US11900764B2
Embodiments disclosed herein concern messaging for gaming apparatus. Gaming apparatus that are operated by dealers can also be controlled, managed, monitored or enhanced by an electronic control system. Through such electronic control, gaming apparatus can be providing with relevant information for presentation at or proximate to the gaming apparatus. The electronic control system can present the relevant information on a display device as messages or notifications to dealers, managers and/or players. The electronic control system can also provide or facilitate monitoring of dealer status or actions and/or gaming apparatus status or events, such that the relevant information be presented can signal such status or actions.
US11900760B2
Various aspects disclosed herein are directed to different systems and methods for providing a universal, adjustable printer bezel assembly which is compatible for use with a plurality of different types of ticket printer devices from different ticket printer manufacturers.
US11900757B2
A gaming machine provides an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The operation unit is an operation of the player. The display unit displays a display area with a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. The control unit allows a player to establish a wager, to establish one of a plurality of predefined subsets of the cells as a feature area as a function of the wager and to provide a game in response to player operation. The control unit randomly selects a plurality of symbols associated with the display area. Each symbol in the plurality of symbols is associated with one of the plurality of cells in the grid. The plurality of symbols forming an outcome of the game; detect an occurrence of a predetermined symbol in the feature area; and provide a game feature as a function of the occurrence of the predetermined symbol.
US11900756B2
A vending machine includes a housing defining a product compartment and a front wall having a transparent portion. A platform is arranged within the product compartment of the vending machine for storing a product thereon, and the platform includes a first end opposite a second end. The vending machine further includes a product release mechanism that includes a gate arranged on the platform and movable from a closed position to an open position to release the product from the platform. A delivery bin having an open front end is arranged below the platform such that when the first gate is moved to the open position, the product falls under a force of gravity from the platform into the delivery bin for access by a consumer.
US11900754B2
A method including correcting output of an image sensor unit based on correction information of the image sensor unit that captures and discriminates a paper sheet. A apparatus includes an image sensor unit which includes an image capturing element that captures a banknote so as to discriminate the banknote, a controller that controls the image sensor unit, and a first attachment part, to which the image sensor unit is attached to be detachable, and which includes a connection terminal that connects the image sensor unit and the controller with each other, and which is arranged in a conveyance path for conveying the banknote.
US11900751B2
The invention relates to an electronic access pass allowing a person associated with the pass to access at least one restricted-access area of a building, and to a method implemented by such a pass for accessing a restricted-access area of a building. According to some embodiments, when a pass reader authorizes access to said area after reading the pass, information selected on the basis of the restricted-access area is temporarily displayed on the pass. This makes it possible to identify the carrier within the area based on the information displayed on the pass, while at the same time limiting the possibility of information being recovered through a simple glance outside the area. Overall security is thereby improved as a result, both within the area and outside it, due to the temporary nature of the display.
US11900748B2
Methods and systems are described for analyzing and attesting physical access to a location. In an example, an administrator can create a survey for users in an organization. The survey can be sent to a user device as a notification. The user can complete the survey, and the user's physical access rights can be determined based on the survey answers. When the user attempts to gain access to a location of the organization, the user can provide a digital access badge. The digital access badge can be mapped to the user's access permissions. The user can be granted or denied access depending on whether the user answered the survey and, if answered, what answers the user provided.
US11900745B2
A locker apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: first obtaining, from a first terminal of a deliverer of a parcel that stores the parcel into a locker, notification of a first proof issued from a transmission source of the parcel to the deliverer, the first proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of a receiver of the parcel, and identification information of the transmission source; second obtaining notification of a second proof issued from the transmission source to the receiver, the second proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of the receiver, and identification information of the transmission source in accordance with permission to store the parcel into the locker; and unlocking the locker when contents of the first proof matches that of the second proof.
US11900744B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a virtual intercom. In some implementations, a request from a visitor device to communicate with an occupant of a particular unit of the facility is received. A location of the visitor device is received. Based on the received location, it is determined that the visitor device is within a predetermined bounded area. An occupant profile is identified based on the received request. Information associated with the occupant profile is obtained. Based on the obtained information, it is determined the occupant has registered a profile. Based on the obtained information, a communication path to an occupant device is identified. The request from the visitor device is sent, using the communication path, to an occupant device belonging to the occupant. A response from the occupant device is received. Based on the response, an action is performed.
US11900740B2
A vehicle control device includes: a receiving section receiving, from a user, setting processing for setting a time period in which control of a vehicle by using an information processing device is suppressed; a detecting section detecting a predetermined user operation for control of the vehicle; and a control permitting section that, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected in a time period that is different than the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, permits control of the vehicle in accordance with the information processing device vibrating or moving, and, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected within the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, does not permit control of the vehicle regardless of whether or not the information processing device is vibrating or moving.
US11900739B2
A method of updating a first device (e.g., one or more locking devices) to reflect information located on a second device (e.g., a server) is provided, where the first device and the second device cannot communicate directly with one another. The method may include employing a third untrusted device (e.g., a mobile device) temporarily as an intermediary between the first device and second device. The method may include receiving, at the first device and from a third device, a request for the first device to communicate with the third device. In response to determining that the third device is authorized to communicate with the first device, the first device may receive information from the third device that was provided by the second device. The first device may transmit at least one message to the third device that is to be provided to second device.
US11900734B2
A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access key and being for the users associated with it to access a particular attraction. Receipt of each request causes the respective users to be added to a corresponding virtual queue. A time at which each group of users reaches the front of the virtual queue and can access the attraction is determined. The users access the attractions by presenting an access key to an access control part, in communication with the electronic queue management part. Only a user presenting an access key at the correct time for accessing the attraction is allowed access to the attraction.
US11900727B2
An information processing device according to the present invention includes a person extraction means that extracts a person in a captured image, an action extraction means that extracts an action of a person group including a plurality of persons other than a given person in the captured image, and an identification means that identifies a given person group based on a result of extraction of the action of the person group.
US11900726B2
An image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. Said method comprises: performing face recognition on a target image, in response to a processing trigger operation for the target image; determining a first portrait area corresponding to a first face in the target image, wherein the first portrait area comprises a portrait corresponding to the first face; sending the first portrait area to a first target user corresponding to the first portrait area; and receiving a first edited portrait area returned after the first target user performing online editing on the first portrait area, and synthesizing the first edited portrait area into the target image.
US11900722B2
An electronic apparatus may include a processor configured to: obtain an image captured by a camera; obtain a downscaled image by downscaling the captured image, wherein the downscaled image has an image that is less than a critical resolution, identify a region of interest included in the downscaled image by inputting the downscaled image into a first artificial intelligence model, the first artificial intelligence model being trained to identify a region of interest in an image; extract, from the captured image, an object image in the captured image corresponding to the identified region of interest, and obtain information on an object region included in the captured image by inputting the extracted object image into a second artificial intelligence model, the second artificial intelligence model being configured to identify an object region in an input image.
US11900705B2
The validity of engineering drawings is automatically determined based on compliance of the specifications of the engineering drawings with automatically generated rules. A document package including images of the engineering drawings and related documents is received. Rules codifying the requirements to be fulfilled by the engineering drawings are automatically generated from the related documents. Data such as specifications of the various parts of the entities in the engineering drawings are automatically extracted. The extracted data is analyzed to determine compliance with the rules to validate the engineering drawings.
US11900704B2
The method to determine tampering of a security label (102) comprises, associating at least a portion of a first pattern to an external reference (110), wherein a first layer (202) of the security label (102) comprises the first pattern. Further, a second pattern (206) defined in a second layer (204) is used to change the contour of the portion of the first pattern, when the security label (102) is at least partially disengaged from a surface. Subsequently, when there is change in contour of the portion of the first pattern, the portion of the first pattern is disassociated from an external reference (110). Further, the portion of the first pattern and the external reference (110) are scanned and finally tampering of the security label (102) is determined based on the association between the portion of the first pattern and the external reference (110).
US11900703B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for performing an automated tagging of features in digital micrographs representing slides with tissue samples. Automated tagging of features may include automated entry of metadata associated with whole slide images or regions of the whole slide images.
US11900698B2
An information processing device and an information processing method that prevent unnecessary warning are provided. An information processing device includes a host vehicle information acquisition part configured to acquire host vehicle information on a host vehicle, a setting part configured to set an allowable range for a driver's sight of the host vehicle based on the host vehicle information, a driver information acquisition part configured to acquire driver information on the driver, a determination part (inattentive driving determination part) configured to determine whether or not the driver is looking at the allowable range based on the allowable range and the driver information, and an output part (sound output part, vibration part, display part) configured to output a predetermined notification based on the determination of the determination part (inattentive driving determination part).
US11900695B2
Disclosed herein are methods and system for detecting road marking expressed using alternating infrared reflective tiles comprising high infrared reflective tiles and low infrared red reflective tiles painted on a road surface using paint material(s) characterized by: (1) reflecting light in visible light spectral range deviating less than a first value from the light reflected by the road surface and (2) reflecting light in an infrared spectral range deviating more than a second value from the light reflected by the road surface. Infrared image(s) and visible light image(s) of the road surface which are registered to each other may be analyzed to compute an infrared reflective value and a luminance value for each pixel respectively. A ratio may be computed between the infrared reflective value of and the luminance value of corresponding pixels to identify high and low infrared reflective tiles in pixels having a ratio exceeding a third value.
US11900694B2
A parking assist system for a vehicle includes an environment information obtainer, a storage, a parked vehicle detector, a space determiner, and a parking possibility determiner. The storage stores a reference parking width to be used for parking the vehicle. The parked vehicle detector detects a parked vehicle. The space determiner compares a width of a space next to the parked vehicle with the reference parking width and determines whether the width of the space is greater than or equal to the reference parking width. If the width of the space is found to be greater than or equal to the reference parking width, the parking possibility determiner determines whether a target object is detected at a back side of the space. If the target object is not detected, the parking possibility determiner determines that parking in the space is prohibited.
US11900690B2
An apparatus for identifying the state of a signal light includes a processor configured to input time series images into a first classifier to detect object regions each including a vehicle equipped with a signal light in the respective images, the first classifier having been trained to detect the vehicle; chronologically input characteristics obtained from pixel values of the object regions detected in the respective images into a second classifier to calculate confidence scores of possible candidate states of the signal light of the vehicle, the second classifier having a recursive structure or performing a convolution operation in a temporal direction; and identify the state of the signal light, based on the preceding state of the signal light, information indicating whether transitions between the candidate states of the signal light are allowed, and the confidence scores of the respective candidate states.
US11900668B2
The invention relates to a system for identifying at least one object at least partially immerged in a water area, said system comprising a capturing module comprising at least one camera, said at least one camera being configured to generate at least one sequence of images of said water area, and a processing module being configured to receive at least one sequence of images from said at least one camera and comprising at least one artificial neural network, said at least one artificial neural network being configured to detect at least one object in said at least one received sequence of images, extract a set of features from said at least one detected object, compare said extracted set of features with at least one predetermined set of features associated with a predefined object, identify the at least one detected object when the extracted set of features matches with the at least one predetermined set of features.
US11900665B2
A graphics processor can include a processing cluster array including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with the plurality of memory controllers, each processing cluster of the plurality of processing clusters including a plurality of streaming multiprocessors, the processing cluster array configured for partitioning into a plurality of partitions. The plurality of partitions include a first partition including a first plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a first neural network, The operations for the first neural network are isolated to the first partition. The plurality of partitions also include a second partition including a second plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a second neural network. The operations for the second neural network are isolated to the second partition and protected from operations performed for the first neural network.
US11900661B2
An image processing method, device, storage medium and camera are provided. The method, applied to the camera, comprises: capturing a target image; acquiring a target feature map of the target image through a preset target convolution layer, wherein the target convolution layer includes at least one of a plurality of convolution layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN); and outputting the target feature map. That is to say, after the target image is captured by the camera, the target feature map may be acquired by processing the target image through the target convolution layer pre-integrated in the camera. In this way, the camera transmits the target feature map only to reduce the transmitted data volume, thereby being capable of shortening transmission delay and saving bandwidth required by image transmission.
US11900656B2
This invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including a container identification score computation unit (11) that computes an identification score of a container for a product, based on an image to be processed containing the product, a product identification score computation unit (12) that computes an identification score of the product, based on the image to be processed, and a first identification unit (13) that decides identification information of the product, based on the computed identification score of the container and the computed identification score of the product.
US11900655B2
An information processing device acquires an image captured by a transmission electron microscope. The information processing device, for each partial region in the image, calculates a variation in pixel values of pixels included in the partial region. The information processing device, for each partial region in the image, determines a degree of crystallinity of the partial region based on the calculated variation in the pixel values of the partial region.
US11900634B2
The present invention discloses a method for adaptively detecting chessboard sub-pixel level corner points. Adaptive detection of chessboard sub-pixel level corner points is completed by marking position of an initial unit grid on a chessboard, using a homography matrix H calculated by pixel coordinates of four corner points of the initial unit grid in a pixel coordinate system and world coordinates in a world coordinate system to expand outwards, adaptively adjusting size of an iteration window in the process of expanding outwards, and finally spreading to the whole chessboard region.
US11900623B2
An endoscopic imaging system for use in a light deficient environment includes an imaging device having a tube, one or more image sensors, and a lens assembly including at least one optical elements that corresponds to the one or more image sensors. The endoscopic system includes a display for a user to visualize a scene and an image signal processing controller. The endoscopic system includes a light engine having an illumination source generating one or more pulses of electromagnetic radiation and a lumen transmitting one or more pulses of electromagnetic radiation to a distal tip of an endoscope.
US11900622B2
Dense depth information can be generated using only a monocular image and sparse depth information. A depth hyper-resolving apparatus 100 includes: an input data processing unit 22 that outputs a hierarchical input image and hierarchical input depth information by resolution conversion in accordance with a predetermined number of tiers for an input image and input depth information; a depth continuity estimation unit 24 that derives hierarchical estimated depth continuity based on the hierarchical input image; a depth continuity mask deriving unit 26 that outputs a hierarchical depth continuity mask representing values of locations depending on whether a depth is continuous based on the hierarchical input image and the hierarchical estimated depth continuity; and a cost function minimization unit 30 that derives hyper-resolved depth information to minimize a cost function expressed by using the hierarchical input depth information, the hierarchical depth continuity mask, and the hyper-resolved depth information.
US11900620B2
A method for registration between a first three-dimensional image acquired according to a first acquisition mode, and including anatomical structures of a patient, and a second two-dimensional image, acquired according to a second acquisition mode by a rotatable and translatable device, the second image including a portion of the anatomical structures of the patient. The registration implements a rigid spatial transformation defined by rotation and translation parameters. The method includes automatically detecting the anatomical structures in the two-dimensional image by applying a first detection neural network trained on a generic database; estimating, from the anatomical structures automatically detected in the second two-dimensional image, by applying at least one classification neural network trained beforehand on a generic database, the rotation and translation parameters of the rigid spatial transformation; and 3D/2D iconic registration between the first three-dimensional image and the second two-dimensional image starting from an initialization with the rigid spatial transformation.
US11900619B2
The invention provides a method for intelligently measuring vehicle trajectory based on a binocular stereo vision system, including the following steps: inputting a dataset into an SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector) neural network to train a license plate recognition model; calibrating the binocular stereo vision system, and recording videos of moving target vehicles; detecting the license plates in the video frames with the license plate recognition model; performing stereo matching on the license plates in the subsequent frames of the same camera and in the corresponding left-view and right-view video frames by a feature-based matching algorithm; reserving correct matching point pairs after filtering with a homography matrix; screening the reserved matching point pairs, and reserving the one closest to the license plate center as the position of the target vehicle in the current frame; performing stereo measurement on the screened and reserved matching point pairs to get the spatial position coordinates of the vehicle in the video frames; and generating the moving trajectory of the vehicle in time sequence. The present invention is easy to install and adjust, and can simultaneously measure multiple target vehicles in multiple directions and on multiple lanes.
US11900613B2
This application relates to an image segmentation method and apparatus. The method includes obtaining a current frame and historical affine transformation information transmitted by a previous video frame in a video frame sequence; performing affine transformation on the current frame according to the historical affine transformation information to obtain a candidate region image corresponding to the current frame; performing feature extraction on the candidate region image to obtain a feature map corresponding to the candidate region image; performing semantic segmentation based on the feature map to obtain a segmentation result corresponding to a target in the current frame; and revising the historical affine transformation information according to the feature map to obtain updated affine transformation information, and using the updated affine transformation information as historical affine transformation information corresponding to a subsequent video frame in the video frame sequence.
US11900608B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.
US11900603B2
Targeted and individualized methods are provided herein for determining specific treatment sites based on an individual patient. Embodiments described herein may use functional and/or structural connections to create brain mapping of the patient and/or control groups having the same metrics as the patient, and combinations thereof in determining target locations for stimulation treatment.
US11900602B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for medical imaging. The method may include obtaining a preliminary image and scanning data of a subject acquired using a scanner. The method may also include determining a regularization parameter for a regularization item of an objective function based at least in part on the scanning data, wherein the regularization parameter includes at least two of a first component characterizing quality of the scanning data, a second component characterizing the scanner, or a third component characterizing a feature of the subject. The method may further include generating an image of the subject by reconstructing the preliminary image based on the objective function.
US11900601B2
Methods and systems for processing medical images. One method includes, in response to startup of an application using an algorithm, creating a server process supporting a programming language associated with the algorithm and loading a plurality of deep learning models used by the algorithm into a memory of the server process to create in-memory models. The method also includes processing a first set of one or more medical images with the server process using the algorithm and at least one model selected from the in-memory models, maintaining the in-memory models in the memory of the server process after processing the first set of one or more medical images, and, in response to a request to process a second set of one or more medical images, processing the second set of one or more medical images using the algorithm and at least one of the in-memory models.
US11900589B2
The present disclosure provides a detection device of a display panel. The detection device includes: an image receiver configured to receive a detection image of a display panel to be detected; a detector configured to input the detection image of the display panel to be detected into a detection model and generate a detection result by the detection model, the detection model is pre-constructed and configured to detect the display panel. The disclosure also provides a detection method of the display panel, an electronic device and a computer readable medium.
US11900587B2
A system for creating a wiring guide graphic comprising a database configured to receive inputs of a connector body identity, an engineering specification and a wiring table; and a processor coupled to the sensor, the processor configured to create a wiring guide graphic.
US11900586B2
A hot spot defect detecting method and a hot spot defect detecting system are provided. In the method, hot spots are extracted from a design of a semiconductor product to define a hot spot map comprising hot spot groups, wherein local patterns in a same context of the design yielding a same image content are defined as a same hot spot group. During runtime, defect images obtained by an inspection tool performing hot scans on a wafer manufactured with the design are acquired and the hot spot map is aligned to each defect image to locate the hot spot groups. The hot spot defects in each defect image are detected by dynamically mapping the hot spot groups located in each defect image to a plurality of threshold regions and respectively performing automatic thresholding on pixel values of the hot spots of each hot spot group in the corresponding threshold region.
US11900585B2
A system for performing automated inspection of a sewer line using machine learning. The system comprises a inspection data database storing sewer inspection data including images and metadata associated therewith; an inspection upload module receiving and uploading the sewer inspection data to the inspection data database; and an inspection module receiving the sewer inspection data from the inspection data database and generating therefrom identification data including characteristics of the sewer line identified and categorized. The identification module uses at least one machine learning model processing the sewer inspection data and determining whether at least one sewer specific characteristic is identifiable in the images and categorizing the at least one sewer specific, using a plurality of hierarchical classes where a top class performs the determination of whether the at least one sewer specific characteristic is present and the identification thereof and lower classes perform categorization in decreasing abstraction levels.
US11900579B2
A device includes a digital camera positioned underneath a display of the device that captures images through the display. When capturing images using the digital camera, light emitted by the display can get into the digital camera, interfering with or corrupting the captured images. Calibration images are displayed on the display and captured by the digital camera to be used to generate an enhanced output image that mitigates the interference from the display. Recalibration images are subsequently captured in response to any of a variety of different trigger events that may cause or indicate a change in the alignment and geometries of the display pixels to the imager pixels. The captured recalibration image is merged with the previously captured calibration image to generate a merged calibration image, which is afterwards used as the captured calibration image.
US11900575B2
Systems and methods for tone mapping of high dynamic range (HDR) images for high-quality deep learning based processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes a media pipeline to generate media requests for processing images and an execution unit to receive media requests from the media pipeline. The execution unit is configured to compute an auto-exposure scale for an image to effectively tone map the image, to scale the image with the computed auto-exposure scale, and to apply a tone mapping operator including a log function to the image and scaling the log function to generate a tone mapped image.
US11900574B2
The image processing system includes a scanner, a pixelated photon detector (PPD), and at least one processor. The at least one processor displays a setting screen on a display unit. The setting screen is a screen for setting an identification range that is a range of gradation to be identified. The at least one processor displays a second image obtained by converting a first image on the display unit. The second image is an image obtained by converting the first image based on at least the identification range. The first image is generated based on an intensity signal of light detected by a PPD and a scanning position by the scanner.
US11900573B2
The invention relates to a method and device for generating an overview contrast image of a sample carrier in a microscope, which images a sample arranged on the sample carrier. The sample carrier on which the sample is located is illuminated in transmitted light from a two-dimensional illumination array, which has individually switchable single light sources and illuminates the sample volume in transmitted light, and a processing unit, which activates and reads out the camera in order to record multiple different raw overview images of the sample carrier.
US11900572B2
An object is to implement shading correction processing of some regions of interest (ROIs) cut from a captured image. A transmission device includes: a processing unit that performs shading correction processing on image data of a region of interest (ROI) in a captured image on a basis of coordinate information of the ROI; and a transmission unit that sends the image data of the ROI subjected to the shading correction processing as payload data and sends ROI information as embedded data.
US11900569B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that detect surfaces and reflections in such surfaces. Some implementations involve providing a CGR environment that includes virtual content that replaces the appearance of a user or the user's device in a mirror or other surface providing a reflection. For example, a CGR environment may be modified to include a reflection of the user that does not include the device that the user is holding or wearing. In another example, the CGR environment is modified so that virtual content, such as a newer version of the electronic device or a virtual wand, replaces the electronic device in the reflection. In another example, the CGR environment is modified so that virtual content, such as a user avatar, replaces the user in the reflection.
US11900564B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of program instructions for an image processing apparatus is disclosed. The set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the image processing apparatus, causes the image processing apparatus to: acquire input image data indicating an input image; and input the input image data to a trained machine learning model configured to perform calculation processing on the input image data and to generate output image data corresponding to the input image data. The machine learning model is trained to generate the output image data indicating a first area and a second area. The first area is an area in the input image in which it is preferable to perform first image processing. The second area is an area in the input image in which it is preferable to perform second image processing different from the first image processing.
US11900553B2
A method and apparatus for processing augmented reality (AR) are disclosed. The method includes determining a compensation parameter to compensate for light attenuation of visual information caused by a display area of an AR device as the visual information corresponding to a target scene is displayed through the display area, generating a background image without the light attenuation by capturing the target scene using a camera of the AR device, generating a compensation image by reducing brightness of the background image using the compensation parameter, generating a virtual object image to be overlaid on the target scene, generating a display image by synthesizing the compensation image and the virtual object image, and displaying the display image in the display area.
US11900539B2
An apparatus to facilitate graphics rendering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises sequencer hardware to operate in a tile mode to render objects, including performing batch formation to generate one or more batches of received objects, performing tile sequencing for each of the objects to compute tile fill intersects for each of the objects and performing a play sequencing of each of the objects.
US11900534B2
An image generation system is provided to: receive a 3D CAD (computer aided design) model comprising 3D model images of a target object; based on the 3D CAD model of the target object, generate augmented CAD models of the target object comprising data sets, each data set respectively corresponding to an associated one of a plurality of attribute classes, each data set comprising a plurality of 2D model images; input the data sets into a generative adversarial network comprising generators respectively corresponding to the plurality of attribute classes and discriminators respectively corresponding to the generators; generate synthetic photorealistic images of the target object using the generators, the synthetic photorealistic images including attributes in accordance with the data sets corresponding to the plurality of attribute classes; and output the synthetic photorealistic images of the target object.
US11900520B1
In an exemplary process for specifying an entrance or exit effect in a computer-generated reality environment, in response to a user entering or exiting the computer-generated reality environment, a transition effect is provided.
US11900515B2
An example computing platform is configured to (i) receive a two-dimensional (2D) image file comprising a construction drawing, (ii) generate, via semantic segmentation, a first set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iii) generate, via instance segmentation, a second set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iv) generate, via unsupervised image processing, a third set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (v) based on (a) overlap between polygons in the first, second, and third sets of polygons and (b) respective confidence scores for each of the overlapping polygons, determine a set of merged polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, and (vi) cause a client station to display a visual representation of the 2D image file where each merged polygon is overlaid as a respective selectable region of the 2D image file.
US11900505B2
A method of generating pictographic representations including receiving input content comprising textual information and a video item, the textual information being associated with the video item and aligned to a video playback timeline associated with the video item, obtaining summarization information describing the video item, selecting one or more elements from the textual information, comparing the selected elements of the textual data with the obtained summarization information, determining, based on the comparison, that one or more of the selected elements satisfy a specified comparison threshold, and identifying a pictographic representation for each of the one or more of the selected elements that are determined to satisfy the specified comparison threshold, the pictographic representations being selected from a pictographic representation set comprising a plurality of pictographic representations, and selectively outputting, with the video item, the identified pictographic representations aligned to the video playback timeline associated with the video item.
US11900504B2
The subject technology selects a set of augmented reality content generators from a plurality of available augmented reality content generators, the selected set of augmented reality content generators comprising at least one augmented reality content generator for providing augmented reality content based on a product. The subject technology causes display of a carousel interface comprising selectable graphical items, each selectable graphical item corresponding to a respective augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a first selectable graphical item from the plurality of selectable graphical items. The subject technology applies, to first image data, the first augmented reality content generator corresponding to the selected first selectable graphical item. The subject technology causes a display of second image data, the second image data include including the applied first augmented reality content generator to the first image data.
US11900498B2
Apparatus and method for stable and short latency sorting. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: an input circuit to receive a set of N input values to be sorted into a sorted order; comparison circuitry to compare each input value with all other input values in parallel to generate at least N*(N−1)/2 comparison result values; matrix generation circuitry and/or logic to generate a result matrix having a row associated with each input value, a plurality of bits in each row comprising comparison result values indicating results of comparisons with other input values, wherein a first region of the result matrix is to store a first set of bits comprising the N*(N−1)/2 comparison result values and a second region of the result matrix, opposite the first region, is to store a second set of bits comprising an inverse of the N*(N−1)/2 comparison result values; a parallel adder circuit to perform parallel additions of the bits in each row to generate N unique result values; and sorting circuitry to index into the N unique result values to return the sorted order.
US11900492B1
A method for tailoring a document for viewing on a mobile device includes obtaining residence information for an individual who is required to sign the document. The document is tailored to the residence of the individual. This includes hiding or condensing one or more portions of the document that pertain to laws in other jurisdictions. The document is permitted to be accessible by the mobile device.
US11900482B2
Systems and methods for generating user notifications to a set of users of a social networking service is presented. For each user of a set of users of the social networking service, one or more machine learning models selects an optimal notification channel, an optimal notification template, and optimal personalization content for configurable elements of a selected notification template. Each of these determinations/selections is made according to and based on a likelihood of increased user engagement with the social networking service. Upon determining the notification channel, notification template, and personalizations to the template, the notification is generated and sent to the corresponding user.
US11900480B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for misinformative content mitigation. A computer receives from a social network system a request for curated content, where the curated content is related to misinformative content that has been identified by the social network system. The computer sends to a system of a paid curated content producer a request for making the curated content public. In response to that the system of the paid curated content producer accepts the request for making the curated content public, the computer provides to the social network system a link to the curated content on the system of the paid curated content producer. On the social network system, the misinformative content is flagged and the link to the curated content is presented aside the misinformative content.
US11900479B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for calculating a trust score. The trust score may be calculated between entities including, but not limited to, human users, groups of users, organizations, or businesses/corporations. A system trust score may be calculated for an entity by combining a variety of factors, including verification data, a network connectivity score, publicly available information, and/or ratings data. A peer trust score targeted from a first entity to a second entity may also be calculated based on the above factors. In some embodiments, the peer trust score may be derived from the system trust score for the target entity and may take into account additional factors, including social network connections, group/demographic info, and location data. Finally, a contextual trust score may be calculated between the first and second entities based on a type of transaction or activity to be performed between the two entities.
US11900475B1
A machine-learning system which utilizes neural networks and other machine learning concepts to automatically categorize a stream of data. Known financial data can be analyzed and trained as part of a machine learning system. Then, a new set of a financial data for a particular user can be analyzed and automatic determinations can be made whether the user is a small business or consumer, and what industry the user is in.
US11900471B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system and method for electronically monitoring and using data indicative of driver characteristics based on sensors. For example, the system may determine an origin associated with a user, a destination associated with the user, and a desired arrival time at the destination. A driving characteristic computing device of the system may determine an estimate for a duration of a trip from the origin to the destination. Based on the estimate for the duration and the desired arrival time at the destination, the driving characteristic computing device may determine a recommended departure time from the origin for the user. Based on sensor data, the system may determine a departure time from the origin for the user. The driving characteristic computing device may compare the departure time to the recommended departure time, and a value of a property of insurance for the user may be determined based on the comparing.
US11900469B2
A computer-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to dynamically generate and display, on an interactive display, one or more person icons and one or more property icons representing persons and properties associated with a loss event. Each person and property icon is generated and displayed as a user adds a corresponding person or property via the interactive display. Each of the person icons is a graphical representation of a person and each of the property icons is a graphical representation of a type of the corresponding property. The instructions also cause the computing device to dynamically link specific ones of the person icons to specific ones of the property icons as the user specifies relationships between the specific ones of the person icons and the specific ones of the property icons via the interactive display.
US11900468B2
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and a method for enabling obtainment of a more appropriate compensation for a service. An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive health state information regarding a health state of a user, a calculation unit configured to calculate a compensation for a service on the basis of the health state information before getting-in to a vehicle by the user or before presenting the compensation for the service regarding the getting-in to a vehicle to the user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the compensation for the service. The present technology can be applied to automobile insurance services.
US11900466B2
Method and system for generating a hybrid epoch score for a user. In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, from at least one of a mobile device associated with the user and a server, prior telematics data indicative of the operation of a vehicle by the user during one or more prior trips in a prior epoch; receiving, from the mobile device, recent telematics data indicative of the operation of the vehicle by the user during one or more recent trips in a current epoch; generating a prior epoch score based at least in part upon the prior telematics data; generating a partial current epoch score based at least in part upon the recent telematics data; and generating a hybrid current epoch score based at least in part upon the prior epoch score and the partial current epoch score.
US11900462B2
A processor may receive and analyze client information. The processor may automatically generate at least one form specification based on the analyzing, the at least one form specification being in a format useable by an external form generation service. The processor may send the at least one form specification to the external form generation service and receive at least one signable form from the external form generation service. The processor may receive at least one signed copy of each at least one signable form. The processor may automatically establish at least one account with at least one external service based on the at least one signable form.
