance between the surgical tool and each target trajectory, automatically identify which one of the target trajectories is closest to and within a threshold distance of the surgical tool, and display, on the display device, the identified target trajectory relative to the at least one bone and a tracked pose of the surgical tool relative to the identified target trajectory.
US11890073B2
A surgical instrument includes a shaft with a proximal end and a distal end, a movable component coupled at the distal end of the shaft, a force transmission mechanism coupled at the proximal end of the shaft, and an actuation element with a first end coupled to the force transmission mechanism and a second end coupled to the movable component. The actuation element being configured to transmit an actuation force from the force transmission mechanism to the movable component. A coil spring is coupled to the actuation element between the first and second ends. First and second ends of the coil spring are coupled to longitudinally separated locations on the actuation element. The coil spring is configured to passively expand and contract in response to tension changes in the actuation element. A distance between the longitudinally separated locations changes as the coil spring passively expands and contracts.
US11890063B2
Systems and methods for creating images of an environment includes controlling at least one camera to acquire imaging data from the environment and selecting, from the imaging data, a three-dimensional-two-dimensional correspondence as a control point for use in a perspective-n-point problem to determine a position and orientation of the at least one camera from n known correspondences between three-dimensional object points and their two-dimensional image projections in the environment. The method also includes reprojecting at least a selected number of the projections, determining a reprojection error for each of the projections, and performing a weight assignment of reprojection errors to distinguish the inliers form outliers. These steps of the method are repeated to apply the weight assignment to outliers in a decreased fashion during iterations to reduce an impact of outliers in the real-time display of the environment.
US11890062B2
An estimation device calculates a first perpendicular vector and a second perpendicular vector. The first perpendicular vector is a component of a vector in a movement of a first position, which is a provisional pivot position of a surgical tool, the component being perpendicular to a direction of an axis of the surgical tool. The second perpendicular vector is a component of a vector in a movement of a second position of the surgical tool, the component being perpendicular to the direction of the axis. Then, a first distance, which is a length from a reference point on a rear end side or a reference point on a front end side of the surgical tool to the first position, is updated based on an inner product of the first and second perpendicular vectors.
US11890054B2
A mobile communication device-based corneal topography system includes an illumination system, a mobile communication device and a corneal topography optical housing. The illumination system is configured to generate an illumination pattern and to generate reflections of the illumination pattern off a cornea of a subject, wherein the illumination system is aligned along an axis of centers of the illumination pattern. The mobile communication device includes an image sensor to capture an image of the reflected illumination pattern. The corneal topography optical housing is coupled to the illumination system and the mobile communication device, wherein the corneal topography optical housing supports and aligns the illumination system with the image sensor of the mobile communication device. The corneal topography optical housing includes an imaging system coupled to the image sensor.
US11890046B2
A medical system for ablating a tissue site with real-time monitoring during an electroporation treatment procedure. A pulse generator generates a pre-treatment (PT) test signal prior to the treatment procedure and intra-treatment (IT) test signals during the treatment procedure. A treatment control module determines impedance values from the PT test signal and IT test signals and determines a progress of electroporation and an end point of treatment in real-time based on the determined impedance values while the treatment progresses.
US11890042B2
Compression devices for joining tissue and methods for using and fabricating the same.
US11890038B2
A spinal joint distraction system for treating a facet joint including articular surfaces having a contour is disclosed and may include a delivery device including a generally tubular structure adapted to engage a facet joint, an implant adapted to be delivered through the delivery device and into the facet joint, the implant comprising two members arranged in opposed position, and an implant distractor comprising a generally elongate member adapted to advance between the two members of the implant causing separation of the members and distraction of the facet joint, wherein the implant is adapted to conform to the shape of the implant distractor and/or the articular surfaces of the facet upon being delivered to the facet joint. Several embodiments of a system, several embodiments of an implant, and several methods are disclosed including a method for interbody fusion.
US11890032B2
A catheter system for retrieving a leadless cardiac pacemaker from a patient is provided. The cardiac pacemaker can include a docking or retrieval feature configured to be grasped by the catheter system. In some embodiments, the retrieval catheter can include a snare configured to engage the retrieval feature of the pacemaker. The retrieval catheter can include a torque shaft selectively connectable to a docking cap and be configured to apply rotational torque to a pacemaker to be retrieved. Methods of delivering the leadless cardiac pacemaker with the delivery system are also provided.
US11890023B2
Aspects of present disclosures involve systems, methods, and apparatus for a bone mounted robotic-assisted orthopedic surgery system for precise implant position, soft tissue balancing, and guidance of tools during a surgical procedure, particularly partial or total knee replacement procedure. The system features a bone-mounted robotic arm with an end-effector for precise positioning of a surgical tool, positioning of implants, and balancing of soft tissues. The reconfigurable robotic system requires minimal training by surgeons, is intuitive to use similar to conventional instrumented surgery, and has a small footprint. The system works with existing, conventional instruments, patient-specific instruments, sensor-assisted systems, and computer-assisted systems and does not require increased surgical time and safely provides the enhanced precision achievable by robotic-assisted systems and computer-assisted technologies.
US11890020B2
An aneurysm intrasaccular implant is provided having one or more coated regions. The implant includes a braided mesh movable from a delivery configuration having a single-layer tubular shape sized to traverse a catheter to an implanted configuration sized to be implanted in an aneurysm sac. The braided mesh can include an anti-thrombogenic coating defining a first section along the length of the braided mesh. The braided mesh can include a cell adhesion coating defining a second section along the length of the braided mesh. In the delivery confirmation, the first section can be positioned distal to the second section within the catheter. The second section is invertible to the implanted configuration such that the second section is positioned within the aneurysm sac and the first section is positioned to occlude an aneurysm neck.
US11890015B2
A staple cartridge assembly for use with a surgical stapling instrument includes a staple cartridge including a plurality of staples and a cartridge deck. The staple cartridge assembly also includes a compressible adjunct positionable against the cartridge deck, wherein the staples are deployable into tissue captured against the compressible adjunct, and wherein the compressible adjunct comprises a first biocompatible layer comprising a first portion, a second biocompatible layer comprising a second portion, and crossed spacer fibers extending between the first portion and the second portion.
US11890014B2
A surgical stapling device (10) is disclosed including a tool assembly (16) having an anvil assembly (24) and a cartridge assembly (26). The cartridge assembly (26) includes ridges (46) or protrusions (46) formed along peripheral walls of the cartridge assembly (26) to grip and stabilize tissue clamped between the anvil and cartridge assemblies (24,26). The ridges (46) serve as grippers to prevent the tissue from moving during staple formation in both the lateral and longitudinal directions. Improved staple formation can be achieved by stabilizing the tissue during staple formation.
US11890012B2
A surgical severing and stapling instrument, suitable for laparoscopic and endoscopic clinical procedures, clamps tissue within an end effector of an elongate channel pivotally opposed by an anvil. An E-beam firing bar moves distally through the clamped end effector to sever tissue and to drive staples on each side of the cut. The E-beam firing bar affirmatively spaces the anvil from the elongate channel to assure properly formed closed staples, especially when an amount of tissue is clamped that is inadequate to space the end effector. In particular, an upper pin of the firing bar longitudinally moves through an anvil slot and a channel slot is captured between a lower cap and a middle pin of the firing bar to assure a minimum spacing. Forming the E-beam from a thickened distal portion and a thinned proximal strip enhances manufacturability and facilitates use in such articulating surgical instruments.
US11890009B2
A surgical stapling device includes a body portion and a tool assembly. The body portion includes a base member that defines a longitudinal slot and spaced keyways. The tool assembly includes a mounting member that defines a channel having an open end that is dimensioned to receive the base member of the body portion. The mounting member includes locking tabs that are positioned within the channel. Each of the locking tabs is configured to be received within one of the spaced keyways of the base member to releasably secure the tool assembly to the body portion.
US11890006B2
According to one aspect, a fastening device may include a coupling body having (1) a portion configured to couple to a distal end of a medical device, (2) a cartridge holder, and (3) an anvil pivotably coupled to the cartridge holder. The cartridge holder and the anvil may extend distally from the portion and may be configured to extend distally of a distalmost face of the medical device when the portion is coupled to the distal end of the medical device. A flexible member may be configured to extend through a channel of the medical device. A fastener cartridge may be coupled to a distal end of the flexible member, including at least one fastener, and may be configured for releasable coupling to the cartridge holder.
US11890004B2
A staple cartridge comprising staples that are lubricated before they are loaded into the staple cartridge and after they have been loaded into the staple cartridge is disclosed.
US11890003B2
A medical device includes a surgical needle, an elongated suture, and an intervening segment. The elongated suture has a first end proximate to the needle and a second end located away from the needle. The elongated suture also includes a plurality of fibers defining a mesh wall between the first and second ends. A plurality of pores extend through the mesh wall, at least some which are in the macroporous size range of greater than 200 microns for facilitating tissue integration when introduced into a body. The intervening segment is disposed between and connected to either or both ends of the elongated suture and the needle. The intervening segment includes one or more fibers of the plurality of fibers and has a cross-sectional dimension smaller than a cross-sectional dimension of the mesh wall such that the intervening segment facilitates indirect attachment of the elongated macroporous mesh suture to the needle.
US11890001B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tissue traction device for endoscopic procedures such as tissue dissection. For example, a tissue traction device may include first and second attachment members pivotably attached by first and second swivels to opposite ends of a stretchable traction band comprising a compliant or semi-compliant material.
US11889987B2
A wireless imaging system comprising a head unit and a light cable is provided. The head unit comprises a head unit case, a head unit electrical connector, an image sensor, a wireless transceiver, a central processing unit, and a user-input component. The light cable comprises a light cable electrical connector, a power cable, and an integrated light source. The integrated light source comprises an emissive radiation source having a first spectrum, an optical element located to direct emissions from the emissive radiation source, a volumetric spectrum converter, and an optical reflector located about the converter. The converter converts emissions directed from the emissive radiation source to emissions having a second spectrum different from the first spectrum. The reflector reflects the converter emissions towards the output filter.
US11889986B2
There is provided herein a flexible electronic circuit board for a tip section of a multi-camera endoscope, the circuit board comprising a front camera surface configured to carry a forward looking camera, a first side camera surface configured to carry a first side looking camera, a second side camera surface configured to carry a second side looking camera, one or more front illuminator surfaces a configured to carry one or more front illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the forward looking camera, one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the first side looking camera and one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the second side looking camera.
US11889970B2
A cleaning device comprising a convex transfer surface disposed between a flat nozzle and a rotary brush. The flat nozzle is formed as a multichannel nozzle between the convex transfer surface and the apron with the bevel of the mouth of the multichannel nozzle ranging from 20 to 60 degrees from the horizontal plane. The clearance height between the convex transfer surface and the floor is preferably in the range of 1 to 8 millimetres.
US11889969B2
A stick surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone unit provided in the wand.
US11889968B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a surface cleaning head having a dirty air inlet and an upper section mount and an upper portion moveably mounted to the upper section. The upper portion includes a wand. A portable surface cleaning unit is removably mounted to the upper portion. An air flow path extends from the dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and includes an upstream portion comprising the wand and a flexible air flow conduit downstream of the wand. Each of the wand and the portable cleaning unit can be separately removable from the upper section mount.
US11889962B2
A robotic vacuum cleaner has a mechanical transfer mechanism that is used to transfer dirt from the robotic vacuum cleaner to a docking station.
US11889958B2
A rotating shower rod is provided to change the location of a curved shower rod between one position projecting outward from shower or bathtub enclosure to a second position projecting inward to the enclosure. Surface mounts provide two axes of rotation for the shower rod. The shower rod includes two tubes that telescopically extend and retract relative to one another.
US11889953B2
A cutting board with one or more cut-out sections is provided. The cutting board includes at least one work surface and a frame that transitions from a first (e.g., closed, stowed) position to a second position in which the frame at least partially defines a cut-out for removably holding one or more containers. The work surface may be used to prepare food ingredients, which are easily transported to the one or more containers. When work is complete, the containers are removed and the frame is returned to the first position, in which the cutting board occupies less space than in the second position.
US11889952B1
A coffee grinder with folding-type handle belongs to the field of coffee grinding technology and includes a grinder body and a handle. A top of the grinder body is disposed with a top cover, the top cover is disposed with a supporting frame, and a side of the supporting frame is disposed with a sliding slot. The top cover is further disposed with a sliding bar, one end of the sliding bar is connected to the sliding slot through a pin shaft, and the other end of the sliding bar is connected to the handle. The coffee grinder with folding-type handle has strong practicability, the handle of the grinder can be folded, and it is more convenient to carry and more flexible to use.
US11889942B2
The present invention relates to a centrifugal coffee brewing device, including: a spinning assembly which is rotatable about a main axis, the spinning assembly including: a chamber element including a bottom wall, a cylinder element including a filter, wherein the chamber element and the cylinder element form a brewing chamber, a main drive for rotating the spinning assembly about the main axis for centrifuging the coffee, wherein the cylinder element including the filter is movable between a first, lower position in which the filter forms the circumference of the brewing chamber and in which the spinning assembly has a brewing configuration, and a second, upper position in which the circumference of the brewing chamber is open, and in which second position coffee residue can be ejected by spinning the chamber element.
US11889939B1
A locking tree stand comprising a basin with a plurality of bolt mounts configured to accommodate locking bolts to slide into position. When a tab on the bolt mount is closed a threaded portion of the locking bolt comes in contact with a grip on the tab, preventing the bolt from sliding freely within the bolt mount. The bolt may slide on the thread base where a spring extends from, causing an arm from the spring to push the tab away from the locking bolt, when a locking tab is in an unlocked position. A foot pad may also be attached to the locking screw to provide a greater contact surface between the locking bolt and the trunk of a tree. The footpad may also include a plurality of nubs to provide greater grip between the footpad and the tree trunk.
US11889935B2
A cross beam for a clothing shaking device, a clothing shaking device and a piece of clothing care equipment. The cross beam includes a body and an elastic clamping member arranged on the body, with the elastic clamping member being configured to be able to clamp a clothes hanger tightly in an elastic manner. The elastic clamping member is arranged on the cross beam, the clothes hanger is clamped and fixed by the elastic clamping member, that is to say, the elastic clamping member can clamp the clothes hanger tightly in an elastic manner by means of its own elasticity, such that the stability of the connection between the clothes hanger and the cross beam can be improved, and the clothes hanger is prevented from falling off of the cross beam when the clothing care equipment is in operation.
US11889928B2
A mattress can include one or more layers of foam material, an adjustable air layer including an air bladder, and a valve. The valve can be fluidically connected to the air bladder and configured to regulate pressure of the air bladder in response to actuation. Some embodiments can include a foam material positioned inside the air bladder.
US11889926B1
An elastic module unit for a pad or furniture may include a fixed bottom plate and a plurality of elastic modules disposed on the fixed bottom plate, the fixed bottom plate including splicing sides arranged opposite to each other and end sides arranged opposite to each other. Each of the end sides includes a plurality of connectors having a rotary detent member and/or an engagement member. The rotary detent member is configured to swing about a pivot axis so that it releasably engages an engagement member of an adjacent elastic module unit. The engagement member is configured to releasably engage a rotary engagement member of an adjacent elastic module unit.
US11889905B2
A wearable device includes a main body and a coupling member. The main body has a tail portion and a hook portion at two opposite sides respectively. One end of the coupling member is connected to the tail portion. A buckle hole of another end of the coupling member is for sleeving onto the hook portion to fix the main body to a subject.
US11889902B2
A hook-and-loop fastener has a hook element comprising a substrate having a face from which projects a multiplicity of hooks and a loop element formed by of a fiber web. The fiber web is formed by a homogenous mixture of first multicomponent filaments each formed by a high-melting-point polymer and a low-melting-point polyolefinic polymer and second polyolefinic monocomponent filaments. The first filaments constitute between 20% and 80% by weight of the mixture. The fiber web has a face formed with a patterned array of dense bonded regions of a predetermined small thickness interspersed with less dense open regions of a predetermined big thickness substantially greater than the small thickness of the small thickness interspersed with less dense open regions of a predetermined big thickness substantially greater than the small thickness of the bonded regions so that the filaments of the open regions form loops.
US11889897B2
A footwear structure includes an upper provided with a mouth, a tip end and a front portion that is between the mouth and the tip end, a first lining housed inside the footwear structure, and a first through opening arranged on the front portion of the upper, and a first appendage externally arranged on the first lining at a position substantially corresponding to the first through opening, wherein the first appendage engages the first through opening and wherein the first appendage is accessible from the outside of the footwear structure.
US11889892B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a midsole having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a peripheral surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface includes a recess defining a first opening in the peripheral surface. The sole structure for an article of footwear also includes an insert disposed within the recess and including a first material having a first gloss unit value and a second material disposed on an outer surface of the first material and having a second gloss unit value. The second material is at least partially disposed within the first opening.
US11889886B2
A dance shoe having an upper and an underfoot portion, the underfoot portion includes a sole shank, consisting of a relatively rigid structure, extending longitudinally in the shoe over at least a forefoot portion of the shoe and at least partially over a midfoot portion. The sole shank has at least one hinge with a unidirectional stop disposed widthwise in the sole shank. The sole shank covers at least the forefoot portion of the underfoot area and it locks to support plantar flexion and hinges to facilitate dorsiflexion of the foot. To facilitate en pointe movements, the sole shank may be coupled to a rigid distal part of the shoe, such as a toe box. The inventive subject matter is also directed to dance shoes, as well as the sole shanks themselves, and to methods of making the sole shanks and using the sole shanks in assemblies.
US11889880B2
An improved design for a helmet to reduce injuries caused by helmet-to-helmet collisions. Certain embodiments include novel quick release features that permit the detachment of a facemask from a helmet in 30 seconds or less so as to attend to an injured player in a rapid fashion. Other aspects relate to impact energy absorbing constructions employing an inner layer, an outer layer spaced apart from the inner padding layer, at least one layer that includes an array of polygonal structures, and at least one layer having a shock-absorbing elastomer, a visco-elastic polymer, an impact dispersing gel, or shape memory material. Still other embodiments include a wireless device with a sensor module coupled to the football helmet generating sensor data in response to an impact to the football helmet.
US11889865B2
A glass atomizer includes a member for e-liquid injection and vapor discharge. The member for e-liquid injection and vapor discharge includes an outer glass tube and an inner glass tube disposed in the outer glass tube. The inner glass tube includes a top end. The outer edge of the top end includes a plurality of grooves. The top end is integrated with the inner wall of the outer glass tube.
US11889864B2
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
US11889861B2
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device that may comprise a housing defining an outer wall. The device may further include a power source and a control component, an exit aerosol path defined through an opening, a tank portion that includes a reservoir configured to contain a liquid composition, and an atomization assembly configured to vaporize the liquid composition to generate an aerosol. The atomization assembly may comprise two or more vibrating assemblies each of which includes a mesh plate. In some implementations, the mesh plates may be substantially coplanar and substantially perpendicular to the exit aerosol path. In other implementations, the mesh plates may be non-coplanar.
US11889860B2
A core cartridge for electronic cigarette includes a main housing, an atomizer, an actuator, and a leakage prevention arrangement. The main housing has a mouth piece portion, an atomizer portion, a connecting portion extended between the mouth piece portion and the atomizer portion, a liquid storage compartment formed in the connecting portion, and an air inlet. The main housing further has a vapor releasing channel extended from the atomizer portion to the connecting portion. The leakage prevention arrangement includes at least one drainage port formed in the main housing. The drainage port communicates the vapor releasing channel with the atomizer in such a manner that condensate formed on an inner surface of an outer boundary wall of the main housing is arranged to be guided to flow back to the atomizer through the drainage port.
US11889856B2
The disclosure provides a foam composition including a cellulosic foam stabilizer, a sweetener, optionally a natural gum, water, and a flavoring agent or an active ingredient or both a flavoring agent and an active ingredient. The disclosure also provides a method of forming a foam composition, including mixing an aqueous slurry of a cellulosic foam stabilizer with a sweetener, an optional natural gum, an optional alkali metal salt, and a flavoring agent or an active ingredient or both a flavoring agent and an active ingredient to form a mixture; introducing air into the mixture through stirring or bubbling to form a foam; dividing the foam into a plurality of discrete portions; and optionally drying the discrete portions of foam.
US11889854B1
The current document is directed to methods and systems for manufacturing sushi food products that remain texturally and compositionally stable while frozen and/or refrigerated for extended periods of time. A variety of different processing steps and ingredients are employed to prevent retrogradation of gelatinized starch in cooked sushi rice, including quick cooking of the rice, avoiding the use of carbohydrate-based sweeteners, controlling the amount of salt in the sushi rice, and use of β amylase.
