US11890796B2
In a mold clamping apparatus, a mold clamping mechanism is provided with a half nut, and a tie bar is provided with circumferential groove configured to meshed with the teeth of the half nut. A strong-force mold opening mechanism that opens molds at an initial stage of mold opening extends across a space separating a movable platen and the mold clamping mechanism and is connected to the movable platen and the mold clamping mechanism. The strong-force mold opening mechanism is set so as to have greater axial force and shorter stroke than those of a mold opening and closing mechanism. A control unit controls opening and closing of the half nut, controls the strong-force mold opening mechanism and controls the position of the half nut in such a way that the half nut is synchronized with the circumferential groove by the strong-force mold opening mechanism.
US11890785B2
The present invention provides an environmentally-friendly, fully recyclable composite mining screen which has sufficient rigidity to replace existing metal and metal covered plastic mining screens. The inventive composite screen insert contains stiff reinforcing fibers (glass, carbon, etc.) and exhibits the rigidity of metal and metal-covered plastic mining screen inserts so as to minimize deflection in use. The inventive mining screen is also completely recyclable because at the end of its useful life, the broken and used screen can be ground into polymer particles and the particles incorporated into new screens or other parts.
US11890783B2
A production method of a wafer includes a wafer production step in which ultrasonic water is ejected against an end face of an ingot with cleavage layers created therein, thereby severing the wafer from a rest of the ingot to produce the wafer.
US11890779B2
The present invention relates to a manufacturing process for a watch component (50) in composite material with a ceramic matrix comprising the following steps: depositing in a mould a succession of layers (10, 20, 30, 40) each comprising a ceramic powder (12), at least one layer (10; 10, 30; 10, 20, 30, 40) further including fibres (14) mixed with the ceramic powder (12), the fibres (14) being arranged randomly; performing a FAST/SPS sintering operation; demoulding the sintered watch component comprising the succession of layers (10, 20, 30, 40), and optionally machining the sintered component to the final dimensions of the watch component (50). The fibres (14) are visible on the surface of the watch component (50).
US11890768B2
A food processing machine (10) and a method of cutting slices or portions from a food product (60) in a food processing machine are described. The food processing machine comprises an end gripper (40) for gripping a trailing end (62) of a food product travelling along a food product flow path towards the cutter. A gripper drive assembly (41) is arranged to move the end gripper from stowed position below the food product flow path to a raised position in the food product flow path after a food product has passed over the end gripper and then bring the end gripper into engagement with the trailing end of the food product.
US11890761B2
A method for interconnecting a first robot with at least one second robot, each robot including at least: a first program, a second program, a third program, the method including the following steps, implemented by the second program after reception of a first message from the third program: conversion of the first message into a second message, the second message being formatted according to a predefined object structure including a field typ_msg indicating a type of the message amongst the types: command, query, or information; transmission of the second message to at least one program amongst: a first program belonging to the same robot, a second program of another robot.
US11890755B2
Systems and techniques for a sensor carrier, and intelligent track infrastructure for the navigation and operation of the sensor carrier are described. The sensor carrier is an autonomous robot navigating a track. The carrier holds cameras and other sensors to receive horticultural images and telemetry for plants in a grow operation. The carrier reads embedded signals in the track including Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags, embedded positioning magnets, and drilled hole patterns for a beam breaking system to determine navigation and operation. For tracks placed at sharp angles, a transfer station with wall guards to prevent the carrier from falling enable safe transfers from different track segments. Additional features include an emergency stop (e-stop) switch and power management for autonomous sensor carriers.
US11890752B2
The present invention relates to a complex elastic unit for maximizing space utilization and elastic energy storage with a limited space and a variable gravity compensation module with the complex elastic unit and a curved lever, more particularly to variable gravity compensation apparatus with a curved lever, characterized by comprising: a housing; an interlocking cam which is installed to the housing, being rotated by a load; a curved lever which is rotated interlocked with the rotation of the interlocking cam and which provides elasticity to rotate the interlocking cam toward an initial position; an adjustment unit which adjusts a position of a pivot which is a center of rotation of the curved lever, allowing moving the pivot according to strength of load; and an elastic unit which is equipped within the housing to provide elasticity to the curved lever, wherein a driving end which is adhered to the interlocking cam is formed on one end of the curved lever with respect to the pivot, a driven end which is adhered to an elastic follower equipped to the elastic unit is formed on the other end thereof, and the driven end is configured into a curved shape that a sectional side surface connecting the pivot to the elastic follower has a particular curvature.
US11890734B2
A fastener driving tool that includes a lift mechanism for moving the driver from a driven position to a ready position. In one embodiment, the lift mechanism is mounted to a movable pivot arm, and the pivot arm is slightly rotated to allow the driver to drive a fastener; when the driver is to be lifted in a return stroke, the lifter subassembly is moved back into engagement with the driver, and multiple lifter pins contact protrusions in the driver to lift the driver from the driven position to the ready position. In another embodiment, the pivotable lifter floats along the driver, and “releases” from contact only to prevent a jam or otherwise undesirable operating condition involving the driver; otherwise, the lifter remains nested in the tool's guide body during all operating states. A solenoid-operated latch also is provided to prevent the driver from moving downward (for driving a fastener).
US11890733B2
A compression jaw assembly unit for a compressing device for compressing tubular metal parts includes a compression jaw carrier (17) and a compression jaw (16), provided at the compression jaw carrier (17), with a compressing surface (18) that is oriented essentially facing away from the compression jaw carrier (17) and is curved transversely to a compression jaw longitudinal direction (LB) in a compression jaw transverse direction (QB). The compression jaw (16) includes a fixed compression jaw segment (22), which is fixed to the compression jaw carrier (17) and provides a compressing surface segment (24), and at least one movable compression jaw segment (26, 28) providing a compressing surface segment (30, 32). The at least one movable compressing surface segment (26, 28) can be moved in a direction of movement (B) in relation to the fixed compressing surface segment (22) against the prestressing action of a prestressing device (42).
US11890714B2
A remanufacturing method of a drill includes providing a drill with a worn-out area. The drill comprises: a shank part; and a flute part arranged on one end of the shank part. A chisel edge is formed on the front end of the flute part, and the radius of any one of the cross section of the chisel edge is defined as a core thickness; a first blade and a second blade with tilt directions toward the shank part are formed on the two sides of the chisel edge. The first circumferential surface of the first blade and the second circumferential surface of the second blade are respectively extended and spiraled toward the shank part along a periphery of the flute part and form two helical cutting edges, a first debris-discharging groove and a second debris-discharging groove. The first blade comprises a first cutting edge. The first cutting edge and the first circumferential surface define the worn-out area. The method also includes a step of aligning a grinding wheel to the worn-out area; and a step of using the aligned grinding wheel to perform a cutting operation along the helical cutting edge or the first debris-discharging groove to grind and repair the worn-out area of the drill.
US11890712B2
A tool, a device, and a method for zonal polishing of optical workpieces, wherein the tool has a preformed cap for forming a polishing surface, and the tool is placed against the workpiece that is to be polished in such a way that the tilt angle of the axis of rotation of the tool to the normal of the contact surface on the workpiece remains at least essentially constant and/or the size of the contact surface remains at least essentially constant.
US11890710B2
A torque wrench for multiple bolts or nuts comprises multiple drive spindles that are arranged annularly around a center and are equipped or able to be equipped at the end with respective torque-applying tools, and a ratchet drive, associated with each drive spindle and driven by means of a hydraulic piston drive, for driving the drive spindles. In addition to the ratchet drive, a locking ratchet for locking the drive spindle acts on each drive spindle to keep it from turning back when exercising a return stroke movement of the drive ratchet. The locking ratchets are arranged in a locking bracket, which is penetrated by the drive spindles. The locking bracket has means for loosening the locking ratchets.
US11890700B2
A method for manufacturing a display module includes preparing a display module comprising a plurality of layers and forming a through-hole in the display module. The forming the through-hole includes performing a first irradiation process of irradiating a first laser beam along a first boundary defining the through-hole, performing a second irradiation process of irradiating a second laser beam along a second boundary after the first irradiation process, and performing a third irradiation process of irradiating a third laser beam along a third boundary after the second irradiation process. A time interval between the first irradiation process and the second irradiation process may be different from a time interval between the second irradiation process and the third irradiation process.
US11890689B2
Embodiments of the innovation relate to a blade angle adjustment assembly, comprising a blade angle adjustment mechanism; a tooth load indicator; and a blade angle controller disposed in electrical communication with the blade angle adjustment mechanism and with the tooth load indicator. The blade angle controller is configured to receive a tooth load indication signal from the tooth load indicator and, the tooth load indication signal, provide a drive signal to the blade angle adjustment mechanism to adjust an angular positon of a bandsaw blade within a cut plane of a workpiece.
US11890686B2
A milling insert for a side and face milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a lower side defining a lower extension plane, and a side surface extending between the upper and the lower sides around a periphery of the insert that includes a main radial clearance surface, two opposite axial clearance surfaces and two corner clearance surfaces. At least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper and the side surfaces, wherein each cutting edge includes a main cutting edge extending above the main radial clearance surface and two corner cutting edges extending above the corner clearance surfaces on opposite sides of the main cutting edge. The main cutting edge slopes downward toward a midpoint of the main cutting edge and the main cutting edge and the main radial clearance surface slope outward from the corner cutting edges toward the midpoint.
US11890682B2
A method for connecting or joining a first substrate and a second substrate across an interface between the first substrate and the second substrate. The method includes disposing a fastener precursor in the bore and sintering the fastener precursor in the bore. The fastener precursor densifies and shrinks in at least one dimension to mechanically interlock with a contour in the bore and form a mechanical fastener in the bore, and the mechanical fastener forms an interlock between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11890668B2
Systems and methods of making a cast steel alloy crankshaft for an internal combustion engine are provided. The method comprises providing a mold of the crankshaft. The mold has cavities to form the crankshaft. The method further comprises melting a first metallic material at between 1400 degrees Celsius (° C.) and 1600° C. to define a molten metallic material. In addition, the method further comprises feeding the molten metallic material at a riser connection angle of between 30° and 75° in the cavities of the negative sand cast mold. The method further comprises cooling the molten metallic material at a solidification time of between 5 seconds (sec) and 20 sec in the negative sand cast mold with at least one chill member to define a solidified metallic material having dimensions of the cast steel alloy crankshaft. Furthermore, the method comprises separating the solidified metallic material from the negative sand cast mold to define the cast steel alloy crankshaft.
US11890667B2
In a method for thickening a plastically deformable hollow body wall of a hollow body, with effective radial support of the unthickened hollow body wall on an outer supporting face of an outer mold and with effective radial support of the hollow body wall on an inner supporting face of an inner supporting body, the hollow body is acted on by a compressive force by two application members at application points by moving the application members towards one another in the axial direction with a compressing movement. The application points on the hollow body are distanced from one another in the axial direction. An expansion space of the outer mold is arranged between the application points. Due to the compressing movement of the application members, material of the hollow body wall between the application points is plasticised in the region of the expansion space of the outer mold, and plasticised material of the hollow body wall flows into the expansion space of the outer mold, thus thickening the hollow body wall.
US11890666B2
The present invention relates to an automatic trimming apparatus (1) for wire coils (2) including a plurality of wire loops (3). The apparatus comprises a base frame (4), a rotational member (6) rotatably connected to the base frame (4), a support unit for supporting the wire loop when the rotational member (6) is rotated, a sensor assembly arranged for detecting the end of the wire and a distance sensor for sensing a distance travelled along the wire when the rotational member is rotated. The trimming apparatus is adapted to rotate the rotational member is in a first direction until the end of the wire is detected, rotate the rotational member in an opposite direction when the end of the wire has been detected, determine the distance travelled along the wire, and generate a cutting command based on the distance travelled along the wire from the end of the wire and a predetermined cutting distance. The rotational member (6) comprises a cutting device arranged to cut the wire upon receiving the cutting command.
US11890663B2
A device is configured for opening a heat exchanger core from a U-shape to a V-shape. Such heat exchanger core has a plurality of parallel flat tubes, each having two ends; and two manifolds. Each of the flat tubes has two straight sections adjacent to the manifolds and an intermediate bent section. The device has two hinged frames, a respective clamp arrangement on each of the hinged frames for holding the two manifolds, and a trough shaped support for the intermediate portion. For opening the U-shaped heat exchanger core, the heat exchanger core is inserted into the device, and the two manifolds are secured with the clamp arrangements. The clamp arrangements are separated from one another by pivoting apart the two hinged frames, on which the clamps are mounted. Simultaneously, the intermediate bent section is pushed toward the trough adapted to provide a desired curvature to the intermediate section.
US11890662B2
A method for manufacturing an out plate for a refrigerator includes providing a steel plate with a protective film attached to a surface thereof; seating the steel plate on a die and forming one of the plurality of through holes by a vertical movement of a punch; and horizontally moving the steel plate to one of a plurality of set positions to form another one of the plurality of through holes in the steel plate by the vertical movement of the punch, wherein the out plate defines a front surface of a door of the refrigerator and includes a display part, wherein a plurality of through holes are formed therein, and a display assembly comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that are configured to transmit light through the plurality of through holes configured to display information.
US11890661B2
The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetic stamping method and an electromagnetic stamping device. The electromagnetic stamping method includes: dividing a blank holder of a stamping device into a plurality of blank holder areas based on a contour characteristic of a workpiece to be stamped; setting a blank holder force function over time for each blank holder area based on a shape characteristic of the blank holder area; collecting blank holder force data of each blank holder area every cycle period t0, and calculating an error between the blank holder force data and a value of the blank holder force function at a current time; and controlling a blank holder force for each blank holder area based on the error, and obtaining the workpiece to be stamped by stamping sheet material under the blank holder force.
US11890634B2
An improved sprinkler distributor dampener utilizes at least one magnet and an electrically conductive material arranged so as to create an eddie current. The sprinkler is configured with a nozzle that directs fluid at the distributor. The distributor is configured to spin or rotate from the force of the fluid spray and thus distribute fluid in a randomized pattern. The dampener controls the speed of rotation of the distributor, which is preferably a distribution disc.
US11890630B2
The disclosure relates to a paint supply system for a coating installation (e.g. painting installation) comprising a ring line for circulation of a coating agent, a ring line tapping point in the ring line for extraction of the coating agent from the ring line, a consumer and a tap line leading from the ring line tapping point to the consumer. The disclosure provides a device for alternately moving the coating agent forward and backward in the tap line to avoid settling of the coating agent in the tap line.
US11890629B2
The invention relates to an agricultural sprayer valve unit. An electronically controlled control valve and a passive overflow valve serially connected in fluid communication are arranged in the agricultural sprayer valve unit between a primary line and a secondary line. The agricultural sprayer valve unit may be used for any agricultural sprayer valve device, in particular in connection with the discharge of a fluid such as water, a fertilizer, an insecticide, a weedkiller and the like in agricultural or fruit or vegetable cultivation.
US11890628B1
A dispenser comprising a cover housing, a base at least partially defining a reservoir configured for receiving and maintaining fluid therein, and a dispensing mechanism configured for selectively dispensing fluid from the reservoir is provided. The cover housing comprises a chamber comprising a recess configured for receiving a pod at least partially therein, and a retaining-ejecting mechanism. The retaining-ejecting mechanism enables the pod to be inserted into a retained position at least partially within the recess, retained in the retained position, and released from the retained position. The cover housing is configured to be coupled to the base so as to enclose the reservoir.
US11890621B2
The present invention relates to a method for separating and collecting single aggregates from fumed silica, and a method for classifying a shape of the collected single aggregates, and more specifically, includes preparing a slurry in which fumed silica is dispersed in water; aerosolizing the slurry; and collecting single aggregates of the finned silica in the aerosol using the electric field.
US11890619B2
Pipetting containers, such as reservoirs, reservoir liners, microplates, PCR plates, microtubes and PCR tubes, include anti-vacuum channels on the bottom wall of the receptacle to prevent a pipette tip vacuum engaging the wall during aspiration. The groupings of anti-vacuum channels are located on the bottom surface facing upward into the basin that holds liquid samples or reagents. The anti-vacuum channels also lower the required working volume for pipetting and reduce liquid waste.
US11890613B2
The present invention relates to a recovery system for drops comprising: a conduit for the circulation of a working fluid comprising a plurality of pockets that are isolated by separators, a recovery substrate comprising multiple compartments, a displacement device that is able to successively position the outlet of the conduit opposite at least two different compartments, a preparation device that is able to inject, into the conduit, an additional volume of separator fluid and an additional volume of carrier fluid, such that the volume of at least one separator is greater than or equal to a critical separation volume, and that the volume of at least one bubble formed by a pocket and a part of the separator is greater than or equal to a critical detachment volume.
US11890611B2
This invention provides for a self-sustaining fluidized bed reactor after the wave rotor reactor in which the reactor may be a fluidized bed reactor, a self-catalytic system, and may include an arrangement for the continuous removal and/or replenishment of particles in the fluidized bed, as well as possibly including a heater for heating the walls and/or a way for managing buildup of solids on the walls of the reactor.
US11890609B2
Honeycomb bodies and methods for treating a honeycomb bodies that include a skin surrounding a matrix of cells, the skin and the matrix of cells comprising a porous inorganic material. Methods include applying a buffer solution to only the porous inorganic material of the skin and coating the porous inorganic material of the skin with an oxide slurry. The oxide slurry includes an oxide or a precursor of the oxide configured to increase the isostatic strength of the honeycomb body. After treatment, the honeycomb body may be dried.
US11890608B2
Methods for fabricating thermally stable reducible metal oxide catalyst support structures on a base material using a multi-step incipient wetness impregnation (IWI) process are disclosed. For example, reducible metal oxide catalyst support structures having high surface area and high thermal stability may be formed using a multi-step IWI process, where the support structure is generated through high-temperature calcination between IWI steps. The metal or metal oxide catalysts fabricated using the methods are also disclosed. The generation of engineered surface defects on reducible metal oxides using a gas reduction process to serve as anchoring sites for metal or metal oxide catalysts is also disclosed. Generating engineered defects through a gas reduction process may be a relatively low-cost and scalable process suitable for fabricating efficient catalysts using a wide range of materials.
US11890607B2
Methods for limiting bleed-through of aqueous catalyst solutions in ceramic articles are described herein. The methods include applying a hydrophobic cellulose derivative, such as ethylcellulose, to an exterior surface of a fired porous ceramic article. The aqueous catalyst solution is applied to the fired porous ceramic article, such that the hydrophobic cellulose derivative limits bleed-through of the aqueous catalyst solution through at least a portion of the ceramic article. Ceramic articles with skins that limit bleed-through of aqueous catalyst solutions are also described herein.
US11890600B2
The present disclosure provides Low Temperature NOx-Absorber (LT-NA) catalyst compositions, catalyst articles, and an emission treatment system for treating an exhaust gas, each including the LT-NA catalyst compositions. Further provided are methods for reducing a NOx level in an exhaust gas stream using the LT-NA catalyst articles. In particular, the LT-NA catalyst compositions include a first zeolite, a first palladium component, and a plurality of platinum nanoparticles. The LT-NA catalyst compositions exhibit enhanced regeneration efficiency with respect to NOx adsorption capacity, even after hydrothermal aging.
US11890598B2
A supported heterogeneous catalyst material for catalyzing the reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction for the selective formation of CO using an alkali metal-doped molybdenum carbide on a gamma alumina support (A-Mo2C/γ-Al2O3, A=K, Na, Li). The A-Mo2C/γ-Al2O3 catalyst is synthesized by co-impregnation of molybdemun and alkali metal precursors onto a γ-Al2O3 support. It is then carburized to form the A-Mo2C/γ-Al2O3.
US11890597B2
The present invention provides a catalyst composition comprising different metal oxides wherein the catalyst composition comprising Ce, Cr and Ni oxides and a process for preparation thereof. The catalyst composition is used for different reforming techniques for the production of syn gas (CO+H2) at the same time this material can be used in fuel cell as a anode for power generation as this synthesized material is having good thermal stability and can sustain various redox reaction cycles also.
US11890590B2
A method for preparing an organic/inorganic hybrid composition including mineral nanoparticles functionalized by at least one molecule chosen from colored charged organic molecules, this method including providing a solution (a) of at least one colored charged organic molecule, providing a suspension (b) of non-swelling phyllosilicate nanoparticles, contacting the solution (a) and the suspension (b), the non-swelling phyllosilicate nanoparticles having a thickness of 1 nm to 100 nm, and a larger dimension of 10 nm to 10 μm. A composition of organic/inorganic hybrid colored nanoparticles obtained by this method is also disclosed.
US11890582B2
Described herein is a polyamide hollow fiber membrane and methods of making and using the hollow fiber membrane. The polyamide hollow fiber membrane has an isopropanol permeability of from about 5 L/m2 h bar to about 150 L/m2 h bar and a particle rejection percentage of about 100% for particles having a nominal diameter of from about 1 nm to about 25 nm. The polyamide hollow fiber membranes described herein are particularly useful for photoresist filtration, for example.
US11890581B2
A membrane defect inspection method is for a membrane module set including a plurality of membrane modules connected in parallel under a straight pipe portion of gas detection piping extending in a horizontal direction and communicating with primary spaces in the plurality of membrane modules to which raw water is supplied or secondary spaces. The method includes a gas injection process where gas is injected into spaces opposite to the primary spaces or the secondary spaces communicating with the gas detection piping while the gas detection piping is filled with water, and an echo detection process where an ultrasonic sensor is brought into contact with an end portion of the straight pipe portion of the gas detection piping, and a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave transmitted from the ultrasonic sensor is detected.
US11890578B2
A desalination system including: a partitioned container having upstream and downstream compartments divided by a movable partition, a first inlet port at an upstream end, and a second inlet port and an outlet port at the downstream end; a membrane container housing a cross-flow semipermeable membrane dividing the membrane container into saline and desalinated compartments, the saline compartment including first and second cross-flow ports, the desalinated compartment including a desalinated water outlet port; a feed pump connected to the first inlet port; a recharge pump having an inlet connected to the second cross-flow port and an outlet connected to the second inlet port; a main valve connected between the outlet port and the first cross-flow port; a bypass valve connecting the inlet port to the second cross-flow port and the recharge pump inlet; and a purge valve connecting the first cross-flow port and the main valve to a purge port.
US11890574B2
A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume. The final pressure is equal to or greater than the destination pressure.
US11890570B2
A filter device separating impurities from a gas, including a filter housing having a lid and a pot; the lid having an inlet and an outlet; a filter element in the pot with a top cap and a bottom cap with a filter cartridge therebetween; the top cap has an inlet duct connected to the lid inlet so that the gas to be purified is passed through the inlet duct to the filter cartridge; a space is between the lid and the top cap which is connected to the outlet of the lid; a switching element to be installed rotatably in the lid and rotatable between an off-position in which the inlet port or the outlet port connects to respectively the inlet or outlet of the lid, and a twisted position, in which the entrance of the inlet duct of the top cap can connect to the lid inlet.
US11890561B2
Filter media having a relatively small pore size and related components, systems, and methods associated therewith are provided. The filter media may include a fibrous efficiency layer, a fibrous support layer, and a third layer adjacent to the efficiency layer. The efficiency layer may impart a relatively homogeneous pore structure to the filter media without adding substantial bulk to the filter media. The support layer may promote the homogeneity of the pore structure. For example, the support layer may prevent and/or minimize defects in the relatively thin efficiency layer that may result from manufacturing and/or processing. The third layer may serve to impart beneficial filtration (e.g., efficiency, dust holding capacity) and/or non-filtration (e.g., layer protection) properties to the filter media without adversely affecting one or more properties of the filter media. Filter media, as described herein, may be particularly well-suited for applications that involve liquid filtration, amongst other applications.
US11890546B2
An exemplary information processing system is configured to create a route formed by arranging, in a virtual space, a plurality of route parts each associated with a design; determine whether the route created by the user contains a forbidden symbol or a forbidden word. When the route created by the user contains a forbidden symbol or a forbidden word, uploading of the route created by the user to the server is prohibited.
US11890540B2
Disclosed are a user interface processing method and device. The method is applied to a user terminal which is configured to execute a game client, the game client comprises a first thread and a second thread, and the second thread is pre-packaged in a browser kernel of the game client, and the method includes: obtaining, by the first thread, a user interface rendering event which is to be processed: obtaining by the second thread, a to-be-rendered object corresponding to the user interface rendering event; rendering, by the second thread, the to-be-rendered object, and sending a rendering result to the first thread through a first interface, wherein the first interface is an interface provided by the second thread for storing the rendering result; and presenting, by the first thread, the rendering result.
US11890532B2
A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.
US11890530B2
A self-propelled, one-wheeled vehicle may include a board having two deck portions each having a concave front footpad configured to receive a foot of a rider, and a wheel assembly disposed between the deck portions. The concave front footpad has a rider detection sensor in the form of a membrane switch conforming to the shape of the footpad (e.g., facilitated by one or more slots formed in the membrane switch). A motor assembly drives the vehicle in response to board orientation and rider detection information.
US11890515B2
Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having an interior cavity, a back opening portion, a back cover portion covering the back opening portion, a filler material at least partially filling the interior cavity, a first mass portion coupled to the back cover portion, and a second mass portion coupled to the back cover portion. The body portion may be made from a first material having a first density, and the back cover portion may be made from second material having a second density different from the first density. The diameter of the second mass portion may be greater than a diameter of the first mass portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11890514B2
A method and an apparatus for playing golf on a hard surface comprises a replaceable striking pad attached to a conventional golf club head by means of at least one attachment means, a spiked ball, a portable ball trap to trap the spiked ball and an optional remotely controlled vehicle to position the portable ball trap. The replaceable striking pad includes a small lip at a bottom end on a front face and a holding ledge having substantially curved edges extending away from the bottom end of the front face. The holding ledge is adaptable to wrap around a bottom sole of the golf club head. The portable ball trap includes a thin flat platform with tapered edges, a central threaded pole positioned on the thin flat platform and a circular frame having a plurality of hinged tabs threaded to the central threaded pole.
US11890511B2
This invention provides a swimming goggles, which takes the frames as the core, combines the two lenses of the goggles, nose bridge connecting part, two protective pads, headband device and other components into a whole, and provides a protective cover for the waterproof-ventilation film on the lenses, so that the waterproof-ventilation film cannot be touched improperly by external forces when in use. Moreover, by the flexible arrangement of the frames and nose bridge connecting part of the goggles, users with different nose bridge and different facial contours can wear comfortably.
US11890506B2
Disclosed herein is a system for testing motor skills involved in locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative activities. The system utilizes joint data created by a motion sensor during a subject's performance of an activity to determine the subject's motor skill proficiency for that activity. The system compares the subject's joint data to benchmark data to detect one or more phases of the activity. Based on the comparison, the system also determines the subject's proficiency in the particular motor skill tested. The system is embodied in a computer-implemented application that provides various user interfaces for navigating through the user interfaces, accessing a database of the system, testing a subject's motor skills, analyzing a subject's proficiency, and facilitating practice of motor skills.
US11890504B2
An arm curl fitness apparatus includes a first frame configured to be provided standing upright on both sides of a user in a straight bar shape; a second frame formed in a U-shape with each end coupled to an upper end of the first frame; a first rotation bar, shorter than the first frame, with one end rotatably coupled to an upper outer side of the first frame; a handle formed in an L-shape with one end rotatably coupled to the first rotation bar and another end configured to face the user; a second rotation bar with one end rotatably coupled to a lower outer side of the first frame; a wire with one end connected to a point adjacent to one end of the first rotation bar; and an armrest provided on an inside of the upper part of the first frame.
US11890500B2
The present application relates to a fitness apparatus having a housing on which are arranged a first supporting element and also a second supporting element. The first and the second supporting elements can be moved linearly in each case in two spatial dimensions located at right angles to one another. The housing has at least one active element, by means of which a movement of the first supporting element or of the second supporting element out of a respective starting position is counteracted by a force. The housing also has at least one coupling element, which couples the linear movement of the first supporting element in a first direction of a first of the two spatial dimensions to a linear movement of the second supporting element in the second direction, which opposes the first direction in this first of the two spatial dimensions.
US11890497B2
The present invention provides for a hurdle having an upright position and a collapsed position, the hurdle comprises a crossbar and a pair of legs pivotally connected to the crossbar. Each leg has a proximal end and a distal end where the proximal end is pivotally connected to the crossbar end and the distal end is for placement on an exercising surface. The distal ends of the legs can be rotated away from the bottom surface of the crossbar in an expanded upright position. In an upright position the hurdle provides height relative to the exercise surface which can be adjusted by a pivot angle between the crossbar and legs. When the hurdle is in a collapsed position the legs are substantially parallel to the crossbar. In another embodiment the crossbar of the hurdle can be used as a rung in an exercise agility ladder.
US11890496B2
An aqueous concentrate, which can be diluted with an aqueous diluent to form a foam precursor composition, is provided. The foam precursor composition may be aerated to form a firefighting foam. The aqueous firefighting composition includes a sugar component; a surfactant component, which includes one or more of an anionic surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant; polysaccharide thickener, which includes succinoglycan; and at least about 30 wt. % water.
US11890489B2
A method of treating a neurological disorder and/or disease includes positioning a stimulation apparatus on a patient. The stimulation apparatus includes an electrode array having a plurality of electrodes and an emitter array having a plurality of emitters. The method further includes measuring electroencephalography (EEG) signals of the patient with the electrode array. The method further includes emitting radiation into the patient's brain from the emitter array based on the measured EEG signals in order to treat the neurological disorder and/or disease.
US11890487B2
An apparatus for a multi-channel high power magnetic coil driver, comprising: a plurality of magnetic coil drive modules, each of which is connected to a magnetic coil that is adapted to produce a magnetic field in a controlled manner.
