US11937850B2
A bone anchoring device includes a receiving part having a central axis, two legs defining a recess for receiving a rod, and a head receiving portion that is at least partially expandable and having an opening for inserting and pivotably holding a head of a bone anchoring element therein, and a locking ring mountable around the head receiving portion in an axial direction while a rotational orientation of the locking ring relative to the receiving part remains constant. When the locking ring is around the head receiving portion, the locking ring is rotatable around the central axis from a first rotational orientation to a second rotational orientation where a compressive force exerted by the locking ring on the head receiving portion is greater than at the first rotational orientation.
US11937845B2
The invention provides a tissue cutting device comprising a handle, a first blade, and a second blade. The second blade is coupled to the handle. The second blade is rotatable relative to the first blade such that the second blade is configured to rotate between a first position and a second position. The second blade is in a same plane as the first blade when the second blade is in the first position. The second blade is rotated into a different plane from the first blade when the second blade is rotated from the first position toward the second position.
US11937842B2
A tissue removal device, and methods of using the same, are described. An exemplary detachable, handheld tissue removal device comprises a hand piece and a blade assembly removably attachable to the hand piece. The blade assembly includes a rotatable resection member driven to rotate and surgically remove tissue from a target tissue site, and a coupling assembly including a locking member to detachably couple the blade assembly to the hand piece and operatively enable or disable the rotation of the blade assembly relative to the hand piece. The rotation of the blade assembly causes a change in rotating angle of the blade assembly. The coupling assembly can secure the rotating angle of the blade assembly during the tissue resection procedure.
US11937841B2
A medical device may comprise an instrument comprising a shaft and a working end comprising a jaw mechanism, and a translating mechanism moveable in a first direction and a second direction relative to the jaw mechanism, the first and second directions opposite to one another. The medical device may further comprise a controller configured to in response to a first input, control movement of the translating mechanism from a proximal position to an intermediate position relative to the jaw mechanism, in response to a second input, control movement of the translating mechanism from the intermediate position to a distal position relative to the jaw mechanism, control movement of the translating mechanism from the distal position back to the proximal position, and monitor a position of the translating mechanism to determine whether the translating mechanism has moved from the distal position back to the proximal position after a predetermined time period.
US11937838B2
A device and method for intravascular treatment of an embolism, and particularly a pulmonary embolism, is disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward a clot treatment device that includes a support member having a plurality of first clot engagement members and second clot engagement members positioned about the circumference of a distal portion of the support member. In an undeployed state, individual first clot engagement members can be linear and have a first length, and individual second clot engagement members can be linear and have a second length that is less than the first length. The clot engagement members can be configured to penetrate clot material along an arcuate path and hold clot material to the clot treatment device.
US11937834B2
Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient. A device in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a plurality of interconnected struts forming a unitary structure having a proximal portion and a distal portion. The struts can form a plurality of first cells in the proximal portion and a plurality of second cells, smaller than the first cells, in the distal portion. The device can be pulled against clot material within a blood vessel to engage, disrupt, and/or capture the clot material.
US11937833B2
A targeting guide is disclosed includes a handle extending substantially along a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal handle defines one or more burr holes extending from a first side of the handle to a second side of the handle. A head is coupled to a distal end of the longitudinal handle. The head defines a plurality of guide holes sized and configured to receive a k-wire therethrough.
US11937828B2
A clip device includes a tube and a clip having a first arm portion and a second arm portion, and an engagement mechanism including a stepped connector and a hooking structure, and configured to connect to the clip. The stepped connector includes an engaging region connecting two side regions, a width of the engaging region of the stepped connector is smaller than a width of a first of the two side regions of the stepped connector. The hooking structure includes two lateral surfaces connected by a hook surface, and a surface of the engaging region of the stepped connector engages with the hook surface of the hooking structure and each of the two side regions of the stepped connector are adjacent to respective one of the two lateral surfaces of the hooking structure.
US11937821B1
A power controller device and system allows verification, monitoring, and control of an arteriovenous (AV) fistula creation catheter which comprises a main housing having a power supply, an embedded electronic controller and a user interface display, and which is configured to allow connection to an intravascular catheter. When activated, the device verifies that a valid catheter is connected, downloads stored manufacturing calibration data from the catheter, and provides a user interface to allow initiation of AV fistula creation. Once creation of the AV fistula is initiated, the device provides closed loop control of the catheter heating element and provides a means of monitoring the catheter temperature and tip position to a prescribed parameter to automate the arteriovenous fistula creation procedure.
US11937820B2
Jaws of a surgical clip applier with housings formed thereon and methods for manufacturing and use during a procedure to apply surgical clips to a vessel, duct, shunt, etc. are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a surgical clip applier is provided having jaws on a distal end thereof with a rigid internal frame and an outer housing formed around the internal frame. The jaws of the surgical clip applier can include a variety of features to facilitate placement of surgical clips, including features to align a clip with the jaws and to prevent clip fallout during formation.
US11937819B2
A staple instrument is provided. The staple instrument includes a staple holder, a rotational drive shaft, and a linkage operatively coupled to the staple holder. The linkage is configured to expand the staple holder via an expansion motion imparted thereon. A converter coupling intermediate the rotational drive shaft and the linkage converts rotational motion of the rotational drive shaft into expansion of the staple holder. The staple instrument also includes a housing that supports the linkage, converter coupling, and rotational drive shaft. The rotational drive shaft has a stop surface that engages a corresponding surface formed in the housing to inhibit proximal translation of the rotational drive shaft relative to the housing.
US11937809B2
Implantable materials for use with end effectors like surgical stapling devices, and methods for using the same, are generally provided. In some embodiments, adjunct materials for use with surgical staplers are provided. For example, a kit for stapling tissue is provided that can include a surgical stapler having an end effector. The end effector can have first and second jaws. The kit can include an adjunct material having hydrophobic surface regions and hydrophilic surface regions and the adjunct material can be configured to mate to at least one of the jaws of the end effector. Other implants, devices, and methods for surgical stapling are also provided.
US11937796B2
A tissue-spreader assembly is configured to be selectively inserted into a patient having a first biological tissue and a second biological tissue, and to be maneuvered proximate to the second biological tissue. The tissue-spreader assembly is also configured to selectively engage, at least in part, an area of the second biological tissue without engaging the first biological tissue. The tissue-spreader assembly is also configured to selectively spread, at least in part, the area of the second biological tissue, and maintain the area of the second biological tissue in a spread-apart condition after the tissue-spreader assembly, in use, selectively engages, at least in part, the area of the second biological tissue.
US11937792B2
An excisional device for either handheld or stereotactic table use may comprise an outer sheath that may comprise a distal trough shape configured to penetrate and/or cut tissue independently or in concert with work element(s). The articulable work element(s) may comprise articulable beak(s) and may be configured to translate and/or rotate at a first rate and to cut tissue in a direction implied by placement of the trough shaped outer sheath. A first helical element or equivalent assembly may be configured to transport tissue cut by the work element(s) and/or trough, may be co-axially disposed relative to the work element(s) and may be operative to rotate at a second rotation rate that is different than the first rate. A proximal sheath may be co-axially disposed relative to the work element(s) and the first helical element, and may be configured to rotate and actuate the work element(s).
US11937790B2
A vaginal speculum may include a vaginal assembly with at least two longitudinal separating elements connected at a distal end for insertion into the vagina of a subject. The vaginal speculum is configured for holding the vaginal walls of the subject apart, thereby permitting examination and/or suturing of at least the posterior part of the vaginal tissue. A set of vaginal specula may be provided in predefined sizes such that the specula suitably fit a range of anatomies. A method is described for providing an unobstructed view of at least the posterior part of the vaginal wall during suturing of a subject after the subject has given birth.
US11937789B2
A device includes a balloon configured for inflation with a light-diffusing fluid and configured, upon inflation, to expand a body lumen within which it is positioned and a flexible light-emitting device attached to the balloon having a light-emitting side facing radially inward toward the fluid so that, during a medical procedure, light emitted from the light-emitting side is diffused by the fluid and illuminates a treatment area within the body lumen proximal to the balloon.
US11937780B2
A tool, consisting of an enclosure and a rotatable knob retained by, and protruding from, the enclosure. The tool has a tube having a proximal end that is retained by the enclosure, and the tube has an axis of symmetry. A Geneva drive is retained within the enclosure, the Geneva drive consisting of a drive wheel fixedly attached to the rotatable knob and a driven wheel fixedly attached to the proximal end of the tube, so that an axis of rotation of the driven wheel coincides with the axis of symmetry of the tube. Thus, a continuous rotation of the rotatable knob causes the tube to rotate about the axis of symmetry in discrete angular steps.
US11937775B2
An optical system for an endoscope, the optical system including: a distal optical assembly; a proximal optical assembly; and at least one elongated bar-shaped fixing element; wherein the proximal optical assembly is fastened to the distal optical assembly by the fixing element.