US11900453B2
Disclosed herein is an identity network that provides a universal, digital identity for users to be authenticated by an identity provider for relying parties upon sign-in to the relying party. The identity network receives the sign-in request from a relying party for a user using a user device. The identity network can provide a session identifier to the relying party for the request and launch an identity provider application associated with the user via a software development kit in the relying party application. The user may sign-in to the identity provider via the software development kit, thereby authenticating the user for the relying party. Additionally, the identity provider may generate a risk validation score and provide it to the relying party that provides a confidence value that the user is validly using the user device and a risk score based on device activity on the identity network.
US11900441B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of protecting customer information. One method includes detecting a user device associated with a user has navigated to a page of an online store, inserting code comprising a first interactive element associated with a purchase option into the page prior to presenting the page on the user device, and receiving a pending purchase order. The method further includes transmitting a notification to a merchant system associated with the online store to reserve a good or service for a period of time, capturing, via an input circuit of the user device, user input of the user, and assigning a point value to the user input. The method further includes generating a recommendation to cancel, proceed, or modify the pending purchase order based on an evaluation of the point value, and providing, to the user device, the recommendation during the pendency of the period of time.
US11900436B1
A product substitution system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper, and a product substitution server. The server may obtain descriptive purchased product data for purchased products from a retailer, and iteratively operate a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to accept, as input thereto, the descriptive purchased product data, and generate, as output therefrom, a multi-dimensional representation of a relationship among the purchased products. The server may also, for each iteration, determine a product-to-product affinity based upon the multi-dimensional representation of the relationship, and determine a recommended substitute product for one of the products based upon the determined product-to-product affinity, and communicate the recommended substitute product to the shopper device. The server may also, for each iteration, obtain updated descriptive purchased product data for an updated plurality of purchased products from the retailer.
US11900434B2
A system is provided that includes a mobile user device that executes an application that determines a skintone of a user, and determines and transmits a recipe for generating a target foundation that is based on a combination of a plurality of separate foundation ingredients that are associated with the skintone of the user. The system includes a dispensing device configured to receive the transmitted recipe from the mobile user device and dispense each of the plurality of separate foundation ingredients onto a common dispensing surface such that when the dispensed amounts of each of the plurality of separate foundation ingredients is blended on the dispensing surface, the target foundation is achieved. The mobile user device is configured to determine a skintone of the user based on features in a detected face of the user in a self-taken image of the user that is captured by a camera of the mobile user device.
US11900430B2
A buy-online pickup-in-store (BOPIS) order at risk of abandonment is saved by converting the order to same-day delivery. A risk deadline is established using a combination of cognitive prediction, a customer-specific time frame, order constraints, and real-time data. The cognitive prediction uses a customer profile having historical data pertaining to previous BOPIS orders from this customer. If the product is not picked up by the risk deadline, a check is made to see if same-day delivery is feasible. If so, a notification is transmitted to the customer with proposed delivery details. The notification can be sent at an optimal time based on previous notifications sent to the customer and time constraints related to the order, and using an optimal communication channel based on previous engagement rates with the customer over different communication channels. Once confirmation is received from the customer, the product is shipped, saving the sale.
US11900411B2
Example methods and systems for ad insertion decision-making comprise: identifying an ad insertion opportunity in which an underlying advertisement is available for replacement by an addressable advertisement; determining a first expected revenue corresponding to presentation of the addressable advertisement and a first expected cost corresponding to presentation of the addressable advertisement, wherein the first expected cost is based on a current pacing of an advertisement campaign of the addressable advertisement; determining a second expected revenue corresponding to presentation of the underlying advertisement and a second expected cost corresponding to presentation of the underlying advertisement, wherein the second expected cost is based on a current pacing of an advertisement campaign of the underlying advertisement; determining an expected value of the ad insertion based on the first and second expected revenues and the first and second expected costs; and causing performance of the ad insertion based on the expected value.
US11900410B1
A digital promotion processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper, and a promotion processing server. The server may obtain product purchase data associated with the given shopper, and generate digital promotions based upon the product purchase data, each of the plurality of digital promotions being redeemable for a corresponding product for purchase. The server may also cooperate with the shopper device to display at least two of the digital promotions as a single combined digital promotion for corresponding complementary products for purchase and having associated therewith a single input for clipping the single combined digital promotion to a digital wallet. The server may also cooperate with the shopper device to display at least one other of the digital promotions and with an associated input for clipping of the corresponding digital promotion to the digital wallet associated with the given shopper.
US11900404B2
Automatically generating guaranteed offers for commodities and non-commodities As such, the present disclosure presents various embodiments, as well as features and aspects thereof, of a guaranteed offer generator (“GOG”). The GOG accumulates and assimilates data, and then algorithmically processes this data with a server system to generate a guaranteed offer that, while removing the risk of an asset owner relinquishing his or her property in response to a low-ball sell, does not create an unacceptably high risk on the part of the guaranteed offeror.
US11900398B1
A system for dynamic number insertion may include at least one application operable on at least one client device and at least one public facing API operable on at least one server, the at least one API configured receiving a request for a phone number swap comprising attribution information from the at least one client device, providing a phone number based on the attribution information to the at least one client device, receiving notification of a phone call made to the phone number, and attributing the phone call based on the attribution information. The at least one application can be interfaced to the at least one public facing API.
US11900394B1
Location-based anomaly detection based on geotagged digital photographs. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying a completed transaction associated with a user. The method may also include determining a transaction geographic location associated with the completed transaction. The method may further include identifying a mobile device associated with the user. The method may also include identifying one or more geotagged digital photographs taken by the mobile device. The method may further include extracting one or more photograph geographic locations from the one or more geotagged digital photographs. The method may also include, in response to determining that the transaction geographic location is not within a threshold distance of any of the one or more photograph geographic locations, identifying the completed transaction as a suspicious transaction and performing a remedial action.
US11900391B2
Embodiments provide methods, and server systems connecting with a customer service representative/agent for a financial transaction. A method includes sending, by a server system, a message related to a financial transaction to a user device using a messaging protocol. The message includes at least one option to receive a response of the message from the user device for connecting with an agent. The method includes receiving the response of the message from the user device. The response includes an authentication data. The method includes verifying the authentication data. Upon successful verification, the method includes electronically extracting at least one context of the message from the response. The method includes sending the at least one context to a Customer Service Centre (CSC) server. The CSC server is configured to assign the agent to the user based on the at least one context for an upcoming conversation about the message.
US11900388B2
A computer-implemented method for providing payment account information in a user account by receiving payment card information by a card reader at a point of sale. An account can be created when the payment card information is read by the card reader. Optionally, a gift card can be scanned prior to the creation of the account, and the gift card information can be combined with the payment card information. The gift card can be an electronic gift card which can be personalized with textual, visual, video, and/or audio portions.
US11900384B2
Computer system security and efficiency of processing operations may be improved using techniques that are described relating to analyzing user actions based on time of day of occurrence, and using time of a day as a factor in determining whether a particular action should be allowed or disallowed. Past action times can be transformed to a two-dimensional representation using a radial time schema that avoids discontinuity. A probability distribution can indicate a likelihood of whether a new action fits a previous pattern. If a new user action is relatively unlikely due to time of day, the new user action might be denied/prevented from completing, thus enhancing computer system security and avoiding unnecessary computational processing costs.
US11900379B2
Systems and methods are described related to using flexible circuitry in a payment device. In one embodiment, a payment device comprises a computing device and a memory. The computing device is configured to store a biometric identifier associated with a transaction account. The computing device is configured to at least receive, by the antenna, an interrogation signal from a point of sale (POS) device in order to activate the payment device for a payment transaction. The computing device is configured to determine a scanned fingerprint identifier of a user based at least in part on the interrogation signal activating the payment device and authenticate the scanned fingerprint identifier by matching the scanned fingerprint identifier to the biometric identifier. The transaction account is transmitted to the POS device for processing the payment transaction based at least in part on the authentication of the scanned fingerprint identifier.
US11900372B2
The present disclosure generally relates to transaction user interfaces. In some examples, a user is notified if there is an error with transaction parameters and the device determines whether potentially compatible transaction parameters are available on the electronic device. In some examples, the user is notified if there is an error with transaction parameters and the user is prompted to use another device to enter new transaction information.
US11900367B2
A method for processing offline cryptocurrency transfers includes: receiving, by a receiver of a computing device, a first transfer message, wherein the first transfer message is cryptographically signed using a first private key of a first key pair; validating, by a processor of the computing device, the cryptographic signature of the first transfer message using a first public key of the first key pair; storing, in a memory of the computing device, the validated first transfer message; receiving, by an input device of the computing device, a transfer instruction, the transfer instruction including at least a communication address; and electronically transmitting, by a transmitter of the computing device, the validated first transfer message to an external device based on at least the communication address.
US11900365B1
The present disclosure provides techniques for recommending vendors using machine learning models. One example method includes receiving electronic transaction data indicative of one or more transactions, identifying, from the one or more transactions, a subset of transactions that are associated with for known attribute values with respect to one or more unique recipients, computing, for each unique provider of the one or more unique providers, a provider feature based on the known attribute values with respect to a subset of the one or more associated unique recipients, computing, for a given recipient indicated in one or more given transactions that are not included in the subset of transactions, a recipient feature based on the provider feature of each unique provider of the one or more associated unique providers, and predicting, based on the recipient feature, a value for the attribute with respect to the given recipient.
US11900358B2
Systems and methods for providing an integrated secondary communication network are provided. A method may include receiving an indication of a pre-determined trigger event, and presenting, via a user interface of a smart card, an option to perform a limited subset of a set of financial services. The set of financial services may be provided to a user of the smart card by a financial institution in connection with an account to which the smart card is keyed. The method may include the smart card bypassing the primary communication network, in response to receipt of a selection to perform a service from the limited subset of the set of financial services, and transmitting, via a transmitter of the smart card to a gateway of the secondary communication network, communication packets requesting the service. The method may also include the gateway forwarding the communication packets to a server of the secondary communication network, and, in response to receipt of the communication packets, the server causing the service to be performed.
US11900357B2
An EMV enabled terminal may communicate transaction related information to a user via a standard user interface of the terminal, for example, within a user interface displayed on a display screen of the terminal. The transaction related information may be spoken out loud to the user by the terminal. However, users with visual, audio, or other physical impairments may be unable to access the display of the terminal, view the displayed information, or hear the spoken information. Systems and methods disclosed herein communicate transaction related information via an alternate user interface. Instead of relying on the standard user interface related communications, information about the status of a transaction or transaction related information may be determined based on monitoring and evaluating the communications between an EMV secure element of a dynamic transaction card and the terminal via a contact connection.
US11900350B2
A brick-and-mortar (BAM) store control system uses sensors and wireless transceivers to track customers, merchant representatives, devices, and/or objects within a BAM store area. The system can identify and track product and/or service inventory within the BAM store area and/or in individual's personal inventories, for instance by detecting movements of objects by individuals in sensor data. The system can generate inventory replenishment schedules, for instance based on inventory quantity patterns. The system can provide recommendations to customers and/or merchants, for example recommending products that customers have interacted with. The system can identify individuals and/or objects using a machine learning algorithm, which can learn based on feedback. The system can generate temporary identifiers for unrecognized individuals or objects, which it can merge or convert into long-term identifiers as more information is received. The system can recognize sensitive information based on secure identifiers generated based on the sensitive information.
US11900346B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for effectuating payment for consumable content. An example method includes receiving a request for payment associated with a content source device and identifying a first user device associated with a first user accessing consumable content of the content source device. The method further includes transmitting an actionable payment notification to the first user device. In an instance in which the computing device receives responsive authorization from the first user device, the method includes transmitting a first real-time payment to the content source device. In an instance in which the computing device fails to receive responsive authorization from the first user device, the method includes causing access of the consumable content to the first user device to halt.
US11900339B1
Decentralized computer systems and methods are disclosed for hyperledger-based payment transactions, alerts, and dispute settlement, using smart contracts. One method includes: receiving transaction information comprising transaction data of transaction attributes for a transaction for a good or service originating at a merchant; storing the transaction data of the transaction attributes for the transaction, in a smart contract generated or updated by a smart contract application; deploying the Smart contract into one or more blockchain networks, wherein at least one of the one or more blockchain networks; performing one or more iterations of enabling, using an inter ledger protocol, to transfer at least some of the transaction data of the transaction attributes of the transaction to another of the one or more blockchain networks, wherein each of the one or more blockchain networks serves one or more business functions of the transaction.
US11900323B1
Systems and methods to generate units of work within a collaboration environment based on video dictation are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; responsive to the user-initiation of video dictation sessions, obtain video information characterizing content of the video dictation sessions; responsive to detection of completion of the video dictation sessions, generate one or more units of work for the users based on the content of the video dictation sessions; responsive to detection of completion of the video dictation sessions generate, store the video information as part of the environment state information; and/or perform other operations.
US11900316B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a product recognition unit (2020), a shelf label recognition unit (2040), and a determination unit (2060). The product recognition unit (2020) recognizes the number of types of products or positions of each type of products from a target image. The shelf label recognition unit (2040) recognizes the number or positions of shelf labels indicating information of the products from the target image. The determination unit (2060) determines whether or not there is an error in a relationship between the recognized number of types of products and the recognized number of shelf labels or in a relationship between the recognized positions of each type of products and the recognized positions of the shelf labels.
US11900303B2
In a method of observation platform collaboration integration, a collaboration application is provisioned at an observation platform. The provisioning is administered by a cloud services platform in collaboration with a computer system of the observation platform and includes configuration and deployment of the collaboration application within the observation platform. An automation software component is sent from the collaboration application for resident installation at an external collaboration application which is external to an environment of the observation platform. The automation software component organizes information in the external retailer system for exchange, via a cloud-based gateway, with the collaboration application. The collaboration application is communicatively coupled, via the cloud-based gateway, with the external collaboration application. User information and task information are synchronized between the collaboration application and the external collaboration application. At least a portion of the user information received from the external collaboration application is provided by the automation software component.
US11900296B1
Embodiments of system and method for a sustainable digital twin system, are described. In one aspect, the sustainable digital twin system includes a cooperative working of multiple engines to enable managing virtual assets corresponding to each physical asset in a facility. The sustainable digital twin system may implement a manage of change (MoC) mechanism to track and manage modifications of the virtual assets in the facility. The modifications of the virtual assets may be simulated in a work-in-progress environment. The impact of the modifications of the modified virtual asset and the other virtual assets in the facility may be analyzed. Upon analysis, an end user may review suggestions or recommendations provided by the sustainable digital twin system, update and implement the modifications in the work-in-progress environment, before propagating the modifications to a production environment.
US11900294B2
Systems and methods for automated path-based recommendation for risk mitigation are provided. An entity assessment server, responsive to a request for a recommendation for modifying a current risk assessment score of an entity to a target nsk assessment score, accesses an input attribute vector for the entity and clusters of entities defined by historical attribute vectors. The entity assessment server assigns the input attribute vector to a particular cluster and determines a requirement on movement from a first point to a second point in a multi-dimensional space based on the statistics computed from the particular cluster. The first point corresponds to the current risk assessment score and the second point corresponds to the target risk assessment score. The entity assessment server computes an attribute-change vector so that a path defined by the attribute-change vector complies with the requirement and generates the recommendation from the attribute-change vector.
US11900287B2
A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment. The MPM system includes an equipment controller configured to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The MPM system includes an operational cost predictor configured to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period. The MPM system includes a budget manager configured to generate one or more budget constraints. The MPM system includes an objective function optimizer configured to optimize an objective function subject to the one or more budget constraints to determine a maintenance and replacement schedule for the building equipment. The objective function includes maintenance and replacement costs of the building equipment and the predicted cost of operating the building equipment.
US11900285B1
A specialized resource computation service engine electronically and automatically provides, in a timely and efficient manner, accurate and reliable tracking of mobile employees across domains and correctly apportions, calculates, and remits selected resources to those domains for employee compensation (including non-cash compensation) earned over a period of time according to the various different rules in various different domains. The system aggregates data indicative of different geographical locations and durations spent in the geographical locations by an employee over a time period, apportions respective amounts of time to each domain based on the aggregated data and computes, for the employee, a respective selected resource for each domain based on the respective amounts of time apportioned to each domain.
US11900283B1
Auditing of page profile data on sources is disclosed. Normalized reference location data associated with attributes of an entity location are obtained. Page data from the profile of the entity location on a source is collected. The collected page data is normalized. It is determined whether the page data on the profile of the entity location on the source is valid at least in part by comparing the normalized collected page data against the normalized reference listing data. An audit score is assigned to the profile of the entity location on the source based at least in part on the validity determination. Output is provided based at least in part on the audit.
US11900282B2
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for building an ARIMA based Time Series prediction/forecast model for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Performance Management (PM) counters in a telecommunication network. The system receives historical data, for a predefined period, associated with a prediction/forecast model. The system further pre-processes the historical data in order to evaluate statistical characteristics of stationarity of the historical data. Based on the evaluation, the system stationarizes the data first by backfilling anomalies and missing data and then applying techniques associated with differencing, moving averages and auto-correlation. The system further builds the Time Series based prediction/forecast model using the data using ACF and PACF correlation functions.
US11900278B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to provide a notification about reservation information related to a reservation of a reserved private room in a case where an entry to the private room is not confirmable before a predetermined time from a usage start time point according to the reservation of the private room.
US11900276B2
A reasoning engine is disclosed. Contemplated reasoning engines acquire data relating to one or more aspects of various environments. Inference engines within the reasoning engines review the acquire data, historical or current, to generate one or more hypotheses about how the aspects of the environments might be correlated, if at all. The reasoning engine can attempt to validate the hypotheses through controlling acquisition of the environment data.
US11900262B2
A neural network system for processing a neural network model including an operation processing graph that includes a plurality of operations, includes an operation processor including an internal memory storing a first module input feature map. The operation processor is configured to obtain a first branch output feature map by performing a first operation among the plurality of operations, based on the stored first module input feature map, and obtain a second branch output feature map by performing a second operation among the plurality of operations after the first operation is performed, based on the stored first module input feature map. The internal memory maintains storage of the first module input feature map while the first operation is performed.
US11900256B2
A machine learning system is provided to enhance various aspects of machine learning models. In some aspects, a substantially photorealistic three-dimensional (3D) graphical model of an object is accessed and a set of training images of the 3D graphical mode are generated, the set of training images generated to add imperfections and degrade photorealistic quality of the training images. The set of training images are provided as training data to train an artificial neural network.
US11900250B2
A system and method for using a deep learning model to learn program semantics is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of execution traces of a program, each execution trace comprising a plurality of variable values. The plurality of variable values are encoded by a first recurrent neural network to generate a plurality of program states for each execution trace. A bi-directional recurrent neural network can then determine a reduced set of program states for each execution trace from the plurality of program states. The reduced set of program states are then encoded by a second recurrent neural network to generate a plurality of executions for the program. The method then includes pooling the plurality of executions to generate a program embedding and predicting semantics of the program using the program embedding.
US11900249B2
In a case where the operation program is started, a CPU of the mini-batch learning apparatus functions as a calculation unit, a specifying unit, and an update unit. The calculation unit calculates an area ratio of each of a plurality of classes in mini-batch data. The specifying unit specifies a rare class of which the area ratio is lower than a setting value. The update unit sets an update level of the machine learning model in a case where the rare class is specified by the specifying unit to be lower than an update level of the machine learning model in a case where the rare class is not specified by the specifying unit.
US11900246B2
An on-device training-based user recognition method includes performing on-device training on a feature extractor based on reference data corresponding to generalized users and user data, determining a registration feature vector based on an output from the feature extractor in response to the input of the user data, determining a test feature vector based on an output from the feature extractor in response to an input of test data, and performing user recognition on a test user based on a result of comparing the registration feature vector to the test feature vector.
US11900238B1
Some embodiments provide a method for reducing complexity of a machine-trained (MT) network that receives input data and computes output data for each input data. The MT network includes multiple computation nodes that (i) generate output values and (ii) use output values of other computation nodes as input values. During training of the MT network, the method introduces probabilistic noise to the output values of a set of the computation nodes. the method determines a subset of the computation nodes for which the introduction of the probabilistic noise to the output value does not affect the computed output data for the network. The method removes the subset of computation nodes from the trained MT network.
US11900235B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using recurrent neural networks. One of the systems includes a main recurrent neural network comprising one or more recurrent neural network layers and a respective hyper recurrent neural network corresponding to each of the one or more recurrent neural network layers, wherein each hyper recurrent neural network is configured to, at each of a plurality of time steps: process the layer input at the time step to the corresponding recurrent neural network layer, the current layer hidden state of the corresponding recurrent neural network layer, and a current hypernetwork hidden state of the hyper recurrent neural network to generate an updated hypernetwork hidden state.
US11900229B1
An apparatus and method for iterative modification of self-describing data structures. The apparatus includes a memory with instructions configuring at least a processor to generate at least a self-describing data structure and acquire metadata. The memory containing instructions further configuring the at least a processor to modify the at least a self-describing data structure, including dividing the at least a self-describing data structure into a plurality of data structure modules and associating the metadata with a data structure module of the plurality of data structure modules. The memory containing instructions further configuring the at least a processor to configure a downstream device to generate graphical user interface elements as a function of the modified at least a data structure and the associated metadata.
US11900226B2
Some embodiments include a system operable to construct hierarchical training data sets for use with machine-learning for multiple controlled devices. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also provided.
US11900224B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating training data for training a machine learning model to perform trajectory prediction. One of the methods includes: obtaining a training input, the training input including (i) data characterizing an agent in an environment as of a first time and (ii) data characterizing a candidate trajectory of the agent in the environment for a first time period that is after the first time. A long-term label for the candidate trajectory that indicates whether the agent actually followed the candidate trajectory for the first time period is determined. A short-term label for the candidate trajectory that indicates whether the agent intended to follow the candidate trajectory is determined. A ground-truth probability for the candidate trajectory is determined. The training input is associated with the ground-truth probability for the candidate trajectory in the training data.
US11900223B2
A portable real-time system monitoring device is advantageously capable of autonomously learning the normal behavior of any system and of alerting the user or taking other action when the system becomes unpredictable or otherwise undesirable. No prior knowledge about the system is needed by the device. This is because the device uses a combination of machine learning and statistical process control to autonomously develop its own model of the monitored system and then autonomously monitor the system for unexpected behavior. Therefore, without any prior analysis or model creation, it can be deployed on any system, and it can be reused on any other system after it has been reset. The advantageous device of the disclosed and claimed concept performs this function in either real time or near real-time.
US11900221B1
A technique for performing lattice surgery without using twists is disclosed. Also, an error correcting code and decoder is provided that allows for error decoding of Pauli measurements performed in association with a lattice surgery operation. This allows for overall run-times of lattice surgery to be reduced. For example, some level of errors are tolerable, because they can be corrected, thus fewer measurement rounds (dm) may be performed for a given round of Pauli measurements. Additionally, a temporal encoding of lattice surgery technique is provided, which may additionally or alternatively be used to shorten run times. Also, a quantum computer layout is provided, wherein the layout includes a core computing region and a cache region. Also, protocols for swapping logical qubits between the core and cache are provided.
US11900209B2
A system and method of a tool control program that provides real-time tracking of critical data points relating to production tools between the point of issuance to a designated user to the point of return of each production tool by the designated user, including intermediate events such as sharpening, repair and damage analysis, whereby each critical data point is capable of being linked to a unique asset number assigned to each production tool and a unique designated user number in real-time providing for management, regulatory compliance and/or employee accountability relating to each production tool. The tool control program having an integrated software relating to scanning production tools in relation to the critical data points, such that real-time data analytics can be obtained and utilized for risk management and asset visibility.
US11900201B2
A printer-verifier system for providing print quality feedback and controlling print quality is provided. The printer-verifier system may include a printing mechanism configured to print a machine-readable indicia on a print media; a verifier device configured to optically scan the machine-readable indicia; and a print quality monitoring device in electronic communication with the printing mechanism and the verifier device.
US11900200B2
Dual-mode RFID devices are provided with an integrated dual-mode RFID strap including either a UHF/HF dual-mode RFID chip or the combination of a UHF RFID chip and an HF RFID chip. An HF antenna and a UHF antenna are both coupled to the integrated dual-mode RFID strap, with the UHF antenna being formed by an approach other than etching, such as a cutting or printing operation, thereby reducing the cost to manufacture the device. If a pair of chips is employed, one of the chips may have a greater thickness than the other chip, which allows for the thicker chip to be incorporated into the device after the thinner chip without requiring a minimum separation between the two chips due to the size of a thermode used to secure the chips. Additionally, the first chip may be tested before securing the second chip, thereby limiting the cost of a rejected device.
US11900196B2
A radio frequency identification integrated circuit for reducing pin counts and an RFID providing method thereof are provided in the present invention. The radio frequency identification integrated circuit includes a first IO pin, a second IO pin and a third IO pin. The method includes determining whether the coil is coupled to the first IO pin, the second IO pin and the third IO pin when the RFID IC is enabled; and determining the identification according to the voltage status of the non-coupled pin and the pins coupled to the coil.
US11900192B2
There is provided a card or token for use in financial transactions. The financial transaction token or card has an onboard energy storage device that enables onboard electronics to operate when the card is not in the proximity of a merchant Point-Of-Service (POS) terminal. In one implementation, the onboard energy storage device includes a capacitor such as a thin-film capacitor that stores sufficient energy to power onboard electronics without the need for an onboard battery. The card may be incorporated within various conventional apparatus such as a see-through and/or protective substrate, an item of clothing, an item of jewelry, a cell phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a credit card, an identification card, a money holder, a wallet, a personal organizer, a keychain payment tag, and like personality.
US11900191B2
The present invention relates to methods of storing data using one or more nucleic acids.
US11900186B2
A card reader includes a card lock mechanism preventing pulling-out of a card jammed in a card conveyance passage, and an operation part for manually releasing lock of the card caused by the card lock mechanism. The card lock mechanism includes a motor, and a lock member which is provided with a blocking pawl for preventing pulling-out of the card and is moved between a contact position where the blocking pawl contacts the card and a retreated position where the blocking pawl is retreated from the card conveyance passage. The operation part includes a rotation member in a tube shape having an inner circumference wall surrounding an output shaft of the motor, and an engaging member provided on the inner circumference wall and extended along a circumferential direction of the output shaft and engageable with an outer peripheral face of the output shaft. The engaging member is elastically deformable.
US11900185B2
In a hybrid computing system including at least one analog processor and at least one digital processor an embedded problem is repeatedly run or executed on the analog processor(s) to generate a first plurality of candidate solutions to the computational problem, the candidate solutions are returned to the digital processor(s) which determine a value for at least one statistical feature of the candidate solutions, at least one programmable parameter of the plurality of analog devices in the analog processor(s) is adjusted to at least partially compensate for deviations from an expected value of the at least one statistical feature, the expected value of the at least one statistical feature inferred from the structure of the embedded problem, the embedded problem is again repeatedly run or executed on the analog processor(s) to generate a second plurality of candidate solutions to the computational problem.
US11900182B2
A method by one or more computing devices functioning as a ticket master for a website that has a virtual waiting room, wherein the ticket master is communicatively coupled to a plurality of proxies controlling access to the website. When the ticket master is in a relaxed mode (as opposed to a pressure mode), the method includes pre-allocating a number of tickets to the plurality of proxies for a first upcoming time period and setting a queue head for the first upcoming time period to a ticket number of a last ticket created, wherein the number of tickets that are pre-allocated for the first upcoming time period is greater than a target number of users allowed to enter the website during the first upcoming time period but less than a predefined maximum sudden spike number.
US11900173B2
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing container runtime optimization and execution is provided. The method includes enabling a container management instance and a container runtime comprising specified operational attributes associated with a container. Supervisor tree code is embedded within the container runtime and definition software is executed. The definition software describes specified digital endpoints of an associated application process being executed by the container. The container is enabled for operational functionality and an external interface is enabled for communications with the supervisor tree code. The container management instance is executed in response to a command received via the external interface.
US11900170B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for determining optimized solutions to input problems in a containerized, cloud-based (e.g., serverless) manner using multiple solver types. In one embodiment, an example method involves receiving a problem type of an input problem originating from a client computing entity, mapping the problem type to one or more selected solver types, generating one or more container instances of one or more compute containers with each compute container corresponding to a selected solver type, generating a problem output using the one or more container instances, and providing the problem output to the client computing entity, where the problem output includes an optimized solution to the input problem that can be used to perform one or more prediction-based actions.
US11900165B2
A function processing service may receive a request to execute source code. The source code may include instructions to perform a function. The function processing service may determine whether at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied for the function. If at least one hardware acceleration condition has been satisfied, the instructions in the source code may be translated into hardware-specific code corresponding to a hardware circuit. The hardware circuit may be configured based on the hardware-specific code, and the hardware circuit may perform the function. The function processing service may then provide the result obtained from the hardware circuit to the requesting entity.
US11900162B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to manage a computing resource allocation for a software application. In some implementations, a method may include executing a first test function using the distributed computing system at a first plurality of allocation setpoints for the computing resource, based on the execution, obtaining one or more performance metrics for the first test function for each setpoint of the first plurality of allocation setpoints, training a machine learning model based on the obtained one or more performance metrics; and utilizing the trained machine learning model to manage the computing resource for a second function.
US11900161B2
Memory allocation for processing-in-memory operations, including: receiving, by an allocation module, a memory allocation request indicating a plurality of data structure operands for a processing-in-memory operation; determining a memory allocation pattern for the plurality of data structure operands, wherein the memory allocation pattern interleaves a plurality of component pages of a memory page across the plurality of data structure operands; and allocating the memory page based on the determined memory allocation pattern.
US11900160B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that more efficiently and effectively manage storage quota enforcement are disclosed. With this technology, a quota ticket comprising a tally generation number (TGN) and a local allowed usage amount (AUA) are obtained. The local AUA comprises a portion of a global AUA associated with a quota rule. The local AUA is increased following receipt of another portion of the global AUA in a response from a cluster peer, when another TGN in the response matches the TGN and the local AUA is insufficient to execute a received storage operation associated with the quota rule. The local AUA is decreased by an amount corresponding to, and following execution of, the storage operation, when the increased local AUA is sufficient to execute the storage operation.
US11900159B2
Techniques are disclosed for reallocating host resources in a virtualized computing environment when certain criteria have been met. In some embodiments, a system identifies a host disabling event. In view of the disabling event, the system identifies a resource for reallocation from a first host to a second host. Based on the identification, the computer system disassociates the identified resource's virtual identifier from the first host device and associates the virtual identifier with the second host device. Thus, the techniques disclosed significantly reduce a system's planned and unplanned downtime.
US11900150B2
A system and method for storing data associated with a system management interrupt (SMI) in a computer system. Notification of a system management interrupt is received on a central processing unit. The central processing unit enters a system management mode. A system management handler of a basic input output system (BIOS) is executed by a bootstrap processor of the central processing unit. The system management interrupt is initiated via the bootstrap processor. The system management interrupt data is stored in a register of the bootstrap processor. The SMI data is converted to an accessible format. The converted SMI data is stored in a memory.