US11890483B2
In various examples, an apparatus is configured for subcutaneously inserting an implantable device within a patient. The apparatus includes a dilator portion including a dilator including a dilator length. The dilator portion is configured to separate tissue to create a subcutaneous pocket within the patient sized and shaped to accommodate an implantable device within the subcutaneous pocket. A sheath portion includes a sheath sized and shaped to accommodate the dilator within a sheath lumen. The sheath is configured to accommodate an antenna of the implantable device with the dilator removed from within the sheath. The sheath includes a sheath length that is at least substantially as long as an antenna length. The sheath is configured to separate to allow removal of the sheath around the implantable device to remove the sheath from and leave the implantable device within the subcutaneous pocket within the patient.
US11890470B2
An example of a system for programming a neurostimulator may include a storage device and a user interface. The storage device may be configured to store waveform building blocks. The user interface may include a display screen, a user input device, and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit may include a waveform composer configured to allow for composition of one of more building blocks and composition of a pattern of neurostimulation pulses using selected one or more waveform building blocks. The waveform composer may include a library controller and waveform building block editors. The library controller may be configured to display a library management area on the screen. The displayed library management area allows a user to manage the stored waveform building blocks. The waveform building block editors may each be configured to allow the user to compose a type of the waveform building blocks.
US11890467B2
Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) can be used to treat tumors (and/or prevent metastases) in or near a person's neck by affixing a first transducer array (i.e., a set of electrode elements) to the person's head and affixing a second transducer array to the person's chest. Subsequently, an AC voltage at a desired frequency (e.g., 100-300 kHz) is applied between the first transducer array and the second transducer array. This induces an electric field that is strong enough to be effective (e.g., greater than 1 V/cm) in most of the person's neck. In some embodiments, the center of the first transducer array is positioned on the vertex of the head or on an upper surface of the person's head. In some embodiments, the second set of electrode elements is positioned immediately below the base of the neck.
US11890463B2
A method of implanting a lead includes inserting a needle through tissue near a chin of a patient and through a tongue of the patient, inserting an introducer through an opening created by the needle, and inserting the lead through the introducer, the lead comprising an elongated member and one or more electrodes in a distal portion of the elongated member such that the one or more electrodes are implantable proximate to one or more motor points of a protrusor muscle within the tongue of the patient, wherein inserting the lead comprises inserting the lead to have a shape of one of a helix, a compound helix, a wave shape, or saw-tooth shape, or to have a loop in the lead.
US11890461B2
A patient-worn arrhythmia monitoring and treatment device weight between 250 grams and 2,500 grams includes at least one contoured pad configured to be adhesively coupled to a patient's torso, a plurality of therapy electrodes, at least one of which is integrated with the at least one contoured pad, and a plurality of ECG sensing electrodes, at least one of which is integrated with the at least one contoured pad. At least one housing configured to form a watertight seal with the at least one contoured pad extends no more than 5 cm from the contoured pad. A processor disposed within the housing is coupled to a therapy delivery circuit and configured to detect one or more treatable arrhythmias based on at least one ECG signal and cause a therapy delivery circuit to deliver at least one defibrillation pulse on detecting the one or more treatable arrhythmias.
US11890459B2
A method includes protecting an entire length of a needle of a needle-based device protruding from a needle mount or a body of the needle-based device in a first state of disuse thereof based on providing a needle shield encompassing the entire protruding length of the needle, and encompassing the needle shield completely in the first state of disuse with an external cap. The method also includes providing a guide element protruding inward from an end of the external cap farthest away from the needle mount or the body of the needle-based device, internal to the external cap parallel to a length of the external cap and through the needle shield such that, in the state of disuse, the guide element at least partially envelops the needle therewithin to prevent significant lateral movement of the needle and prevents the end of the external cap from touching the needle.
US11890458B2
A Huber safety needle assembly including a body, configured to receive a needle. The body further including an upper portion having a first gripping portion coupled thereto, a lower portion having a second gripping portion coupled to thereto, and a hinge mechanism. The needle having a needle tip configured to be received in the body. The hinge mechanism is configured to operably transition the body between a closed configuration and an open configuration. The closed configuration allowing at least a portion of the needle, including the needle tip, to extend below the bottom surface of the lower portion of the body. The open configuration allowing the needle tip to be securely received within the lower portion such that it does not extend below the bottom surface of the lower portion.
US11890450B2
A drug delivery device includes a housing defining a shell and an inner volume, a container, a drive mechanism, a needle assembly, a fluid flow connection, and a backflow prevention mechanism. The container has an inner volume to contain a medicament to be administered to a user. The drive mechanism is at least partially disposed within the housing and exerts a force to urge the medicament out the container. The fluid flow connection is coupled to the container and the needle assembly and allows the medicament to flow from the container to the needle assembly to be administered. The backflow prevention mechanism is associated with at least one of the container, the fluid flow connection, or the needle assembly and includes at least one flow restrictor to restrict a fluid from flowing from the needle assembly to the container.
US11890435B2
A device and method are described for aspirating within a patient during the delivery of a drug-coated treatment device to help remove drug coating dislodged in a patient's blood. The drug treatment device can be a drug-coated balloon, a drug-coated stent, or similar devices. The device can include an occlusion balloon to help contain the dislodged drug coating and aspiration can be applied proximally, distally, or both proximally and distally of the drug coated balloon during a procedure.
US11890427B2
A medical device, such as an electrophysiology catheter, has an elongate body including a wall. A reinforcing layer is encapsulated in the wall. The reinforcing layer includes one or more reinforcing fibers having glass cores and polymer claddings. In embodiments, the one or more reinforcing fibers are non-magnetically-susceptible and non-electrically-conductive, facilitating use of the medical device in connection with procedures such as magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”).
US11890426B2
The present invention relates to a method of replacing a central line cap to a catheter, and a kit for central line cap care and replacement.
US11890418B2
A system of breathing arrangements for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes at least first and second cushion components, e.g., full-face, nasal, nasal prongs, nose tip, and/or a combination of any of the above, including a nasal or full-face cushion and nasal prongs/nozzles combination, etc., that are different from one another in at least one aspect, and a common frame assembly configured to support each of the first and second cushion components. Various embodiments are directed to a full-face or nasal mask used with a frame having lateral connector portions having a stiffening member. The mask assembly may include a nose height adjustment device for the height of the cushion, or a cushion adjustment member by which the position of the cushion may be adjusted relative to the frame. The mask assembly may include a chin strap assembly.
US11890415B2
A system of treating atelectasis is provided that includes a tracheal tube positioned within an airway of a ventilated patient and an acoustic sensor coupled to the tracheal tube. The system also includes a monitor communicatively coupled to the acoustic sensor. The monitor includes a processor configured to receive a baseline signal from the acoustic sensor. The processor is configured to provide control instructions to adjust a pressure of a gas mixture delivered to the airway through the tracheal tube. The processor is also configured to receive an updated signal from the acoustic sensor after the adjustment and identify a change in airway openness of lungs of the ventilated patient caused by the adjustment of the pressure. Further, identifying the change is based on the baseline signal and the updated signal.
US11890410B2
A connector includes a first port, a second port, a first sealing member and a second sealing member. The first port and the first pipe sleeve portion are connected with each other such that at least a part of the first port and at least a part of the first pipe sleeve portion engage with each other by fitting and overlap with each other, and a first sealing member is positioned between two overlapping portions. The second port and the second pipe sleeve portion are connected with each other such that at least a part of the second port and at least a part of the second pipe sleeve portion engage with each other by fitting and push each other, and a second sealing member is positioned between two pushing portions.
US11890406B2
An example assembly for use with a vacuum system and an esophageal positioning device esophageal positioning device includes an introducer, in which the esophageal positioning device includes a handle, a first segment, a second segment and an articulation driving mechanism. The first segment being coupled to the handle. The second segment being pivotally connected to the first segment. The articulation driving mechanism being configured to pivot the second segment about the first segment upon articulation.
US11890404B2
A canister for use in administering reduced pressure to a tissue site includes a center body, a first end cap, and a second end cap. The center body includes a first end, second end, and a number of fluidly separate body conduits. The first end cap is connected to the first end of the center body and includes a number of return conduits fluidly connecting one body conduit to another. The first end has a port for receiving a conduit in fluid communication with the tissue site. The second end cap is connected to the second end of the center body and includes a number of return conduits fluidly connecting one body conduit to another. The second end cap has a port for receiving a conduit in fluid communication with a reduced pressure source. The fluid connection between the body conduits and the return conduits creates a continuous, tortuous pathway.
US11890396B2
Provided herein is a living bone graft including a biofabricated graft core including demineralized bone matrix and a carrier and a pre-vascularized shell at least partially enrobing the graft core, the pre-vascularized shell including isolated, intact adipose-derived microvessel fragments, mesenchymal stem cells, and collagen. The disclosed bone grafts include stromal cells that differentiate and microvessels that inosculate to provide a functional microvasculature, thereby approximating native bone repair as the graft matures in the patient. Also provided herein are methods of fabricating a bespoke, living, vascularized bone graft and methods of treating a segmental bone defect in a patient.
US11890388B2
A sterilization apparatus includes a sterilization chamber, a vaporization chamber, a wall partitioning the vaporization chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber, a first passage connecting the first chamber and the second chamber, a table arranged in the first chamber, a nozzle arranged toward the table to spray a sterilizing agent toward the table, a liquid reservoir for storing the liquid component of the sterilizing agent sprayed toward the table, a second passage connecting the second chamber and the sterilization chamber, and a means for decompressing the sterilization chamber and also decompressing the first chamber and the second chamber of the vaporization chamber through the first passage and the second passage, wherein the first passage is formed by a belt-shaped gap having a small thickness and a large width.
US11890383B2
The present invention provides ingestible dosage form articles such as opaque capsules with reduced light transmittance.
US11890380B1
A buccal tablet formulation has a polyvinylpyrrolidone K-90 as a solid dispersion polymer, a hydroxypropyl methylcellulose as a mucoadhesive polymer, a sodium deoxycholate as mucopenetration enhancer, a porous silicon dioxide (e.g., FujiSil), mannitol, and avanafil. The ratio of PVP K-90 to AVA is approximately 2:1 (e.g., 2.3:1 to 1.7:1) in the tablet. Methods of making the buccal tablet with enhanced bioavailability and prolonged duration and methods of using the formulation for the treatment of erectile dysfunction are also provided.
US11890379B2
Herein described are an assembly, apparatus, and method for lyophilization that utilizes a thermal block made from a conductive material, the block having multiple wells designed and dimensioned to receive containers carrying material to be lyophilized in situ. In preferred embodiments, a vented silicone pad covers the wells and secures the containers therein, and a similarly vented rigid plate in turn secures the silicone pad by fastening it to the thermal block. The assembly can be turned up to 90 degrees resulting in the turning of the containers from an upright position to a horizontal position, a position in which the distance through which sublimation must progress is drastically reduced so as to greatly enhance the efficiency of the lyophilization process.
US11890375B2
The present invention provides a method of treatment of inflammatory disorder of the eye, said method comprising administering into the eye of a person in need thereof, an aqueous solution comprising difluprednate as the sole active ingredient at a concentration of 0.02% to 0.04% weight by volume in an aqueous vehicle, wherein the solution is free of oil and wherein the solution is administered twice-a-day. The present invention also provides an ophthalmic solution comprising a. therapeutically effective concentration of difluprednate, a crystal growth inhibitor and pharmaceutically acceptable amounts of a solubilizer comprising a mixture of i. quaternary ammonium compound and ii. polyethoxylated castor oil, b. in an aqueous vehicle. wherein the crystal growth inhibitor is polyvinyl alcohol or its derivatives.
US11890372B2
The present invention provides an infusion preparation that is inhibited from generation of unwanted insoluble matter after mixing of two liquids of the infusion preparation in long-term storage. More specifically, the present invention provides an infusion preparation comprising two chambers separated by a communicably openable partition, a first chamber containing a first-chamber infusion comprising a fat emulsion and further comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of amino acids that have a buffer action, divalent organic acids, and trivalent organic acids, a second chamber containing a second-chamber infusion comprising an amino acid and at least calcium as an electrolyte, wherein a total concentration of the amino acids that have a buffer action, divalent organic acids, and trivalent organic acids in the first-chamber infusion is 0.15 to 0.5 g/L, and a mixture of the first- and second-chamber infusions has a pH of 6.53 or less as measured 48 hours after the partition is communicably opened.
US11890362B2
Described herein are oral care compositions comprising metal silicates (e.g. sodium silicate); along with methods of making and using same.
US11890356B2
Provided herein are compounds useful for binding to one or more histone deacetylase enzymes (HDACs). The present application further provides radiolabeled compounds useful as a radiotracer for position emission tomography imaging of HDAC. Methods for prepared unlabeled and labeled compounds, diagnostic methods, and methods of treating diseases associated HDAC are also provided.
US11890355B2
An ultrasound gel is provided for use with internal ultrasound imaging and/or therapy. The gel can have acoustic properties that can closely match a soft tissue to be imaged/treated and can be of a high viscosity that is maintained at body temperature. In some embodiments, the gel can act as a lubricant and, although water based, can be hydrophobic and not dissolve in bodily fluids. In some embodiments, the gel can be sterile, safe for ingestion, safe for application over mucous membranes, and include a preservative. In order to achieve sterility while maintaining a desired viscosity range, the gel can include a viscosity stabilising agent such as a viscosity protection agent for protection from radiation induced breakdown. In some embodiments, methods of altering or maintaining the viscosity of a gel is provided.
US11890354B2
The invention relates generally to activatable antibodies that include a masking moiety (MM), a cleavable moiety (CM), and an antibody (AB) that specifically binds to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and to methods of making and using these anti-EGFR activatable antibodies in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.
US11890343B2
Serial-solvent biomaterials are described. Embodiments include materials made in an organic solvent that are stripped of the solvent and used in a patient, where they imbibe water and form a hydrogel. These materials are useful for, among other things, delivering therapeutic agents, tissue augmentation, and radiological marking.
US11890335B2
Disclosed herein are peptide-adjuvant pharmaceutical compositions and vaccine compositions that trigger long lasting natural anti-tumor antibodies. Such compositions may be used alone, or in combination with anti-cancer agents, chemotherapeutic agents, anti-PD therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, in the prevention and treatment of cancer.
US11890333B2
The present invention relates to peptides, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated cytotoxic T cell (CTL) peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. The present invention relates to peptide sequences and their variants derived from HLA class I and class II molecules of human tumor cells that can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses.
US11890328B2
A protein composition derived from silk fibroin, which composition possesses enhanced solubility and stability in aqueous solutions. The primary amino acid sequence of native fibroin is modified in the SDP such that cysteine disulfide bonds between the fibroin heavy and fibroin light protein chains are reduced or eliminated. Additionally, the composition can have a serine content that is reduced by greater than 40% compared to native fibroin protein, and the average molecular weight of the SDP is less than about 100 kDa.
US11890327B2
The invention pertains to a recombinant polypeptide comprising a truncated von Willebrand Factor (VWF) for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a blood coagulation disorder, said treatment or prophylaxis comprising administering the recombinant polypeptide and a Factor VIII protein (FVIII) extravascular to a subject having a blood coagulation disorder, wherein said recombinant polypeptide is capable of binding to said FVIII, and wherein the molar ratio of the recombinant polypeptide to be administered to the FVIII to be administered is higher than 50.
US11890322B2
The present invention generally relates to uses of glial cell line-derived growth factor (GDNF) in cutaneous wound healing and hair growth. Methods of effecting hair growth and/or wound healing which feature administration of GDNF, or a biologically active fragment thereof, to subjects, e.g., human subject, are disclosed herein. The invention relates also to formulations and kits for achieving the indicated pharmaceutical advantages.
US11890317B2
A new use of a cyclo histidine-proline (Cyclo His-Pro, CHP) is disclosed. A composition including cyclo histidine-proline (CHP) as an active ingredient has an excellent protective effect to protect kidney and liver cells from damage and/or toxicity induced by various causes. The composition is useful and effective in protecting kidney and/or liver cells/tissues and in treating a subject with kidney and/or liver diseases and/or damages.
US11890316B2
This invention relates to methods of administering oral octreotide therapy to a female subject relating to avoidance of combined oral contraceptives or use of a back-up method for contraception.
US11890312B2
A composition for treating skin disorders including a mixture of herbal extracts of Azadirachta indica, Acacia catechu, Hemidesmus indicus, Phyllanthus emblica, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia chebula and optionally Tinospora cordifolia and use thereof. A method for treating skin disorders using the composition is also disclosed.
US11890311B1
A cannabinoid composition, comprising a full spectrum extract of a plant of genus cannabis comprising at least 5% by weight cannabigerol, comprising cannabis terpenes and cannabis flavonoids, and substantially without cannabidiol and tetrahydrocannabinol. The composition may be a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation for oral, sublingual, inhaled, vaporized, or smoked administration. The formulation may include absorption or pharmacological enhancers e.g., curcumin, resveratrol, quercitin, piperine and/or N-alkylamides. The composition has anti-inflammatory properties beneficial as a prophylaxis or therapy of symptoms due to SARS-Cov2 infection.
US11890308B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, e.g., formulations, 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.
US11890305B2
A composition and method for ameliorating drug-seeking behavior in drug addicts who have stopped using the addicted-to drug and who have reestablished non-addict physiological chemical balance.
US11890301B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for enhancing T cell metabolism and activity for more effective adoptive T cell therapy. By expressing an chimeric antigen receptor and bispecific antibodies in T cells, the T cells are metabolically enhanced with improved cytotoxicity and resistance to immunosuppression imposed by tumor microenvironments. Certain aspects include modified T cells and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the modified cells for adoptive cell therapy and treating a disease or condition associated with enhanced immunity.
US11890298B2
To develop a novel administration method of a fucoidan-containing hair-growing agent and to provide a means for exerting excellent effects of a fucoidan. A hair-growing agent of the present invention is characterized in that it is composed of a combination of a fucoidan-containing microneedle and a fucoidan-containing liniment. A base of the fucoidan-containing microneedle is preferably a biosoluble polymer. A hair-growing method of the present invention is characterized in that the fucoidan-containing microneedle and the fucoidan-containing liniment are concomitantly used.
US11890292B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods, systems and/or kits for preventing and/or treating neoplasms using at least one modulator selected from quercetin, sodium phenyl butyrate and epigallocatechin-3-gallate in combination with one or more anti-cancer agents. The compositions, methods, systems and/or kits are used to prevent and/or treat neoplasms that are resistant to the one or more anti-cancer agents when administered alone.
US11890286B2
Methods and compositions for treating cancer are disclosed.
US11890278B2
Provided herein are compositions comprising nicotine, or a salt thereof, and pilocarpine, or a salt thereof, useful for reducing the use of betel quid and/or achieving betel quid cessation (e.g., replacement therapy). Also provided herein are methods of using the compositions in reducing the risk of developing or reducing the progression of a disease (e.g., cancer, oral disease, neurological disease, or painful condition). Compositions of the present invention may be administered to a subject with an addiction, e.g., a betel quid addiction, areca nut addiction, and/or nicotine addiction.
US11890272B2
Disclosed herein are methods of administering relatively high doses of dexmedetomidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a human subject, without also inducing significant sedation. The disclosed methods are particularly suitable for the treatment of agitation, especially when associated with neurodegenerative and/or neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness such as bipolar disorder or mania, dementia, depression, or delirium.
US11890266B2
Pharmaceutical ocular compositions include levodopa, an antioxidant and an aqueous carrier. A wide selection of antioxidants can be included in the compositions, such as ascorbic acid, phenolic acids, sorbic acid, sodium bisulfite, sodium metabisulfite, acetyl cysteine, sodium thiosulfate, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, sodium nitrite, ascorbyl stearate, ascorbyl palmitate, alpha-thioglycerol, erythorbic acid, cysteine hydrochloride, citric acid, tocopherol or vitamin E, tocopherol acetate, dibutylhydroxytoluene, soybean lecithin, sodium thioglycolate, butylhydroxyanisole, propyl gallate, uric acid, melatonin, and thiourea, as well as salts and combinations of these antioxidants.
US11890238B2
An armboard assembly includes an armboard deck including a cavity formed in a lower surface of the armboard deck, an armboard mount including a plurality of radially extending teeth positioned within a mount portion of the cavity, and an engagement assembly movable relative to the armboard deck between an engaged position to engage the plurality of teeth of the armboard mount and a disengaged position to disengage the plurality of teeth of the armboard mount. The engagement assembly includes a handle including one or more legs extending from an upper surface of the handle, which engage an insertion hole formed in the armboard deck and a channel extending from the insertion hole toward the armboard mount, and an indexing member positioned within the cavity of the armboard deck and coupled to the handle. The indexing member limits movement of the engagement assembly by maintaining the legs within the channel.
US11890220B1
An external male catheter comprising an inner drainage sheath configured to unrolled and fitted over a penis like a condom, and an attached outer suction sheath configured to be unrolled over the fitted drainage sheath. A one-way drainage port extends from the inner drainage sheath through the outer suction sheath in fluid-tight manner, and a one-way suction port extends from the outer suction sheath. Suction is selectively applied to both the drainage and suction ports as the catheter is applied, in order to assist with fitting and retention of the catheter.
US11890219B2
Thermoresponsive skin barrier assemblies are disclosed. One such wound treatment assembly includes a pump configured to expel a biosealant to a pump output port when subjected to a thermal stimulus, and an adhesive substrate layer for covering the wound. The adhesive substrate layer includes a conduit configured to transport the biosealant from the output port to the wound. The assembly further includes a control module in signal communication with a wound leakage sensor configured to activate a heating element disposed in proximity to the pump when wound leakage is detected.
US11890213B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
US11890211B2
A stent composed by a bioabsorbable network of polymer fibers that can be rearranged upon expansion, accommodating for diameter enlargement without the need of a strut or strut pattern and providing temporary support to a biological duct, is provided. Additionally, a stent is provided where the rearranged fibrous network of its expanded state can act as a scaffold for cell infiltration and promote autologous tissue formation.
US11890207B2
A release mechanism especially but not exclusively for use in a prosthetic hand. The release mechanism includes a retainer and a release pin held within the retainer so as to be moveable between an engagement position and a release position. The retainer is provided with portions which engage the release pin to restrain it to movement between the engagement position and the release position. The portions include ball bearings to reduce the friction between the retainer and the release pin. Also, a prosthetic hand having such a release mechanism is provided so that the user can release the hand if it becomes jammed.
US11890199B2
An implant device used to replace and restore the function of the knee meniscus in a human. The compliant, yet resilient device is comprised of a biocompatible, non-degradable three-dimensional body comprised of at least a central body, a second structure, a third structure, and a coating. The device is concentrically aligned wherein the second structure is adjoined to the central body wherein the third structure is adjoined on the central body opposite of the second structure. The third structure further features a first and a second pulling element which is coupled to the central body and forms the outer periphery and major circumference of the device. The device is comprised of multiple components which provide tensile strength, compressive resilience, and attachment mechanisms for replacing the meniscus. Each structure is comprised of multiple surfaces which are further reinforced, separated, and connected by an individual plurality of vertical elements. The implantable device further features a surface coating on the surface of the central body.
US11890193B2
A first anchor is anchored inside a coronary sinus of a heart of a subject. A second anchor can be driven into a tricuspid annulus of the heart. A distal portion of the second anchor can be disposed adjacent and parallel to a center portion of the second anchor. The second anchor can be seated against a surface of the annulus, for example, such that (i) the distal portion is disposed perpendicular to the center portion, (ii) the center portion extends through the annulus, and (iii) a proximal portion of the second anchor is disposed in the atrium. A distance between the first and second anchors can be reduced by applying tension to a tensioning member coupled to the first anchor and the proximal portion of the second anchor. Other embodiments are also described.
US11890189B2
In one embodiment, a delivery apparatus handle, such as for a mechanical heart valve frame can comprise an actuation knob with a toggle mechanism that can toggle the actuation knob from a first state in which the actuation knob is operable to cause the linear or rotational movement of multiple elements or sets of elements, such as tubes that are attached to, e.g., a mechanical heart valve frame to cause expansion or collapsing of the frame, to a second state in which only a single element or set of elements is moved, allowing for additional operations, such as, e.g., locking the frame and/or releasing it from the delivery apparatus.
US11890184B2
Aspects of the present invention may include systems and methods for intraocular lens selection using a formula and a deep learning machine to estimate the error of the formula. In an aspect, the disclosure provides a method for intraocular lens selection. The method may include obtaining at least two ocular measurement parameters and a lens selection parameter for an eye. The method may include determining an intraocular lens power based on a formula using the at least two ocular measurement parameters. The method may include determining an estimated error of the formula using a deep learning machine trained on verified post-operative results using intraocular lenses selected by the formula. The method may include adjusting the lens selection parameter based on the estimated. The method may include redetermining the intraocular lens power based on the formula and the adjusted lens selection parameter.
US11890173B2
The invention is generally a nasal pharyngeal and oral swab that may be mass-produced via three-dimensional (3D) printing. To achieve the right materials for 3D printing the swabs, exemplary embodiments employ a set of materials that result in a rigid structure that has bendable properties (at least in the neck or stem region of the swab), but more rigid and bridle properties at a breakpoint of the swab. In exemplary embodiments, this may be achieved by constructing the device of a first photosensitive material that is generally soft and bendable when cured, and a second photosensitive material that is generally rigid and brittle when cured, wherein the soft bendable material comprises of about 70% to 90% of the photosensitive composition used to 3D print the swab, and the rigid and brittle material comprises of about 30% to 10% of the photosensitive composition used to 3D print the swab.
US11890171B2
A disposable absorbent article has a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a first plurality of conforming features in at least the absorbent core or a combination of the absorbent core and the topsheet. At least a portion of the are depressions, wherein the depressions have a depression centerline bisecting a length and/or width of the depression. A first strut forms a first sidewall of the depression opposite a second sidewall of the depression formed by a second strut, wherein neither of the first strut nor the second strut extend longitudinally and/or laterally beyond the depression centerline by more than 0.75 mm.
US11890170B2
A medical dressing for application to a surface of a human body is described. The medical dressing has a first direction (x) of extension and a second direction (y) of extension being perpendicular to the first direction (x) of extension. The medical dressing has at least a first and a second anisotropic layer having anisotropic stiffness, wherein the stiffness of each one of the first and the second anisotropic layer is higher in the second direction (y) of extension than in the first direction (x) of extension.
US11890164B2
An attachment member for mating with a dental implant includes a non-rotational structure and a body. The non-rotational structure is configured to mate with a corresponding non-rotational feature of the dental implant. The body extends from the non-rotational structure. The body has (i) an exterior side surface configured to at least partially engage gingival tissue adjacent to the dental implant, (ii) an exterior top surface that is exposed through the gingival tissue, (iii) a screw access bore for receiving a screw that attaches the attachment member to the dental implant in a removable fashion, and (iv) a set of radiopaque information markers that is located internal to the exterior side surface and the exterior top surface. The set of radiopaque information markers indicates information regarding the dental implant that is revealed in response to a scan from a computerized tomography (CT) scanner.
US11890163B2
A self-ligating orthodontic bracket comprising a body and a locking shutter. A mesio-gingival reference plane is defined tangent to a lingual-most point of the archwire slot. The body further includes an occlusal-gingival opening that intersects the reference plane. The locking shutter includes a lingual end located in the opening at a closed lingual location when the locking shutter is in a closed position, and at an open lingual location when the locking shutter is in an open position. The locking shutter further includes a labial end located at a closed labial location when the locking shutter is in the closed position and at an open labial location when the locking shutter is in the open position. A first occlusal-gingival distance from the closed lingual location to the open lingual location is at least about 70% of a second occlusal-gingival distance from the closed labial location to the side surface. In addition, the first occlusal-gingival distance is at least about 60% of a third occlusal-gingival distance from the closed lingual location to an end of a tie wing.
US11890162B2
Disclosed are apparatuses and techniques for distalizing, mesializing and/or expanding teeth in the upper or lower dental arch of a patient's mouth to make room for crowded or protruded teeth located in the anterior arch region to distally and laterally shift into. In some aspects, an apparatus includes a body; a first arm coupled to an adjustment mechanism of the body and attachable to a molar; a second arm coupled to the apparatus body and attachable to a non-molar tooth; and an anchorage device attachable to a bone in the mouth, which the first arm is configured to transfer a force onto the molar when the adjustment mechanism is actuated to cause movement of the molar in the dental arch, and which the anchorage device is operable to positionally stabilize the body and the second arm to prevent movement of the non-molar tooth in the dental arch.
US11890158B2
Methods and apparatuses for automatic treatment planning, including recommendation systems, quality assurance, error prevention, text mining, text matching, and treatment planning optimization.
US11890157B2
A method of manufacturing pre-formed, customized, ceramic, labial/lingual orthodontic clear aligner attachments (CCAA) by additive manufacturing (AM) may comprise measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth using reverse engineering, and saving the 3D CAD model, designing a 3D CAD structure model for one or more CCAA on various parts of each tooth, importing data related to the 3D CAD CCAA structure model into an AM machine, directly producing the CCAA in the ceramic slurry-based AM machine by layer manufacturing, enabling the provider to deliver patient-specific CCAA's by an indirect bonding method to the patient's teeth to improve the efficacy and retention of the clear aligners.
US11890154B2
Methods of treating exposed tooth pulp are provided herein, including, e.g., methods of pulp capping comprising administering a combination of growth factor substance and pulp capping material to exposed pulp thereby inducing dentin formation and/or pulp revitalization.
US11890149B2
A medical dental grinding apparatus comprises an apparatus body, wherein an air pipeline, a clamping mechanism, and a grinding mechanism are provided in the apparatus body; the air pipeline includes an air inlet pipeline, an air outlet pipeline, and a U-shaped connection pipeline; a silencer is connected to an upper port of the air outlet pipeline; a plane where the air pipeline is located is perpendicular to a plane where the clamping mechanism is located, and the grinding mechanism is provided below the air pipeline; the grinding mechanism is driven by high-pressure air in the air pipeline to operate, so that a hidden danger of electric leakage caused by using an electric apparatus in a fragile oral environment is avoided; and a steel wire is fixed by the clamping mechanism, so that the grinding safety is ensured.