US11889830B2
An integrated system and method for preparing sperm cells to improve their survivability during cryopreservation are described herein. The system features a vessel, a controlled dispenser, and a dispense tube. The dispense tube has a first end fluidly connected to the dispenser and a second end disposed inside the vessel. The second end can be submerged in the sperm cell fluid. The controlled dispenser may be a syringe pump that includes a syringe for containing a cryoprotectant and a pushing mechanism for displacing the syringe. The syringe pump is configured to discharge the cryoprotectant through the dispense tube and into the vessel, thereby dispensing the cryoprotectant into the sperm cell fluid. Mixing of the fluids is achieved using a shaker table agitation.
US11889828B2
A method and apparatus for hunting that enables hunters to remain concealed while still maneuvering with the blind constructed in an in-use configuration and without disturbing quarry. The hunting blind comprises a portable, collapsible, lightweight, pop-up frame enabling the gamesmen to gain closer proximity to small and large game while permitting movement during use without detection. When not in use, the frame of the hunting blind collapses into a compact, transportable configuration that slides into a carrying bag for easy transport. The hunting blind of the present invention offers 360 degrees of concealment, comfortably concealing two hunters. The blind comprises a cover adapted to swathe the frame and create a taut surface against which camouflage may be installed for concealment in a plurality of horizontal rows providing mechanisms for staggering the placement of camouflage on the cover to further enhance concealment.
US11889823B2
A fishing lure having interchangeable inserts includes a lure body having a front end, a rear end, a left side, a right side, a top side, and a bottom side. At least the left side, but in some embodiments also the right side, includes an insert slot with an opening proximate the rear end. The insert slot has at least one pair of opposing flanges. An insert engages the insert slot and has a catch at a forward end thereof adapted for engaging the snap aperture of the lure body. An outer surface of the insert with a natural attractant is visible through the insert slot between the flanges. The insert is preferably one of many available inserts that all have varying outer surface characteristics, such as color, pattern, texture, attachments, and the like. A fishing lure attachment cooperative with the inserts is used with existing fishing lures.
US11889822B2
A live bait holder includes a flexible strip elongated from a first end to a second end. The flexible strip has a pair of edges extending from a first end to a second end and extending from a first surface to a second surface. The flexible strip is elastically bendable and elastically stretchable to be disposed in a wrapped position around a bait animal to define a loop. The flexible strip is perforable for perforation by a fishhook. An O-ring elastically stretches to receive the first end and the second end simultaneously when the flexible strip is in the wrapped position. The O-ring exerts an elastic force such that the flexible strip is retained in the wrapped position.
US11889819B2
Embodiments disclosed include systems, apparatus, and/or methods to receive a target health status of and/or quality of bioproduct produced by a managed livestock and indications of health status and quality of bioproduct. The systems, apparatus, and/or methods generate a set of input vectors based on the target health status or bioproduct quality, and the indications of bioproduct quality, and health status, and provide the set of input vectors to a machine learning model trained to generate an output indicating a feed selection. The feed selection can be included in a feed blend and administered to the managed livestock, such that, upon consumption, it increases a likelihood of collectively improving the health status of the managed livestock and the bioproduct quality of the managed livestock.
US11889816B1
A releasable pet leash includes an elongated cord or strap having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end includes a foam-encapsulated loop that a user grasps when walking a pet. The distal end includes a metallic bobbin removably coupled with a linkage assembly that is adapted to fasten to a pet collar. The linkage assembly includes a mechanism that automatically releases the bobbin if the leash is trapped between closed elevator doors allowing a pet to escape unharmed.
US11889811B2
The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
US11889803B2
A plant growth lighting fixture has two or more of a blue light source, a green light source, and a red light source and a reflective-type circularly polarizing plate having two or more of a blue-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in blue light, a green-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in green light, and a red-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in red light. The wavelength ranges of the emission center wavelengths as the light sources and the wavelength ranges of the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range as the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate are wavelength ranges of the same colors, and the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has a polarization correction layer having a phase difference in a thickness direction.
US11889801B2
A container for growing plants includes a bottom wall, a first side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall, and a second side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall and parallel to the first side wall such that the bottom wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall at least partially define a plant growing chamber. Furthermore, the container includes a lid configured to selectively occlude access to the plant growing chamber. Additionally, one of the bottom wall, the first or second side walls, or the lid includes a rail and another of the bottom wall, the first or second side walls, or the lid defines a groove such that the rail of the container is configured to be received within a groove of a first adjacent container and the groove of the container is configured to receive a rail of a second adjacent container.
US11889792B1
A modular weed barrier mat comprised of a double layer of tire tread sections cut from used tires arranged so that the lengths of the upper sections are perpendicular to those of the lower sections. A pair of upper sections are positioned in spaced apart relationship so as to form a gap, with a central slit array cut into two immediately adjacent lower sections accessible within the gap. A slit cut through a width of one lower section directly below one of the upper sections on either side of the central slit array allows a post to be moved into the slit and then positioned in the central slit array. Corrosion resistant fasteners are removed and replaced as needed to allow the mat to be installed or removed as desired. One embodiment features lower and upper lap portions on opposite sides of the mat for modular installation.
US11889788B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US11889778B2
An agricultural implement including a frame, at least one rake moveably coupled to the frame and including a plurality of tine arms, a plurality of tines connected to the plurality of tine arms, and a rotor drive configured for rotating the plurality of tine arms, and an adjustment system configured for adjusting a rake height of the at least one rake. The adjustment system includes at least one actuator, an electronic control unit operably connected to the at least one actuator, and at least one dust sensor supported by the frame and operably connected to the electronic control unit. The at least one dust sensor monitors a dust level and communicates dust level data to the electronic control unit which correspondingly adjusts the rake height based upon the dust level data.
US11895932B2
Techniques regarding selectively tuning the operating frequency of superconducting Josephson junction resonators are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a method that can include chemically altering a Josephson junction of a Josephson junction resonator via a plasma treatment. The method can also comprise selectively tuning an operating frequency of the Josephson junction resonator based on a property of the plasma treatment.
US11895929B2
Provided is a Hall element that detects a magnetic field. The Hall element includes a substrate including a semiconductor region, a first drive electrode arranged on the substrate, a first ground electrode arranged on the substrate separately from the first drive electrode in a first direction, a second ground electrode arranged on the substrate separately from the first drive electrode in a second direction different from the first direction, and a detection electrode group including a first electrode group that detects a Hall voltage generated by a current of components perpendicular to a surface of the substrate, the current flowing from the first drive electrode to the first ground electrode and the second ground electrode.
US11895925B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes first and second wirings, and memory cells between the first and second wirings, and each including a switching element and a magnetoresistance effect element, the switching element being connected to a first wiring, and the magnetoresistance effect element being connected to a second wiring. The switching element includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a switching material layer between the bottom and top electrodes, and the bottom electrode included in each of the memory cells adjacent to each other in a first direction is continuously provided on the first wiring connecting the memory cells adjacent to each other in the first direction.
US11895912B2
The disclosure discloses an organic photoactive layer composite ink, an organic solar cell and preparation methods thereof. The organic photoactive layer composite ink includes an electron donor material, an electron acceptor material, an organic amine compound and an organic solvent. According to the disclosure, through an interaction between the organic amine compound and a photoactive layer material molecule, the photochemical reaction of the active layer molecule can be effectively inhibited, the photostability of the photoactive layer material is significantly improved, and hence the stability of the solar cell is greatly improved. The organic solar cell prepared by the disclosure has the advantages of high stability, long use service life and the like, and working properties such as energy conversion efficiency are also effectively improved; meanwhile, the organic solar cell is simple and convenient in preparation process, low in material cost and high in economic benefits.
US11895911B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting device comprising a novel compound. When the novel compound is applied as a hole transport material to an organic light emitting device, the novel compound allows the device to have improved drive voltage, efficiency and lifespan characteristics.
US11895899B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a photosensitive display device. The display panel includes a photosensitive array, an acquisition module, and a process module. The process module acquires target frame photosensitive data according to a difference result between a current frame photosensitive data and a previous frame photosensitive data, and deducts influence of background light or ambient light to the current frame photosensitive data, and then determines a current frame display coordinate of an external light source based on the target frame photosensitive data, which can improve accuracy of the current frame display coordinate.
US11895889B2
A display panel includes a first panel region (FPR) including (n−1)-th and n-th pixel rows ((n−1)PR and nPR), and a second panel region (SPR) dividing the nPR to propagate an optical signal. The display panel includes a circuit element layer (CEL) and a display element layer (DEL). The CEL includes a signal line (SL), a pixel driving circuit (PDC), and first to third regions. The SL and the PDC are in the first region. The second region (SR) corresponds to the SPR. The SL and the PDC are not in the SR. The third region (TR) corresponds to the SPR and is along a periphery of the SR. The SL is in the TR, and includes an (n−1)-th scan line ((n−1)SL) connected to the (n−1)PR, an n-th reset line (nRL) connected to the nPR, and a first row connection line in the TR and connecting the (n−1)SL and the nRL.
US11895888B2
A display panel and a display apparatus, the display panel including a first display area, a second display area, and a transition display area between the first display area and the second display area, the light transmittance of the second display area being greater than that of the first display area and the transition display area, the display panel including: first pixels in the first display area; seconds pixels in the second display area; third pixels in the transition display area; second pixel circuits in the transition display area and used for driving the second pixels to display; and third pixel circuits in the transition display area and used for driving the third pixels to display, a third pixel unit of the display panel including a third pixel circuit and two or more third pixels of the same colour electrically connected thereto.
US11895882B2
A display device including a display area and a non-display area, the display device including a plurality of data wires disposed in the display area and in the non-display area, a plurality of connecting wires disposed in the display area and connected to the data wires, a plurality of dummy patterns disposed in the display area in the same layer as the connecting wires, and shielding patterns disposed on the connecting wires. First gaps are defined between the connecting wires and the dummy patterns, and the shielding patterns overlap with the first gaps.
US11895878B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The display substrate includes: an array of sub-pixels, a signal line and a first retaining wall structure. A first conductive pattern of the signal line is between a base substrate and a second conductive pattern of the signal line. An orthographic projection of a second portion of the first retaining wall structure on the base substrate partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the first conductive pattern on the base substrate; a boundary of the orthographic projection of the second portion on the base substrate distal to the array of sub-pixels, is between the array of sub-pixels and a boundary of the orthographic projection of the first conductive pattern on the base substrate distal to the array of sub-pixels. The orthographic projection of the second portion on the base substrate partially overlaps the orthographic projection of the second conductive pattern on the base substrate; a boundary of the orthographic projection of the second conductive pattern on the base substrate close to the array of sub-pixels, is between the array of sub-pixels and a boundary of the orthographic projection of the second portion on the base substrate, close to the array of sub-pixels.
US11895877B1
An organic light-emitting display panel, a display device, and a method of packaging a display panel are disclosed. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a cover plate, a substrate arranged opposite to the substrate, a packaging layer disposed between the cover plate and the substrate, a touch control circuit formed on the cover plate, touch bonding pins disposed at an edge of the cover plate and coupled to the touch circuit, and multiple shielding terminals disposed on both sides of the touch bonding pins. The touch bonding pins and the shielding terminals are disposed corresponding to the packaging layer. A length of each shielding terminal is consistent with a length of each touch bonding pin. Along a direction of getting away from the touch bonding pins, widths of the plurality of shielding terminals gradually decrease.
US11895876B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a first structure located in the second area and including a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, an intermediate layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, and at least one organic material layer; and a plurality of grooves located in the third area and separating the at least one organic material layer and the opposite electrode, wherein a first groove of the plurality of grooves is provided in a multi-layered film including a lower layer and an upper layer, wherein the upper layer includes an inorganic material layer and a first step adjacent to the first groove, the first step having an elevation higher than an upper surface of the lower layer.
US11895870B2
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. A first gate electrode and a first polar plate of a first thin film transistor are used to constitute a storage capacitor. At a same time, the first polar plate and a second gate electrode of a second thin film transistor are disposed in a same layer. Therefore, a gate insulation layer used to separate the first polar plate from the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode in layers can be omitted, so as to reduce a number of film layers in the display panel and a thickness of a film laminated structure, thereby reducing a complexity of a process flow of the display panel, and improving bending ability of the display panel.
US11895867B2
A method of reducing color breakup of reflection of ambient light in a display panel having a color breakup-prevention structure is provided. The color breakup-prevention structure includes a high refractive index lens layer on a side of a plurality of light emitting elements away from a base substrate; a low refractive index modulation layer on a side of the high refractive index lens layer away from the base substrate; a first color filter layer in a plurality of subpixel regions, and spaced apart from the high refractive index lens layer by the low refractive index modulation layer; and a first black matrix layer in an inter-subpixel region, and spaced apart from the high refractive index lens layer by the low refractive index modulation layer. The high refractive index lens layer includes a plurality of lens portions spaced apart from each other and respectively in the plurality of subpixels.
US11895864B2
A display device according to embodiments includes: a display panel that includes a display area that includes a partition layer that includes a first opening through which light is emitted from an organic light emitting diode and a peripheral area around the display area; a touch electrode disposed on the display panel; a touch electrode passivation layer that covers the touch electrode and includes a second opening that corresponds to the first opening; and a high refractive index layer that covers the touch electrode passivation layer and the second opening. The touch electrode passivation layer includes an open region formed in a portion that corresponds to the peripheral area, and the touch electrode passivation layer is not formed in the open region.
US11895863B2
A display panel, a manufacturing method and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate having a display area and a non-display area; a planarization layer covering the display area and the non-display area of the substrate; an organic light emitting element located in the display area and located at a side of the planarization layer away from the substrate; an encapsulation structure including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer which are sequentially stacked, where the first inorganic layer and the second inorganic layer extend into a non-display area, and the first inorganic layer is arranged close to the planarization layer; and/or, a part of the planarization layer located in the non-display area is provided with a groove, and the groove is filled with a flexible water-oxidation resistant material.
US11895861B2
A display device includes a base; a light emitting element on the base; a capping layer on the light emitting element; a thin-film encapsulation layer including a first inorganic layer on the capping layer, an organic layer on the first inorganic layer, and a second inorganic layer on the organic layer; and a wavelength conversion pattern on the thin-film encapsulation layer and overlapping the light emitting element, wherein the first inorganic layer includes two sub-inorganic layers having different refractive indices.
US11895854B2
An imaging device includes at least one first pixel electrode, at least one second pixel electrode, a photoelectric converter continuously covering upper surfaces of the at least one first pixel electrode and the at least one second pixel electrode, a first counter electrode facing the at least one first pixel electrode, a second counter electrode facing the at least one second pixel electrode, and a sealing layer continuously covering upper surfaces of the first and second counter electrodes. In a plan view, a first portion of an upper surface of the photoelectric converter in an interelectrode region between the first counter electrode and the second counter electrode is more depressed than a second portion of the upper surface of the photoelectric converter in an overlap region overlapping the first counter electrode or the second counter electrode. The sealing layer is in contact with the photoelectric converter in the interelectrode region.
US11895853B2
Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) and their compositions are described herein. In one or more embodiments, the OPV or solar cell includes a first electrode (e.g., cathode); a second electrode (e.g., anode); an active layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a channel layer positioned between the first electrode and the active layer, wherein the channel layer is configured to laterally disperse a charge across the channel layer. In certain examples, the first electrode is arranged in a grid structure having a plurality of electrode segments and a respective opening between adjacent segments of the first electrode.
US11895846B2
A ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) includes first and second gate electrodes, source and drain regions, a semiconductor region between and physically connecting the source and drain regions, a first gate dielectric between the semiconductor region and the first gate electrode, and a second gate dielectric between the semiconductor region and the second gate electrode. The first gate dielectric includes a ferroelectric dielectric. In an embodiment, a memory cell includes this FeFET, with the first gate electrode being electrically connected to a wordline and the drain region being electrically connected to a bitline. In another embodiment, a memory array includes wordlines extending in a first direction, bitlines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of such memory cells at crossing regions of the wordlines and the bitlines. In each memory cell, the wordline is a corresponding one of the wordlines and the bitline is a corresponding one of the bitlines.
US11895842B2
A nonvolatile memory device having a cell over periphery (COP) structure includes a first sub memory plane and a second sub memory plane disposed adjacent to the first sub memory plane a row direction. A first vertical contact region is disposed in the cell region of the first sub memory plane and a second vertical contact region is disposed in the cell region of the second sub memory plane. A first overhead region is disposed in the cell region of the first sub memory plane and adjacent to the second vertical region in the row direction, and a second overhead region is disposed in the cell region of the second sub memory plane and adjacent to the first vertical region in the row direction. Cell channel structures are disposed in a main region of the cell region.
US11895837B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a memory cell region and a connection region, a plurality of gate electrodes stacked on the substrate, a channel structure penetrating the plurality of gate electrodes and including a channel layer extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate in the memory cell region, a dummy channel structure penetrating the plurality of gate electrodes and including a dummy channel layer extending in the vertical direction in the connection region, a first semiconductor layer disposed between the substrate and a lowermost one of the plurality of gate electrodes and surrounding the channel structure in the memory cell region, and an insulating separation structure disposed between the substrate and the lowermost one of the plurality of gate electrodes and surrounding the dummy channel layer.
US11895835B2
Integrated circuitry comprising a memory array comprises strings of memory cells comprising laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a first vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Strings of memory cells comprise channel-material strings that extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The conductive tiers individually comprise a horizontally-elongated conductive line. A second vertical stack is aside the first vertical stack. The second vertical stack comprises an tipper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion comprises vertically alternating first tiers and second insulating tiers that are of different composition relative one another. The lower portion comprises an upper polysilicon-comprising layer, a lower polysilicon-comprising layer, an intervening-material layer vertically between the tipper and lower polysilicon-comprising layers. An upper intermediate layer is vertically between the upper polysilicon-comprising layer and the intervening-material layer. A lower intermediate layer is vertically between the lower polysilicon-comprising layer and the intervening-material layer. The lower intermediate layer and the upper intermediate layer comprise at least one of (a), (b), and (c), where (a): a hafnium oxide; (b): a bilayer comprising silicon nitride and comprising silicon dioxide positioned vertically relative one another, the silicon nitride in the bilayer being closer to the intervening-material layer than is the silicon dioxide in the bilayer; and (c): SiOxNy, where each of “x” and “y” is from 1 atomic percent to 90 atomic percent of the total of the Si, the O, and the N in the SiOxNy. Methods are disclosed.
US11895832B2
A memory integrated circuit is provided. The memory integrated circuit includes a first memory array, a second memory array and a driving circuit. The first and second memory arrays are laterally spaced apart, and respectively include: memory cells, each including an access transistor and a storage capacitor coupled to the access transistor; bit lines, respectively coupled to a row of the memory cells; and word lines, respectively coupled to a column of the memory cells. The driving circuit is disposed below the first and second memory arrays, and includes sense amplifiers. Each of the bit lines in the first memory array and one of the bit lines in the second memory array are routed to input lines of one of the sense amplifiers.
US11895831B2
A manufacturing method for memory includes: providing a substrate, and forming a first isolation layer and discrete bit lines on the substrate; removing part of the first isolation layer by a thickness to form discrete first trenches; forming word lines filling the first trenches, wherein the word lines each has a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to each other; forming discrete through holes each being between adjacent word lines; forming a first dielectric layer on surface of exposed first side wall, and forming a second dielectric layer on surface of exposed second side wall; and forming an active layer filling the through holes.
US11895830B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a buried wordline. The method includes forming a first recessed portion in a first dielectric layer in a substrate; forming a second recessed portion spaced apart from the first recessed portion and in the substrate; disposing a protection layer on the substrate to cover the second recessed portion; and disposing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer.
US11895825B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating base including a trench, a transistor including a gate electrode and vertical channel in the trench, and a source electrode in the insulating base outside the trench, an isolation layer on the gate electrode in the trench, and a capacitor including a trench capacitor portion that is on the isolation layer in the trench, and a stacked capacitor portion that is coupled to the source electrode of the transistor outside the trench.
US11895813B2
The present application provides a display device comprising: a display panel including a display region and a non-display region, wherein the non-display region includes first and second fan-out regions and a bending region; an optical functional film layer formed in the display region and the first fan-out region; an adhesive layer formed on the optical functional film layer; and a protective layer located in the bending region and with a gap with the optical functional film layer, and an end of the adhesive layer extends beyond the optical functional film layer and is connected to the protective layer, and the adhesive layer covers the optical functional film layer, the gap, and part of the protective layer.