US11900145B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transaction management. One of the methods includes, for a first transaction from a plurality of transactions, in response to determining that the first transaction for a corresponding user account at a first entity satisfies the threshold criteria for a corresponding second entity, accessing account data for the corresponding user account, first data for the first entity, and second data for the second entity to complete the first transaction. For a second transaction, in response to determining that the second transaction for a corresponding user account at the first entity does not satisfy the threshold criteria for the corresponding second entity, a determination is made to not access second data for the corresponding second entity, and account data is accessed for the corresponding user account and the first data for the first entity to complete the second transaction.
US11900141B2
An example virtualized computing system includes a cluster of hosts having a virtualization layer executing thereon and configured to manage virtual machines (VMs); first and second local storage devices in a first host, the first local storage device being part of a virtual storage area network (vSAN) and the second local storage device being exclusive of the vSAN; and an orchestration control plane, integrated with the virtualization layer and including a master server managing state of the orchestration control plane, the state including objects representing the hosts and the VMs, the orchestration control plane deploying a persistent application executing on a first VM, the persistent application storing persistent data on the second local storage device; and a virtualization management server configured to manage the cluster and to cooperate with the orchestration control plane to modify the state to notify the master server of a virtual infrastructure (VI) event.
US11900136B2
A method for ahead of time (AoT) compiling during a play of a legacy game is provided. The method includes scanning a memory device for an executable code of the legacy game, decoding the executable code, and translating the executable code into a first source code. The method further includes compiling the first source code to output a first compiled code, determining whether a user input during the play of the legacy game is received, and determining whether a fiber for servicing the user input is created. The fiber provides directionality of execution between the first compiled code and a second compiled code. The method includes executing the fiber in response to determining that the fiber for servicing the user input is created. The fiber is executed to generate one or more image frames of the legacy game.
US11900124B2
Various embodiments are disclosed of a multiprocessor system with processing elements optimized for high performance and low power dissipation and an associated method of programming the processing elements. Each processing element may comprise a fetch unit and a plurality of address generator units and a plurality of pipelined datapaths. The fetch unit may be configured to receive a multi-part instruction, wherein the multi-part instruction includes a plurality of fields. First and second address generator units may generate, based on different fields of the multi-part instruction, addresses from which to retrieve first and second data for use by an execution unit for the multi-part instruction or a subsequent multi-part instruction. The execution units may perform operations using a single pipeline or multiple pipelines based on third and fourth fields of the multi-part instruction.
US11900119B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically controlling operating state of one or more applications in a distributed operating system are disclosed. A processor creates a filesystem that contains a script configured for interacting with a distributed operating system application programming interface (API); and integrates the filesystem with a scheduler module to be run on a predefined schedule. The processor also creates a container, in response to the predefined schedule, in the distributed operating system, the container having the script installed therein; calls the distributed operating system API to obtain a list of applications in the distributed operating system based on the script; automatically controls the operating state of the corresponding one or more applications in the distributed operating system in response to the predefined schedule and the script; and destroys the container after controlling the operating state of the corresponding one or more applications.
US11900118B1
An apparatus includes a rescue buffer circuit, a store queue circuit, and a control circuit. The rescue buffer circuit may be configured to retain address information related to store instructions. The store queue circuit may be configured to buffer dependency information related to a particular store instruction until the particular store instruction is released to be executed. The control circuit may be configured to cause a subset of the dependency information for the particular store instruction to be written to the rescue buffer circuit. The rescue buffer circuit may be configured to retain the subset after the dependency information has been released from the store queue circuit, and to perform a subsequent load instruction corresponding to a memory location associated with the particular store instruction using the subset of the dependency information from the rescue buffer circuit.
US11900114B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods to skip inconsequential matrix operations. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination matrices, the opcode indicating that the processor is to multiply each element at row M and column K of the first source matrix with a corresponding element at row K and column N of the second source matrix, and accumulate a resulting product with previous contents of a corresponding element at row M and column N of the destination matrix, the processor to skip multiplications that, based on detected values of corresponding multiplicands, would generate inconsequential results; scheduling circuitry to schedule execution of the instruction; and execution circuitry to execute the instructions as per the opcode.
US11900112B2
A method to reverse source data in a processor in response to a vector reverse instruction includes specifying, in respective fields of the vector reverse instruction, a source register containing the source data and a destination register. The source register includes a plurality of lanes and each lane contains a data element, and the destination register includes a plurality of lanes corresponding to the lanes of the source register. The method further includes executing the vector reverse instruction by creating reversed source data by reversing the order of the data elements, and storing the reversed source data in the destination register.
US11900111B2
A device includes a vector register file, a memory, and a processor. The vector register file includes a plurality of vector registers. The memory is configured to store a permutation instruction. The processor is configured to access a periodicity parameter of the permutation instruction. The periodicity parameter indicates a count of a plurality of data sources that contain source data for the permutation instruction. The processor is also configured to execute the permutation instruction to, for each particular element of multiple elements of a first permutation result register of the plurality of vector registers, select a data source of the plurality of data sources based at least in part on the count of the plurality of data sources and populate the particular element based on a value in a corresponding element of the selected data source.
US11900108B2
A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.
US11900107B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to instructions for fused multiply-add (FMA) operations with variable-precision inputs. In one example, a processor to execute an asymmetric FMA instruction includes fetch circuitry to fetch an FMA instruction having fields to specify an opcode, a destination, and first and second source vectors having first and second widths, respectively, decode circuitry to decode the fetched FMA instruction, and a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) execution circuit to process as many elements of the second source vector as fit into an SIMD lane width by multiplying each element by a corresponding element of the first source vector, and accumulating a resulting product with previous contents of the destination, wherein the SIMD lane width is one of 16 bits, 32 bits, and 64 bits, the first width is one of 4 bits and 8 bits, and the second width is one of 1 bit, 2 bits, and 4 bits.
US11900103B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to automatically providing updates to at least one vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at a server remote from the at least one vehicle, Electronic Control Unit (ECU) activity data from the at least one vehicle, the ECU activity data corresponding to actual operation of the ECU in the at least one vehicle; determining, at the server and based on the ECU activity data, a software vulnerability affecting the at least one vehicle, the software vulnerability being determined based on a deviation between the received ECU activity data and expected ECU activity data; identifying, at the server, an ECU software update based on the determined software vulnerability; and sending, from the server, a delta file configured to update software on the ECU with a software update corresponding to the identified ECU software update.
US11900102B2
Systems and methods for data storage device firmware updates in a composable infrastructure are described. Recomposition of a system in a composable infrastructure may include downloading a firmware update to a data storage device, activating the firmware update in the data storage device, and receiving a reset command at the data storage device. The reset command may include a step to flush a virtual-to-physical (V2P) mapping table from a volatile memory in the data storage device to non-volatile memory devices in the data storage device. Responsive to a flag that is set and the received reset command, the data storage device may forgo the step of flushing the V2P mapping table.
US11900088B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a binding between a C/C++ library and one or more interpreted high-level languages, in order to expose the functionalities of the C/C++ library to this or these high-level languages, involving the following steps: a step of writing a definition of the binding in the form of a high-level language, a step of processing this definition in order to produce binding elements, a step of grouping the binding elements around each of the high-level language(s) to produce a C++ binding code, and a step of compiling the C++ code and linking this to the C/C++ library. This can be used, in particular, to implement human-machine interfaces for terrestrial, aerial or maritime mobile equipment.
US11900086B2
Binaries configured for execution within respective computing environments may be disassembled into architecture-specific intermediate (AIL) representations. The AIL representations may be converted into canonical intermediate language (CIL) representations. The CIL representations may comprise normalized, architecture-independent code configured to characterize functionality of respective components of a binary (e.g., respective functions or the like). Feature vectors may be extracted from the CIL representations. The feature vectors may be used to identify components of respective binaries, assign security classifications to the binaries, and/or the like.
US11900085B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described for enabling a user to import a library into a computer program under development. The library includes a data storage interface, one or more semantic objects, and one or more data manipulation or data analysis operations. A user is able to reference code of the library within the computer program under development to generate a dataset from data obtained via the data storage interface and associate the one or more semantic objects with the dataset to generate a semantically-annotated dataset. Systems, methods, and devices enable, based on the importing: the user to invoke a semantic-guided operation of the library that utilizes the semantically-annotated dataset to infer an aspect of a data manipulation or data analysis operation to be performed on the semantically-annotated dataset; or the suggestion of a data manipulation or data analysis operation to the user based on the semantically-annotated dataset.
US11900082B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project.
US11900072B1
Offered is a system that presents on a display screen a translation of a sentence together with an untranslated version of the sentence, and that can cause both of the displayed sentences to break apart into component parts in response to a simple user action, e.g., double-tapping on one of them. When the user selects (e.g., taps on) any portion of either version of the sentence, the system can identify a corresponding portion of the other version (in the other language). In some implementations, a user device can include both a microphone and a display screen, and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine can be used to transcribe the user's speech in one language (e.g., English) into text. The system can translate the resulting text into another language (e.g., Spanish) and display the translated text on the display screen along with the untranslated text. When a user selects a portion of a sentence, the system can also present information about the selected portion (e.g., a dictionary definition) and/or enable selection of a modification to the selected portion (e.g., a different one of the N-best results that were generated by a translation service or an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service).
US11900071B2
Methods and apparatuses are described in which unstructured computer text is analyzed for generation of customized digital documents. A server tokenizes and encodes historical user interactions and historical digital documents into multidimensional vectors. The server trains an interaction classification model using the multidimensional vectors as input to generate a classification for an input user interaction, and trains a language generation model using the multidimensional vectors as input to generate a customized digital document based upon an input user interaction. The server receives a new user interaction and encodes the new user interaction into a new multidimensional vector. The server executes the trained interaction classification model using the new vector as input to generate a digital document classification. The server executes the trained language generation model using the new vector and the classification as input to generate a customized digital document.
US11900056B2
Rewriting text in the writing style of a target author is described. A stylistic rewriting system receives input text and an indication of the target author. The system trains a language model to understand the target author's writing style using a corpus of text associated with the target author. The language model may be transformer-based, and is first trained on a different corpus of text associated with a range of different authors to understand linguistic nuances of a particular language. Copies of the language model are then cascaded into an encoder-decoder framework, which is further trained using a masked language modeling objective and a noisy version of the target author corpus. After training, the encoder-decoder framework of the trained language model automatically rewrites input text in the writing style of the target author and outputs the rewritten text as stylized text.
US11900055B2
A synonym extraction apparatus determines, for compound words included in the document, that types of nouns constituting the compound word are each a Sahen-noun or another noun type to determine a pattern of a sequence of the types of the nouns constituting the compound word, extracts a group of compound words having an identical pattern of the sequence of the types, extracts compound words having an identical leading or ending word from among them, and creates, for a group of compound words having the identical pattern of the sequence of the nouns and the identical leading or ending word, a co-occurrence vector having, as a component, a noun appearing in the same sentence as the corresponding compound word, and outputs, as synonyms, a group of compound words having a degree of similarity between the co-occurrence vectors of the compound words equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US11900040B2
A method includes: receiving a design layout comprising a feature extending in a peripheral region and a central region of the design layout; determining compensation values associated with a pellicle assembly and the peripheral region according to an exposure distribution in an exposure field of a workpiece; and adjusting the design layout according to the compensation values. The modifying of the shape of the feature according to the compensation values includes: partitioning the peripheral region into compensation zones, wherein the feature includes first portions disposed within the respective compensation zones and a second portion disposed within the central region; and reducing line widths of the first portions of the feature according to the compensation values associated with the respective compensation zones while keep the second portion of the feature uncompensated.
US11900039B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having multiple stages including a first stage, a second stage, and a third stage. The first stage has first logic structures coupled in series, and the first logic structures are activated with multiple signals. The second stage has second logic structures coupled in parallel, and the second logic structures are activated with the multiple signals. The third stage has a first input, a second input, and an output. The first input is coupled to the first stage, the second input is coupled to the second stage, and the output provides an output signal based on the multiple signals.
US11900035B2
Systems and methods are described herein for attribute-point-based timing formal verification of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and system on chip (SoC) designs. A target circuit design having a first set of netlists and timing constraints is received. A plurality of key clock-pin-net-load-setting attributes are extracted from the first ported netlists and timing constraints. The clock-pin-net-load-setting attribute mismatch in the result report is checked between the target circuit design and a golden circuit design by comparing the plurality of target attributes with a plurality of golden attributes of the golden circuit design after the target design database is loaded for static timing analysis (STA). The attribute mismatch is provided for further design or timing constraint modifications and/or updates using this approach, particularly timing formal verification, at the target technology in order to enable efficient design timing sign-off based on ported netlists and synthesis design constraints (SDC).
US11900016B2
The systems and methods described relate to the concept that smart devices can be used to 1) sense various types of phenomena like sound, blue light exposure, RF and microwave radiation, and 2) in real-time analyze, report and/or control outputs (e.g., displays or speakers). The systems are configurable and use standard computing devices, such as wearable electronics, tablet computers, and mobile phones to measure various frequency bands across multiple points, allowing a single user to visualize and/or adjust environmental conditions.
US11900014B2
Systems and methods for podcast playback in a system including a playback device and a mobile device as a system controller are disclosed. In one embodiment, a playback system comprising a first playback device and a mobile device, the mobile device comprising computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable to perform a method comprising capturing user input selecting an alarm function, capturing user input selecting a time for playing an alarm on the first playback device, capturing user input selecting a podcast channel, updating the graphical user interface to reflect the selected podcast channel, capturing user input specifying what order to play podcast episodes from the selected podcast channel, and starting playback of a first podcast episode on the first playback device according to the specified order to play podcast episodes by the previous user input and the selected time for playing an alarm.
US11900008B2
An audio processing system may include at least one memory configured to maintain a plurality of audio signal processing algorithms and audio components, and a server having a processor. The processor may be configured to present an interface displaying at least a portion of the signal processing algorithms and audio components, receive user selection of at least one of the audio components, present the at least one selected audio component via the interface, receive user selection of at least one of signal processing algorithms to apply to the at least one selected audio component, apply the at least one selected algorithm to the at least one selected audio component, and provide a measurement of the at least one selected algorithm and the at least one selected audio component via the interface.
US11900006B2
A method, a system and devices for data sharing by teleconferencing with local projection of the same shared data in a local meeting room. A method, a system and devices for synchronizing display of content in a local room and remote sharing of the same content as well. A method, a system and devices for providing access to shared multimedia content within a defined room environment as well as with a remote user.
US11900002B1
A communication apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of communication devices on a network, a memory that stores setting data in which a plurality of different types of communication conditions are associated with each other, a display, and a processor configured to search the network for connectable communication devices, control the display to display a first screen indicating one or more of the communication devices that satisfy the communication conditions, and upon selection of a communication device through the first screen, determine the selected communication device as a communication target of the communication apparatus.
US11899997B1
An embodiment of the present disclosure is an image arrangement apparatus that arranges images for nesting printing, including: an arrangement unit configured to arrange the images side by side in the main scanning direction such that either one of a long side direction and a short side direction of each image included in the images coincides with the main scanning direction in accordance with a combination of respective rotations of images and also such that the images are contained in a rectangular region defined based on the combination; a calculation unit configured to calculate an area of a margin that is a part of the rectangular region, wherein the part is where the images arranged by the arrangement unit are not present; and a selection unit configured to select one of a the combinations based on the area of the margin corresponding to each combination.
US11899995B2
A processing system includes an acquisition portion that acquires authentication result information for face authentication based on a captured image of a user, and a processor that performs a process for a print job. When it is determined that the user successfully logs in by the face authentication based on the authentication result information, the processor performs a process of displaying, on a display of a printing device, a screen having a different display mode according to a situation of the print job corresponding to the user.
US11899993B2
A communication device may include a controller. The controller may be configured to, in a case where a process executing instruction is sent to a notification server from a terminal device, receive a process executing notification from the notification server, and in a case where the process executing notification is received from the notification server, execute a predetermined process. The process executing notification may be received by operating in parallel in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the process executing notification may be received by sending a polling signal to the notification server. In the second mode, the process executing notification may be received by establishing a connection of server-push type between the communication device and the notification server.
US11899988B2
An information processing apparatus generates print data in a first format and communicates with a printing apparatus, and obtains, from OS standard print software which operates in a computer, print data in a second format different from the first format and including document data, print setting by a user, and information related to paper indicating a paper size supported by the printing apparatus, converts the print data such that a size of the document data is converted in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, and generates the converted print data as the print data in the first format and sends the generated print data to the printing apparatus. The predetermined condition includes a condition that, among the information related to paper, one or more sizes associated with a regular size specified based on the print setting include an irregular size different from the specified regular size.
US11899987B2
One or more computing devices may comprise congestion management circuitry, one or more client file system request buffers, and DESS interface circuitry. The one or more client file system request buffers is/are operable to queue first client file system requests of a first priority level and second client file system requests of a second priority level, where the first priority level is higher priority than the second priority level. The DESS interface circuitry is operable to determine a choking level according to the load on a plurality of DESS resources. Individual load values of the DESS resources are mapped to a composite load value using a first function. The composite load value is mapped to a congestion contribution using a second function. And, the congestion contribution is mapped to a choking level using a third function.
US11899983B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory that includes a first area for recording data to be recorded in the first memory and a second area for recording data read from the first memory, and a memory controller that controls the first memory. The memory controller acquires event logs for each event, adds a footer that specifies the data start position of the event log to an end of each of the event logs, sequentially records the event logs to which the footer is added in an order of occurrence of the event from a low address toward a high address of the first area, stores a plurality of the event logs which are recorded in the first area and has the footer added to the plurality of the event logs in the first memory, and sequentially reads the plurality of event logs stored in the first memory in an order from a latest event log, based on content of the footer added to each event log, to sequentially record the read event logs from a low address toward a high address of the second area in a read order of the read event logs.
US11899976B2
A solid state storage device includes a control circuit, a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory is divided into a first area and a second area. After the host issues a write command and a write data, the control circuit monitors a data amount of the write data continuously stored into the non-volatile memory. Before the data amount of the write data continuously stored into the non-volatile memory reaches a predetermined amount, the write data is stored into plural buffering blocks of the first area in a first write mode. After the data amount of the write data continuously stored into the non-volatile memory reaches the predetermined amount, the write data is stored into plural storing blocks of the second area in a second write mode.
US11899972B2
A partition command from one of a plurality of write partition command queues or a plurality of read partition command queues is received. The received partition command is issued to a command processor of the sequencer component to be applied to one of the one or more memory devices. Responsive to receiving the partition command of the plurality of write partition command queues, whether a timeout threshold criterion pertaining to the plurality of read partition command queues is satisfied is determined. Responsive to determining that the timeout threshold criterion pertaining to the plurality of read partition command queues is not satisfied, whether a write threshold criterion pertaining to the plurality of write partition command queues is satisfied is determined. Responsive to determining that at least one of the timeout threshold criterion pertaining to the plurality of read partition command queues or the write threshold criterion pertaining to the plurality of write partition command queues is satisfied, partition commands of the plurality of read partition command queues is received.
US11899962B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory and a CPU. The CPU stores first data in the nonvolatile memory, performs a first transmission of a write request associated with the first data to the memory system, and stores management data including information equivalent to the write request in the nonvolatile memory. In response to receiving a first response to the write request transmitted in the first transmission, the CPU adds, to the management data, information indicating that the first response has been received. The CPU deletes the first data and the management data in response to receiving a second response to the write request transmitted in the first transmission after receiving the first response.
US11899957B2
Data protection operations including replication operations are disclosed. Virtual machines, applications, and/or application data are replicated according to at least one strategy. The replication strategy can improve performance of the recovery operation.
US11899950B1
Domain-specific initial high-speed memory configuration policies are created by analyzing workloads of storage systems deployed in each of a plurality of customer domains. Each domain-specific initial high-speed memory configuration policy specifies the size of both a mirrored policy region and a non-mirrored policy region. The sizes of the mirrored and non-mirrored policy regions are based on the respective proportion of read IO and write IO operations in the analyzed workloads of each customer domain. Each domain-specific initial high-speed memory configuration policy also specifies a distribution of slot sizes that should be created in each of the policy regions, based on read IO and write IO histograms created from the analyzed workloads in each customer domain. When a new storage system is deployed, the customer domain where the new storage system will be used is determined, and the high-speed memory configuration policy for the domain is applied to the storage system.
US11899940B2
When load requests are generated to support data processing operations, the load requests are buffered in pending load buffer circuitry prior to being carried out. Coalescing circuitry determines for a first load request whether a set of one or more subsequent load requests buffered in the pending load buffer circuitry satisfies an address proximity condition. The address proximity condition is satisfied when all data items identified by the set of one or more subsequent load requests are comprised within a series of data items which will be retrieved from the memory system in response to the first load request. When the address proximity condition is satisfied, forwarding of the set of one or more subsequent load requests is suppressed.
US11899936B2
This application relates to a data transmission circuit, a method, and a storage device. The data transmission circuit includes a delay module and a mode register data processing unit. The delay module delays a first preset time when receiving a mode register read command, and generates delayed read command. The mode register data processing unit is connected to the delay module, and reads setting parameters from the mode register in response to the mode register read command, and outputs the setting parameters in response to the delayed read command.
US11899931B2
A hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects within an object-based memory space. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The memory module can provide an interface layer below an application layer of a software stack. The interface layer can comprise one or more storage managers managing hardware of a processor and controlling portions of the object-based memory space visible to a virtual address space and physical address space of the processor. The storage managers can further provide an interface between the object-based memory space and an operating system executed by the processor and an alternate object memory based storage transparent to software using the interface layer.
US11899922B2
Provided are systems, methods, and devices for interactive neurological training. The method includes traversing a graph data structure based on a user profile for a user operating a device, the graph data structure including a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes associated with at least one of a logical statement and an audible output, presenting at least one audible output to the user based on at least one node of the graph data structure, receiving a gesture input from the user through the device in response to the at least one audible output, determining a next node of the graph data structure from at least two different nodes connected to the at least one node, and presenting at least one further audible output to the user based on the next node of the graph data structure.
US11899911B2
Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device presents a user interface for composing a message. The device receives a first user input indicating a recipient of the message and first data for inclusion in the message. In response, the device presents at least the recipient and the first data in a first user interface element of the user interface. Further, subsequent to receiving the first user input, the device receives a second user input indicating a selection of a first application or service from a plurality of applications or services presented in a second user interface element of the user interface. Subsequently, the device transmits the message to the recipient using the first application or service.
US11899910B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for multi-location copying and context-based pasting. A processor may collect a plurality of copied data elements into a clipboard manager. The processor may compare, in response to a paste function being initialized into an input field of a plurality of input fields, the copied data elements and associated metadata with contextual data associated with the plurality of input fields. The processor may calculate, based on the comparing, a data environment confidence value and an individual confidence value for each copied data element with respect to a level of matching the contextual data associated with the input fields. The processor may generate, based on the calculating, an overall confidence value for the copied data elements. The processor may compare the overall confidence value of the copied data elements to a set of confidence thresholds associated with completing the paste function.
US11899907B2
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and a device for displaying followed user information, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an updated video corresponding to at least one followed user in a followed user list; generating a user-dimensional horizontal sliding list corresponding to the at least one followed user according to the obtained updated video; and displaying the user-dimensional horizontal sliding list in a followed user information display interface.
US11899903B2
A method for controlling a display device that includes a touch screen is provided. The method includes establishing a plurality of window display spaces in the touch screen, wherein each of the plurality of window display spaces displays a window for running an application, displaying a launcher application in one of the plurality of window display spaces, the launcher application presenting at least one icon to run at least one application, receiving in the launcher application a new application run command to run a new application, and displaying a new window for running the new application in one of the other window display spaces than the window display space where the launcher application is displayed, in response to the new application run command.
US11899899B2
An example method of adjusting a detachable display capsule of a wrist-wearable device to operationally complement a wearable-structure attachment is disclosed. The method includes, while a display capsule is configured to use a default set of display characteristics for operating-system or application-level user interfaces, receiving identifying information for a respective wearable structure, the display capsule being configured to detachably couple to one of a plurality of wearable structures to form a wrist-wearable device. In accordance with a determination that the display capsule should be adjusted based on the identifying information, the method further includes adjusting the display capsule (i) to cease using the first set of display characteristics and (ii) to instead use a customized set of display characteristics associated with the respective wearable structure. The customized set is distinct from the default set and is also used in conjunction with the operating-system or application-level user interfaces.
US11899893B2
A display device is provided. The display device comprise a substrate a display layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of light-emitting areas, and a touch layer disposed on the display layer and including a touch area and a non-touch area, the touch layer includes: a plurality of first sensor electrodes and a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed in the touch area, and a plurality of antenna patterns disposed in a portion of the touch area disposed adjacent to the non-touch area, the plurality of antenna patterns includes: a first antenna pattern transmitting a transmit signal, and a second antenna pattern receiving the transmit signal, wherein each of the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern is at least partially surrounded by one of the plurality of first sensor electrodes or one of the plurality of second sensor electrodes in a plan view.
US11899891B2
This application provides a touch sensor, a touch display, and an electronic device. The touch sensor includes a substrate, a bridge electrode line, and an electrode layer. The electrode layer includes at least a first electrode pattern, the first electrode pattern includes a plurality of first conductive units spaced from each other, a boundary line of the first conductive unit includes a curved connecting segment, the connecting segment includes at least one first concave and convex portion, and first concave and convex portions are sequentially connected to form a smooth curve. The bridge electrode line extends in a curve, and two ends respectively cross connecting segments of two adjacent first conductive units, and electrically connect the two first conductive units. The touch sensor provided in the embodiments of this application improves bending resistance performance of a touch electrode.
US11899880B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, a detection electrode configured to detect an external proximity object, a plurality of pixels overlapping the detection electrode in plan view, and a detection circuit configured to detect a detected capacitance value generated in the detection electrode. A liquid crystal capacitance value generated between each of the pixels and the detection electrode includes a first capacitance value at a first gradation and a second capacitance value at a second gradation smaller than the first gradation, and the detection circuit corrects the detected capacitance value based on a ratio between number of pixels with the first gradation and number of pixels with the second gradation out of the pixels.
US11899876B2
A touch-sensitive apparatus includes drive electrodes, comprising at least first and second electrodes; a receiver electrode; drive circuitry configured to generate first and second time-varying voltage signals, wherein the time-varying voltage signals are the inverse of one another; and control circuitry that performs a first measurement on the receiver electrode during a first time period, wherein the control circuitry supplies at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the first time period; and perform a second measurement on the at least one receiver electrode during a second time period, wherein the control circuitry is configured to supply at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the second time period; and determine a resultant signal corresponding to the mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the receiver electrode based on both the first measurement and the second measurement.
US11899874B2
A touch display device is disclosed. Since a touch electrode line included in the display device is divided into two or more touch electrode line parts connected to different touch routing lines, an entire load of the touch electrode line and the touch routing line can be reduced. As a portion of the touch routing line is disposed on an active area and touch routing lines connected to different touch electrode line parts are connected to each other between the active area and a touch driving circuit, an entire load can be reduced without an increase of a non-active area and an increase of a channel due to the touch routing lines, and a performance of a touch sensing can be improved.
US11899869B2
An input sensing unit including a plurality of first electrodes, which are arranged in a first direction and each of which extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of row electrode each of which includes a second electrode and a third electrode, a plurality of first sensing lines respectively connected to the first electrodes, a plurality of second sensing lines respectively connected to the second electrodes, and a third sensing line connected to each of the third electrodes. Each of the row electrodes includes one side and the other side, which are opposed to each other in the first direction, and the one side is connected to one of one second sensing line and one third sensing line of the second sensing lines, and the other side is connected to the other of the second sensing lien and the third sensing line.
US11899865B2
Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
US11899863B2
An organic light emitting diode display device including a touch sensor and a manufacturing method of the same are discussed. The display device includes a substrate having light emitting areas defined therein; light emitting elements provided on the light emitting areas on the substrate; a first encapsulation film covering the light emitting elements; color filters provided on the first encapsulation film to respectively correspond to the light emitting areas; bridge electrodes provided between the plurality of color filters on the first encapsulation film; a bank insulating film provided on the first encapsulation film to cover the bridge electrodes and surround the color filters; touch electrodes provided by being overlapped with the bridge electrodes on the bank insulating film; and a planarization film covering the color filters and the bank insulating film and exposing the touch electrodes.
US11899862B2
A display panel includes a main display area, and a component area including a transmission area. The display panel includes a substrate including a groove disposed in the transmission area in a depth direction of the substrate; main display elements disposed above the substrate in the main display area; main pixel circuits electrically connected to the main display elements; and auxiliary display elements disposed above the substrate in the component area; and auxiliary pixel circuits electrically connected to the auxiliary display elements.
US11899860B2
An electronic device may include: a first communication circuit for connecting first communication with a remote input device positioned in the electronic device; a second communication circuit for connecting second communication with an external display device; a wireless charging coil for sensing a change in a magnetic field signal of a remote input device, and outputting an electrical signal according to the change in a magnetic field signal; and a processor electrically connected to the first communication circuit, the second communication circuit, and the wireless charging coil, wherein the processor determines detachment of the electronic device of a remote input device, receives, through wireless communication, a button input signal of the remote input device and sensor data of the remote input device, and can activate one from among a plurality of interactions on the basis of the button input signal and/or the sensor data.
US11899849B1
A keyboard includes a display including a visual side configured to present content and a substantially transparent substrate overlaying the visual side of the display. The substrate has a printed circuit. The keyboard includes a substantially transparent spacer positioned between the display and the substrate, and keyboard switches mounted to the printed circuit.
US11899848B2
A method includes: sensing, by a mobile device when the mobile device is tethered to a head-mounted display (HMD) and when the mobile device is held by a first hand, first data; detecting, by the mobile device, information indicating which hand is used to perform a gesture from the first data; sending, by the mobile device, the information to the HMD; receiving, by the HMD, the information, and not detecting, by the HMD, the information by an image-based detection method; wherein the gesture is performed by a second hand and the information is an updated indication with respect to the gesture considering a hand switch state during a first elapsed duration from a sensing time of the first data to a sensing time of the first image data; and performing, by the HMD, side-adapted hand pose estimation on the first image data using the information.
US11899843B2
An indirect haptic device includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of haptic electrodes and a plurality of island electrodes arranged on the top surface. The device further includes a plurality of transmit electrodes and a plurality of receive electrodes arranged on the bottom surface, a position sensor, and a friction modulator. The device further includes a control device configured to apply bipolar electrical signals to the plurality of transmit electrodes to detect touch locations of a user's appendage and to modulate the friction between the user's appendage and the touch surface. Each of the plurality of haptic electrodes are substantially aligned with and capacitively coupled to a corresponding two of the plurality of transmit electrodes.