US11890147B2
Surgical retractors and methods thereof for retracting body tissue in a therapeutic procedure. The surgical retractor may include retractor blades have openings or channels configured to receive bone pins while maintaining accessibility and visibility of the operative window.
US11890136B2
Improved intraluminal imaging devices and methods of manufacturing the devices are provided. In an embodiment, an intraluminal imaging device can include a flexible elongate member configured to be positioned within a body lumen of a patient, the flexible elongate member comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion, an ultrasound scanner assembly coupled to and positioned distally of the distal portion of the flexible elongate member, the ultrasound scanner assembly comprising a plurality of electrical components disposed adjacent to a cavity of the ultrasound scanner assembly, and a coating extending over and directly contacting the distal portion of the flexible elongate member and a portion of the ultrasound scanner assembly to hermetically seal the cavity of the ultrasound scanner assembly. The coating provides a uniform barrier layer extending over a junction of two or more components having diverse cross-sectional profiles to prevent ingress of external fluids into the scanner assembly.
US11890132B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes transmitting a first set of ultrasound waves to determine whether there is fluid flow at a target area. The first set of ultrasound waves are transmitted at a first pulse repetition frequency. The method also includes determining whether there is fluid flow in a second area based on the first set of ultrasound waves. The second area is between the target area and an ultrasound probe. The method further includes transmitting a second set of ultrasound waves to detect fluid flow at the target area in response to determining that there is fluid flow in the second area between the target area and the ultrasound probe. The second set of ultrasound waves are directed towards the target area. The second set of ultrasound waves are transmitted at a second pulse repetition frequency.
US11890127B2
A device (10) for controlling an image acquisition of a multi-slice computed tomography system (1), MSCT, is disclosed. The device comprises an input (11) for receiving projection image data from the MSCT (1), an output (12) for controlling operation of the MSCT (1) and a processor (13). The processor (13) is adapted for controlling the MSCT to acquire a large volume localizer radiograph, and for defining an organ region in the localizer radiograph that delimits an organ of interest. The processor is adapted for acquiring a large volume helical CT scan of the subject, in which an X-ray cone angle is increased when the organ region in the subject is translated into the examination volume and decreased when the organ region is translated out of the examination volume.
US11890118B2
A patient support apparatus for concurrently transporting a patient and a medical device includes a base and an intermediate frame coupled to the base and further includes a support assembly coupled to the intermediate frame. The support assembly supports the medical device for concurrent movement with the patient support apparatus. The support assembly includes a track extending between first and second track ends with at least one curvilinear region defined therebetween and includes a carrier for selective movement between the ends. The support assembly also includes a mount coupled to the track and configured to support the medical advice. The support assembly further includes a retainer operatively attached to the carrier with the carrier operable between an engaged state to inhibit relative movement of the carrier along the track and a disengaged state to permit movement of the carrier along the track.
US11890117B2
Systems and methods for aiding users in viewing, assessing and analyzing images, especially images of lumens and medical devices contained within the lumens. Systems and methods for interacting with images of lumens and medical devices, for example through a graphical user interface.
US11890108B2
In embodiments, devices, methods and systems to analyze the different mediums of brain function in a mathematically uniform manner may be provided. These devices, methods and systems may manifest at several levels and ways relating to brain physiology, including neuronal activity, molecular chirality and frequency oscillations. For example, in an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for determining structure of living neural tissue may comprise receiving at least one signal from at least one read modality, the signal representing at least one physical condition of the living neural tissue, determining action potentials based on the signals received from the read modalities, determining frequency oscillations based on the signals received from the read modalities and the action potentials, and determining neuron network structures based on the signals received from the read modalities, the action potentials, and the frequency oscillations.
US11890105B1
A method of operation of a compute system includes: generating a skin segmentation including a non-skin region and a skin prediction based on a patient image; generating a body part segmentation based on the patient image; generating a cropped image based on the skin segmentation and the body part segmentation with the cropped image includes the non-skin region based on the skin prediction; generating a psoriasis segmentation based on the cropped image and the skin prediction; generating intermediate scores for erythema, induration, desquamation for the cropped image; and generating a full body PASI score based a psoriasis segmentation and the intermediate scores on the for displaying on a device to assist in diagnosis.
US11890098B2
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) including a support structure configured to be worn by an ambulatory patient, an energy storage module configured to store an electrical charge, a discharge circuit coupled to the energy storage module, electrodes configured to render an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of the patient while the patient is wearing the support structure, a user interface configured to output an alarm in response to a noise alarm signal, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the ECG signal, determine whether noise is present on the ECG signal, determine from the ECG signal whether a shock criterion is met, and cause the user interface to generate the noise alarm signal when the noise is present on the ECG signal and the shock criterion is met and not generate the noise alarm signal when noise is present on the ECG signal and the shock criterion is not met.
US11890093B2
A method and system of training a machine learning neural network (MLNN) in anatomical degenerative conditions in accordance with anatomical dynamics. The method comprises receiving, in a first input layer of the MLNN, from a millimeter wave (mmWave) radar sensing device, a first set of mmWave radar point cloud data representing a first gait characteristic of a subject in motion, comprising an arm swing velocity, receiving, in a second layer, a second set of mmWave radar point cloud data representing a second gait characteristic comprising a measure of dynamic postural stability, the input layers being interconnected with an output layer of the MLNN via an intermediate layer, and training a MLNN classifier in accordance with a classification that increases a correlation between a degenerative condition of the subject as generated at the output layer and the sets of mmWave point cloud data.
US11890091B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing whether a patient is accompanied by a caregiver and a device using the same, the method for providing whether the patient is accompanied by the caregiver being configured to be implemented by a processor and including receiving an outpatient clinic record from a user device, tokenizing each sentence of the outpatient clinic record as a unit of at least one token, encoding the tokenized outpatient clinic record as an integer, and determining whether a psychiatric symptom occurs for a patient related to the outpatient clinic record by inputting the encoded outpatient clinic record by using a determination model that uses the encoded outpatient clinic record as an input and uses whether the psychiatric symptom occurs as an output.
US11890089B1
A flowmeter has a disposable flow tube and a part of the shutter which are in direct contact with exhaled air and protect the rest of the device from potential contamination with harmful viruses.
US11890079B1
Noninvasive methods and apparatus for detecting blood volume imbalances in a mammalian subject are disclosed. The method includes obtaining baseline measurements of at least three physiological parameters from a subject wherein the parameters are selected from the group consisting of heart rate, electrical body impedance, skin temperature, perfusion index, peripheral blood flow and skin humidity. Measurements of electrical body impedance, skin temperature, perfusion index, peripheral blood flow and skin humidity are taken at one or more extremities of the subject such as the calf, ankle, forearm, thigh, fingers and toes. The physiological parameters for which baseline measurements were obtained are then monitored to detect changes from the baseline measurements that indicate blood volume imbalances. A preferred embodiment comprises computing a baseline blood volume index from the baseline value measurements of each parameter to be monitored and then carrying out the step of monitoring by obtaining real time (current) value measurements of these parameters which are inputted into an algorithm which computes a real time (current) blood volume index based upon the differences between the baseline and real time (current) value measurements.
US11890072B2
A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to change a length between a first axis and a second axis in a direction in which a shaft extends, the length serving as a control parameter, according to a rotation speed of the shaft with respect to an amount of operation to control operation of a surgical instrument.
US11890070B2
A medical instrument includes a backend and a pair of release elements. The backend includes a docking feature shaped to engage a docking structure such as a docking port of a surgical robot or a sterile adaptor for a surgical robot. Each release element is coupled to the backend and may include an activation feature on one side of the backend and a push tab extending from either an opposite side or the same side of the backend. Movement of the activation features moves the push tabs from being aligned with the docking feature to pushing on the docking structure, permitting the medical instrument to be disengaged from the docking structure. Optionally, a coupling of the release elements limits a movement of the activation features.
US11890065B2
Various robotic surgical systems are disclosed. A robotic surgical system comprises a first motor; a second motor; and a robotic surgical tool. The robotic surgical tool comprises: a first rotary driver configured to receive a first rotary motion from the first motor; a second rotary driver configured to receive a second rotary motion from the second motor; an output drive; and a shifter configured to selectively couple the first rotary driver and the second rotary driver to the output drive. The first rotary driver and the second rotary driver are configured to concurrently supply torque to the output drive in a high-torque operating state.
US11890052B2
Systems and methods for improved interferometric imaging are presented. One embodiment is a partial field frequency-domain interferometric imaging system in which a light beam is scanned in two directions across a sample and the light scattered from the object is collected using a spatially resolved detector. The light beam could illuminate a spot, a line or a two-dimensional area on the sample. Additional embodiments with applicability to partial field as well as other types of interferometric systems are also presented.
US11890044B2
The instant disclosure relates to electrophysiology catheters for tissue ablation. In particular, the instant disclosure relates to a cryogenic ablation balloon with safety features that facilitate identification of a leak into an interstitial space between inner and outer balloons as part of the ablation balloon catheter assembly, and prevents egress of cryogenic fluid out of the ablation balloon.
US11890043B2
A system for moving a portion of a patient's body including a housing having a first cavity extending along a longitudinal axis, a first distraction rod having a proximal end and a distal end, the first distraction rod and the housing being telescopically displaceable with respect to each other along the longitudinal axis, the first distraction rod having a cavity extending along the longitudinal axis, a second distraction rod having a proximal end and a distal end and configured to be telescopically displaceable from within the second cavity along the longitudinal axis, and a drive system configured to move the first distraction rod in relation to the housing and to move the second distraction rod in relation to the first distraction rod.
US11890041B2
A bone repair device includes a plate having a pathway and a flexible structure. The plate includes opposing top and bottom surfaces and a first side extending between the top and the bottom surfaces. The flexible structure is directly attached to and extends from the first side of the plate. In operation, the bone repair device is placed around and over a plurality of bone parts. The plate is secured to the plurality of bone parts with a cable inserted through the pathway and wrapped around the bone parts.
US11890039B1
A multi-diameter fixation pin, such as a K-wire can be used during an orthopedic procedure. The multi-diameter fixation pin may include a leading diameter sized for the specific orthopedic procedure being undertaken and/or the size of the bone into which the fixation pin is being inserted. The multi-diameter fixation pin may include a trailing diameter different than the leading diameter. The trailing diameter may be sized for use with a specific sized powered driver. For example, in orthopedic procedures that involve inserting larger diameter pins and smaller diameter pins into bone(s), all pins used in the procedure may have a trailing diameter (e.g., the larger diameter or the smaller diameter) that allows the pins to be inserted with the same powered driver (e.g., the same attachment head) without needing different sized drivers or attachment heads for different sized pins.
US11890037B2
A system to stabilize and guide the growth of the spinal column includes an elongated support member having a width and a length and a guiding connector having a bone connecting portion and a guiding portion. The bone connecting portion secures the guiding connector to a vertebrae and the guiding portion has a bearing element with a passageway adapted to receive the elongated support member. The bearing element permits relative sliding movement of the elongated support element in the passageway of the bearing element. The system may further include a bone fixation element has an elongated support member receiving channel, a locking mechanism and a bone anchoring portion. The bone anchoring portion secures the bone fixation element to bone. The locking mechanism secures the elongated support member in the channel. The guiding connector is moveable along the elongated support member to permit and control the growth of the spinal column along a predetermined path.
US11890031B2
A system and method used to deliver a percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) or other cardiac therapeutic device to a site within the heart, such as a site at the aortic valve. A flexible device is percutaneously introduced into a vasculature of a patient and positioned to run from a femoral vein, through the heart via a transseptal puncture, and to a femoral artery. The venous-side end of the flexible device is withdrawn out the venous vasculature superior to the heart, and a pVAD is secured to the flexible device. The pVAD is pushed in a distal direction while the arterial-side end of the flexible device is pulled in the proximal direction to advance the pVAD to the target site. A left ventricle redirector aids in orienting the pVAD and preventing migration of the flexible member towards delicate structures of the heart during advancement of the pVAD.
US11890030B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a shaft assembly, an end effector, and a clamp arm driver. The shaft assembly includes a shaft portion extending along a first longitudinal axis, an articulation assembly, a distal shaft portion, and an ultrasonic waveguide extending through the proximal shaft portion, the articulation assembly, and the distal shaft portion. The articulation section is configured to deflect the end effector toward and away from the first longitudinal axis between a straight and articulated configuration. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade defining a second longitudinal axis and a clamp arm configured to move between an open and closed configuration in order to grasp tissue. The clamp arm drive is configured to rotate the clamp arm relative to the ultrasonic blade about the second longitudinal axis and actuate the clamp arm between the open and closed configuration while the end effector is in the articulated configuration.
US11890029B2
A surgical stapling instrument having an elongate shaft assembly, an articulation joint, and an end effector pivotally coupled to the elongate shaft assembly about the articulation joint is disclosed. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw pivotally coupled to the first jaw. A replaceable staple cartridge assembly comprises a cartridge body having a deck with a first tissue-facing surface comprising a plurality of staple cavities defined therein and a second tissue-facing surface stepped relative to the first tissue-facing surface. The replaceable staple cartridge further comprises a sled with a cutting surface. The end effector further comprises a drive screw extending longitudinally therewithin and a bearing, wherein a distal end of the drive screw is received by the bearing.
US11890027B2
An endoscopic grasping device for use during an endoscopic procedure. The device includes at least a fork operably connected to a pair of jaws pivotally mounted about a pivot point to the fork. A pusher is disposed within the fork and operably connected to a drive wire and a pair of arms. Each arm is attached to a respective jaw and configured to move that jaw upon a movement of the pusher in a distal direction or proximal direction resulting in the pair of jaws being in a closed position and a open position. Each jaw includes a plurality of teeth extending therefrom and towards the opposite jaw. One or more of the teeth are backwards curved and angled in a proximal direction from the jaw to improve a grasping, cutting, and handling feature of the teeth.
US11890021B2
A surgical sagittal saw cartridge that includes a guide bar formed from an inner plate and opposed outer plates, the inner plate defining a head. The cartridge has a blade that is disposed against the head of the inner plate. The inner plate may comprise an inner tine and/or two opposed outer tines. The inner tine may be formed to define the head against which the blade is disposed. The outer tines may extend distally so as to define a space between the outer tines in which the blade is seated.
US11890019B2
System for inserting a self-expandable occluder into a patient and for releasing the occluder in the left atrial appendage of the patient, the system including an insertion unit which has a drive unit and an insertion catheter having an outer tube and an inner tube extending through the outer tube, wherein a proximal end region of the occluder is movement-coupled to the outer tube, and wherein a distal end region of the occluder is movement-coupled to the inner tube.
US11890017B2
Methods and medical apparatus for deployment within an anatomical blood vessel. The medical apparatuses comprising: a first tubular wall, a second tubular wall, within the first tubular wall, and a constricting element configured to constrict a circumference of a portion of the second tubular wall; the combination of the first tubular wall, the second tubular wall and the constricting element forms a diametrical reducer.
US11890008B2
A surgical instrument. The surgical instrument has an end effector and a trigger in communication with the end effector. The surgical instrument also has a first sensor and an externally accessible memory device in communication with the first sensor. The first sensor has an output that represents a first condition of either the trigger or the end effector. The memory device is configured to record the output of the first sensor. In various embodiments, memory device may include an output port and/or a removable storage medium.
US11889985B2
An endoscope including: a shaft; a main body arranged at a proximal end of the shaft; an eyepiece arranged at a proximal end of the main body; an eyepiece system tube, in which the eyepiece is arranged; an eyepiece cone arranged at a proximal end of the eyepiece, wherein the eyepiece cone comprises at least two parts; and an electronic component arranged between the at least two parts of the eyepiece cone; wherein the electronic component is connected to an electronic circuit arranged inside the endoscope and outside the eyepiece system tube.
US11889983B2
The invention refers to a housing sheath attachable to and detachable from an endoscope head body, which is provided on a distal side of an insertion portion of an endoscope. The housing sheath comprises: a sheath that is a hollow cylinder open at an attachment opening provided along a longitudinal direction of the hollow cylinder, and is provided with a tool opening cut out in a U-shape at a location facing the attachment opening; and an Albarran lever that is rotatably supported inside the sheath.
US11889980B2
An endoscope in which an erecting operation of a treatment tool erecting base can be smoothly performed during an operation of the endoscope is provided. An endoscope according to the present invention has an operation section 22 provided with an erecting operation lever 20 and angle knobs 64; an insertion section 24 that is provided on a distal end side of the operation section 22 and that has a bending part 52 that is moved to be bent by an operation of the angle knobs 64; an erecting base 30 provided at a distal end part 26 of the insertion section 24; and a movable member 96 that is arranged to be exposed to outside of the operation section 22 and that moves in association with an operation of the erecting operation lever 20. The endoscope includes a wire 60 that is coupled to the erecting base 30 at a distal end side thereof, that is coupled to the movable member 96 at a proximal end side thereof, and that is pushed/pulled in accordance with a movement of the movable member 96 to move the erecting base 30; and an attachment member 98 that is provided at a proximal end of the wire 60 and that is engaged with the movable member 96 in an attachable/detachable manner. The movable member 96 is arranged at a surface of the operation section 22 opposite to a surface of the operation section 22 at which the angle knobs 64 are arranged.
US11889978B2
An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image, wherein the intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The first, second, third, and fourth interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and is alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.
US11889976B2
A surgical device includes a plurality of cameras integrated therein. The view of each of the plurality of cameras can be integrated together. A surgical tool that includes an integrated camera may be used in conjunction with the surgical device. The image produced by the camera integrated with the surgical tool may be associated with the images generated by the plurality of cameras integrated in the surgical device. The position and orientation of the cameras and/or the surgical tool can be tracked, and the surgical tool can be rendered as at least partially transparent. A surgical device may be powered by a hydraulic system, thereby reducing electromagnetic interference with tracking devices.
US11889975B2
A method for performing a surgical procedure includes adjusting an encoding configuration of a video encoder in response to receiving an input associated with a change of state of a surgical system performing the surgical procedure, and encoding image data of the surgical procedure captured after the change of state based on the adjusted encoding configuration.
US11889964B2
A counter system (10) for transferring at least partially unpackaged foodstuffs, wherein the counter system (10) has a first region (11) assigned to the counter staff and a second region (12) segregated therefrom and assigned to the customer. The counter system (10) has a dishwasher (1) for cleaning items of washware (2). The dishwasher (1) has at least one treatment zone (3) and at least one conveyor apparatus (6) for conveying the items of washware (2) to be cleaned from an introduction region (4) of the dishwasher (1) through the treatment zone (3) of the dishwasher (1) to a removal region (5) of the dishwasher (1), wherein the introduction region (4) of the dishwasher (1) is accessible from the second region (12) of the counter system (10) and the removal region (5) of the dishwasher (1) is accessible from the first region (11) of the counter system (10).
US11889959B2
A shower curtain rod contains: multiple coupling posts and multiple rotatable connection assemblies. A respective one rotatable connection assembly includes: a first connector, a second connector, a flexible seat, and a fixing bolt. The first connector has a first locating portion and a first rotatable joining portion. The first rotatable joining portion has a through hole and multiple notches. The second connector has a second locating portion and a second rotatable joining portion. The second rotatable joining portion has two opposite tabs and an accommodation groove. The flexible seat is received in the accommodation groove and includes a sole plate and two side plates. A respective one side plate has a passing aperture, a positioning protrusion, and at least one elastic sheet. The fixing bolt is configured to rotatably connect the first rotatable joining portion in the trench between the two side plates.
US11889956B2
A hand dryer, suitable for anchoring to a wall, the hand dryer comprising a housing that is equipped inside with a pump configured to deliver air downward; an electronic unit configured to control the functioning of the dryer; an axial-flow pump oriented vertically inside the housing; a convergent nozzle configured for channeling and accelerating air, delivered by the axial-flow pump, from an upper air intake opening to a lower outlet opening, wherein said convergent nozzle is aligned coaxially and is in the vertical direction with the axial-flow pump; and at least one air outlet nozzle end mounted on the lower opening of the convergent nozzle, and which has a surface opposite the direction of the circulation of the air, equipped with at least one opening with a cross-section that narrows in the direction of the air outlet and that causes an additional acceleration of the air driven through the convergent nozzle to the outlet opening with a low noise level.
US11889950B2
Disclosed herein is a cooking system for cooking food, the system including a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive a food container. The housing has an upper portion defining an opening to the hollow chamber. A food container having a hollow container interior is positionable within the hollow chamber. An end of the food container extends above the upper portion of the housing when the container is installed within the hollow chamber. A lid is moveably attached to the housing and is moveable between a first position that covers the upper portion of the housing and the opening to the hollow chamber when the food container is installed within the hollow chamber and a second position where the lid does not cover the opening to the hollow chamber. At least one heating element is associated with at least one of said lid and said housing.
US11889946B2
The invention provides a heating device comprising a base structure comprising a fluid channel and a heating element, the heating element arranged in use to heat fluid within the fluid channel, the heating device further comprising a cooling means, arranged in use to cool the fluid channel.
US11889944B2
A coffee machine including a grinder configured to grind coffee beans, and a coffee machine devised to be able to bring an air volume for separating waste such as chaff as close as possible to a target air volume. A first grinder configured to grind coffee beans; a fan configured to generate a wind pressure by rotating to separate waste from the ground beans ground by the first grinder; a fan motor configured to cause the fan to rotate; and a control unit configured to control rotation of the fan motor according to a set value, and the control unit acquires information (the number of rotation pulses) related to a rotation speed of the actually rotating fan motor, corrects the set value based on the acquired information, and controls the rotation of the fan motor according to the corrected set value.
US11889931B2
A carrying device has a receptacle member for receiving a baby or infant and a holding harness system with a hip strap for fastening the receptacle member to a person. The receptacle member has a central part for support and which is connected to the hip strap at a first connection point. The central part from an upper region narrows in the direction toward the hip strap, and, in the upper region, a first and second widening elements are connected to the central part. The first widening element extends to a second connection point to the hip strap, the second connection point being able to be adapted by displacing the first widening element along the hip strap. The second widening element extends to a third connection point to the hip strap, the third connection point being able to be adapted by displacing the second widening element along the hip strap.
US11889927B2
There is provided an air mat device comprising a mat unit that has an air cell; an air supply and exhaust unit that supplies air to the air cell and exhausts the air from the air cell; and a control unit that acquires a state change quantity of the air cell or a time required for a state change of the air cell, as a control reference value, and that controls the air supply and exhaust unit in accordance with the control reference value. There is also provided an internal pressure control method of an air cell according to the above configuration.
US11889925B2
A bed system includes microclimate control capabilities for providing quality sleep experience. The bed system can include a microclimate control subsystem configured to supply conditioned air (e.g., heated or cooled air) to a mattress, or draw ambient air from the mattress, to achieve a desired temperature at the top of the mattress. Utilizing supply of conditioned air to provide air at desired temperature to the mattress system, or utilizing air suction to drain heat away from the mattress system, can provide precise microclimate control at the mattress, thereby permitting conformable sleep.
US11889924B2
The present disclosure provides a modular sectional sofa, including a bottom frame, a backrest frame and a cushion, wherein the inner side surface of the backrest frame is provided with a hook body, the hook body comprises a connection element, the lower surface of the connection element is provided with an inserting part, the upper surface of the bottom frame is provided with a hole or slot, when the inserting part is connected to the hole or slot, the backrest frame is connected with the bottom frame into a whole. A modular sectional sofa is further provided, including a bottom frame and a U-shaped connection element, wherein the U-shaped connection element connects two bottom frames through a left position limiting post and a right position limiting post. A modular sectional sofa is further provided, the side edge on the upper surface of the bottom frame is provided with four holes or slots, and the hook body on the inner side surface of the backrest frame are connected in any two holes or slots, and the backrest frame is connected with any side of the bottom frame. This reduces the size and the weight of sofa to improve the convenience of sofa handling. There are a variety of combinations. The present disclosure is strongly stable after assemble and convenient for people to use.
US11889919B2
A drawer pull-out guide includes a first guide rail and a second guide rail displaceably supported relative to one another. A supporting element is arranged on the first guide rail, and the supporting element is configured to be supported, at least temporarily, on the second guide rail. A position of the supporting element relative to the second guide rail can be adjusted by an adjustment device, and, after adjustment has been made, can be fixed relative to the first guide rail. The at least one supporting element can be adjusted in a height direction, seen in the mounted position of the drawer pull-out guide, by the adjustment device.
US11889910B2
The present disclosure relates to a decoration member comprising: a color expression layer comprising a light reflection layer and a light absorption layer provided on the light reflection layer; and a substrate provided on one surface of the color expression layer, in which the light absorption layer comprises a copper nickel oxide (CuaNibOx).
US11889909B2
A container with elastic screen has a container body with an opening therein for extracting the contents; an outer lid that seals the opening, detachably attachable to the container body; a screen made of elastic mesh material, disposed so as to cover the opening; and a mesh adjustment mechanism for adjusting a mesh size of the screen. The mesh adjustment mechanism includes a moving member and a fixed member. With a normal direction to the plane in which the screen is stretched as the vertical direction, the moving member has a portion that contacts in a ring shape the peripheral edge of the top surface of the screen and makes the portion movable in the vertical direction with respect to the opening. The fixed member is fixed to the opening while fixing a vertical position of the moving member.
US11889904B2
A discoloration resistant Gold alloy for jewelry characterized in that it comprises in weight: Gold, in the amount comprised between 755‰ and 770‰, Copper, in the amount comprised between 165‰ and 183‰, Silver, in the amount comprised between 28‰ and 50‰, Palladium, in the amount comprised between 19‰ and 23‰ and Iron, in the amount comprised between 2‰ and 6‰. and characterized by the absence of Vanadium.
US11889891B2
A shoe including a pliable layer conformably peelably adhered in generally matched engagement with the outsole periphery of the ground engageable surface of the outsole of the shoe.
US11889878B2
In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a wig grip is provided. The wig grip includes an elastomeric body having a hair contact side opposite a wig contact side and a first end opposite a second end. A plurality of hair attachment members disposed along the hair contact side of the elastomeric body. The hair attachment members are operable to attach to the hair of a user. A plurality of grip members is disposed along the wig contact side of the elastomeric body. The grip members are operable to engage and retain an underside of a wig. A fastener is operable to connect said first end of the elastomeric body to said second end of the elastomeric body.
US11889876B1
A secretive multipurpose carrying system includes an article with a front surface and a back surface; a pouch integral with article and accessible from the back surface; and gathers created by the front surface of the article, the gathers created by excess fabric and running adjacent to one another such that the presence of the pouch as well as effects stored in the pouch are concealed from view.
US11889855B2
A produce cutting apparatus is utilized, among other things, for making single cuts in an elongated produce product to trim ends, segment the product into variable length segments, make fixed length segments, and cutting out undesirable portions of the produce product. Using a combination of a feed belt, sensor, radial cutter apparatus and programmable controller, the apparatus precisely locates each cut. The cutting blade makes a single cut with each rotation of the radial cutter apparatus. The apparatus may further have a piece removal system and a product holding system.
US11889852B2
A Stevia extract made from leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant is described. The extract has desired levels of steviol glycosides and is useful in food, beverage, and other consumable products.
US11889837B2
A portable baking oven has an upper portion and a lower portion that define a baking chamber. A baking chamber opening may be defined entirely by the oven upper portion. The upper portion may pivot away from the lower portion to allow access to the interior of the oven for cleaning. The oven may include a gas-powered infrared bottom burner and a gas-powered curved back burner.
US11889836B1
A method of inhibiting mycotoxin growth in a site susceptible to mycotoxin contamination, comprising obtaining a Arthrospira platensis, reducing the Arthrospira platensis to nanoparticles, and dispensing the Arthrospira platensis nanoparticles to the site susceptible to mycotoxin growth. In an embodiment, the site vulnerable to mycotoxin contamination is an animal feed supply. In an embodiment, the site susceptible to mycotoxin contamination is wastewater. Use of the Arthrospira platensis nanoparticles efficiently inhibits or prevents mycotoxin contamination.
US11889834B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising new strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Burkholderia cenocepacia. Secreted fraction compositions produced by these bacterial strains, and the methods for producing these compositions are also provided. Herein, the inventors demonstrate that these bacterial strains and compositions may be used to inhibit the growth of a broad spectrum of plant pathogens.
US11889829B2
A liquid for cryopreserving a cell and a liquid for administration of a mammalian cell capable of cryopreserving a mammalian cell and effectively suppressing cell death after thawing, and a method for cryopreserving a mammalian cell using the cell cryopreservation liquid. The liquid is an isotonic solution that includes 2.0 to 6.0% (w/v) of trehalose or a derivative thereof, or a salt of the trehalose or the derivative, 4.0 to 7.0% (w/v) of dextran or a derivative thereof, or a salt of the dextran or the derivative, and DMSO or glycerin.
US11889827B1
A deer stand support device for supporting the floor of a deer stand device from below the floor by anchoring to a vertical support includes an anchoring member configured for positioning in an anchoring position in abutment with a vertical support such that a receiving member coupled to the anchoring member extends away from the vertical support and upward. A support strap secures the anchoring member to the vertical support in the anchoring position. An inserting member is telescopically received into the receiving member and lockable in each of a plurality of locking positions. A floor support member is coupled to the inserting member and is configured for securely clamping to a floor of a deer stand via a clamp.
US11889817B2
A delivery device includes a collar device for wearing on an animal, a dosing probe disposed on the collar device for delivering a substance therefrom, an actuator configured to deliver the substance from the dosing probe through an opening formed in the dosing probe, a controller in communication with the actuator and configured to control delivery of the substance from the dosing probe, and a sensor in communication with the controller and configured to sense that the collar device is touching fur or skin of the animal and the dosing probe is directed towards fur or skin of the animal.