US11895812B2
A computing component is described. The computing component includes a cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material may have a cosmetic surface and a protrusion surface. The computing component includes a protrusion extending from the protrusion surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material is uniform in appearance to the naked eye. In some embodiments, the protrusion may have a base and an end. The base may have a cross-sectional width and the end may have a cross-sectional width. A difference in the cross-sectional width of the base and the cross-sectional width of the end may be less than 250 microns.
US11895811B2
A curved electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The curved electronic device includes a substrate, a component layer, and a modulation layer. The component layer is disposed on the substrate. The component layer is composed of a plurality of electronic components and their connecting wiring arranged on the substrate. The modulation layer is disposed on the component layer, and includes at least one pattern area and at least one blank area that are formed on the component layer. The blank area allows one part of the electronic components to be exposed out of the modulation layer. The modulation layer and the substrate have different heat absorption rates, so that the positions of the substrate corresponding to the blank area and the pattern area have different degrees of softening, so as to prevent the component layer from being damaged in the process of stretching the substrate.
US11895800B2
A universal mounting system is provided for use in connection with substantially any type of electronic equipment so was to reduce or substantially avoid the need for rail kids or other mounting assemblies that are its equipment specific for mounting equipment to racks. In one implementation, a uniform mounting system (101) includes a number of rail and slider assemblies (112). Each of the rail and slider assemblies includes a slider that is slightly mounted on a support rail. Each of the slider is includes mounting flange is and brackets for mounting the slider to a piece of equipment. The mounting flanges 116 that's collectively define a segmented vertical rail. A safety stop mechanism can be used to define very a offset figurations of the equipment with respect to a front end of the rack.
US11895799B2
A support frame includes first and second mounting members, and an adjusting member. The second mounting member defines a groove. One groove wall of the groove defines a plurality of positioning holes. The adjusting member includes a base body, a sliding member, and an elastic member. The base body is disposed on the first mounting member, and at least a part of the base body is accommodated in the groove. The sliding member is slidably disposed on the base body and includes a clamping body. The elastic member is disposed on the sliding member, and the elastic member can drive the sliding member to engage the clamping body with one of the plurality of positioning holes. When the support frame is in a cabinet, an interior installation size of the cabinet is adjustable for any particular relative position between the first and second mounting members.
US11895797B2
An electrical device includes a connection part and a cover part connected to the connection part. A mounting part is accommodated and situated in the connection part, and a first circuit board is connected to the mounting part in a coded manner. A second circuit board is situated in the cover part, which is connected to a frame part in a coded manner. The first circuit board is connected to a plug connector part, and the second circuit board is connected to a mating plug connector part. A leading guide for a plug connection is provided on the mounting part, which becomes active when the cover part is connected to the connection part. The frame part being able to be connected to the mounting part in a coded manner.
US11895796B2
A quick releasing device, which is adapted to be fixed in or removed from a slot of a casing, is provided. The quick releasing device includes a frame, an arm and a handle. The frame has a hole. The arm is disposed at one side of the frame and a part of the arm corresponds to the hole. The handle is rotatably disposed at another side of the frame to rotate between a working position and a retracting position. The handle includes a pressing member whose position corresponds to the hole. The pressing member of the handle passes through the hole of the frame and pushes the arm when the quick releasing device is inserted into the slot of the casing and the handle is rotated from the working position to the retracting position, deforming the arm and interfering with a wall surface of the casing beside the slot.
US11895792B2
Provided display device includes at least one magnetic component, first display segment and second display segment connected to each other and foldable towards each other. The magnetic component includes first magnetic module located in non-display region of first display segment and second magnetic module located in non-display region of second display segment. The display device includes first folded state in which contact ends come into contact and second folded state in which the contact ends in contact for period of time. The attractive force A of the first magnetic module to the second magnetic module in the first folded state is smaller than the attractive force B thereof in the second folded state. The preceding solution can prevent the user's hands from being gripped when the user folds the display device and can ensure that the display device maintains stable folded state.
US11895790B2
A display device includes: a display panel which displays an image; and a frame set disposed on a rear side of the display panel, where the frame set bends the display panel. The frame set includes a frame including a body extending in a longitudinal direction and a head protruding toward the rear side of the display panel from the body, and a wire fixed to the head and extending in a longitudinal direction of the frame.
US11895789B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display configured to be at least partially drawn out of an internal space of the housing, and a rotation module configured to move the flexible display, wherein the rotation module may include a shaft including one end and another end each coupled to a support member included in the electronic device, a cylindrical housing drivingly connected to the flexible display and configured to be capable of performing a rotational motion about the shaft, a pair of cylindrical cams penetrated by the shaft and accommodated in the cylindrical housing, wherein the pair of cylindrical cams are configured to be capable of performing a linear motion on the shaft and positioned to be symmetrical to each other with respect to a center of the shaft, and a pair of guide pins coupled to the cylindrical housing.
US11895787B2
The present invention provides a multi-directional multi-joint turning piece and a display device including the multi-directional multi-joint turning piece. The multi-directional multi-joint turning piece is configured to connect a first display module and a second display module to provide a first display module unfolded or folded with the second display module. The multi-directional multi-joint turning piece includes a first coupling piece, a first turning piece, a second turning piece, a third turning piece, and a second coupling piece, wherein the first coupling piece is connected to the first display module, the second coupling piece is connected to the second display module, the first coupling piece is pivoted to the first turning piece, the first turning piece is pivoted to the second turning piece, the second turning piece is pivoted to the third turning piece, and the third turning piece is pivoted to the second coupling piece.
US11895784B2
An electronic control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a lower cover including a side wall with a first coupling portion and a second coupling portion; a circuit board arranged inside the side wall of the lower cover and having on the upper surface thereof a button; a middle cover provided with a third coupling portion coupled to the first coupling portion and a first button hole, and coupled to the lower cover by coupling of the third coupling portion to the first coupling portion; a button cover arranged on the upper surface of the middle cover, covering the first button hole, and having a protrusion portion; and an upper cover including a side wall provided with a fourth coupling portion coupled to the second coupling portion, the upper cover provided with a second button hole, and covering the button cover and the middle cover.
US11895783B2
A wireless transmitting device comprising a base, a circuit module, a supporting member and a casing is provided. The base comprises a main body and an extending portion integrally connected with the main body. The main body has a cavity. The circuit module is partially accommodated in the cavity. The supporting member props the circuit module and connects with the extending portion. The casing connects with the extending portion or the supporting member and covers the extending portion, the circuit module and the supporting member.
US11895782B2
A vehicle display assembly includes a display configured to graphically depict information. A printed circuit board (PCB) is in communication with the display. A carrier is clamped between the display and PCB to form an instrument cluster assembly. The carrier includes cooling fins.
US11895779B2
The method for processing a substrate includes the substrate preparation step of preparing the substrate, the pattern formation step of forming dummy patterns extending in an X-direction on the substrate, the mask arrangement step of arranging a stencil mask having multiple opening patterns on the substrate, the coating formation step of forming a metal film on the substrate through the multiple opening patterns, and the separation step of separating the dummy patterns from the substrate to obtain a submount. The dummy pattern has protrusion formed such that a side surface of the submount is exposed and formed close to the side surface with a clearance.
US11895770B2
A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer and a copper foil in contact with at least one surface of the insulating layer, in which the insulating layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a modified polyphenylene ether compound of which a terminal is modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, a chromium element amount on an exposed surface on which the insulating layer is exposed by an etching treatment of the copper-clad laminate with a copper chloride solution, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 7.5 at % or less with respect to a total element amount measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and a surface roughness of the exposed surface is 2.0 μm or less in terms of ten-point average roughness.
US11895750B2
A high-efficiency LED driving circuit includes a rectifying module, a power converting module and a power supply module. The power converting module is connected to the rectifying module and a load, and includes a controller. The load includes a plurality of LEDs. The power input pin of the controller is connected to a connecting point and the connecting point is disposed between two of the LEDs. The quantity of the LEDs can be 2 or more than 2. The circuit design of the driving circuit can effectively reduce the power consumption and heat generation thereof, such that the reliability of the driving circuit can be effectively enhanced.
US11895748B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) array includes an array of pixel assemblies and a pulse width modulator. The pulse width modulator generates pulse width modulation (PWM) signals for controlling a duty cycle of each of the pixels. The pixel assemblies each include an LED, a switching circuit, and a close loop circuit. The switching circuit receives a PWM signal and alternately turns on and off the LED based on the PWM signal. The close loop circuit regulates an LED current provided by the switching circuit to the LED based on a feedback signal received from the switching circuit.
US11895742B2
A ceramic heater includes a ceramic plate in which inner circumferential side and outer circumferential side resistance heating elements are built in; and a cylindrical shaft joined to a rear surface of the ceramic plate. A long hole is provided along a direction deviated from the diameter direction of the ceramic plate, and extends from a start point of a shaft inside area to a terminal position of the outer circumferential portion of the ceramic plate. A portion of the long hole forms a long groove, the portion passing through the shaft inside area. Terminals of the resistance heating elements are collectively provided in one of two division areas which are in the shaft inside area and divided by an axial line of the long groove, the one being a first division area having a larger area.
US11895739B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods relating to wireless communication mesh networks. In one aspect, the disclosed systems and methods may involve (1) a preexisting fiber network associated with a geographical area that includes buildings, where the preexisting fiber network comprises preexisting fiber links, (2) a first fiber link that is spliced into a given one of the preexisting fiber links coupled to the preexisting fiber network at a given location that was identified as being convenient for extending the preexisting fiber network, (3) a second fiber link that is deployed between the given location and a given building that is closest to the given location, where the given building is configured to serve as a seed node of a wireless communication mesh network that has backhaul connectivity through the preexisting fiber network, and (4) one or more point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication links that originate from the seed node.
US11895731B2
Bandwidth parts (BWPs) and other resources for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may use a BWP control procedure and/or a BWP timer management procedure for activating, deactivating, and/or switching BWPs, for example, using multiple active BWPs. A base station may send information comprising one or more fields indicating an action associated with a BWP, for example, if multiple active BWPs are supported. A wireless device may control a first BWP inactivity timer associated with a first active BWP, for example, based on activating, deactivating, and/or switching a second BWP.
US11895716B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a unified interface that is configured to support communication between a user equipment (UE) and application function (AF) via a network exposure function (NEF) are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a NEF from a session management function (SMF), a protocol data unit (PDU) session event change notification message associated with a UE, establishing, by the NEF, a data delivery path between the UE and an application function (AF) via one of a plurality of data delivery planes that traverse the NEF in response to the PDU session event change notification message and processing, by the NEF, messages communicated between the UE and the AF over any of the plurality of data delivery planes using a single unified interface supported by the NEF.
US11895715B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a protocol data unit (PDU) session service network element to control an aggregated maximum bit rate (AMBR), where the method includes receiving, by a control plane function network element, a request for establishing a first PDU session from a mobility management device, where the request for establishing the first PDU session includes a first data network name (DNN), determining, by the control plane function network element, that a same control plane function network element and a same user plane function network element need to be selected for a PDU session corresponding to the first DNN, and sending, by the control plane function network element, first indication information to the mobility management device, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a same control plane function network element needs to be selected for the PDU session corresponding to the first DNN.
US11895703B2
Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: determining a first PSSCH resource selected by a second device; selecting a second PSSCH resource; and transmitting a PSSCH by using the second PSSCH resource. Here, a PSFCH resource related to the second PSSCH resource may not overlap a PSFCH resource related to the first PSSCH resource.
US11895702B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handling a listen before talk (LBT) failure are provided. One method may include performing, by a user equipment, listen before talk (LBT). When the listen before talk (LBT) is successful, the method may include transmitting an intended transmission subsequent to the listen before talk (LBT). When the listen before talk (LBT) is not successful, the method may include transmitting an indication of listen before talk (LBT) failure by transmitting a portion of the intended transmission subsequent to the listen before talk (LBT).
US11895693B2
In a random access radio communication system configured to perform downlink communication from a radio base station to radio terminals by random access, the radio terminals include one or more low latency terminals requiring low latency and one or more non-low latency terminals not requiring low latency, and the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals are configured to be distinguished by service set identifiers (SSIDs). The random access radio communication system includes terminal assignment destination control unit of distinguishing the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals in accordance with the SSIDs and evenly distributing the terminals into a plurality of communication channels, and random access control unit of performing priority control on the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals for each communication channel so that the downlink communication in the low latency terminal satisfies a predetermined delay time.
US11895691B2
Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first apparatus, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a first base station, information associated with a sidelink (SL) bandwidth part (BWP); receiving, from the first base station, information associated with an uplink (UL) BWP; receiving, from the first base station, information associated with a first SL resource and information associated with a first UL resource for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback; determining not to perform SL transmission on the basis of the first SL resource on the SL BWP; and on the basis of determining, by the first apparatus, not to perform the SL transmission on the basis of the first SL resource, transmitting, to the first base station, HARQ NACK on the basis of the first UL resource on the UL BWP.
US11895680B2
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) only based small data transmission. For example, described herein are: configuration of pre-allocated UL resource (PUR) set; association of synchronization signal block (SSB) and PUSCH transmission; scrambling sequence generation of the PUSCH transmission; and a procedure for PUSCH only transmission carrying small data. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11895676B2
Provided in the implementations of the present disclosure are a resource set transmission method and a terminal device, which can avoid problems of hidden nodes, exposed nodes, half duplex, etc. avoided during resource selection, and improve the reliability of resource selection. The resource set transmission method includes: a first terminal sending first information, the first information being used for indicating M resource sets, wherein the M resource sets are targeted at one target terminal, or each resource set in the M resource sets is targeted at one or more target terminals, and the resource set is used for determining a candidate transmission resource when the target terminal performs resource selection, and M is a positive integer and M≥1.
US11895674B2
Systems, processes and methods are described for increasing the reliability of packet delivery while reducing end-to-end latency and power consumption in a low power wireless network. The packet is forwarded during a transmit timeslot utilizing link layer broadcast transmissions. A preset number of retransmission timeslots are provided to retransmit the packet. To reduce energy consumption for recipients, a recipient can enter a sleep mode after receiving the packet for the remaining retransmit timeslots.
US11895656B2
The present invention is designed so that, even when a sequence-based uplink control channel is used, uplink control information is reported appropriately. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a control section that determines to use one or both of a short uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a short period, and a long uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a longer period than the short uplink control channel, based on certain information, and a transmission section that transmits the uplink control information using the determined uplink control channel.
US11895640B2
A method of coordinating positioning signaling includes: sending, from a user equipment (UE), a request wirelessly for positioning service; receiving, at the UE, an indication of UE positioning signal times for sending UE positioning signals; and sending, from the UE, the UE positioning signals at the UE positioning signal times.
US11895639B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may receive discontinuous reception (DRX) group information associated with a DRX grouping configuration that enables alignment of access link DRX configurations corresponding to a first set of network nodes and sidelink DRX configurations corresponding to the first set of network nodes, wherein the DRX group information indicates a first group identifier (ID) corresponding to a first DRX group of a plurality of DRX groups associated with the DRX grouping configuration, and wherein the first DRX group includes a first subset of the first set of network nodes. The first network node may communicate, based at least in part on the DRX group information, via at least one of a sidelink or an access link. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11895633B2
Embodiments include methods in a communication system including host computer, base station, and UE. The base station can send the UE an indication of an active bandwidth part (BWP) of a size NZBWP,1size frequency-domain resource blocks (RBs), and select frequency-domain RBs, within the active BWP, to be assigned for carrying the user data to the UE. The base station can encode an indication of the selected frequency-domain RB(s) represented by a starting virtual RB, RBstart, and a length of contiguously allocated RBs, LRBs, using a number of bits. The number is a plurality and related to a size NBWP,2size of another BWP than the active BWP. NBWP,2size is smaller than NBWP,1size. The starting virtual RB is encoded with a resolution of K RBs, with K determined based on a ratio of NBWP,1size and NBWP,2size. The base station can send the encoded indication to the UE via a downlink control channel.
US11895631B2
A method and a device are provided in a UE and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling, and operates a first radio signal in K time domain resource(s). The first signaling is used for determining the K time domain resource(s), K is a positive integer; the first radio signal carries a first bit block, a first time-domain-resource size and a target parameter are used for determining the size of the first bit block, at least one of the K time domain resource(s) is used for determining the first time-domain-resource size; the target parameter is a first or a second parameter; whether the target parameter is the first parameter or the second parameter is related to the first time-domain-resource size, or, whether the target parameter is the first parameter or the second parameter is related to the K; the operating action is transmitting or receiving.
US11895621B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sidelink operation. A method that may be performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes generating at least one first message indicating a request for resource allocation for sidelink communication between the first UE and a second UE, transmitting the at least one message indicating the request for the resource allocation, receiving at least one second message allocating one or more first component carriers for the sidelink communication, and communicating with the second UE using the one or more first component carriers.
US11895615B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device for positioning in wireless communication. A first node transmits Q1 first-type radio signal(s) and transmits first information; wherein the Q1 first-type radio signal(s) is(are) transmitted by Q1 spatial parameter group(s) respectively; the first information includes a first Identifier (ID) and Q1 piece(s) of channel information, and the first information is used for indicating Q1 geographic position(s); the Q1 piece(s) of channel information is(are) based on a channel measurement(s) performed by a target node for the Q1 spatial parameter group(s) respectively, and the target node is identified by the first ID; and the Q1 spatial parameter group(s) cover(s) the Q1 geographic position(s) respectively. The disclosure can improve the precision of positioning and meanwhile keep a good compatibility with existing systems.
US11895614B2
A method for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving from a base station a SIB 1 comprising a first scheduling information and a second scheduling information, acquiring a SI, transmitting to the base station a UECapabilitylnformation the UECapabilitylnformation includes a capability information related to PRS, transmitting to a LMF a provideCapabilities including a capability information related to SRS, transmitting to the LMF a RequestAssistanceData comprising a physical cell identity of Primary Cell (PCell) and a second identifier related to a second PRS data of the one or more second PRS data, receiving from the LMF a ProvideAssistanceData including a first PRS data the first PRS data includes a first identifier and one or more nr-DL-PRS-ResourceSet, receiving a RRCRelease including an information related to SRS transmission in RRC_INACTIVE, transmitting a positioning SRS in RRC_INACTIVE state and transmitting to the LMF a ProvideLocationlnformation.
US11895612B2
Described herein is a system and method in a user equipment (UE) supporting registration using third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and using non-3GPP access, the method comprising storing, in a memory of the UE, first emergency information received using first registration procedures; receiving, by the UE, a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message using second registration procedures via non-3GPP access; and keeping, in the memory, the first emergency information after receiving the REGISTRATION ACCEPT message.
US11895608B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity, a message that is associated with an uplink grant. The UE may select, based at least in part on the message, either a cell-specific offset or an updated offset that is indicated after initial access, as a timing offset that accounts for a propagation delay between a base station of the NTN and the UE. The UE may transmit, to the NTN entity, an uplink communication using the timing offset. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11895594B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. A wireless device may transmit or drop one or more of a plurality of signals.
US11895587B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, during a first synchronization wakeup period while RF circuitry and the FW circuitry are set to an active state, one or more measurements of one or more SSBs of a first SSBS from a base station. The UE predicts, during the first synchronization wakeup period while the RF circuitry and the FW circuitry are in the active state, a second SSBS at which to wake up for a second synchronization wakeup period based on the one or more measurements. In response to completion of FW post-processing operations, the UE transitions the RF circuitry and the FW circuitry from the active state to a sleep state.
US11895583B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a network connection processing method, an apparatus, and a wireless transceiver unit. The method is applied to a user equipment UE side and relates to the 5G NR and the field of artificial intelligence communications. The method includes: connecting UE to both a 4G base station and a 5G base station by using an LTE-NR dual connectivity technology; and when the UE is in a screen-off state and a data transmission rate of the UE is less than or equal to a preset rate, releasing a connection between the UE and the 5G base station. The embodiments of the present invention can solve problems such as high device power consumption and network resource waste caused by the LTE-NR dual connectivity technology.
US11895577B2
A network slice selection method and apparatus are provided, to ensure performance of a high-priority service. The method includes: A first management unit obtains a service request message, where the service request message is used to initiate a service request for a service of a tenant; and the first management unit sends a network slice request message to a second management unit based on the service request message, where the network slice request message carries priority information, the priority information is used to indicate a priority of the tenant or a priority of the service, and the priority information is used by the second management unit to select a network slice for the service of the tenant.