US11899840B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor of an information handling device and in a virtual environment, a user input directed to a virtual human input device; accessing, from a data store, sensation data associated with user interaction with a real-world counterpart device of the virtual human input device; and providing, based on the sensation data and using a wearable haptic device, a haptic output responsive to the user input, wherein the haptic output emulates an interaction feel of the user input provided to the real-world counterpart device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11899834B2
An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a control unit that performs: control of switching a display coordinate system of display content from a first display coordinate system to a second display coordinate system, the display content displayed on a surface of a real object by a display unit, depending on a state of an input operation of changing a position or an angle of the display content; and control of changing a display position or a display angle of the display content in accordance with the second display coordinate system and causing the display unit to display input assist display corresponding to axes of the second display coordinate system in a case where the display coordinate system is switched from the first display coordinate system to the second display coordinate system.
US11899826B2
According to an embodiment, a security controller is described comprising a memory storing data elements of a data array and a processing circuit configured to determine a power of two such that number of data elements is higher than the power of two but at most equal to double the power of two, determine random first and second integers, change indices of a predefined sequence of indices, comprising performing a first change of the index according to a first permutation if it is lower than the power of two, performing a second change of the index by adding a third integer modulo data array length and performing a third change of the index by a second permutation if it is, following the second change, lower than the power of two, and process the data elements in an order of the changed indices.
US11899819B2
Embodiments seek to protect privacy of potentially sensitive client resources in web transactions using crowd-disambiguation. Crowd-disambiguation machines can aggregate information about resources from multiple clients as resource fingerprints, and can use the fingerprints to provide crowd-sourced services in a privacy-protected manner. For example, embodiments can communicate a resource fingerprint as a fully ambiguated resource instance (FARI) and a partially disambiguated resource instance (PDRI). When one (or few) clients communicates the resource fingerprint, the identity of the resource remains obfuscated from the crowd-disambiguation machine. As more clients communicate fingerprints for the same resource (e.g., identified by the matching FARIs), respective, differently generated PDRIs of those fingerprints enable the crowd-disambiguation machine to resolve further portions of the resource, ultimately permitting the resource to be revealed and considered non-private (e.g., for use in hint generation or other crowd-sourced services).
US11899805B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for automatically limiting video surveillance collection to authorized uses and authorized users. To achieve this control, the authorization system can be configured to manage and secure a plurality of crypto keys associated with encrypting a plurality of corresponding video footages and release a crypto key for a video footage at approved times to limit user access to the video footage. In particular, the surveillance system can generate a video collection including a copy of portions of a received video footage that include one or more approved events from a watchlist of a user. Thereafter, the video footage can be encrypted by a first key managed by the authorization system and prevents the user from accessing video content of the video footage once encrypted. Accordingly, the user may be limited to accessing the video collection and not all the portions in the encrypted video footage.
US11899802B2
A system for monitoring networked computing devices with integrated electronic data encryption and decryption mechanism is provided. In particular, the system may comprise one or more host applications which may interact with an API layer to transmit encrypted host-related data through a secure data rails to a consolidated data repository. One or more downstream monitoring applications may retrieve and decrypt the host-related data from the consolidated data repository for analysis. In this way, the system may provide a secure, scalable way to monitor host computing systems and flow of sensitive electronic data.
US11899800B2
A system to create a stacked classifier model combination or classifier ensemble has been designed for identification of undisclosed flaws in software components on a large-scale. This classifier ensemble is capable of at least a 54.55% improvement in precision. The system uses a K-folding cross validation algorithm to partition a sample dataset and then train and test a set of N classifiers with the dataset folds. At each test iteration, trained models of the set of classifiers generate probabilities that a sample has a flaw, resulting in a set of N probabilities or predictions for each sample in the test data. With a sample size of S, the system passes the S sets of N predictions to a logistic regressor along with “ground truth” for the sample dataset to train a logistic regression model. The trained classifiers and the logistic regression model are stored as the classifier ensemble.
US11899794B1
Robustness of a machine learning model can be characterized by receiving a file with a known, first classification by the machine learning model. Thereafter, a selection is made as to which of a plurality of perturbation algorithms to use to modify the file. The perturbation algorithm is selected as to provide a shortest sequence of actions to cause the machine learning model to provide a desired classification. Subsequently, the received file is iteratively modified using the selected perturbation algorithm and inputting the corresponding modified file into the machine learning model until the machine learning model outputs a known, second classification. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11899793B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) classifies each event that occurred in a target apparatus to be determined (10) either as an event (event of a first class) that also occurs in a standard apparatus (20) or as an event (event of a second class) that does not occur in the standard apparatus (20). Herein, a first model used for a determination with respect to an event that also occurs in the standard apparatus (20) and a second model used for a determination with respect to an event that does not occur in the standard apparatus (20) are used as models for determining whether an event that occurs in a target apparatus to be determined (10) is a target for warning. The information processing apparatus (2000) performs learning of the first model using an event of the first class. Further, the information processing apparatus (2000) performs learning of the second model using an event of the second class.
US11899780B2
The present disclosure is directed to assessing API service security and may include the steps of identifying an API service called by an application based on information provided by an agent embedded within the application; collecting telemetry associated with the API service, the telemetry collected from one or more telemetry sources and indicating any deficiencies in the API service; generating a reputation score for the API service based on analysis of the collected telemetry; and transmitting the reputation score to at least one of the following: the agent embedded within the application, wherein the reputation score is associated with at least one policy having at least one policy action, and wherein the reputation score is operable to be used by the agent to invoke the at least one policy action relating to use of the API service by the application; or a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline associated with the application.
US11899778B2
This application discloses a password verification method and a password setting method. The password verification method includes: in response to a detected operation of requesting for password verification, collecting at least one first image by using a camera of a mobile terminal; obtaining matching information when a result of matching between the at least one first image collected by the mobile terminal and at least one first preset image satisfies a first preset matching condition, where the matching information includes at least one of the following: location information of the mobile terminal, motion information of the mobile terminal, at least one second image collected by the camera of the mobile terminal, and network connection information of the mobile terminal; and performing matching between the obtained matching information and a second preset matching condition, where the password verification succeeds when the matching is successful.
US11899774B2
An authentication apparatus and a method to devise an authentication tool is provided for facilitating determination of authenticity or genuineness of an article with reference to a captured image or a purported primary image of an information bearing device on the article. The authenticity or genuineness of an article is determined with reference to whether a captured image is a primary image of an authentic information bearing device using a trained neural network. The neural network is trained using training images comprising imperfect images having varying degrees of image imperfections which are introduced under controlled conditions.
US11899755B2
Management of virtual content rights of digital assets for a virtual environment, including: receiving data indicating a request from a user for assignment of virtual content rights of a digital asset; determining whether the requested virtual content rights are available for assignment to the user and a set of terms of the assignment for the requested virtual content rights; notifying the user of the availability and the set of terms for the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user; receiving data indicating agreement by the user to the assignment, including agreement to at least one term of the set of terms; and updating the virtual content rights database to indicate the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user.
US11899750B2
A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to train a quantile neural network to input an image and output a lower quantile (LQ) prediction, a median quantile (MQ) prediction and an upper quantile (UQ) prediction corresponding to an object in the image, wherein an LQ loss, an MQ loss and a UQ loss are determined for the LQ prediction, the MQ prediction and the UQ prediction respectively and wherein the LQ loss, the MQ loss and the UQ loss are combined to form a base layer loss and output the quantile neural network.
US11899745B1
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for processing and converting data using matrix operations. Circuitry can partition an input of a first data format across a plurality of lookup tables each residing in a respective memory. The circuitry can access weight information from a load store memory, and the partitioned input on a per column basis from the plurality of lookup tables. The circuitry can perform a number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations per cycle between the weight information from the load store memory and the partitioned input read on a per column basis from the plurality of lookup tables. The number of MAC operations performed per cycle can correspond to a total number of columns of the plurality of lookup tables. The circuitry can generate, responsive to the MAC operations on the partitioned input, a plurality of outputs in a second data format.
US11899732B2
Systems and methods for automatically associating content characteristics to a third-party content are provided. A uniform resource locator identifying a resource is received from a content provider. The content is rendered to produce an object tree. A first node of the object tree is determined, where the first node represents a content slot. A second node of the object tree proximate to the first node is identified. The second node has a content characteristic, which is extracted. The extracted content characteristic is associated with the first node and stored.
US11899726B2
A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label.
US11899716B2
An operation method of a user terminal for providing a video slide service includes uploading a UGC video to a server; receiving, from the server, scene meta-information for each playback section of the UGC video; generating a video slide file on the basis of the received scene meta-information for each playback section; classifying, according to categories, a plurality of pieces of page information configuring the video slide file; and generating a storybook corresponding to the UGC video on the basis of a plurality of page groups classified according to the categories.
US11899714B1
Voice data from a current conversation between a user and a voice-controlled user device can be used to determine a search constraint for searching a database. Other search constraints can be determined based at least in part on the current conversation, a previous conversation, and/or a previous action. Properties can be associated with the search constraints. Once the search constraints have been determined, a plurality of search query plans is determined and a first search query plan is executed to query the database.
US11899712B2
Embodiments are provided for updating a playlist that has been added to a playback queue in response to changes to the playback queue. The playback queue may be associated with a zone of a network media system such that items in the playback queue are to be rendered by the zone. The playlist may include one or more items playable by the zone, and may be stored separately from where the playback queue is maintained. Embodiments are also provided for updating a playback queue in response to modifications to a playlist included in the playback queue.
US11899695B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for creating an extension field across system tenants in a customer landscape. One example method includes receiving a request to add an extension field to an entity used in a customer landscape. Entity-using system tenants that use the entity are determined. Event-pairing information is provided to each entity-using system tenant to enable receiving of extension field events. Field attribute values for a set of field attributes for the extension field are received. A field creation event is generated that instructs a system tenant receiving the field creation event to create a local field that has a target state of the extension field in that system tenant. The field creation event is sent to each entity-using system tenant.
US11899691B2
Techniques are disclosed for data management in an information processing system. For example, a method comprises analyzing one or more data sources, wherein each of the one or more data sources comprise a set of metadata and usage information associated with the set of metadata. The method then determines at least one of data definitions and data classifications for the one or more sets of metadata across the one or more data sources, and stores the at least one of data definitions and data classifications for the one or more sets of metadata in a repository.
US11899689B2
A blockchain-based data synchronization method, executed by a first service node, includes: acquiring target block data having a minimum block height that is greater than a first local block height, the first local block height being a maximum block height of local block data of the first service node before the first service node acquires the target block data; determining a block height of missing block data according to a block height of the target block data and the first local block height, the block height of the missing block data being less than the minimum block height of the target block data and greater than the first local block height; and requesting a target service node to synchronize the missing block data according to the block height of the missing block data.
US11899686B2
A method for facilitating usage and storage of bi-temporal data is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via an application programming interface, an update request, the update request relating to an update of a data object with a new data object; identifying a builder pattern that corresponds to the data object based on a data type of the data object; automatically generating, by using the identified builder pattern, a delta object based on the request, the delta object relating to a difference between the data object and the new data object; associating the delta object with an axial value, the axial value including a reported time and an effective time; and persisting the delta object and the corresponding association as an event that represents the difference between the data object and the new data object.
US11899680B2
The present embodiments relate to metadata value-based mapping during a data load in a data integration job. A computing device can receive a first data set from a source system and computer-readable instructions to load data into a target system. The device can receive a first metadata set from the target system that describe destinations. The computing device can identify a first data value of the first data set that matches a metadata value of the first metadata set. The device can receive a data integration mapping of the second data value of the first data set to a data field associated with the matching metadata value of the first metadata set. The device can load the second data value of the first data set from the source system into the target system pursuant to the mapping and the computer-readable instructions.
US11899679B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing a remote data gateway for use with an analytics environment, such as, for example, an Oracle Analytics Cloud environment, or a data warehouse or other type of analytics or computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the remote data gateway enables secure access by a data analytics warehouse operating in a cloud environment, to a customer's on-premise data, without migrating their on-premise data to the cloud. An on-premise data client exposes a port, which a data analytics remote data gateway server connects to, authenticates itself, and thereafter calls into the client periodically, via a remote data gateway agent, to check for subsequent requests, for example to provide on-premise data to the cloud environment, or to run data analytics on the on-premise data.
US11899667B2
The invention provides a time-efficient way of performing a query in a database or information retrieval system comprising operations such as intersection, union, difference and exclusive disjunction on two or more sets of keys stored in a database or information retrieval system. In a novel execution model, all data sources and operators are tries, and in input trie for a higher-order set operation can be the output of a lower-order set operation which is evaluated on demand. Two or more input tries are combined in accordance with the respective set operation, to obtain the set of keys associated with the nodes of a respective resulting trie. The physical algebra of the implementation of tries based on bitmaps corresponds directly to the logical algebra for the set operations and allows for efficient implementation by means of bitwise Boolean operations.
US11899666B2
A system and method is described for database split generation in a massively parallel or other distributed database environment including a plurality of databases and a data warehouse layer providing data summarization and querying functionality. A database table accessor of the system obtains, from an associated client application, a query for data in a table of the data warehouse layer, wherein the query includes a user preference. The system obtains table data representative of properties of the table, and determines a splits generator in accordance with one or more of the user preference or the properties of the table. The system generates, by the selected splits generator, table splits dividing the user query into a plurality of query splits, and outputs the plurality of query splits to an associated plurality of mappers for execution by the associated plurality of mappers of each of the plurality of query splits against the table.
US11899663B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided that aggregates records as they are submitted to a third party (on the write path) rather than performing a real-time aggregation when a request is processed that needs the aggregation (read path). More particularly, in an example embodiment, a caching layer is introduced that avoids having to read all usage events to compute an aggregation when a request is received for aggregated data. The caching layer maintains values for various metrics that require aggregation.
US11899659B2
The maintenance of a materialized view created and managed by a materialized view management platform may be dynamically adjusted. The performance of updates to a materialized view are monitored to trigger different events to make adjustments to the performance of subsequent updates. The materialized view management platform can adequately scale to handle changes to data sources as inputs to the maintenance of the materialized view, as well as make other adjustments handle various changes in the capability of the target data store to receive updates to the materialized view (e.g., target data store outages).
US11899658B1
A client device that includes a camera and an extended reality client application program is employed by a user in a physical space, such as an industrial or campus environment. The user aims the camera within the mobile device at a real-world asset, such as a computer system, classroom, or vehicle. The client device acquires a digital image via the camera and detects textual and/or pictorial content included in the acquired image that corresponds to one or more anchors. The client device queries a data intake and query system for asset content associated with the detected anchors. Upon receiving the asset content from the data intake and query system, the client device generates visualizations of the asset content and presents the visualizations via a display device.
US11899655B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective segment of the plurality of approximately equal segments to determine a number of the one or more notifications; when the number of the one or more notifications is equal to or greater than a maximum number of notifications, removing at least one notification of the one or more notifications; and before or after removing the at least one notification, storing the new notification in the data store.
US11899653B2
The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for facilitating the verification of the integrity of digital content. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods may provide mechanisms for generating a secure and unambiguous record of the creation and/or modification of digital content and/or other media associated with events. Further embodiments may provide for a ledger configured to capture a record of creation and/or modification actions performed in connection with digital content.
US11899650B2
Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating data integrity processes using measures of statistical dispersion (e.g., gini impurities) of dataset features. The described mechanism may be also be used for selection and dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction may enable storing the dataset using less storage space or performing other operations on the dataset using less resources. In some embodiments, the above described mechanism may be used for supervised categorial clustering and/or categorical classification.
US11899636B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for capturing and maintaining a timeline of data changes in a relational database system. A server identifies changed records from relational database tables. The server analyzes the changed records to determine a maximum timestamp for each primary key and extracts the changed records associated with each primary key where a timestamp is equal to or greater than the maximum timestamp for the primary key. The server generates timestamp ranges for each primary key, each comprising an effective date and an expiration date. The server determines whether each key-date combination already exists in a historical record table. The server updates an expiration date of an existing record in the historical record table using the effective date and inserts a new record for the timestamp range using the captured records.
US11899623B2
A client application sends an application programming interface call to an interface of a content management system. The call specifies one or more content item search criteria. Sending the call causes the content management system to perform a lookup in a content item index to identify at least one content item that satisfies the one or more content item search criteria. Based on sending the call, the client application receives from the content management system a suggestion to attach the at least one content item to a text being displayed by at the computing system.
US11899621B2
A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one of the plurality of computing devices. The metadata is grouped into buckets. Each bucket is stored in the backend of a computing device. Access to a storage device may be managed according to an availability of the storage device. Reads from and writes to a storage device may be redirected when, for example, the storage device is over-utilized or performing garbage collection.
US11899607B2
An apparatus comprises an interconnect providing communication paths between agents coupled to the interconnect. A coordination agent is provided which performs an operation requiring sending a request to each of a plurality of target agents, and receiving a response from each of the target agents, the operation being unable to complete until the response has been received from each of the target agents. Storage circuitry is provided which is accessible to the coordination agent and configured to store, for each agent that the coordination agent may communicate with via the interconnect, a latency indication for communication between that agent and the coordination agent. The coordination agent is configured, prior to performing the operation, to determine a sending order in which to send the request to each of the target agents, the sending order being determined in dependence on the latency indication for each of the target agents.
US11899606B2
A server rack has server sleds, each including a motherboard upon which is mounted: a memory module, a cache, at least one CPU connected to the cache, a memory controller connected to the cache and the memory module, an I/O hub, and a fabric interface (FIC) having a memory bridge and optical transceivers, where this memory bridge is connected to the I/O hub through this motherboard. The rack also has a memory sled disaggregated from the server sleds and that includes: a motherboard upon which is mounted: memory modules and a FIC having a memory bridge, a memory controller and optical transceivers, wherein this memory controller is connected to these memory modules through this motherboard, and wherein this memory bridge connects the memory controller to the optical transceivers. The rack has a photonic cross-connect switch interconnected by optical fiber cables to the optical transceivers of the server and memory sleds.
US11899598B2
A data storage device and method for lane selection based on thermal conditions are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to determine that action is needed to control a thermal state of the data storage device; and in response to determining that action is needed to control the thermal state of the data storage device, send a request to a host to reduce a number of lanes the host uses to communicate with the data storage device, wherein reducing the number of lanes reduces an amount of heat generated by the data storage device. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US11899596B2
A network interface controller (NIC) capable of efficient command management is provided. The NIC can be equipped with a host interface, an arbitration logic block, and a command management logic block. During operation, the host interface can couple the NIC to a host device. The arbitration logic block can select a command queue of the host device for obtaining a command. The command management logic block can determine whether an internal buffer associated with the command queue includes a command. If the internal buffer includes the command, the command management logic block can obtain the command from the internal buffer. On the other hand, if the internal buffer is empty, the command management logic block can obtain the command from the command queue via the host interface.
US11899595B2
Systems and methods for providing object versioning in a storage system may support the logical deletion of stored objects. In response to a delete operation specifying both a user key and a version identifier, the storage system may permanently delete the specified version of an object having the specified key. In response to a delete operation specifying a user key, but not a version identifier, the storage system may create a delete marker object that does not contain object data, and may generate a new version identifier for the delete marker. The delete marker may be stored as the latest object version of the user key, and may be addressable in the storage system using a composite key comprising the user key and the new version identifier. Subsequent attempts to retrieve the user key without specifying a version identifier may return an error, although the object was not actually deleted.
US11899591B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include detecting an operation to write dirty data to a cache. The cache is divided into a plurality of channels. In response to the operation, the dirty data is written to a first cache line in the cache, the first cache line being accessed via a first channel. Additionally, a redundant copy of the dirty data is written to a second cache line in the cache. The second cache line serves as a redundant write buffer and is accessed via a second channel, the first and second channels differing from one another. A metadata entry for the second cache line is updated to reference a location of the dirty data in the first cache line.
US11899589B2
A method for managing a memory system may include monitoring one or more accesses of a page of memory, determining, based on the monitoring, an access pattern of the page of memory, and selecting, based on the access pattern, a coherency bias for the page of memory. The monitoring may include maintaining an indication of the one or more accesses. The determining may include comparing the indication to a threshold. Maintaining the indication may include changing the indication in a first manner based on an access of the page of memory by a first apparatus. Maintaining the indication may include changing the indication in a second manner based on an access of the page of memory by a second apparatus. The first manner may counteract the second manner.
US11899587B2
Systems and methods for object-based data storage are provided. There may be a read/write cache configured to cache objects to be written to an object-based data storage. A document in the read/write cache may have a lock state set to unlocked, thereby allowing the document to be deleted. Or, the document in the read/write cache may have a lock state set to locked, thereby preventing deletion of the document.
US11899584B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and an operating method of the system. Based on some embodiments of the disclosed technology, the system may include a random access memory structured to include memory cells to store data, a cache memory configured to cache at least part of the data, and a processor in communication with the random access memory and the cache memory to access at least part of the data from the random access memory or cache memory. The system may determine a cache hit ratio for the cache memory, and may set an operating frequency of the random access memory based on the cache hit ratio.
US11899582B2
A method of operating a storage unit having non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) and solid-state memory is provided. The method includes transferring contents of the NVRAM to the solid-state memory, in response to detecting a power loss. The method includes during the transferring, having each of a plurality of channels in parallel, reading one or more of a plurality of logical unit numbers (LUNs) each corresponding to a portion of the NVRAM, performing an XOR of data of each of the one or more of the plurality of LUNs with data of a preceding LUN, and writing results of the XOR to the solid-state memory.
US11899579B2
A system includes a processor and a memory including instructions that are executable for causing the processor to perform operations. The operations include accessing a new component value and a set of inner heaps. Each inner heap of the set of inner heaps includes a sorted set of components originating from a plurality of component sources. The operations further include assigning the new component value to a first inner heap of the set of inner heaps. In response to assigning the new component value to the first inner heap, the operations include sorting the first inner heap to identify a maximum or minimum value of the first inner heap. In response to determining that the new component value changes the maximum or minimum value of the first inner heap, the operations include updating an outer heap to include a reference to the new component value of the first inner heap.
US11899578B2
A log generated over a time period of garbage collection cycles of a microservice is reviewed. The log includes garbage collection events and pause times for each event. A determination is made that a threshold number of consecutive garbage collection events has been reached where each consecutive event had a pause time exceeding a threshold pause time. Upon the determination, a change is made to a configuration file associated with the microservice to reduce the pause times for a next time period. Once the microservice enters an idle state, a command is generated to restart the microservice for the change in the configuration file to take effect.
US11899575B1
This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory. The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This information assists the host in making decisions about specific operations, for example, initiating garbage collection, space reclamation, wear leveling or other operations. For example, metadata can be provided to the host identifying whether each page of an erase unit has been released, and the host can specifically then command each of consolidation and erase using direct addressing. By redefining host-controller responsibilities in this manner, much of the overhead association with FTL functions can be substantially removed from the memory controller, with the host directly specifying physical addresses. This reduces performance unpredictability and overhead, thereby facilitating integration of solid state drives (SSDs) with other forms of storage. The disclosed techniques are especially useful for direct-attached and/or network-attached storage.
US11899573B2
A memory system includes a memory and a controller. The memory is configured to store a number of valid data in each of a plurality of logical blocks and a number of valid data for each of a plurality of banks in each of the logical blocks. The controller is configured to: select logical blocks of garbage collection target candidates based on the numbers of valid data in the logical blocks; calculate a maximum value among the numbers of valid data for the banks in each of the logical blocks of the garbage collection target candidates as a respective comparison value; and select one of the logical blocks of the garbage collection targets based on comparing the respective comparison values of the logical blocks of the garbage collection target candidates with each other.
US11899560B2
The automatic detection of inconsistencies in a database system is described. A first signature and a second signature are received. The first signature is a signature of a result of a first execution of the query against a database by a first version of database engine program code. The second signature is a signature of a result of a second execution of the query by a second version of the database engine program code. A determination is made of whether the first signature and the second signature match. In response to the first signature and the second signature failing to match, an inconsistency report regarding at least one of the first or second versions of the database engine program code is generated and remediation regarding at least one of the first or second versions of the database engine program code is performed.
US11899557B2
Disclosed techniques relate to tracing a subsidiary thread of a web page application. In an example, a method includes providing a web page application to a web browser. The method further includes creating, from the web page application, a global tracer configured to log tracing data for the web page application and a span. The method further includes instantiating, from the web page application, a wrapper for a subsidiary thread. The wrapper is configured to execute shim code before executing the subsidiary thread. The method further includes passing, from the wrapper to the shim code, configuration data of the global tracer. The method further includes creating a subsidiary tracer from the shim code and the configuration data. The subsidiary tracer configured to log tracing data for the subsidiary thread and a thread span.
US11899546B2
Systems and methods are described for improving portability of checkpoints of an application using central processing unit (CPU)-specific features. In an example, a system includes a source computing system and a destination computing system. The source computing system may be configured to: cause a first execution of an application that includes a function associated with a plurality of implementations; receive a request to resolve an implementation decision for the function; select, based on a set of source CPU-specific features, a source-specific implementation for the first execution of the function; patch, by rendering a resolved callsite table, a call site associated with the function with an address of the source-specific implementation; and send, to a destination computing system, a checkpoint of the application that includes the resolved callsite table. The destination computing system is configured to restore the application by changing the implementation decision based on a set of destination CPU-specific features.
US11899544B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for efficient synchronization of a cloud enabled file system database during a snapshot restore operation are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes intercepting a user request to initiate a snapshot restore operation on a file system associated with a local storage system, wherein the file system comprises one or more stub files that are indicative of locations of cloud objects comprising files that were previously sent from the local storage system to a cloud storage platform; prior to the snapshot restore operation being performed, creating a current snapshot of the file system; obtaining an indication that the file system was successfully restored on the local storage system; and using the current snapshot to perform a synchronization operation, wherein the synchronization operation deletes one or more orphan cloud objects in the cloud storage platform that resulted from the snapshot restore operation.
US11899543B2
Systems for application configuration backup and restore. Techniques establish high frequency restore points of application configuration metadata. Processing commences upon receiving instructions to periodically take snapshots of application configuration metadata. To avoid incurring unnecessary costs to process snapshots of application configuration metadata when the application configuration metadata is slow-changing, the method performs a low-cost check to get the latest update time of the application configuration metadata. That time is compared to the time of the most recent snapshot of the application configuration metadata. When the time of the latest update time of the application configuration metadata is equal to the time of the most recent snapshot of the application configuration metadata, then rather than incurring the cost of generating a duplicate snapshot, the method waits for a duration without generating a new snapshot. High frequency restore points for application configuration metadata are emulated by pointing to corresponding lower frequency snapshots.
US11899542B2
A file data access method and apparatus, and a medium. The method includes: when a file copy instruction is received, creating a backup file; recording, in metadata of an original file, identification information of the backup file, and recording, in metadata of the backup file, identification information of the original file; when a read instruction for a first target file is received, determining whether there is a data object corresponding to the first target file; if YES, reading the data object; and if NO, determining a first target original file associated with the first target file according to identification information recorded in metadata of the first target file, and reading a data object of the first target original file. During data backup, an original file may be backed up by merely recording, in metadata, identification information of an associated file, without copying a data object.
US11899540B2
A synthetic full backup of a source volume is retrieved, the synthetic full having been created from merging a backup chain including an incremental backup into a full backup. The full backup corresponds to a state of the source volume at a first time. The synthetic full corresponds to a state of the source volume at a second time, after the first time. A bitmap embedded into a snapshot of the source volume taken at the second time is retrieved. The bitmap identifies data from the source volume copied to secondary storage for the incremental backup. The backup chain is regenerated by copying from the snapshot the data identified by the bitmap to a regenerated incremental backup.
US11899534B2
Techniques for providing direct access to backup data can include: receiving a selection of a backup of a file system, wherein the backup is stored on a backup system connected to a data storage system; creating, in accordance with said selection of the backup, a remote copy of the backup, wherein the remote copy is stored on the backup system; generating a proxy file system for the remote copy on the backup system, wherein the proxy file system is mapped by the data storage system to the remote copy on the backup system; and providing a host with direct access to the remote copy using the proxy file system.
US11899533B2
A stripe reassembling technique includes a stripe server that selects stripes; uses data chunks including valid data in the stripes S1, S2, and S3 as data chunks in a new stripe S4, and generates data of a parity chunk for data of the data chunks in S4 according to an erasure coding (EC) algorithm the same as that of S1, S2, and S3 ; and stores the parity data of the parity chunk on a parity storage node.
US11899530B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving incoming data in a processor and performing a checksum operation on the incoming data in the processor pursuant to a user-level instruction for the checksum operation. For example, a cyclic redundancy checksum may be computed in the processor itself responsive to the user-level instruction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11899528B2
Automated methods and systems for identifying and resolving performance problems of objects of a data center are described. The automated methods and systems construct a model for identifying objects of the datacenter that are experiencing performance problems based on baseline distributions of events of the objects in a historical time period and event distributions of events of the objects in a time window located outside the historical time period. A root causes and recommendations database is constructed for resolving performance problems based on remedial measures previously performed for resolving performance problems. The model is used to monitor the objects of data center for runtime performance problems. When a performance problem with an object is detected, the root causes and recommendations database is used to identify a root cause of the performance problem and generate a recommendation for resolving the performance problem in near real time.
US11899520B2
A technique for operating a cache is disclosed. The technique includes in response to a power down trigger that indicates that the cache effectiveness is considered to be low, powering down the cache.
US11899511B2
A desktop computing system having at least a central core surrounded by housing having a shape that defines a volume in which the central core resides is described. The housing includes a first opening and a second opening axially displaced from the first opening. The first opening having a size and shape in accordance with an amount of airflow used as a heat transfer medium for cooling internal components, the second opening defined by a lip that engages a portion of the airflow in such a way that at least some of the heat transferred to the air flow from the internal components is passed to the housing.
US11899506B2
An electronic device, a communication device, and a method enhance thermal energy spreading via thermal spreader layer(s) of a flexible layer assembly extending through a hinge coupling first and second device housings of a configurable housing assembly. The thermal spreader layer is positioned on a surface of a flexible circuit of the flexible layer assembly. The thermal spreader layer has one end thermally coupled to a first structure within the first device housing and another end thermally coupled to a second structure within the second device housing to transfer thermal energy between the first and the second structures. The flexible layer assembly deforms within one or both of a first and second chamber respectively of the first and second device housings when the first and second device housings pivot about the hinge from a closed position to an axially displaced open position.
US11899505B2
A hinge of a mobile terminal having an external flexible screen includes a main support, a first support plate and a second support plate. Auxiliary supports are arranged between the first support and the main support, and between the second support and the main support. The main support and the auxiliary supports correspond to the bending portion when the hinge is folded. The hinge includes a plastic sheet to be repeatedly bent back and forth. The plastic sheet is located on the upper surface near the end of the auxiliary supports and the main support, and fixedly connected with the auxiliary support and the main support. The two ends of the plastic sheet are respectively connected with the first support and the second support. The structure of the hinge is reasonable, to make the structure in the middle of the hinge easier to assemble and has longer service life.
US11899503B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing, a plurality of first adhesive portions arranged between the first housing and the second housing, and spaced apart from each other along a first perimeter portion of the first housing, and a plurality of second adhesive portions arranged between the plurality of first adhesive portions and arranged along a second perimeter portion of the first housing, wherein the first adhesive portions include an adhesive support portion extending in one direction and a first adhesive material arranged on one side or both sides of the adhesive support portion, and the second adhesive portions include a second adhesive material.