US11889815B2
An electronic latching device having a solenoid, latch, locking piece, and a pivot arm. One end of the pivot arm is connected to the solenoid actuator and the other end is connected to the locking piece. Upon electronic activation, the solenoid actuator moves in a lateral direction, which causes the end of the pivot arm connected to the actuator to move in the same direction. This movement causes the pivot arm to pivot about the pivot point, resulting in the movement of the opposite end of the pivot arm to move in a second and opposite direction. This movement of the second end of the pivot arm in the second direction causes the locking piece to move in the same second direction, unlocking the device and allowing for the latch to freely move to an open position.
US11889812B2
The invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant comprising in its genome QTLs confering to the plant an improved phenotype corresponding to foliar and/or fruit tolerance and/or resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit virus, with respect to a corresponding plant devoid of said QTLs, and wherein said QTLs are chosen from those present in the genome of a plant of the seeds HAZTBRFVRES1 NCIMB accession number 42758. The QTL are preferably characterized by defined alleles of different SNPs on chromosome 6, 9 and 11. The invention is also directed to parts of these plants with improved phenotype, as well as progeny, to the use of these plants for introgressing the improved phenotype in another genetic background, as well as to different methods for obtaining tomato plants or seeds with increased foliar and/or fruit tolerance or resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit virus.
US11889809B2
A novel hybrid sweet corn plant, designated COACHMAN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid sweet corn designated COACHMAN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid sweet corn designated COACHMAN, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the hybrid sweet corn COACHMAN with itself or another sweet corn plant.
US11889806B2
Provided is a canola variety designated 19GS2321I and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 19GS2321I with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 19GS2321I through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed.
US11889805B2
New lettuce variety designated ‘Pensacola’ is described. ‘Pensacola’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11889802B2
An apparatus comprising: a first, a second, a third, and a fourth support post, each configured to be positioned vertically, and corresponding to the four vertices of a rectangle when viewed from above, first and a second trellis component configured to be positioned horizontally at an upper position, and a third trellis component configured to be positioned horizontally at a lower position. The apparatus also includes a plant support comprising a string-type component configured to be connected to the third trellis component and the first and second trellis components, giving the plant support a “V” shaped appearance is disclosed herein. Corresponding systems and methods also are disclosed.
US11889798B2
A modular grow lighting assembly provides a structure for integrating grow light strips into channels defined in vertical and horizontal structural supports. Levels of support structure can be added above previously installed levels as needed. A cable management system is also provided.
US11889797B2
A controlled growth system is provided herein. The controlled growth system includes a controlled growth environment, a controller, a sensor, and a computing system. The controlled growth environment is configured to grow a biologic. The controller is in communication with the controlled growth environment. The controller is configured to manage process parameters of the controlled growth environment. The sensor is configured to monitor the biologic during a growth process. The computing system is in communication with the sensor and the controller. The computing system is programmed to perform operations for achieving a desired final quality metric for the biologic.
US11889794B2
A handheld blower including a housing, an air duct defining a duct axis, the air duct including an air inlet and an air outlet opposite the air inlet, and a handle. The handle at least partially defining a battery receiving cavity configured to receive at least a portion of a battery pack therein, where the handle defines a grip axis, and where the grip axis is parallel to the duct axis.
US11889791B2
A device for leveling a surface; the device includes a shaft, a handle-means and a head-assembly. The shaft is selectively retractable, and the head-assembly is foldable to enable compact storage. The device is for personal use by a user in leveling a surface; for example, a sand bunker/sand trap on a golf course. In some versions, the device further includes an attachment-means for attaching the device to a bag.
US11895910B2
Provided is an organic compound represented by the following general formula [1], the compound having an absorption peak in a long wavelength region: where Ar1 and Ar2 each represent an aryl group having 6 or more and 18 or less carbon atoms or the like, R1 and R2 each represent an alkyl group or the like, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, Y1 to Y3 are each independently selected from a methine group and a nitrogen atom, R4 represents a substituent represented by the general formula [1-1] or the like, and R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
US11895907B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer; and at least one condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, at least one selected from R1 to R15 is a group represented by Formula 2:
US11895906B2
A method for producing a perovskite material photovoltaic device, the method comprising: depositing a layer comprising a fullerene or fullerene derivative on a perovskite material; depositing a cross-linking agent on the perovskite material or the layer comprising the fullerene or fullerene derivative, wherein the cross-linking agent comprises a silane, wherein the silane is a halosilyalkane; and depositing one or more polymers on the perovskite material or the layer comprising the fullerene or fullerene derivative.
US11895903B2
A method of forming a perovskite thin film and a light-emitting device including a layer manufactured by the method.
US11895901B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a light emitting region disposed on the substrate, a packaging layer covering the light emitting region, and a protective component. The substrate includes a folded region in a first direction and a non-folded region in a second direction, and the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. The protective component is disposed in the folded region in the first direction and the unfolded region in the second direction. The protective component reduces cracking at a packaging layer and improves bending durability of the organic light emitting diode display device.
US11895891B2
A display device includes a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include a first subpixel including a first light-emitting layer, and a first subpixel circuit, a second subpixel including a second light-emitting layer, and a second subpixel circuit, a third subpixel including a third light-emitting layer, and a third subpixel circuit, and a fourth subpixel including a fourth light-emitting layer, and a fourth subpixel circuit. An area of an opening exposing a first electrode in the first subpixel is larger than an area of the opening exposing the first electrode in each of the second subpixel, the third subpixel, and the fourth subpixel. A plurality of light emission control lines include a first light emission control line connected to the first subpixel circuit and the third subpixel circuit, and a second emission control line connected to the second subpixel circuit and the fourth subpixel circuit.
US11895880B2
A display device includes: a base layer including a first surface, and a second surface; a plurality of pixels on the first surface; and a plurality of first lines on the first surface. The base layer includes: a first base layer; an etch stop layer on the first base layer; a plurality of second lines on the etch stop layer; and a second base layer on the etch stop layer and the second lines. The first base layer, the etch stop layer, the second lines, and the second base layer are sequentially stacked, and the first lines are electrically connected to the second lines through first contact holes.
US11895879B2
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a plurality of display units. The display unit includes a display area and a transparent area. The display area includes a plurality of sub-pixels. In a direction perpendicular to the display substrate, the sub-pixel includes a first metal layer, a semiconductor layer, a second metal layer and a third metal layer which are arranged on a substrate. The first metal layer includes a first plate, the semiconductor layer includes a second plate, the second metal layer includes a first scanning line and a second scanning line, and the third metal layer includes a third plate, a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a compensation line and a data line.
US11895875B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a curved portion and a flat portion; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a first organic light emitting diode disposed on the insulating layer and having a first projection; and a second organic light emitting diode having a second projection, wherein a light emission portion is disposed in the curved portion and the flat portion, the first projection overlaps the light emission portion disposed in the curved portion and is asymmetric in the light emission portion, and the second projection overlaps the light emission portion in the flat portion and is symmetric in the light emission portion.
US11895873B2
A display panel, a display screen, and an electronic device are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of auxiliary areas at least provided on adjoining two sides outside a display area. The auxiliary areas each include a positioning sub-area and a non-positioning sub-area. The positioning sub-area includes a geometric center, and the positioning sub-area has light transmittance opposite to that of a corresponding non-positioning area.
US11895868B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display may include: an OLED configured to emit light of wavelength λ; an encapsulation layer encapsulating the OLED, the encapsulation layer including: a first inorganic layer disposed on the OLED, the first inorganic layer including: one or more first layers having a first refractive index (n1) and a first thickness substantially equal to λ/(4*n1); and one or more second layers having a second refractive index (n2) and a second thickness substantially equal to λ/(4*n2), wherein the second refractive index is smaller than the first refractive index, and wherein the one or more first layers and the one or more second layers are alternatingly stacked on one another.
US11895866B2
A light emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic layer formed on the first electrode and including a luminescent layer composed of an organic luminescent material and a second electrode formed on the organic layer, and further includes a light reflecting layer provided below the first electrode. Light emitted in the luminescent layer is resonated between the light reflecting layer and an interface of the second electrode and the organic layer, and a portion of the light is output from the second electrode.
US11895865B2
A light emitting photonic crystal having an organic light emitting diode and methods of making the same are disclosed. An organic light emitting diode disposed within a photonic structure having a band-gap, or stop-band, allows the photonic structure to emit light at wavelengths occurring at the edges of the band-gap. Photonic crystal structures that provide this function may include materials having a refractive index that varies.
US11895858B2
A display device includes: light-emitting regions different in luminescent colors and including luminescent layers separated for each of the luminescent colors; a low-threshold layer lower in threshold voltage than any one of the luminescent layers included in a pair of different-color light-emitting regions included in the light-emitting regions, different in the luminescent colors, and adjacent to each other; a continuous layer under the luminescent layers and the low-threshold layer, including first areas and a second area continuously, the first areas being in contact with the respective light-emitting regions, the second area being in contact with the low-threshold layer; pixel electrodes under the continuous layer, overlapping with the respective light-emitting regions; and a counter electrode over the luminescent layers and the low-threshold layer, being opposed to the pixel electrodes. The low-threshold layer is between the pair of different-color light-emitting regions.
US11895855B2
A light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first charge transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the emission layer, wherein a band gap energy of the emission layer and a band gap energy of the first charge transport layer are different from each other, the emission layer comprises a first perovskite compound, and the first charge transport layer consists of a second perovskite compound.
US11895850B2
A variable resistance memory device includes memory cell structures on a substrate and spaced apart from each other in first and second directions, the first and second directions being parallel to a top surface of the substrate and intersecting each other, and a dummy cell structure surrounding each of the memory cell structures, as viewed in a plan view, the dummy cell structure being a single body structure extending continuously between all the memory cell structures, wherein each of the memory cell structures includes first conductive line on and intersecting second conductive lines, and memory cells between the first and second conductive lines, and wherein the dummy cell structure includes first dummy conductive lines on and intersecting second dummy conductive lines, and dummy memory cells between the first and second dummy conductive lines.
US11895849B2
A memory device and method of forming the same are provided. The memory device includes a first memory cell disposed over a substrate. The first memory cell includes a transistor and a data storage structure coupled to the transistor. The transistor includes a gate pillar structure, a channel layer laterally wrapping around the gate pillar structure, a source electrode surrounding the channel layer, and a drain electrode surrounding the channel layer. The drain electrode is separated from the source electrode a dielectric layer therebetween. The data storage structure includes a data storage layer surrounding the channel layer and sandwiched between a first electrode and a second electrode. The drain electrode of the transistor and the first electrode of the data storage structure share a common conductive layer.
US11895827B2
A vertical-type nonvolatile memory device has a multi-stack structure with reduced susceptibility to mis-alignment of a vertical channel layer. This nonvolatile memory device includes: (i) a main chip area including a cell area and an extension area arranged to have a stepped structure, with the cell area and the extension area formed in a multi-stack structure, and (ii) an outer chip area, which surrounds the main chip area and includes a step key therein. The main chip area includes a first layer on a substrate and a second layer on the first layer. A lower vertical channel layer is arranged in the first layer. The step key includes an alignment vertical channel layer, and a top surface of the alignment vertical channel layer is lower than a top surface of the lower vertical channel layer.
US11895823B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor device includes an active region, a bit line, a capacitor contact, a conductive ring and a storage capacitor. The active region is formed in a substrate. The bit line and the capacitor contact are disposed over the substrate and electrically connected with the active region. The bit line is laterally separated from the capacitor contact, and a top surface of the bit line is lower than a top surface of the capacitor contact. An upper portion of the capacitor contact is surrounded by the conductive ring. The storage capacitor is disposed over and in electrical contact with the capacitor contact and the conductive ring.
US11895821B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate; forming on an upper surface of the substrate first patterns each including a first main body and a first flank wall covering a sidewall of the first main body; forming a filling layer which covers the first flank wall and fills a gap between adjacent first patterns; and etching a top of each of the first patterns to obtain second main bodies, second flank walls and protrusions located on upper surfaces of the second flank walls, the second flank wall covering a sidewall of the second main body, and a top of the protrusion being at least higher than a top of the second main body.
US11895820B2
The present application provides a method of manufacturing a memory device having a word line (WL) with improved adhesion between a work function member and a conductive layer. The method includes steps of providing a semiconductor substrate defined with an active area and including an isolation structure surrounding the active area; forming a recess extending into the semiconductor substrate and across the active area; forming a first insulating layer conformal to the recess; disposing a first conductive material conformal to the first insulating layer; forming a conductive member surrounded by the first conductive material; disposing a second conductive material over the conductive member and removing a portion of the first conductive material above the second conductive material to form a conductive layer enclosing the conductive member; and forming a second insulating layer over the conductive layer and conformal to the first insulating layer.
US11895815B2
Cables, cable connectors, and support structures for cantilever package and/or cable attachment may be fabricated using additive processes, such as a coldspray technique, for integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, cable connectors may be additively fabricated directly on an electronic substrate. In another embodiment, seam lines of cables and/or between cables and cable connectors may be additively fused. In a further embodiment, integrated circuit assembly attachment and/or cable attachment support structures may be additively formed on an integrated circuit assembly.
US11895809B2
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a sensor string is associated with a first fluid line having a first flow controller and with a second fluid line having a second flow controller, so that sections of such a sensor string are enabled to maintain electrical connectivity there through by a mechanical coupling of a first flow controller and a second flow controller.
US11895802B2
A computational heat dissipation structure includes a circuit board including a plurality of heating components; and a radiator provided corresponding to the circuit board; wherein a space between the adjacent heating components is negatively correlated with heat dissipation efficiency of a region where the adjacent heating components are located. Since the space between the adjacent heating components of the disclosure is negatively correlated with the heat dissipation efficiency of the region where the adjacent heating components are located, i.e., the higher the heat dissipation efficiency of the region where the adjacent heating components are located is, the smaller the space between the adjacent heating components in the region will be, the heat dissipation efficiencies corresponding to the heating components are balanced, and load of a fan is reduced.
US11895794B2
A state detection apparatus and method for a folding screen and a folding screen apparatus. The state detection apparatus includes: at least one connection assembly, including a first component and a second component, the first component and the second component being electrically conductively coupled or decoupled correspondingly according to a motion state of the folding screen; and a detection assembly electrically coupled to the connection assembly, and configured to detect a state of electrical conduction connection or disconnection between the first component and the second component and determine a state of the folding screen according to the state of electrical conduction connection or disconnection between the first component and the second component.
US11895793B2
An image pickup unit includes: a printed wiring board provided with an image pickup element and having a first electrode on a surface layer; a flexible wiring substrate having a base member having first and second faces, a conductive layer provided on the first face, and an insulating layer provided on the conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer has a second electrode in which the insulating layer is not provided to one longitudinal end part; a conductive connection member that connects the first electrode to the second electrode; and a reinforcement member provided on the base member on the second face side, wherein the reinforcement member continuously covers an end part of the insulating layer on a side closer to the second electrode and an end part of the conductive connection member on a side closer to the insulating layer of a portion connected to the second electrode.
US11895781B1
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device with a miniaturized impedance sensor. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include a substrate with locally non-flexible regions interconnected by a flexible material and a miniaturized impedance sensor disposed on the substrate. The miniaturized impedance sensor may include: an array of electrical contacts; an array of miniaturized electrodes disposed on the array of electrical contacts; and an interstitial filler disposed within the array of miniaturized electrodes. The locally non-flexible regions may correspond to subsets of the array of miniaturized electrodes. The locally non-flexible regions may retain shape as the flexible material changes shape.
US11895771B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer; a via pad including a first layer embedded in the first insulating layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer; and a first via layer disposed on the via pad, wherein the second layer has a width decreasing in a direction away from the first layer in a stacking direction of the first and second layers.
US11895769B2
A module according to the present disclosure includes a circuit board, an electronic component on one of two principal surfaces of the circuit board, a connection conductor on the principal surface of the circuit board, and sealing resin on the principal surface of the circuit board. The electronic component and the connection conductor are covered with the sealing resin. The connection conductor includes a plate-shaped conductor and terminal sections. The plate-shaped conductor is disposed upright on the principal surface of the circuit board. The terminal sections extend from the plate-shaped conductor and away from the principal surface of the circuit board and are arranged side by side. Tip portions of the terminal sections are exposed at a surface of the sealing resin.
US11895767B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device including a stacked circuit board. The electronic device comprises: a first circuit board; a second circuit board; one or more circuit elements disposed on the second circuit board; and a connecting member disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board facing the first circuit board to form an internal space surrounding at least some of the one or more circuit elements, and to electrically connect the first and second circuit boards, wherein the internal space may be filled with a phase change material (PCM) that absorbs heat generated by the at least some circuit elements to change the state of the material. Various other embodiments of the present invention may be additionally provided.
US11895761B2
A cooking apparatus of the disclosure includes a heat source configured to provide heat into a cooking chamber. The cooking apparatus also includes a communication interface configured to receive recipe data including first output information of a reference cooking apparatus from a server. The cooking apparatus further includes a memory configured to store second output information of the cooking apparatus. Additionally, the cooking apparatus includes a processor configured to change an operation setting of the heat source included in the recipe data based on a difference between the first output information and the second output information.
US11895756B2
A method of initiating power-on of a light driver for driving a light source, the method including retrieving a stored load voltage of the light driver from a memory, determining a turn-on delay based on the stored load voltage, stalling power-on of the light driver for a period of time equal to the turn-on delay, initiating startup of the light driver based on the stored load voltage, determining whether current is flowing to the light source, in response to determining that current is flowing to the light source, measuring a load voltage of the light driver, and storing the load voltage in the memory.
US11895754B1
Systems and apparatuses for dual-mode pressure-sensing and illumination mats are provided. The systems include a surface that includes a plurality of row wires and a plurality of column wires forming intersection points. At the intersection points, the systems include a pressure sensor configured to sense a pressure exerted upon the surface and a light emitting diode (LED) connected in parallel. The systems include a controller coupled to the selector and configured to control operation of the surface, wherein the controller is configured to operate in one of a pressure-sensing mode or an illumination mode. When the controller is configured to operate in the pressure-sensing mode, the controller scans pressure values provided by the pressure sensors. When the controller is configured to operate in the illumination mode, the controller configures the surface to enable the LEDs in accordance with an illumination pattern.
US11895749B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) drive method, an LED drive circuit, and an LED lighting device are provided. The method includes: setting preset values of a maximum on-time parameter and a current limit parameter, where the preset values are in at least two sets; selecting a set of the preset values of the maximum on-time parameter and the current limit parameter after a value of a voltage signal on a direct current (DC) bus is detected; controlling a drive current flowing through an LED load based on a selected maximum on-time parameter and a selected current limit parameter. The maximum on-time parameter and the current limit parameter of the system can be adaptively adjusted according to an input voltage, so that the system can have a preferred dimming schedule and dimming depth while realizing a constant current in a wider input voltage range.
US11895746B2
A device, system, and method protect circuits of a lighting device. The lighting device includes a current source generating a current and a first load and a second load receiving the current. The lighting device includes an inductor positioned between the current source and the first and second loads that balances the current powering the first and second loads. The lighting device includes a detector monitoring a voltage peak of the first 5 and second loads. The lighting device includes a voltage controller receiving a reading of the voltage peak from the detector and determining when the voltage peak is at least a voltage peak threshold. The voltage controller is configured to adjust a setting for the current generated by the current source based on the reading of the voltage peak.
US11895745B2
A power supply may provide a constant source of DC power through a first inductor-capacitor network, across a two-line conductor, and through a second inductor-capacitor network to a remote load. A modulator at the supply may modulate a carrier frequency with an information signal containing control data and may pass a modulated signal to the load via the conductor with the DC power. At the load, a demodulator may extract the control data, and operation of the load, such as a bank of LEDs subjected to dimming, may be modified based on the control data. The inductor-capacitor networks enable decoupling of the DC power and data for simple and low-cost implementations at comparatively low frequencies. In examples, the carrier frequency is at least 10 times the rate of the information signal yet below typical communication frequencies such as 525 KHz.
US11895744B2
An electrical tubular heating element is disclosed with a tubular metal sheath, in whose interior an electrical heating element is arranged, which is formed from a resistive wire and is electrically insulated from the tubular metal sheath at least in sections by an electrically insulating material, in which the resistive wire, from which the electrical heating element is formed, is penetrated by at least one opening and/or has a contoured peripheral surface. A method for manufacturing such an electrical tubular heating element is also disclosed.
US11895743B2
An electrical heating element for an electrical heating device is provided, wherein the electrical heating element is made from a coiled resistive wire with flat ribbon geometry and one or two connector assemblies, wherein the resistive wire with flat ribbon geometry is coiled into coils with an inner diameter, an outer diameter, and a distance between adjacent coils such that the flat side of the resistive wire with flat ribbon geometry runs parallel to the coil axis, and wherein the connector assemblies have at least one connection element that is in surface-area contact with a section of the resistive wire with flat ribbon geometry. In addition, an electrical heating device with such an electrical heating element and a method for manufacturing such an electrical heating device are also provided.
US11895726B2
A base station central unit control plane (CU-CP) receives, from a base station distributed unit (DU), an indication of completion of a small data transmission (SDT) procedure of a wireless device. The base station CU-CP sends, to the wireless device via the base station DU, a radio resource control (RRC) release message based on the indication of the completion.
US11895723B2
Method, apparatus, and system for reestablishing radio communication links due to radio link failure
One feature pertains to a method that includes establishing a radio communication connection with a first radio access node (RAN) that uses control plane signaling connections to carry user plane data. The method also includes determining that the wireless communication device is experiencing radio link failure (RLF) with the first RAN and that the radio communication connection should be reestablished with a second RAN. A reestablishment request message is transmitted to the second RAN that includes parameters that enable a core network node communicatively coupled to the second RAN to authenticate the wireless communication device and allow or reject reestablishment of the radio communication connection. The parameters include at least a message authentication code (MAC) based in part on one or more bits of a non-access stratum (NAS) COUNT value maintained at the wireless communication device.
US11895719B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein modify the utilized communication protocol of one or more wireless base stations and/or UE devices based on signal quality information or data rate information associated with one or more UE devices. The signal quality information or data rate information of the UE devices can be analyzed by a base station and the base station can respond to changes in signal quality or data rate of the UE devices by modifying the configuration of one or more base stations and/or UE devices from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol quality of transmissions between the UE devices and a base station.
US11895717B2
A session management function (SMF) receives, from a wireless device, a first message requesting establishment of a PDU session for a network slice associated with a service of a communication service provider (CSP). The first message comprises a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) of the network slice and a CSP identifier (ID). The SMF sends, to the wireless device, a second message accepting the establishment of the PDU session for the network slice associated with the service of the CSP.
US11895711B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising: a step for receiving group common DCI including slot format information and channel occupancy duration information; a step for determining slot formats for one or more slots on the basis of the slot format information and the channel occupancy duration information; and a step for performing communication on the basis of the determined slot formats for the one or more slots.
US11895706B2
A method of operating a communications device for transmitting user plane data to a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by a cell of the wireless communications network when the communications device is not in an active radio resource connected mode is provided. The method comprises transmitting the user plane data using one of a preconfigured set of uplink radio resources of the wireless access interface and a scheduled random access procedure message, and monitoring a preconfigured set of downlink radio resources of the wireless access interface for a downlink signal, the preconfigured set of downlink radio resources being provided in response to the transmitted user plane data.
US11895705B2
The embodiments of the present application relate to a communication method, a terminal deice, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device acquires a target physical random access channel (PRACH) resource set, the target PRACH resource set comprising at least one resource set between a first PRACH resource set and a second PRACH resource set, the first PRACH resource set and the second PRACH resource set being different by at least one resource; and the terminal device determines a target PRACH resource in the target PRACH resource set, the target PRACH resource being used for PRACH transmission in a random access process. The communication method, the terminal device, and the network device of the embodiments of the present application allow the terminal device to access a network via an NR-U carrier.
US11895700B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select, within a resource selection window, a set of resources in which to transmit over an unlicensed sidelink channel. The UE may attempt a listen before talk (LBT) procedure to initiate a channel occupancy time in which to transmit over the unlicensed sidelink channel. The UE may adjust, within at least a portion of the resource selection window, the set of resources in which to transmit over the unlicensed sidelink channel to be contiguous in at least a time domain based at least in part on the LBT procedure succeeding. The UE may transmit, over the unlicensed sidelink channel, using the set of resources that are adjusted to be contiguous in at least the time domain. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11895698B2
Disclosed are wireless communication system base stations. Each wireless communication base station comprises a communication module and a processor. When the base stations carry out DRS- and nonunicast data-multiplexed transmission, the processors select one channel access type among two channel access types according to whether both of two conditions are satisfied, the two conditions being that the duration of the DRS- and nonunicast data-multiplexed transmission is 1 ms or less, and the duty cycle of DRS transmission is 1/20 or less. Among the two channel access types, the first type is channel access in which random backoff is carried out using a variable-size contention window (CW), the size of the CW being determined according to channel access priority class; and the second type is channel access in which only single time interval-based LBT is carried out.
US11895689B2
An electronic device may receive, from a radio node, a measurement configuration associated with a wireless communication system. In response, the electronic device may perform measurements using narrow beam patterns based at least in part on a network configuration, where the narrow beam patterns are narrower than a wide beam pattern of the electronic device. Furthermore, performing the measurements using the narrow beams pattern may include performing a beam-pattern search up to the network configuration. Then, the electronic device may perform an SCell activation procedure of an SCell with the radio node. Note that the SCell activation procedure may include reporting, to the radio node, CSI of a narrow beam pattern of the SCell that is to be activated, where the narrow beam pattern is narrower than the wide beam pattern of the electronic device, and the narrow beam pattern is based at least in part on the measurements.
US11895688B2
A method is provided including determining a strength of a channel to each of a plurality of user equipments in a wireless multi-user network; scheduling first downlink resources for transmitting first downlink messages to a first group of the user equipments including the user equipments having the strongest channels; and scheduling second resources for transmitting second downlink messages to a second group of the remaining user equipments using a combination of broadcasting and cooperative relaying.
US11895677B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless networks may maintain up-to-date location information for the UE by periodically determining the location the UE using a low power transponding mechanism while the UE is in an inactive state. The UE may monitor a first beam to receive one or more transponder search signals during one or more transponder occasions, and between paging attempts from one or more of the base stations of the network. The UE may receive the one or more transponder search signals, and may transmit a transponder response message to a base station including a UE identifier associated with the inactive state. The base station may receive the transponder response message, and may conduct various location measurements for the UE using the transponder response.
US11895675B2
Systems and methods for assigning voice communication channels used by a crew of employees using communication devices are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store information, wherein the information represents associations of individual voice communication channels with one or more communication groups; receive user input that identifies employees, automatically determine sets of communication channel assignments per communication device, between communication channels and subsets of communication groups; configure communication devices according to the determined assignments; and facilitate packet-based communication, using the communication channels, between the communication devices.
US11895672B2
A wireless device may receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for a physical downlink channel. The wireless device may receive a signal. The physical downlink channel may start from the starting symbol plus an offset value.
US11895666B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a grant for a communication with the base station. The UE may determine whether the communication is associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-based transmission mode or a HARQ-less transmission mode. The UE may communicate with the base station based at least in part on the grant and the determination of whether the communication is associated with the HARQ-based transmission mode or the HARQ-less transmission mode. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11895664B2
Methods, computer programs products, and apparatuses for RS availability indication are provided. An example method at a UE may include receiving, from a base station, a PEI comprising a first availability indication for a first set of RS resources in one or more RS occasions. The example method may further include receiving, from the base station, a paging PDCCH comprising a second availability indication for a second set of RS resources in the one or more RS occasions. The example method may further include receiving, from the base station, at least one of the first set of RS resources or the second set of RS resources.
US11895663B2
Methods and apparatus for wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) power control are described. A method includes receiving a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) list configuration including entries, each including a resource allocation that includes a slot offset value. L1 signaling is received indicating a minimum slot offset value. Downlink control information (DCI) is decoded on a physical downlink control channel in a slot. An index is obtained from the decoded DCI, identifying an entry in the TDRA list. A particular slot offset value identified by the index is retrieved from the TDRA list and compared with the minimum slot offset value. If the particular slot offset value is less than the minimum slot offset value, the entry is invalid. If the particular slot offset value is greater than or equal to the minimum slot offset value, a physical downlink shared channel is received.
US11895655B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to reverse link operations in sidelink communications are provided. A first user equipment (UE) receive, from a second UE, sidelink resource pool information. The first UE may select, based on the sidelink resource pool information, a first resource from a set of resources in a sidelink resource pool, and transmit, to the second UE based on the sidelink resource pool information, a first sidelink transmission using the first resource.
US11895630B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for identifying downlink transmissions. The method can be applied to a base station and can include configuring indication information used for identifying the downlink transmissions, and sending the indication information to a terminal to enable the terminal to identify the downlink transmission according to the indication information.
US11895623B2
In one aspect, resource selection may be performed where single frequency full-duplex (SFFD) UEs are present in a V2X system. Signaling and procedures may enable the coexistence of half-duplex (HD) and SFFD-capable UEs. Based on the resource reservation information obtained from other UEs, the SFFD UE may determine which among the reserved time-frequency resources is amenable for performing the SFFD operation. In one aspect, the time-frequency resources chosen for SFFD may partially or fully overlap with the reserved time-frequency resources, based on the self-interference cancellation capability of the SFFD UE, the RSRP, and/or the RSSI on the reserved time-frequency resources. Accordingly, the full-duplex capability of an SFFD-capable UE may be leveraged, and spectral efficiency improved.
US11895622B2
A user apparatus in a mobile communication system includes an allocation means that divides a message that includes control information and data into a plurality of partial messages, and allocates resources included in one or more resource pools to the plurality of partial messages; and a transmission means that transmits the plurality of partial messages using the resources allocated by the allocation means.