US11937770B2
A surgical system is disclosed comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive imaging data from a surgical visualization system, identify a critical structure within a patient based on the imaging data received from the surgical visualization system, transmit a margin signal based on the identified critical structure, measure a size of an anatomical structure of the patient based on the imaging data, identify information about a surgical instrument of a plurality of surgical instruments, customize an operational parameter of a surgical instrument of the plurality of surgical instruments, and provide electrosurgical energy to electrosurgical instruments of the plurality of surgical instrument. A display is configured to display a digital representation of the critical structure on the display. The display is configured to display a resection margin around the critical structure. The resection margin is generated based on the margin signal.
US11937759B2
A vacuum cleaner (1) comprising a container (2), a suction unit (60), an air channeling unit (25), operative between the container (2) and the suction unit (60), wherein the air channeling unit (25) comprises: a collector (26) having a suction mouth (27) at an intake side of the air channeling unit (25), a deflector (28) positioned at the intake side and radially extending at least over a central portion of the suction mouth (27), the collector (26) and the deflector (28) delimiting a suction channel (29) connecting the suction mouth (27) to an inlet port (22) of the suction unit (60).
US11937753B2
A household appliance includes a functional container, an insulation arrangement provided on an outside of the functional container and configured to thermally and/or acoustically insulate the functional container. The insulation arrangement includes a single-piece first insulation element which is made of a plastic material selected such that a surface of the first insulation element in facing relation to the functional container adheres to the functional container and is separable herefrom in a non-destructive manner.
US11937751B2
The present disclosure provides a movable electric device. The movable electric device includes a movable device body and a contact detection electrode. The movable device body has an electric drive means. The contact detection electrode is mounted on the movable device body. When the contact detection electrode _contacts diffusible dirt, a resistance, capacitance or impedance of the contact detection electrode varies.
US11937745B2
A folding bathtub includes a tub body; and a supporting ring. The supporting ring is arranged on the tub body. The supporting ring comprises a left ring part, a right ring part and an upper folding part, the left ring part and the right ring part are respectively arranged on two sides of an upper end of the tub body, and the upper folding part is arranged between the left ring part and the right ring part. The upper folding part is made of a soft material. The supporting ring achieves rotatable folding between the left ring part and the right ring part by means of deformation of the upper folding part, and the supporting ring is folded to drive the tub body to deform and be folded.
US11937744B2
A toilet shield comprises a tube, a first arm, a second arm, and a raised collar. The first arm is coupled to a first side edge of a lumen of the tube. The second arm is coupled to a second side edge of the lumen of the tube. The tube is configured such that the lumen of the tube opens in response to the first arm and the second arm being extended in generally opposite directions. The raised collar is disposed between and rises above the first arm and the second arm and is configured to deflect liquid feces expelled from a defecating human toward a rear portion of a toilet. An expandable pleat is disposed on each side of the raised collar.
US11937741B2
A system comprising a plurality of dispensers each configured to dispense a respective hygienic consumable product during a dispense operation and each including a processor and memory; a distributed computing program configured to receive data defining a computational task comprising work streams and generate data assigning the work streams to at least two of the plurality of dispensers, wherein each of the at least two of the plurality of dispensers are configured to use their respective processor and memory to work on their respective work streams; and a data processing apparatus configured to run the distributed computing program.
US11937737B1
An air circulation roaster for tables with a safety function enabled to remove foreign substances (oil and nitrogen dioxide) generated during cooking of meat, reducing contamination of the air around the roaster, has a safety function that cuts off power pending the sensed temperature of the roast plate. The air circulation roaster has a temperature sensor detecting the temperature of the roast plate, a control box placed outside the body when the temperature cuts off power supplied to the heating lamp when the heating unit exceeds the set limit. A platinum catalyst filter placed around the outside of the heating unit is coated with platinum on a network-shaped ceramic.
US11937732B2
An apparatus for facilitating brewing of beverages in a container includes an apparatus container and a plunger assembly. The apparatus container includes a base and a side wall extending from the base to define an interior space. A bottom end of the side wall is peripherally attached to the base and a top end of the side wall defines an opening. The apparatus container includes openings disposed on the side wall and disposable in the container for brewing a beverage in the container comprising a brewing fluid. The apparatus container receives a beverage ingredient in the interior space through the opening for the brewing. The plunger assembly includes a plunger handle and a plunger head and moves the plunger head into the interior space based on a force applied to the plunger handle. The brewing of the beverage is further based on the moving of the plunger head.
US11937728B2
A cooking accessory receivable within a cooking chamber of an oven appliance includes a base plate to receive a food item thereon, an enclosing lid disposed over the base plate, the enclosing lid defining a main inlet and an access opening, the main inlet being defined along the vertical direction and the access opening being defined along the transverse direction, and a guide plate attached to an interior surface of the enclosing lid above the base plate, wherein the base plate and the enclosing lid form a high temperature chamber for the food item, the high temperature chamber being in fluid communication with the cooking chamber.
US11937724B2
A pillow is provided herein which includes a cover having opposing first and second panels. A gusset perimetrically bounds, and joins, the first and second panels. The gusset is formed of an open cell construction. Compliant fill material is disposed within the cover. Advantageously, with the subject invention, a pillow is provided allowing for lateral ventilation between opposing panels. This permits a cooling effect while a user is resting or sleeping.
US11937722B2
A trophy apparatus, comprising a plurality of columns; a base piece comprising a plurality of grooves, each configured to attach to a bottom end of each of the plurality of columns, and further comprising an interface configured to couple to a plaque mount; and a lid piece comprising a plurality of grooves, each configured to attach to a top end of each of the plurality of columns.
US11937707B2
A chair having a backrest having an upper backrest section and a lumbar section, wherein the lumbar section is provided with a plurality of perforations and is elastically deformable to allow a backward tilting movement of the upper backrest section under a backward thrust applied from a user's back, and wherein the perforations stop the backward tilting movement of the upper backrest section in a position of maximum backward tilt of the upper backrest section.
US11937706B2
Adjustable mattress assemblies are described in which a mattress incorporates regions where additional pressure reduction is adjustable via pliable fluid bladders filled with a gas or fluid. Such areas of the mattress where additional pressure reduction is desired may include regions of the mattress which support areas of the body which may be particularly susceptible to pressure ulcers such as the heels, sacral regions, etc.
US11937697B1
A table mount system attached one of various accessories to a table by a central mount. The accessories could be attached to a stand to elevate them over the table. The mount has a mount body and a mount plate that hold the table between them to provide a secure anchor to which the accessories are attached.
US11937694B2
An anti-dropping storage drawer (ADSD) includes a pair of side walls, a front wall, and a rear wall forming a rectangular-shaped box, a base portion, and at least one projection. The front and rear walls extend between the side walls. The base portion extends between bottom portions of the side walls and the front and rear walls. The side walls, the front and rear walls, and the base portion define a cavity. The side walls and the front and rear walls taper outward toward an opening of the cavity. The projection projects from an underside of the base portion. When the ADSD is pulled out of a slot in a storage unit and inclines forward, the projection on the underside of the base portion blocks a forward and downward movement of the ADSD out of the storage unit.
US11937690B2
An apparatus and method for automatically adjusting and monitoring use of an adjustable standing desk are disclosed. The invention provides an electric adjustable desk with memory to store a user's preferred sitting and standing heights for the adjustable desk. A setup mode allows the user to store and adjust the preferred sitting and standing heights. A sensor allows the user to quickly adjust from the sitting to standing heights or vice versa.
US11937688B2
A toothbrush comprising a drive mechanism and electronic circuitry configured to drive the drive mechanism to execute toothbrushing motions is disclosed. The electronic circuitry comprises a drive circuitry and a controller which is configured to form a drive signal to operate the drive circuitry to generate drive current. The drive signal comprises a plurality of signal packets, wherein a signal packet has a signal packet duration and comprises a train of switching signals. The switching signals are configured to repeatedly switch on and switch off drive current supply to the drive mechanism at a switching frequency fs. The signal packet duration is configured to define a rhythm of toothbrushing motions.
US11937680B2
A concentrator and a hair dryer including a concentrator are provided. The concentrator may include an outer case forming an exterior of the concentrator and provided with first and second flow paths thereinside to enable gas discharged from a gas discharge of the hair dryer to flow and a flow path selector a position of which is variable within the outer case, the first flow path being provided between the flow path selector and the outer case, the second flow path being provided within the flow path selector. The concentrator may be configured to externally discharge the gas discharged from the gas discharge along either the first flow path or the second flow path depending on the position of the flow path selector. Accordingly, a user may select the first flow path or the second flow path for convenience while using a single concentrator.
US11937673B2
A modular wallet assembly including a casing, a rail fixed to the casing, and an accessory configured to be detachably coupled to the casing via the rail. The modular wallet assembly further includes a lever arm configured to dispense personal cards stored in the casing.