US11895576B2
An NSSF (69) includes: a selection unit selecting a slice corresponding to a service related to a request from a terminal (10) and a target processing server corresponding to the slice based on slice correspondence information including information where a slice, a processing server corresponding to the slice, and a service used by a terminal are associated with one another; and a notification unit notifying an AMF (30) of selection result including information regarding the slice and target processing server. The AMF includes: a determination processing unit determining whether the AMF is a target processing server based on information on the target processing server in the selection result information, and performing processing for a service when the AMF is the target processing server, or transferring a request for processing for a service to the target processing server when the AMF is not the target processing server.
US11895572B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a wireless device, information indicating an amplitude control capability of the UE. The UE may receive, from the wireless device, a communication using amplitude control. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11895569B2
A wireless audio system using low overhead in-band control and audio transmission is provided. The wireless audio system includes a first wireless audio device configured to operate separate physical layer channels for audio data and control data, and transmit the audio data and control data using a single wideband carrier. The wireless audio system also includes one or more second wireless audio devices configured to receive the audio data and control data, and execute an instruction based on the control data.
US11895568B2
A short-distance wireless communication module according to the Bluetooth standard, able to communicate data packets between at least one client and at least one remote device. The communication module includes a processor configured to execute at least two high-level software components for implementing a communication protocol, which are distinct and independent, and a hardware component connected to a communication antenna. The antenna is capable of communicating with the at least one remote device according to the Bluetooth standard. This module has an intermediate software component, connected between the at least two high-level software components and the hardware component, which includes a decoder module and a routing module, configured to route a received data packet to a recipient according to stored routing information and according to information obtained from the decoder module.
US11895567B2
A device and method for lending a local processing capability between connected terminals, the method including displaying, by a first electronic device, a first screen, where the first screen is a camera screen of the first electronic device, detecting a first operation of a user on the first screen, obtaining a first image file through photographing in response to the first operation, wherein the image file is a picture or a video, automatically sending the first image file to a second electronic device, automatically receiving processing data sent by the second electronic device, where the processing data is obtained by the second electronic device by processing the first image file, and where the processing data is associated with a second image file, detecting a second operation of the user on the first screen, and displaying the second image file in response to the second operation.
US11895563B2
A computer implemented method includes monitoring at a server electronic communications over a network between a first matched individual at a first client device and a second matched individual at a second client device. The monitoring includes observing initiator electronic communication contributions originating at the first client device and recipient electronic communication contributions originating at the second client device, maintaining a total electronic communications count between the first client device and the second client device, and measuring an electronic communications duration period from an initial initiator electronic communication and a last electronic communication. Based on the monitored electronic communications, it is determined that one or both of the first matched individual and the second matched individual are ready for an in-person meeting. A prompt is supplied to the first client device to initiate the in-person meeting.
US11895562B2
The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, a computer storage medium, and a terminal for processing positioning information. According to embodiments of the present invention, through the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the user machine, the approximate position of the user machine is determined according to the obtained IP address; and a set of correction data of a virtual reference station to be sent to the user machine is determined according to the approximate position of the user machine. In the embodiments of the present invention, the user machine does not need to report its position, such that privacy issues related to the position report are eliminated; in addition, the processing of the virtual reference station is converted from two-way communication to one-way communication, thereby simplifying the communication interaction process of traditional Network RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) service which may be nationwide.
US11895559B2
An object is to provide a moving route determination device that makes it possible to accurately determine a user's moving route. A server device 100 includes a geofence evaluation unit 105 configured to store a scoring table for determining a moving route of a user terminal 200, a check-in log acquisition unit 103 configured to acquire at least one of a check-in log which is a history of position management information, such as check-in information, settlement information, or search information, indicating that the user terminal 200 is located in a predetermined range, a settlement log, and a search log as a position management log, and a scoring determination unit 106 configured to determine a moving route of the user terminal 200 on the basis of the position management log and determination information stored in the geofence evaluation unit 105 in a case where a moving means is not able to be determined from at least one of the check-in log, the settlement log, and the search log.
US11895558B2
A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.
US11895555B2
A mobile equipment (ME) for tracking an event comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: activating a digital tag of the event in the ME, to track the event; and generating an indication on the ME according to the digital tag, when a distance between a first position of the ME and a second position at which the event occurs is greater than a threshold.
US11895553B2
A web application with multiple components located in different virtual environments. A method of the disclosure includes receiving a first request to access a first component of a web application from a client device, routing the client device to a first virtual environment where the first component of the web application is located based on the first request, wherein the first virtual environment uses a first runtime environment, receiving a second request to access a second component of the web application from the client device, and routing the client to a second virtual environment where the second component of the web application is located based on the second request, wherein the second virtual environment uses a second runtime environment and wherein the first runtime environment is different from the second runtime environment.
US11895552B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for switching resource pools by a device arranged to transmit according to a first resource pool is provided. The method includes sensing a second resource pool, determining whether the second resource pool has been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection, and selecting resources from an exceptional pool by using random resource selection, if the second resource pool has not been sensed sufficiently long to apply sensing based resource selection.
US11895547B2
An apparatus of an evolved NodeB (eNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to encode measurement gap configuration information including a measurement gap configuration information element MeasGapConfig to configure a network controlled small gap (NCSG) pattern for a user equipment (UE) device if the UE requires an NCSG and the UE is not configured with a primary secondary cell (PSCELL), and a memory to store the measurement gap configuration information.
US11895543B2
A method and system to provide Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) in a NR network are described. The MRO parameters, use case, management services and information definition and procedures are described. A distributed self-organized network (D-SON) management function requests a producer of provisioning management service (MnS) to set targets, handover parameter ranges, and control information for an MRO function and then enables the MRO function for a non-enabled NR cell. The MRO function receives and analyses information from UEs to determine actions to optimize MRO performance. The D-SON management function collects and analyses MRO related performance measurements to evaluate the MRO performance, and updates the targets, handover parameter ranges, and/or control information when the MRO performance does not meet the targets.
US11895537B2
A network device may select a first user plane function for establishing, with a user equipment, a protocol data unit session with a single flow and may receive an application function trigger associated with a first new flow for a first application of the user equipment. The network device may select a second user plane function for the first new flow and may create a first traffic filter for the first new flow. The network device may cause the first traffic filter to be provided to the user equipment so that first application traffic is routed, based on the first traffic filter, to the second user plane function and a first multi-access edge computing device associated with the second user plane function.
US11895536B2
This invention flexibly controls the number of user planes in a communication system. In a communication system, a base station is in a local area network and at least one user plane function arranged in a cloud are connected. A determination is made as to whether or not a new user plane function should be added, taking into consideration: the traffic amount, from the maximum traffic amount using the local area network, of user data transferred by the at least one user plane function using the local area network; and an anticipated traffic amount of a new user plane function.
US11895523B2
A user apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, wherein the first base station apparatus is a master node in a New Radio (NR) radio communication system and the second base station apparatus is a secondary node in the NR radio communication system; a reception unit configured to receive from the first base station apparatus an instruction to measure a system frame number and frame timing difference (SFTD) representing a system frame number and frame timing difference between cells; a control unit configured to measure SFTD between a cell of the first base station apparatus and a cell of the second base station apparatus based on the instruction to measure SFTD; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the first base station apparatus a measurement result including the measured SFTD.
US11895520B2
Systems and methods for System Frame Number (SFN) Frame Time Difference (SFTD) reporting are disclosed. Embodiments of a method of operation of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network to perform SFTD measurements between a Primary Cell (PCell) of the UE and one or more other cells is provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises receiving, from a network node in the wireless network, a list of cells for which the UE can report SFTD measurements. The method further comprises performing SFTD measurements and reporting the SFTD measurements in accordance with the list of cells for which the UE can report SFTD measurements. In this manner, SFTD reporting is provided in an efficient manner.
US11895510B2
A new design for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is proposed for the next generation 5G new radio systems. A UE receives the configuration of a default control resource set (CORESET) in MIB/SIB from its serving base station. The default CORESET contains both common search space and UE-specific search space for candidate PDCCH transmission. A PDCCH in a default CORESET is mapped to physical resource in a distributed or localized manner. Specifically, various REG-to-CCE mapping rules are proposed to improve frequency diversity gain, or frequency selectivity gain, or to reduce latency of PDCCH processing. Further, to facilitate analog beamforming in mmWave systems, the default CORESET is transmitted in a synchronization signal (SS) block associated with a corresponding analog beam direction.
US11895491B2
A method and system for provisioning access data in a second application on a mobile device using a first application on the mobile device. Authentication data may be input into the first application, and an authentication code may be requested from a remote server. After the authentication code is received by the first application in the mobile device, it can pass the authentication code to a second application that initiates an access data provisioning process.
US11895482B2
A method for generating loudspeaker signals associated with a target screen size is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bit stream containing encoded higher order ambisonics signals, the encoded higher order ambisonics signals describing a sound field associated with a production screen size. The method further includes decoding the encoded higher order ambisonics signals to obtain a first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing dominant components of the sound field and a second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing ambient components of the sound field. The method also includes combining the first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals and the second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals to produce a combined set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals.
US11895479B2
A method for steering binauralization of audio is provided. The method comprises steps of: receiving (410) an audio input signal, calculating (430) a confidence value indicating a likelihood that a current audio frame of the audio input signal comprises binauralized audio; determining (450) a state signal based on the confidence value; determining (460) a steering signal, based on the first confidence value, the state signal and an energy value of the audio frame; and generating (470) an audio output signal with steered binauralization by processing the audio input signal according to the steering signal.
US11895478B2
A sound capture device is disclosed, including plural microphone capsules, distributed over portion P of sphere S circumscribed between two or three planes perpendicular to each other, the three planes intersecting at a point corresponding to the center of the sphere S, and the two planes intersecting at a straight line passing through the center of the sphere S, and the sphere portion P being such that P=n S/8, with n=1,2; and a processing unit connected to the capsules to receive the signals captured by the capsules. The processing unit is arranged to matrix the signals in an ambisonic representation which retains only the ambisonic components associated with spherical harmonics that are symmetrical in relation to at least two of the aforementioned planes, and process a matrix thus obtained to identify a sound source surrounding the sphere portion and interpret a sound signal from the source.
US11895465B2
An ear-worn electronic device comprises a housing configured to be supported by, at, in or on an ear of a wearer. Electronic circuitry is disposed in the housing and comprises a processor. A power source and a receiver or a speaker are respectively disposed in or on the housing. A microphone array is disposed in or on the housing and operatively coupled to the electronic circuitry. The microphone array comprises a plurality of microphones. The processor is configured to operate a set of two or more of the microphones in a directional mode, detect degradation in performance of any microphone of the microphone set, and switch microphone operation from the directional mode to a safe mode using at least one non-degraded microphone of the microphone set in response to detecting the microphone performance degradation.
US11895461B2
Provided is an acoustic reproduction system capable of setting a sound image localization service area at an arbitrary position even in a case where a sound production direction of a directional sound cannot be changed. An acoustic reproduction system according to the present technology includes a sound producing device that emits a directional sound and a sound reflector positioned between a viewer and a viewing target by the viewer and having a sound reflecting surface that reflects the directional sound emitted by the sound producing device.
US11895460B2
An acoustic horn arranged to be fastened between a cabinet of a loudspeaker enclosure and an outer casing, the horn presenting a shape and/or dimensions that depend on the outer casing, the acoustic horn being arranged in such a manner that when the acoustic horn, the cabinet, and the outer casing are assembled together its inner face is in contact with the cabinet so that its inner edge surrounds a diaphragm of the loudspeaker and its outer face is in contact with the outer casing in such a manner that a hole set having at least one hole in the outer casing lies inside an area defined by its outer edge, the horn thus being arranged in such a manner that its inside peripheral surface guides sound produced by the loudspeaker towards the outside via the hole set having at least one hole in the outer casing.
US11895458B2
A headband portion for headphones includes a headband spring configured to be bent in a substantially semicircular arc shape so as to be expandable so that a central portion of the headband spring is disposed in a vicinity of a head top portion of a wearer and a pair of both end portions of the headband spring are arranged on both side head portions of the wearer in response to the headphones being placed on the wearer's head, a pair of holding members configured to hold the both end portions by inserting the both end portions thereinto, and a pair of stepped screws that passes through both end side portions of the headband spring in a plate thickness direction of the headband spring and that holds the headband spring movably in an axial direction of the pair of stepped screws with gaps between flange portions of the pair of stepped screws and the holding members.
US11895452B2
The present invention provides a bone conduction microphone including a housing and a circuit board connected with the housing. The circuit board has an acoustic channel. The microphone further includes a vibration assembly forming a first conduction cavity and a second conduction cavity. The vibration assembly includes a vibration member and a frame. The frame, the vibration member and the circuit board form a first conduction cavity. The frame, the vibration member and the circuit board form a second conduction cavity. The vibration of the vibration member is conducted to one side of the vibration diaphragm, and is also conducted to the other side of the vibration diaphragm. Compared with the related art, the bone conduction microphone of the present invention can effectively improve the sensitivity and the signal to noise ratio.
US11895445B2
A projection video display apparatus includes a video input unit, a light source, a display element, a projection optical system, and a variable light adjusting function which changes the amount of light incident on the display element. Display modes using the variable light adjusting function are prepared, and one display mode of the display modes can be selected from a menu screen. Further, the display modes of the display video using the variable light adjusting function includes: a first display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with light adjusting control information, which is input from external equipment and is capable of controlling the variable light adjusting function in unit of frame of a projected video; and a second display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with the input video.
US11895441B2
A device for monitoring occupants of seats in a passenger compartment of a vehicle includes a plurality of structured light sources. Each of the plurality of structured light sources is attached to one of a plurality of sections and has an optical element that forms a structured light pattern. The plurality of structured light sources are oriented such that the plurality of structured light patterns, in combination, are directed such that they would cover the occupants of the seats of the vehicle. The plurality of structured light patterns, in combination, are directed such that they would cover all occupants of the seats. A camera is attached to a central niche and is configured to capture image patterns that result from distortion of the plurality of structured light patterns by the occupants of the seats.
US11895438B2
A system can automatically adjust a virtual background used by a participant in a video conference to match lighting level conditions present in a foreground of a participant video stream captured at a participant device. The matching can be done by adjusting one or more virtual background parameters, including but not limited to, exposure, brightness, contrast, and ISO. In some implementations, the system can dynamically or automatically adjust the lighting levels of the virtual background based on changes that may occur to the lighting level of the foreground during the video conference.
US11895431B2
An electronic device includes a signal processor, a substrate, and a conductive housing. The signal processor includes an oscillator that outputs oscillation signal. The substrate has a ground component, the signal processor being disposed on the substrate. The conductive housing is connected to a first site of the ground component and to a second site that is different from the first site. The first site and the second site being disposed at positions where a first area of the housing in which an impedance is higher than a first threshold due to the first site overlaps at least part of a second area of the housing in which an impedance is lower than a second threshold due to the second site.
US11895430B2
A drive control system, a control method and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the drive control system comprises: a system on chip, configured to receive video data and user operation instructions; a video data processor, electrically connected with the system on chip and configured to receive the video data and perform enhancement processing on the video data; an on-screen display data processor, electrically connected with the system on chip and configured to receive the user operation instructions and process the user operation instructions into corresponding on-screen display data; and a display drive circuit, electrically connected with the video data processor and the on-screen display data processor respectively and configured to receive video data subjected to enhancement processing and the on-screen display data and fuse the video data subjected to enhancement processing with the on-screen display data to drive a display panel for display according to fused data.
US11895428B2
A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
US11895427B2
A method for generating a composite image comprises: detecting a color temperature of a background image; acquiring from a camera through an image signal processor, ISP, performing white balance correction of acquired image data, an image including a foreground region including face of a user; and detecting a color temperature of the foreground region. Responsive to the color temperature for the foreground region differing from that of the background image by more than a threshold amount, a color temperature for white balance correction of a subsequently acquired image is set which causes skin pixels within the foreground region of the subsequently acquired image to have a color temperature closer to the color temperature for the background image. Pixel values of the foreground region are combined with pixel values of the background image corresponding to a background region of the acquired image to provide the composite image.
US11895425B2
Methods and apparatus for metadata-based cinematography, production effects, shot selection, and/or other content augmentation. Effective cinematography conveys storyline, emotion, excitement, etc. Unfortunately, most amateur filmmakers lack the knowledge and ability to create cinema quality media. Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, rendering media based on instantaneous metadata. Unlike traditional post-processing techniques that rely on human subjectivity, some of the various techniques described herein leverage the camera's actual experiential data to enable cinema-quality post-processing for the general consuming public. Instantaneous metadata-based cinematography and shot selection advisories and architectures are also described.
US11895423B2
A system includes an electronic module and an integrated circuit outside the electronic module. The integrated circuit is configured to generate a digital timing signal that emulates a first synchronization signal internal to the module and not available outside the module and to generate trigger signals based on the digital timing signal. A controller is configured to independently and autonomously perform control operations of the electronic module at times triggered by the trigger signals.
US11895418B2
An image sensing device includes: a control circuit coupled between an output terminal of a pixel signal and a high voltage terminal, and configured to generate a control voltage corresponding to a voltage level of the pixel signal; and a current supplying circuit coupled between the output terminal and the high voltage terminal, and configured to supply a pre-charge current, which is configured to be adaptively adjusted according to the voltage level of the pixel signal, to the output terminal based on the control voltage.
US11895416B2
A device includes an electronic processor configured to define a first set of sample pixels from a set of sample pixels determined from received video data according to a first electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) in a first color representation of a first color space; convert the first set of sample pixels to a second EOTF via a mapping function, producing a second set of sample pixels according to the second EOTF; convert the first and second set of sample pixels from the first color representation to a second color representation of the first color space; determine a backward reshaping function by repeatedly applying and adjusting a sample backward reshaping function so as to minimize a difference between predicted pixel values obtained by applying the sample backward reshaping function to the pixels of the converted first set and the pixels of the converted second set.
US11895412B2
Provided is an imaging device that is operable to reduce power upon receiving light, even with resolution of the imaging device increased. An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a matrix manner and receive reflected light from a target region, each of the plurality of pixels having a light receiving element that outputs an electric signal based on charge accumulated in either one of first and second charge accumulation parts in accordance with the reflected light; and a control part that executes switching control of the first and second charge accumulation parts by switching frequencies for each pixel region constituted of a pixel group of at least one part of an imaging frame formed by the plurality of pixels, the switching frequencies being different from each other.
US11895411B2
It is an object to extend event signal detection periods. An imaging device according to the present technology includes a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels each including a light-receiving portion that photoelectrically converts incident light to generate an electrical signal and a detection circuit that executes event signal detection by comparing the amount of change in the electrical signal generated by the light-receiving portion with a predetermined threshold value to obtain a detection result, and a control unit that performs control so that different pixels have different timing for an event detection period to cause the detection circuit to execute the event signal detection.
US11895408B2
This image pickup system includes an image pickup unit that captures a subject to obtain a pixel signal, and a processing circuit that generates a first video signal having a first dynamic range from the pixel signal generated by the image pickup unit, and generates a second video signal having a second dynamic range correlated with the first dynamic range.
US11895402B2
An actuator is configured to drive an imaging lens system. The actuator includes a frame portion configured to accommodate the imaging lens system, a supporting portion disposed on the frame portion, a driving portion configured to drive the imaging lens system to move, an optical mark structure disposed on part of the frame portion, the supporting portion or the driving portion and a liquid disposed on the optical mark structure. The supporting portion is configured to support the imaging lens system and give the imaging lens system a degree of freedom of movement with respect to the frame portion. The optical mark structure includes a plurality of optical mark units arranged side by side. The liquid is in physical contact with the imaging lens system, the frame portion, the supporting portion or the driving portion that is adjacent to the optical mark structure.
US11895400B2
The invention describes an imaging device (1) comprising an image sensor (2), an imaging lens (3), an infrared light source (5) to illuminate a scene (SC), and an infrared autofocus system (6) for providing an autofocus function, wherein the image sensor (2) comprises an array (21) of sensor pixels each arranged as dual pixel (22) comprising two separate pixel sensors (22a, 22b) per dual pixel (22) to record the image data (D1) as a sum signal from both pixel sensors (22a, 22b) and providing infrared data (D2) as individual signals from each of the two pixel sensors (22a, 22b) for phase contrast (PC) autofocusing, wherein an infrared filter (7) arranged between an aperture (4) of the imaging device (1) and an imaging sensor (2) and is adapted to locally transmit only a portion of the infrared light (IR) to the imaging sensor (2) by comprising at least one first area (71) arranged as infrared blocking area and at least one second area (72) arranged as infrared bandpass area. The invention further relates to a method (100) to automatically focusing this device (1).