US11895620B2
Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with a gNB-CU and a gNB-DU. A first paging message for paging of the UE may be received at the gNB-CU from an access management function (AMF) entity. The first paging message may include: a paging identity of the UE; and a paging origin information element (IE) that indicates whether the paging of the UE is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session from non-3GPP access. A second paging message to page the UE may be transmitted from the gNB-DU to the UE. The second paging message may include: the paging identity of the UE; and an access type parameter that indicates whether the paging of the UE is originated due to the PDU session from the non-3GPP access.
US11895616B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a housing; a touchscreen display viewed through a part of the housing; at least one communication module located inside the housing; a processor located inside the housing and operationally connected to the display and the at least one communication module; and a memory located inside the housing and operationally connected to the processor, wherein the memory is provided to store a location measurement map, and can store instructions allowing, when executed, the processor to check the location of the electronic device by using the communication module, determine a block corresponding to the location of the electronic device on the location measurement map on the basis of at least a portion of the checked location of the electronic device, determine the location measurement method on the basis of at least a portion of priority information about a position source for the determined block and position source information about the electronic device, and measure the final location of the electronic device by means of the determined location measurement method by using the communication module. Other embodiments are possible.
US11895607B2
Individual clock adjustments between electronic devices are typically based around a round-trip time (RTT) measurement of the reference message between initiating and the receiving devices. With increasing expectations of clock synchronization accuracy, as well as widespread use of wireless data networks, the presently disclosed technology provides a dedicated clock synchronization network that yields a fixed delay between hops and within associated devices of a dedicated clock synchronization network. By accounting for the known delays between hops and within associated devices of the dedicated clock synchronization network, better clock synchronization accuracy can be achieved than prior art techniques that estimate latency based on an RTT measurement.
US11895600B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides user equipment (UE). The UE comprises: a transceiver to transmit a signal and to receive a signal; and a processor to control the transceiver, wherein the UE is a power class 2 UE or power class 3, wherein the processor determines transmission power based on MPR (maximum power reduction), wherein the transceiver transmits a signal with the transmission power in FR2-2, wherein the MPR is configured, based on channel bandwidth, RB (resource block) allocation and modulation type.
US11895599B2
Methods inform an eNodeB on the transmit power status of a user equipment in a mobile communication system using component carrier (CC) aggregation. Also described is an implementation of these methods by hardware and in software. The invention proposes procedures that allow the eNodeB to recognize the power usage status of a UE in a communication system using carrier aggregation. The UE indicates to the eNodeB when the UE is close to using its total maximum UE transmit power or when it has exceeded the same. This is achieved by the UE including indicator(s) and/or new MAC CEs to one or more protocol data units transmitted on respective component carriers within a single sub-frame that is providing the eNodeB with power status information. The MAC CEs may report a per-UE power headroom. Alternatively, the MAC CEs may report per-CC power headrooms and/or power reductions applied to the respective uplink CCs.
US11895598B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters. The configuration parameters are for a first antenna group for a cell. The configuration parameters are for a second antenna group for the cell. The wireless device triggers a power headroom report in response to activating the first antenna group. The wireless device transmits the first power headroom report.
US11895579B2
A system and method for automatic offload in multi SIM devices. The system comprises a learning module [108] to learn the SIM slot ID of the inserted desired operator, the structure alignment and field information, wherein feedback of the learnt information is provided to the network server [114]. A method selection module [110] analyzes the structure alignment and field information for mapping unique connection methods to different devices. A WiFi configuration and connection module [112] uses appropriate WiFi configuration and attempts connection to desired Service Providers enterprise Wi-Fi AP using the determined connection method.
US11895575B2
A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
US11895574B2
A method for receiving system information that is applied to a terminal includes: sending a system information request message to a first access network device, the system information request message carrying an identification of a neighbor cell and an identification of a system information block (SIB) X, where X is an integer greater than 1; and receiving other system information (Other SI) broadcasted by a second access network device. The Other SI carries the SIB X. The first access network device is an access network device for a cell where the terminal currently dwells, and the second access network device is an access network device for the neighbor cell.
US11895570B1
Systems and methods for triggering emergency mass notifications include an EMNS activation service, a plurality of activation premises devices, a plurality of EMNS provider services, and a plurality of event personnel devices. The EMNS activation service includes a universal translator module that receives an event trigger signal relating to an emergency event from one of the activation premises devices. The universal translator module translates the event trigger signal to event-specific EMNS protocols of the EMNS providers. The EMNS activation service communicates the event-specific EMNS protocols to the EMNS providers, and communicates event data to event personnel devices based on a list of event personnel devices to be notified of an emergency event. An activation premises device includes a housing event with trigger controls for creating the event trigger signal, wherein these event trigger controls are inaccessible to users in the absence of an authorized access or an emergency access.
US11895564B2
A device may be configured to process messages from a plurality of input devices. The messages may be received on a first communication link and may be processed for being transmitted on a second communication link. The device may receive messages comprising data on the first communication link from the plurality of input devices. The data from the input devices may be aggregated and transmitted in at least one message on the second communication link.
US11895561B2
A method of localizing a device within an environment includes a step, in which a first location information is acquired that is representative of a first specified position. In another step, a first sensor information is acquired that is representative of the first specified position. In another step, the first sensor information is allocated to the first location information in order to generate a first condition information that is unique for the first specified position. In another step, a knowledge base is provided which includes the first condition information. In another step, the device provides a current sensor information indicating a current condition of the environment present at the current position of the device. In another step, the device is localized based on a matching between the current sensor information and the plurality of condition information.
US11895549B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for source cell to provide a service/slice indication to the target cell in the handover preparation. The source cell provides to a target cell a list of one or more service/slice specific indications for individual ones of one or more network slices in a request for enhanced handover from the source cell to the target cell in a handover preparation phase. The source cell receives from the target cell, indications in a handover request acknowledgement of one or more selected network slices to be handed over from the source cell to the target cell using enhanced handovers. Performs make-before-break handovers to hand over these selected network slices from the source cell to the target cell and performs normal handovers for the one or more other network slices.
US11895546B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) connected to a serving cell associated with a first satellite is provided. The method receives a measurement configuration including a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) measurement timing configurations (SMTCs). Each SMTC may have at least one offset value and a first SMTC in the plurality of SMTCs has a first offset value that is different from a second offset value of a second SMTC of the plurality of SMTCs. The method further receives a signal to perform a measurement procedure for a second cell associated with a second satellite and performs the measurement procedure based on the received plurality of SMTCs.
US11895545B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for handling conditional handover configurations by wireless devices and network nodes. An example method performed by a wireless device includes receiving and storing one or more conditional handover configurations associated with a target cell candidate. The wireless device transitions from a connected state to a sleeping state, where the transition includes discarding the conditional handover configurations. The wireless device releases resources associated with the conditional handover configurations and performs clean up actions relating to conditional handover. An example method performed by a network node includes providing, to a user equipment, one or more conditional handover configurations that are associated with a target cell candidate. The network node transmits, to the user equipment, a message to transition from a connected state to a sleeping state. After transmitting the message, the network node discards the conditional handover configurations.
US11895544B2
This disclosure provides a cell reselection method, a terminal, and a network device. The method includes: obtaining reselection information related to cell reselection, where the reselection information includes a per-cell reselection parameter of a neighboring cell; and performing a cell reselection procedure based on the per-cell reselection parameter and a reselection condition for reselecting to the neighboring cell.
US11895529B2
Systems, methods, and computer software are disclosed for providing an Open Radio Access Network (RAN) networking infrastructure. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: providing real-time OpenRAN controller responsible for radio connection management, mobility management, QoS management, edge services, and interference management for the quality of end user experience; and providing a non-real-time controller in communication with the real-time OpenRAN controller, the non-real-time controller providing functionality such as configuration management, device management, fault management, performance management, and lifecycle management for all network elements in a network.
US11895528B2
Provided is a method of creating a QoS flow for a time synchronization protocol in a wireless communication network. A method of creating a QoS flow for a time synchronization protocol in a wireless communication network includes: receiving, by a Session Management Function (SMF), the PTP profile information from the UE, together with at least one of a DNN, a S-NSSAI information and a session ID for a Time Sensitive Communication (TSC) service; setting, by the SMF, a PCCrule of the QoS flow for the time synchronization protocol; providing, by the SMF, the QoS flow and a SDF filter information for the QoS flow to a User Plane Function (UPF); and providing, by the SMF, the QoS flow and a QoS rule filter to an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF).
US11895526B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with a technology for IoT. The 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. The disclosure provides a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information configuring a list of aperiodic trigger states for CSI; receiving, from the base station, DCI including a CSI request field, wherein each codepoint of the CSI request field is associated with one trigger state of the list and a CSI-RS is triggered based on a trigger state indicated by the CSI request field; identifying whether a BWP in which the CSI-RS is received is non-active; and in case that the BWP in which the CSI-RS is received is non-active, skipping a measurement of the CSI-RS.
US11895521B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first communication node (e.g., UE, BS, etc.) obtains one or more measurements associated with one or more PRSs (e.g., uplink PRS(s), downlink PRS(s), etc.) The first communication node transmits, to a second communication node (e.g., UE, BS, etc.) via L1 or L2 signaling, a report based on the one or more measurements. The second communication node receives the report and performs a position computing function based on the report.
US11895519B2
Methods, a first, and a second network node as well as a user equipment for exchange of measurement period related parameters are provided. The user equipment performs a method for measuring a measurement quantity of a secondary cell on a second carrier operated by a second radio network node. The user equipment receives, from the second radio network node, an indication indicative of the second carrier and a first parameter indicating a measurement period for measuring the measurement quantity of the secondary cell. The user equipment measures said measurement quantity on the secondary cell on the second carrier over the measurement period. The measurement period is a predefined value times the first parameter.
US11895514B2
A method for transmission reliability comprises receiving, from a first network node at a second network node, a message indicating that a first connection between the first network node and a terminal device has failed. The message comprises an indication to initiate a second connection with the terminal device from the second network node. The method further comprises establishing, at the second network node, the second connection with the terminal device based on the message. The second network node comprises a third connection established before the first connection failed. The first connection carries data transmitted in the third connection before the first connection failed, and the second connection carries data transmitted in the third connection after the first connection failed. The method for interference coordination utilizes duplicated transmissions to secure data transmission and to prevent data loss in an unexpected system failure.
US11895513B2
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US11895511B2
System and methods include obtaining Wi-Fi network data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers and obtaining customer data for each customer associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, the customer data including call-ins made by customers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data including correlating the call-ins made by customers to the Wi-Fi network data; predicting customer call-ins based on correlations made between the call-ins made by customers and the Wi-Fi network data; and initiating a customer outreach workflow prior to a predicted customer call-in.
US11895508B1
Disclosed are various embodiments that provide demand-based allocation of ephemeral radio-based network resources. In one embodiment, a determination is made that an unmanned vehicle has unallocated computing capacity along a travel path. At least a portion of the unallocated computing capacity is provisioned for use by a customer for a time period as the unmanned vehicle progresses on the travel path.
US11895505B2
A method and a device for performing communication by using a virtual subscriber identity module are used to provide a mode in which the device can perform communication without a SIM card. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, a virtual subscriber identity module data package sent by a second device by using a short range communications protocol, where the virtual subscriber identity module data package carries a virtual subscriber identity, and the virtual subscriber identity is used to uniquely identify a user using the first device when the first device performs communication in a network provided by a mobile communications operator; obtaining, by the first device, the virtual subscriber identity by using the virtual subscriber identity module data package; and communicating, by the first device by using the virtual subscriber identity, with another device in the network provided by the mobile communications operator.
US11895502B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a core network node for enabling handling of data packets in a wireless communication system. The core network node identifies a potentially malicious service data flow associated with a communication device. The core network node assigns, to the potentially malicious service data flow, an identifier value to an identifier. The identifier value indicates that data packets associated with the potentially malicious service data flow should be handled according to a packet handling rule for potentially malicious data packets. The core network node provides an identifier comprising the identifier value towards the communication device towards at least one of an access node that serves the communication device in the access network, and a second core network node that processes data packets to and from the communication device.
US11895499B2
An object is to provide a transmission apparatus which can suppress an increase in processing load in a communication apparatus such as a sender and a receiver due to an increase in the number of messages to be transmitted. A transmission apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a generation unit (11) for generating authentication information used for confirming integrity of a plurality of data pieces using the plurality of data pieces and an integrity protection key transmitted at different timings, and a communication unit (12) for transmitting the plurality of data pieces and the authentication information to a reception apparatus (20) for confirming the integrity of the plurality of data pieces.
US11895497B2
A method of communicating using a wireless gateway. The method comprises receiving a first message in a first radio spectrum band by a first radio transceiver of a wireless gateway, determining by a first processor of the wireless gateway that the first message is a trusted message transmitted by a first source device, transmitting the first message by the first radio transceiver in the first radio spectrum, receiving a second message in a second radio spectrum band by a second radio transceiver of the wireless gateway, determining by the first processor that the second message is a trusted message transmitted by a second source device, and transmitting a third message by the second radio transceiver in the second radio spectrum band to the second source device, wherein the third message directs the second source device to transmit the second message to the wireless gateway in the first radio spectrum band.
US11895493B1
Techniques are described for controlling a first device that operates in a first mode. In an example, the first device receives, while it is operating in a first mode, a secret from a second device. The first device is capable of wireless data reception and incapable of wireless data transmission in the first mode. The first device determines that the secret is valid. Based at least in part on the secret being valid, the first device performs at least one of: switching an operational mode of the first device from the first mode to a second mode, or performing, while operating in the first mode, a command indicated by the second device. The first device is capable of the wireless data transmission in the second mode.
US11895492B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a system, comprising a mobile device configured to register with a service provider via an application program, obtain network credentials of communication networks operated by the service provider at various locations, connect to a communication network via the network credentials when approaching a selected location of the service provider, and transmit, to a first computing device via the communication network, a first identifier that uniquely identifies the mobile device. The system also comprises the first computing device positioned at service provider's locations and configured to receive and transmit the first identifier to a second computing device. The system also comprises the second computing device configured to receive the first identifier, compare the unique identifier to a plurality of unique identifiers, and provide a service customized to a user of the mobile device based at least upon the comparison result.
US11895488B2
The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for allowing a base station to identify a ciphering key (COUNT value) for security enhancement.
US11895485B2
A sound signal processing method includes: obtaining a sound signal; obtaining impulse response data that was measured in a predetermined space before the sound signal is obtained; generating an early reflected sound control signal not including a reverberant sound by convolving impulse response data of an early reflected sound among the obtained impulse response data into the obtained sound signal.
US11895483B2
A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed. According to examples of the method, an audio event associated with the mixed reality environment is detected. The audio event is associated with a first audio signal. A location of the user with respect to the mixed reality environment is determined. An acoustic region associated with the location of the user is identified. A first acoustic parameter associated with the first acoustic region is determined. A transfer function is determined using the first acoustic parameter. The transfer function is applied to the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal, which is then presented to the user.
US11895475B2
A rear side of a vibration part of a speaker is covered by a cover member, and a duct is provided at the cover member. The cover member has a recessed portion, and an air flow path is formed inside the recessed portion. A circuit part is mounted on an outer surface of the cover member, and a heat sink provided in the air flow path is connected to the circuit part to allow heat conduction. Due to vibration of the vibration part, an airflow in the air flow path is accelerated and thus the effect of dissipating heat from the heat sink is increased.
US11895474B2
Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for activity detection of a user of a computing device, using multi-modal sensing. A device can be configured to receive sensor data corresponding to multiple modalities and process the sensor data to predict an activity performed by a user of a computing device. The device in response to the detected activity can perform a response action, such as muting or pausing audio playback from the computing device. Different modalities can be combined, such as body vibration data, air vibration data, and image data, which can be processed to distinguish user activity, e.g., speaking versus not speaking, to allow the computing device to perform the correct corresponding action.
US11895469B2
Provided are an audio circuit and a mobile terminal having the audio circuit. The audio circuit includes an audio codec chip circuit, a radio frequency circuit and a main circuit board reference ground; the sub-circuit board is provided with a microphone circuit, an antenna circuit, a sub-circuit board reference ground, a decoupling capacitor and a first anti-static device; where the audio codec chip circuit is configured to provide a bias voltage for the sub-circuit board through a transmission line in the main circuit board; the decoupling capacitor and the first anti-static device are connected in parallel and then are connected to the transmission line, and the transmission line is connected to the main circuit board reference ground through the decoupling capacitor and the first anti-static device which are connected in parallel.
US11895467B2
Secondary path measurements and associated acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses are obtained from test subjects. Both a least squares estimate and a reduced dimensionality estimate are determined that both estimate a relative transfer function between the secondary path measurements and the associated acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses. An individual secondary path measurement for a user is performed based on a test signal transmitted via a hearing device into an ear canal of the user. An individual cutoff frequency for the individual secondary path measurement is determined. First and second acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses below and above the cutoff frequency are determined using the individual secondary path measurement and the least squares estimate. A sound pressure level at an eardrum of the user can be predicted using the first and second receiver-to-eardrum responses.
US11895464B2
A MEMS speaker includes a substrate, a vibration sounding portion and a baffle plate with a through hole. The baffle plate, the substrate and the vibration sounding portion form a sounding inner cavity, and a volume of the sounding inner cavity can adjust a resonant frequency of the sounding inner cavity, so that the resonance frequency of the sounding inner cavity resonate with a preset frequency of the MEMS speaker. A speaker assembly structure further provided includes a speaker, a fixing portion, and a baffle plate, the speaker and the baffle plate together enclose and form a sounding inner cavity, the fixing portion and the speaker are fixedly connected together and form a sealing structure. A sound pressure level of the MEMS speaker and the speaker assembly structure is high and harmonic distortion of the MEMS speaker and the speaker assembly structure is small.
US11895455B2
Provided is an information processing device including an acoustic information acquisition unit configured to acquire an acoustic information about a resonance in a body of a user wearing a wearable device and a wearing determination unit configured to determine whether or not the user wears the wearable device based on the acoustic information.
US11895451B2
A display apparatus includes a display device including a display panel configured to display an image and include first to sixth regions, at least one first vibration device and at least one second vibration device respectively at the first region and the second region, at least one third vibration device, at least one fourth vibration device, and at least one fifth vibration device respectively at the fourth to sixth regions, a first partition between the first region and the third region, a second partition between the second region and the third region, a third partition between the fourth region and the sixth region, and a fourth partition between the fifth region and the sixth region, wherein a length of one or more among the first partition and the second partition differs from a length of one or more among the third partition and the fourth partition.
US11895435B2
A MoCA splitter device may include an input port, a first output port and a second output port, a first transmission line configured to connect the input port to the first output port, a second transmission line configured to connect the input port to the first output port, a first isolation element configured to connect the first transmission line to the second transmission line, a second isolation element configured to connecting the first transmission line to the second transmission line. The first isolation element and the second isolation element are configured to provide an isolation level between the first output port and the second output port that is less than a predetermined isolation level of about less than 16 dB in a MoCA frequency band.
US11895424B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide video shooting method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium. The method comprises: receiving a first trigger operation for target content displayed in a target page, the target page comprising a webpage material display page and/or a video playing page; in response to the first trigger operation, acquiring a target picture containing the target content, starting a camera, and displaying a shooting page, wherein a preview picture of a target object acquired by the camera is displayed in the shooting page with the target picture as a background; receiving a video shooting operation acting in the shooting page; and in response to the video shooting operation, shooting a first video of the target object with the target picture as a video background.
US11895415B2
A solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion film provided over a plurality of pixels, a first electrode electrically coupled to the photoelectric conversion film and provided to each pixel, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, the photoelectric conversion film being interposed between the second electrode and the first electrode, a first electric charge accumulation section, a reset transistor that is provided to each pixel, and an electric potential generator that applies, during a period in which the signal electric charges are accumulated in the first electric charge accumulation section, an electric potential VPD to the first electrode of each of at least one or more pixels, an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode when the electric potential VPD is applied to the first electrode being smaller than an electric potential difference when a reset electric potential is applied to the first electrode.
US11895410B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a first processor that processes an image signal output from an image sensor; a second processor, connected in downstream of the first processor, that processes an image signal transferred from the first processor; and a controller that selects any of the first processor and the second processor to be used to perform a predetermined process on the image signal output from the image sensor based on a predetermined condition. The controller controls to stop an operation of the second processor in a case where the controller selects the first processor, the predetermined condition includes an instruction for live view display, and the controller selects the first processor in a case where the live view display is instructed.
US11895407B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an imaging method capable of shortening an imaging interval in high-speed continuous imaging. A temporary memory, which temporarily stores image data transferred from an image sensor and then transfers the image data to a main memory, in a case where high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, sequentially stores a plurality of pieces of the image data transferred from the image sensor at a predetermined speed in a state where the transfer of the image data to the main memory is stopped, and then sequentially transfers the plurality of pieces of stored image data to the main memory at a speed lower than the predetermined speed. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.
US11895403B2
An imaging support method includes acquiring a focal length of an imaging apparatus, detecting a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and performing registration control for setting the detected subject image position to a specific position in the captured image by increasing a ratio of application of an image region movement component compared to a lens moving mechanism in a case where the acquired focal length is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and increasing a ratio of application of the lens moving mechanism compared to the image region movement component in a case where the focal length is less than the threshold value.
US11895401B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a camera module, and at least one processor, wherein the camera module includes a micro-lens array, a color filter array, and a light-receiving element array, wherein a first row of the micro-lens array includes a first micro-lens and a second micro-lens adjacent to the first micro-lens, wherein a first row of the color filter array includes a first color filter and a second color filter disposed under the first micro-lens, and a third color filter and a fourth color filter disposed under the second micro-lens, and wherein a first row of the light-receiving element array includes a first light-receiving element disposed under the first color filter, a second light-receiving element disposed under the second color filter, a third light-receiving element disposed under the third color filter, and a fourth light-receiving element disposed under the fourth color filter.
US11895397B2
Pulsed fluorescence imaging without input clock or data transmission clock is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a plurality of bidirectional data pads and a controller in communication with the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 795 nm to about 815 nm.
US11895394B2
Disclosed are methods and systems that can maintain patient privacy in a video stream of a medical facility by obfuscating all patient identity information such that the patient's identity and medical information is protected. In addition, the system and methods disclosed herein can limit the change in the perspective of the camera based on a defined privacy zone in the medical facility such that the privacy zone is not in the field of view of the camera.
US11895393B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable storage media for imaging a scene are described. In an embodiment, the method includes repeatedly illuminating a scene with illumination light from a plurality of light sources; generating video feed of the scene based on the scene illuminated by the illumination light; illuminating the scene with only individual light sources of the plurality of light sources between illuminating the scene with the plurality of light sources; generating a composite image of the scene based on the scene illuminated by only the individual light sources; and adjusting the composite image based upon input received from the user interface.
US11895388B2
A shutter unit includes a base plate having an opening, a first blade member movable between a closed state and a retracted state, a first driving member biased by a first biasing member, a second driving member biased by a second biasing member, a first charging member configured to cause the first driving member to move in the second direction against a biasing force, a second charging member configured to cause the second driving member to move in the first direction against a biasing force, and a motor configured to supply a driving force to the first and second charging members. In a case where the first charging member causes the first driving member to move, the motor rotates in a direction opposite to a rotation direction in a case where the second charging member causes the second driving member to move.
US11895386B2
Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and a bearing suspension arrangement. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and light path folding elements (e.g., prisms). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements.
US11895382B2
An embodiment includes: a base; a circuit board which is disposed on the base and which includes first and second terminals; a housing disposed on the circuit board; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed in the housing; a first position sensor which is disposed in the housing and which corresponds to the sensing magnet; a second coil disposed between the base and the magnet; and a second position sensor which is disposed on the circuit board and which includes a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein each of the first sensor and the second sensor is a driver integrated circuit including a hall sensor and a driver, a clock signal is provided to the first terminal of the circuit board, a data signal is provided to the second terminal of the circuit board, and the driver of each of the first position sensor, the first sensor, and the second sensor transmits/receives the clock signal through the first terminal of the circuit board, and transmits/receives the data signal in a time-division manner through the second terminal of the circuit board.
US11895374B2
Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces synchronized with broadcast events and local interactions are disclosed. The system can receive a plurality of interactions corresponding to a conditional event opportunity of a live event from a respective plurality of client devices, and identify a broadcast receiver device that is presenting a broadcast of the live event. The system can generate instructions for a broadcast receiver device that causes an application executing on the broadcast receiver device to display one or more content items corresponding to the conditional event opportunity. The system can transmit the instructions to the broadcast receiver device to cause the application to display the one or more content items with the broadcast of the live event.
US11895349B2
A synchronous shift of video/audio data between a plurality of display system devices is suppressed. A synchronous control device includes a coded-data adjustment unit 312 or a video and audio data adjustment unit 314 configured to perform frame adjustment based on a predetermined frame adjustment instruction by inserting predetermined frame data into a plurality of pieces of frame data in a chronological order or deleting a piece of frame data from the plurality of pieces of frame data, a video and audio data output unit 315 configured to sequentially output each piece of frame data subjected to the frame adjustment, and a video and audio data output time-point adjustment unit 316 configured to compare a reference time point for outputting each piece of the frame data with an output time point at which each piece of the frame data is output. In the synchronous control device, the video and audio data output time-point adjustment unit 316 issues the frame adjustment instruction to insert predetermined frame data if the output time point precedes the reference time point by a threshold value or longer, and alternatively issues the frame adjustment instruction to delete a piece of frame data if the output time point is delayed from the reference time point by a threshold value or longer.
US11895345B2
Techniques are described for concealing aspects of RC in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In this way, by delivering information needed to play the RC very shortly before insertion is to occur, skipping strategies can be foiled.
US11895341B2
A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments comprises the steps of: encoding point cloud data including geometry data and attribute data; and transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data. A point cloud data reception method according to embodiments comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including point cloud data including geometry data and attribute data; and decoding the point cloud data.
US11895339B2
A method for video encoding includes determining a filter shape of a cross-component filter applied to a chroma coding block (CB), generating a first intermediate CB by applying a loop filter to the chroma CB, and generating a second intermediate CB by applying, to a corresponding luma CB, the cross-component filter applied to the chroma CB and having the determined filter shape. The method further includes determining a filtered chroma CB based on the first intermediate CB and the second intermediate CB by combining the loop filtered chroma CB with the cross-component filtered luma CB, and generating coded information of the chroma CB in a coded video bitstream. Determining the filter shape includes determining the filter shape of the cross-component filter based on the number of the filter coefficients and based on at least one of (i) the chroma subsampling format or (ii) the chroma sample type.
US11895331B2
Video data may be palette decoded. Data defining a palette table may be received. The palette table may comprise index values corresponding to respective colors. Palette index prediction data may be received and may comprise data indicating index values for at least a portion of a palette index map mapping pixels of the video data to color indices in the palette table. The palette index prediction data may comprise run value data associating run values with index values for at least a portion of a palette index map. A run value may be associated with an escape color index. The palette index map may be generated from the palette index prediction data at least in part by determining whether to adjust an index value of the palette index prediction data based on a last index value. The video data may be reconstructed in accordance with the palette index map.
US11895329B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding/decoding a video. To this end, the method for decoding a video may include: generating a merge candidate list of a current block including at least one merge candidate corresponding to each of a plurality of reference picture lists; determining at least one piece of motion information by using the merge candidate list; and generating a prediction block of the current block by using the determined at least one piece of motion information.
US11895318B2
Devices, systems and methods for coding video using one or more tables to store motion information and process subsequent blocks are described. In one aspect, a video coding method is provided to include deriving motion information for a first video block which is coded using an intra block copy mode, wherein one or more candidates of one or more tables are selectively checked during a motion candidate list construction process which is used to derive the motion information for the first video block, wherein each table of the one or more tables includes motion candidates derived from previously coded video blocks that are coded prior to the first video block; and coding, based on the motion information, the first video block.
US11895309B2
A transmission apparatus configured to mix, at a mixing rate, pixels of first video data with pixels of peripheral frames of the first video data and obtain second video data at a first frame rate. The mixing rate for each pixel of a frame of the first video data is based on a luminance value of the pixel. The second video data includes frames having a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate. The apparatus encodes the frames having the second frame rate to obtain a basic stream and encodes remaining frames of the second video data to obtain an extended stream, inserts information about the mixing rate into the basic stream and the extended stream in association with each frame, and transmits the basic stream and the extended stream into which the information about the mixing rate has been inserted.
US11895304B2
An improved scheme for intra-inter prediction mode and an adaptive intra-inter prediction mode for video coding/decoding, including selecting a set of weightings in an intra-inter mode and applying position dependent intra prediction combination to modify at least one of an inter prediction sample and another sample.
US11895299B2
An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs a first transform on a residual signal of the current block using a first transform basis to generate first transform coefficients; and performs a second transform on the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis to generate second transform coefficients and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the first transform basis is the same as a predetermined transform basis; and quantizes the first transform coefficients without performing the second transform, when the first transform basis is different from the predetermined transform basis.
US11895291B2
A method and apparatus of encoding or decoding for a coding system, where bi-directional CU (coding unit) weighting (BCW) is enabled for the coding system to allow using multiple pairs of weights, are disclosed. According to this method, a Merge candidate list is generated for the current block, where current bi-directional CU weights for a bi-directional predictor of the current block associated with a target Merge candidate in the Merge candidate list are set to a pre-define pair of weights when the target Merge candidate corresponds to a selected Merge candidate. In another method, current bi-directional CU weights for a bi-directional predictor associated with a target Merge candidate in the Merge candidate list are inherited from the target Merge candidate when the target Merge candidate corresponds to a selected Merge candidate.
US11895279B2
An image reading device includes a placement portion in which a placement surface on which an original document is placed is formed, an imaging portion that is arranged on a center side of the placement surface in an apparatus width direction above the placement surface in an apparatus upward and downward direction and images the original document, a display portion having a display screen of which at least a part is arranged on a far side of the placement surface in an apparatus depth direction and the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction between the placement surface and the imaging portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction, an irradiation portion that is arranged on the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiates the placement surface with light, and a pair of other irradiation portions that are respectively arranged on both sides of the irradiation portion in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiate the placement surface with light.