US11899494B2
A flexible display module and a flexible display device are disclosed in the present disclosure. A housing of the flexible display module defines a sliding groove, a support component is configured to attached to the flexible display panel, a protrusion is provided on the support component, and the protrusion is located in the sliding groove. Based on the cooperation of the protrusion and the sliding groove, a gap is maintained between the flexible display panel and the cover plate during a sliding process, so as to alleviate technical problems of abrasion and unsmooth sliding of a flexible screen in an existing flexible display device.
US11899486B2
A current mode control type switching power supply device includes a first switch having a first terminal connected to a first application terminal to which an input voltage is applied, and a second switch having a first terminal connected to a second terminal of the first switch and a second terminal connected to a second application terminal to which a predetermined voltage lower than the input voltage is applied. A current sensor is configured to sense current flowing in the second switch. A controller configured to control the first switch and the second switch, wherein the controller is configured to control the first switch and the second switch independently of a difference between the input voltage and an output voltage and in addition in accordance with the current sensed by the current sensor.
US11899484B2
A supply-demand control device is configured to: set, for each priority rank defined in advance, an allowable limit within a range of a value set for a higher priority rank than the each priority rank, the allowable limit indicating an upper limit of the power or the energy allowed to be supplied in response to a demand of the each priority rank while the power or the energy supplied in response to a demand of the higher priority rank is secured; detect the demand for the power or the energy, which occurs in the industrial product; and allocate, in order of the priority rank, the power or the energy supplied from a predetermined supply source in response to the detected demand, such that the supplied power or energy is equal to or lower than the upper limit indicated by the allowable limit set for the each priority rank.
US11899476B2
A gas flow measuring method is provided. A first pressure of a gas in a first and a second flow path is measured. A gas is supplied to the first and the second flow paths by repeating gas supply and stop of the gas supply, and a gas supply time is measured. A second pressure and a temperature of the gas in the first and the second flow path is measured, a third pressure of the gas in the second flow path is measured after the gas is exhausted from the second flow path, and a fourth pressure of the gas in the first and the second flow path is measured. The gas flow supplied to the first and the second flow path is calculated based on the first to fourth pressures and the temperature, and corrected based on a theoretical gas supply time and a calculated average time.
US11899472B2
Disclosed is a configuration to control automatic return of an aerial vehicle. The configuration stores a return location in a storage device of the aerial vehicle. The return location may correspond to a location where the aerial vehicle is to return. One or more sensors of the aerial vehicle are monitored during flight for detection of a predefined condition. When a predetermined condition is met a return path program may be loaded for execution to provide a return flight path for the aerial vehicle to automatically navigate to the return location.
US11899466B2
The technology relates to autonomous vehicles for transporting cargo and/or people between locations. Distributed sensor arrangements may not be suitable for vehicles such as large trucks, busses or construction vehicles. Side view mirror assemblies are provided that include a sensor suite of different types of sensors, including LIDAR, radar, cameras, etc. Each side assembly is rigidly secured to the vehicle by a mounting element. The sensors within the assembly may be aligned or arranged relative to a common axis or physical point of the housing. This enables self-referenced calibration of all sensors in the housing. Vehicle-level calibration can also be performed between the sensors on the left and right sides of the vehicle. Each side view mirror assembly may include a conduit that provides one or more of power, data and cooling to the sensors in the housing.
US11899462B2
The present disclosure is directed to validating motion plans for autonomous vehicles. In particular, the methods, devices, and systems of the present disclosure can: receive data indicating a motion plan of an autonomous vehicle through an environment of the autonomous vehicle; receive data indicating one or more inputs utilized in generating the motion plan; and determine, based at least in part on the data indicating the motion plan and the data indicating the input(s), whether execution of the motion plan by the autonomous vehicle would violate one or more predetermined constraints applicable to motion plans for the autonomous vehicle.
US11899456B2
There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.
US11899454B2
An autonomous vehicle traverses a vehicle transportation network using a multi-objective policy based on a model for specific scenarios. The multi-objective policy includes a topographical map that shows a relationship between at least two objectives. The autonomous vehicle receives a candidate vehicle control action associated with each of the at least two objectives. The autonomous vehicle selects a vehicle control action based on a buffer value that is associated with the at least two objectives. The autonomous vehicle traverses a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the selected vehicle control action.
US11899452B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to routing an autonomous vehicle based upon risk of takeover of the autonomous vehicle by a human operator. A computing system receives an origin location and a destination location of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system identifies a route for the autonomous vehicle to follow from the origin location to the destination location based upon output of a computer-implemented model. The computer-implemented model is generated based upon labeled data indicative of instances in which autonomous vehicles are observed to transition from operating autonomously to operating based upon conduction by human operators while the autonomous vehicles are executing predefined maneuvers. The computer-implemented model takes, as input, an indication of a maneuver in the predefined maneuvers that is performed by the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle follows a candidate route. The autonomous vehicle then follows the route from the origin location to the destination location.
US11899450B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for centralized control of autonomous vehicles. In some embodiments, a system and method allow an autonomous control system on-board an autonomous vehicle to pass control of the autonomous vehicle to an offboard panel of experts upon encountering an anomaly. In some embodiments, a system and method allow a regulatory entity to proactively distribute rules and requirements to autonomous vehicles while operating within a regulated space.
US11899448B2
An autonomous vehicle is described herein. The autonomous vehicle is configured to determine that a person is proximate the autonomous vehicle at a location that is external to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is further configured to determine that the person is attempting to hail the autonomous vehicle through use of a gesture. The autonomous vehicle identifies the gesture being performed by the person, and responsive to identifying the gesture, identifies a travel intent that the person is imparting to the autonomous vehicle by way of the gesture. The autonomous vehicle then operates based upon the travel intent.
US11899443B2
A system for operating a vehicle includes a first temperature sensor located at a first location and configured to measure a first temperature; a second temperature sensor located at a second location configured to measure a second temperature; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are individually or collectively configured to receive information regarding the first temperature and/or the second temperature; process the information; and impose a restriction affecting operation of the vehicle based on the processed information.
US11899424B2
The invention relates to a method for checking a time-discrete signal value of a sensor for freedom from errors, wherein the signal value of the sensor is converted into a first measured value and a second measured value by two different evaluating devices of an electronic system, wherein the first and second measured values are transmitted to a control system by the electronic system, and the control system calculates a first control signal from the first measured value and, in parallel thereto, a second control signal from the second measured value, wherein the control system comprises a comparator which compares the first control signal and second control signal to verify the identity thereof.
US11899418B2
A method implemented by a computer system, the computer-implemented method comprising receiving dimensions of a building surface, including a surface length and a surface height; receiving dimensions of a surface material unit, including a material length and a material height; receiving design parameters defining a three-dimensional design over the building surface; partitioning the three-dimensional design into a plurality of three-dimensional segments based on both the three-dimensional design and the dimensions of the surface material; and generating a set of milling instructions for cutting a plurality of surface material units into the plurality of three-dimensional segments.
US11899415B2
There is provided an information processing system capable of suppressing arising of unprocessed data and depreciation of data with the lapse of time. The information processing system (1) includes a buffer unit (5), a processing unit (6), and a control unit (9). The buffer unit (5) sequentially receives data acquired by an observation terminal (2) from the observation terminal (2). The processing unit (6) sequentially processes the data received by the buffer unit (5). The control unit (9) controls an index value indicating information freshness by adjusting a resource of processing of the processing unit (6). The index value indicating the information freshness is calculated based on elapsed time from the time when the data is acquired by the observation terminal (2).
US11899414B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods for calibrating a technical system with respect to stochastic influences during real operation of the technical system. In one example embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes the steps of: determining the values of a number of control variables, carrying out the calibration on the basis of a load cycle which results in a sequence of a number of operating points, executing the load cycle multiple times under the influence of at least one random influencing variable, with each realization of the load cycle resulting in a random sequence of the number i of operating points, defining a risk measure of the probability distribution, with which the probability distribution is mapped to a scalar variable, and optimizing the risk measure by varying the number of control variables in order to obtain optimal control variables for calibration.
US11899409B2
An extremum seeking control system and a method for controlling a system is provided. The method comprises receiving a tracking error, consecutive measurements of a system output, and consecutive measurements of a cost function of the system, and estimating a gradient based on the tracking error, the consecutive measurements of the system output, and the consecutive measurements of the cost function of the system. The method further comprises determining a step-size based on a ratio of a covariance of the gradient to the gradient, and determining a set-point optimizing performance of the system, based on the gradient and the step-size. The method further comprises controlling the system based on the set-point optimizing performance of the system.
US11899405B2
An electronic watch includes a driver controlled to be in an ON state in which a drive current is supplied to a coil of a motor and an OFF state in which the drive current is not supplied to the coil, a target current value setter configured to set a target current value in accordance with a drive voltage for driving the motor, and a driver controller configured to compare a detected current value of a current flowing to the coil with the target current value, control the driver to be in the ON state or the OFF state in accordance with a result of the comparison, and switch polarity of the drive current when detecting that an ON time, which is a duration of the ON state of the driver, meets a predetermined condition or an OFF time, which is a duration of the OFF state of the driver, meets a predetermined condition.
US11899389B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire a size of a two-ply sheet, in which two sheets are bonded together at one end, and a size of an insertion sheet; and control a sheet processing operation based on the size of the two-ply sheet and the size of the insertion sheet. The sheet processing operation includes inserting the insertion sheet in the two-ply sheet.
US11899385B2
According to one embodiment, a temperature control device includes a temperature estimation unit and a frequency generation unit. The temperature estimation unit is configured to estimate a temperature of an object being heated by an induction heating coil, the temperature being estimated based on a frequency of a drive signal supplied to an inverter connected to the induction heating coil. The frequency generation unit is configured to set the frequency of the drive signal based on the temperature estimated by the temperature estimation unit, a detected temperature of the object from a temperature sensor, and a target temperature for the object.
US11899366B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for performing immersion field guided post exposure bake processes. Embodiments of apparatus described herein include a chamber body defining a processing volume. A pedestal may be disposed within the processing volume and a first electrode may be coupled to the pedestal. A moveable stem may extend through the chamber body opposite the pedestal and a second electrode may be coupled to the moveable stem. In certain embodiments, a fluid containment ring may be coupled to the pedestal and a dielectric containment ring may be coupled to the second electrode.
US11899362B2
An imprint apparatus performs an imprint process including aligning a substrate and a mold in a state in which the mold is in contact with an imprint material on the substrate and curing the imprint material by light irradiation after the aligning. The apparatus includes a first irradiation unit configured to perform first light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate before bringing the mold into contact with the imprint material on the substrate for the aligning, a second irradiation unit configured to perform second light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate in the aligning, and a third irradiation unit configured to perform third light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate in the curing, wherein an exposure amount by the first light irradiation is determined based on an exposure amount by the second light irradiation.
US11899359B2
The present application relates to a method for removing a particle from a photolithographic mask, including the following steps: (a) positioning a manipulator, which is movable relative to the mask, in the vicinity of the particle to be removed; (b) connecting the manipulator to the particle by depositing a connecting material on the manipulator and/or the particle from the vapor phase; (c) removing the particle by moving the manipulator relative to the photolithographic mask; and (d) separating the removed particle from the manipulator by carrying out a particle-beam-induced etching process which removes at least a portion of the manipulator.
US11899356B2
A reflective film coated substrate includes a substrate having two main surfaces opposite to each other and end faces connected to outer edges of the two main surfaces; and a reflective film formed on one of the main surfaces and extending onto at least part of the end faces. The reflective film on the main surface has a multilayer structure including low refractive index layers and high refractive index layers alternately formed. The reflective film which extends onto the end faces has a single-layer structure containing a first element higher in content than any other element in the low refractive index layers and a second element higher in content than any other element in the high refractive index layers.
US11899354B1
Disclosed is ultrafast photographing apparatus based on polarization-time mapping, which can obtain spatiotemporal (x, y, t) information of a dynamic scene by means of single exposure. The apparatus includes an active illumination system, a synchronous control system, a data acquisition system, and a data reconstruction system. Firstly, illumination light is generated by the active illumination system to irradiate on a dynamic scene; the synchronous control system is configured to control the single exposure of a camera; the data acquisition system is configured to acquire a two-dimensional image containing sixteen frames of spatiotemporal aliasing by means of polarization modulation and polarization filtering; and the data reconstruction system is configured to reconstruct the acquired image by using an iterative Tikhonov regularization algorithm, and finally to restore sixteen frames of original dynamic scenes with time series information.
US11899345B1
A telescoping, anti-glare, weather-resistant, opaque, corrugated, compressible and retractable pipe shield blocks glare on smartphone or wearable action camera viewing screens. The pipe shield totally blocks glare on the display screen in real-time, moment to moment. To protect the camera from weather elements, the camera is inserted in a holding frame. The camera holding frame is mounted upon a handheld camera grip, adjacent to the distal end of the flexible pipe shield. The pipe shield may be extended or retracted via its corrugated folds. Optionally, a user-worn headband holds a cantilevered frame supporting a wearable action camera, adjacent to the distal end of the opaque, tubular, corrugated pipe shield, before the user's eyes. The user can record videos and stills during athletic or recreational activities, such as mountain climbing or skateboarding. The smartphone camera or the wearable action camera is activated by hand-controlled Bluetooth/Wi-Fi signals or via voice activation software.
US11899341B2
A lens barrel and an exterior housing have a highly dignified appearance while maintaining excellent strength. The lens barrel has a fixation frame with an opening portion and a switch pedestal cover member that covers the opening portion. A fitted portion is provided on an inner surface side of the cover member and fitted into the opening portion to position the cover member with respect to the fixation frame when the opening portion is covered with the cover member. A fixation portion is provided on an inner surface side of the cover member and disposed inside the fixation frame when the opening portion is covered with the cover member. A spring member engages with the fixation portion and an inner wall surface portion of the fixation frame to bias the cover member towards an inside of the fixation frame. The exterior housing has features similar to the lens barrel.
US11899337B2
Optical switch trees are commonly used to route light from one input channel to multiple possible output channels one at a time. As the number of output channels increases, the number of wire-bonding pads increases and the drive electronics becomes more complicated. The optical switch tree comprises an array of optical switches arranged in a plurality of rows of optical switches, each connected by a row bus, which are connected to a first multiplexer and a common power source; and a plurality of columns of optical switches, each connected by a column bus, which are connected to a second multiplexer and a common ground. A control processor selects one of the plurality of columns of optical switches to connect to the common ground, and selects one of the plurality of rows of optical switches to connect to the common power source, thereby selecting a single optical switch in the array of optical switches to activate.
US11899335B2
An IR source may also include an electrically conductive layer defining a back contact. The IR source may also include a first dielectric layer over the electrically conductive layer, a transparent electrically conductive layer over the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer over the transparent electrically conductive layer. The IR source may include a graphene layer over the second dielectric layer and having a perforated pattern, a protective layer over the graphene layer, and first and second electrically conductive contacts coupled to the graphene layer. The graphene layer may be configured to emit IR radiation when a voltage signal is applied between the first and second electrically conductive contacts.
US11899334B2
A silicon photonics-based optical modulator is disclosed. The optical modulator includes first radio frequency (RF) metal electrodes that operate as a ground, phase shifters disposed between the first RF metal electrodes for optically modulating an optical signal transmitted along an optical waveguide, second RF metal electrodes disposed between the phase shifters for providing an RF electrical signal received from a driving driver located outside of the optical modulator through one end, resistor-inductors (RL) connected to another end of the second RF metal electrodes, an inductive line disposed between the RLs and a power supply for applying a bias voltage to the optical modulator and the driving driver, and a silicon capacitor disposed between the RLs and the power supply for preventing a degradation of an RF response characteristic of the silicon photonics-based optical modulator caused by the inductive line.
US11899333B2
An apparatus including an optical modulator and an electronic controller. The optical modulator includes a parallel-nested pair of MZIs, each arm of the MZIs including one or more EAMs therein. The electronic controller is electrically connected to drive the MZIs such that the optical modulator outputs an optical carrier modulated according to a quadrature amplitude modulation constellation with at least five different symbols.
US11899324B2
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a scanning line provided between a first TFT and a second TFT, common wiring, a pixel electrode, a third relay electrode including a projecting portion overlapping the scanning line in plan view and protruding from the scanning line and electrically coupling the first TFT and the pixel electrode, a capacitance element provided between the substrate and the scanning line and overlapping the second TFT in plan view, and a second relay electrode including a projecting portion overlapping the scanning line in plan view and protruding from the scanning line and electrically coupling the capacitance element and the common wiring. A contact hole electrically coupling the pixel electrode and the third relay electrode overlaps a contact hole electrically coupling the capacitance element and the second relay electrode in plan view.
US11899317B2
To provide a laminated glass in which color shading of an optical member is reduced, and a method for producing it. A laminated glass comprising a first glass plate, a second glass plate facing the first glass plate, and between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, a light control member to which a power feeder is connected, a bonding portion and a sealing member, wherein the sealing member overlaps with at least a part of the periphery of the first glass plate, in a plan view, the bonding portion is in contact with the first glass plate, the second glass plate, and a first principal surface, a second principal surface and side surfaces of the light control member, and the bonding portion contains a curable transparent resin.
US11899314B2
A color conversion display panel includes a substrate. A color conversion portion is disposed on the substrate. The color conversion portion includes a semiconductor nanocrystal. A transmission portion is disposed on the substrate. A blue light blocking filter is disposed between the substrate and the color conversion portion. The blue light blocking filter includes a first convex portion that protrudes toward the substrate. The transmission portion includes a first region including a scatterer and a second region including a second convex portion that protrudes toward the substrate.
US11899303B2
A color film structure includes a black matrix, a color film layer and a reflective layer. The black matrix has a plurality of openings. The color film layer includes a plurality of filter portions, and at least a portion of each filter portion is located in an opening of the black matrix. The reflective layer is located on a side of the black matrix configured to be proximate to a light-emitting substrate, and an orthographic projection of the reflective layer on a plane where the black matrix is located is covered by the black matrix. The reflective layer is configured to reflect at least a part of light emitted from the light-emitting substrate to the black matrix back to the light-emitting substrate, so that at least a part of the light reflected back to the light-emitting substrate is emitted through the color film layer.
US11899299B2
A display apparatus includes a first film; a second film; a first substrate provided between the first film and the second film, the first substrate including a first protruding member protruding in a first direction from an edge of the first film and an edge of the second film; a second substrate provided between the first film and the second film, the second substrate including a second protruding member protruding in the first direction from an edge of the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a cover extending from the edge of the first film in the first direction; a photocuring material provided between the cover and the first protruding member of the first substrate, and attaching the cover to the first protruding member; and a blackening material blackened by light provided on at least a portion of a surface of the cover.
US11899294B2
A light path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode disposed under the second substrate; a light conversion unit disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an adhesive layer between the second electrode and the light conversion unit; and a buffer layer between the first electrode and the light conversion unit. The light conversion unit includes a plurality of partition wall portions, a plurality of accommodation portions, and a base portion. The accommodation portions have a light conversion material disposed therein, and include at least two sealing regions formed on at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate. The accommodation portions are arranged to extend in a second direction, and include movement portions connected to the accommodation portions and extending in a first direction different from the second direction. The movement portions are connected to the sealing regions and the accommodation portions. The sealing regions pass through the first substrate, the first electrode, and the buffer layer or through the second substrate, the second electrode, and the adhesive layer. The sealing regions overlap the movement portion.
US11899291B2
A method of equalising optical losses, at a required operating wavelength, in waveguide sections in an optoelectronic device comprising a first semiconductor waveguide section and a second semiconductor waveguide section, the method comprising determining (1301) a first optical loss through the first waveguide section for a signal with the required operating wavelength, determining (1302) a second optical loss through the second waveguide section for the signal, determining (1303) a loss difference between the first optical loss and the second optical loss, determining (1304) a first bias voltage based on the loss difference and the operating wavelength, such that the loss difference is reduced, and applying (1305) the bias voltage to the first waveguide section.
US11899285B2
There is presented a method for geometrically modifying high-index dielectric structures on a support structure which includes steps of providing a support structure and a first plurality of high-index dielectric structures supported by the support structure. The method includes changing a geometry of the high-index dielectric structures within a second plurality of high-index dielectric structures, being a sub-set of the first plurality of high-index dielectric structures. The geometry is changed by photothermally melting some of the high-index dielectric structures within the second plurality of high-index dielectric structures by irradiating them with incident electromagnetic radiation, and thereby exciting resonances associated with each of the high-index dielectric structures within the second plurality of high-index dielectric structures. The support structure comprises a first plurality of topographical features and the first plurality of high-index dielectric structures are given by high-index dielectric structures on or in said topographical features and holes in a high-index dielectric film.
US11899284B2
The present disclosure provides eyeglasses including: an eyeglass rim; an eyeglass temple, the eyeglass temple comprising a control circuit or a battery; a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being configured to connect the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple, so that the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple are relatively rotated around the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft being disposed with a rotating shaft wiring channel along an axial direction; and a speaker, the speaker comprising an earphone core, the speaker being connected to the eyeglass temple, the control circuit or battery in the eyeglass temple driving the earphone core to vibrate through the connection wire, wherein the earphone core vibrates to generate a driving force to drive a housing panel of the speaker to vibrate, and a straight line of the driving force being not parallel to a normal line of the housing panel.
US11899282B2
Embodiments of eyeglasses are provided. The glasses comprise a frame comprising a first and second lens connected by a bridge. Temple pieces extend from either side of the frame. The hinge or hinge point between the temple pieces and the frame can be within the plane of the glasses allowing the temple pieces to fold flat or near flat against the frame. The thickness of the glasses can be less than about 3.5 mm (e.g., 2.6 mm) in a folded configuration.
US11899277B2
A flexure including a bipod strut pair extending from a base and a titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy, which includes titanium, about 13.5 to about 14.5 wt. % zirconium, and about 18 to about 19 weight % (wt. %) niobium. The titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy has a congruent melting temperature of about 1750 to about 1800° Celsius (° C.).
US11899275B2
A lens driving device having a housing, a bobbin disposed in the housing, a first coil disposed on an outer surface of the bobbin, a first magnet disposed on the housing, a second magnet disposed on the bobbin, and a first position sensor disposed opposite to the second magnet in order to sense the second magnet. The bobbin has a first seating groove. The second magnet is disposed in the first seating groove. A lower portion of the second magnet overlaps with the first coil in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. The lower portion of the second magnet is disposed between the first coil and the housing.
US11899274B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a first movable assembly and a first driving assembly. The first movable assembly is configured to connect a first optical element, and the first movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the first movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly in a first dimension.
US11899273B2
An imaging lens module with auto focus function includes an imaging lens assembly, an electromagnetic driving component assembly and a lens carrier. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis. The electromagnetic driving component assembly drives the imaging lens assembly to move in a direction parallel to the optical axis by a Lorentz force. The imaging lens assembly is mounted to the lens carrier such that the imaging lens assembly can be wholly driven by the Lorentz force. The lens carrier includes an object-side part, a mounting structure and a plurality of plate portions. The object-side part includes a tip-end minimal aperture configured for light to travel through; and a tapered surface which surrounds an area tapered off from image side to object side. The mounting structure and the plate portions are configured for at least a part of the electromagnetic driving component assembly to be mounted thereto.
US11899272B2
A lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a cover, a carrier, a first magnet, a coil, a spring, two second magnets and a hall sensor. The holder includes an opening hole. The cover is made of metal material and coupled to the holder. The carrier is movably disposed in the cover, and for coupling to a lens. The first magnet is connected to an inner side of the cover. The coil is wound around an outer side of the carrier, and adjacent to the first magnet. The spring is coupled to the carrier. The second magnets are disposed on one end of the carrier which is toward the holder. The hall sensor is for detecting a magnetic field of any one of the second magnets, wherein the magnetic field is varied according to a relative displacement between the hall sensor and the second magnet which is detected.
US11899250B2
A flexible optical fiber connector comprises a first housing component configured to couple to a terminating connector, and a second housing component configured to receive an optical fiber for termination in the terminating connector. The first housing component and the second housing component are further configured to receive a pushable connector therethrough. A flexible optical fiber connector assembly comprises a flexible connector and a terminating connector coupled thereto. The flexible connector assembly is configured to couple to an adapter held by a holder coupled to a port.
US11899247B2
A shroud includes a first end portion configured to slidably receive a bulkhead adapter and a second end portion configured to slidably receive an optical fiber connector. The first end portion includes an inner surface having ribs configured to engage the bulkhead adapter in an interference fit relationship, the second end portion includes an inner surface having ribs configured to engage the optical fiber connector in an interference fit relationship, and the shroud permits the optical fiber connector to be coupled directly with the bulkhead adapter in a push/pull engagement/disengagement relationship.
US11899241B2
Disclosed is an Augmented Reality (AR) optical waveguide. The AR optical waveguide includes a transparent substrate including a user proximate surface and a user distal surface. The AR optical waveguide also includes a slant etched diffractive grating included on the user distal surface of the transparent substrate. The slant etched diffractive grating includes a refractive index of greater than or equal to 2.0.
US11899237B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a multicore optical fiber, a design method for the multicore optical fiber and an optical transmission method using the multicore optical fiber including four cores having a standard cladding diameter of 125±1 μm for an existing single mode optical fiber covering several thousands of kilometers of transmission. The multicore optical fiber according to the present invention disposes two-stage claddings with different refractive indices around each core, and designates as a predetermined range, a core radius a1, a radius a2 of a first cladding region surrounding each core, specific refractive index Δ1 relative to the core of the first cladding region and a specific refractive index Δ2 relative to the core of a second cladding region including four cores and the first cladding region.
US11899233B2
The invention provides a light generating system (1000), comprising a plurality of light sources (10), an elongated luminescent body (100), and a body holder structure (2000), wherein: the plurality of light sources (10) are configured to provide light source light (11), wherein the light sources (10) are solid state light sources, wherein the plurality of light sources (10) are configured in a light source array (15); the elongated luminescent body (100) has a length (L) and a width (W), wherein the elongated luminescent body (100) comprises luminescent material (120) configured to convert at least part of light source light (11) into luminescent material light (8), wherein the elongated luminescent body (100) and the light source array (15) are configured parallel; the body holder structure (2000) comprises an elongated slit (205) for hosting the elongated luminescent body (100), wherein the elongated slit (205) has a cavity wall (1205) defining the elongated slit (205) and a slit opening (1206), wherein the slit opening (1206) has a slit opening width (WS1), wherein the cavity wall (1205) and the elongated luminescent body (100) have first shortest distances (d11) that vary over the cavity wall (1205), wherein at least part of the cavity wall (1205) is reflective for light source light (11); the light sources (10) are configured at second shortest distances (d21) from the elongated luminescent body (100), wherein the second shortest distance (d21) is selected from the range of 40-1000 μm, and wherein one or more of the plurality of light sources (10) are configured to irradiate with the light source light (11) the elongated luminescent body (100) both (i) directly and (ii) indirectly via the cavity wall (1205).
US11899232B2
Method for fabricating of all-optical-fiber based optical polarizer devoid of fusing of first and second optical fibers. The method includes a process of forming a substantially adiabatic optical fiber taper by pulling an optical fiber and interrupting this process when an optical power parameter measured at an output of the optical fiber is reduced below a pre-defined threshold as a result of said pulling. An optically-tapered single-mode polarization-maintaining optical fiber element fabricated according to the method and configured as such all-optical-fiber polarizer.
US11899230B2
An example optical filter may include an angle blocking layer having a first angular light blocking range θAL relative to a normal axis, and an interference filter adjacent the angle blocking layer having a second angular light blocking range θIF relative to the normal axis. θIF and θAL at least partially overlap. The example optical filter has a predetermined light transmission zone comprising angles from 0° to a maximum light transmission angle θTmax relative to a normal axis of the major surface. The example optical filter has a predetermined angular light blocking zone θB, a union of θIF and θAL. An example optical filter may include an interference filter having an incidence angle-dependent reflection band and an absorbing layer having an absorption band. The incidence angle-dependent reflection band and the absorption band may overlap at at least one wavelength at at least one angle of incidence.
US11899228B2
A process for obtaining a decorative mirror includes reflective regions forming a pattern and non-reflective regions, the process including providing a sheet of soda-lime-silica glass coated with a reflective coating on the entirety of one of the faces thereof, then applying a composition including a phosphate salt to the reflective coating, solely in application regions, the application regions being intended to become the non-reflective regions, then tempering the glass sheet, in which the glass sheet is subjected to a temperature of at least 550° C., causing the reflective coating to dissolve in the application regions so as to form the non-reflective regions in which the glass sheet is not coated.
US11899227B2
The present disclosure provides a solar reflecting film and a preparation method thereof. The solar reflecting film includes a substrate and a functional layer stacked on each other. The functional layer includes a first reflecting layer, a barrier layer, and a second reflecting layer stacked on the substrate in order. The barrier layer includes a first barrier layer and a second barrier layer stacked on the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer is metal fluoride, inorganic non-metallic oxide, metal oxide or a combination thereof. The second barrier layer is metal oxides, metal nitrides, semiconductor doped compounds or a combination thereof. And a material of the first barrier layer is at least partially different from that of the second barrier layer.
US11899224B2
A lensed display system includes a projector configured to project an image. The lensed display system includes a lens formed of a glass or crystalline material. The lens includes a first surface, wherein at least a portion of the first surface includes a coating that is configured to display the projected image. The lens includes a second surface, wherein the second surface comprises a transparent curved surface that is configured to face toward a user and to enable the user to view the image projected onto the coating through the transparent curved surface.
US11899221B2
An apparatus and a method for assembling optical module. The apparatus includes: a plurality of fixtures, an alignment mechanism, a power supply, a spectroscopic prism with a light incident surface close to the plurality of optical modules to be aligned, a first color image collecting means close to a first light emitting surface of the spectroscopic prism and a second color image collecting means with a second light emitting surface of the spectroscopic prism; the controller is configured to determine a light spot that does not meet a quality requirement according to the positions and/or sizes of the plurality of imaging light spots, and generate a corresponding aligning instruction, and determine a to-be-assembled lens necessary to be adjusted according to a color of the light spot that does not meet quality requirements, and output the aligning instruction to an alignment mechanism to adjust a position of the lens necessary to be adjusted.
US11899219B2
In one aspect, a light-mixing system is disclosed, which includes a light pipe having an input surface configured for receiving light from a light source, a light-mixing segment optically coupled to the input surface, and an output surface optically coupled to said light-mixing segment through which light exits the light pipe. A putative vector normal to at least one of the input or the output surface forms a non-zero angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the light-mixing segment. In some embodiments, the non-zero angle can be, for example, about 90 degrees.
US11899216B2
An example a head-mounted display device includes a light projector and an eyepiece. The eyepiece is arranged to receive light from the light projector and direct the light to a user during use of the wearable display system. The eyepiece includes a waveguide having an edge positioned to receive light from the display light source module and couple the light into the waveguide. The waveguide includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The waveguide includes several different regions, each having different grating structures configured to diffract light according to different sets of grating vectors.
US11899215B1
A head mounted display, a display device and an image display method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first display and a second display. The first display is configured to provide a first display image to a peripheral area of a target zone. The second display is configured to provide a second display image to a central area of the target zone. A resolution of the second display image is higher than a resolution of the first display image.