US11937669B2
A fastener assembly for securing a string and/or netting includes a cord fastener and a cord. A cord fastener includes: a body including a base wall; a clasp disposed on the base wall; and an opening disposed on the base wall and spaced apart from the clasp. The base wall has a curved surface between the clasp and the opening. A cord is detachably coupled to the cord fastener and extends through at least one of the clasp or the opening.
US11937665B2
An article of footwear is provided and includes a sole having a lateral side and a medial side, where the sole includes a first member and a second member attached to the first member, and the first member is separate from the second member. The first member has a sidewall that extends about a periphery of the sole and the second member has a sidewall that extends along the medial side around the heel portion and along the lateral side of the first member.
US11937660B2
Various face shield assemblies for hard hats are described. In one embodiment, the face shield assembly includes a hard hat, a mounting bracket, a face shield, a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The first pivot arm and second pivot arm are pivotally coupled to the hard hat and rotate with respect to the mounting bracket and the face shield. The face shield is coupled to the first pivot arm and the second pivot arm. The face shield actuates between stowed and operating positions such that the face shield can avoid objects near a front of the hard hat, such as a bill and/or lamp. In other embodiments the face shield assembly includes an adjustable frame coupled to the face shield and the hard hat. The adjustable frame rotates and/or slides with respect to the hard hat.
US11937654B2
A device, attachable to a waist band of a garment, facilitates the use of suspenders. An elongate rectangular body of the device has a front surface and a back surface. This body has ratio of length to width that is the range of about 4:1 to about 10:1, and a ratio of width to thickness in the range of about 8:1 to about 20:1. At least one knob having a head held in spaced-apart relationship with the body by a post is used to secure the suspenders. The elongate rectangular body and each knob are formed from a thermoplastic, preferably in an integral manner.
US11937651B1
An example reduced-coverage back-smoothing brassiere includes a right and left brassiere cup, right and left brassiere wings, each coupled to at least a portion of one of the two brassiere cups and one of two brassiere straps, first edges of the brassiere wings each being a continuous curve leading to the exterior edge of the respective brassiere wing, the second portion of the right brassiere strap being coupled to the right brassiere cup and the second portion of the left brassiere strap being coupled to the left brassiere cup, a second edge of each of the brassiere wings extending in an unbroken curve from the respective brassiere strap toward the fastening section, a continuous, unbroken curve being created by the interior edge of each of the two brassiere straps along the second edge of each of the two brassiere wings, respectively.
US11937644B2
Disclosed is an aerosol-generating device which includes a power converter for supplying an alternating power to an induction coil, and controls switching elements in the power converter to change an operation mode of a power converter based on a temperature profile such that the power converter operates in a full bridge mode in a preheating section and operates in a half bridge mode in a smoking section.
US11937637B2
An aerosol source for a vapor provision system includes a vapor-generating element; a reservoir for holding source liquid, the reservoir being bounded by a wall having an opening therein; and a liquid transport element including a first portion arranged to receive liquid from the reservoir via the opening, a second portion peripheral to the first portion, and a third portion arranged to deliver liquid from the first portion to the vapor-generating element; wherein at least part of the second portion is compressed against a section of the wall around the opening, in use, to provide a sealing effect around at least part of the first portion to promote movement of liquid towards the vapor-generating element.
US11937629B2
An apparatus arranged to heat smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The apparatus includes a housing, the housing having a first opening at a first end through which a consumable article containing smokable material can be removably inserted into the apparatus; at least one heater arrangement arranged within the housing for heating smokable material within the consumable article when in use and a hollow chamber between the first opening and the at least one heater arrangement. The hollow chamber surrounds at least a portion of the consumable article when the consumable article is inserted into the device and an inner wall of the chamber and the at least a portion of the consumable article define an air gap there between. Hot vapors that escape the consumable article in use can condense on the inner wall of the hollow chamber.
US11937624B2
The invention relates to a food supplement comprising at least the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, valine, threonine and lysine and Chromium. The invention further relates to food compositions comprising the food supplement as well as uses of both.
US11937619B2
The present invention relates to a pea albumin characterized in that its emulsifying activity is improved as it can emulsify more than 600 ml of corn oil per gram of albumin. The invention also relates to a method for obtaining the pea albumin according to the invention. It finally relates to the use of the pea albumin according to the invention in industrial, in particular food and pharmaceutical applications.
US11937615B2
A non-hydrogenated fat composition comprises greater than 28% by weight stearic acid (C18:0) fatty acid residues; greater than 44% by weight oleic acid (C18:1) fatty acid residues, and less than 10% by weight of palmitic acid (C16) fatty acid residues, based on the total C8-C24 fatty acid residues, and greater than 30% by weight of the combined amounts of StOSt, StStO, StOO and OStO triglycerides based on the total glycerides present in the composition, wherein the weight ratio of (StOSt+StStO)/(StOO+OStO) is from 0.6-1.5.
US11937609B2
A method for improving the freshness of flat breads comprising a) adding to flour or to a dough comprising a flour, a first maltogenic alpha-amylase having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO: 1, and compared to SEQ ID NO: 1 comprising the substitutions D261G, T288P, and F188L; and a second maltogenic alpha-amylase having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO: 1, and compared to SEQ ID NO: 1 comprising the substitutions D261G, T288P, F194Y, and N375S; and b) making flat breads from the dough.
US11937607B2
A machine for making filled pasta includes first and second feeding device for feeding first and second layers of pasta dough, and a shaping device for shaping the filled pasta, located downstream of the feeding devices. The machine controls the advancing of the first and second layers the respective feeding device such that at least along a first stretch of the path of the first layer between the first feeding device and the shaping device, an excess length of the first layer of pasta dough forms by gravity a respective bend along the unrolling direction and at least along a first stretch of the path of the second layer between the second feeding device and the shaping device, an excess length of the second layer of pasta dough forms by gravity a respective bend along the unrolling direction.
US11937605B1
A composition for repelling insects is disclosed. The composition may include an active component made of (i) a combination of clove oil, geranium oil, and peppermint oil, (ii) a fixative, and (iii) a solubilizer. The composition may include (i) from about 2.5 to about 15 wt. % of an active component made only of (a) from about 0.1 to about 5.0 wt. % of clove oil, (b) from about 0.5 to about 15.0 wt. % of geranium oil, and (c) from about 0.1 to about 15.0 wt. % of peppermint oil, (ii) from about 3 to about 15 wt. % of a fixative, and (iii) from about 15 to about 45 wt. % of a solubilizer.
US11937601B2
Methods for controlling and/or treating of phytopathogenic fungi causing soybean rust infections in plants include applying a fungicidally effective amount of a composition to the plants, and/or seeds of the plants, or soil in which the plants are growing, or soil in which the plants are desired to grow. The composition includes zoxamide, optionally in combination with one or more additional active ingredients selected from the group consisting of strobilurins and/or triazole compounds. The phytopathogenic fungi are selected from P. pachyrhizi or P. meibomiae. The zoxamide is applied in an amount of about 10 g/ha to about 2000 g/ha.
US11937600B1
A seed germination activator for control of broomrape includes butylisobutylphthalate (hereinafter “BIP”). A biocontrol composition includes BIP and at least two nonionic surfactants for administration in irrigation water. Methods of controlling broomrape may include administering the biocontrol composition comprising BIP in the irrigation water prior to planting crops.
US11937592B2
A waterproof structure is provided on a spinning reel including a reel main body, a cylindrical member disposed on an outer periphery of a spool shaft and a rotor disposed at a front of the cylindrical member in the reel main body. The waterproof structure includes a seal member which waterproofs the entire circumference in the area between the cylindrical member and the rotor. The seal member includes a main lip that is in liquid-tight contact at a contact portion in the axial direction of the spool shaft. An annular wall portion is disposed on at least one of the rotor or the cylindrical member. The annular wall portion covers the contact portion at the entire circumference of an outer peripheral side of the contact portion.
US11937587B2
Non-human animals, expressing humanized CD3 proteins are provided. Non-human animals, e.g., rodents, genetically modified to comprise in their genome humanized CD3 proteins are also provided. Additionally, provided are methods and compositions of making such non-human animals, as well as methods of using said non-human animals.
US11937583B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a food delivery and feeding. An apparatus may comprise: a base; an ejection device configured to eject, via a food outlet on the apparatus, one or more of a plurality of food items; and a rotation device operably mounted to the ejection device. The rotation device may be configured to rotate the ejection device relative the base to cause a change to a direction of ejection of the one or more of the plurality of food items relative to the base. The rotation device may comprise a motor and a ring gear. The motor may be connected to the ring gear. The ring gear may be connected to a bracket assembly. The rotation of the bracket assembly may cause the rotation of the ejection device.
US11937577B2
A lightweight, simple and comfortable pet harness with waste bag dispensing and storage pockets, and reflective piping on the harness edges and zipper pockets. The harness has only two single buckle straps which are designed to tuck into sections of the harness to avoid poking or sticking the pet.