US11895267B2
A number management unit (11) of a number management system (1) generates a transaction to be managed in a blockchain based on number portability information obtained by receiving a number update request, generates a block obtained by aggregating multiple transactions, approves a suggested block by confirming normality of the block, and stores the block by connecting the block to a blockchain in a number database (13). If a reset of the block in the number database (13) is suggested, the number management unit (11) transmits, to multiple number management apparatuses (10), a reset suggestion block including, as a transaction, a reset suggestion, which is information indicating a suggestion for a reset, and if the reset suggestion block is approved, the number management unit (11) discards the blockchain in the number database (13).
US11895252B2
A method, controller, and non-transitory computer-readable medium of a distributed crypto-ledger network, including receiving an instruction to perform an operation between a first user and a second user, the first user corresponding to a first entity that is a member of the distributed crypto-ledger network, the instruction comprising a destination address corresponding to the second user, querying a top-level name registry with the destination address to determine a second entity associated with the destination address, the second entity being a different member of the crypto-ledger network, and executing the operation between the first user and the second user by transmitting execution instructions to the first entity and the second entity, the execution instructions causing a first entity controller to modify data stored on a first distributed crypto-ledger of the first entity, and causing a second entity controller to modify data stored on the second distributed crypto-ledger of the second entity.
US11895248B2
One or more implementations of the present specification provide a data processing method and apparatus for a blockchain member node, where the blockchain member node includes a plurality of service servers, and at least one authentication module runs on each service server; and a public key of an authentication module of the at least one authentication module is authenticated by the blockchain. The method includes: obtaining, by a downstream service server of the plurality of service servers, a first service processing result and a first digital signature that are generated by an upstream service server of the plurality of service servers; verifying the first digital signature based on a public key of an authentication module running on the upstream service server; performing service processing based on the first service processing result after the verification succeeds, thereby generating a second service processing result; and generating a second digital signature by performing digital signing based on at least the second service processing result using an authentication module running on the downstream service server.
US11895247B2
A system and method for a distributed security model that may be used to achieve one or more of the following: authenticate system components; securely transport messages between system components; establish a secure communications channel over a constrained link; authenticate message content; authorize actions; and distribute authorizations and configuration data amongst users' system components in a device-as-a-key system.
US11895243B2
A method for data transfer and storage is provided. The method may include: encrypting data generated by a terminal device; storing duplicated copies of the encrypted data respectively in a first storage device and a second storage device, which are removably inserted into the terminal device; generating, with the terminal device, a message authentication code associated with the encrypted data; transmitting the message authentication code to a first server; physically transporting the first storage device to a remote location of the first server, and upon the first storage device being inserted into the first server, determining whether the encrypted data stored in the first storage device are damaged using the message authentication code; and in response to a determination that the encrypted data stored in the first storage device are not damaged, transmitting the encrypted data from the first storage device to the first server.
US11895240B2
In IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), when it is desirable to delegate the authority to a user outside a system, a recipient of an access token is designated, thereby preventing illegal distribution of the access token. There is provided an access token system including a generator and a verifier. The generator generates, using secret information of a recipient, a recipient-designated access token for which the recipient is designated, and provides the recipient-designated access token to a user. The verifier verifies that the user who makes access using the recipient-designated access token is the designated recipient.
US11895224B2
A crypto processor, a method of operating a crypto processor, and an electronic device including a crypto processor. A method of operating a crypto processor for performing a polynomial multiplication of lattice-based texts includes transferring coefficients of polynomials for the polynomial multiplication to multipliers, performing multiplications for a portion of the coefficients in parallel using the multipliers, performing an addition for a portion of results of the multiplications using an adder, and determining a result of the polynomial multiplication based on another portion of the results of the multiplications and a result of the addition.
US11895214B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for user interaction and task completion using multiple devices. A set of devices may be used to perform a task, such that different devices may perform different steps of the task. A device management service may update state information at each device of the set, thereby enabling a user to interact with any of the computing devices to perform the task. A device management service may also automatically determine which device should be used by the user, based on task or step requirements, device characteristics, and device capabilities, among other examples. Thus, rather than being required to continue a task on the same device (even when the device is not well-suited for the current step or task), the user is provided with the option to use and, in some instances, is automatically transitioned to use, different devices within the set.
US11895211B2
Systems, devices and methods for adaptive compression of stored information includes a memory management computing device programmed to monitor a size of a plurality of data structures stored in a data repository. The computing device compares the size of each of a plurality of data structures to a predetermined threshold. When a size of an uncompressed data structure meets the threshold, the memory management computing device calculates a value of a first compression parameter based on a value of a first parameter and a value of a second parameter of each data element of the uncompressed data structure, calculates a value of a second compression parameter based the value of the first parameter of each data element of the uncompressed data structure, generates a compressed data structure based on the value of the first compression parameter and the second compression parameter; and replaces, in the data repository, the uncompressed data structure with the compressed data structure.
US11895204B1
An electronic device identifier mapping and resolution system are disclosed which may be used to analyze various device identifiers associated with an online event initiated by a particular device in applying a matching algorithm to determine a unique device identifier and/or device profile for the device. Device identifiers provided from disparate sources (such as web browser cookies, network IP addresses, device-specific identifiers, application-specific identifiers, custom identifiers, probabilistic identifiers, etc.), including both deterministic and/or probabilistic identifiers, may be analyzed according to the matching algorithm to determine a device identifier associated with the device. Matching algorithms may be customized and configured to a high degree of complexity for respective entities, such as to analyze disparate device identifiers according to a variety of identifier comparison functions and matching tiers. Matching algorithms may include conditional requirements that streamline execution of such algorithms, e.g., which may reduce processor load and increase execution time, such as conditional requirements that bypass portions of the matching algorithm based on particular identifiers associated with the online event that are initially analyzed.
US11895198B1
The invention comprises a universal session protocol configured to initiate, authenticate, and manage the session of an application data stream. The universal session protocol governs the interaction between sending applications and sending agents as well as receiving applications and receiving agents to establish authenticated data streams between applications or systems.
US11895194B2
Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network.
US11895191B2
A mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge device, comprising a reconfigurable processor unit including a substrate; a die stack coupled to the substrate and having a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) die element and a reconfigurable die element capable of serving as storage memory or as configuration memory based on configuration information; and a processor coupled to the substrate and configured to cooperate with the die stack for processing data; and a processor-independent connectivity unit coupled to the reconfigurable processor unit and including an antenna; a radio-frequency chip (RFIC) coupled to the antenna and configured to receive incoming signals and transmit outgoing signals over the antenna; circuitry configured to translate the incoming signals to incoming data or transmit the outgoing data to outgoing signals; and a system interface configured to transmit the incoming data to the reconfigurable processor unit for processing, and configured to receive the outgoing data from the reconfigurable processor unit.
US11895173B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing encoding or decoding of adaptive bitrate streams. In various embodiments, one or more first computing systems may divide a live media content stream into one or more segments, each segment might include a starting segment boundary and an ending segment boundary. The one or more first computing systems might encode the one or more segments into one or more primary adaptive bitrate streams. The one or more first computing systems might also divide the one or more segments of the live media content stream into one or more subsegments. Each subsegment might be less than a length of a corresponding segment of the one or more segments. The one or more first computing systems might the encode and/or a second computing system might decode the one or more subsegments into or from one or more secondary adaptive bitrate streams.
US11895165B2
Novel tools and techniques for providing an in-line AI virtual assistant are provided. A system includes a session border controller coupled to an end-user device, and a session initiation protocol stack. The session initiation protocol stack includes a processor, and non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions executable by the processor to: receive, from the session border controller, a call invite request; provision, via the AI virtual assistant service, an AI virtual assistant instance in response to the call invite request; and join the AI virtual assistant instance to a call with the end-user device.
US11895154B2
A method and system for maintaining persistent network policies for a virtual machine (VM) that includes determining a name of the VM executing on a first host connected to a first network device; binding the name of the VM to a network policy for the VM on the first network device; acquiring from VM management software, using the name of the VM, a universally unique identifier (UUID) of the VM; associating the UUID to the network policy on the first network device; applying the network policy for the VM on the first network device; subscribing to receive notifications from the VM management software of changes to the configuration of the VM corresponding to the UUID; receiving notification from the VM management software of a configuration change made to the VM corresponding to the UUID; and updating the network policy of the VM to reflect the configuration change of the VM.
US11895153B1
Systems and methods in accordance with present implementations can include decrypting, by one or more processors, a data packet using a session key to recover a decrypted data packet, the data packet comprising a data element encrypted with a first content-specific key associated with a shared secret, the data packet encrypted with the session key, and decrypting, by the one or more processors, the data element of the decrypted data packet using a second content-specific key corresponding to a data type of the data element, to recover a decrypted data element.
US11895142B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein comprise computer-based platforms configured for automated early-stage application security monitoring for allowing users (e.g., application developers) to make decisions at the early stage of the application development.
US11895139B2
Disclosed are methods for automatic retrieving and managing assets information in a network. The method includes identifying, defining, and valuing stored assets in a network. An asset is defined and identified by assigned values that include criticality values, resiliency values, granularity values, and freshness values that may be selected from a predefined set of values. The assets are valued by an overall quality score that is determined through computerized data processing and optimized by updating asset properties.
US11895135B2
Detecting anomalous behavior of a device, including: generating, using information describing historical activity associated with a user device, a trained model for detecting normal activity for the user device; gathering information describing current activity associated with the user device; and determining, by using the information describing current activity associated with the user device as input to the trained model, whether the user device has deviated from normal activity.
US11895123B2
A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method, implemented at one of the nodes, includes: collecting a set of first data packets during a first time period, the set including at least one data packet received from one or more first nodes in the network; obtaining a plurality of encoded data packets, each one of the plurality of encoded data packets being generated by combining two or more first data packets of the set using network coding; determining a mapping of the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to one or more neighbouring nodes connected to the node; and transmitting the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to the one or more neighbouring nodes according to the determined mapping.
US11895119B2
An exemplary system having a processor and a memory therein includes means for creating an isolation group, in which creating the isolation groups includes: defining isolation requirements, identifying a group of features utilizing call-out functions, and selecting from among the group of features utilizing call-out functions a group of features having the defined isolation requirements; deploying platform software integrating the isolation requirements, in which the platform software contains instructions to map the isolation requirements to a customer organization; creating the customer organization; creating a unique variant of the customer organization, in which creating the unique variant of the customer organization includes declaratively applying an isolation layer containing isolation requirements on top of a base layer for the customer organization; and deploying the unique variant of the customer organization onto the customer organization's computing infrastructure, in which the unique variant validates per-tenant distinctions for various applications subjected to the isolation requirements.
US11895115B2
One issue with many dating applications is that the number of matches can become overwhelming, making it difficult for a user to continue to communicate meaningfully with those individuals with whom they have been matched. According to various techniques described herein, a limit can be placed on the number of active matches (or conversations) for each user, and the user's profile may be temporarily hidden from view of other individuals when this limit has been reached. Such a condition is referred to as “saturation.” Once the user unmatches one or more individuals, so that they are no longer at the maximum, their profile may again be made available and therefore visible to other individuals.
US11895112B2
A method is disclosed. For example, the method executed by a processor of a shared device includes receiving an identification of a user, connecting to a remote server that stores authentication modules and applications, requesting an authentication module and an application stored on the remote server that is associated with the identification of the user, storing the authentication module and the application temporarily on a non-resident memory of the shared device, and executing the application in response to authentication of the user based on log-in information that was received via the authentication module.
US11895107B2
A computing device comprising a secure browser extension for a web browser monitors for satisfaction of one or more operating conditions to identify whether one or more unauthorized applications are intercepting web browser communications. Based on satisfaction of at least one operating condition, the secure browser extension of the computing device sends an HTTPS request to a known service via the web browser. The secure browser extension receives an HTTPS response to the HTTPS request via the web browser. The secure browser extension determines whether the certificate included in the HTTPS response is trusted by the secure browser extension. Based on determining the certificate is not trusted, the secure browser extension terminates the web browser session and generates a notification for display at the computing device that indicates web browser communications are compromised.
US11895100B2
A Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based “upstream” approach is a controller-based solution that provides secure key distribution and management for multi-site data centers. The approach uses an SDN Multi-Site Controller (MSC) that acts as an intermediary between SDN controllers at sites in a multi-site data center and manages the distribution of keys to sites. The approach is not dependent upon any particular routing protocol, such as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and is well suited for multicast stream encryption by allowing the same key to be used for all replicated packets sent to downstream sites from an upstream source site. The approach distributes keys in a secure manner, ensures that data transferred between sites is done in a secure manner, and supports re-keying with error handling.
US11895097B2
A method including configuring, by an infrastructure device, a user device to encrypt authentication information associated with authenticating the user device with a service provider, the authentication information including first factor authentication information for determining a first factor and second factor authentication information for determining a second factor; configuring, by the infrastructure device, the user device to detect an attempt to access a service to be provided by the service provider; configuring, by the infrastructure device, the user device to determine, based on detecting the attempt, the first factor based on decrypting the first factor authentication information and the second factor based on decrypting the second factor authentication information; and configuring, by the infrastructure device, the user device to enable authentication of the user device with the service provider based on utilizing the first factor and the second factor. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11895096B2
Embodiments described include systems and methods for encoding and decoding data for a network application. A client application may include an embedded browser. The embedded browser may establish a session with a network application. The client application may identify a policy specifying a type of data to encode upon input. The embedded browser may detect the type of data of an input field of the network application being displayed in the embedded browser. The embedded browser may, responsive to the detection and the policy, encode the data inputted into the input field or decode encoded data displayed in the input field.
US11895094B2
The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for managing blockchain transaction processing. In an example, the method includes one or more of receiving a message transmitted from a client device, the message including a predefined structural format for processing by a service providing computing system, determining a type of the message and detecting one or more sensitive fields within the message based on the determined type of the message, anonymizing values of the one or more sensitive fields within the message while leaving the predefined structural format intact, and transmitting the anonymized message including the one or more anonymized values with the predefined structural format remaining intact to the service providing computing system. The system can anonymize data from a private network before it is transmitted to a public service.
US11895086B1
A network device may maintain, for a user device, a pool domain into which address prefixes are allocated from a partition of an address pool management (APM) device, and may estimate, based on pool domain data, an average subscriber login rate for the pool domain by the user device. The network device may estimate, based on the pool domain data, an average response latency per apportionment alarm, and may calculate a dynamic apportionment threshold based on the average subscriber login rate for the pool domain and the average response latency per apportionment alarm. The network device may utilize the dynamic apportionment threshold for the user device.
US11895082B2
A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
US11895081B2
This disclosure describes techniques for implementing network address translation as a distributed service over the nodes of a logical network fabric, such as a software-defined network fabric. A method includes registering, by an edge node of a network, an IP address of a client device. The method further includes forwarding, by the edge node, the registered IP address to a control plane of the network. The method further includes checking, by the control plane, a network address translation policy. The method further includes recording, by the control plane, translations between the registered IP address and an allocated IP address in a translation table, each of the translations being related to the edge node. The method further includes returning, by the control plane, the translations between the registered IP address and the allocated IP address to the edge node.
US11895077B2
Systems and methods are provided for deleting messages. The systems and methods include operations for: establishing, by a computing device, a communication session between a plurality of users, the communication session being associated with a first feature of a plurality of features of a messaging application; automatically deleting a first set of messages exchanged in the communication session based on a default deletion policy of the first feature; changing the default deletion policy of the first feature to a second deletion policy; and automatically deleting a second set of messages exchanged in the communication session based on the second deletion policy instead of the default deletion policy.
US11895076B2
Systems, methods, and computer media for manipulating electronic messages are provided herein. A system for editing electronic messages can include at least one processor, and an application. The application can be configured to, when executed by the at least one processor, send an electronic message from a sender messaging account to a recipient messaging account, edit the message after it has been sent to the recipient messaging account to create an edited message and replace the sent message with the edited message in a same relative location of the sent message in the recipient's inbox, or delete the sent message or the edited message from the recipient's inbox.
US11895075B2
A method and apparatus for displaying mail for share, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: in response to the detection of a mail sharing operation, determining mail for share in a current mailbox; and displaying the mail for share in a preset display manner, wherein the preset display manner is different from a display manner of non-shared mail in the current mailbox. By means of the technical solution, mail for share and non-shared mail in a mailbox can be effectively distinguished from one another, thereby improving the user experience.
US11895074B2
An email ranking system assigns scores to emails of a user based on actions that other recipients of the emails have taken with respect to the emails. In determining the scores, the email ranking system may weight each recipient's action based on how closely connected the recipient is to the user and a type of connection the recipient has to the user. Each email's score may represent a likelihood that the email contains content that is important to the user. A client device may display the user's emails based on the scores. The client device may list the emails in descending order based on the scores, enabling the user to prioritize review of emails that are more likely to be important to the user. In this way, the email ranking system improves the client device by helping the user more quickly identify important emails.
US11895064B2
At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Detect an input on the touch-sensitive display. Determine whether the input represents user selection of one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display the selected one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters in the message transcript. Send the selected one or more characters to the first user.
US11895062B2
A system for responding to external requests received at an internal bot network is provided. The system may include an internal bot network including a plurality of internal bots. The plurality of internal bots may interact with a plurality of external bots. The system may include a translation layer/barrier. Each bot included in the plurality of internal bots and the plurality of external bots may be resident on one or more hardware processors. Each external bot may communicate using its own unique set of external specifications. Each internal bot may communicate using a universal set of internal specifications and is prevented from communicating using a set of external specifications. The translation layer/barrier may intercept requests and responses between the plurality of internal bots and the plurality of external bots. The translation layer/barrier reformats intercepted requests and responses to correspond to the set of specifications specific to the receiving bot.
US11895058B2
Aspects presented herein may enhance the configuration of the scheduling offset for communication devices within a channelized frequency band. In one aspect, a UE receives a PDCCH including a scheduling offset parameter. The PDCCH schedules one of a PDSCH for reception in a first sub-band within a BWP or provides an uplink scheduling grant of a PUSCH for transmission in a second sub-band within the BWP. The UE communicates with a base station based on one of a slot for receiving the PDSCH based on the first sub-band within the BWP and the scheduling offset parameter when the PDCCH schedules the PDSCH, or a slot for transmitting the PUSCH based on the second sub-band within the BWP and the scheduling offset parameter when a PUCCH is used to schedule the PUSCH.
US11895054B2
An information transmission method includes: A terminal receives first signaling, where the first signaling includes a first field, a state value of the first field is used to indicate a first spatial relation parameter for receiving a first channel, the state value of the first field is a candidate state value corresponding to the first field, and at least one of the candidate state values corresponds to two or more spatial relation parameters. The terminal obtains one or more target spatial relation parameters in the first spatial relation parameter, and receives the first channel based on the one or more target spatial relation parameters. In this method, the terminal receives the first channel by receiving the first signaling sent by a base station and obtaining a target spatial relation parameter.
US11895050B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node used for wireless communications. A node first receives a first signaling and a second signaling; and the first signaling is used to determine a first time-domain resource set, the second signaling is used to determine a second time-domain resource set; and then respectively transmits a first signal and a second signal in a first time-domain resource subset and a second time-domain resource subset; the first time-domain resource subset is associated with a first reference signal resource, and the second signaling is used to indicate a second reference signal resource; the first bit set is used to generate the first signal and the second signal, the second signaling is used to schedule a second bit block. The present disclosure optimizes the system performance by optimizing the transmission methods and devices when the PUCCH collides with the PUSCH.
US11895047B2
A user equipment (UE) sends an indication supported combinations of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, unsupported combinations of SRS resources, or compatible SRS resources to a base station. The base station selects one or more SRS resources for the UE from the SRS resources that are supported by the UE or are compatible for the UE. In some examples, the UE receives a configuration from the base station for multiple SRS resource sets. After configuring the UE with multiple SRS resource sets, the base station selects one of the SRS resources sets, and may indicate the selected SRS resource set to the UE. The UE transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to the base station using SRS resources from the selected SRS resource set.
US11895041B2
Methods and apparatus for establishing network presence. In an embodiment, a method is provided for determining a presence score. The method includes capturing an image of a QR code displayed on a secondary device, capturing a sound clip of a sound signal reproduced on the secondary device, and transmitting the image and the sound clip to a server. The method also includes receiving a presence score determined from at least one of a comparison of the QR code to the image and a comparison of the sound signal to the sound clip.
US11895040B2
A method for dynamically allocating server resources includes receiving a request from a client system, wherein the request comprises a request for a first set of streaming data, providing from the server to the client system a first portion of streaming data from the first set of streaming data, wherein the first portion is associated with a first quality of service level, receiving user activity data from the client system for the first portion of the streaming data, determining a second quality of service level for a second portion of the streaming data from the first set of streaming data, providing from the server to the client system the second portion of streaming data from the first set of streaming data, wherein the second portion provided with the second quality of service level, and wherein the first quality of service level is different from the second quality of service level.
US11895038B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipments and network components performing or assisting in packet filtering operations.
US11895036B2
In embodiments of systems and methods for managing acknowledgement packets in an uplink data packet stream including secure or encrypted data packets, a computing device may identify uplink acknowledgement (UL ACK) packets within the uplink data packet stream, and may accelerate processing of the identified UL ACK packets. In some embodiments, UL ACK packets may be identified based on whether packet lengths of packets meet a packet length threshold or meet a packet length range. In some embodiments, UL ACK packets may be identified based on information for identifying such packets receiving via a cross-layer application program interface (API). In some embodiments, UL ACK packets based whether packets include a specified differentiated services field codepoint (DSCP) in a packet header portion that is not encrypted.
US11895033B2
Application Function (AF) influenced routing for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications is provided. Core network elements correlate PDU sessions and optimize the UP path for peer-to-peer traffic. UP selection, reselection, configuration or reconfiguration can be performed in support of P2P traffic routing. P2P traffic between a pair of UEs is routed or rerouted through a bridge. The bridge may be established between the first UP and the second UP, and/or between associated RAN nodes. One or more application functions can be included along the bridge path. A policy control function (PCF) directs underlying resources to route P2P traffic via the bridge, for example in response to a trigger from the AF. A session management function (SMF) directs underlying resources to configure or reconfigure user plane data paths to route P2P traffic via the bridge. First and second SMFs of the first and second UPs can cooperate to establish the desired traffic routing. One or more UPFs can be configured to support P2P traffic detection.
US11895029B2
Systems and methods for protecting external memory resources to prevent bandwidth collapse in a network processor. One embodiment is a network processor including an input port configured to receive packets from a source device, on-chip memory configured to store packets in queues, and external memory configured to provide a backing store to the on-chip memory. The network processor also includes a processor configured, in response to determining that the source device is unresponsive to a congestion notification, to reduce a size of one or more queues to prevent packets transferring from the on-chip memory to the external memory.
US11895026B2
A packet forwarding method, an apparatus, and a system for service function chaining (SFC)-based packet forwarding are disclosed. The packet forwarding method performed by a first service function forwarding node includes receiving a packet forwarding rule from a control node, where the packet forwarding rule indicating a mapping relationship between a match item of traffic characteristic information of a packet and route prefix information; receiving a first packet, where a header of the first packet carries traffic characteristic information of the first packet; determining, based on the packet forwarding rule, target route prefix information corresponding to the traffic characteristic information of the first packet; determining target next-hop information based on the target route prefix information, and forwarding the first packet based on the target next-hop information.
US11895022B2
A method of broadcasting an information packet in a network including a sender of the packet and a plurality of recipients connected by a network equipment of a routing server, the routing server including a physical computing system and a software system, and the physical computing system operating alternatively between a kernel mode and a user mode. The software system controls the implementation of a step of receiving the packet, and, for each recipient, a step of duplicating the packet. The software system also controls the implementation of a step of routing the packet thanks to an IP address of the recipient, and a step of sending the packet to the recipient, wherein each step is executed by the physical computing system in kernel mode.
US11895018B2
An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for routing a bursty data flow comprising a series of one or more data packets over a converged network comprising a plurality of communication networks, the method comprising, for each of the series of data packets in turn: selecting which one of the plurality of communication networks to transmit that data packet over by: (i) obtaining flow statistics indicating a current flow state of the bursty data flow; and (ii) selecting the one of the plurality of communication networks in dependence on said flow statistics; then initiating transmission of the data packet over that one of the plurality of communication networks. Further aspects relate to a data processing system, a computer program, a computer-readable data carrier and a data carrier signal.
US11895014B2
A communication method includes a first network device obtaining a first route and a second route from a second network device. A first network segment corresponding to the first route is a subnet segment of a second network segment corresponding to the second route. The second route is an aggregated route, and the first route indicates that the first network segment is unreachable. The first network device switches a next hop of the aggregated route based on the first route.
US11895012B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for switch management involves connecting switches to form a switch ring, and within the switch ring, configuring each of the switches to participate equally in network communications.
US11895006B2
According to a communication method, a local device and a peer device notify each other through a border gateway protocol (BGP) message whether the local device and the peer device have a control word processing capability. When the peer device also has a control word processing capability, the peer device uses a service packet to carry a control word. When the local device has no control word processing capability, no control word is carried when the peer device sends a service packet to the local device.
US11894988B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a logical network for a virtual storage appliance deployed in a cloud computing environment. The logical network may be associated with a cloud subnet network interface within the cloud computing environment. One or more logical network addresses may be allocated from the cloud subnet network interface within the cloud computing environment to the virtual storage appliance.
US11894980B2
A network quality detection method and device, a network element device, a computer device, and a computer readable medium. The method comprises: separately sending a subscription command to an ingress network element device and an egress network element device of a service flow, the subscription command comprising at least a detection type and a reporting period, so that network element devices bearing the service flow send data according to the detection type and the reporting period; receiving the data sent by the network element devices; determining the path of the service flow according to the data; and detecting the network quality of the path according to the data and a predetermined indicator threshold.
US11894979B2
Processing logic may obtain a configuration file of each of one or more proxies. Processing logic may parse the configuration file of each of the one or more proxies to determine one or more connections for each of the one or more proxies as defined by the configuration file. Each connection may support incoming or outgoing communication for each of the one or more proxies. Processing logic may generate a map that includes the one or more connections for each of the one or more proxies.
US11894971B2
Various aspects involve a lagged prediction model trained for risk assessment or other purposes. For instance, a risk assessment computing system receives a risk assessment query for a target entity and provides an input predictor record for the target entity to a lagged prediction model. The input predictor record includes a first group of lagged values from a first time-series attribute associated with the target entity. The lagged prediction model is trained by implementing a group feature selection technique configured to select the first time-series attribute as input and to deselect a second time-series attribute associated with the target entity. The risk assessment computing system computes an output risk indicator from the input predictor record and transmits the output risk indicator to a remote computing system. The output risk indicator can be used to control access by the target entity to one or more interactive computing environments.
US11894969B2
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing one or more root causes of service degradation events in a network or other environment. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of monitoring a plurality of overlying services offered in an underlying infrastructure having a plurality of resources arranged with a specific topology. In response to detecting a negative impact on the overlying services during a predetermined time window and based on an understanding of the specific topology, the method further includes the step of identifying suspect components from the plurality of resources in the underlying infrastructure. The method also includes the step of obtaining status information with respect to the suspect components to determine a root cause of the negative impact on the overlying services.
US11894959B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus described herein make a multi-level PAM signal (PAM-N signal) at a transmitter using CMOS-based components. By forming the PAM-N signal at the transmitter, receivers do not have to recombine and/or realign multiple signals and only employs a single transmission line channel (or two transmission line channels in differential implementations) to convey the data stream to the receiver from the transmitter.
US11894957B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of full duplex compensation with a self interference noise calculator. The self-interference noise calculator may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The self-interference noise calculator may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the self-interference noise calculator to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is received by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving.
US11894955B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and system for transmitting a sequence with low peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR). A communication system receives control data. A transmitter of the communication system comprises a plurality of sequences which are associated with the control data in the transmitter. The transmitter selects a sequence from the plurality of sequence. The selected sequence is rotated, pre-coded for generating pre-coded sequence. DFT is applied on the pre-coded sequence for generating frequency domain signals. The frequency domain signals are processed and corresponding waveform is transmitted to a receiver of the communication system. The receiver receives the waveform and is processed to extract the sequence from the waveform. The receiver correlates the extracted sequence with plurality of sequences stored in receiver memory to detect the control data. The generated waveform has low PAPR.
US11894952B2
A communication device for handling an uplink (UL) transmission with a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRSs) 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: selecting a SRS from a plurality of SRSs; performing a channel sensing procedure via a spatial relation associated with the SRS, to obtain a result; and performing an UL transmission via the spatial relation to a network according to the result.
US11894951B2
Methods, systems and devices for transmission link configuration using reference signal mapping in next generation cellular networks are described. An example method for wireless communication, based on the disclosed technology, includes transmitting data over at least one transmission link that is configured based on a mapping between two reference signals, each of which is configured with different subsets of one or more network parameters. Another example method includes dividing a plurality of SRS (sounding reference signal) resource sets into a plurality of groups based on network parameters of SRS resources or SRS resource sets, and transmitting, within one of the plurality of groups, only one SRS resource in each of multiple SRS resource sets at an identical time, where the SRS resources in different SRS resource sets can be transmitted simultaneously. The methods described may include beam management implementations for wireless communications.
US11894941B1
A computer-implemented process is programmed to programmatically receive, using a first computer system, electronic digital data representing input time-correlated speech data and video data, determine a first text sequence corresponding to the input time-correlated speech data, the first text sequence comprising unstructured natural language text, determining syntactic structure data associated with the first text sequence, inputting the time-correlated video data and the syntactic structure data associated with the first text sequence into one or more machine learning models, the machine learning models producing an output of one or more scores for at least a portion of the time-correlated video data and first text sequence, transforming the output of one or more scores to yield and output set of summary points and suggestions, and transmitting a graphical element of the output set of summary points and suggestions for display.