US11899208B2
Systems and methods disclosed provided a virtual reality experience, including: a set of motorized pads for coupling to feet of a user; a means of communication between the set of motorized pads and a computing environment operating a virtual reality headset; such that the set of motorized pads are configured to provide pressure on a user's feet as an avatar within a virtual environment traverses the environment. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser virtual reality experience. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser experience including generation of a common environment viewable in the virtual reality headsets; and recording a tour including audio data as the first user describes the common environment.
US11899207B2
A display device includes: a display that generates image display light; a concave mirror that reflects the image display light such that the image display light is projected onto a transparent member; and a drive mechanism that moves the display in a range in which a distance from the concave mirror to the display is smaller than or equal to a reference distance at which the image display light traveling from the concave mirror to the transparent member becomes parallel light.
US11899202B2
An optical assembly and a luminaire with extreme cutoff beam control optics. The optical assembly includes a base, a plurality of lenses, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) positioned to emit light into the lenses, and a reflector having a reflective surface disposed adjacent at least one of the plurality of LEDs. The optical axis of one or more of the LEDs may be offset from a central axis of the respective lens in which it emits light. The reflective surface of the reflector may extend from the base over the one or more of the LEDs and beyond the optical axis of the one or more LEDs to direct light in a desired direction or toward a selected area (e.g., a street) and cut off light directed in an undesirable direction or area (e.g., a house).
US11899200B2
An image display system includes an optical subsystem configured to emit a modulated light beam, and a scanning mirror for generating a reflected light beam that is scanned according to randomly selected or pseudo-randomly selected scan patterns to generate multiple image fields of a multiple interlaced scan image. A plurality of different scan patterns can be cycled through, randomly or pseudo-randomly selected, for the different image fields to reduce artifacts that may be observed while viewing a projected image.
US11899198B2
A digital lithography system may adjust a wavelength of the light source to compensate for tilt errors in micromirrors while maintaining a perpendicular direction for the reflected light. Adjacent pixels may have a phase shift that is determined by an optical path difference between their respective light beams. This phase shift may be preselected to be any value by generating a corresponding wavelength at the light source based on the optical path difference. To generate a specific wavelength corresponding to the desired phase shift, the light source may produce multiple light components that have wavelengths that bracket the wavelength of the selected phase shift. The intensities of these components may then be controlled individually to produce an effect that approximates the selected phase shift on the substrate.
US11899195B2
An IT-based astronomical telescope system comprises a rotatable lens barrel having an eyepiece installed thereon; a detection device for detecting a current orientation of the lens barrel; and an image generator comprising a micro display provided in the lens barrel. The image generator is used to obtain a picture and display the picture on the micro display. The IT-based astronomical telescope system is configured to work in a virtual reality mode, in which: the image generator is turned on, and based on the current orientation of the lens barrel detected by the detection device, obtains a picture corresponding to an optical image of stars supposed to be imaged by the telescope system with the current orientation of the lens barrel; and the micro display displays the picture, which is presented through the eyepiece.
US11899192B2
An optical system for displaying an image to a viewer includes a partial reflector, a reflective polarizer, and a first retarder layer. A light ray propagates along the optical axis and passes through the plurality of optical lenses, the partial reflector, the reflective polarizer, and the first retarder layer without being substantially refracted. For a cone of light incident on the optical system from an object comprising a spatial frequency of about 70, 60, 50, 40, or 30 line pairs per millimeter and filling the exit pupil with a chief ray of the cone of light passing through a center of the opening of the exit pupil of the optical system and making an angle of about 20 degrees with the optical axis, a modulation transfer function of the optical system is greater than about 0.2.
US11899188B2
An optical lens system includes, in order from a magnified side to a minified side, a first lens group of positive refractive power and a second lens group of positive refractive power. The first lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the second lens group includes a third lens and a fourth lens. One of the third lens and the fourth lens includes one aspheric surface, and each of the lenses in the optical lens system is a singlet lens. The optical lens satisfies a condition of TE(λ=400)>94%, where TE(λ=400) denotes an overall transmittance of all of the lenses in the optical lens system measured at a wavelength of 400 nm.
US11899187B2
There is provided a compact imaging lens configured to properly correct aberrations. The imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 with positive refractive power, a second lens L2 with negative refractive power, a third lens L3 with positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4 with positive refractive power, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6, a seventh lens L7 with positive refractive power, and an eighth lens L8 with negative refractive power. The eighth lens L8 is formed in a shape of a meniscus lens in a paraxial region, and has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point. In addition, the following conditional expressions are satisfied: −5.00
US11899179B2
The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens with a refractive power respectively; a center thickness CT3 of the third lens on the optical axis and a center thickness CT4 of the fourth lens on the optical axis satisfy 1.0≤CT4/CT3<1.5; and a spacing distance T34 between the third lens and the fourth lens on the optical axis and a spacing distance T45 between the fourth lens and the fifth lens on the optical axis satisfy 4.0
US11899174B2
There is provided a compact and high-resolution imaging lens at a low cost. The imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power and a meniscus shape having the convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a third lens having the positive or the negative refractive power, a fourth lens having the convex surface facing the image side near the optical axis, a fifth lens having the positive refractive power, a sixth lens having the positive refractive power, and a seventh lens having the negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, the image side surface of said seventh lens is formed as an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral area, the object-side surface of said fifth lens has the convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, all lenses are single lenses arranged with an interval between lenses adjacent to each other, and below conditional expressions (1), (2) and (3) are satisfied: (1) 1.50
US11899172B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. Each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The third lens element has positive refractive power. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of at least one of the five lens elements includes at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11899161B2
A method can include receiving realizations of a model of a reservoir that includes at least one well where the realizations represent uncertainty in a multidimensional space; selecting a portion of the realizations in a reduced dimensional space to preserve an amount of the uncertainty; optimizing an objective function based at least in part on the selected portion of the realizations; outputting parameter values for the optimized objective function; and generating at least a portion of a field operations plan based at least in part on at least a portion of the parameter values.
US11899160B2
A system to detect obstacles includes a power beam transmission circuit, a power beam reception circuit arranged to receive a power beam from the power beam transmission circuit, an emitter module, and a detector module arranged to distinguish between a first characteristic and a second characteristic. The emitter module includes a first emitter arranged to emit a first signal having the first characteristic, the first signal emitted in proximity to the power beam, and a second emitter arranged to emit a second signal having the second characteristic, the second characteristic different from the first characteristic, the second signal emitted in proximity to the first signal. The detector module includes a first detector arranged to respond to the first signal emitted by the first emitter, wherein the detector module is arranged to determine when an obstacle is in or near a line-of-sight transmission path between the first emitter and the first detector.
US11899150B2
A process for generating a velocity model for a sediment-basement interface of a subsurface region includes receiving seismic data representing acoustic signals that are reflected from regions of the subsurface. The process includes receiving potential fields data comprising potential field values that are mapped to locations in the subsurface. The process includes generating weighted time-depth data pairs. The process includes selecting a velocity model that relates a velocity value to a depth value in a time-depth relationship. The process includes optimizing velocity coefficients of the velocity model by determining, for each velocity model of a set, a set of depth estimates for corresponding time values and comparing the set of depth estimates to depth values of the weighted time-depth data pairs. The process includes adjusting the velocity coefficients of the velocity model. The process includes generating a seismic image of the sediment-basement interface.
US11899141B2
An ultrasound imaging system includes an array of ultrasound transducer elements chat send ultrasound energy into an object when energized for respective transmission time periods and provide responses to ultrasound energy emitted from the object for respective reception time periods, a reception modulation circuit modulating the responses with irregular sequences of modulation coefficients, a combiner circuit combining the modulated responses, and an image reconstruction processor configured to computer-process the combined modulated responses into one or more images of the object.
US11899126B2
A multi-chip MIMO radar system includes a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers. Each of the pluralities of transmitters and receivers are arranged across a plurality of chips. The multi-chip MIMO radar system includes a central processor configured to receive data from the plurality of chips. The central processor is operable to combine the information from each radar chip to produce improved range detection and angular resolvability of targets.
US11899118B2
A global positioning system (GPS) receiver may include an antenna configured to receive GPS signals from GPS satellites, a radio frequency (RF) front end configured to pre-process signals received by the antenna, a demodulator/converter configured to perform demodulation and analog-to-digital conversion of output signals received from the RF front end, a clock configured to provide a consistent clock signal, and a digital signal processor configured to receive the clock signal and make time and code measurements associated with determining a location of the GPS receiver based on the signals received by the antenna. The GPS receiver may be configured to eliminate reflected or indirect signals from the time and code measurements.
US11899112B2
A laser radar device (1) includes: a light source array (10) for simultaneously emitting a plurality of laser light beams from a plurality of light emitting ends; an optical modulator (12) for modulating transmission light separated from the plurality of laser light beams to generate modulated transmission light; a transmission/reception optical system (14, 15) for receiving, as received light, the modulated transmission light reflected by a target, while scanning external space with the modulated transmission light; an optical combiner (16) for generating a plurality of interference light components by combining a plurality of local light components separated from the plurality of laser light beams and the received light; an optical receiver array (17) for generating a plurality of detection signals by detecting the plurality of interference light components; a switching circuit (18) for selecting a detection signal from the plurality of detection signals in accordance with a scanning speed with respect to the external space; and a signal processor (20) for calculating an observation quantity showing a state of the target on the basis of the selected detection signal.
US11899107B2
A detection apparatus includes a light source device, including a plurality of light-emitting elements, configured to irradiate light onto a detection target by dividing an illuminance area into a plurality of illuminance regions; and circuitry configured to switch an illuminance level at each of the plurality of illuminance regions with a plurality of illuminance levels; detect a plurality of detection data of the detection target at the plurality of illuminance regions by switching the illuminance level at each of the plurality of illuminance regions with the plurality of illuminance levels when irradiating the light onto the detection target; and synthesize the plurality of detection data of the detection target.
US11899106B1
An acoustic distance measurement circuit includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The transmitter has an output adapted to be coupled to an acoustic transducer for providing a selected one of an amplitude-modulation (AM) signal in an AM mode and a chirp signal in a chirp mode. The receiver has an input adapted to be coupled to the acoustic transducer, and an output for providing a digital received signal. The controller is operative during a first measurement period to: place the transmitter into one of the AM mode and the chirp mode using a first channel, selectively detect a direct echo in the first channel of the digital received signal of the one of the AM signal and the chirp signal, and selectively detect an indirect echo in a second channel of the digital received signal of another one of the AM signal and the chirp signal.
US11899088B2
Techniques are disclosed for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for exciting spins of a first material and spins of a second material. A first spin echo signal is acquired when the excited spins include a first phase difference, which is given by Δ, and a second spin echo signal is acquired when the excited spins of the first material and the excited spins of the second material include a second phase difference, which is given by −Δ. An absolute value of Δ lies within the interval ]0,π[. A first image for the first material and/or a second image for the second material is generated by a computing unit depending on the first spin echo signal and the second spin echo signal.
US11899085B2
A system for MRI is provided. The system may obtain a plurality of sets of under-sampled k-space data corresponding to a plurality of frames. Each set of under-sampled k-space data may be acquired simultaneously from a plurality of slice locations of a subject in one of the frames using an MRI scanner. The system may reconstruct a plurality of reference slice images based on the sets of under-sampled k-space data of the plurality of frames. Each of the reference slice images may be representative of one of the slice locations in more than one frame of the frames. The system may further reconstruct a plurality of image series based on the sets of under-sampled k-space data and the reference slice images. Each image series may correspond to one of the slice locations and include a plurality of slice images of the corresponding slice location in the plurality of frames.
US11899081B2
A wireless sensor for an associated machine or machine part which includes a communications module that wirelessly transmits data related to the associated machine or machine part. The communications module is mounted on the sensor and the sensor is disposed under the bottom side of the control circuitry. A sensor is configured to measure one or more properties of the associated machine or machine part. The wireless sensor can be used with a smart device app such that information from the wireless sensor can be received and displayed on the smart device.
US11899079B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic sensor capable of, while suppressing an increase in manufacturing cost, controlling the gap size so as to make the gap between the element formation surface of the sensor chip and the magnetism collecting member as small as possible and to make variations among products fall within a certain range and a manufacturing method for such a magnetic sensor. A magnetic sensor includes a sensor chip 20a mounted on a substrate 2 such that the element formation surface 20a is perpendicular to the substrate 2 and a magnetism collecting member 30 mounted on the substrate 2 such that the surface 31 faces the substrate 2 and the surface 32 faces the element formation surface 20a. The surfaces 31 and 32 of the magnetism collecting member 30 have flatness higher than that of the other surfaces thereof.
US11899078B2
An electrical fuse maintenance system includes sensor adapted to measure the current flowing through a fuse element, the voltage on the fuse element, the temperature of the fuse element, and/or the temperature of an environment surrounding the fuse element, a controller configured to monitor the current, the voltage, the temperatures over a period of time while the fuse element is connected to an energized electrical power unit. Based on the monitored current, voltage and temperatures, the controller is adapted to estimate a service life remaining of the fuse element.
US11899073B2
An impedance measurement device of the present disclosure includes: an electrochemical energy device; an amplifier connected to each connection terminal of the electrochemical energy device and configured to amplify a signal introduced into a wiring; and a main board configured to receive the signal from the amplifier and measure an impedance. Accordingly, the present invention has advantages in that high resistance to electromagnetic interference may be achieved by disposing a preamplifier close to a terminal of an electrochemical energy device to amplify only the signal without amplifying a noise introduced into a wiring.
US11899072B2
A method for estimating DoD of a battery includes obtaining voltage Va at a first electric charge rate A(Ia) and voltage Vb at a second electric charge rate B(Ib) by checking a voltage-DoD table based on DoD of an experimental battery respectively; measuring voltage V of the experimental battery; substituting Ia, Ib, Va, Vb and V into an expression to calculate an estimated current lest; and using a Coulomb counter to update the voltage-DoD table and estimate the DoD of the experimental battery.
US11899070B2
An appropriate upper limit current value is set in consideration of steep change in battery voltage in a high-current region caused by the ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte. An upper limit current calculator 152 includes: a concentration gradient estimator 1523 that estimates a lithium ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte of a battery, based on a current flowing in the battery, or on the current and a temperature; and an upper limit current determiner 1524 that determines an upper limit current value of the battery, based on the lithium ion concentration gradient. The upper limit current determiner 1524 determines the upper limit current value such that an overvoltage of the battery according to the lithium ion concentration gradient falls within a predetermined range.
US11899067B2
A testing circuit for multiple SMs of a cascaded converter and a control method thereof are provided. A current generator generates a testing current flowing into a testing module group. The testing module group includes two series-connected testing arms that each contains multiple SMs, or in an alternative way, the testing module group is composed of one or multiple testing units connected in series, and each testing unit includes two testing SMs connected in series reversely. The testing circuit the control method thereof realizes a mission profile emulation of the multiple SMs of the cascaded converter in both inverting and rectifying modes simultaneously to improve a test efficiency. A reverse series connection structure of the two testing SMs offsets a DC component in a capacitor voltage to reduce a power supply voltage required for a test. Dynamic and static control methods under different modulations for the test circuit are provided.
US11899065B2
Systems and methods for generating defect criticality are disclosed. Such systems and methods may include identifying defect results including a defect and a defect location. Such systems and methods may include receiving fault test recipes configured to test potential faults at a plurality of testing locations. Such systems and methods may include identifying a plurality of N-detect parameters based on a countable number of times the fault test recipes are configured to test a potential fault. Such systems and methods may include determining a plurality of weighting parameters based on the plurality of N-detect parameters. Such systems and methods may include generating the defect criticality for the defect based on a proximity between the plurality of testing locations and the defect location and the plurality of weighting.
US11899059B2
An automated test equipment for testing one or more DUTs comprises a test head and a DUT interface. The DUT interface comprises a plurality of blocks of spring-loaded pins, for example groups or fields of spring-loaded pins. For example, the DUT interface is configured for establishing an electronic signal path between the test head and a DUT board or load board, which holds the DUT or which provides a connection to the DUT. The automated test equipment is configured to allow for a variation of a distance between at least two blocks of spring-loaded pins.
US11899057B2
A method for identifying a latch-up structure includes the following: in a chip layout, a first N-type heavily doped region connected to a first input/output pad and located in a P-type substrate is found; a first P-type heavily doped region located in an N-well and a second P-type heavily doped region located in the P-type substrate, both of which are adjacent to the first N-type heavily doped region, are found; a second N-type heavily doped region adjacent to the first P-type heavily doped region and located in the N-well is found, wherein the N-well is located on the P-type substrate; and an area formed by the first P-type heavily doped region, the first N-type heavily doped region, the second P-type heavily doped region, the second N-type heavily doped region, the N-well and the P-type substrate is identified as the latch-up structure.
US11899051B1
In a general aspect, a vapor cell includes a body defined by a stack of layers that includes electrically conductive layers and electrically insulating layers. The stack of layers are bonded to each other and have first and second end layers at respective opposite ends of the body. The stack of layers also has intermediate layers between the first and second end layers that define an internal cavity of the body. The internal cavity extends through the body between the first and second end layers and includes a vapor or a source of the vapor disposed therein. Adjacent electrically conductive layers are separated by at least one electrically insulating layer. Moreover, each electrically conductive layer defines an electrode of the vapor cell and includes a contact surface on an exterior side of the body. The contact surface defines an electrical contact of the electrode.
US11899041B2
The present invention relates to a method for referencing a near-field measurement, e.g. in a scanning probe microscope.
US11899040B2
A method is provided that is performed by at least one first apparatus with the method including obtaining or causing obtaining information indicative of a variation in intensity of light emitted from at least two light sources positioned along a segment of a road; and obtaining or causing obtaining information indicative of a velocity of the at least one first apparatus based at least on the information indicative of the variation in intensity. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US11899034B2
Described is a device for measuring fluid density. The device is a flow meter including a housing with one side configured to mount to a flow conduit and define an outlet flow orifice near one end of the housing. The other side defines an inlet flow orifice near another end of the housing. The housing permits fluid to be introduced into the inlet flow orifice, flow through a flow cavity, and pass from the outlet flow orifice. The flow meter also includes a sensor head near the outlet flow orifice. The sensor head vibrates at a frequency upon introduction of electrical power while in contact with a fluid, detects the vibration frequency of the sensor head, and transmits the detected vibration frequency, which is associated with a density of the fluid. A system and method for determining a fluid density of a fluid using the described device is also disclosed.
US11899021B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for characterizing target/ligand engagement. In particular, luciferase-labeled polypeptide targets are used to detect or quantify target/ligand engagement (e.g., within a cell or cell lysate).
US11899013B2
According to one embodiment, a method of detecting or quantifying a detection target in a specimen includes: irradiating a reaction mixture containing composite particles and the specimen with light to promote binding between the composite particles and the detection target; and performing measurement on the reaction mixture irradiated with the light to detect or quantify the detection target. The composite particles each include a carrier particle including two or more regions having different physical properties on a surface, and an affinity substance carried on the carrier particle and having affinity to the detection target. The light can be absorbed by at least one of the two or more regions.
US11899010B2
The present invention provides devices and systems for use at the point of care. The methods devices of the invention are directed toward automatic detection of analytes in a bodily fluid. The components of the device are modular to allow for flexibility and robustness of use with the disclosed methods for a variety of medical applications.
US11898998B2
A method for injecting a sample into a flow of a liquid chromatography system includes providing a flow of a mobile phase, and injecting a volume of a sample into the flow of the mobile phase such that the concentration of the sample within the mobile phase varies with a triangular profile over the course of the injecting.
US11898996B2
A test system with detection feedback works with a robot to which a test object is attached. The test system includes a server and a force sensor disposed to the robot. The server controls the robot to drive the test object to contact a test platform while the force sensor detects at least one reaction force on the test object to generate a sensing feedback signal for the server. When the reaction force corresponding to a direction and indicated by the sensing feedback signal does not match a force setting value, the server adjusts a level to which the robot drives the test object to move relative to the test platform so that the reaction force corresponding to the direction can match the force setting value. Therefore, the resistance acting on the test object moving relative to the test platform may be automatically maintained at the preset degree.
US11898989B2
A MEMS device for detecting particulate and gases in the air, comprising: a first semiconductor body; a second semiconductor body with a first surface facing a first surface of the first semiconductor body; and a first spacer element and a second spacer element, which extend between the first surfaces of the semiconductor bodies so as to arrange them at a distance apart from one another and define a first duct. The MEMS device further comprises at least one of the following: a first particulate sensor comprising a first emitter unit for generating acoustic waves in the first duct, and a first particulate-detection unit for detecting the particulate, the first emitter unit and the first particulate-detection unit facing one another through the first duct; and a first gas sensor, which faces the first duct and is configured to detect said gases in the air present in the first duct.
US11898981B2
A method for non-invasive detecting and tracing cancer. The method includes fabricating a probe including two reference electrodes, a working electrode located inside a first reference electrode of the two reference electrodes, and a counter electrode located inside a second reference electrode of the two reference electrodes, putting the probe on a part of skin adjacent to a target location inside a patient's body, inserting the two reference electrodes inside the target location through the part of skin, inserting the working electrode and the counter electrode into the target location by releasing the working electrode and the counter electrode through the two reference electrodes, recording a cyclic voltammetry (CV) response of hypoxia-related hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) release in the target location by applying a set of electrical potentials to the probe, measuring an oxidation current peak of the recorded CV response, and detecting a cancerous tumor at the target location by comparing the measured oxidation current peak with a set of reference values.
US11898980B2
A gas sensor includes a feedback circuit part and a sensor circuit part. The feedback circuit part includes a reference resistor and a first temperature sensing element which are connected in series, a first heater resistor that heats the first temperature sensing element, and a first amplifier circuit that controls the amount of current to flow in the first heater resistor based on an internal potential. The sensor circuit part includes a second temperature sensing element and a second heater resistor that heats the second temperature sensing element. A current according to the output of the first amplifier circuit flows in the second heater resistor. With this configuration, it is possible to automatically change the amount of current to flow in the second heater resistor according to ambient temperature without digital processing to thereby heat the second temperature sensing element to a constant temperature.
US11898978B2
A sensor system, particularly for monitoring the mixing of at least two fluids and a method for monitoring the mixture of at least two liquids. The present invention provides a sensor system for fluids, comprising at least two level sensor which are arranged vertically one upon the other on and connected to an electronic circuit board, four electrodes of four conductivity sensors which are arranged horizontally next to each other at the bottom of and connected to the electronic circuit board; and a temperature sensor which is connected to the electronic circuit board; a connector for connecting the electronic circuit board to a controller; wherein the electronic circuit board is embedded in a hot melt compound which is surrounded by an injection molded housing.
US11898976B2
A method for determining the pore types of a core sample can include: determining a porosity of a core sample, wherein the core sample has a permeability of 10 mD or less; saturating the core sample with a NMR saturation fluid to achieve a saturated core sample; taking a NMR measurement of fluids in the saturated core sample; and deriving a volume for a pore type based on the porosity based on a correlation between the NMR measurement and a NMR signal to fluid volume calibration, wherein the pore type is selected from the group consisting of a nanopore, a micropore, a macropore, and any combination thereof.
US11898975B2
The electron spectrometer includes an excitation part 100 irradiating a sample with an energy beam, an orbiting part 10 causing electrons emitted from the sample irradiated with the energy beam to orbit, and a detection part 120 detecting the electrons released from the orbiting part 10, in which the orbiting part 10 includes a plurality of pairs of electrodes, the plurality of pairs of electrodes cause the electrons to orbit when an applied voltage is controlled, a part of the plurality of pairs of electrodes are pairs of electrodes to catch which catch the electrons into the orbiting part 10 when an applied voltage is controlled, and a part of the plurality of pairs of electrodes are pairs of electrodes to release which release the electrons from the orbiting part 10 when an applied voltage is controlled.
US11898969B2
A method and an apparatus for the surface quality inspection of the external surface of at least one component for inhalers or vaporizers, in particular a cartomizer for electronic cigarettes, verifies whether there are surface imperfections on the external surface of the components.
US11898967B2
An umbilicus-driven centrifuge includes a yoke configured to orbit a midsection of the umbilicus around a rotational axis at a first speed so as to cause a separation chamber associated with the umbilicus to rotate about the rotational axis at a second speed that is approximately double the first speed. An optical monitoring system directly monitors the separation chamber, with a light source oriented to emit light toward the separation chamber and a light detector oriented to receive at least a portion of the light after the light has passed through the separation chamber. A controller receives a plurality of signals from the light detector, then compares the period or frequency of the signals to an expected period or frequency. The controller determines that the umbilicus is experiencing an irregularity when the period or frequency is different from the expected period or frequency.
US11898966B2
This invention provides a processing apparatus for determining a state of secular change of a deformation of a construction, comprising a selection unit that selects, as a target for determination of secular change, at least a portion of deformations from among a plurality of deformations included in a first image at a first time period, on the basis of at least one of information relating to deformations, information relating to the construction, user selection, or a shape and a relative positional relationship of two or more deformations; a first determination unit that determines a deformation corresponding to a selected deformation among a plurality of deformations included in a second image at a second time period; and a second determination unit that determines a state of secular change between a selected deformation and a deformation determined by the first determination unit.
US11898963B2
Identifying 3D objects A method for identification of 3D objects comprises illuminating at least part of a 3D object with electromagnetic radiation, spectroscopically obtaining spectral data for one or more regions of the 3D object, and generating, at a data processing apparatus, an identification result for the 3D object using a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model processes the obtained spectral data for the one or more regions to generate one or more model outputs from which the identification result is derived.
US11898961B2
A system, device and method for measuring markers for a periprosthetic joint infection in a sample of synovial fluid. A sensor reader device includes a vial receptacle for receiving a vial containing synovial fluid. A light source illuminates the vial and an optical sensor detects light scattered and/or absorbed by white blood cells in the fluid sample. An electrical signal corresponding to the intensity of the light received at the optical sensor is detected. A white blood cell concentration is determined from the electrical signal value. The sensor reader device also includes one or more immunoassay strip receptacles. Immunoassay strips for other marker are inserted into the receptacles. Immunoassay optical sensors detect light generated by the immunoassay reaction on the immunoassay strip to determine the concentration of the marker. In example implementations, the device includes an immunoassay strip reader for leukocyte esterase and c-reactive protein.
US11898960B2
A method for rapid detection of actinides including the steps of having a support including a colorimetric complexation, placing the support in communication with a sample through urinalysis, and receiving a visual indicator from the colorimetric complexation. The sample having an unknown concentration of at least one actinide within it. The colorimetric complexation is configured to activate when contacted by a threshold concentration of an actinide.
US11898957B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for quantitative detection of mercury vapor in gas samples using a film of nanoparticles. The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of an amalgam nanoparticle is sensitive to adsorbed mercury mass. The equilibrium mass of mercury on a gold nanoparticle is a function of the surrounding vapor concentration and the temperature of the gold. A device that introduces a temperature-controlled gold nanoparticle film to a controlled flow of sample gas responds predictably to a given mercury vapor concentration when optically probed in situ. Controlling the temperature of the film allows for control of adsorption and desorption rates. Equilibrium plasmonic mercury detection, described herein, removes the cycling necessary for many gold-based mercury analyses. Methods are given for the operation and analysis of the temperature-stabilized gold nanoparticle mercury sensor. The disclosed mercury-detection apparatus and methods find use in a variety of applications, including, for example, mercury detecting applications.
US11898953B2
A particulate matter sensor device comprises an enclosure (21) defining a flow channel (2), a radiation source (3) for emitting radiation into the flow channel for interaction of the radiation with particulate matter in an aerosol sample in the flow channel, and a radiation detector (4) for detecting at least part of said radiation after interaction with the particulate matter. The sensor device comprises a flow modifying device (511) arranged upstream of the radiation detector and/or radiation source so as to reduce particulate matter precipitation onto the radiation detector, the radiation source and/or the channel wall sections in their proximity. The invention also relates to a method of determining parameters of particulate matter in an aerosol sample by using such a particulate matter sensor device.
US11898950B2
A display device includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a readout circuit. The display panel includes a first part and a second part. The first part includes a first pixel set. The second part includes a first sensor set. The driving controller controls the first pixel set to emit first light when controlling the first sensor set to receive second light. The first sensor set generates a sensing signal using the second light. The readout circuit is electrically connected to at least one of the driving controller and the first sensor set and receives the sensing signal. The display device calculates a dust concentration using the sensing signal.
US11898948B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tracking and printing within a histology system. In some embodiments, a system is provided that includes an information reader configured to read identifying data associated with a tissue block, a microtome configured to cut one or more tissue sections from the tissue block, one or more slides for receiving the one or more tissue sections, and a printer configured to receive the identifying data and print, after the one or more tissue sections are cut from the tissue block, one or more labels for the one or more slides, the one or more labels comprising information associating the one more tissue sections on the one or more slides with the tissue block.
US11898941B2
A packer ring and activation system for use in a pipeline pressure isolation system utilizing a packer, a packer support ring, a primary wedge, and a plurality of secondary wedges for use with a pipe engagement, sealing and testing system.
US11898933B2
A test kit is disclosed for testing an internal combustion engine with the engine kept at a fixed load condition. The test kit includes a test module programmed to execute a sequence of individual cylinder tests by measuring, in each cylinder test, a first engine performance value and providing an amount of fuel to one cylinder under test to differ from an amount of fuel provided to the rest of the plurality of cylinders. A further test module is programmed to measure, in an idle period between subsequent individual cylinder tests of the sequence of individual cylinder tests, a second engine performance value. This further test module is programmed to discard at least some of the individual cylinder tests if the second engine performance value measured by the further test module passes a threshold.
US11898920B2
A connector for use with a sensor, such as a pressure sensor, has EMI absorbing capabilities. The connector includes a polymeric body configured for coupling to a sensor body and an EMI absorbing material. The EMI absorbing material may be entrained in the polymeric body, coated on the polymeric body, or otherwise integrated with the polymeric body. The EMI absorbing material may be carbon black or carbon nanotubes.
US11898913B2
An electromagnetic wave sensor 1 has electromagnetic wave absorbers disposed side by side in first and second directions, temperature detection portions held by the respective electromagnetic wave absorbers and sets of two arm portions connected to each electromagnetic wave absorber at two connection portions. In a plan view, the arm portions have two first extending portions extending from the connection portions in directions of which components in the second direction are opposite to each other, and two second extending portions extending from the first extending portions in directions of which components in the first direction are opposite to each other. Four sides of a rectangle circumscribing each of the electromagnetic wave absorbers with a smallest area are inclined with respect to the first direction in directions in which each electromagnetic wave absorber is away from the second extending portions with the connection portions as fulcrums.
US11898907B1
A spectrometer is configured to form a spectrally resolved image of electromagnetic radiation from an electromagnetic radiation source. The spectrometer can include an optical guide device configured to guide electromagnetic radiation along an optical path. The optical guide device can include a first prism positioned in the optical path. The optical guide device can further include a focusing optic. The first prism can include at least one freeform prism surface that comprises at least some degree of cylindrical curvature having freeform polynomial terms formed thereon, which surface can be a substantially cylindrical, a substantially acylindrical, or a substantially flat surface having freeform polynomial terms formed thereon.