US11895399B2
A photographing processing method includes determining whether a multi-mode switch is turned on for a camera of the terminal device when the camera is in an enabled state, where the multi-mode switch is used to control whether the camera uses a plurality of shooting modes to simultaneously photograph, and when the multi-mode switch is turned on for the camera, controlling, according to an externally triggered photographing instruction, the camera to photograph in the plurality of shooting modes.
US11895396B2
Provided are an imaging plan presentation apparatus and method capable of presenting an imaging plan to a user in accordance with conditions of images necessary for checking and an imaging range in a captured image. After an imaging unit (14) completes imaging, an imaging plan update unit (15) determines whether an uncaptured area has been identified by an uncaptured-area identification unit (151). If Yes is obtained, the imaging plan update unit (15) updates the imaging plan on the basis of the uncaptured imaging range, and re-generates an imaging plan corresponding to the uncaptured imaging range. Then, an imaging plan presentation unit (13) presents an imaging range to be captured next to a user on the basis of the re-generated imaging plan.
US11895392B2
A control apparatus is provided and includes a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display part or all of an image in a first region on a display screen displayed by the display unit. The image indicates an imaging range which an imaging apparatus can image by changing the imaging range. A change control unit is configured to change, on the image indicating the range which an imaging apparatus can image, a position or size of an image to be displayed in the first region by the display control unit. An output unit is configured to output an instruction to cause the imaging apparatus to image an imaging range corresponding to a range indicating an image displayed in a second region which is a part of the first region.
US11895390B2
Placement of a face depicted within a video may be determined. One or more stabilization options for the video may be obtained. Stabilization option(s) may include angle stabilization option, a position stabilization option, and/or a size stabilization option. The video may be stabilized based on the placement of the face and the stabilization option(s).
US11895387B2
A modular camera includes a battery module, a camera module, and a lens module that can be connected together to make a water-tight camera suitable for monitoring wastewater in wet environments. The camera module includes multiple different external device interfaces that allow the camera to be directly connected to external power, a number of different analog and/or digital sensors, an auxiliary camera, and one or more control outputs. The camera module includes an artificial intelligence (AI) photo analysis tool that analyzes photographs taken by the camera based on an AI model to automatically categorize each photo in near real-time, thereby allowing the camera itself to detect alarm conditions based on an assigned category for a photo, to take action in response to the alarm, and optionally to activate one or more external devices in response to the alarm.
US11895376B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a content structure that can then be used as a content design building block. Specifically, new content can be automatically generated by combining, replacing or mixing and matching objects, actions, settings, effects, audio, etc., from any number of previously stored content structures to create a new content structure, which is then rendered as a new content segment. Content segments are then stitched together to generate a finished content stream. In this way, new and original content can be created without the traditionally expensive and labor-intensive filming or computer animation processes.
US11895375B2
According to an embodiment, an image display device includes: a display; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor executing the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor executes the one or more instructions: to determine whether it is a recommended time for outputting advertisement content, from a user's log data, based on a first trained model using one or more neural networks; to determine a recommended attribute of an advertisement display region from the user's log data, based on a second trained model using the one or more neural networks, when it is determined that it is the recommended time for outputting the advertisement content; and to adjust an attribute of the advertisement display region based on the determined recommended attribute and control the display to output the advertisement content in the attribute-adjusted advertisement display region.
US11895372B1
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant exploratory personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.
US11895369B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for processing media content having video content and associated audio content. A method of processing media content having video content and associated audio content comprises the method includes receiving the video content and the associated audio content, analyzing the associated audio content, determining one or more navigation points for enabling navigation of the media content based on the analysis, wherein the one or more navigation points indicate points of interest in the associated audio content for short-term rewinding and/or fast forwarding, embedding the one or more navigation points into metadata for the media content, and outputting the video content, the associated audio content, and the metadata.
US11895367B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining whether a media asset intended to be recorded is actually transmitted at the time and on the source of a scheduled higher-priority recording. Should the intended media asset not be transmitted in a desirable way, or not transmitted at all, the system will instead make a recording of a lower-priority recording that would not have been made because of a conflict. The systems and methods described herein, before making a higher-priority recording, obtain a sample of the media asset included in a received transmission at a scheduled time and compare it to content associated with the media asset scheduled for recording to determine whether to record the received transmission.
US11895366B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for dynamic and context-based presentation of content using streaming media applications. A method may include receiving, by a first device, a user request to search for media titles based on user context data received by a first streaming media application; identifying, from a catalog of media titles and streaming media applications, the media titles based on the user context data; identifying an advertisement campaign associated with a second streaming media application; selecting, based on the advertisement campaign and the user context data, a first media title; selecting, based on the user context data, a second media title; generating first user interface data indicative of the first media title and second user interface data indicative of the second media title; and causing presentation of the first user interface data and the second user interface data using a user interface of the first streaming media application.
US11895363B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify the presence information matches user information, the user information stored in a memory of the apparatus; cause a confirmation prompt to be displayed on the configuration device, the confirmation prompt to indicate the presence information was obtained by the apparatus; and store the presence information in memory.
US11895361B2
A graphics verification system that handles content of a channel in a broadcast chain, partitions an on-screen view of the channel into a plurality of sections based on an overlay of a plurality of graphics on the on-screen view of the channel. The content may comprise media content and may include video, audio and/or ancillary data that is associated with any portion of a particular content. A placement of each of the overlaid plurality of graphics in the plurality of sections is determined with respect to associated content on the on-screen view of the channel. The placement is determined based on a concurrent look-up of the overlaid plurality of graphics in the plurality of sections and the associated content. The concurrent look-up is based on fingerprints or watermarks of the plurality of graphics and the associated content. One or more error parameters are detected based on the determined placement. The on-screen view of the channel is calibrated prior to multicasting of the channel, based on the one or more detected error parameters.
US11895354B2
A live streaming interaction method and apparatus, and a readable medium and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: in response to a selection operation of a user regarding target virtual objects in a live streaming viewing interface, displaying an object trigger operation control, the object trigger operation control being used for the user to perform a target operation to continuously trigger target virtual objects; and during the process of the user performing the target operation on the object trigger operation control, controlling a first display control to move along a first pre-set path, wherein the first display control is used for displaying, in real time, the number of target virtual objects currently triggered by the user.
US11895351B2
A multiple-identity secure device (MISD) persistently may store an identification code. The identification code may be stored in an integral memory of the device, or on an interchangeable card received in a physical interface of the MISD. The MISD may generate one or more unique identities (e.g., network addresses) from the stored identification code. The generated identities may be dynamically generated or may be securely stored in the MISD for subsequent retrieval. The generated identities may generate in accordance with an addressing scheme, a global/network setting, or as determined from a received data transmission.
US11895348B2
Systems and methods for providing variable trick-play mode playback of media content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. A playback device stores images of the media content associated with presentation times and marker information for the media content that indicates the presentation time of moments of interest. When a trick-play mode is invoked, the playback device determines a presentation time of a next marker in the playback. The playback device determines whether the current presentation time of the playback is within a specified range of the presentation time of the next marker and adjusts the speed of the trick-play playback based on the determination. The next frame to present is determined based on the adjusted speed of the trick-play playback and displayed.
US11895346B2
Disclosure provides devices, methods, and computer-readable medium for secure frame management. Techniques disclosed herein provide an intelligent method for detecting triggering items in one or more frames of streaming video from an Internet Protocol camera. Upon detection, the camera transmits one or more frames of the video over a network to a computing device. Upon detecting a triggering item in a frame of the video stream, the computing device begins a streaming session with a server and stream the one or more frames of video and accompanying metadata to the server. The frames, metadata, and associated keys can all be encrypted prior to streaming to the server. For each subsequent segment of video frames that includes the triggering item, the server can append the frames of that segment to the video clip in an encrypted container. Once the triggering item is no longer detected, the streaming session can be closed.
US11895344B1
In an approach for optimizing the enhancement of media content using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), a processor identifies a degree of enhancement to be performed on the media content to attain the defined quality. A processor calculates a length of time required to enhance the media content to the degree of enhancement identified considering one or more factors. A processor identifies a buffer required to enhance the media content to the degree of enhancement identified, wherein the buffer prevents an interruption in the media content. A processor identifies a distribution to enhance the media content between a cloud hosted server and a user computing device. A processor enhances the media content according to the distribution identified.
US11895337B2
A method and an apparatus for parallel encoding and decoding of moving picture data are provided. The method includes decoding, from a bitstream, a syntax element indicating that a picture can be decoded using wavefront parallel processing and decoding encoded data of the picture. The step of decoding encoded data of the picture includes for a first coding block of a current CTU row encoded in a palette mode, predicting a palette table for the first coding block by using palette data from a first CTU of a previous CTU row and decoding the first coding block in the palette mode using the palette table predicted for the first coding block.
US11895330B2
A method of video processing includes determining a target bitrate for a current video unit of a video that is based on a rate distortion function in which a rate portion is weighted using lambda, wherein lambda is a rational number and wherein lambda is an adaptively adjusted for each video unit of the video and performing a conversion between the current video unit and a bitstream of the video.
US11895327B2
There are provided methods and apparatus for adaptive geometric partitioning for video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding image data corresponding to pictures by adaptively partitioning at least portions of the pictures responsive to at least one parametric model. The at least one parametric model involves at least one of implicit and explicit formulation of at least one curve.
US11895325B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving an inter prediction mode from encoded information; configuring reference picture lists, deriving motion information comprising reference picture indexes for symmetric motion vector differences (SMVD); and generating prediction samples on the basis of the motion information, wherein the reference picture indexes for SMVD can be derived on the basis of short-term reference pictures included within the reference picture lists.
US11895322B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in operation, selects an encoding mode from among candidates including a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) encoding mode and a partition encoding mode. When the DMVR encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: obtains a first motion vector for a first image block; derives a second motion vector from the first motion vector using motion search; and generates a prediction image for the first image block using the second motion vector. When the partition encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: determines a plurality of partitions in a second image block; obtains a third motion vector for each partition; and generates a prediction image for the second image block using the third motion vector, without deriving a fourth motion vector from the third motion vector using motion search.
US11895321B2
An example device includes memory configured to store the video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and communicatively coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine at least one of a temporal candidate or a history-based candidate and determine at least one non-adjacent candidate, wherein the at least one non-adjacent candidate is from a unit that is not adjacent to a current prediction unit (PU). The one or more processors are configured to determine an advanced motion vector predictor (AMVP) candidate list including the at least one of the temporal candidate or the history-based candidate and the at least one non-adjacent candidate. The at least one non-adjacent candidate is added to the AMVP candidate list after the temporal candidate or before the history-based candidate. The one or more processors are configured to code the current PU based on the AMVP candidate list.
US11895319B2
A motion information candidate list construction method includes: performing a first processing process on all neighboring image blocks of a current image block until a quantity of candidate motion information sets in a candidate motion information list is equal to a first preset value or all the neighboring image blocks are traversed; then traversing at least two extra to be selected motion information sets, and storing, in the candidate motion information list, an extra to be selected motion information set that satisfies a preset condition, until the quantity of candidate motion information sets in the candidate motion information list is equal to a preset quantity value or the extra to be selected motion information sets are traversed extra to be selected motion.
US11895307B2
An encoder is configured to compress point cloud information using a blocks of nodes determined from a prediction tree. A prediction tree is generated for a point cloud. Segments of the prediction tree are identified. The segments are divided into blocks that are predicted by predecessor blocks within the segments. The blocks of the prediction tree may then be encoded and may be provided for transmission to a decoder that can regenerate the point cloud from the blocks of the prediction tree.
US11895300B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of generating residual samples of a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the residual information comprises a multiple transform selection (MTS) index and information regarding transform coefficients, the residual samples are generated from transform coefficients according to the information regarding the transform coefficients by using a transform kernel set, the transform kernel set is determined by the MTS index from among transform kernel set candidates, at least one of bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived on the basis of context coding, the context coding is performed based on a value of a context index with respect to the MTS index.
US11895297B2
A prediction mode determining method includes determining a split mode for a current picture block, determining whether a first picture subblock that meets a preset condition is obtained after the current picture block is split in the split mode, splitting the current picture block in the split mode to obtain a plurality of picture subblocks in response to determining that the first picture subblock is obtained after the current picture block is split, and determining that a same prediction mode is used for the plurality of picture subblocks. The plurality of picture subblocks comprise the first picture subblock. The prediction mode for the plurality of picture subblocks is an intra prediction mode or an inter prediction mode.
US11895295B2
Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of innovations in the area of encoding pictures or portions of pictures (e.g., slices, coding tree units, or coding units) and determining whether and how certain filtering operation should be performed and flagged for performance by the decoder in the bitstream. In particular examples, various implementations for setting the sample adaptive offset (SAO) syntax elements in the H.265/HEVC standard are disclosed. Although these examples concern the H.265/HEVC standard and its SAO filter, the disclosed technology is more widely applicable to other video codecs that involve filtering operations (particularly multi-stage filtering operations) as part of their encoding and decoding processes.
US11895294B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a slice and a luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) adaptation parameter set (APS) including LMCS parameters. The mechanism further includes determining that the LMCS APS is referenced in data related to the slice. The mechanism further includes decoding the slice using LMCS parameters from the LMCS APS based on the reference to the LMCS APS. The mechanism further includes forwarding the slice for display as part of a decoded video sequence.
US11895290B2
A video coding method and apparatus for codes a video in a data stream using block-based predictive coding by deriving a collection of one or more primitive predictions for a block using a set of primitive prediction modes adapted for predicting blocks of a picture of the video. Each primitive prediction in the collection of primitive predictions is derived using a respective primitive prediction mode from the set of primitive prediction modes. A composite prediction signal for the block is composed by combining primitive predictions from the collection of one or more primitive predictions, and the block is predicted using the composite prediction signal.
US11895287B2
Disclosed are an electronic device generating a multi-plane image of an arbitrary viewpoint and an operating method thereof. The electronic device includes a memory that stores a plurality of images, and at least one processor that executes a machine learning-based multi-plane image generating module generating an image of an arbitrary viewpoint from the plurality of images stored in the memory. When the multi-plane image generating module is executed, the processor selects at least two images from the plurality of images, by performing geometric calibration on the plurality of images, calculates a plane sweep volume including at least two layer images, performs an operation of a deep neural network to generate a plurality of multi-plane images having probability values, and generates the image of the arbitrary viewpoint by composing the plurality of multi-plane images and stores the image of the arbitrary viewpoint in the memory.
US11895285B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display and circuitry. The circuitry controls the display to display a first display field for displaying a first image of document data, a second display field for displaying a second image based on a first data generated by an image reading device reading a print sample, a third display field for displaying a third image based on a second data generated by the image reading device reading a printed matter printed out by an image forming apparatus based on the document data, and a fourth display field for displaying a fourth image after execution of color matching for color of the third image to be matched with color of the second image based on the document data.
US11895282B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry receives an operation of selecting data indicating a target color in color stability control. The circuitry determines the selected data indicating the target color as correction target data indicating a target color used for the color stability control. The circuitry generates correction gamma data used for gradation correction of image data for printing according to the determined correction target data.
US11895277B2
An opening/closing cover attachment structure couples an edge of an opening/closing cover to a cover attaching body in a turnable manner. The opening/closing cover attachment structure includes a first hinge, a second hinge and a holding part. The first hinge and the second hinge are disposed on the edge of the opening/closing cover via an interval. The holding part is disposed outside between the first hinge and the second hinge, and capable of holding the opening/closing cover in a closing state and releasing the holding. Hinge axes of the first hinge and the second hinge are sifted each other in a front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover, such that it becomes possible to reduce a level difference between contact end portions of the opening/closing cover in the closing state and the cover attaching body.
US11895272B2
Systems for and methods of determining the priority of a call interaction include receiving a call interaction from a call center; validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic; converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text; calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the text and organization, location, and time information in the text by determining an important of words in the text and correlating the words to a priority class using a pre-trained algorithm that is trained on emergency-type and emergency services-type language; determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.
US11895271B1
Techniques described herein relate to a client application framework for a contact center environment. A role-specific thick client framework may include a web browser-based, desktop application having multiple processes that can be distributed across the computing infrastructure of the client device. A portion of the framework may include a container application image received from an internal server of the contact center and launched by the client device. The desktop application may collect data associated with use of the container application image and transmit the collected data to a contact center server. The contact center server may process the data, in some instances along with data from additional desktop applications on additional client devices, to implement one or more integrated models across the contact center environment.
US11895270B2
A phone tree traversal system includes an input device configured to receive a user call request, a memory, and one or more processors. The one or more processors analyze the user call request to identify an entity to call and an objective of the call, and obtain a map of a phone tree utilized by an automated call receiving system of the entity. The phone tree includes at least one node with multiple path segments that branch from the node, and each node includes a respective prompt. The one or more processors determine a route along the map to an endpoint of the phone tree associated with the objective. During the call, the one or more processors navigate the phone tree to reach the endpoint by submitting information in response to the respective prompt at each node along the route that is determined.
US11895266B2
A system for detecting three-way calls in a monitored telephone conversation includes a speech recognition processor that transcribes the monitored telephone conversation and associates characteristics of the monitored telephone conversation with a transcript thereof, a database to store the transcript and the characteristics associated therewith, and a three-way Call detection processor to analyze the characteristics of the conversation and to detect therefrom the addition of one or more parties to the conversation. The system preferably includes at least one domain-specific language model that the speech recognition processor utilizes to transcribe the conversation. The system may operate in real-time or on previously recorded conversations. A query and retrieval system may be used to retrieve and review call records from the database.
US11895264B2
Embodiments described herein provide for a fraud detection engine for detecting various types of fraud at a call center and a fraud importance engine for tailoring the fraud detection operations to relative importance of fraud events. Fraud importance engine determines which fraud events are comparative more important than others. The fraud detection engine comprises machine-learning models that consume contact data and fraud importance information for various anti-fraud processes. The fraud importance engine calculates importance scores for fraud events based on user-customized attributes, such as fraud-type or fraud activity. The fraud importance scores are used in various processes, such as model training, model selection, and selecting weights or hyper-parameters for the ML models, among others. The fraud detection engine uses the importance scores to prioritize fraud alerts for review. The fraud importance engine receives detection feedback, which contacts involved false negatives, where fraud events were undetected but should have been detected.
US11895262B2
A calling system for a personal watercraft includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: obtain a specific state signal indicating that the personal watercraft is in a given specific state; and wirelessly transmit a calling signal based on the specific state signal.
US11895260B2
A system for customizing modifiable videos of a multimedia messaging application (MMA) is provided. In one example embodiment, the system includes at least one processor and a memory storing processor-executable codes, wherein the at least one processor is configured to analyze recent messages of a user to determine a context of the recent messages; determine, based on the context, a customized feature; select, based on the context, a list of relevant modifiable videos from a database configured to store modifiable videos, the modifiable videos being associated with a preset modifiable feature; replace the preset modifiable feature in the relevant modifiable videos with the customized feature; and render a modifiable video from the list of relevant modifiable videos for viewing by the user, the rendering including displaying the customized feature in the relevant modifiable videos.
US11895259B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivery/read receipts for electronic messaging are disclosed. During one-on-one electronic messaging sessions in a conversation view format, only a single read receipt is shown only for the most recent message transmitted in the conversation. In some implementations, a delivery receipt is shown which then can be replaced or morphed into a read receipt. In a group conversation, a read receipt can be displayed for the recipient who most recently caught up in the ongoing conversation.
US11895257B1
A communication system and method usable to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user. In particular, the system employs a wireless portable tablet or other portable electronic computing device linked to a captioning enabled phone as a remote interface for that phone, thereby providing an assisted user with more options, more freedom, and improved usability of the system.
US11895256B2
A system comprising a housing, the housing comprising an opening through which a display of an electronic device is accessible by a user, peripheral device(s) connected to the housing and controllable by the electronic device, and a hub contained within the housing. The hub comprises a first interface to couple the hub with the electronic device, a second interface for coupling the peripheral device(s), a processor, and a non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations. The operations comprising receiving first input data from the electronic device and sending first output data from the hub to the one or more peripheral devices based on the first input data. The operations further comprising receiving second input data from the peripheral device(s) and sending second output data from the hub to the electronic device based on the second input data.