US11894937B2
There are provided measures for local user plane function control. Such measures exemplarily comprise obtaining access network related information, receiving, from a session management function entity, at least one pre-rule, generating, based on said at least one pre-rule and said access network related information, a first rule of at least one rule related to local traffic offloading, assigning said first rule to a first user plane function entity of at least one user plane function entity under control of said intermediate session management function entity, and transmitting said first rule to said first user plane function entity.
US11894930B1
A wireless communication method includes: monitoring a control channel candidate on the basis of at least one of a first offset value, a second offset value, and a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback state, wherein a time interval corresponding to the first offset value is associated with a timing advance (TA) value or round-trip time (RTT) of a terminal device, and a time interval corresponding to the second offset value is associated with acquisition of synchronization information of the terminal device.
US11894921B2
Techniques for signaling varied modulation and coding schemes for wireless communication are discussed. A method of wireless communication may comprise receiving, by a user equipment (UE), an indication to apply a modulation order cap to determine a first modulation and coding scheme for transmission of uplink control information different from a second modulation and coding scheme for transmission of data. The method may further comprise transmitting the uplink control information using the first modulation and coding scheme, wherein the first modulation and coding scheme is determined based, at least in part, on the received indication to apply the modulation order cap.
US11894919B2
A satellite signal processing method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, a first satellite signal of a first frequency band from at least one satellite of a constellation of satellites; receiving, at the user equipment, a second satellite signal of a second frequency band and from the at least one satellite of the constellation of satellites; and controlling an activation status of at least one of: a first satellite signal receive chain, of the user equipment, configured to measure the first satellite signal; or a second satellite signal receive chain, of the user equipment, configured to measure the second satellite signal.
US11894913B2
An airborne or spaceborne base station for a non-terrestrial cellular data communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the base station includes: a data transmission unit, a data reception unit, a memory element, and a data processing unit. The data transmission unit and the data reception unit are configured to establish one or more inter base station communication links with neighboring base stations of the non-terrestrial cellular data communication system. The data processing unit is configured to, in the memory element, store identifiers of neighboring airborne or spaceborne base stations of the non-terrestrial cellular data communication system with which the base station can exchange data via the one or more inter base station communication links. Furthermore, the data processing unit is configured to periodically update data describing a set of currently neighboring airborne or spaceborne base stations with which the base station can exchange data.
US11894912B2
Inventive technology is directed to a control method for a terminal device in a non-terrestrial cellular data communication network. In an embodiment, the network includes at least one airborne or spaceborne base station moving along a flight trajectory for connecting the terminal device to the network. The method includes steps of: providing flight trajectory data for the base station in a memory element of the terminal device; providing terminal location data in a memory element of the terminal device; using a data processing unit, determining at least one time slot during which a wireless communication channel between the terminal device and the base station is estimated to be available, based on the flight trajectory data and on the terminal location data. The method also includes scheduling a data reception or transmission between the terminal device and the base station during the determined time slot.
US11894908B2
A method for managing beam alignment by a user equipment is provided. The method comprises receiving beam width information and base station location information from a base station, calculating a displacement of location of the UE based on location coordinates of the UE, measuring a change in a signal strength of the UE due to the displacement, and determining whether the UE is moving towards or away from the base station using at least one of the beam width information, base station location information, the displacement, and the measured change in the signal strength, determining whether a beam re-alignment is required based on the determination of the movement of UE, and transmitting a realignment request to the base station for a re-aligned beam width and a new transmission beam based on determining that the beam re-alignment is required.
US11894902B1
Technologies directed to channel state information (CSI) sending in the 2.4 GHz band are described. A method includes receiving first CSI data representing channel properties of a first wireless channel used by first and wireless devices that operates in the 2.4 GHz band. The method receives second and third CSI data corresponding to second and third wireless channels. The method determines an inference probability of a motion or a non-motion condition in the geographical region based on an average probability of CSI samples from the first, second, and third CSI data.
US11894891B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to scheduled multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) acknowledgement. A device may determine a block acknowledgment schedule associated with one or more destination devices. The device may cause to send a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) frame including the block acknowledgment schedule. The device may identify one or more acknowledgment frames received from at least one of the one or more destination devices based on the block acknowledgment schedule.
US11894879B2
Methods and apparatuses for channel measurement are provided. A terminal receives received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement timing configuration (RMTC) parameters sent by a base station. The RMTC parameters may include indication information of at least one sub-carrier gap and a terminal measurement duration corresponding to the indication information. The different pieces of indication information may correspond to different terminal measurement durations. The terminal may further determine, according to the indication information of the at least one sub-carrier gap and the terminal measurement duration corresponding to the indication information, a target terminal measurement duration corresponding to at least one target sub-carrier gap to be measured. The terminal may also perform channel measurement according to the target terminal measurement duration.
US11894872B2
A network node in an optical network dynamically generates a routing table based on attributes of the optical network. The network node obtains attributes characterizing the optical network, which includes multiple network nodes connected by optical links. The network node calculates cost values for sending data from the network node to one or more next hop nodes that are connected to the network node. Each particular cost value is associated with a probability of success of sending the data to a particular next hop node based on a particular permutation of the attributes characterizing the optical network. The network node generates a routing table correlating the permutations of the attributes with each next hop node based on the cost values.
US11894867B2
A transmission device includes a signal source configured to output a local signal with a first frequency, a first amplifier configured to amplify the local signal output from the signal source, a first mixer configured to mix a first input signal with an intermediate frequency and the local signal amplified by the first amplifier and to output a first output signal, and a second mixer configured to mix the first output signal output from the first mixer and the local signal amplified by the first amplifier and to output a second output signal.
US11894866B2
Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques to reduce a direct current (DC) voltage offset between a transmitter and receiver. Embodiments include a shared reference voltage signal generated by a reference voltage source. The receiver may include a first unit gain buffer to receive a reference voltage signal from the reference voltage source. The transmitter may be communicatively coupled to the receiver via one or more connections and may include a second unit gain buffer communicatively coupled to the first unit gain buffer via one of the connections. An amplifier (e.g., an operation amplifier) of the transmitter may include multiple positive inputs coupled to the second unit gain buffer and an offset tracker. The offset tracker may compensate for a DC offset caused by at least a power supply and/or a ground bounce.
US11894864B2
In one embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter includes: a sum circuit to receive an analog input signal and a feedback reference signal and generate a sum signal; a feedback circuit coupled to the sum circuit to provide the feedback reference signal to the sum circuit; a filter coupled to the sum circuit to receive the sum signal and generate a filtered signal; and a punctured quantizer coupled to the filter to receive the filtered signal and quantize the filtered signal to a digital output and to output the digital output and to provide the digital output to the feedback circuit.
US11894860B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for correcting a result of a quantum computation. In one aspect, a method includes selecting a quantum error correcting code for the quantum computation, wherein the quantum error correcting code is defined by multiple stabilizer generators; determining a set of symmetry operators, comprising: selecting a subset of the stabilizer generators, determining, for each selected stabilizer generator, a sum between an identity operator and the stabilizer generator, and multiplying the determined sums together to form a summation of terms, wherein each term in the summation is equal to a respective symmetry operator; measuring a projective correction of a physical observable over an output quantum state of the quantum computation using the determined set of symmetry operators, wherein the physical observable corresponds to the result of the quantum computation; and determining a corrected result of the quantum computation using the measured projective correction of the physical observable.
US11894859B1
A team polar decoder (TPD) includes polar decoders (PPDs) connected to a channel, and a team decision maker (TDM) connected to the PPDs and a destination. Component polar decoders (CPDs) decode a polar code in accordance with a polar code. Each CPD receives a noisy code block (NCB) from the channel, and decodes the NCB in consecutive steps to obtain a decoded transform input block (DTIB). Each CPD is generates, at an end of the decoding step, a candidate decoded data block from the DTIB by a data-demapping operation that is an inverse of a data-mapping operation applied at a polar encoder, then sends the CDDB to the TDM, which receives the CDDBs from the PPDs, generates a decoded data block (DDB), and sends the DDB to the destination.
US11894847B1
Technologies for jitter extraction are described. A receiver device includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit includes an equalizer block to output current data based on samples from the ADC. A clock-recovery (CR) block includes a timing error detector (TED) or a phase detector to measure a sampling offset. The CR block can use the sampling offset to control sampling of subsequent data by the ADC. A jitter extraction block can use the sampling offset to re-sample the current data to obtain re-sampled data based on the sampling offset to remove jitter from the current data.
US11894838B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling a plurality of semiconductor circuit breakers by means of driver voltages for the synchronous operation of a plurality of loads in the high-voltage range, where the driver voltages can be provided by a transformer. According to the invention, the driver voltages for the semiconductor circuit breakers are tapped from a single secondary winding of the transformer, where electronic voltage level converter circuits are provided to obtain the driver voltages from the secondary winding of the transformer at the required magnitude.
US11894837B2
Provided is a gate driving apparatus, including: a gate driving unit for driving a gate of a switching device; a switching unit for switching a gate current of the switching device during, within a turn-on period of the switching device, at least a part of the period, which is after timing when a current starts to flow in the switching device, to a smaller current when compared to the gate current before at least a part of the period.
US11894836B2
An improved electro acoustic RF filter (FC) is provided. The RF filter comprises an electro acoustic resonator (EAR) connected between an input port and an output port, an impedance element and a damping and/or dissipation element (DE) in mechanical contact to the impedance element. The damping and/or dissipation element is provided and configured to remove acoustic energy from the impedance element which has a similar construction as the resonator on the same substrate. With such a construction an acoustically inactive impedance element (AIIE) is obtained.
US11894820B2
In one aspect, a time division interleaving band-pass filter can be used in voice activity detection, which operates at different central frequencies in respective intervals of a predetermined period of time. The band-pass filter circuitry includes multiple band-pass filtering channels sharing a common transistor circuit, bias circuit and current mirror circuit. The multiple band-pass filtering channels operate in a time division interleaving manner, which enables the sharing of the common set of band-pass filter circuitry components. Thus, the present invention allows a reduced chip area as the area does not increase proportionally with the number of filtering channels. The invention also mitigates the influence of transistor fabrication variations on the filter's central frequencies. Moreover, pulse durations ti are additionally introduced to the determination of the central frequencies, dispensing with the need for matching of current mirror circuits and transistors and resulting in higher accuracy of the band-pass filter's central frequencies.
US11894810B2
A circuit arrangement, including: a circuit configured to synthesize a resistor having a resistance value having a variation in time equivalent to a resistance variation of a sensor resistor applied with a resistance bias voltage and a resistance current bias, wherein the circuit includes: an amplifier comprising an input transistor; a bias current generator comprising a control node coupled to an output of the input transistor, wherein the bias current generator is configured to generate a bias current flowing in the input transistor; and a further current generator configured to generate a current at least proportional to the resistance bias current and coupled to the output of the input transistor, wherein the resistance bias voltage is applied to an input of the amplifier, and wherein a transconductance of the input transistor is at least proportional to the resistance of the sensor resistor.
US11894806B2
A method for testing a photovoltaic panel connected to an electronic module. The electronic module includes an input attached to the photovoltaic panel and a power output. The method activates a bypass to the electronic module. The bypass provides a low impedance path between the input and the output of the electronic module. A current is injected into the electronic module thereby compensating for the presence of the electronic module during the testing. The current may be previously determined by measuring a circuit parameter of the electronic module. The circuit parameter may be impedance, inductance, resistance or capacitance.
US11894802B2
A solar module racking system including a frame. The frame includes pre-wired receptacles for rapid assembly of solar modules. The frame receives and mechanically supports each solar module. The frame arranges the solar modules in a first planar direction, in a second planar direction, and in a vertical direction that is normal to the first and second planar directions. Each pre-wired receptacles individually and electrically connect each of the solar modules after insertion of that module into the frame. The solar module racking system provides a 2 by 1 by 1 configuration or a 1 by 2 by 1 configuration for the plurality of solar modules corresponding to the first planar direction, the second planar direction, and the vertical direction. A first module and a second module are arranged in the first planar direction or the second planar direction, respectively.
US11894792B2
A motor control device includes an energization control unit and an excessive return determination unit. The energization control unit controls energization to a motor. The excessive return determination unit determines whether or not there is a possibility of an excessive return exceeding an allowable return position, when a non-energization return control is performed to return a motor in a direction away from a movable limit position by an external force generated in the rotation transmission system by turning off the energization to the motor after driving the motor to the movable limit position where the drive is restricted by the drive limiting portion. When it is determined that there is no possibility of the excessive return, the energization is continuously turned off, and when it is determined that there is a possibility of the excessive return, a stop control configured to stop the motor by energizing is performed.
US11894790B2
A control substrate capable of effectively reducing noise input to a plurality of MOSFETs is provided. The control substrate includes at least three parallel snubber circuits (132, 134, and 135). Each of the parallel snubber circuits (132, 133, and 134) is connected in parallel with each of U-phase MOSFETs (126a and 126b), V-phase MOSFETs (127a and 127b), and W-phase MOSFETs (128a and 128b).
US11894787B2
A drive system for a BLDC motor having poles implemented by separate coils that are activated in corresponding phases, which comprises a controller for controlling the level and phase of input voltages supplied to the separate coils; a controlled inverter with outputs, for applying phase-separated input voltages to each of the separate coils at desired timing for each input voltage, determined by the controller; a power source for feeding power to the controlled inverter; an up/down DC-DC converter for converting the feeding power to the input voltages according to a command signal provided by the controller. The controller is adapted to sample the instantaneous angle of the rotor of the BLDC motor; sample the input voltage input voltage and the current of each phase to obtain the input power P; and for each input voltage, calculate the phase difference value that corresponds to the input power and feeds the phase difference value to the up/down DC-DC converter, thereby causing the up/down DC-DC converter to apply each input voltage to its corresponding coil at a specific timing for obtaining an optimal match between each input voltage and the current that is being built up in the corresponding coil.
US11894786B2
This application provides a permanent-magnet synchronous machine control method and device, and a permanent-magnet synchronous machine control system. The method includes: obtaining a d-axis current id and a q-axis current iq in a permanent-magnet synchronous machine control loop at a current moment; obtaining a fifth-order harmonic current id5th and a seventh-order harmonic current id7th in the d-axis current id in the permanent-magnet synchronous machine control loop at the current moment, and a fifth-order harmonic current iq5th and a seventh-order harmonic current iq7th in the q-axis current iq in the permanent-magnet synchronous machine loop at the current moment; determining a d-axis current idk+1 at a next moment in each switch state; determining a q-axis current iqk+1 at the next moment in each switch state based on the first current idk, the second current iqk, and the second voltage in each switch state; and determining a control policy of the permanent-magnet synchronous machine.
US11894782B2
The present invention provides a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) method for a Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converter. Each phase of the converter is provided with n Cascaded H-bridge rectifier circuits, or may also be provided with n Cascaded H-bridge rectifier circuits+1 redundant H-bridge rectifier circuit. The method includes following steps of: S1, generating groups of sinusoidal signals as reference waveforms, and generating n carrier signals having sequentially decreasing levels and equal amplitudes to correspond to the H-bridge rectifier circuit at the first to the nth levels, where the levels of the n carrier signals are cascaded to fill the voltage amplitude of a unipolar half cycle of the reference waveform; and S2, determining PWM signals for controlling power transistors of the corresponding H-bridge rectifier circuits based on each reference waveform and each carrier signal. According to the present invention, the CHB converter allows the MV grid to be directly coupled with a LV side without a conventional transformer, which reduces the heat loss and balances the distribution of heat loss between the power transistors and between the H-bridges at all levels, thus prolonging the service life.
US11894781B2
A housing and/or installation frameworks for a modular multi-level energy system includes a set of similar cabinets configured for orthogonal (e.g., vertical and horizontal) alignment of the modules. The cabinets are configured so modules of a particular phase are oriented along an axis parallel to a reference plane. Modules of the same level of the multi-level arrangement but of different phases are mounted in each cabinet, arranged such that a module for each phase is a defined distance from the reference plane. The cabinets are arranged equidistant and orthogonal to the reference plane, minimizing distance for connections between modules of the same phase across multiple cabinets, and facilitating convenient addition or removal of levels. The framework also facilitates data and reference signal connections between local control devices of the modules, and between the local control devices and a master control device for the system.
US11894773B2
A buck-boost circuit is provided. First terminals of a first switch and a second switch are connected to an anode of the input power supply, first terminals of a third switch and a first capacitor are connected to a second terminal of the first switch, a second terminal of the third switch is connected to a cathode of the input power supply, a first terminal of a fourth switch, a second terminal of the first capacitor, and a first terminal of a first inductor are connected to a second terminal of the second switch, a second terminal of the fourth switch is connected to the cathode of the input power supply, a second terminal of the first inductor is connected to a anode of an output power supply, and a second capacitor is connected in parallel between the anode and a cathode of the output power supply.
US11894765B2
The present disclosure provides a power conversion device. The power conversion device includes the multi-level power factor correction circuit, the at least one output capacitor, the at least one input capacitor group, the first resonant conversion circuit and the second resonant conversion circuit. The at least one input capacitor group includes the first input capacitor and the second input capacitor. The at least one output capacitor is connected to an output part of the multi-level power factor correction circuit. The at least one input capacitor group is connected to the at least one output capacitor in parallel. The second input capacitor is connected to the first input capacitor in series. The input part of the first resonant conversion circuit is connected to first input capacitor in parallel. The input part of the second resonant conversion circuit is connected to the second input capacitor in parallel.
US11894763B2
An inverter protection device is disclosed. An inverter protection device, which determines whether or not a pulse-width modulation (PWM) control signal provided to an inverter unit of an inverter is blocked in accordance with a voltage signal received from first and second switches of a safety relay which are parallelly connected, comprises: a first power switch which is switched to an on-state by means of a first voltage signal applied from the first switch; a second power switch which is switched to an on-state by means of a second voltage signal applied from the second switch; and a buffer unit which is on-off controlled in accordance with an output current of the first and second power switches and provides the PWM control signal to the inverter unit.
US11894754B2
A hand held power tool that includes a housing, a power source input configured to receive power from a power source, and a brushed motor located within the housing. The brushed motor is configured to receive power from the power source input. The brushed motor includes a first primary stator pole including a first pole neck and a first pole arc, a second primary stator pole including a second pole neck and a second pole arc, a first stator interpole including a first interpole neck, and a second stator interpole including a second interpole neck. The first stator interpole and the second stator interpole are each positioned between the first primary stator pole and the second primary stator pole.
US11894752B2
A brushless direct current motor of an electrical machining device includes a stator, a rotor, a fan and a flywheel. The rotor, the fan and the flywheel are arranged for conjoint rotation on a motor shaft of the brushless direct current motor. The flywheel is at least partly surrounded axially along the motor shaft by the fan. The brushless direct current motor may be incorporated in a hand-held power tool.
US11894751B2
A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, and a fourth flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The third flow path supplies a part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to the outer surface of a stator. The fourth flow path supplies the other part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to a hollow portion of a shaft. A minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the fourth flow path is smaller than a minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the third flow path.
US11894745B2
A vibrating motor includes a stationary portion, and a movable portion capable of vibrating with respect to the stationary portion along a center axis extending in a vertical direction. The stationary portion includes a bearing portion which extends along the center axis and supports the movable portion to be able to vibrate along the center axis, and a coil including a conductive wire wound around the center axis. The bearing portion includes a first region including a coil inner region on a radially inner side of the coil.
US11894744B2
A stator assembly for a brushless DC motor includes a stator core including stator poles and an outer surface, at least one magnet wire wound on the poles forming stator windings, and a bus bar including a non-conductive mount arranged on the outer surface and conductive terminals. Each conductive terminal includes: a main portion mounted on the non-conductive mount substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the motor, a tang portion folded over the main portion from a first longitudinal end of the main portion, and a connection tab at a second longitudinal end of the main portion. At least a contact portion of the at least one magnet wire is wrapped around the tang portion and fused to make an electric connection to the conductive terminal, and the connection tab makes electric contact with a wire supplying electric power to the motor.
US11894742B2
An electric machine system described herein comprises a first and second electric machines configured to drive a load. The first electric machine has a plurality of first rotors driven using electric power having a first phase. The second electric machine has a plurality of second rotors driven using electric power having a second phase. The second phase differs from the first phase. Each of one or more shafts connects a first rotor with a second rotor. The first rotor is coaxial with and axially spaced apart from the second rotor.
US11894735B2
A manufacturing method of fan stator structure includes the steps of providing a fan stator; providing a plurality of coil lead wire holders at an end of the fan stator; and winding lead wires on the fan stator to form coils, and setting and connecting a front end and a back end of each of the lead wires to the coil lead wire holders. The above method eliminates the drawbacks of the conventional fan stator coil winding operation, such as requiring manual twisting and trimming of the lead wire front ends and back ends and leaking of tin solder occurred during welding of the lead wires to a circuit board.
US11894731B2
A motor assembly includes a rotor and a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement has a sensor and a target. The target is applied to a surface of the rotor and the sensor is mounted on a bearing shield of the motor opposite the target.
US11894729B2
An assembly comprises an AC (alternating current) housing connection block and a plurality of inserts seated in the AC housing connection block, wherein for each of the inserts, an interface between the insert and the housing is continuous. A method includes inserting a plurality of inserts into a mold; and molding an AC (alternating current) housing connection block.
US11894726B2
In a rotating electric machine, a rotor core includes; a gap surface; a plurality of magnet insertion holes; a slit which is formed in a core region between the gap surface and, among the plurality of magnet insertion holes, a magnet insertion hole into which a permanent magnet forming one magnetic pole is inserted, and divides the core region into a plurality of divided core regions in the circumferential direction; and a cutout formed by denting the gap surface of a divided core region, wherein a shortest distance between a stator core imaginary gap surface which is in contact with distal end surfaces of the plurality of teeth, and a bottom point of the cutout is longer than a shortest distance between the stator core imaginary gap surface and each of two intersections between the cutout and the gap surface.
US11894725B2
Provided is a rotating electric machine (100) including a stator (1) and a rotor (2). The rotor (2) includes a plurality of stages of rotor units (201 and 202) stacked in an axial direction. Each of the rotor units (201 and 202) includes a pair of permanent magnets (21) and slits (22a and 22b) arranged in one or more rows. The slits (22a and 22b) has an arc-like shape. Both ends of the arc-like shape are located on an outer periphery side of the rotor (2). When an angle formed between two straight lines that connect positions of both ends of the arc-like shape and a rotation axis center of the rotor (2) is defined as an arc angle, at least one of the arc angle of the slit (22a) and the number of rows of the slits is different between at least two rotor units (201 and 202).
US11894718B2
A power system includes a base, two magnetic bearings mounted on the base, a shaft rotatably mounted on the two magnetic bearings, a flywheel mounted on the shaft, a motor connected with the flywheel, an uninterrupted power supply electrically connected with the motor, a utility power electrically connected with the uninterrupted power supply, a coupling connected with the shaft, a speed change device connected with the coupling, a generating device connected with the speed change device, a load electrically connected with the generating device, a recharge rectifier electrically connected with the uninterrupted power supply, and a reactor electrically connected with the recharge rectifier and the generating device. Thus, the enlarged torque of the flywheel provides the inertia power to enhance the generating power of the generating device.
US11894714B2
Provided is a power source system that can more easily realize a configuration that can support a plurality of charging methods and supply a relatively high voltage and a relatively low voltage based on power from a battery. A power source system is a system that is to be installed in a vehicle including a travel motor, and into which a charging current flows via a charging path when receiving supply of power from an external apparatus provided external to the vehicle. The power source system includes a first conductive path and a second conductive path that are electrically connected to the charging path and branch from the charging path, a first relay that is provided on the first conductive path, and a first DC/DC converter that performs voltage conversion.
US11894713B2
A voltage supply circuit includes a charging circuit, a window adjustment circuit, a driving voltage adjustment circuit, a sampling and feedback circuit and a storage circuit. The charging circuit includes a modulation input terminal for receiving a control voltage; and an energy supply terminal for selectively outputting a charging energy according to the control voltage. The window adjustment circuit is used to adjust the control voltage according to a sampling output voltage corresponding to an output voltage signal, and output the control voltage. The driving voltage adjustment circuit is used to keep the control voltage within a clamping voltage according to the output voltage signal. The sampling and feedback circuit is used to generate the output voltage signal according to a voltage at the energy supply terminal. The storage circuit is used to store the charging energy to pull up the voltage at the energy supply terminal.
US11894708B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for adjusting a maximum charge amount of a battery. Batteries have preferred usage parameters, such as charging rates, maximum charge amounts, heat, etc. Throughout a battery's lifespan, it is used in different ways that are outside of these parameters. This slowly degrades the quality of the battery. According to the present disclosure, this usage is monitored and accounted for so as to increase the lifespan of the battery and prevent or reduce further degradation. Specifically, the usage is separated into bins, such as temperature and voltage bins. Each bin is associated with a different weighting factors. The amount of time the battery has spent in each bin is multiplied by the corresponding weighting factors, and these values are summed to provide an overall degradation value of the battery. Charging or other aspects of the battery are then controlled according to this degradation value.
US11894702B2
The controller controls a cell selection circuit to electrically connect both ends of a cell to be discharged among n cells connected in series and both ends of the inductor for a predetermined time. Next, the controller controls the cell selection circuit to electrically cut off the n cells and the inductor, and turn on the clamp switch. Next, the controller turns off the clamp switch, and controls the cell selection circuit to electrically connect both ends of a cell to be charged among the n cells and both ends of the inductor for a predetermined time.
US11894696B2
In a method and an apparatus for detecting electrically conductive foreign bodies during inductive energy transmission between a primary coil (1) and a secondary coil (2), at least one sensor coil (5) is arranged between the primary coil (1) and the secondary coil (2), and a current flowing in the sensor coil (5) due to the induced voltage during the energy transmission is detected and evaluated. In this case, the sensor coil (5) is connected to at least one capacitor to form a resonant circuit which is matched to the excitation frequency of the primary coil (1). The phase position of the current in the resonant circuit in relation to a reference signal is then used to determine whether there are electrically conductive foreign bodies (4) between the primary coil (1) and the secondary coil (2). A high degree of sensitivity, also in relation to small electrically conductive foreign bodies within the energy transmission path, is achieved by means of the method and the apparatus.
US11894688B2
An electrical circuit for charging a DC voltage source from an AC voltage network. The circuit includes an input that is able to receive an AC voltage from the voltage network, and a first output able to be connected to the DC voltage source. An insulating stage formed using a plurality of capacitors is arranged so as to electrically insulate the input from the first output of the circuit. A frequency-raising stage is arranged between the input of the circuit and the insulating stage so that the capacitors of the insulating stage are in a circuit portion that has flowing through it an AC current at a frequency that is greater than that of the AC network.
US11894685B1
Disclosed herein are unique systems and processes to transport water or fluids within pipelines by generating electricity along various portions of the water pipeline route using micro hydroelectric turbines (also referred to herein as mini-turbines) placed in-line inside of (or adjacent to/parallel with) the pipeline at one or more distances. The mini-turbines are connected via wiring systems to the pump stations at the bottom of declines in the pipeline to generate electricity via gravity flow of the water through the pipeline, and then provide such electricity to a pump to propel or pump the water up inclined portions of the pipeline route. In this manner, water or fluids can be transported from a first location to a second location along significant distances through a pipeline while reducing the electrical consumption from a third-party electrical power grid.
US11894679B2
Methods, devices and systems for detecting an anomaly in a power network are described. A method for detecting an anomaly in a power network includes determining a baseline power usage in the power network, receiving data indicative of an active power usage in the power network, detecting an anomaly based on a difference between the baseline power usage and the active power usage, isolating a fault for an element in the power network, responsive to detecting the anomaly, and transmitting fault isolation information indicating the fault to a user device. Related devices and systems may perform operations of the method described herein.
US11894673B2
A circuit includes input terminals adapted to be coupled to a battery; a ground terminal; and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit coupled to the input terminals. The ESD protection circuit includes: a switch coupled between the ground terminal and the input terminals; and a control circuit coupled to the input terminals and to the switch. The control circuit is configured to: detect an ESD event at one of the input terminals; detect a transient voltage at one of the input terminals, in which the transient voltage is caused by an initial coupling of that input terminal to the battery; detect a condition in which the switch has been closed for longer than a threshold amount of time; close the switch responsive to the detected ESD event; and open the switch responsive to the detected transient voltage or the detected condition.
US11894672B2
A system for a wind turbine that includes a protection system interfaced to a circuit breaker system and a sensing system. The protection system is configured to determine an operational mode of the wind turbine by monitoring at least two parameters determine a parameter set comprising a plurality of operational parameters based on a determined operational mode, and an associated set of expected values corresponding to the parameter set, determine actual values corresponding to the determined parameter set, identify a fault condition in the event that the determined set of actual values of the operational parameters do not correspond to the determined set of expected values of the operational parameters, and implement a protection action based on the identified fault condition.
US11894658B2
The present disclosure relates to an approach for monitoring the output power of a VCSEL or VCSEL array in a relatively compact, low profile package. A VCSEL device or VCSEL package of the present disclosure may generally be configured with a photodiode for monitoring output power of one or more VCSELs. In some embodiments, one or more VCSEL devices may be arranged over or on a photodetector, such that the photodetector is configured to detect light emitted through a bottom of the VCSEL. In such embodiments, the VCSEL device may have a patterned bottom metal layer and/or an etched substrate to allow light to pass below or behind the VCSEL to the photodiode. In other embodiments, a photodetector may be arranged on a submount adjacent one or more VCSELs, and may be configured to detect light reflected via a diffuser in order to monitor output power.