US11898891B2
A fluid level detector is provided, which has a transmitter, a receiver, and a sensing zone adjacent the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter and receiver are arranged such that when an electric field forms between the transmitter and receiver, a fringe electric field extends from the transmitter into the sensing zone. The transmitter and receiver are both on a same side of the sensing zone, and a fluid located at the sensing zone changes a measured capacitance at the transmitter and receiver system.
US11898890B2
The systems and methods described herein provide highly dynamic and interactive data analysis user interfaces which enable the data analyst to quickly and efficiently explore large volume data sources, such as computer code or intellectual system. A user interface can be implanted that includes a plurality of nodes associated with portions of a process. The nodes may include indications of logical relationships between nodes. Node identifiers may be associated with particular nodes and be usable to select particular nodes. Reliability scores associated with particular nodes can be included.
US11898876B2
The present disclosure discloses a device for determining orientation of an object. The device comprises a hollow spherical member. A plurality of sensors are positioned within a cavity defined by an inner surface and an outer surface of the hollow spherical member. Further, the device comprises a light source fixed within the hollow spherical member, and a solid sphere provided within the hollow spherical member. The solid spherical member is configured to displace within the hollow spherical member, pointing towards gravity and occupies lowermost position of the hollow spherical member, and thus blocks impingement of light on to corresponding one or more sensors at the lowermost position of the hollow spherical member. The blocked one or more sensors activate or deactivate, and generate a signal, which is received by a computing unit, to determine orientation of the object.
US11898861B2
A road zone assessment device has a processor configured to select a first road zone from among multiple first road zones representing a first road associated with a vehicle navigation route, and connected with a second road zone representing a second road different from the first road, on a location-estimating map used for a vehicle, to determine whether or not the navigation route extends from the selected first road zone to the second road zone, to identify other first road zone associated with the navigation route from the selected first road zone forward on the destination location side of the navigation route, and to release association between the other first road zone and the navigation route when the selected first road zone is connected with the second road zone and the navigation route extends from the selected first road zone to the second road zone.
US11898849B2
Systems and methods for updating an electronic map of a facility are disclosed. The electronic map includes a set of map nodes. Each map node has a stored image data associated with a position within the facility. The method includes collecting image data at a current position of a self-driving material-transport vehicle; searching the electronic map for at least one of a map node associated with the current position and one or more neighboring map nodes within a neighbor threshold to the current position; comparing the collected image data with the stored image data of the at least one of the map node and the one or more neighboring map nodes to determine a dissimilarity level. The electronic map may be updated based at least on the collected image data and the dissimilarity level. The image data represents one or more features observable from the current position.
US11898845B2
In a general aspect, a micromachined gyroscope can include a substrate and a static mass suspended in an x-y plane over the substrate by a plurality of anchors attached to the substrate. The static mass can be attached to the anchors by anchor suspension flexures. The micromachined gyroscope can include a dynamic mass surrounding the static mass and suspended from the static mass by one or more gyroscope suspension flexures.
US11898835B2
A method for configuring a device for non-destructive testing of a mechanical part, the device including an optical motion-tracking system, a non-destructive testing probe fixedly linked to a first rigid body, and a pointing device, includes steps of: learning of an origin and of axes of an examination area of the surface of the mechanical part using the pointing device, in a coordinate system linked to the optical motion-tracking system, so as to define a coordinate system linked to the examination area, learning of an origin and of axes of an emitter and receiver surface, called active surface, of the probe using the pointing device, in a coordinate system linked to the first rigid body of the probe, and determination of the position and of the orientation of the active surface of the probe, in the coordinate system linked to the examination area.
US11898833B2
A case jacket made of a felted, in particular combustible fibrous material, comprising a cylindrical case jacket portion and a calotte-shaped case bottom which is connected to an end of the cylindrical case jacket portion, wherein the bottom-side end of the case jacket portion has a first inside diameter and a first outside diameter, and wherein the case bottom has an annular connecting edge towards the case jacket portion, which has a second inside diameter that is smaller than the first inside diameter, and a second outside diameter which is smaller than the second outside diameter, includes a conical connecting portion whose one end has the first inside diameter and the first outside diameter and is connected to the bottom-side end of the case jacket portion, and whose other end has the second inside diameter and the second outside diameter and is connected to the connecting edge of the case bottom, wherein the angle of inclination of the inner wall and the angle of inclination of the outer wall of the conical connecting portion with respect to the cylinder axis are not more than 10°.
US11898827B2
A projectile fired from a weapon which has a bore with inner rifling, having a point and a base which are disposed within a sleeve such that the point and base of the projectile rotate independently of the sleeve when fired from a gun or similar weapon designed to discharge projectiles or similar material.
US11898826B2
Disclosed are a dart game apparatus and a dart game system including an image projector according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. The dart game apparatus and the dart game system including the image projector may include: a sensing unit sensing hitting of a thrown dart pin; a dart target allowing the dart pin to be received; a display area formed to surround an exterior of the dart target, provided in a body structure of the dart game apparatus, and receiving an image projected from an image projector to output a variable screen; an image projector projecting the image toward the display area; and a controller controlling operations of the dart game apparatus.
US11898822B2
A measurement and data integration system for the preparation of a firearm, to fire an accurate, precise shot, incorporating a tubular component containing two sensors to measure the speed of the projectile, further including a subsystem for the detection of the impact thereof and the measurement of the time of flight of the same, a subsystem for the measurement of the angles of inclination and cant; a calibration subsystem, a subsystem for communication with weather stations which consults and receives in real time the meteorological variables, as well as a microprocessor with a first operational programme that measures, requests, stores and manages all the aforementioned signals, and a second programme that includes an interface with the user.
US11898819B2
This invention is directed to a handgun device and uses thereof.
US11898809B2
A method for forming a heat exchanger plate includes providing a precursor having a body with a first face and a second face opposite the first face and at least one internal passageway; and pluralities of first and second fin precursors respectively protruding from the first and second faces. First and second fin height profiles are formed by removing material from the respective fin precursors via wire electro-discharge machining.
US11898805B2
Plate (710) for a heat exchanger between a first medium and a second medium, the plate being associated with a main plane (P) of extension and a height direction (H) perpendicular to said main plane, and comprising a first heat transfer surface (714) on a first side (713) of the plate, arranged to be in contact with the first medium flowing along said first side; a second heat transfer surface (716) on a second side (715) of the plate, arranged to be in contact with the second medium flowing along said second side; a plurality of indentations (720,730,740) in the plate, formed by the material of the plate bulging out locally in the said plate height direction, of which a plurality are bridge-shaped indentations (730) comprising two respective through-holes (732a) in the plate, as well as a respective bridge part (734) forming a passage (706,706′) between the said through-holes, and wherein the passage has a general direction being substantially parallel to a general flow direction (D) of the second medium past the bridge-shaped indentation in question. The invention is characterised in that, for at least a plurality of the said bridge-shaped indentations, the shape of the respective bridge part, in a cross-section taken perpendicularly to both the main plane and to the said general direction of the passage in question, comprises a local minimum (737), so that the height of the bridge part, in said cross-section, first increases, then decreases to the said local minimum, and then again increases.
US11898802B2
In one aspect, thermal energy storage systems are described herein. In some embodiments, such a system includes at least one active thermal storage battery and at least one passive thermal storage battery. The at least one active thermal storage battery includes a container, a heat exchanger disposed within the container, and a first phase change material disposed within the container and in thermal contact with the heat exchanger. The at least one passive thermal storage battery comprises a plurality of thermal storage cells, individual thermal storage cells comprising a container having an interior volume, and a second phase change material disposed within the interior volume of the container.
US11898798B1
Described herein are photonic furnaces and methods of using the same to produce metal products from a precursor material.
US11898796B1
A novel self-cooling food product container apparatus (10) and a process for manufacturing the same is disclosed. A self-cooling food product container (20) combined with a substantive vapor transport system producing a humidification cooling process for cooling food and beverage products P. Methods of assembling and operating the apparatus (10) are also provided.
US11898786B2
An engineless transport refrigeration unit includes a direct current compressor motor, condenser fan motor, evaporator fan motor, an energy storage device, and a generator. The energy storage device is configured to provide direct current electric power to the compressor motor the condenser fan motor, and the evaporator fan motor. The energy storage device is configured to provide power within a range of two hundred volts to six hundred volts. The compressor motor is configured to operate at a direct current voltage range of two hundred to six hundred volts.
US11898780B2
An evaporator comprises: a housing with a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet; heat transfer tubes that are contained in the housing, in which chilled water for heat exchange with refrigerant inside the housing flows; at least one distribution tray that is placed apart from the heat transfer tubes and has a plurality of holes for distributing refrigerant over the underlying heat transfer tubes; and a tube support with a plurality of holes for passing the heat transfer tubes through, that is placed inside the housing and supports the distribution tray. Through the present disclosure, it is possible to achieve stable heat exchange performance by placing the distribution tray horizontal and stable.
US11898778B2
A solar thermal cladding structure includes a frame, a membrane extending along the frame, the membrane having a first layer and a second layer, and an inflation blower connected to the membrane and in fluid communication with a space between the first layer and the second layer of the membrane. The frame includes a plurality of connectors and a plurality of beam struts. The plurality of connectors connect the plurality of beam struts together.
US11898770B2
Movable air conditioner and a control method. The movable air conditioner includes a water receiving tray configured to receive condensed water generated by an evaporator of the movable air conditioner, a first water collection area, a second water collection area; a water guiding member configured to selectively guide the condensed water in the water receiving tray to the first water collection area or the second water collection area, and a controller configured to control the water guiding member to the guide condensed water in the water receiving tray to the first water collection area, and configured to control the water guiding member to guide the condensed water in the water receiving tray to the second water collection area when a water level of the first water collection area reaches a preset value.
US11898764B2
An HVAC system includes a high-pressure subsystem and a low-pressure subsystem. After determining that refrigerant leak diagnostics should be performed, a controllable valve is closed between a condenser and compressor of the HVAC system. The compressor then operates until a predetermined input refrigerant pressure is reached. After the predetermined input refrigerant pressure is reached, operation of the compressor is stopped. After stopping operation of the compressor and waiting at least a predetermined wait time, the pressure in the low-pressure subsystem of the HVAC system is monitored. A rate of change of the pressure in the low-pressure subsystem is determined. If the rate of change is negative and a magnitude of the rate of change is greater than a threshold value, a leak location is determined to be in the low-pressure subsystem.
US11898750B2
A method for controlling a catalytic combustion apparatus having a heater capable of heating fuel to be supplied to a catalyst includes a step of supplying oxidant gas to the catalytic combustion apparatus, and an injection step of injecting the fuel into the catalytic combustion apparatus. The injection step also includes an electric power feeding step of supplying electric power to the heater, and a setting step of setting an injection amount of the fuel to be injected into the catalytic combustion apparatus in response to output of the heater.
US11898749B2
A gas delivery apparatus has a delivery pipe that extends from a gas entrance end to a gas delivery end along which an entrance component, a pressure regulator and a flow rate regulator are present, coordinated with each other in order to supply on each occasion the desired quantity of gas to a burner of an apparatus fed with gas. or p with an air-gas mixture.
US11898748B2
Burners and methods of making burner bodies via a focused beam are disclosed. In an aspect, a burner includes (a) a burner body and (b) at least one connector configured to supply at least a fuel and an oxidizer to the burner body. The burner body includes (1) a plurality of passageways; (2) a first major surface; (3) a plurality of ports at the first major surface, each port defined by an end of one of the passageways; and either: (4a) at least one heating element in or adjacent to at least one of the plurality of passageways that increases the temperature of a wall of the at least one of the plurality of passageways; or (4b) a cooling chamber directly adjacent to three or more of the plurality of passageways. The burner body includes a number of layers of metal directly bonded to each other. Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying a burner body; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the burner body based on the digital object. A system is also provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of a burner body; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of the burner body.
US11898747B2
A burner apparatus and process are described. The burner apparatus includes an inlet chamber in communication with a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber has a cylindrical shape defining a longitudinal axis and a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The combustion chamber has an upstream end and a downstream end, and an air inlet is disposed in the inlet chamber. A pilot, a fuel gas inlet, and a refractory material are disposed in the combustion chamber downstream of the air inlet. A mixed gas inlet is positioned downstream of the fuel gas inlet and the pilot in the combustion chamber. The mixed gas inlet includes a manifold having an inlet, a body, and a plurality of nozzles.
US11898741B1
The present disclosure relates to an indirect lighting fixture and includes a light source assembly, a reflector structure component, a bottom structure component and an appearance structure component. The direct light from the light source assembly irradiates symmetrically on the inner surface of the reflector structure component and is reflected and diffusely reflected, and then emitted from the light outlet of the bottom structure component. The direct light of the light source assembly is designed to be invisible. This innovation transforms the hotspot direct light of the light source assembly into more soft light of the surface light source, and the high-efficiency reflector structure component allows indirect lighting fixtures to achieve high light efficiency simultaneously.
US11898731B2
Lighting system including visible-light source with semiconductor light-emitting device, which may further include: pan assembly having pan ring, pinion gear, and central fixed gear; heat-sink, tilt assembly including tilt adjustment screw, leadscrew, and two spaced-apart panels defining tilt path for causing movement of heat-sink and visible-light source along tilt path; universal joint assembly including gimbal, swing bar with swing arms and being in threaded engagement with leadscrew, swing arms connected with visible-light source; support assembly configured for securing heat-sink and visible-light source together at plurality of selectable distances away from light emission aperture; heat-sink and visible-light source each having thermally-conductive surface, one surface having Dzus-type fastener button and another surface having Dzus-type cavity containing spring wire, for reversible attachment of heat-sink and visible-light source together; or power supply assembly, and receptacle for self-aligning reversible installation of power supply assembly, receptacle having guide walls with lead-ins.
US11898724B1
A light connector capable of connecting to a solar light and a light assembly that includes a light connector connected to a solar light or solar jar light, wherein the light assembly is capable of attaching to any structure that has a modifiable roof, such as an outdoor portable toilet. The light connector includes a main body having attachments and attachment receivers, a main support body having a lower support with a recess, and a grooved upper portion for engaging a solar light or solar jar light.
US11898720B2
A downlight fixture housing fabrication method in which upper and lower downlight fixture housing portions are formed in separate steps and joined by press-fitting, a bonding agent, pinning, and/or threaded engagement.
US11898710B2
The present invention discloses a flame simulating device, comprising a mist generating chamber, an atomizing head, an air orifice and a nozzle. The inside of the mist generating chamber is provided with a liquid and the atomizing head, the atomizing head being capable of atomizing the liquid inside the mist generating chamber, the two sides of the nozzle being set as Coanda curved surfaces, the cross section of the air orifice being in a constricted shape and providing an air flow blown upward such that under the Venturi effect, the air flow blown upward will guide and attract the mist from inside the mist generating chamber to vent out and flow into a nozzle inlet; the upper surface of the mist generating chamber is provided with a breathing port, and the breathing port directly faces the atomizing head. Due to the Coanda curved surface on the side of the nozzle, the mist flows along both sides of the nozzle under the Coanda effect and then vents out of the nozzle.
US11898704B2
The present disclosure provides a method for smart gas pipeline life prediction based on safety. The method includes: obtaining the operation information of the target gas pipeline section within the first time period; determining, based on operation information, the first performance parameter of the target gas pipeline section of at least one moment within the first time period, the first performance parameter including at least the transport performance of the target gas pipeline section within the first time period; determining, based on the first performance parameter of at least one moment, the first performance parameter sequence of the target gas pipeline section within the first time period, the first performance parameter sequence being the sequence obtained by arranging the first performance parameters of at least one moment in chronological order; and determining, based on the first performance parameter sequence, the remaining life of the target gas pipeline section.
US11898695B2
A progressive distributor for lubricant includes a housing block having an inlet and a plurality of outlets and a plurality of metering pistons received in associated piston bores in the housing block. Each piston bore is associated with two lubricant outlet bores, and each metering piston is displaceable and configured to alternatingly release the one or the other lubricant outlet bore in order to dispense the metered lubricant amount to the lubricant outlet bore. The piston bores are fluidically connected to the lubricant inlet bore and to each other via connecting bores in order to transfer lubricant to the other piston bores. A dummy piston is disposed in one of the piston bores that permanently closes both the lubricant inlet bore and both lubricant outlet bores, and includes at least one bypass passageway that fluidically connects two of the connecting bores to each other.
US11898694B2
An apparatus for facilitating mounting of an article to a support having an uneven generally vertical surface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a holder including first, second, and third spaced apart surface engagers configured to abut the uneven generally vertical surface of the support, and an article mount coupled to the first, second, and third spaced apart surface engagers, the article mount configured to hold the article. The apparatus includes at least one flexible tension member configured to couple the holder to the support to draw at least one of the first, second, and third surface engagers into abutment with the uneven generally vertical surface of the support. Other apparatuses and systems are disclosed.
US11898682B2
A tube spacing and fastening system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of tubular structures, a wear sleeve, a spacer element, and a fastening element. The plurality of tubular structures provides a fluid flow to a component of the gas turbine engine. The wear sleeve is located around each of the plurality of tubular structures. The spacer element receives the plurality of tubular structures. The fastening element extends around the wear sleeves and is configured to secure the plurality of tubular structures to the spacer element. An interference between the fastening element and wear sleeves is configured to allow the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeves and to provide a damping effect under gas turbine engine vibrations and operating conditions. A method of damping vibrations in the plurality of tubular structures includes allowing the fastening element to slide with respect to the wear sleeve.
US11898681B2
A system for mounting an adapter on a main flexible pipe for connecting a branch pipe is described, including a fitting having an externally threaded shank and a widened base which can be inserted in a hole of the pipe and can be fixed by a first ring nut screwed on the threaded shank, wherein the system includes a tool for inserting the fitting in the hole and for tightening the first ring nut, and wherein on the adapter a second ring nut is provided for fixing the adapter to the fitting.
US11898678B2
A bag connector system includes a first coupling element, with a self-closing seal and a housing having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port, and a second coupling element, with a housing having a fluid inlet end and a fluid outlet end. The fluid inlet end is configured to displace the self-closing seal when inserted into the fluid outlet port of the first coupling element. A bag connector system optionally includes a locking mechanism to maintain the first coupling element and second coupling element in a coupled state. Uncoupling of the first and second coupling elements results in minimal fluid contamination on the outer surfaces of the coupling elements. The bag connector systems provided herein are included in medical appliances for waste management.
US11898666B1
A threaded connection includes a first tubular member having a pin end defining an external thread profile, and a second tubular member having a box end defining an internal thread profile threadably engageable with the external thread profile of the pin end. At least one of the external and internal thread profiles includes a first section that extends at a first taper angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the threaded connection, a second section extending from the first section at a second taper angle relative to the longitudinal axis, and a third section extending from the second section at a third taper angle relative to the longitudinal axis. The second taper angle is greater than each of the first and third taper angles.
US11898664B2
A universal pipe connection system includes a fitting with a tubular body and an annular bulge defining an annular groove on the inner side of a tubular body, which houses a sealing gasket. The tubular body receives the end portion of a pipe so that a pressing tool having opposite pressing jaws can engage the tubular body and generate a circumferential band adjacent to the bulge by mechanically clamping the tubular body in the circumferential and axial directions and causing a deformation of the annular bulge, which presses the gasket, and generates a seal between the tubular body and the end of the pipe inserted therein. The annular bulge and the corresponding annular groove have a geometry and size adapted to cooperate with two different types of pressing tools, one with a M profile and one with a V profile, which may be present in the alternative or in combination.
US11898654B2
A heating cartridge with a thermally conductive tube which can be immersed in a thermodilatable material of a thermostatic member. Having a cylindrical body extending axially via a flare; internal electric heating; a base of a plastic material, secured to the tube by overmolding the flare, supporting an electrical connection between the heater and an external current source, and is suitable to be received in a casing of the valve housing. A seal is attached to the base and has a first portion pressed radially against the housing in the casing so as to seal the interior of the casing. In order to improve the sealing of said cartridge, the seal also includes a second portion, which is separate from the first portion and which is pressed radially against the cylindrical body of the tube to seal the overmolding interface between the flare of the tube and the base.
US11898653B2
A gate valve includes a valve body and a valve cover. The valve body includes a first opening, a second opening, a third opening, a flow passage from the first opening to the second opening, and a gate channel from the flow passage to the third opening. The gate channel has a central longitudinal axis and a ridge defining a perimeter of the third opening. The valve cover can fit over the third opening and, under force on the valve cover, exert a clamping force on the ridge. The clamping force has a first force component perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis and a second force component parallel with the central longitudinal axis. The first force component of the clamping force is toward the gate channel. The ridge includes a first surface configured to mate with a first surface of the valve cover.
US11898649B2
A bypass valve for an inspection and/or cleaning pig which is intended to move through a pipeline through which medium flows. The bypass valve comprises an inner space which is provided with a flow profile and in which there is arranged a piston which can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the bypass valve by means of a force storage medium in a pressure-dependent manner. The piston can also be moved between a first open position of the bypass valve which enables a bypass for the medium and a second position which at least substantially closes the bypass. The piston can be further moved from the first position via the second position in the same direction into a maximum position which opens the bypass again and pig for inspection and/or cleaning of pipelines.
US11898646B2
The present invention relates to adjustable flow control valves, for example to an Adjustable Pressure Limiting (APL) valve. The adjustable valve (2) described comprises a valve body (4) comprising a valve seat (6), a valve member (10) movable relative to the valve seat (6), a first valve cap (20), a second valve cap (50) and a biasing element (30) to bias the valve member (10) away from the first valve cap (20). The first valve cap (20) is movable to increase the biasing force applied by the biasing element (30). The second valve cap (50) is engageable with the first valve cap (20) to prevent such movement of the first valve cap (20) beyond a selected position, but to allow movement of the first valve cap (20) in an opposite direction, way from said position.
US11898620B2
The present invention relates to a hydraulic damper comprising a tube and a piston assembly provided with rebound valve assemblies and compression valve assemblies, wherein each valve assembly comprises a deflectable-disc valve and a blow-off valve. The piston assembly comprises two sleeve-shaped members each provided with a plurality of blow-off valve flow passages, a plurality of deflectable-disc valve flow passages, and a central opening, wherein the piston rod passes through said central openings to secure the piston assembly, a plurality of deflectable disc(s) of the deflectable-disc valve cover(s) said deflectable-disc valve flow passages , wherein a plurality of disc(s) of the blow-off valve adjoin(s) said blow-off valve flow passages, wherein the piston assembly further comprises two spring seats abutting said disc(s) of the blow-off valve, and at least one spring disposed within said internal chamber that biases said spring seats towards said number of discBP-S20010US(s).
US11898615B2
A cylinder apparatus is provided with a stopper mechanism that operates when a piston rod extends and moves toward an upper end portion in an inner cylinder. This stopper mechanism includes a second cylinder provided movably relative to the piston rod and including a bottom portion on an upper end side in the inner cylinder and a cylinder portion extending from the bottom portion toward a lower end side, and a second piston provided so as to be able to move along with a movement of the piston rod to be fitted to the second cylinder. While being configured in this manner, the cylinder apparatus is configured in such a manner that a spring member 21 is provided between the second cylinder and a rod guide.
US11898613B2
A method for repairing damage on a non-friction surface of a carbon brake disc of an aircraft, includes: removal of a damaged region, cutting of a repair material, anti-oxidation modification of the repair material, bonding and curing, and high-temperature heat treatment. The anti-oxidation modification is performed on the repair material without affecting the mechanical properties of the repair material, which improves the anti-oxidation ability of the repair zone and avoids the preparation of an anti-oxidation coating. In this way, only the damage on the non-friction surface is repaired, and there is little effect on the mechanical properties, friction and wear properties and thermal conductivity of the carbon-carbon composite material.
US11898610B2
A disconnect clutch for a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a torque transfer component with a contact region, an outer disc carrier, an application element, and a return spring. The outer disc carrier is rotationally and axially fixed on the torque transfer component, and arranged for receiving rotationally fixed and axially displaceable friction discs arranged for torque transmission with counter friction discs. The application element is for axially displacing at least one of the friction discs for a frictional connection and the return spring is for releasing the frictional connection. The return spring contacts the application element, the return spring comprises a radially outer portion that bears against the contact region, and the contact region is designed to modify a preload of the return spring.
US11898602B2
Methods and apparatus for transporting a flexible substrate are provided. In one embodiment, an air turn is disclosed that includes a body, a porous cover disposed about a circumference of the body, and two seals. Each of the two seals are positioned about the circumference of the body and spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the body to define a central zone bounded by a second zone and by a third zone. The second zone and third zone are each positioned outside of a respective seal. The body includes a first opening formed along a longitudinal axis of the body, and a plurality of second openings formed in the body at a position other than along the longitudinal axis.
US11898599B2
A foil bearing (10) having at least one foil (16, 18) which is arranged and fixed in place inside a bearing bore (14) of a bearing support (12). The bearing support (12) is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the surface of the bearing bore (14) is provided at least in one contact region (20) of the at least one foil (16, 18) with a hard material layer (26). The bearing support (12) can be produced in a simple and cost-effective manner, has a low weight and a good thermal conductivity.
US11898588B2
A tip assembly includes a tip including a body having a narrow tip portion, a broad attachment portion that defines a concave surface, an interior disposed between the broad attachment portion and the narrow tip portion, and a cavity that leads from the concave surface toward the interior. A retention bolt that is heated includes a tapered region, and a shaft extending from the tapered region, terminating at an externally threaded end. The cavity of the tip is at least partially complimentarily shaped to the tapered region of the retention bolt.
US11898586B2
A system and method for securing an item. Custom connectors which only couple to a custom converter can secure an item, deter its theft, and prevent unauthorized access. The custom connectors have a custom head which has a custom void. The custom void has a unique shape which matches and couples with a custom converter. A custom converter allows the custom connector to be manipulated. If desired, subsequently, when the item is in a more secure location, conventional screws can replace the item.
US11898584B2
A tool-less fastening system includes an interface assembly including an interface body having a first longitudinal end, a second longitudinal end, and a contact surface disposed between the first longitudinal surface and the second longitudinal surface, a fastening element coupled to the interface body, and a stop block extending from the interface body at the second longitudinal end, the stop block including an inclined surface. The tool-less fastening system also includes a receiver shaped to receive the interface body. The receiver has a receiver body defining a channel and at least one receiver block extending from the receiver body into the channel, wherein the at least one receiver block includes a receiving surface for receiving the contact surface of the interface body. In some embodiments, the tool-less fastening system can be implemented with shippable furniture, such as office chairs and tables.
US11898573B2
A centrifugal fan and a dryer, where the centrifugal fan includes a shell, a driving mechanism, an impeller and a volute tongue arranged in the shell, the driving mechanism is connected with the tongue and can drive the tongue to rotate between a first limit position and a second limit position, the tongue includes a first volute tongue part and a second volute tongue part; when the tongue is located at the first limit position and the impeller rotates forwards, the first tongue part abuts against the inner wall of one side of the shell in a sealed mode, the second tongue part can cut the air blown by the impeller, and when the tongue is located at the second limit position and the impeller rotates reversely, the first tongue part can cut air blown by the impeller.
US11898570B2
A pump assembly for delivering a medium via a flow chamber (13) defined by a hydraulic housing and a housing cover, includes a pump shaft rotatably drivable about an axis of rotation, an impeller fixed to one end of the pump shaft inside the flow chamber, a bearing carrier. The pump assembly further includes a lubrication and cooling system with oil recirculation in the bearing carrier.
US11898560B1
The utility model relates to internal cycloidal gear mechanisms and can be used in various branches of mechanical engineering as working members of hydraulic machines (pumps and engines), compressors, internal combustion engines, as well as in planetary gearboxes, in particular in technical systems for drilling and repairing oil and gas wells. The problems to be solved by the utility model include the improvement of the quality of the process of designing working members having a cycloidal tooth profile, as well as the substantiation of the conditions for modifying cycloidal face profiles (by choosing the required combination of dimensionless gearing coefficients) in order to achieve the maximum or minimum open area of the gerotor mechanism having a different kinematic ratio.
US11898555B2
A plunger pump includes a cylinder having a cylinder chamber, and a first through hole and a second through hole that open from an inner circumferential surface toward an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder chamber, and a plunger inserted in the cylinder chamber and configured to make a reciprocating motion with respect to the cylinder chamber. An inner circumferential portion of the cylinder has an inner circumferential surface, and a helical first groove portion on the inner circumferential surface, the helical first groove portion being configured to communicate with at least one of the first through hole and the second through hole.
US11898553B2
A plate segment for a reciprocating pump power end frame assembly, the power end frame assembly having a pair of end plate segments and at least one middle plate segment disposed between the end plate segments. The plate segment consists of the middle plate segment or one of the pair of end plate segments and includes a plate having a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of sidewalls and at least one opening forming a bearing support surface, the opening extending through the plate. The plate segment further includes at least one extension extending from at least one of the sidewalls of the plate at a position to align with and contact a corresponding extension on an adjacently positioned plate.
US11898551B2
An example system includes a fluid end having a block, a fluid inlet formed in the block, and a fluid outlet formed in the block. The system also includes an intake manifold fluidly coupled to the fluid inlet, and a fluid conduit fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet and the intake manifold. The system further includes a valve fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit, the valve configured to control fluid flow through the fluid conduit, an actuator coupled to the valve and configured to position the valve in an open position or a closed position, and a controller communicatively coupled to the actuator and configured to send one or more signals to the actuator, causing the actuator to position the valve in the open position or the closed position.
US11898549B2
The present invention concerns a dosing pump comprising a dosing chamber, a working chamber and a dosing diaphragm, wherein the dosing chamber and the working chamber are separated from each other by the dosing diaphragm, wherein there is provided a device for reciprocating movement of the dosing diaphragm between a first position and a second position, wherein the volume of the dosing chamber is smaller in the first position than in the second position. To provide a dosing pump, the dosing diaphragm of which has an increased service life and which as far as possible can be hydraulically operated even at very low dosing fluid pressures at the suction side it is proposed according to the invention that there is provided a prestressing device which prestresses the dosing diaphragm in the direction of the first or second position.
US11898543B2
A high performance hybrid turbine is provided which has an impeller towards which a fluid flow of water, air, or other fluid is conveyed for rotation of the impeller around an axis of rotation. The impeller exploits the thrusts that the fluid flow exerts on the elements constituting the impeller and the thrusts generated by a certain number of airfoils provided inside the elements of the impeller. The high performance hybrid turbine, if used as a wind turbine, can operate at much higher wind speeds than conventional wind turbines.
US11898538B2
Provided is a method for damping low frequency oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in an electrical supply grid by way of at least one decentralized production unit connected to the electrical supply grid, in particular a wind turbine or a wind farm, comprising the steps: feeding electrical power by way of the at least one production unit and supplementing the feeding by way of a supplementary component for damping the low frequency oscillations, wherein the supplementary component is determined depending on a simplified model of a synchronous machine.