US11937569B2
Apparatus configured for dispensing bedding inside of breeding cages for use in pharmaceutical preclinical research centres, including: a loading hopper located in the upper part of the apparatus, and adapted to contain the bedding to be supplied to the cages; at least one supporting plane adapted to support one or more cages, and positioned under the hopper; an actuator under the hopper, adapted to raise or lower the hopper and the at least one supporting plane; one or more dosing mouths located in the lower part of the loading hopper, and adapted to feed into the cages given quantities of bedding from the hopper; a dispensation system adapted to dispense bedding into the cages through the one or more dosing mouths; a control system adapted to determine the quantity of bedding and to control the actuator; and a base for supporting the apparatus.
US11937567B2
A retractable curtain system is provided and includes a curtain support system, a curtain, and a retraction system. The curtain support system includes a pair of outer walls and an upper frame to provide a curtain receiving space. The curtain covers the curtain receiving space and includes a first non-transparent panel and transparent panel connected to the first non-transparent panel. The retraction system is connected to the curtain to lower and raise the transparent panel.
US11937566B2
A new and distinct tomato variety NUN 00321 TOP is disclosed, as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 00321 TOP is a determinate tomato variety of the peeled elongated type for the processing market, comprising resistance to Verticillium dahliae, Fusarium oxysporum s.p. lycopersici Race 2 (ex 3), Meloidogyne incognita, Leveillula taurica, and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV).
US11937564B2
A plant growing apparatus, comprising an enclosure having an interior and exterior, wherein the interior of the enclosure is configured to maintain environmental conditions within the enclosure, one or more light sources, a planting column having an aperture extending therethrough, a rotatable base, a central conduit, wherein said conduit extend through the aperture of the planting column and said planting column is configured to be rotatably movable around said central conduit, a water source, at least one sensor, an irrigation system, and a control system configured to be communicatively coupled to the irrigation system, one or more sensors, light source, and rotatable base.
US11937563B2
A greenhouse comprises a support frame and a spray pipe including pipes and pipe joints, the pipe joint comprises a connecting pipe and two rotary sleeves, the two adjacent pipes are respectively inserted into the connecting pipe, ends of a first pipe are respectively sleeved with a sealing sleeve and a locking sleeve, and each of the ends of the first pipe is further sleeved with a washer. When the rotary sleeve is thread-tightened, the connecting pipe and the locking sleeve are capable of respectively abutting and pressing against two sides of the washer, under abutting and pushing of the rotary sleeve and limiting of the washer, the locking sleeve is capable of grasping the first pipe and forming an axial positioning with the rotary sleeve. An inner edge of an end surface of the connecting pipe has a sealing tapered surface capable of acting on the sealing sleeve.
US11937558B2
An irrigation water amount measurement apparatus 10 includes: a sensor data obtaining unit 11 that obtains sensor data for specifying soil moisture contents of sections of an agricultural field, from moisture sensors installed in the respective sections; an irrigation water amount measurement unit 12 that measures a supply amount of irrigation water supplied from a drip irrigation system during a period from start to end of irrigation in the entire agricultural field; an irrigation time specifying unit 13 that specifies a period of time during which irrigation water was supplied to the section based on a change state of a soil moisture content of the section; and a calculation processing unit 14 that calculates a supply amount of irrigation water supplied to the section, based on a period of time specified for the section, a period from start to end of irrigation, and a measured supply amount.
US11937548B2
A system and method for sensing an edge of a region includes at least one distance sensor configured to detect a plurality of distances of objects along a plurality of adjacent scan lines. A controller is in communication with the at least one distance sensor and is configured to determine a location of an edge of a region within the plurality of adjacent scan lines. The controller includes a comparator module configured to compare values corresponding to the detected plurality of distances, and an identification module configured to identify the location of the edge of the region according to the compared values. In one example, the values corresponding to the detected plurality of distances include couplets of standard deviations that are analyzed and selected to identify the location of the edge.
US11937547B2
The invention relates to an attachment for attaching to a harvesting machine, comprising a number of picking devices (2) distributed adjacent to one another over the working width, said picking devices having at least a first and a second picking rotor (10a, 10b), which can be driven in counterrotation. The drawing edges (14) on the drawing bodies (12) on the first and second picking rotors (10a, 10b) are arranged in relation to one another in such a way that, during rotary movement of the first and second picking rotors (10a, 10b), two adjacent drawing edges (14) of the first picking rotor (10a) hold, in the range of action of said drawing edges into the downward movement path of a plant stalk (8), the plant stalk (8) temporarily against the drawing edges (14) of the second picking rotor (10b) preceding and lagging behind the two adjacent drawing edges (14) of the first picking rotor (10a) and clamp the plant stalk (8), by means of the four contact points (26) of the plant stalk (8), against the drawing edges (14) of the first and second picking rotors (10a, 10b) into an arc shape approximating the enveloping circle (16) of the first picking rotor (10a), and on the second picking rotor (10b) a knife blade (20) is arranged between the preceding and lagging drawing edges (14) of the second picking rotor (10a), which knife blade cuts into the outside of the plant stalk (8) clamped in an arc shape.
US11937546B2
A header including a front and rear wheel assembly, each assembly having an axle and two wheels. Each wheel assembly is coupled to the main body of the header by an actuating system having an actuator mechanism for actuating a swivel movement of the axle and the wheels to bring the wheel assembly to or from a road transport position. The front and rear wheel assemblies are equipped with tie rod arrangements for steering the header when it is transported on the road. The wheels of the wheel assemblies are operated as caster wheels. The tie rod arrangement of the front wheel assembly is coupled to a pivotable base connected to, or connectable to, a drawbar. The wheel assemblies have respective actuators which are synchronized so as to synchronize the position of the front and rear wheels.
US11937537B2
A grass trimmer includes an operating device configured for a user to operate and a grass trimmer device including a grass trimmer head and a motor. The grass trimmer head includes a spool configured for a grass trimmer line to wind around and a housing formed with an accommodating cavity. When the grass trimmer is mounted with the grass trimmer line, a part of the grass trimmer line protruding outside the housing is defined as an effective part of the grass trimmer line. The grass trimmer further includes a controller configured to control the grass trimmer head to release a grass trimmer line when the grass trimmer head is mounted with the grass trimmer line and a length of the effective part is detected to be less than or equal to a preset value.
US11937534B2
An agricultural product delivery applicator for delivering particulate product to a field. The applicator includes a supply compartment to hold the product, a pneumatic conveying system, a metering system, and a controller. The pneumatic conveying system includes first delivery line operably connected to an airflow source and to the supply compartment, and a second delivery line operably connected to the airflow source and to the supply compartment. The metering system includes a first metering device associated with the first delivery line and a second metering device associate with the second delivery line. The controller controls the air flow source, the first metering device to meter product to result in a first mixed flow of airflow and product for the first delivery line, and the second metering device to meter product with the airflow to result in a second mixed flow of airflow and product for the second delivery line.
US11937533B2
A planter includes a seed a delivery system for delivering seed from one or more hoppers to one or more row units of the planter. The seed delivery system includes a number of seed entrainers. The seed entrainers receive seed from the one or more hoppers. The seed is combined with a fluid, such as air, which moves the seed through the seed entrainer and towards one or more row units of the planter. The entrainer includes one or more outlets, with the outlets corresponding to different row units, and the outlets can be varied based upon the need of seed delivery for the planter.
US11937526B2
A control device for a work vehicle configured or programmed to travel autonomously includes a vehicle position calculator to calculate a vehicle position, a travel direction calculator to calculate a travel direction that is a front-back direction of the vehicle body, a steering state detector to obtain data on a steering state, a vehicle position estimator to calculate an estimated vehicle position at which the work vehicle is to be present after performing predetermined travel from the vehicle position of the work vehicle, a deviation calculator to calculate a deviation of the work vehicle at the estimated vehicle position from the target travel path, a target steering amount calculator to calculate a target steering amount based on the deviation, and an autonomous travel controller to control steering based on the target steering amount.
US11944021B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including one or more memory cells arranged over a semiconductor substrate between an upper metal interconnect layer and a lower metal interconnect layer. A memory cell includes a bottom electrode disposed over the lower metal interconnect layer, a data storage or dielectric layer disposed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed over the data storage or dielectric layer. An upper surface of the top electrode is in direct contact with the upper metal interconnect layer without a via or contact coupling the upper surface of the top electrode to the upper metal interconnect layer. Sidewall spacers are arranged along sidewalls of the top electrode, and have bottom surfaces that rest on an upper surface of the data storage or dielectric layer.
US11944009B2
A compound is represented by one of formulae (11) to (13). R1 to R4 each independently represent a group represented by a formula (1-1), a group represented by a formula (2-1), a group represented by a formula (2-2) or the like. At least one of R1 to R4 is the group represented by the formula (1-1) or the like. At least one of R1 to R4 is the group represented by the formula (2-1), (2-2) or the like. For instance, in the formula (1-1), R11 represents a substituent, and R101 to R110 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. For instance, in the formulae (2-1) to (2-2), R161 to R168 and R171 to R180 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. * each independently represents a bonding position to a carbon atom in a benzene ring in each of the formulae (11) to (13),
US11944004B2
According to the present invention, there is provided an organic electroluminescence element including at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in the stated order, the organic electroluminescence element being characterized in that: the hole injection layer contains an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1) and an electron acceptor. The organic EL element of the present invention has a high light emission efficiency and an excellent durability, as compared with the related art, while maintaining the existing low drive voltage.