US11895236B2
A device which can be implemented on a single packaged integrated circuit or a multichip module comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, and logic to use a physical unclonable function to produce a key and to store the key in a set of non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The physical unclonable function can use entropy derived from non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells to produce a key. Logic is described to disable changes to data in the set of non-volatile memory cells, and thereby freeze the key after it is stored in the set.
US11895235B1
A system for tracking clusters in an immutable sequential listing is disclosed. The system includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a new record, obtain a sub-listing of an immutable sequential listing, wherein the sub-listing comprises a biological extraction cluster description posting of a biological extraction cluster and a cluster key, update the biological extraction cluster description posting using the new record, generate a new sub-listing and update the new sub-listing to the immutable sequential listing.
US11895232B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA). An example method includes generating, at a first computing device, a first number based on a subset of a first set of entangled quantum particles associated with the first computing device. Each entangled quantum particle in the first set of entangled quantum particles may be entangled with a respective entangled quantum particle in a second set of entangled quantum particles associated with a second computing device. The example method further includes transmitting an electronic identification of the subset of the first set of entangled quantum particles to the second computing device. In some instances, the example method may further include receiving a second number from the second computing device and authenticating a session between the first computing device and the second computing device in an instance in which the second number corresponds, or is identical, to the first number.
US11895230B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a partial modular exponentiation calculating part and a partial modular exponentiation synthesizing part. The partial modular exponentiation calculating part is given a base in plaintext and a modulo in plaintext and shared exponents and calculates a partial modular exponentiation that equals a set of shared values according to a modular exponentiation of the base raised by the shared exponent. The partial modular exponentiation synthesizing part calculates shared values of the modular exponentiation from the partial modular exponentiation that equals shared values relating to the modular exponentiation of a sum of shared exponents.
US11895227B1
A first intermediate key management system (KMS) server of a distributed KMS receives a key lookup service (KLS) query from a KMS client for determining an identity of KMS server(s) that are capable of performing a first operation with a first managed key. The first intermediate KMS server is one of the intermediate KMS servers of the distributed KMS. The first KMS server determines the identity of one or more of the KMS servers that are capable of performing the first operation with the first managed key. The first KMS server transmits a KLS response to the KMS client that includes the identity of the KMS server(s) that are capable of performing the first operation with the first managed key.
US11895219B2
An artificial intelligence calculation semiconductor device is provided. The artificial intelligence calculation semiconductor device comprising: a control unit; and a MAC (Multiply and Accumulator) calculator which executes a homomorphic encryption calculation through the control unit, wherein the MAC calculator includes an NTT (Numeric Theoretic Transform)/INTT (Inverse NTT) circuit which generates cipher texts by performing a homomorphic multiplication calculation through transformation or inverse transformation of data, a cipher text multiplier which executes a multiplication calculation between the cipher texts, a cipher text adder/subtractor which executes addition and/or subtraction calculations between the cipher texts, and a rotator which performs a cyclic shift of a slot of the cipher texts.
US11895216B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive application data for transmission via an additional network node. The network node may provide the application data to the additional network node, the application data having one or more indications of groupings into application data units (ADUs) added before being provided to the additional network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11895213B2
A method for content management in a cellular network is provided. The method includes receiving, by an application server, a content request including a file identity from a User Equipment (UE), performing, upon receiving the content request, by the application server, at least one action associated with content caching, content retrieval, and content deletion, assigning, by the application server, one or more assisting parameters in a header of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet, based on the at least one performed action, and assisting, by the application server, at least one of a User Plane Function (UPF) device, and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) device of the cellular network to manage content, based on the one or more assigned assisting parameters.
US11895212B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for read-only data store replication to edge locations are disclosed. A read-only data store is replicated to an edge server. A request for content is received at the edge server from a client device. The content is sought from a content cache at the edge server or from an origin server coupled to the edge server. Processing of the request is initiated, comprising encountering an event. The event is associated with a function specified by a customer, and the function specifies the read-only data store as input. The function associated with the event is executed at the edge server, including retrieval of data from the data store. The content is generated based at least in part on execution of the function. The content is sent from the edge server to the client device.
US11895207B2
Systems and methods for determining a completion score of a record object from electronic activities
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a completion score for a record object based on electronic activities. The method includes accessing record objects, each of which corresponds to a record object type and includes object fields having object field-values. The method includes selecting one of the record objects. The method includes identifying electronic activities transmitted or received associated with the record object. Each of the electronic activities has a timestamp indicating a receipt time or transmission time of the respective electronic activity. The method includes determining a participant of each of the electronic activities. The method includes determining a completion score indicating a likelihood of completing an event associated with the record object based on the timestamp of each of the electronic activities and the participant of each of the electronic activities. The method includes storing an association between the record object and the completion score.
US11895195B2
In various examples there is a session border controller, SBC, connected between two communications networks. The SBC comprises a store holding statistics of events in the networks. The SBC also has an ingress receiving messages from the first communications network, the ingress having a memory storing an ingress message manipulation function MMF comprising a plurality of rules. The SBC has a session border controller processing unit connected to the ingress and receiving the messages from the ingress. The SBC has an egress connected to the session border controller processing unit, the egress receiving the messages from the session border controller processing unit and forwarding the messages, to the second communications network, the egress having a memory storing an egress message manipulation function MMF comprising a plurality of rules. At least some of the rules of the ingress MMF or egress MMF are for computing and storing the statistics.
US11895192B1
A wrapper layer over a target interface receives requests from client devices over a different interface, converts the requests into a format that is compatible with the target interface, and transmits each converted request over the target interface for processing by a service. The wrapper layer also processes a request by a client device to subscribe to a certain type of update made via the target interface by verifying that the client device is authorized to access a resource associated with that type of update and creating a subscription that identifies the client device and the type of update. When the wrapper layer subsequently receives a request corresponding to that type of update, the wrapper layer matches attributes of the request to the subscription by the client device and transmits a message notifying the client device of the request.
US11895189B2
One or more data packets at a storage node of a storage cluster system is received via a virtual network associated with a storage tenant. A connection between the storage tenant and a tenant communication component of the storage cluster system is terminated. A new connection is established between the tenant communication component of the storage cluster system and a destination associated with the one or more data packets. The one or more data packets are provided to the destination associated with the one or more data packets using a virtual network associated with storage nodes of the storage cluster system.
US11895180B2
A method and a system for arranging a user multi-session from a plurality of user sessions, where the sessions are received from a plurality of computerized client devices communicatively coupled via a communication network to at least one content server. At least some of the client devices may be operated by a same user, and the data content may include at least part of data communicated between any client device and any content server. The method including dividing the received data content into a plurality of sessions, where at least two sessions are associated with the same user, selecting at least two sessions received from at least two respective client devices associated with the same user, and associating the selected at least two sessions to form a multi-session.
US11895175B2
A method and processing unit for creating and rendering synchronized content for content rendering environment are described in present disclosure. Initially, live content rendered to users in content rendering environment is received. Further, inputs from first user, and optionally from one or more second users is collected during rendering of live content. The inputs comprises user inputs provided in at least one of virtual environment and user actions in real-world environment. Inputs are collected along with at least one of corresponding time stamp and corresponding spatial stamp in content rendering environment. Upon collecting inputs, live content is synchronized with the inputs based on at least one of the time and spatial stamp, and context mapping of the inputs with segments of the live content to output a synchronized content. By rendering such synchronized content to the user, replication of live rendering of the content may be experienced by the user.
US11895170B2
Embodiments for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) scenes updates at VR/AR devices in a network are described. Network traffic for the scene updates is divided into traffic layers such as coarse grain (CG) layer traffic and a fine grain (FG) layer traffic for a give VR/AR scene update. The CG layer traffic is scheduled first in resource units (RUs) of a plurality a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for a VR device and FG layer traffic is scheduled in remaining RUs during the TXOP to provide synchronous viewing experiences to users of the VR/AR devices.
US11895163B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for generating an annotation for textual information and/or media content for technical documentation for an item in an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation via an IETM viewer. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: providing a window for display comprising the textual information and/or media content; receiving input of a selection of an annotation selection mechanism; and responsive to receiving the input: generating the annotation for the textual information and/or media content; receiving an indication of a position in the textual information and/or media content to associate with the annotation; and providing an annotation window for the annotation for display via the IETM viewer, wherein the annotation window comprises an attach file mechanism, a capture mechanism, a share mechanism, and a change form mechanism.
US11895152B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to operate in a recovery mode after initiating a startup operation, transmit a data frame to a device of an electric power delivery system during the recovery mode, the data frame indicating a request for a security association key (SAK), receive the SAK from the device in response to transmitting the data frame, and use the SAK to communicate data via a media access control security (MACsec) communication link.
US11895146B2
Provided is an infection-spreading attack detection system and method, as well as a program enabling an occurrence of an infection-spreading attack to be detected with high accuracy. A first feature amount is calculated based on traffic information on a packet transferred by a transfer device, and M partial address space(s) are identified to be a monitoring target based on the first feature amount. A second feature amount is calculated for each of the M partial address space(s) based on the traffic information related to the M partial address space(s). Abnormality detection determination is performed on each of the M partial address space(s) based on the second feature amount. Whether the infection-spreading attack has occurred is determined by evaluating M determination results.
US11895144B2
Disclosed are implementations, including a method that includes monitoring dataflow streams in a network comprising multiple computing nodes, and determining network security characteristics for a dataflow stream, from the monitored dataflow streams, relating to security, authentication, and access events for accessing, via the dataflow stream, one or more of the multiple nodes. The method further includes determining potential violations by the dataflow stream of security policies defined for operation of the network, access functionality for the network, or identity attributes used by the network, based, at least in part, on the determined network security characteristics for the dataflow stream, and based on network-operation data comprising one or more of network security data, network identity data, and network access data. The network-operation data is stored in one or more data storage units in the network, and is configured to manage network access and operation for the multiple computing nodes.
US11895128B2
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) apparatus and method are provided that correlate and consolidate operation of discrete vendor tools for detecting cyberthreats on a network. An AI engine may filter false positives and eliminate duplicates within cyberthreats detected by multiple vendor tools. The AI engine provides machine learning solutions to complexities associated with translating vendor-specific cyberthreats to known cyberthreats. The AI engine may ingest data generated by the multiple vendor tools. The AI engine may classify hardware devices or software applications scanned by each vendor tool. The AI engine may decommission vendor tools that provide redundant cyberthreat detection. The AI engine may display operational results on a dashboard directing cyberthreat defense teams to corroborated cyberthreats and away from false positives.
US11895125B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for tracking the movement of data elements as they are shared and moved between authorized and unauthorized devices and among authorized and unauthorized users.
US11895113B2
An initiator device can broadcast a witness request to one or more authentication devices. The one or more authentication devices can then determine an assurance level from a range of assurance levels and determine a token share corresponding to the assurance level. The initiator device can then receive, from the one or more authentication devices, at least one witness response comprising the token share corresponding to the assurance level. The initiator device can generate an authentication token using a set of token shares. The initiator device can then transmit the authentication token to an authentication server, wherein the authentication server verifies the authentication token.
US11895110B2
Provided are a system, a method, and the like which contribute to more reliably and smoothly providing information relating to an authentication result to a person who has been subjected to authentication. An information provision system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: an authentication unit which authenticates an authentication subject, who is to be subjected to authentication, using a captured image of the authentication subject; a determination unit which, in accordance with information about the authentication subject or the conditions of the authentication subject, determines the transmission destination to which information relating to the authentication result is to be transmitted in order to notify the authentication subject of the authentication result; and a transmission unit which transmits the information to the determined transmission destination.
US11895106B2
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatic sign in upon account signup. Particularly, the present embodiments can utilize a federated login approach for automatic sign in upon account signup for a cloud infrastructure. Specifically, the signup and sign in service (also known as SOUP) and an identity provider portal can be configured such that the nodes are aware of each other as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) partners. After new account registration, the signup service can redirect the user browser to a cloud infrastructure console to start with a federated login flow, where a sign in service can issue a SAML authentication request, and redirects it to signup service. Responsive to validating the browser using a SAML authentication process, the browser can be automatically signed into the new account and allowed access the account relating to the cloud infrastructure service.
US11895102B2
An identity authentication management (IAM) service is established as a master over a master identity database of the centralized identity authentication management service. When adding an additional node to the computing infrastructure, a non-master copy of the master identity database is distributed to the additional node. Ongoing coordination between the master identity database and the non-master copy is established so as to synchronize differences between the master identity database and the non-master copy of the identity database. The additional node hosts a fully-functional authentication management service using the non-master copy of the master identity database and is able to respond to READ requests for data by accessing the non-master copy—without interaction with the centralized identity authentication management service.
US11895093B2
A method that is performed to access data nodes of a data cluster. The method includes obtaining, by a data access gateway (DAG), a request from a host, wherein the DAG is not executing on the host; in response to the request, obtaining discovery metadata from each data node of the data nodes in the data cluster; updating, based on the discovery metadata, a discovery metadata repository; identifying a first data node of the data nodes based on the discovery metadata; and sending the request to the first data node of the data nodes.
US11895083B2
An address obtaining method includes obtaining, by a third network device, an identifier of a first application from a terminal device. The identifier of the first application indicates a request for obtaining an address of an instance of the first application. The address obtaining method further includes sending, by the third network device, a first message to a first network device, wherein the first message comprises the identifier of the first application, and the first message is useable to request the address of the instance of the first application. The address obtaining method further includes receiving, by the third network device, the address of the instance of the first application from the first network device, and sending the address of the instance of the first application to the terminal device.
US11895079B1
Implementations set forth herein relate to rendering, at a message application, certain messages with a particular sorting scheme (e.g., a classification-based sorting scheme) based on the certain messages having transfer times that satisfy a transfer time threshold and, optionally, based on the certain messages being unread. Other messages rendered by the message application can be rendered with an alternative sorting scheme, such as chronologically. Utilization of the particular sorting scheme for the certain messages enables a user, viewing the messages, to review (e.g., reply-to, delete, and/or view) the certain messages with reduced latency, thereby allowing the certain messages to be more quickly reviewed and actioned when received.
US11895073B2
A method of postponing an electronic message is performed at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The device displays a first electronic message for a user of the computing device and receives user input to postpone the first electronic message. In response to the user input, the device displays a plurality of postponement locations in a user interface window and receives user selection of a postponement location from the displayed plurality of postponement locations. The device then inhibits display of the first electronic message at the computing device. When it is subsequently determined that the computing device is at the first postponement location, the device redisplays the first electronic message.
US11895071B1
Disclosed embodiments pertain to filtering application notifications from one or more applications on an electronic device. A request can be received from an application installed on the electronic device to present a notification. In response, a machine learning model is invoked that is trained to generate a relevancy score for a notification based on historical behavior of the user with respect to previous notifications from the application as well as the active context of the user. The relevancy score can be compared with a threshold to determine whether the threshold is satisfied. Notification filtering can be performed based on whether or not the threshold is satisfied. The method can filter out the notification from presentation if the threshold is satisfied and present the notification if the threshold is unsatisfied, or vice versa.
US11895065B2
A computer implemented method includes supplying to a client device prompts for a first individual to provide a vote for a preference of the first individual. The preference relates to an activity during an ephemeral time period. The vote is collected. Matches between the first individual and a pool of individuals are generated based upon common votes and matching criteria. The matches are supplied to the client device. A match acceptance for a second individual is collected from the client device. Network communication is enabled between the first individual and the second individual.
US11895056B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE first transmits a first radio signal, and then transmits a second radio signal; wherein the first radio signal includes M1 first radio sub-signal(s), and a first sequence is used for generating the first radio sub-signal; the second radio signal includes M2 second radio sub-signal(s), and a first bit block is used for generating the second radio sub-signal; the M1 is a positive integer, the M2 is a positive integer in a target set, and each element in the target set is a positive integer; and the target set is correlated with at least one of the M1 or the first sequence. The disclosure can save overheads caused by control information and improve spectrum efficiency of uplink transmission.
US11895055B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). An apparatus and a method for performing effective signal processing on a sidelink feedback channel in a wireless communication system is provided. A method of operating a UE in a wireless communication system includes acquiring at least one of a source ID, a destination ID, or a cell ID, generating Sidelink Feedback Control Information (SFCI) to be transmitted through a sidelink feedback channel (Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH)), performing channel encoding and scrambling on the SFCI using at least one of the source ID, the destination ID, or the cell ID, and transmitting the SFCI through the PSFCH.
US11895048B2
Aspects directed towards sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna switching are disclosed. In one example, an SRS configuration is received from a network in which at least four antennas of a scheduled entity are configured based on the SRS configuration. Here, the SRS configuration configures at least one antenna to simultaneously support SRS antenna switching and an uplink (UL) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. An SRS communication is then transmitted according to the SRS configuration. In another example, a transmission capability reporting is received from a scheduled entity comprising at least four antennas. A determination is then made of whether the scheduled entity may simultaneously support SRS antenna switching and an UL MIMO communication. An SRS configuration is then generated for the scheduled entity based on the determination in which a default SRS configuration configures at least one antenna to simultaneously support the SRS antenna switching and the UL MIMO communication.
US11895046B2
Various solutions for slot aggregation design in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) time bundling configuration. The apparatus may determine a duration interval of the DMRS time bundling configuration. The apparatus may perform channel estimation cross slots based on the duration interval.
US11895044B2
A base station includes: a control unit that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit; and a precoding unit and a transmitting unit that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit, and transmit the multiplexed signals.
US11895042B2
Resource provider specifications, characterizing computing resources of computing resource providers, are received. The reachability of each IP address included in the received specification is determined. An agent is deployed that is operable to determine the value of each of a set of metrics in the environment of the host at which the agent is deployed. The agent determines the value of each metric of the set of metrics in the environment of the relevant host, and communicates the determined values to one or more computing devices that validate whether the resources characterized by the communicated values are sufficient to provide the performance characterized by the received specification and that each ISP router complies with a predetermined policy. For each computing resource provider validated and determined to comprise an ISP router compliant with policy, the specified computing resources are added to a pool of resources for cloud computing.
US11895037B2
A VNF operation apparatus is a processing apparatus that relocates data processing functions to another apparatus to continue data processing and includes: a storage unit configured to store information indicating a communication relationship between apparatuses; an estimation unit configured to calculate, based on the information indicating the communication relationship, an estimation value of a transfer delay of data generated during relocation for a plurality of schedulings having different orders of relocation of the data processing functions; a scheduling unit configured to select a scheduling for which the estimation value calculated by the estimation unit is minimized, and sets, based on the selected scheduling, an order of relocation of the data processing functions and a start timing of relocation of the data processing functions; and a relocation unit configured to relocate VNFs to the other apparatus in accordance with the order and the timing set by the scheduling unit.
US11895020B1
In general, techniques are described for deploying virtualized cell site routers (vCSRs) capable of layer 2 (L2) forwarding to cell site servers to support management and orchestration of functional units for mobile networks executing on the cell site servers. In an example, a method comprises receiving, at a forwarding plane of a virtualized cell site router (vCSR) of a first Distributed Unit (DU) of a plurality of DU servers of a cell site for a 5G radio access network, the vCSR having a containerized routing protocol process and a forwarding plane configured to perform Layer 2 (L2) switching, L2 packets on a second interface for a second physical link connecting the first DU server to an L2 switch; and switching, by the forwarding plane of the vCSR of the first DU, the L2 packets on a first interface for a first physical link connecting the first DU server to a second DU server of the plurality of DU servers.
US11895019B2
What is disclosed is tagging a first flow of a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) with a first tag. Continuously tracking, based on the first tag, the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Capturing one or more characteristics of the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Categorizing the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN based on the one or more characteristics of the first flow. Providing the categorization of the first flow to a first tenant of the multi-tenant VPN. Receiving, based on input from the first tenant and the categorization of the first flow, a first policy. Enforcing the first policy on the first flow based on the first tag of the first flow and the continuous tracking of the first flow.
US11895009B2
A request from a client device is received at a first one of a plurality of compute nodes at a first one of a plurality of data centers of a distributed cloud computing network. A destination of the request is determined. An optimized route for transmitting the request toward an origin server that corresponds with the destination of the request is determined, where the optimized route is based on at least in part on probe data between data centers of the distributed cloud computing network for a plurality of transit connections, and where the optimized route has an IP address that encodes an identification of which of the plurality of transit connections is to be used to deliver the request. The request is transmitted to a next hop as defined by the optimized route over the identified one of the plurality of transit connections.