US11898535B2
A wind turbine blade measurement system for optically determining a torsion of a wind turbine blade is disclosed. The wind turbine blade measurement system comprises: a wind turbine blade, which is configured to be mounted to a hub of a wind turbine, a first camera, and an auxiliary camera. The first camera is mounted in a fixed position on a support structure on an exterior surface of the root section of the wind turbine blade and arranged so as to measure along the spanwise direction of the wind turbine blade. The auxiliary camera is arranged at a position outside of the wind turbine blade, the auxiliary camera being arranged so as to being able to carry out measurements of a plurality of sets of markers arranged on the surface of the wind turbine blade and an orientation of at least one of the support structure and the first camera.
US11898508B2
Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting a flow rate of EGR gas. Therefore, an internal combustion engine control device 20 includes moisture amount calculation units 301 and 302, a dew condensation calculation unit 303, and an EGR correction unit 304. The moisture amount calculation unit 301 calculates a total moisture amount contained in the mixed gas. The dew condensation calculation unit 303 calculates a dew condensation generation amount WQcon in an intercooler based on the total moisture amount. The EGR correction unit 304 corrects a flow rate of the EGR gas based on the dew condensation generation amount WQcon.
US11898506B1
An internal combustion engine system is described herein. The internal combustion engine system uses one or more fuels that may be hydrophilic. The system uses a water measuring sensor to determine the concentration of water in the hydrophilic fuel. To meet power demands, the system uses the measured water concentration to modify data stored in a fuel map. The fuel map provides a controller the pump speeds and mixing ratio of the fuels for a given power level. The system receives that data and modifies it based on the measured concentration of water.
US11898500B2
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for controlling an aircraft engine inlet comprises determining a required engine RPM for an engine in-flight restart based upon current aircraft parameters, detecting a command to initiate the engine in-flight restart, and managing a position of an engine inlet barrier to control a volume of air entering an engine intake, wherein the ram air causes an engine turbine to achieve the required engine RPM. The required engine RPM may be an N1 gas generator RPM. The engine inlet barrier may be a hinged door positioned within the engine inlet or a series of inlet variable guide vanes that are configured to rotate between a closed position and an opened position. The position of the engine inlet barrier may be controlled by a flight control computer or an engine control computer.
US11898497B2
A coated component for a gas turbine engine is provided. The coated component includes a substrate having a surface and a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating includes one or more linear slots and one or more non-linear slots. The one or more non-linear slots intersect the one or more linear slots. The plurality of linear slots and the plurality of non-linear slots form segments of ceramic coating material.
US11898493B2
A system includes an air manifold, a fuel manifold, and a plurality of fuel injectors. At least one of the fuel injectors includes a heat exchanger portion for supplying compressed, cooled air form the heat exchanger portion to the air manifold. An air valve is operatively connected to an outlet of the air manifold for controlling release of air from the air manifold. A controller is operatively connected to the air valve, wherein the controller includes machine readable instructions configured to control the air valve to regulate flow of air through the air valve based on fuel temperatures in the fuel channel. The machine readable instructions can be configured to cause the controller to flow air through the air valve in a heat exchange mode if a fuel temperature in the fuel injectors is below a predetermined fuel temperature.
US11898488B2
A piston includes a swirl pocket that extends radially from the radially outer lip portion to a lower axial extremity spaced away from the radially outer lip portion a first axial distance. A convex arcuate surface extends downwardly and inwardly from the radially outer lip portion, a concave arcuate surface extends to the lower axial extremity from the convex arcuate surface, and a conical portion extends upwardly and inwardly from the concave arcuate surface to an apex that is spaced a second axial distance from the radially outer lip portion that is less than the first axial distance.
US11898476B2
A method for predicting soot build-up in an engine system when operating according to an intended drive cycle. The engine system includes an internal combustion engine and an exhaust gas aftertreatment system provided with a particulate filter. The method includes providing data representing engine operational conditions for the internal combustion engine during the intended drive cycle, wherein the data comprises values for at least engine speed and engine torque distributed over a time period representing the intended drive cycle; determining a working temperature for the exhaust gas aftertreatment system during the intended drive cycle based on the data representing the engine operational conditions; providing a reference relation between working temperature of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system and a corresponding estimated magnitude of a build-up of soot in the exhaust gas aftertreatment system; and predicting soot build-up in the engine system when operating according to the intended drive cycle by comparing the determined working temperature for the exhaust gas aftertreatment system with the reference relation.
US11898471B2
A valve timing adjustment device includes a vane rotor and a hydraulic oil control valve. The vane rotor is fixed to an end portion of one of a drive shaft and a driven shaft and defines a through hole. The hydraulic oil control valve includes a sleeve and a spool. The sleeve includes a body portion in the through hole and a fixing portion fixed into a shaft fixing hole defined in the one. At least a portion of the through hole is sealed by the body portion. A difference between a radial dimension of the shaft fixing hole and a radial dimension of the fixing portion is greater than a total of a predetermined coaxiality between the through hole and the shaft fixing portion and a predetermined coaxiality between the body portion and the fixing portion.
US11898464B2
In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure an airfoil is provided. The airfoil defines a spanwise direction, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil includes: a body defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body formed of a composite material; and a spar enclosed in the body of the airfoil extending along the spanwise direction, the spar comprising a plurality of spar segments arranged in an overlapping configuration along the spanwise direction.
US11898455B2
A gas turbine engine of an aircraft includes an engine control configured to monitor and control operation of the gas turbine engine in real-time and a communication adapter that includes a housing and a plurality of antennas in the housing. The communication adapter is configured to establish communication with the engine control and wireless communication with an offboard system external to the aircraft through at least one of the antennas of the communication adapter. The housing includes a metal chassis with a non-conductive substrate between the metal chassis and the antennas. The antennas are partitioned into two or more portions. A communication interface of the communication adapter is configured to establish wireless communication through the antennas using two or more different wireless communication protocols.
US11898451B2
A compact axial turbine configured to operate with high density working fluid is described. The turbine comprises an axial majority cantilevered turbomachinery shaft. Rotor assemblies and nozzle spacers communicate torque through turbine shaft splines, allowing them to be slid off the shaft for quick replacement in the field. The compact axial turbine houses turbomachinery within a separable inner casing encircled by a cartridge sleeve, thereby forming a cartridge which can itself be removed as a single component.
US11898449B2
A turbine control system is provided for decreasing the response time between readings of the speed of the turbine and changing a valve position in response thereto. The speed control system includes a speed probe that detects the speed of the turbine and a turbine valve that controls the flow of fluid or gas from or to the turbine. A controller receives a speed signal from the speed probe and sends valve position commands to the turbine valve. The controller also sends support functions to the turbine valve. The controller sends the valve position commands at a faster rate than the support functions.
US11898433B2
System and method for guiding a drill using a subsurface model generated by successive full waveform inversions (FWI) on surface data and seismic-while-drilling (SWD) data. A server receives surface data from at least one surface sensor that records elastic energy radiated from surface seismic source and SWD data from at least one surface or at least one subsurface crosswell sensor (i.e., deployed in a nearby well). The server also receives top-drive measurements. A drillbit source signature estimation is performed, on the SWD data, by the server by blind deconvolution or by using drill string modeling and top-drive measurements. The server then performs FWI on the surface data by using the background subsurface velocity obtained by kinematic analysis of surface seismic data, to obtain an updated approximation of the subsurface velocity. The new approximation along with the drillbit source signature is then used when performing FWI on the SWD data.
US11898428B2
A signal generator, system, and method for electromagnetically heating of a hydrocarbon formation. The method involves determining a desired output signal having a desired power spectral density; generating a plurality of source signals, based on the desired output signal; modulating the plurality of source signals, based on the desired output signal, to provide a plurality of modulated signals capable of providing the desired power spectral density; combining one or more of the plurality of modulated signals into a combined signal; transforming the combined signal to have the desired power spectral density, thereby providing at least one output signal; and applying the at least one output signal to a load having a frequency-dependent impedance to produce at least one standing electromagnetic wave along a length of the load. The at least one standing electromagnetic wave includes at least a partial standing electromagnetic wave.
US11898427B2
An apparatus for obtaining fluids via a well includes an outer tubing disposed in the well and set at a shallow reservoir comprising a first fluid, and an inner tubing disposed concentrically within the outer tubing and set at a deeper reservoir further downhole than the shallow reservoir. The deeper reservoir has a second fluid, where a first packer is disposed between the outer tubing and an external tubing and disposed above the shallow reservoir, and a second packer is disposed between the outer tubing and the inner tubing and disposed above the deeper reservoir. The second packer blocks an annulus through which the first fluid is extracted via the outer tubing. The first fluid is obtained from the shallow reservoir and the second fluid is obtained from the deeper reservoir by drilling via the well.
US11898420B2
Systems and methods for drilling a wellbore include delivering electrical energy to a downhole end of the wellbore. A tapered drill string, with larger drill pipes connected in an up-hole portion with a turbine and an electrical generator and a smaller drill pipes coupled in downhole portion may be used to deliver the electrical power. A turbine and generator may be sufficiently sized to harvest the necessary hydraulic energy and safely operated in a subterranean environment. An electrode carried by the downhole portion of the drill string is electrically coupled to the generator through the downhole portion of the drill string.
US11898417B2
A drilling speed-enhancing device has an outer cylinder a rotary main shaft arranged in an inner chamber of the outer cylinder and configured to rotate around its own axis; an output main shaft arranged below the rotary main shaft and configured to be driven by the rotary main shaft to rotate around its own axis, a lower end of the output main shaft extending out of the inner chamber of the outer cylinder for connecting with a drilling bit of a dual-drive drilling tool; and a percussion generator arranged between the output main shaft and the outer cylinder. The percussion generator can drive the outer cylinder and the rotary main shaft to move upward relative to the output main shaft, so that under action of WOB, the rotary main shaft and the outer cylinder move downward to generate impact on the output main shaft.
US11898406B2
An apparatus for changing a drilling tool for a drilling rig is described, where the drilling rig comprises a drill tower supporting a drill pipe. The apparatus for changing a drilling tool has a drilling tool changer assembly moveable between a storage position and an exchange position, and the drilling tool changer assembly supports a rotatable carousel assembly. The rotatable carousel assembly is capable of being removed from the drilling tool changer assembly and capable of replacement on the drilling tool changer in the same angular position with respect to the drill pipe as when removed. The rotatable carousel assembly has a plurality of bit adaptors for holding drilling tools and is selectively rotatable to bring a selected drilling tool into coaxial alignment with the drill pipe when the drilling tool changer assembly supporting the rotatable carousel assembly is moved into the exchange position.
US11898405B2
A horizontal directional drilling system. The system has a pilot drill and an exit side drill, with a drill string extending between them. A backreamer is positioned between the drills to enlarge a borehole. The pilot drill pulls and rotates the backreamer. The exit side drill adds segments to the product pipe and pushes the product pipe into the enlarged borehole. The exit side drill is equipped with a rotational disconnect. The disconnect is engaged to allow torque transfer between a motor and a spindle when adding segments to the product pipe. The disconnect is disengaged to prevent torque transfer between the motor and the spindle when pushing the product pipe into the enlarged borehole.
US11898399B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed towards a composite stiffener that is incorporated into panelized products to create stronger bonding, greater adhesion between laminated layers and less warping sandwich panels. In addition, the resulting products incorporating composite stiffeners can be lightweight, yet stronger than other lightweight panels.
US11898398B2
A flat-type ventilation door-window structure includes a frame (1), a first movable sash (2) and a second movable sash (3). The first movable sash (2) and/or the second movable sash (3) can slide up and down in an opening (11) of the frame (1). A first guide device (300) and a second guide device (400) being respectively provided between the first movable sash (2) or the second movable sash (3) and the frame (1). The first guide device (300) and the second guide device (400) can guide the first movable sash (2) or the second movable sash (3) to change the sliding path. The flat-type ventilation door-window structure can block outdoor sound, rain and air, and improve sound insulation, water tightness and air tightness.
US11898392B2
A hinge closure (1) including a first hinge element (2) for arrangement on a door (4) and a second hinge element (3) for arrangement on a door frame, wherein the first hinge element (2) and the second hinge element (3) interlock via a locking device (7) an actuating device (6) actuates the locking device (7), and an emergency unlocking device (8) unlocks the two hinge elements (2, 3). In another embodiment, a door (4) includes such a hinge closure (1).
US11898391B2
The invention relates to a hinge for releasably connecting a door to a frame, including: a frame part for fastening to the frame, a door part for fastening to the door, a hinge pin having a pin axis and a locking element. The frame part and the door part are movable relative to one another along the pin axis between a pivoted position and an installed position; in the pivoted position the frame part and the door part are connected to one another in such a way that the frame part and the door part are pivotable relative to one another about the pin axis between an open position and a closed position. The locking element is adjustable between a locking position and a release position, and the movement of the frame part and of the door part relative to one another along the pin axis from the pivoted position into the installed position is positively inhibited by the locking element the locking position and is freed by the locking element in the release position, the locking element being retained on the frame part or on the door part so as to be adjustable between the locking position and the release position.
US11898387B2
A hinged system includes a preassembled hinge module for pivotally coupling a first component to a second component. The preassembled hinge module includes a shaft, a torque element frictionally engaging the shaft, and a housing. The housing includes a cover, a side wall, and a rear wall that define an interior space enclosed within the housing. The interior space receives the torque element inside the housing. The cover defines a first aperture, and the rear wall defines a second aperture, the first aperture and the second aperture aligned with a pivot axis of the shaft. The shaft extends through at least the first aperture, the interior space, and the second aperture. The shaft is separate from, and configured to be mounted to, the first component. The housing is separate from, and configured to be mounted to, the second component.
US11898385B2
A hold open rod includes an inner member; an outer member configured to have the inner member slide in and out of the outer member; and a noncircular dampening member arranged on the inner member. The noncircular dampening member being configured to dampen movement of at least one of the following: the inner member and the outer member.
US11898384B2
An opening control of a motor vehicle opening has a housing, a handle rotatably housed completely or partially in the housing, in an ejected position the handle extends at least partially from the housing, the handle actuating a door lock, a lock cylinder adjacent to the door handle, and a flap articulated to the housing and to cover the lock cylinder while being flush with the handle, and, when the flap is actuated by hand, exposes the lock cylinder; the flap articulated about an axis of rotation extending with respect to the lateral edge of the handle to a distance greater than or equal to 10 mm and the lateral edge of the handle includes a gripping device, capable of receiving a member inserted between the open flap and the lateral edge of the handle enabling the manual actuation of the handle from the flush position to the ejected position.
US11898379B2
A first portion of a security device, the first portion configured to have a separate state with respect to a second portion and a combined state with respect to the second portion, such that when in the combined state, the first portion is mated, interlocked, and/or locked with the second portion to collectively form the security device.
US11898378B2
The disclosure relates to handle mechanism and casing assembly. The handle mechanism is adapted to be installed on a slidable plate body. The handle mechanism includes handle component, latch component, and releasing component. The handle component has engaged position. The handle component includes first hook portion and first pushing portion. The first hook portion has first contact surface. The latch component is slidably disposed and has second hook portion and first contact portion. The second hook portion has second contact surface configured to contact the first contact surface. The releasing component is pivotably disposed and has pressed portion and second pushing portion. When the handle component is pivoted from the engaged position, the first pushing portion pushes the pressed portion so as to force the second pushing portion to push the first contact portion so that the second contact surface is forced to leave the first contact surface.
US11898377B2
A gang lock for an article of furniture capable of simultaneously locking and unlocking a plurality of drawers and doors. The gang lock has a single locking mechanism operable to move a drawer lock bar to lock/unlock one or more drawers and a door lock bar to lock/unlock one or more doors. The lock mechanism is coupled to the drawer lock bar so that operation of the lock mechanism causes movement of the drawer lock bar. The drawer lock bar and the door lock bar are coupled together by a linkage so that movement of the drawer lock bar causes movement of the door lock bar. The drawer lock bar may be oriented vertically and the door lock bar may be oriented horizontally. The linkage may include a cam and cam follower to translate vertical movement of the drawer lock bar into horizontal movement of the door lock bar.
US11898374B2
An exemplary electric strike includes a housing and a keeper pivotally mounted in the housing. The strike also includes a plunger having an extended position and a retracted position, a cage including an aperture, and a locking element movably seated in the aperture. The locking element is engaged with the plunger, and the plunger is structured to urge the locking element radially outward as the plunger moves from an extended position toward a retracted position. The strike also includes a sleeve, a transmission engaged with the sleeve, and a motor drivingly coupled to the transmission. The sleeve is structured to selectively prevent radially outward movement of the locking element and retraction of the plunger. The strike also includes at least one of a lost motion connection and an anti-tamper mechanism.
US11898368B2
A modular housing structure for housing a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) includes a plurality of housing segments and a plurality of landing pads. The plurality of housing segments are shaped to mechanically join together to define an interior of the modular housing structure. The individual housing segments have a common structural shape that repeats when assembled to form the modular housing structure. The plurality of landing pads are positioned within the individual housing segments, each of the landing pads sized to physically support and charge a corresponding one of the UAVs.
US11898363B2
Disclosed is a telescopic utility pole where the individual segments are threaded on the outer and inner surfaces, the adjacent segments are threadedly engaged and extension/retraction of the pole segments is performed by twisting along threaded path. The advantage of using the threaded telescopic utility pole is that it can be deployed and erected quickly as compared to traditional utility poles.
US11898359B2
A binding machine includes: a wire feeder; a binding part configured to twist the wire wound around the object to be bound; a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed by the wire feeder; and an draw-in guide configured to guide the wire curled by the curl guide to the binding part, in which the draw-in guide includes a guiding facilitation part that comes into contact with the wire from a radially outer side of a loop that is formed by the wire curled by the curl guide, and applies, to the wire, a force that changes a feeding path of the wire, and a guiding concave portion, provided on a downstream side of the guiding facilitation part in a feeding direction of the wire, into which the wire, expanding toward the radially outer side of the loop, enters.
US11898355B2
A venting device of a structure is provided that includes first and second panel sections. The first panel section includes a top panel portion and a base panel portion located opposite the top panel portion. The second panel section includes a top panel portion and a base panel portion located opposite the top panel portion. A bottom surface of the base panel portion of the first panel section faces a top surface of the top panel portion of the second panel section. A polyurethane reactive (PUR) adhesive is located between the bottom surface of the base panel portion of the first panel section and the top surface of the top panel portion of the second panel section which holds the bottom surface of the base panel portion of the first panel section and the top surface of the top panel portion of the second panel section together.
US11898350B2
A ceiling panel having a connection portion at one of end portions on both sides in a first direction of a panel body in a shape of a rectangular flat plate, the connection portion connecting with a connected portion of an adjacent ceiling panel. The connection portion is fixed to the end portion by a fastener, the fastener being fastened to an insertion part inserted into a layer of the panel body from a cut portion opening on a back face of the end portion so as to penetrate a securing part provided along the back face of the end portion.
US11898333B2
A high performance ADSorption Heat eXchanger ADS-HX includes a hygroscopic composite biopolymer, a heat exchange medium in contact with the hygroscopic composite biopolymer and a hollow conduit in contact with the heat exchange medium, into which hollow conduit either a cooling fluid or a heating fluid are alternately made to pass, so that the adsorption heat exchanger can be operated under high ambient temperatures and low relative humidity conditions, which are typical of arid climates. A process is provided for producing the aforesaid high performance ADSorption Heat eXchanger ADS-HX. A preferred and advantageous application of the aforesaid high performance ADSorption Heat eXchanger ADS-HX is in combination with the atmospheric water harvesting device described in the international application published at no. WO 2019/082000 A1 of the same Applicant.
US11898332B1
A controller may monitor a plurality of operations performed using one or more implements of the work machine. The controller may determine that the work machine is performing a particular operation based on monitoring the plurality of operations. The controller may obtain, based on information regarding the particular operation, camera view information, from a data structure, indicating that the particular operation is associated with a particular camera of a plurality of cameras of the work machine. Each camera, of the plurality of cameras, may capture a respective view of a plurality of views of the work machine. The controller may determine, based on the camera view information, that a bandwidth associated with a video stream, of a particular view of the work machine captured by the particular camera, is to be increased. The controller may increase the bandwidth associated with the video stream provided by the particular camera based on determining that the bandwidth is to be increased.
US11898331B2
A machine may receive, from one or more sensors, first data indicating a first position of a work implement within an environment and second data indicating a second position of the work implement within the environment. Based on the first position and the second position, the machine may define a working area of the work implement. The machine may receive, from one or more cameras, image data depicting at least a portion of the environment and at least a portion an object disposed within a field of view of the one or more cameras. The machine may determine, based on the image data, that the object is located outside of the working area. Based on determining that the object is located outside of the working area, the machine may refrain from causing output of an alert indicating the presence of the object outside the working area.
US11898329B2
Disclosed embodiments of power machines, implements and hydraulic systems utilize a hydraulic flow control circuit and method to implement multiple modes of operation while optimizing hydraulic fluid flow to either or both of primary and secondary function actuators. In a first mode the hydraulic flow control circuit is configured to receive pressurized hydraulic fluid flow from a first conduit and to provide the pressurized hydraulic fluid to the primary and secondary function actuators. In the first mode, the circuit is configured to direct return flow from the primary and secondary function actuators through the second conduit for return to the power machine. In a second mode, the circuit receives flow from the second conduit, provides the flow only to the secondary function actuator, and directs the return flow to the power machine through the first conduit.
US11898320B2
A grading machine includes a machine body, a grading blade supported by a circle, a drawbar connecting the grading blade and the circle to the machine body, and a circle drive system. The circle drive system includes a circle drive motor with a motor shaft, a gear box, a gear coupling, and a braking mechanism. The gear box is configured to engage with and rotate the circle relative to the drawbar around a circle axis. The braking mechanism is positioned between the circle drive motor and the gear coupling and is configured to selectively engage the motor shaft.
US11898318B1
A support device for a premanufactured structure can include a support platform; a connector coupled to the support platform with a device fastener, the device fastener configured to adjust, upon tightening, a connector offset distance defined between the connector and the support platform; and a plurality of struts coupled to the connector and configured to be coupled to the premanufactured structure, each of the plurality of struts coupled to the connector and configured to transfer a portion of the weight of the premanufactured structure to the support platform via the connector.
US11898309B2
Embodiments herein relate to a system (200; 300; 400; 500) for obtaining methanol from foul condensate (101) of a pulping process. The system (200; 300; 400; 500) comprises a primary stripper (102) arranged to strip the foul condensate (101) from pollutants, whereby a first methanol-containing condensate is obtained from the polluted stripper off gases (SOGs). The system (200; 300; 400; 500) also comprises a first acidification unit (202) arranged to acidify the first methanol-containing condensate. Further, the system (200; 300; 400; 500) comprises a secondary stripper (204) arranged to strip the acidified first methanol-containing condensate from pollutants to obtain a second methanol-containing condensate, and a distillation column (107) arranged to distil the second methanol-containing condensate from the secondary stripper (204) so as to obtain methanol. Embodiments herein also relate to a method performed in a system (200; 300; 400; 500) for obtaining methanol from foul condensate (101) of a pulping process.
US11898308B2
This specification describes a system and process for treating waste, for example municipal solid waste (MSW) or post-recycling municipal solid waste. The system includes a press and a pulper. The press is adapted to provide a wet fraction of the waste suitable for anaerobic digestion and rejects. The pulper is adapted to receive the rejects and produce pulp. The pulper may be, for example, a drum pulper. In the process, waste is separated into a press into an organic fraction and rejects. The organic fraction is treated by way of anaerobic digestion. The rejects are separated, optionally in a drum pulper, to produce a fraction containing pulp. The pulp can be re-used to make paper or other products. In some case, 70% or more or 80% or more of MSW can be diverted from landfill.
US11898303B2
The present invention relates to a surface-modified aramid fiber and a method for preparing the same. The method includes the following steps: modifying an aramid fiber having amino groups and carboxyl groups on the surface with siloxane γ-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane to obtain a silicon methoxylated aramid fiber; reacting same with a cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride to obtain a surface-modified aramid fiber. The cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride has high ultraviolet absorption, and has extremely low catalytic activity, avoiding the damage to a fiber structure by photocatalysis during radiation, being an effective, safe and highly-efficient ultraviolet absorber. The surface-modified aramid fiber provided in the present invention has an ultraviolet-resistant function, high surface activity, good thermal performance, and better mechanical performance, providing excellent overall performance, and having higher utilization value. The method is simple and controllable, being suitable for large scale production.
US11898300B2
A laundry processing apparatus include a washing unit provided in an installation space of a cabinet, which corresponds to an upper portion of a heat exchanger and has the installation space therein, to spray washing water to a front surface of an evaporator. The washing unit has a nozzle part provided at the upper portion of the heat exchanger in an inclined direction to guide the washing water toward the heat exchanger and a front guide part provided at an opposite side of the nozzle part while being space apart therefrom, with the front surface of the evaporator that is the heat exchanger interposed between the front guide part, guiding the washing water discharged from the nozzle part toward the front surface of the evaporator.
US11898298B2
A washing machine includes a housing; a drum disposed inside the housing and including a rotation shaft that extends in a vertical direction; and a filter unit disposed at an inner wall of the drum, configured to filter washing water flowing in a circumferential direction of the drum and to discharge the washing water in a radial direction inside of the drum. Accordingly, when a water current is formed inside the drum in the circumferential direction of the drum, the filter unit is disposed inside the drum so that foreign substances in the washing water rotated in the circumferential direction of the drum can be easily filtered.
US11898287B2
A tenter-clip carriage for a stretching system comprises a longitudinal direction (LR) and a transverse direction and a clip body having a clamping device. The tenter-clip carriage comprises fastening portions in order to fasten the tenter-clip carriage to a partial chain portion of a conveyor chain arrangement of the stretching system. The tenter-clip carriage comprises at least one stabilising roller or at least one stabilising sliding element. The at least one stabilising roller or the at least one stabilising sliding element is, by means of a guide device: a) held directly on the tenter-clip carriage; or b) held indirectly on the tenter-clip carriage via a pin that connects two chain segments of the partial chain portion of the conveyor chain arrangement to one another and, specifically, unaffected by the feed and drive forces acting on the tenter-clip carriage or the partial chain portion to move the tenter-clip carriage and/or the partial chain portion. The at least one stabilising roller or the at least one stabilising sliding element can be adjusted perpendicularly or transversely to the longitudinal direction by a force accumulator or spring-force accumulator.
US11898284B2
A drying method and to a drying device (2) for a moist material web (4) which is composed of a textile fibrous material and which has for example been compacted using liquid jets (45). The drying device (2) includes a drying chamber (22) with an aeration (ventilating) device (29) and an inlet (18), an outlet (19) and a fluid-permeable conveying device (23) for the running material web (4). The material web (4) is transported within the drying chamber (22) by the conveying device (23) and is dried using a heated gas, in particular air. The drying device (2) additionally has a suction device (5) which locally suctions and discharges liquid, in particular water, which is contained in the material web (4) by a suction flow (6) at one or more suction locations (53) at the material web (4).
US11898283B2
A spunbond nonwoven laminate has a plurality of stacked spunbond nonwoven layers, namely at least two and at most four spunbond nonwoven layers that have crimped continuous filaments or consist of crimped continuous filaments. The degree of crimping of the filaments is different in each of these spunbond nonwoven layers, and each of the crimped filaments of the spunbond nonwoven layers has a crimp with at least two, preferably at least three, and more preferably with at least four loops per centimeter of length. The crimped filaments of the spunbond nonwoven layers are multicomponent filaments, particularly bicomponent filaments, with a first plastic component and a second plastic component present in the respective filament in a proportion of at least 10 wt %.
US11898281B2
A knitting machine for clothing has a needle module with a plurality of needle units. Each of the needle units has a needle hook and a plurality of protrusions. The machine also has a first actuation module with a carriage that has a track to connect to one of the protrusions. The carriage can move left and right, and this movement moves the needle units in a longitudinal direction. The machine also has a second actuation module with a connector that has a screw thread to mesh with another one of the protrusions. The connector can move up and down, and this movement moves the needle units.
US11898280B2
A clothing-manufacturing knitting machine, and the clothing-manufacturing knitting machine that includes a needle unit including a needle hook formed in an end portion and a protrusion formed in a middle region, a connector including a screw thread formed to mesh with the protrusion of the needle unit, and an actuator configured to actuate the connector to rotate. The needle unit meshing with the screw thread is moved forward or backward as the connector is rotated by the actuator. Accordingly, there is provided a clothing-manufacturing knitting machine with a new actuating system.
US11898274B2
A hydrogel-forming multicomponent fiber includes: at least one first fiber component; and at least one second fiber component. The first and the second fiber components are selected independently of one another from a group consisting of polysaccharides and/or polysaccharide derivatives. The first fiber component is produced from a polysaccharide and/or a polysaccharide derivative having a water solubility of more than 50% by weight. The multicomponent fiber has a water solubility of less than 15% by weight.
US11898267B2
Crystalline NH4Be2BO3F2 or Be2BO3F (abbreviated as BBF) has nonlinear optical effect, is not deliquescent in the air, is chemically stable. They can be used in a variety of nonlinear optical fields and will pioneer the nonlinear optical applications in the deep UV band.
US11898265B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a carbon material, comprising applying a voltage to an electrically conductive medium to form an electrically conductive path in an oxygen-free environment containing a carbon source and a catalyst to obtain the carbon material, wherein the electrically conductive medium includes a solid substrate or a liquid-phase electrically conductive system; under the condition that the electrically conductive medium is the liquid-phase electrically conductive system, the carbon material is obtained in the liquid-phase electrically conductive system; and under the condition that the electrically conductive medium is the solid substrate, the carbon material is obtained on a surface of the solid substrate.
US11898261B2
To form graphene to a practically even thickness on an object having an uneven surface or a complex surface, in particular, an object having a surface with a three-dimensional structure due to complex unevenness, or an object having a curved surface. The object and an electrode are immersed in a graphene oxide solution, and voltage is applied between the object and the electrode. At this time, the object serves as an anode. Graphene oxide is attracted to the anode because of being negatively charged, and deposited on the surface of the object to have a practically even thickness. A portion where graphene oxide is deposited is unlikely coated with another graphene oxide. Thus, deposited graphene oxide is reduced to graphene, whereby graphene can be formed to have a practically even thickness on an object having surface with complex unevenness.
US11898259B2
The present invention is related to the electrochemical conversion of CO2 and provides the use of Gas Diffusion Electrode with an aprotic solvent in such conversion of CO2 as well as an electrochemical cell for use in such conversion. The application and electrochemical cell as herein provided are particularly useful in the conversion of CO2 into oxalate/oxalic acid.
US11898255B2
The method of producing hydrogen peroxide using nanostructured bismuth oxide is an electrochemical process for producing hydrogen peroxide using a cathode formed as oxygen-deficient nanostructured bismuth oxide deposited as a film on the surface of a conducting substrate. An anode and the cathode are immersed in an alkaline solution saturated with oxygen in an electrolytic cell. An electrical potential is established across the cathode and the anode to initiate electrochemical reduction of the oxygen in the alkaline solution to produce hydrogen peroxide by oxygen reduction reaction.