US11943998B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an emitting material layer including a first compound and a second compound positioned between the first and second electrodes, wherein the first compound includes a hexagonal-ring moiety including one boron atom, one oxygen atom and four carbon atoms, and the second compound includes a hexagonal-ring moiety including one boron atom, one nitrogen atom and four carbon atoms, and an organic light emitting device including the organic light emitting diode.
US11943996B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel, a support layer, a coating layer, and a cushion layer. The display panel includes a foldable area. The support layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel, and a plurality of openings is defined through the support layer on the foldable area. The coating layer is disposed on a top surface of the support layer and side walls of the support member which define the openings. The cushion layer is disposed between the coating layer and the display panel.
US11943983B2
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the display substrate, and a display device. In the display substrate, the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel each include: a power signal line pattern, at least part of the power signal line pattern extends along the second direction; and a power compensation pattern, at least part of the power compensation pattern extends along the first direction, the power signal line pattern and the power compensation pattern are both located on a side of the first data line pattern and the second data line pattern close to the substrate; the power compensation pattern is electrically connected to the power signal line pattern and a power signal line pattern in an adjacent sub-pixel along the first direction.
US11943980B2
A display device includes a display panel, a circuit board, a first conductive film, first and second lower films, and first and second adhesive layers. The display panel includes a display area and a pad area which includes a first pad part. The circuit board is attached on the display panel and includes a lead part overlapping the first pad part. The first conductive film is between the display panel and the circuit board and electrically connects the first pad part and the lead part to each other. The first and second lower films are attached to the display panel to respectively correspond to the display area and the pad area. A thickness of the second adhesive layer between the display panel and the second lower film is less than a thickness of the first adhesive layer between the display panel and the first lower film.
US11943978B2
A display device includes first power supply terminal electrodes and second power supply terminal electrodes. The first power supply terminal electrodes in a first terminal portion of a frame area at least partially overlap, in a plan view, at least a part of the second power supply terminal electrodes in a second terminal portion of a flexible printed board. The second power supply terminal electrodes are electrically connected to the first power supply terminal electrodes. Either the first power supply terminal electrodes or the second power supply terminal electrodes are inclined from the others.
US11943968B2
A display device includes a display panel, a first film, and a polarizing film. The display panel includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a side surface. The first film is beneath the first surface of the display panel. The polarizing film is on the second surface of the display panel. The polarizing film has a haze area including a yellow area extending along an edge of the polarizing film in a plan view.
US11943964B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-transmitting substrate, a light-transmitting interconnect located over the substrate, an insulating layer located over the substrate and the interconnect, and an intermediate layer formed in at least a region of a lateral side of the interconnect that overlaps the insulating layer.
US11943958B2
A display panel according to one embodiment of the disclosure includes: a flexible substrate; a plurality of self-luminescent elements; a plurality of TFT circuits provided between the flexible substrate and the plurality of self-luminescent elements; a first inorganic film covering each of the TFT circuits; a second inorganic film covering each of the self-luminescent elements; and a resin layer covering the second inorganic film and covering at least a portion of the first inorganic film in contact with an end portion of the second inorganic film. The first inorganic film is provided between the plurality of TFT circuits and the plurality of self-luminescent elements, and has a step portion. The step portion is a thinned portion of the first inorganic film opposed to an end portion of the flexible substrate.
US11943957B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area including a transmission area and a pixel area, and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area; a display element disposed corresponding to the pixel area, the display element including a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer on the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode on the intermediate layer; a hydrophobic layer disposed corresponding to the transmission area; and a plurality of fine particles disposed on the hydrophobic layer, the plurality of fine particles and the opposite electrode including a same material.
US11943955B2
A display device includes: a fold portion; and connection wires electrically connecting a terminal to a wire in a display region. In the fold portion, an inorganic-insulating-film first slit provided to an inorganic insulating film and a film-layer first slit provided to a film layer extend in a direction to intersect with an edge of a frame region. The display device includes: either an inorganic-insulating-film second slit intersecting with the inorganic-insulating-film first slit; or a film-layer second slit intersecting with the film-layer first slit. Either the inorganic-insulating-film second slit or the film-layer second slit is provided between pluralities of the connection wires adjacent to each other.
US11943951B2
A display device is provided that includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area, a planarization film disposed over the substrate, an anode electrode disposed on the planarization film and including a first hole in the non-active area, a bank disposed on the anode electrode, a cathode electrode disposed on the bank, an encapsulation layer disposed on the cathode electrode, and a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer and including a touch line in the non-active area. Here, the first hole may be disposed not to overlap with the touch line.
US11943948B2
The first region (RG1) contains a first organic material and a metal compound (a compound containing a metal element). The second region (RG2) contains the first organic material and the metal compound. The average intensity of the SIMS profile of the metal element in the second region (RG2) can be lower than the average intensity of the SIMS profile of the metal element in the first region (RG1). Specifically, the average intensity of the SIMS profile of the metal element in the second region (RG2) can be lower than 10%, preferably lower than 1.0%, of the average intensity of the SIMS profile of the metal element in the first region (RG1).
US11943942B2
An electronic device is provided and includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including an amorphous oxide including a quaternary compound including one or more of indium, gallium and aluminum and further including zinc and oxygen, the first electrode having a laminated structure including a first B layer and a first A layer from a photoelectric conversion layer side, and a work function value of the first A layer of the first electrode being lower than a work function of the first B layer of the first electrode.
US11943937B2
A semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) with increased on-state current obtained through a parasitic bipolar junction transistor (BJT) of the MOSFET. Methods of operating the MOSFET as a memory cell or a memory array select transistor are provided.
US11943935B2
A layout pattern of a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) includes a substrate having a first cell region, a second cell region, a third cell region, and a fourth cell region and a diffusion region on the substrate extending through the first cell region, the second cell region, the third cell region, and the fourth cell region. Preferably, the diffusion region includes a H-shape according to a top view.
US11943934B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes one or more lower interconnect layers arranged within one or more stacked inter-level dielectric (ILD) layers over a substrate. An etch stop structure is disposed over the one or more lower interconnect layers and a bottom electrode is disposed over the etch stop structure. The bottom electrode electrically contacts the one or more lower interconnect layers. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack is disposed over the bottom electrode. The MTJ stack has sidewalls arranged at a first angle with respect to a bottom surface of the MTJ stack. A top electrode is disposed over the MTJ stack. The top electrode has sidewalls arranged at a second angle with respect to a bottom surface of the top electrode. The second angle is greater than the first angle.
US11943933B2
A memory device includes metal interconnect structures embedded within dielectric material layers that overlie a top surface of a substrate, a thin film transistor embedded in a first dielectric material layer selected from the dielectric material layers, and is vertically spaced from the top surface of the substrate, and a ferroelectric memory cell embedded within the dielectric material layers. A first node of the ferroelectric memory cell is electrically connected to a node of the thin film transistor through a subset of the metal interconnect structures that is located above, and vertically spaced from, the top surface of the substrate.
US11943923B2
Embodiments of methods to form three-dimensional (3D) memory devices include the following operations. First, an initial channel hole is formed in a stack structure of a plurality first layers and a plurality of second layers alternatingly arranged over a substrate. An offset is formed between a side surface of each one of the plurality of first layers and a side surface of each one of the plurality of second layers on a sidewall of the initial channel hole to form a channel hole. A semiconductor channel is formed by filling the channel hole with a channel-forming structure, the semiconductor channel having a memory layer including a plurality of first memory portions each surrounding a bottom of a respective second layer and a plurality of second memory portions each connecting adjacent first memory portions.
US11943912B2
A semiconductor device includes: a gate trench formed into a semiconductor substrate; a gate dielectric layer formed in the gate trench to cover an inside surface of the gate trench; and a gate electrode disposed over the gate dielectric layer to fill the gate trench, wherein the gate electrode includes: second crystal grains formed in the gate trench; and first crystal grains disposed between the second crystal grains and the gate dielectric layer and having a smaller crystal grain size than the second crystal grains.
US11943910B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming an opening in a substrate, implanting a dopant in the substrate from a sidewall of the opening such that a doping region is formed in the substrate at the sidewall of the opening, filling a dielectric material in the opening to form a first dielectric structure after implanting the dopant in the substrate from the sidewall of the opening, and forming a passing word line in the dielectric structure.
US11943909B2
A semiconductor memory device and a method of forming the same are provided, with the semiconductor memory device including a substrate, a stacked structure, plural openings, plural flared portions and an electrode layer. The stacked structure is disposed on the substrate and includes alternately stacked oxide material layers and stacked nitride material layers. Each of the openings is disposed in the stacked structure, and each of the flared portions is disposed under each of the openings, in connection with each opening. The electrode layer is disposed on surfaces of each opening and each flared portion.