US11895005B1
A network device can include a main processor and a packet processor. A method is provided that includes storing a table of values in the packet processor, using the packet processor to receive from the main processor a value that can be used to update the table of values, and using acceleration hardware in the packet processor to update the table of values based on the value received from the main processor without any additional interaction with the software running on the main processor.
US11895004B2
A method for heuristics-based link prediction in multiplex networks may include a link prediction computer program: receiving a model for a multiplex network; defining a property matrix that specifies feature for cross-layer correlation; constructing a cross-correlation matrix from the property matrix; applying a count and weight correlation heuristic to the cross-correlation matrix, wherein the count and weight correlation heuristic counts a number of layers that contain a link between two nodes, and weights that count according to cross-layer correlations; applying a correlation weighted heuristic to the cross-correlation matrix; applying a count correlation-weighted heuristic to the cross-correlation matrix that counts the number of layers that contain a link between two nodes and weights that count according to both cross-layer correlations and values resulting from evaluating a monoplex heuristic applied to each layer in the multiplex network, resulting in output values; and identifying a missing link based on the output values.
US11894999B1
Client status pairs are obtained for clients. Each of the client status pairs includes a first client status assigned by a first network entity and a second client status assigned by a second network entity. Mismatched client status pairs are identified from the client status pairs. Each mismatched client status pair includes a discrepancy between the first and second client status. A data structure is generated that stores the mismatched client status pairs in a portion of the data structure. The portion is associated with a unique type of mismatched client status pair. A script configured for the unique type is executed. For each mismatched client status pair stored in the portion, the script modifies a data store associated with the first network entity to replace the first client status with the second client status.
US11894994B2
A network traffic device comprising: at least one network device adapted to receive network data packets; wherein said at least one network device filters network data packets to locate at least one identifying packet, and samples said network data packets to select at least one sample packet. The at least one network device may transfer said at least one identifying packet and said at least one sample packet to an analyser. A predetermined sample rate may determine the number of sample packets selected by said at least one network device.
US11894993B2
Systems and methods for troubleshooting and performance analysis of a cloud-based service include receiving metrics over time from a plurality of analyzers, wherein the metrics include service-related metrics and network-related metrics related to a cloud-based service, wherein each analyzer of the plurality of analyzers is executed at one of a user device accessing the cloud-based service and in the cloud-based service, and wherein at least one analyzer is executed in the cloud-based service; analyzing the metrics to determine a status of the cloud-based service over the time; and identifying issues related to the cloud-based service utilizing the analyzed metrics over the time, wherein the issues include any of an issue on a particular user device, an issue in a network between a particular user device and the cloud service, and an issue within the cloud service.
US11894981B1
Various approaches are discussed for generation of SOAR playbooks using a variety playbook sources.
US11894978B1
The present invention provides a computing power scheduling method, apparatus, electronic devices and storage medium, the method comprising: a computing power node and an access terminal send computing power information to a switch using L4 network protocol; the switch uploads the computing power information to a distributed SDN subcontroller; the distributed SDN subcontroller collects switch state information and network quality information from the switch using in-band network telemetry technology; the distributed SDN sub-controller collects switch state information and network quality information from the switch using in-band network telemetry; the distributed SDN sub-controller uploads the computing power information, switch state information and network quality information to the SDN master controller; the SDN master controller determines the computing power scheduling policy based on the computing power information, switch state information, network quality information and master controller information of the SDN master controller.
US11894968B2
A transmit in-phase quadrature (IQ) amplifier includes a common gain stage to receive an input signal and to generate an amplified signal. The amplifier includes an IQ poly-phase filter coupled to the common gain stage to receive the amplified signal from the common gain stage and outputs a four-phase signal. The amplifier includes an in-phase (I) phase switching gain stage coupled to the IQ poly-phase filter to receive I components of the four-phase signal and outputs an amplified phase switching I signal. The amplifier includes a quadrature (Q) phase switching gain stage coupled to the IQ poly-phase filter to receive Q components of the four-phase signal and outputs an amplified phase switching Q signal.
US11894963B2
This application discloses a sequence generating method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that a PAPR of a DMRS symbol is higher than that of a data symbol. An initialization factor of a first sequence is obtained, where the initialization factor is associated with a first parameter; and the first sequence is generated based on the initialization factor. In addition, the first parameter is a port number, or the first parameter is a code division multiplexing CDM group identity.
US11894962B2
A method of transmitting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, symbol having a guard interval including a cyclically repeated part of an original symbol comprises applying a guard interval for the OFDM symbol, the guard interval including a first part, where the first part is a cyclic prefix, including an indication whether the applied guard interval has a second part, wherein the second part is a cyclic prefix and/or postfix, applying, when indicated to be present, the second part of the guard interval, and transmitting the OFDM symbol. A method of receiving the symbol, transmitter, receiver and computer programs for implementing the methods are also disclosed.
US11894961B2
Methods and systems are described for obtaining a set of carrier-modulated symbols of a carrier-modulated codeword, each carrier-modulated symbol received via a respective wire of a plurality of wires of a multi-wire bus, applying each carrier-modulated symbol of the set of carrier-modulated symbols to a corresponding transistor of a set of transistors, the set of transistors further connected to a pair of output nodes according to a sub-channel vector of a plurality of mutually orthogonal sub-channel vectors, recovering a demodulation signal from the carrier-modulated symbols, and generating a demodulated sub-channel data output as a differential voltage on the pair of output nodes based on a linear combination of the set of carrier-modulated symbols by controlling conductivity of the set of transistors according to the demodulation signal.
US11894960B2
A method comprising receiving a modulated radio signal transmitting coded information bits, performing demodulating on the modulated radio signal, wherein demodulating comprises performing orthogonal time frequency space demodulation, performing equalization on the demodulated radio signal to obtain equalized symbols, obtaining log-likelihood ratios for the coded information bits from the equalized symbols using a trained machine learning model, and reconstructing the coded information bits.
US11894958B2
The method includes transmitting by a first remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a first structure onto a first communication line at a reference time point trf, wherein the reference time point trf is determined based on a time of reception of a downstream symbol with the first structure tFDX_DS_RX and a first propagation delay over the first communication line tPD1, as trf=tFDX_DS_RX−tPD1; transmitting by a second remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a second structure onto the second communication line at tTDD_US_TX=trf−tPD2 during a time interval assigned for upstream transmission on the second communication line, wherein tPD2 is a second propagation delay over the second communication line, so that the upstream symbol with the second structure transmitted by the second remote communication unit arrives at the access node at the reference time point trf.
US11894950B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) in multiple physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception occasions. The UE may perform joint channel estimation using the DMRSs in the multiple PDSCH reception occasions. The UE may transmit a feedback message after a processing time that includes an offset associated with the joint channel estimation, wherein the processing time starts after a last symbol of a PDSCH reception occasion of the multiple PDSCH reception occasions and ends before a first symbol of the feedback message. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11894940B2
Techniques for improving performance in a video conferencing system by using an automated testing system are described herein. The testing system can receive a request, from a user, for a meeting bot to participate in a video conference being hosted by a video conferencing system. The meeting bot. The system can select a first meeting bot from a plurality of meeting bots. Additionally, the system can grant access control of the first meeting bot to the user. Moreover, the system can obtain, from the first meeting bot, metrics data of the first meeting bot that is associated with performance of the video conference. Furthermore, the system can calculate a performance value based on the metrics data of the first meeting bot. Subsequently, the system can perform a task based on the performance value.
US11894939B2
Techniques are provided that validate a participant in a video conference. As a video conferencing system is remote from a video conference participant, and user devices are not trusted, traditional methods such as client side facial recognition are ineffective at validating a participant from a video conferencing system. Thus, the embodiments encode modulated data for projection onto a face of the participant. A video of the participant is then captured. The conferencing system then confirms that the modulated data is present in the captured video.
US11894935B2
The present invention provides a system comprising PoE apparatus including midspans, switches and routers that can provide high powered PoE connections that enable the recovery of DC power in sufficient quantities that allow it to be converted to AC power by way of an inverter. The invention also provides a method for providing AC power, data and light to office workstations using a single PoE connection. The invention further comprises a common mode signaling system that operates independently of any TCP/IP signal transmitted through an Ethernet connection wherein said signaling system is adapted to communicate with and control PoE powered devices.
US11894934B2
Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting HARQ information, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal device determines a first uplink time unit, the first uplink time unit being a time unit for use by the terminal device in transmitting first uplink control information, the first uplink control information comprising first HARQ information, the first HARD information being at least one piece of HARQ information corresponding to a first downlink shared channel received by the terminal device, the first downlink shared channel comprising at least one downlink shared channel, and the first downlink shared channel being transmitted in at least one downlink time unit in a first time period; and the terminal device transmits the first uplink control information in the first uplink time unit.
US11894929B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine whether a first feedback message received from the second WLAN device includes HARQ acknowledgement information or non-HARQ acknowledgment information. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message having a multi-station Block ACK (M-BA) frame format that includes HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device in response to determining the first feedback message includes the HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a non-HARQ frame in response to determining the first feedback message includes non-HARQ acknowledgement information.
US11894925B2
An embodiment of present disclosure provides a method of transmitting channel state information reference signals, and a base station. An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), which is executed by a base station, and this method includes the steps of determining whether or not it is necessary to use aperiodic CSI-RSs in a communication system in which a base station to use periodic CSI-RSs is provided, generating an aperiodic CSI-RS trigger signal and communicating the aperiodic CSI-RS trigger signal to a mobile station when aperiodic CSI-RSs need to be used, and communicating aperiodic CSI-RSs to the mobile station in accordance with the aperiodic CSI-RS trigger signal.
US11894924B2
A methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI). A method by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), first configuration information configuring a first interference measurement resource (IMR) and a second IMR in case that the UE is configured with CSI subframe sets; receiving, from the BS, second configuration information configuring a zero-power (ZP) CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and transmitting, to the BS, a CSI based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information. The ZP CSI-RS resource includes the first IMR and the second IMR.
US11894922B2
The present disclosure relates to enabling and disabling of codewords in multi-subframe grants. In particular, dynamic and subframe based enabling/disabling of codewords is enabled even if other control parameters including the resource allocation is performed for multiple subframes. For instance, signal from a scheduling entity to a scheduled entity comprises control information including the resource grant common for multiple subframes and a plurality of codewords for each subframe, and a codeword indication indicating enabling or disabling of one or more codewords for each of the multiple subframes. For each subframe it is determined whether a codeword from the plurality of codewords in said subframes is enabled or disabled according to the codeword indication and/or which codeword is enabled or disabled. The indication of enabling and disabling may alternatively be done by using modulation and coding scheme indicator values which are not associated with a particular modulation and coding scheme.
US11894915B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to credit media based on the presentation rate. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory and instructions. The example apparatus disclosed herein further includes at least one processor to execute the instructions to cause the at least one processor to at least detect a first peak in a first frequency range of audio data associated with monitored media, detect a second peak in a second frequency range of the audio data, the second frequency range different from the first frequency range, detect that a presentation rate of the monitored media is increased relative to a reference version of the media in response to the second peak being greater than the first peak, generate a signature corresponding to the monitored media, and transmit the signature to a media monitoring entity to credit the monitored media based on the presentation rate.
US11894910B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first-direction signal path configured to amplify and filter a signal in a first-direction band using a first bandpass filter. The repeater can include a second-direction signal path configured to amplify and filter a signal in a second-direction band using a second bandpass filter. The second-direction band can be spectrally adjacent to the first-direction band. The first bandpass filter and the second bandpass filter can provide filtering to isolate the first-direction band from the spectrally adjacent second-direction band.
US11894900B2
A method by which a user equipment (UE) transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system, according to the present disclosure, can comprise: receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) from a base station; transmitting, on the basis of the received CSI-RS, a CSI report including a channel quality indicator (CQI) to the base station; receiving first configuration information from the base station, wherein the first configuration information is generated on the basis of the CQI; receiving second configuration information including an SRS configuration from the base station; and transmitting an SRS on the basis of the first configuration information and the second configuration information.
US11894899B1
A hybrid beamforming device utilizes analog beamformers (ABF) and digital beamformers (DBF) to produce a desired radio frequency radiation pattern having one or more lobes pointing in particular directions. A set of directions, such as each pointing toward a different candidate area of the sky, are processed to determine a coarse direction. ABF beam coefficients are determined based on the coarse direction. DBF beam coefficients are determined based on the directions in the set of directions, providing more precise directionality in the pattern. The ABF beam coefficients may be sent to the ABFs at a first cadence, such as every second. The DBF beam coefficients may be sent to the DBFs at a second cadence that is faster than the first cadence, such as every millisecond. This facilitates rapid scanning of different precision directions, such as of different portions of the sky to receive a broadcast transmission from a satellite.
US11894897B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to communicate with at least one user device includes transmitting a reference signal to the at least one user device, receiving channel quality information from the at least one user device, and forming a beam based on the channel quality information received from the at least one user device.
US11894896B2
Disclosed are a codebook processing method, a terminal device, and a network device, the method comprising: determining weighting coefficients for codebook calculation based on a first number and a second number, wherein a value of L representing the first number is half of a number of spatial beams, a value of M representing the second number is a number of discrete fourier transform (DFT) basis vectors. L and M are both integers, and the weighting coefficients comprise amplitude coefficients; performing processing on the weighting coefficients; and transmitting the processed weighting coefficients to a network device through channel state information (CSI).
US11894894B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To indicate a precoder sequence for uplink transmissions, a base station may transmit a message to a UE that configures a sequence of at least two sets of precoding parameters. Each set of precoding parameters may correspond to an uplink message. For example, a first set of precoding parameters of the sequence may correspond to a first uplink message and a second set of precoding parameters of the sequence may correspond to a second uplink message that is subsequent to the first uplink message in a time domain. The UE may receive the message and transmit, to the base station, the first uplink message using the first set of precoding parameters and the second uplink message using the second set of precoding parameters based on the sequence of the at least two sets of precoding parameters.
US11894888B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure, for a first beam group of a set of beam groups associated with the UE, a first channel busy ratio (CBR) for the first beam group. The UE may receive, from a second UE, an indication of a second CBR for a second beam group associated with the second UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE using a beam included in the first beam group, a signal using one or more transmit parameters that are based at least in part on at least one of the first CBR or the second CBR. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11894881B2
It is provided a method for adjusting alignment for microwave transmissions from a microwave transmitter to a microwave receiver based on a reinforcement learning, RL, model. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining state space comprising external state space and internal state space, the external state space comprising at least one value of a parameter related to environmental conditions, and the internal state space relates to alignment of the microwave transmitter; determining an action in an action space, the action space comprising actions to adjust alignment of the microwave transmitter; obtaining a measurement of path loss for a transmission from the microwave transmitter to the microwave receiver; determining a reward value based on the path loss, wherein an increase in path loss results in a reduced reward value; and adjusting the RL model based on the obtained state space, the determined action and the determined reward value.
US11894878B2
A method for electromagnetic interference control, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. A target operating frequency of a modem is obtained, in condition of a display screen being in a screen-on state, in response to an electronic device being in a call state. A first mobile industry processor interface (MIPI) operating frequency of an MIPI of the display screen is obtained. A second MIPI operating frequency corresponding to the call state is determined in response to determining the target operating frequency being interfered based on the first MIPI operating frequency. An MIPI operating frequency of the display screen is adjusted to the second MIPI operating frequency.
US11894875B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a signal process in which a countermeasure against eavesdropping over a physical layer in a wireless communication is performed. An optical signal generation unit 11 generates, as an optical signal, multivalued information that is in a multivalued state and is based on prescribed data. An E/O conversion unit 112 converts the optical signal to an electrical signal. An optical signal amplification unit 12 amplifies the optical signal. An O/E conversion unit 13 converts the optical signal to an electrical signal. A radio wave transmission unit 14 transmits, as a radio wave, the multivalued information converted into the electrical signal. The problem is solved thereby.
US11894873B2
An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit having an optical phased array, where the optical phased array includes multiple unit cells. Each unit cell includes multiple antenna elements configured to transmit or receive optical signals, where a first subset of the antenna elements is oriented in a first direction and a second subset of the antenna elements is oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction. Each unit cell also includes multiple signal pathways configured to transport the optical signals to or from the antenna elements, where at least some of the signal pathways have an “H” configuration. Each unit cell further includes multiple phase modulators configured to modify phases of the optical signals being transported through the signal pathways.
US11894870B2
Systems and methods for detecting, monitoring, and mitigating the presence of a drone are provided herein. In one aspect, a system for detecting presence of a one or more drones includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver configured to receive an RF signal transmitted between a drone and a controller. The system can further include a processor and a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the at least one processor to receive a set of samples from the RF receiver for a time interval, the set of samples comprising samples of the first RF signal, obtain a parameter model of the first frequency hopping parameters, and fit the parameter model to the set of samples.
US11894868B2
A device having a plurality of pins configured to connect circuits within an integrated circuit package to circuits outside of the integrated circuit package. A driver enclosed within the package is programmable to generate a spread spectrum signal to represent data being transmitted from a pin of the device. Frequency distribution of the signal spreading over a bandwidth in a frequency domain can be programmed to customize the electromagnetic emission caused by the communication of data through the pin. The frequency spreading can be programmed to reduce energy consumption, electromagnetic interference, and/or errors in receiving the data transmitted via the pin. The settings can be programmed into registers enclosed in the integrated circuit package to control the driver and/or dynamically adjusted using an artificial intelligent engine to optimize a cost function.
US11894855B2
Techniques for facilitating analog-to-digital converter calibrations are provided. In one example, a method includes, for each of a plurality of time instances, generating a first ramp signal started at the time instance relative to a respective start of a first counter signal and generating a respective comparator output signal based on the first ramp signal and a first threshold signal. The method further includes capturing a respective first value of the first ramp signal in response to a transition of the respective comparator output signal. The method further includes determining a respective second counter value of a second counter signal based on the respective first value. The method further includes determining a scaling factor based on the second counter values and the time instances. Each of the first values is associated with the same counter value of the first counter signal. Related devices and systems are also provided.
US11894852B2
Provided is a thermostatic type crystal oscillator with short operation stabilization time and low power consumption. A thermostatic type crystal oscillator according to the present invention includes a crystal resonator including an IT-cut crystal blank, a vibration control circuit configured to control a vibration frequency of the crystal resonator, a temperature regulator configured to regulate a temperature of the crystal resonator within a set temperature range by repeating heating and cooling to the crystal resonator, a heat conducting plate configured to function as a heat absorbing plate and a heat dissipating plate for the temperature regulator, a temperature control circuit configured to control a temperature of the temperature regulator, and a housing that accommodates the crystal resonator. The housing defines a resonator accommodating space in which the crystal resonator is accommodated inside the housing.
US11894848B2
A monitor circuit (301) for monitoring changes in an input digital value of a register circuit comprises a data input (302) configured to receive a copy of the input digital value of said register circuit, and one or more triggering signal inputs (303) configured to receive one or more triggering signals. One or more triggering edges thereof define an allowable time limit before which a digital value must appear at a data input of said register circuit to become properly stored in said register circuit. The monitor circuit comprises a data event (DE) output (305), so that said monitor circuit is configured to produce a DE signal at said DE output (305) in response to a digital value at said data input (302) changing within a time window defined by said one or more triggering signals.
US11894827B2
An acoustic wave filter device is disclosed. The device includes an acoustic wave filter element, and a first resonator and a second resonator coupled to the acoustic wave filter element. The acoustic wave filter element includes interdigited input electrodes and output electrodes located on a top surface of a piezoelectric layer. Each of the first and the second resonators includes a top electrode on the top surface, and a bottom electrode on the bottom surface of the piezoelectric layer. At least one of each of the first and the second resonators' electrodes is electrically connected to the acoustic wave filter element. The first resonator has a first notch in resonator impedance at a first frequency. The second resonator includes a first mass loading layer on the second resonator electrode such that the second resonator has a second notch in resonator impedance at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US11894812B2
The present disclosure relates to a kinetic inductance parametric amplifier that comprises an input port arranged to receive a pump tone, a DC bias and input signal; an output port arranged to provide an amplified version of the input signal; a tunable stepped-impedance assembly arranged to attenuate and/or filter predetermined frequency bands; and a high kinetic inductance line. The tunable stepped-impedance assembly is tuned at a frequency that allows for the amplifier to resonate at a predetermined frequency and a pump tone with a frequency higher than the input signal and a DC biasing signal to be transmitted to the high kinetic inductance line.