US11894657B2
An embodiment pulse generator circuit comprises a first electronic switch coupled between first and second nodes, and a second electronic switch coupled between the second node and a reference node. An LC resonant circuit comprising an inductance and a capacitance is coupled between the first and reference nodes along with charge circuitry comprises a further inductance in a current flow line between a supply node and an intermediate node in the LC resonant circuit. Drive circuitry of the electronic switches repeats, during a sequence of switching cycles, charge time intervals, wherein the capacitance in the LC resonant circuit is charged via the charge circuit, and pulse generation time intervals, wherein a pulsed current is provided to the load via the first and second nodes. The charge and pulse generation time intervals are interleaved with oscillation time intervals where the LC resonant circuit oscillates at a resonance frequency.
US11894653B2
An optical apparatus includes: an optical component opposed to and spaced apart from a light-emitting surface through which laser light is emitted; a case that houses a semiconductor laser element and the optical component and includes an introduction port for introducing gas and an exhaust port for exhausting the gas; and a flow passage section (i.e., a tubular body) including a spray port for spraying the semiconductor laser element with the gas introduced from the introduction port.
US11894641B2
A coaxial tap in a hybrid fiber coaxial cable distribution system serves subscribers with an RF signal.
US11894639B2
There is provided a coaxial connector that can suitably bias a movable insulator to the side of a socket and maintain matched impedance. The coaxial connector includes a movable insulator that is fitted in a central conductor so as to be slidable and is housed in an insulator housing so as to be movable in an axial direction; and a biasing rubber member that is interposed between a partition disposed in the recesses of the insulator housing and the movable insulator. When the biasing rubber member connects the socket to the plug, the movable insulator is pushed in by a pushing force from a socket, and elastic pillars are bent in an arc shape.
US11894637B2
A connector for exactly two conductors that includes a forward connector body, a rear connector body, a metal frame and exactly one pair of electrical contacts. The rear connector body interfaces with the forward connector body. The metal frame surrounds at least a portion of both the forward connector body and the rear connector body. The metal frame including a shielding interface, wherein the metal frame is secured to the forward connector body with at least two retaining features. The exactly one pair of electrical contacts comprises a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact that extend from the rear connector body into the forward connector body.
US11894635B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals fastened in the insulating body, an elastic element mounted to a surface of the insulating body, a camshaft and a shell. The elastic element has a body portion, at least one elastic arm slantwise extended frontward and outward, and then extended frontward from one end of the body portion, at least one extension arm slantwise extended outward and rearward from at least one side of the body portion, and a tail portion slantwise extended upward and rearward from the other end of the body portion. The camshaft is arranged at a rear end of the insulating body. The camshaft has a rotating shaft and a cam portion. The cam portion is arranged corresponding to the tail portion. The shell surrounds the insulating body, the plurality of the terminals, the elastic element and the camshaft.
US11894630B2
A terminal block including a body, a plug, and a lever. The plug extends from the body to connect to an outlet. As the plug connects to an outlet, the plug is configured to receive an electrical pin and/or another conductor. In one example, the outlet and pin are part of an audio device. The body is configured to receive a wire and/or another conductor. The lever is configured to actuate between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the lever is configured to compress an internal spring to receive a wire. In the closed position, the lever is configured to release the spring such as to retain the wire.
US11894617B2
A rotating controlling method for an antenna, the steps includes collecting parameters for indicating signal strength of the antenna; and determining an optimal radiation position of the antenna and setting the corresponding value of a repulsive force or an attractive force so that the antenna is rotated to the optimal radiation position.
US11894615B2
A control system is presented for controlling operation of a phased-array antenna comprising N antenna elements each comprising H and V polarization terminals. The control system includes: an analogue circular polarization system (ACTS) and a digital polarization control system (DPCS). The ACPS comprises an array of N analogue circular polarization circuits (ACPCs) associated with said N antenna elements, respectively, such that each ACPC is connectable to the V and H polarization terminals of the respective antenna element. The ACPS is configured and operable with N analog circular polarization signal components each being either left or right circular polarization signal. The DPCS comprises: an array of N convertors associated with said N ACPCs, respectively, for converting between the N analog circular polarization (ACP) signals and N respective digital circular polarization (DCP) signals, such that each antenna element is associated with a respective single one of said N convertors; an array of N digital polarization controlled beamformers (DPCBs) connectable to said N convertors; and a plurality of digital signal splitters and/or combiners. Each DPCB comprises at least two beam forming channels associated with at least two, first and second, respective beams of different beam directions and/or different polarizations being operated by the antenna element, and is configured and operable to apply phase shifting to the respective DCP signal based on data indicative of a beaming direction (α) of a respective beam to be operated and the left or right polarization of circular polarization signal, and a relative phase (Φ) associated with the beaming direction (α) and a location of the respective antenna element in the array, to thereby form at least two phase shifted signals corresponding to said at least two, first and second, respective beams. Digital signal splitters and/or combiners operate to separately combine the phase shifted signals corresponding to respectively the at least first and second beams, wherein at least two convertors of said N convertors are connected to a respective one of the signal splitters and/or combiners, and wherein each digital splitter and/or combiner, connected to the at least two converters, converts between the DCP signals of opposite left and right circular polarizations of the at least two convertors and V and H linear polarization components and splits and/or combines the opposite left and right circular polarization signals of the at least two convertors.
US11894608B2
An electronic device may have a phased antenna array. An antenna in the array may include a rectangular patch element with diagonal axes. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds coupled to the patch element along the diagonal axes. The antenna may be rotated at a forty-five degree angle relative to other antennas in the array. The antenna may have one or two layers of parasitic elements overlapping the patch element. For example, the antenna may have a layer of coplanar parasitic patches separated by a gap. The antenna may also have an additional parasitic patch that is located farther from the patch element than the layer of coplanar parasitic patches. The additional parasitic patch may overlap the patch element and the gap in the coplanar parasitic patches. The antenna may exhibit a relatively small footprint and minimal mutual coupling with other antennas in the array.
US11894595B2
Example embodiments relate to substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) transitions. An example SIW may include a dielectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a first metallic layer portion coupled to the top surface of the dielectric substrate that includes a single-ended termination, an impedance transformer, and a metallic rectangular patch located within an open portion in the first metallic layer portion such that the open portion forms a non-conductive loop around the metallic rectangular patch. The SIW also includes a second metallic layer portion coupled to the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and metallic via-holes electrically coupling the first metallic layer to the second metallic layer. The SIW may be implemented in a radar unit to couple antennas to a printed circuit board (PCB). In some examples, the SIW may be implemented with only a non-conductive opening that lacks the metallic rectangular patch.
US11894591B2
Electrochemical cells and batteries that can operate with a single electrolyte solution, such as those comprising an anode, a cathode current collector, and a porous, non-conductive spacer between the cathode current collector and anode. Membraneless electrochemical cells and batteries are also disclosed. The electrochemical cells and batteries disclosed herein may be used, for example, to produce electricity or to generate hydrogen or both, and to deliver electricity or hydrogen or both to process applications.
US11894587B2
The invention relates to a method for line pressure monitoring, in particular for detecting leaks, in a bidirectionally used line section (40a) of a connection line unit (40) in an energy system (10), in particular in a domestic energy system, as well as an energy system (10) of this type, wherein a first energy source unit (21) and a first energy sink unit (22) are positioned on the first side (43) of the bidirectional line section (40a), and wherein a second energy source unit (31) and a second energy sink unit (32) are positioned on the second side (44) of the bidirectional line section (40a). In order to provide a secure monitoring of a bidirectional line, according to the invention, using two pressure measuring devices (50, 51) positioned spatially separate from one another in the bidirectional line section (40a), a first pressure (P1) and a second pressure (P2) present at the locations of the pressure measuring devices (50, 51) are detected, and, in particular in a control device (60) of the energy system (10), a monitoring of the line pressure in the bidirectional line section (40a) is carried out by means of an evaluation of the pressures (P1, P2) detected by the pressure measuring devices (50, 51), wherein the detected pressures (P1, P2) are placed in relation to one another in different ways.
US11894583B2
A box body includes a carrying plate configured to carry a battery and a one-way gravity valve disposed at the carrying plate. The one-way gravity valve is configured to be closed in response to a gravity of liquid in the box body being less than a threshold, and to be open in response to the gravity of the liquid in the box body reaching the threshold.
US11894578B2
The application relates to a battery module, a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery module includes: secondary batteries, in which two or more secondary batteries are arranged side by side in an arrangement direction; a busbar arranged on a top of the secondary batteries and electrically connected to at least two of the secondary batteries; a sampling assembly including a sampling circuit board arranged on the top of the secondary batteries and a sampling leg extending from the sampling circuit board toward the busbar, the sampling leg and the busbar being welded to form a welded zone; a connector, the sampling leg and the busbar being connected by the connector, the connector being located at a side of the welded zone close to the sampling circuit board.
US11894570B2
A load applicator includes an elastic mechanism, a first member configured to move in accordance with contraction of power storage cells, a second member provided on a side opposite to the first member across the elastic mechanism, and a switching device. The elastic mechanism has a first form in which a first restraint load is applied to the power storage module when the power storage module expands by a first dimension, and a second form in which a second restraint load larger than the first restraint load is applied to the power storage module when the power storage module expands by the first dimension. The switching device performs an operation to switch from the first form to the second form in a case where a restraint load smaller than the first restraint load is applied to the power storage module when the power storage module expands by the first dimension.
US11894568B2
This application relates to a secondary battery, a battery column, and an apparatus. The secondary battery includes a top cover plate, having an outer surface and an inner surface disposed opposite each other in a thickness direction of the top cover plate and an electrode lead-out hole extending along the thickness direction; a pole, disposed in the electrode lead-out hole, where the pole includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are stacked along a direction from the inner surface to the outer surface; an insulation member, disposed between the top cover plate and the pole; and a first bonding layer, disposed between the insulation member and the first metal layer, where the insulation member is hermetically connected to the first metal layer through the first bonding layer.
US11894562B2
Provided herein are three-dimensional ion transport networks and current collectors for electrodes of electrochemical cells. Exemplary electrodes include interconnected layers and channels including an electrolyte to facilitate ion transport. Exemplary electrodes also include three dimensional current collectors, such as current collectors having electronically conducting rods, electronically conducting layers or a combination thereof.
US11894557B2
A positive active material includes a secondary particle in which a plurality of primary particles is agglomerated. The positive active material is composed of, in which a compound containing nickel, lithium, and oxygen. An average angle between a reference line connecting a center portion of the secondary particle and a center portion of the primary particle provided at the outermost portion of the secondary particle and a particle orientation line penetrating the center portion of the primary particle provided at the outermost portion of the secondary particle and extending in parallel to an orientation direction of the primary particles is 12.2° or less. A concentration of the nickel in the compound is 59 mol % or more. The compound further includes an added metal composed of a different element from the nickel and the lithium. The added metal includes one or more of boron (B) and tungsten (W).
US11894555B2
A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery containing lithium nickel manganese complex oxide particles, wherein the lithium nickel manganese complex oxide particles are composed of secondary particles in which primary particles of a lithium nickel manganese complex oxide represented by a general formula LidNi1−a−b−cMnaMbZrcO2+α (where M is at least one element selected from Co, W, Mo, Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, Cr, and Ta, and is 0.05≤a<0.60, 0≤b<0.60, 0.00003≤c≤0.03, 0.05≤a+b+c≤0.60, 0.95≤d≤1.20, and −0.2≤α≤0.2), wherein at least a portion of zirconium is dispersed in the primary particle, and wherein an amount of a positive active material for a lithium ion secondary battery in which an amount of excessive lithium determined by a neutralization titration method is 0.02 mass % or more and 0.09 mass % or less.
US11894551B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising at least Si and Al, including a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and a proportion of the Al to a total of the Si and the Al is 0.1 atm % or more and 1 atm % or less.
US11894544B2
A method for renovation of a consumed anode in a metal-air cell without dismantling the cell according to embodiments of the present invention comprising circulating electrolyte through the cell to evacuate used slurry from the cell, circulating electrolyte with fresh slurry into the cell and allowing sedimentation of the fresh slurry inside the cell to form an anode and compacting the slurry to reduce the gaps between its particles. A meta-air cell enabling renovation of a consumed anode without dismantling the cell defining first outer face of the cell, air cathode layer adjacent the porous wall, separator wall disposed on the inner face of the air cathode layer, cell space volume to contain electrolyte and metal granules slurry, current collector layer to form an anode, made of current conductive material disposed in the space and flexible wall defining a second outer face of the cell wherein the flexible wall is adapted to be pushed towards inside of the cell subject to pressure applied to its outer face, thereby to reduce the volume of the space.
US11894542B2
To lower electrical resistance by increasing the interfacial surface area and the adhesion between a current collector and an active material or an electrolyte, or between the active material and the electrolyte in an all-solid-state battery. In addition, to improve battery performance by eliminating or minimizing residual carbon originating from a binder. A slurry, composed of an electrode active material and a solvent, and a slurry, composed of electrolyte particles and a solvent, can be impacted against a target and thereby attached thereto to form a high-density layer and improve adhesion. Moreover, residual carbon is eliminated or minimized by eliminating or minimizing the content of binders, thereby improving battery performance.
US11894540B2
A battery electrode composition is provided that comprises a composite material comprising one or more nanocomposites. The nanocomposites may each comprise a planar substrate backbone having a curved geometrical structure, and an active material forming a continuous or substantially continuous film at least partially encasing the substrate backbone. To form an electrode from the electrode composition, a plurality of electrically-interconnected nanocomposites of this type may be aggregated into one or more three-dimensional agglomerations, such as substantially spherical or ellipsoidal granules.
US11894538B2
A fuel cell-battery system includes: a battery module including a battery that stores electric power and a coolant line through which coolant circulates to cool the battery; a fuel cell module including a hydrogen tank that stores hydrogen, a fuel cell that produces the electric power using the hydrogen, and a hydrogen line that connects the hydrogen tank and the fuel cell to deliver the hydrogen from the hydrogen tank to the fuel cell; and a heat exchange module through which the coolant line and the hydrogen line pass such that the coolant is cooled by heat exchange with the hydrogen and the hydrogen is heated by heat exchange with the coolant.
US11894535B2
A battery management support device that is configured to acquire information on an electric vehicle including a battery that is rechargeable with electric power received from an external power supply. The information includes at least information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating a temperature of the battery, information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating an electrical connection state between the electric vehicle and the external power supply, and information when the electric vehicle is parked indicating an operation state of a cooling device for the battery.
US11894533B2
An electric vehicle includes a drive unit fitted to a rear axle of the electric vehicle to transmit drive power generated by a motor to rear wheels of the electric vehicle, an auxiliary electric device group including a plurality of auxiliary electric devices disposed in a cab area which is disposed under a cab of the electric vehicle and between side rails which constitute a ladder frame of the electric vehicle, a battery pack disposed between the drive unit and the auxiliary electric device group and between the side rails, a power distribution device disposed on an auxiliary electric device group side of the battery pack and between the side rails to distribute power from the battery pack to the auxiliary electric devices, and a drive power supply device disposed on a drive unit side of the battery pack to supply power from the battery pack to the motor.
US11894530B2
A method includes processing at least one battery into a plurality of core sections. Each core section in the plurality of core sections includes an anode section, a cathode section including a cathode material, a separator section disposed between the anode section and the cathode section, and an electrolyte. The method also includes disposing the plurality of core sections into a solvent so as to produce a mixture of cathode materials from the plurality of core sections. The solvent and the electrolyte form an ionic conductive medium, and the mixture of the cathode materials is characterized by a substantially homogeneous distribution of an active element in the cathode material.
US11894528B2
One embodiment provides a battery pack including a housing, a plurality of battery cells supported by the housing, and a terminal block. The terminal block is configured to be coupled to a power tool to provide operating power from the plurality of battery cells to the power tool. The terminal block has a positive power terminal, a charging terminal, and a ground terminal. The battery pack also includes a charging circuit provided between the charging terminal and the plurality of battery cells. The charging circuit is configured to receive and transfer charging current above 12 Amperes to the plurality of battery cells during charging. The charging circuit includes a charging switch and a fuse coupled between the charging terminal and the charging switch.
US11894526B2
The present disclosure relates to a smart battery. The smart battery includes a battery shell, layered cells, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an embedded multi-source sensor group and an intelligent chip. The smart battery can detect the temperature and the pressure of the core of the battery and the current of the battery in real time by using the intelligent chip and the embedded multi-source sensor group, thereby realizing a real-time monitoring of the working state and safety state of the battery, and improving a safety and the reliability of the battery on the basis of realizing the self-sensing function of the battery. The modification to the conventional battery structure by adding the intelligent chip and the embedded multi-source sensor group makes up the gap in research and development, manufacturing and production of the smart battery on the premise of ensuring that the battery volume remains unchanged.
US11894524B2
This application provides a positive electrode plate and an electrochemical apparatus and device associated therewith. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a safety layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the positive electrode current collector. The safety layer includes a binding substance, a conductive substance, and a special sensitive substance, where the special sensitive substance is at least one product of esterification of polysaccharide in which a degree of esterification of monosaccharide units is 35% to 98%. The electrochemical apparatus prepared by using the positive electrode plate of this application has significantly improved safety and electrical performance (such as cycling performance).
US11894522B2
A manufacturing method of a laminated power storage device disclosed herein includes a step A of preparing an electrode body to which an electrode terminal is connected, a step B of preparing a laminated film, a step C of building a power storage device assembly in which the electrode body is covered with the laminated film and is sealed, and a step D of placing the power storage device assembly in a predetermined reduced-pressure atmosphere. The power storage device assembly has a welding portion in which the laminated films are stacked and welded together in a state in which part of the electrode terminal is protruded to the outside from between the laminated films around the electrode body. A pressure of the reduced-pressure atmosphere in the step D is set so as to guarantee that a weld strength of the welding portion is not less than a predetermined strength.
US11894519B2
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising linear carbonate compounds.
US11894517B2
Methods of reducing acid stratification with an acid-soluble and acid-stable polymer with a high molecular weight are disclosed herein. Electrolytes and separators for an energy storage device are disclosed herein. The separator includes a coating containing an acid-soluble and acid-stable polymer with a high molecular weight. The electrolyte includes sulfuric acid and an acid-soluble and acid-stable polymer with a high molecular weight. Methods of making the separators disclosed herein and methods of making batteries are also disclosed herein.
US11894515B2
Gel polymer electrolyte compositions including a cross-linked three-dimensional polymer network and an electrolyte composition comprising an electrolyte and water are disclosed. The gel polymer electrolyte compositions can be included in an aqueous electrochemical cell, in which a gel polymer electrolyte can be positioned between an anode and a cathode. Methods of forming a gel polymer electrolyte in the form of a film, and methods of forming an aqueous electrochemical cell including a gel polymer electrolyte, are also disclosed.
US11894502B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor optical device of this disclosure includes the steps of forming an etch stop layer on an InP growth substrate, the etch stop layer having a thickness of 100 nm or less; and forming a semiconductor laminate on the etch stop layer by stacking a plurality of InGaAsP-based III-V group compound semiconductor layers containing at least In and P. Further, an intermediate article of a semiconductor optical device of the present disclosure includes an InP growth substrate; an etch stop layer formed on the InP growth substrate, the etch stop layer having a thickness of 100 nm or less; and a semiconductor laminate formed on the etch stop layer, including a plurality of InGaAsP-based III-V group compound semiconductor layers containing at least In and P stacked one another.
US11894491B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer; a first reflective layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and including a plurality of vias; a plurality of contact structures respectively filled in the vias and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second reflective layer including metal material formed on the first reflective layer and contacting the contact structures; a plurality of conductive vias surrounded by the semiconductor stack; a connecting layer formed in the conductive vias and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; a first pad portion electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a second pad portion electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, wherein a shortest distance between two of the conductive vias is larger than a shortest distance between the first pad portion and the second pad portion.
US11894489B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active region, a p-type or n-type layer, and a first metal element-containing structure. The first semiconductor layer has a surface including a first portion and a second portion. The active region is located on the first portion and includes AlGaInAs, InGaAsP, AlGaAsP or AlGaInP. The p-type or n-type layer includes an oxygen element (O) and a metal element, and is located on the second portion. The first metal element-containing structure is located on the p-type or n-type layer. The p-type or n-type layer physically contacts the first metal element-containing structure and the first semiconductor layer.
US11894485B2
A wire bonding system attaches wires to a solar cell wafer. The wire bonding system includes a feed tube through which a wire is drawn. Rollers contact the wire through openings in the feed tube to facilitate movement of the wire. The wire bonding system includes a soldering heater tip and a wire cutter. The solar cell wafer is placed on a platform, which moves the solar cell wafer. The system has multiple lanes for attaching multiple wires to the solar cell wafer at the same time in parallel operations.
US11894484B2
A solar cell chip arrangement machine includes a feeding mechanism and a slicing mechanism. The feeding mechanism includes a whole battery piece. A push block is connected to the back of the whole battery piece, and a pressing plate is arranged above the front of the whole battery piece. The slicing mechanism is arranged on the pressing plate above the front of the whole battery piece. The slicing mechanism includes a vacuum sucker, a guide plate, a guide plate slide rail, a positioning block, a positioning block slide rail, a cylinder, a fixed plate, and a vacuum generator. The positioning block is arranged on the positioning block slide rail, a pulley is arranged on the positioning block, and the guide plate is provided with a limit slot corresponding to the pulley. The vacuum sucker is arranged on the positioning block, and the vacuum sucker is connected to the vacuum generator.
US11894471B2
Provided are a photoelectric chip, a manufacturing method and an installation method, which relate to the field of optical communication and transmission technologies. The chip is provided with a light-splitting groove (3), and the light-splitting groove (3) runs through an absorption layer (2) of the chip; the back of the chip is a light-entering side; the light-splitting groove (3) is configured to transmit and split out part (151) of incident light (15), and the other part (152) of the incident light (15) enters the absorption layer (2) for photovoltaic conversion. The photoelectric chip can split light and monitor optical power of the incident light.
US11894470B2
An optical sensor includes a substrate, a photoelectric element disposed on the substrate and that includes a first electrode, an intermediate layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the intermediate layer, a barrier layer disposed on the second electrode, an insulating layer that covers the photoelectric element and the barrier layer, and a bias electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the second electrode. The barrier layer is spaced apart from the first electrode.
US11894466B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, and a conductive layer; the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer are stacked in this order over the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the first insulating layer is located inward from an end portion of the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the metal oxide layer is located inward from the end portion of the first insulating layer; and an end portion of the conductive layer is located inward from the end portion of the metal oxide layer. The second insulating layer is preferably provided to cover the semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer. It is preferable that the semiconductor layer include a first region, a pair of second regions, and a pair of third regions; the first region overlap with the first insulating layer and the metal oxide layer; the second regions between which the first region is sandwiched overlap with the first insulating layer and not overlap with the metal oxide layer; the third regions between which the first region and the pair of second regions are sandwiched not overlap with the first insulating layer; and the third regions be in contact with the second insulating layer.
US11894463B2
An integrated circuit includes a fin active region protruding from a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on an upper surface of the fin active region, a gate electrode that surrounds the plurality of semiconductor patterns and includes a main gate part on an uppermost one of the plurality of semiconductor patterns and sub gate parts between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a spacer structure on a sidewall of the main gate part, and a source/drain region at a side of the gate electrode. The source/drain region is connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns and contacts a bottom surface of the spacer structure. A top portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a first width. A bottom portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a second width smaller than the first width.
US11894452B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a nitride semiconductor layer; an insulating layer; a first region disposed between the nitride semiconductor layer and the insulating layer and containing at least one element of hydrogen and deuterium; and a second region disposed in the nitride semiconductor layer, adjacent to the first region, and containing fluorine.
US11894446B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure is formed over a substrate. The fin structure is sculpted to have a plurality of non-etched portions and a plurality of etched portions having a narrower width than the plurality of non-etched portions. The sculpted fin structure is oxidized so that a plurality of nanowires are formed in the plurality of non-etched portions, respectively, and the plurality of etched portions are oxidized to form oxides. The plurality of nanowires are released by removing the oxides.
US11894445B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a semiconductor device, the method including forming a plurality of semiconductor arrangements one above the other, wherein forming each of the plurality of semiconductor arrangements includes forming a semiconductor layer, forming a plurality of trenches in a first surface of the semiconductor layer, and implanting dopant atoms of at least one of a first type and a second type into at least one of a first sidewall and a second sidewall of each of the plurality of trenches. Forming of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor arrangements further includes forming a protective layer covering mesa regions between the plurality of trenches of the respective semiconductor layer, and covering a bottom, the first sidewall and the second sidewall of each of the plurality of trenches that are formed in the respective semiconductor layer.
US11894438B2
A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET). The FET includes a first channel, a first source and a first drain; a second channel, a second source and a second drain; and a gate structure disposed over the first and second channels. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer. The first source includes a first crystal semiconductor layer and the second source includes a second crystal semiconductor layer. The first source and the second source are connected by an alloy layer made of one or more Group IV element and one or more transition metal elements. The first crystal semiconductor layer is not in direct contact with the second crystal semiconductor layer.
US11894437B2
The present disclosure describes a method for forming metallization layers that include a ruthenium metal liner and a cobalt metal fill. The method includes depositing a first dielectric on a substrate having a gate structure and source/drain (S/D) structures, forming an opening in the first dielectric to expose the S/D structures, and depositing a ruthenium metal on bottom and sidewall surfaces of the opening. The method further includes depositing a cobalt metal on the ruthenium metal to fill the opening, reflowing the cobalt metal, and planarizing the cobalt and ruthenium metals to form S/D conductive structures with a top surface coplanar with a top surface of the first dielectric.
US11894434B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor channel layer, a semiconductor barrier layer, a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a dielectric layer. The semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the substrate, and the semiconductor barrier layer is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate electrode is disposed on the semiconductor barrier layer. The first electrode is disposed at one side of the gate electrode. The first electrode includes a body portion and a vertical extension portion. The body portion is electrically connected to the semiconductor barrier layer, and the bottom surface of the vertical extension portion is lower than the top surface of the semiconductor channel layer. The dielectric layer is disposed between the vertical extension portion and the semiconductor channel layer. The first electrode is a conformal layer covers the semiconductor barrier layer and the dielectric layer.
US11894414B2
A display device may include a substrate including pixels; a first bank that defines an emission area of the pixels; a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other in the emission area; a first insulating layer disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode; light emitting elements disposed on the first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second insulating layer disposed on the first bank; a first opening passing through the first insulating layer; and a second opening passing through the second insulating layer. The first opening and the second opening may overlap the first bank.
US11894413B2
A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device including the steps of forming a substrate having a support face; forming a first series of first areas adapted to the formation of all or part of light-emitting diodes, forming a second series of second areas on the support face, adapted to the formation of light confinement wall elements capable of forming a light confinement wall, the second areas defining therebetween sub-pixel areas; forming, from the first areas, light-emitting diodes; forming, by the same technique as in the previous step, from the second areas, light confinement wall elements, concomitantly with all or part of the light-emitting diodes which are formed in the previous step.
US11894407B2
Provided are an imaging apparatus and an electronic device in which even if an image sensor is mounted on a wiring board, the wiring board on which the image sensor is mounted can be assembled to a housing with high accuracy. Provided is an imaging apparatus including a sensor chip and a wiring board having a glass base material. The imaging apparatus is joined to at least one of the sensor chip or the wiring board via a bump unit including a plurality of bumps, and each of the plurality of bumps is formed by conductive members having substantially the same composition.
US11894406B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor layer on which a plurality of pixels are arranged along a light-receiving surface being a main surface of the semiconductor layer, photoelectric conversion units provided for the respective pixels in the semiconductor layer, and a trench element isolation area formed by providing an insulating layer in a trench pattern formed on a light-receiving surface side of the semiconductor layer, the trench element isolation area being provided at a position displaced from a pixel boundary between the pixels.
US11894398B2
A photodetector, includes a photosensitive layer, a thin film transistor, and a sensing electrode, the sensing electrode connected to one of source/drain electrodes of the thin film transistor to transmit a signal generated by the photosensitive layer to the thin film transistor; wherein the photodetector further is a hydrogen barrier layer which is disposed between the photosensitive layer and the thin film transistor and is configured to inhibit hydrogen of the photosensitive layer from entering the thin film transistor. A method of manufacturing a photodetector is further provided.
US11894394B2
An array substrate, a method for preparing the array substrate, and a backlight module are disclosed. Before electroplating a first metal layer on a pattern of a seed layer, the method further includes: forming a pattern of a compensation electrode wire electrically connected with a lead electrode on a side, where the lead electrode is formed, of a base substrate. The compensation electrode wire is at least on a second side of a wiring region, the pattern of the lead electrode is formed at a first side of the wiring region, and the first side and the second side are different sides. In the electroplating process, the lead electrode is connected with a negative pole of a power supply, the compensation electrode wire is electrically connected with the lead electrode, thus an area of an electroplating negative pole generating electric field lines is increased by utilizing the compensation electrode wire.
US11894389B2
Provided is a display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a display device. The display substrate includes a pad bending region. In the pad bending region, the display substrate includes a base, and an inorganic insulating layer and a metal layer laminated on the base. The metal layer includes a plurality of discrete metal wires. The inorganic insulating layer includes a plurality of discrete first inorganic insulating layers, each of which is arranged between each of the plurality of discrete metal wires and the base.
US11894383B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first dummy source/drain, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a second dummy source/drain. The first transistor and a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor are at a first elevation. The first dummy source/drain is disposed at the first elevation. The third transistor and a fourth transistor adjacent to the third transistor, are at a second elevation different from the first elevation. The second dummy source/drain is disposed at the second elevation. The second transistor is vertically aligned with the third transistor. The first dummy source/drain is vertically aligned with a source/drain of the fourth transistor. The second dummy source/drain is vertically aligned with a source/drain of the first transistor. The gate structure between the second dummy source/drain and a source/drain of the third transistor is absent. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also provided.