US11943900B2
A fluid deployment unit includes an expandable container containing mixed fluids in a gaseous region and a liquid region, where the expandable container includes a gas-out port, a liquid-out port, a gas-in port, and a liquid-in port. The fluid deployment unit includes a first three-way valve having a first port coupled to the liquid-out port, a second port coupled to the gas-out port, and a third port matable to an inlet of an electronic rack. The fluid deployment unit includes a second three-way valve having a first port matable to an input port of a liquid-to-liquid exchange unit of a testing assistant unit, a second port coupled to the gas-in port, and a third port matable to an outlet of the electronic rack, where the liquid-in port of the expandable container is matable to an output port of the liquid-to-liquid exchange unit.
US11943899B1
A heat-transfer component defines a thermal-interface surface and has a composite thermal-interface material on the thermal-interface surface. The composite thermal-interface material comprises a silicone oil substrate and a metallic filler. In some embodiments, the metallic filler undergoes a transition from solid to liquid at a temperature below a typical operating temperature of an electronic device. For example, an embodiment of a metallic filler has a solid-to-liquid transition temperature between about 25° C. and about 95° C. In some embodiments, a second thermal interface material extends around an outer periphery of the composite thermal interface material, which can inhibit or prevent seepage or other migration of metallic filler in the composite thermal-interface material out of a thermal interface region between the heat-transfer component and, e.g., a heat-generating component. Also disclosed are electrical devices having a heat generating component cooled by such a heat-transfer component.
US11943883B2
A magnetic bistable hinge system includes a hinge bracket, first and second magnets, and a rotatable member. The first magnet may be coupled to the hinge bracket and be configured to rotate about an axis of the hinge bracket from a first bistable position to a second bistable position. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a first angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first magnet and the second magnets are in the first bistable position and the rotatable member is in a closed position relative to the hinge bracket. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a second angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first and second magnets are at the second bistable position, and the rotatable member is rotated to an open position relative to the hinge bracket.
US11943879B2
A display device includes a display panel and a lower member disposed below the display panel. The display panel includes a first non-folding region, a second non-folding region, and a folding region disposed between the first non-folding region and the second non-folding region. The lower member includes a support layer and a digitizer. The support layer comprises a first support part disposed below the first non-folding region, and having insulating property, and a second support part disposed below the second non-folding region and having insulating property. The digitizer is disposed below the first support part and the second support part.
US11943876B2
Pre-connected analyte sensors are provided. A pre-connected analyte sensor includes a sensor carrier attached to an analyte sensor. The sensor carrier includes a substrate configured for mechanical coupling of the sensor to testing, calibration, or wearable equipment. The sensor carrier also includes conductive contacts for electrically coupling sensor electrodes to the testing, calibration, or wearable equipment.
US11943868B2
A board shield (52) covers a region in which an electronic part is mounted on a lower surface of a circuit board (50). A memory housing chamber (R1) capable of housing a semiconductor memory is secured on the lower side of the circuit board. The board shield (52) includes a shield wall (52e) along the memory housing chamber (R1). With this, it is possible to protect the semiconductor memory while suppressing an increase in the number of parts.
US11943859B2
A cooking appliance device includes a heating unit including an induction coil having an electric conductor, a substrate unit, and a fastening unit configured to fasten the induction coil to the substrate unit. The fastening unit fastens the electric conductor in at least one region on the substrate unit such that the electric conductor is movable relative to the substrate unit.
US11943855B2
Provided herein are lighting devices, systems, and methods. In particular, provided herein are lighting systems configured for use in a variety of facilities, such as health care facilities and prisons, to improve resident and staff health, performance, and well-being by optimizing lighting in resident rooms, common areas, and staff areas.
US11943851B2
Described herein are systems and methods for generating short load current pulses using an H-bridge. In various embodiments, this is accomplished by controlling, in a shunting mode, a low-side switch of the H-bridge to drive a first average current and controlling, in a non-shunting mode, a high-side switch of the H-bridge to drive a second average current such that the first and second average currents are substantially the same and reduce a current pulse width of the load current.
US11943811B2
A non-AP MLD or a first STA in the non-AP MLD generates a first frame. The first frame includes indication information for indicating padding duration for a channel switch delay in an initial control frame. The padding duration is determined based on duration of a control response frame. The non-AP MLD or the first STA or another STA in the non-AP MLD transmits the first frame. An AP MLD or a first AP or another AP in the AP MLD receives the first frame. The AP MLD or the first AP determines the padding duration of the initial control frame based on the indication information.
US11943801B2
A method of orchestrating a plurality of network resources for providing a requested network service in a mobile communications network. The method comprises monitoring service requests (202) and obtaining information comprising abstracted resources of radio domain, transport domain and computing domain (206). The method also comprises obtaining and processing a service description comprising a set of parameters defining the service to be provided (208) and identifying in the abstracted resources from the radio domain, transport domain and computing domain resources for delivering the service defined in the service description in a coverage area determined based on the service description (212).
US11943771B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determination, selection, configuration, and/or indication of resource allocation patterns for scheduling services, such as reliable low-latency services (e.g., ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC)) and other services in a wireless network, such as new radio (NR) (e.g., a 5G network). A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes determining a resource allocation pattern that defines resources, from a plurality of configured resource allocation patterns, wherein at least one of the plurality of configured resource allocation patterns comprises a plurality of resource elements with at least a first resource element associated with a first resource allocation restriction and at least a second resource element associated with a second resource allocation restriction and communicating based on the determined resource allocation pattern.
US11943770B2
Proposed herein are a method for performing wireless communication by a first apparatus and an apparatus supporting the same. The method may include the steps of obtaining SL DRX configuration including information related to SL DRX active time of a second apparatus, determining a selection window, selecting at least one first candidate resource within the selection window based on sensing, selecting at least one second candidate resource within the SL DRX active time of the second apparatus, based on the at least one first candidate resource not being within the SL DRX active time of the second apparatus, selecting an SL resource from among the at least one first candidate resource and the at least one second candidate resource, transmitting first SCI, to the second apparatus, for scheduling a PSSCH and second SCI, through a PSCCH, based on the SL resource, and transmitting the second SCI and a MAC PDU to the second apparatus, through the PSSCH, based on the SL resource.
US11943765B2
A method and apparatus for data transmission. In the method, a target alert sequence is transmitted to a network access device by using a first uplink grant-free transmission resource corresponding to the target alert sequence. The target alert sequence is configured to notify the network access device that the terminal requests to use the first uplink grant-free transmission resource to transmit uplink data. The uplink data is transmitted by using a transmission resource different from the first uplink grant-free transmission resource, when receiving a collision indication fed back by the network access device in response to the target alert sequence.
US11943757B2
In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
US11943752B2
Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
US11943742B2
A method may include receiving, by a wireless device, parameters indicating: a first number indicating a quantity of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitor occasions (MOs), per synchronization signal block (SSB) of SSBs, in a paging occasion; a first location of a starting PDCCH MO of PDCCH MOs of a paging early indication (PEI) occasion; and a second location of a starting PDCCH MO of PDCCH MOs of the paging occasion. The method may also include monitoring, starting from the first location and over a second number of the PDCCH MOs of the PEI occasion, a first PDCCH. The method may further include receiving, by the wireless device, a PEI based on the monitoring the first PDCCH and monitoring, in response to the PEI, starting from the second location and over the second number of the PDCCH MOs of the paging occasion, a second PDCCH.
US11943740B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a user equipment (UE) and/or base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may monitor for a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a paging message. The apparatus may also receive the paging PDCCH including paging downlink control information (DCI), where the paging DCI is associated with the paging message. The apparatus may also receive the paging message, where at least one of the paging DCI or the paging message is received more than once. In another aspect, the apparatus may transmit a paging PDCCH including paging DCI, where the paging DCI is associated with a paging message. The apparatus may also transmit the paging message, where at least one of the paging DCI or the paging message is transmitted more than once.
US11943733B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, terminal access is controlled or terminal access is permitted by using NAS protocol in a 5G communication, and thus a congested situation can be controlled.
US11943728B2
The system and method for clock synchronization, or calibration, for use in high speed asynchronous serial interfaces. The system and method is automatic, on-line, and occurs in real-time. The process of synchronization may also be started by a user. The calibration scheme is a form of adaptive filtering using 8B10B encoding. Once idle traffic is 8B10B encoded it becomes a stream of K28.5 characters. These characters are used to tune a clock frequency. The process stops, and two devices are synchronized, when the number of idle K28.5 traffic samples are uniformly approximately identical for any of two successive sample intervals.
US11943720B2
A user equipment includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a groupcast to a group including a plurality of user equipments, a receiving unit configured to receive a response related to a retransmission control for the groupcast, and a control unit configured to control a leakage power to another channel arranged by frequency division with a channel via which a response related to the retransmission control for the groupcast is received.