US11894800B2
An apparatus and method for mounting a solar panel in a solar panel mounting assembly is disclosed. The solar panel mounting assembly includes a mounting bracket and a helical drive, where the mounting bracket is vertically adjustable by the helical drive. The helical drive engages with a stanchion that is variably positioned along a base member that is fixed to a roof.
US11894797B1
A system and method of providing a solar support structures for columns of shingled photovoltaic solar panel assemblies.
US11894791B2
A control device includes a control circuit configured to control an inverter circuit that drives a motor by a plurality of switching elements coupled between DC buses, a first power supply system using a voltage source different from the DC buses as a power supply, a second power supply system using the DC buses as a power supply, and a switching circuit configured to switch a power supply system that supplies power to the control circuit from the first power supply system to the second power supply system when an abnormality in the first power supply system is detected. The control circuit continues control of the inverter circuit with a power consumption lower than that before the abnormality is detected in the first power supply system, when the abnormality is detected.
US11894788B2
A material handler comprises a motor, an interface device, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive an input from the interface device and can include a variable frequency drive (VFD). The controller provides a variable frequency drive (VFD) signal to the motor to control movement of one or more components of the material handler. If the interface device is inactive for a predetermined amount of time, the controller adjusts a frequency of the VFD signal from an operating frequency to a standby frequency with the standby frequency being lower than the operating frequency. Adjusting the frequency from the operating frequency to the standby frequency can include adjusting the frequency of the VFD signal to one or more intermediate frequencies. When adjusting the frequency of the VFD signal, the controller can skip at least one frequency or range of frequencies, for example, to avoid undesirable operating characteristics.
US11894784B2
A power conversion device includes: a power conversion circuit that outputs power to a power output terminals to which electric cables of a power cable for supplying AC power to a motor is connected; an encoder circuit that outputs encoder information on the basis of angle information input to an information input terminal and supplied from signal lines of a signal transmission cable; a control unit that outputs a control signal that controls the power conversion circuit on the basis of the encoder information supplied from the encoder circuit; a shield terminal connected to a shield of the signal transmission cable which is electrically connected to a ground line of a power cable on the motor side; and a determination unit that detects a current input to the shield terminal and flowing through the shield of the signal transmission cable, and outputs disconnection detection information for disconnection in the shield.
US11894772B2
An information handling system includes a DDR5 DIMM and a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator provides a voltage rail to the DDR5 DIMM. In a first mode, the voltage rail is based upon a pulse frequency modulation, and in a second mode, the voltage rail is based upon a forced continuous conduction mode). Selection of one of modes is based upon an input to the voltage regulator. When the information handling system is in a first state, the information handling system provides an input signal to the input to direct the voltage regulator to operate in the first state, and when the information handling system is in a second state associated with a sleep mode of the information handling system, the information handling system provides the first input signal to the first input of the voltage regulator to direct the voltage regulator to operate in the second state.
US11894771B2
There is provided a current control circuit (20) for connection between a first electrical network (42) and a converter, the current control circuit (20) comprising: first and second input terminals (24,26) for connection to the first electrical network (42); first and second output terminals (28,30) for respective connection to converter terminals (46,48) of the converter; first and second switching limbs, the first switching limb interconnecting the first input and output terminals (24,28), the second switching limb interconnecting the second input and output terminals (26,30), each switching limb including a respective switching element (32,34,36,38); a director limb (76) extending between the first and second output terminals (28,30), the director limb (76) including at least one current director element (84) and at least one first resistive element (86), the director limb (76) including an intermediate terminal (82); a second resistive element (88), a first end of the second resistive element (88) operably connected to the intermediate terminal (82), a second end of the second resistive element (88) operably connectable to ground; and a controller (96) programmed to selectively control switching of each switching element (32,34,36,38) so as to, in use, regulate a flow of current from the first electrical network (42) to the converter.
US11894770B2
A Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) includes a first voltage rail circuit board oriented in a first plane having formed therein a first plurality of conductors and configured to produce a first rail voltage, a second voltage rail circuit board oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane having formed therein a second plurality of conductors and configured to produce a second rail voltage. The VRM also includes a first capacitor circuit board oriented in a third plane that is substantially perpendicular to the first plane and a second capacitor circuit board oriented in a fourth plane that is substantially parallel to the third plane. The VRM includes a plurality of conductors intercoupling the first voltage rail circuit board, the first capacitor circuit board, the second voltage rail circuit board, and the second capacitor circuit board.
US11894769B2
A method and apparatus are described for controlling the phase of an interleaved boost converter using cycle ring time. In an embodiment, a cycle controller generates a first drive signal to control switching of a first converter and a second drive signal to control switching of a second converter, the controller receives a first cycle signal from the first converter and a second cycle signal from the second converter, wherein the first cycle signal and the second cycle signal have a power phase time and a ringing phase time. The cycle controller determines a master ringing phase time of the first cycle signal and applies the master ringing phase time to the second cycle signal to determine a slave ringing phase time. The cycle controller generates the second drive signal in accordance with the slave ringing phase time.
US11894766B2
Disclosed is a three-phase interleaved resonant converter, which includes a three-phase inversion circuit connected to an input voltage and including a first output node, a second output node, and a third output node, a three-phase transformer including three transformers, a three-phase resonant circuit including three resonant capacitors and three resonant inductors, and a three-phase rectifier filter circuit. One ends of the three resonant inductors are respectively connected to the first output node, the second output node and the third output node, and the other ends of the three resonant inductors are respectively connected to a triangular configuration formed by an alternate connection of the three resonant capacitors with primary windings of the three transformers. The three-phase rectifier filter circuit is connected with secondary windings of the three transformers to rectify and filter secondary currents output by the secondary windings of the three transformers respectively, and generate an output voltage accordingly.
US11894741B2
A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine, a housing for housing the rotary electric machine, and a rotation parameter detector for detecting the rotation parameter of a rotating shaft constituting the rotary electric machine. The rotating shaft includes a first end portion and a second end portion, and a first bearing and a second bearing are provided between the housing and the first end portion, and between the housing and the second end portion, respectively. The first end portion includes a protruding tip that protrudes out of the housing through the first bearing. The rotation parameter detector is provided at the protruding tip.
US11894738B2
A turbomachine equipped with an embedded electric machine having a segmented and movable stator is provided. In one aspect, a turbomachine defines a radial direction and includes a rotating component, actuators, and an electric machine. The electric machine includes a rotor assembly rotatable with and operatively coupled with the rotating component. The electric machine also includes a stator assembly having a stator split into stator segments. Each one of the stator segments is movable by one of the actuators between a first position and a second position along the radial direction, the stator segments each being closer to the rotor assembly along the radial direction when in the first position than when in the second position.
US11894736B2
A motor includes: a stator having a plurality of electromagnets and a plurality of rolling elements arranged around the electromagnets; and a rotor having a plurality of rotor traction components arranged to engage the plurality of rolling elements; and a control circuit. The plurality of rolling elements are arranged relative to the plurality of rotor traction components to form a gap between the plurality of rolling elements and the plurality of rotor traction components. The control circuit is configured to activate the plurality of electromagnets to cause the rotor to pivot about a pivot point defined in a spherical bearing and change the gap such that the rotor compresses against the stator and the plurality of rolling elements and the plurality of rotor traction components translate the compression into tangential thrust and rotation of the rotor.
US11894716B2
A bicycle component includes a platform having a mounting arrangement adapted to be mounted to a bicycle. A solar cell array is arranged on the platform. A battery charging unit also is arranged on the platform and is operatively connected to the solar cell array.
US11894707B1
Battery pack for use with a portable device, including colored LEDs for presenting a high granularity battery charge state, are disclosed. One embodiment includes a red and a green LED, wherein solid and blinking patterns are presented by the LEDs to correspond to a relative battery charge state. Other battery state indications, such as failure states, may also be presented on the colored LEDs.
US11894699B2
A means for determining a place and a time at which maintenance is carried out by enabling objective measurement of the status of an object. A power receiving-type information transmission device that is provided in a long body, which is a measurement object, the power receiving-type information transmission device including power receiver for wirelessly receiving power supply from a moving body configured to be movable along a track, information acquisition receiver for acquiring information regarding a physical change occurring in the long body by consuming power obtained by the power receiving receiver, and transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the information to the moving body by consuming the power obtained by the power receiver.
US11894698B2
A wireless power receiver system includes a receiver antenna including a plurality of receiver coils, each of the plurality of receiver coils configured to receive alternating current (AC) wireless power signals from a wireless power transmission system. The system further includes a receiver controller configured to generate communications signals. The system further includes a plurality of modulation circuits, each of the plurality of modulation circuits operatively associated with one of the plurality of receiver coils and the receiver controller, each of the plurality of modulation circuits configured to partially dampen a magnetic field, coupling the wireless power receiver system with the wireless power transmission system, based on the communication signals provided to each of the plurality of modulation circuits by the receiver controller.
US11894695B2
A repeater for a wireless power transfer system is disclosed. The repeaters includes an elongated strip of material arranged in a substantially circular configuration with opposing ends of the elongated strip disposed in close proximity to each other, an inductive element associated with the elongated strip and arranged to provide a coupling with an adjacent resonator through flux directed outward from a first surface of the elongated strip, and a capacitive element associated with the elongated strip and arranged to resonate electromagnetic energy with the inductive element when the electromagnetic energy is transferred from the adjacent resonator through the coupling provided by the inductive element.
US11894690B2
The vehicle includes a first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by wide area wireless communication with a communication distance of greater than or equal to 10 meters, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to request the ground power supplying apparatus cancel supply of power to the vehicle by the wide area wireless communication when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11894689B2
The power supply system of the present invention includes a wireless electricity transmitter and a wireless electricity receiver transmitting electricity by electromagnetic coupling. The wireless electricity receiver is further connected to a vibrator of a vibrating processing apparatus to transmit electricity thereto. The wireless electricity transmitter has a controller to monitor the operating voltage and the operating current of the transmitter, and alternates the oscillation frequency of the operating voltage according to the phase difference between the operating voltage and the operating current. Thereby, the oscillation frequency may approach the resonance frequency of the vibrator in order to improve the efficiency of electricity transmission. Also, the distance between the wireless electricity transmitter and the wireless electricity receiver can be increased.
US11894687B2
A photovoltaic system, a method for locating devices in a photovoltaic string, a MLPE apparatus, and a method for ranking MLPE apparatuses. Each MLPE apparatus sends, actively according to a predetermine rule, an initial message to the other MLPE apparatuses. The initial message includes a serial number corresponding to said MLPE apparatus and an accumulated operation duration of said MLPE apparatus. The MLPE apparatuses determine the rank of the accumulated operation duration of each MLPE apparatus according to the initial messages sent from all MLPE apparatuses. After each MLPE apparatus communicates with a communication host, the MLPE apparatuses reports the rank of the accumulated operation duration of each MLPE apparatus to the communication host. Thereby, the communication host may determine a physical location of each device in the photovoltaic string according to the ranks of the accumulated operation durations and a sequence of installing positions of the devices in the photovoltaic string.
US11894682B2
The present disclosure discloses methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for off-grid load stabilization. For instance, the method may include: receiving generator data from at least one generator and energy storage data from at least one energy store; determining, based on the generator data and/or the energy storage data, a moving average of a system load of the at least one generator; and determining, based on the generator data and/or the energy storage data, an instantaneous load value of the at least one generator. The method may further include: determining a first electronic storage dispatch (ESD) based on the moving average of the system load and the instantaneous load value of the at least one generator; and providing the first ESD to the at least one energy store.
US11894677B1
A system and method for data collection and aggregation using a distributed network of communications enabled sensors connected to another primary network to achieve a secondary out-of-band monitoring perspective, for example, in power grids. The data collection system includes an aggregation and processing server configured to collect data from a variety of sensors adjacent to the monitored network each sensor includes secondary power such that it can continue data transmission even during power grid outages. The data collection system includes a method for secure real-time data ingest, machine learning enabled analysis, risk assessment, and anomaly detection on a broad geographic scale irrespective of isolated network boundaries.
US11894675B2
A DC voltage grid includes an electrical conductor electrically interconnecting electrical components, with a DC voltage applied between parts of the electrical conductor. An actuator is configured to vary the DC voltage such that a value of the DC voltage depends on at least one state of the DC voltage grid. Information about the at least one state is transmitted to the electrical components of the DC voltage grid by way of the DC voltage. A wind farm having wind turbines connected to such a DC voltage grid and a method for operating such a DC voltage grid or such a wind farm are also disclosed. The DC voltage of the DC voltage grid is controlled or regulated depending on a state of the DC voltage grid.
US11894669B2
A power source control device that includes: a make-and-break relay configured to either make or break conduction between a first terminal of a load and a first electrode of a direct current power source; a dark current generation circuit configured to generate a dark current by lowering a voltage of the direct current power source, in a state in which a first terminal is connected to the first electrode of the direct current power source and a second terminal is connected to the first terminal of the load so as to be parallel to the make-and-break relay; and a bypass circuit configured to dissipate some of power supplied from an external charger by making conduction between a second electrode of the direct current power source and the first terminal of the load in response to the direct current power source being charged by the external charger.
US11894668B2
A wiring device including an interrupting device and a controller. The interrupting device electrically connecting one or more line terminals to one or more load terminals when the interrupting device is in a reset condition and disconnecting the line terminals from the load terminals when the interrupting device is in a tripped condition. The controller has an electronic processor and a memory. The controller is configured to monitor a current of the one or more line terminals, identify a presence of an in-rush condition, wherein an in-rush of the current exists when the one or more cycles of current conform with a decay progression envelope, and prevent the tripped condition upon identifying the in-rush condition.
US11894664B2
A method and device are disclosed for driving a fish tape. In some embodiments, a portion of the fish tape is loaded into a driver device. Optionally, an actuator connected to the driver device moves the tape longitudinally with respect to the driver device. For example, a distal portion of the tape and/or a distal tip thereof is driven out from and/or into an exit opening of the driver device. Optionally by retaining exit opening of the driver device near an opening of a conduit, the driver drives the distal tip of the tape into or out of the conduit. In some embodiment the tape is driven by a friction wheel. In some embodiment, power is supplied by a power tool (e.g. a power screwdriver) that is reversibly attached to the driver.
US11894663B2
A winch column holds electric power conductors and static lines separate and distanced from an existing power line pole/structure during repair or replacement of the pole/structure. The winch column is temporarily anchored and stabilized to be vertical and adjacent to the existing pole/structure, and winch cables extend from the winch column height-adjustable frame to support the load of the disconnected conductors. Hoist lines also extend from the frame to support the disconnected static lines. After the repair or replacement of the pole/structure, the conductors and static lines are moved, and reconnected, to the new pole, and the winch column may be moved to another existing pole or power line or folded for storage. Whenever the winch cables handle the conductors, tension sensors provided on the frame are used to monitor and report conductor tension, for safe and effective handling and reinstallation on the new pole.
US11894655B2
An H-bridge integrated laser driver optimizes power dissipation, impedance matching, low-swing and high-swing reliability for electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) and directly modulated laser diode (DML) applications. The laser driver includes a retimer for converting low-speed parallel data to a high-speed serial bit stream and to an inverted representation of the high-speed parallel bit stream, an M-bit PMOS DAC configured to receive a first buffered bit stream, an N-bit NMOS DAC configured to receive a second buffered bit stream substantially synchronized with the first buffered bit stream. A protective device is coupled between the M-bit DAC and the N-bit DAC. A first DC level-shifting predriver array is coupled between the retimer and the M-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream, and a second DC level-shifting predriver array is coupled between the retimer and the N-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream. An impedance matching module is coupled to an output of the protective device. The laser driver may be integrated on a CMOS communication chip.
US11894652B2
A passive Q switching laser device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a passive Q switching laser; a signal source; a modulation unit; and a power source unit. The passive Q switching laser includes an excitation light source that emits excitation light, and a resonator that is excited by the excitation light to emit oscillation light. The signal source outputs a drive signal for driving the excitation light source. The modulation unit modulates, on the basis of emission timing at which the oscillation light is emitted from the passive Q switching laser, the drive signal output from the signal source. The power source unit drives, on the basis of the drive signal modulated by the modulation unit, the excitation light source to emit the excitation light.
US11894649B2
Electrical connectors and methods of making the connectors. The method steps include inserting one or more contacts into a temporary contact holder; removably coupling the contact holder with a connector housing, thereby creating a pour receiving cavity inside of the housing; adding a flowable curable material into the cavity to at least partially fill the cavity and surround at least part of the contacts residing in the connector housing; and removing the contact holder from the connector housing, thereby leaving mating contact ends of the one or more contacts exposed and leaving the mating contact ends set in the ready position for mating with a complementary connector.
US11894643B2
An electric meter adaptor includes a housing having a meter block end and a meter end opposite the meter block end. The meter adaptor includes a pair of first blades supported by the housing and extending from the meter block end to the meter end, each of the first blades having a line connector at the meter block end and a meter connector at the meter block end. The meter adaptor includes a pair of second blades supported by the housing at the meter block end, each of the second blades having a load connector. The meter adaptor includes a pair of third blades supported by the housing at the meter end, each of the third blades having a second meter connector.
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Electrical interconnect with conductive polymer contacts having tips with different shapes and sizes
A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.
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A PCIe SAS direct link connector includes a cable end and a back board; the cable end fixed on the back board and including a direct link female head, a high-speed line, and a 15pin plug terminal; the back board including a primary and a secondary cavity position; the direct link female head connected with the high-speed line; the 15pin plug terminal being an asymmetric bow shape and having a short and a long side, a first contact point disposed on the short side, and a second contact point disposed on the long side; the 15pin plug terminal connected with the high-speed line; when the 15pin plug terminal is combined with a server board end connector, the first contact point and the second contact point contact a terminal of the server board end connector, respectively, simplifying the connection structure and improving heat dissipation.
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A slotted patch antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a radiation electrode which is provided on a major surface of the dielectric substrate, and a ground conductor which is disposed on a surface that is opposite to the major surface. The radiation electrode is formed with a slots having at least one of a meandering portion, a curve portion, or a folded portion. An external shape of the radiation electrode is a square, and totally two pairs of slots are formed inside the square, each of the slots being along respective sides of the square. Each of the slots is arranged so as to be line-symmetrical with respect to an axis of symmetry that is parallel with one of the sides of the square and passes through a center of the square, and to be point-symmetrical with respect to the center of the square.
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An apparatus includes an RF apparatus, and a multi-band matching balun coupled to the RF apparatus. The multi-band matching balun includes at least one three-element frequency-dependent resonator (TEFDR) and at most three reactive elements.
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An antenna apparatus includes: a ground plane including first sides parallel to a first direction and second sides parallel to a second direction, on a plane formed in the first and second directions; a dielectric layer disposed on the ground plane in a third direction; an antenna patch overlapping the ground plane in the third direction; and vias connected to the ground plane and passing through at least a portion of the dielectric layer. Edges of the vias at least partially overlap the first sides of the ground plane in the third direction.
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Vehicles with adjustable metamaterial systems, integrated on the outside or inside of their non-conductive fuselage, have the ability to control their radar cross section dynamically for the purposes of evading detection or spoofing their size by looking larger or more numerous. The frequency response of a metamaterial system can be obtained by combining the RF properties of the individual metamaterial layers that comprise it. A first metamaterial layer that can controllably switch between transmissive and reflection in a relevant frequency band and a second absorptive layer results in a controllable radar cross-section with the ability of controlling the amplitude of the reflected radar pulse. The first layer can be modulated with a repetitive waveform to change the phase of a reflected wave that results in a doppler shift in frequency. The frequency of the modulation can result in a change in range, velocity, or combinations of both. The waveform used can also create a linear change of phase or can be made pseudorandom to create decoy targets that appear to move with random ranges and velocities as detected by a radar. The metamaterial layers can also have a separate passband for allowable communications, navigations, or for other wireless uses within the vehicle. The passband itself can also be switchable or tunable to allow for multiple passband frequencies.
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Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may transmit a first signal using a first antenna of the antenna array, the antenna array having a plurality of antennas that are arranged along a curved structure, wherein the curved structure is convex in a direction opposite a transmission direction, and wherein the first antenna is located at a first position on the curved structure so that the first signal has a first aperture with respect to the lens. The first network node may transmit a second signal using a second antenna of the plurality of antennas, wherein the second antenna is located at a second position on the curved structure so that the second signal has a second aperture with respect to the lens. Numerous other aspects are described.