US11943699B2
An example method for wireless communication includes: configuring a wireless device to access a wireless network using a set of at least three components carriers (CCs); dividing the at least three component carriers into groups of component carriers based on whether the component carriers share a span pattern and a starting span for monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of each component carrier; determining a number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCE) to monitor for each group of component carriers; and configuring the wireless device to monitor the non-overlapping CCEs based on the determined number to monitor for each group.
US11943696B2
The growing problem of contraband devices being smuggled into a correctional facility raises both security and safety issue. General fixed contraband detection systems are not cost effective because they require a high up-front cost and high maintenance, training and upgrade cost after installation. The present disclosure provides details of a system and method to detect and control the usage of contraband devices in a correctional facility cost effectively. Such a system is portable and can be relocated to different locations. Such as system both detects contraband devices and disrupts the operations of the contraband devices. Such a system further provides a report on the severity of contraband usage to the correctional facility.
US11943682B2
The present disclosure provides a mobile device comprising: a motion sensor configured to determine a motion of the mobile device; a radiofrequency transceiver configured to receive an advertisement of at least one node; a controller configured to receive the motion of the mobile device; a user interface. The controller is configured to (i) obtain and parse the advertisement of the at least one node, when the mobile device is in a first motion, and (ii) display a list comprising the parsed advertisement of the at least one node on the user interface, when the mobile device is in a second motion. The first motion is the mobile device moving along a path and the second motion is the mobile device not moving away from a location on the path.
US11943679B2
Location mapping and navigation user interfaces may be generated and presented via mobile computing devices. A mobile device may detect its location and orientation using internal systems, and may capture image data using a device camera. The mobile device also may retrieve map information from a map server corresponding to the current location of the device. Using the image data captured at the device, the current location data, and the corresponding local map information, the mobile device may determine or update a current orientation reading for the device. Location errors and updated location data also may be determined for the device, and a map user interface may be generated and displayed on the mobile device using the updated device orientation and/or location data.
US11943677B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for beam recovery and radio link failure (RLF) in communications systems using beamforming and operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes communicating using beamforming with a base station (BS) via a transmit beam and a receive beam of an active beam pair and obtaining an indication of one or more alternative beams for the UE to use to send a beam recovery message to the BS in the event the transmit beam and the receive beam of the active beam pair become misaligned.
US11943671B2
A method and apparatus for selecting a NR cell in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for selecting a NR cell includes selecting, by a terminal, a first cell, acquiring, by the terminal in the first cell, a MIB, acquiring, by the terminal in the first cell, a SIB1 based at least in part on a first information in the MIB, considering, by the terminal, the first cell as barred, performing, by the terminal a first operation group if the SIB1 received in the first cell does not include a intraFreqReselection and performing, by the terminal a second operation group if the SIB1 received in the first cell includes the intraFreqReselection and the second intraFreqReselection is set to NotAllowed.
US11943667B2
A method and a base station are disclosed for multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO). According to an embodiment, a base station obtains historical scheduling characteristic information. The base station reserves resources for MU-MIMO users based at least on the historical scheduling characteristic information. The base station allocates the reserved resources to the MU-MIMO users.
US11943658B2
A multi-protocol network and methods for operating the same are provided. The method begins with establishing a wireless-connection between a first transceiver in a first device and a second-transceiver in a second device using a wireless-protocol. First, wired-protocol packets and non-packet data are received and converted in the first device to second-packets compatible with the wireless-protocol by inserting synchronization-bits non-packet data in a preamble field. This is initiated by sensing arrival of the preamble without waiting for a start of data. The second-packets are transmitted from the first transceiver to the second, and converted to third-packets compatible with the wired-protocol by removing the synchronization-bits. Latency is improved by initiating/starting a packet to the wired controller before a data portion of the packet is received. The number of synchronization bits is selected so the second-packets are aligned and synchronized with wireless-protocol packets.
US11943649B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) for aperiodic channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) reception comprises receiving aperiodic CSI-RS configuration information including a CSI-RS triggering offset; receiving downlink control information (DCI) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), where the DCI triggers an aperiodic CSI-RS; and determining the CSI-RS triggering offset based on the CSI-RS configuration information, wherein the CSI-RS triggering offset is configured from a first set when μPDCCH<μCSIRS, and the CSI-RS triggering offset is configured from a second set when μPDCCH>μCSIRS, wherein μPDCCH and μCSIRS are subcarrier spacing configurations for the PDCCH and the aperiodic CSI-RS, respectively, and receiving the aperiodic CSI-RS in a slot KS determined based on the CSI-RS triggering offset, a slot containing the triggering DCI, and the subcarrier spacing configurations (μPDCCH and μCSIRS).
US11943642B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for operating a terminal in wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including at least one parameter associated a paging operation, and monitoring a paging occasion (PO) that is determined based on the at least one parameter, during a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation.
US11943641B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to beam failure recovery requests. In one example, a beam failure of a beam is detected, and a determination is made of which beam failure recovery resources to utilize for a beam failure recovery request based on a network configuration. The beam failure recovery request can be transmitted via beam failure recovery resources. In another example, a scheduling entity determines beam failure conditions associated with detecting a beam failure, and ascertains a network configuration for a scheduled entity that can include parameters associated with the beam failure conditions, as well as parameters associated with determining beam failure recovery resources or for transmitting a beam failure recovery request. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11943636B2
A method performed by a network node for beam management. The network node receives one or more quality values from a User Equipment (UE). The one or more quality values are measured by the UE on first reference signals transmitted by the network node in respective one or more beams in a first set of candidate beams. The A serving beam is selected out of the first set of candidate beams based on the received quality values for data communication with the UE. The network node creates a rule related to signal quality. The network node obtains one or more second quality values related to respective subsequent messages transmitted to the UE in the selected serving beam. As long as the rule is fulfilled with respect to the second quality value, the network node transmits one or more further subsequent messages only in the serving beam.
US11943634B2
A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; determining whether a shared spectrum channel access is enabled; determining a first index of the SS/PBCH block as a candidate SS/PBCH block index (ISSB1) based on a number of candidate SS/PBCH blocks in a half frame; and determining a second index of the SS/PBCH block as an SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) based on a quasi-co-location (QCL) parameter (Q) indicated by a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block, wherein the SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) is determined as: ISSB2=ISSB1 mod Q based on a determination that the shared spectrum channel access is enabled, where mod is a modular operation; or ISSB2=ISSB1 based on the determination that the shared spectrum channel access is not enabled.
US11943622B2
A unique code per pairing of each remote control to each controlled device (such as a TV or other media device) is used in infrared (IR) commands sent by the remote control for the device to detect if the remote control has been moved to a different room. The remote control supports both IR and short range wireless radio (e.g., Bluetooth®) commands. Both IR and Bluetooth® commands are sent on every key press of the remote control unit. When the IR command is received by the device, the device will check if the unique code is from a remote control unit currently paired to the device. If the unique code is not from a remote control unit currently paired to the device, the device will initiate pairing with the remote control unit and execute the command.
US11943619B2
The presently claimed disclosure is directed to methods that may be implemented at a computer. Methods and systems consistent with the present disclosure may include extending protocols associated with authenticating client (i.e. supplicant) devices and with authorizing those supplicant devices to access a wireless network. These methods may include sending data relating to the failure of an authentication and/or an authorization process to a supplicant device attempting to access a wireless network. Methods discussed within may include securely sending failure codes or reasons to a supplicant device that identify why an authentication or authorization process failed. These methods may include sending messages between a supplicant device, an authenticator device, and an authentication and authorization server. After a first failure, the supplicant device may be able to access the wireless network after a reason or code of that failure has been reported to the supplicant device.
US11943617B2
A method of acquiring access rights to conditional access content. The method comprises receiving an access right on a first terminal through a first communication channel; storing said access right in said first terminal; sending a request for said conditional access content to a content provider, said request containing at least an identifier of an account to which said first terminal is associated, an identifier of the requested content and a piece of information concerning said access right; verifying, by said content provider, the authenticity of said access right using said piece of information concerning the access right; and when there has been a successful verification, marking said access right as used, and sending said conditional access content to at least one terminal linked to said account. The first terminal using near field communication technology (NFC) during at least one transfer of said access rights.
US11943616B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for ingress message rate limiting are disclosed. One method includes, at a network node, receiving a service request message from a service consumer network function and extracting, from the received service request message, an access token that includes a consumer network function instance identifier identifying the service consumer network function. The method further includes determining, using the consumer network function instance identifier, that an allowed ingress message rate associated with the service consumer network function has been reached or exceeded and in response to determining that the allowed ingress message rate associated with the service consumer network function has been reached or exceeded, performing a message rate limiting action.
US11943615B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for securely providing a profile to a terminal in a communication system.
US11943608B2
A Bluetooth communication system includes: a Bluetooth host device; and a Bluetooth device set which including a first member device and a second member device. The first member device is arranged to operably generate and transmit target Bluetooth packets containing an auto-pair request to the Bluetooth host device. The second member device is arranged to operably generate a resolvable set identifier corresponding to the second member device according to a device set identification information. The Bluetooth host device is arranged to operably identify the first member device as a first privileged device according to the auto-pair request in the target Bluetooth packets, and to operably transmit a first privileged pairing notice to the first member device and to operably generate a first cypher key. The first member device further generates a second cypher key corresponding to the first cypher key after receiving the first privileged pairing notice.
US11943606B2
An acoustic image source model for early reflections in a room is generated by iteratively mirroring (305) rooms around boundaries (e.g. walls) of rooms of the previous iteration. The boundaries around which to mirror in each iteration is determined (303) by a specific selection criterion including requiring that mirror directions cannot be reversed, cannot be in an excluded direction and cannot be repeated unless in a continuous series of mirrorings.
US11943603B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving information on a position of at least one user with respect to a spatial audio field provided by an audio source device, determining an audio volume level at the position of the at least one user, receiving information relating to background noise generated by the audio source device when providing the spatial audio field, determining, based on the audio volume level at the position of the at least one user and the information relating to the background noise, control information for controlling the audio source device, and controlling the audio source device based on the control information when providing the spatial audio field.
US11943597B2
A receiver is provided in the present invention. The receiver includes: a housing having a hollow inner cavity; a diaphragm mechanism disposed in the hollow inner cavity, partitioning the hollow inner cavity into a first cavity and a second cavity, and including a vibration plate; and an electromagnetic driving mechanism disposed in the hollow inner cavity and including a coil assembly and at least one magnetic field generation member. Each magnetic field generation member is disposed in the first cavity or the second cavity, and the magnetic field generation member is close to a free end of the vibration plate. The coil assembly is disposed in the second cavity and includes a coil and a magnetic core. The coil and the vibration plate are placed in the same direction. The magnetic core is inserted in a hollow inner hole of the coil. A first end of the magnetic core extends out of the hollow inner hole of the coil and is fixed in the second cavity, and a second end of the magnetic core extends out of the hollow inner hole of the coil and serves as a support for the vibration plate. A periphery of the diaphragm mechanism is sealingly connected to an inner wall of the housing. Compared with the prior art, the receiver in the present invention reduces connection between movable parts, thereby simplifying the assembly process and reducing the manufacturing cost.
US11943592B2
A single-ended to differential converter includes a converter input, a first converter output, a second converter output, and an internal node, wherein the first converter output and the second converter output comprise a differential output; a non-inverting amplifier having an input coupled to the converter input, and an output coupled to the first converter output; an inverting amplifier having an input coupled to the first converter output, and an output coupled to the second converter output; a charge pump having a charge pump output capacitor coupled between the second converter output and the internal node; and a feedback capacitor coupled between the first converter output and the internal node.
US11943588B2
An exemplary method, comprising generating an inductance signal utilizing an external component held against skin of a recipient, and receiving the inductance signal via an implanted inductance coil implanted in the recipient, wherein a layer of skin is located between the inductance coil and a skull a recipient in which the inductance coil is implanted.
US11943582B2
A sound enhancing device for improving voice reception of a smartphone microphone is attachable to the rear surface of a smartphone opposite the surface of the smartphone having a display. The device has a deflector in a sliding engagement within a cavity of a housing moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. A reflective curved area positioned on a first surface of the deflector captures and reflects sound waves from the voice of a user toward a microphone of the smartphone.
US11943579B2
Systems and methods are herein described for a coaxial loudspeaker. The loudspeaker may comprise a compression driver having a first diaphragm assembly including a first magnet, and a first diaphragm coupled to a first voice coil, and a second diaphragm assembly including a second magnet and a second diaphragm coupled to a second voice coil. The compression driver may further comprise a third diaphragm assembly including a third diaphragm coupled to a third voice coil.
US11943566B2
Provided is a communication system that includes: a first imaging device; a communication unit configured to execute a first communication with a mobile communication terminal and a second communication with a communication device other than the mobile communication terminal to execute relay communication relaying the communication between the mobile communication terminal and the communication device; a communication control unit configured to receive, from the mobile communication terminal via the first communication, data of a second captured image that is captured by a second imaging device provided in the mobile communication terminal having the first communication established for the relay communication; and an image processing unit configured to execute prescribed image processing based on the data of a first captured image that is captured by the first imaging device and the data of the second captured image.
US11943556B2
A vertically stacked image sensor with HDR imaging functionality and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The image sensor comprises, a first substrate, a pixel array organized into a plurality of pixel subarrays, of which each pixel comprises a photoelectric element for integrating a photocharge during each one of a plurality of subframe exposures, a transfer gate and a buffered charge-voltage converter. A first charge accumulation element of the charge-voltage converter is operatively connectable to at least one second charge accumulation element through a gain switch. The image sensor comprises control circuitry configured to trigger a partial or a complete transfer of the and to time-interleave at least two rolling shutter control sequences. Separate readout blocks are provided on the second substrate for each pixel subarray, each comprising in a pipelined architecture an A/D conversion unit, a pixel memory logic and a pixel memory unit.
US11943555B2
A pixel processing circuit, a reading method thereof and an image sensor are provided. The pixel processing circuit includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a Bayer array, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) module comprising a plurality of analog-to-digital converters and a plurality of switch selection modules. The analog-to-digital converters are respectively located on the opposite first side and second side of the pixel array. The switch selection modules are set between the pixel array and the analog-to-digital converters to switch the connectivity between the pixel units and the analog-to-digital converters on the opposite sides of the pixel array so that signals of green pixel units are read by first analog-to-digital converters located at the first side of the pixel array, and signals of remaining color pixel units are read by second analog-to-digital converters that are located at the second side of the pixel array.
US11943551B2
Disclosed herein are a depth-sensing device and a related electronic device and method for operating the depth-sensing device. The depth-sensing device includes: an image sensor, which includes a pixel array, configured to sense a reflected light signal reflected from a target to the pixel array, wherein reflected light signal forms a plurality of light speckles on the pixel array, and the pixel array includes a plurality of first-type pixels and a plurality of second-type pixels, wherein the first-type pixel are distributed in a first set of pixel rows of the pixel array, the second-type pixels are distributed in a second set of pixel rows of the pixel array, and the pixel rows extend toward a first predetermined direction.
US11943548B2
An apparatus and a method using no switching elements for multiplexing and reading arrays of sensors whose electrical resistance is modulated by the signals to be measured are proposed. Sensor elements are arranged in groups and columns where each column is fed with a continuous voltage waveform of different amplitude, frequency and phase characteristics which then produce current signals that are modulated by the variable resistance signals to be measured. Modulated currents are summed row-wise and collected at the read-out circuits, either by applying a constant voltage to each row of the array or by connecting a capacitor and converting these current summations into output voltage signals. The read-out circuits de-multiplex each individual sensor signal to be measured by lock-in demodulation according to the frequencies and phases employed for the stimulation of each column.
US11943539B2
An environmental capture system (ECS) captures image data and depth information in a 360-degree scene. The captured image data and depth information can be used to generate a 360-degree scene. The ECS comprises a frame, a drive train mounted to the frame, and an image capture device coupled to the drive train to capture, while pointed in a first direction, a plurality of images at different exposures in a first field of view (FOV) of the 360-degree scene. The ECS further comprises a depth information capture device coupled to the drive train. The depth information capture device and the image capture device are rotated by the drive train about a first, substantially vertical, axis from the first direction to a second direction. The depth information capture device, while being rotated from the first direction to the second direction, captures depth information for a first portion of the 360-degree scene. The image capture device captures, while pointed in the second direction, a plurality of images at different exposures in a second FOV that overlaps the first FOV of the 360-degree scene. The depth information capture device and the image capture device are rotated by the drive train about the first axis from the second direction to a third direction. The depth information capture device, while being rotated from the second direction to the third direction, captures depth information for a second portion of the 360-degree scene. The image capture device, while pointed in the third direction, captures a plurality of images at different exposures in a third FOV that overlaps the second FOV of the 360-degree scene.
US11943531B2
An electronic apparatus configured to communicate with a content processing system, the electronic apparatus includes a communication controller configured to control transmission of a processing instruction for content to the content processing system and control acquisition of a remaining content amount available for the processing from the content processing system via a communication unit, and a display controller configured to control display of a numerical value indicating the acquired remaining content amount in a specific display area, and in a case where a predetermined condition about communication is satisfied, control performing of a specific display related to the specific display area based on satisfaction of the predetermined condition, the specific display being different from the numerical value indicating the remaining content amount.
US11943524B2
A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a lens module including one or more lenses; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the lens module into an electrical signal; and a filter configured to perform a polarization function, wherein the filter is configured to be movable in a space formed between the lens module and the image sensor.
US11943519B2
Provided is an information processing device coupled to a device which a user operates with a hand of the user and on the surface of which a plurality of sensors that each output information associated with a spatial positional relation with the surface of the hand of the user are arranged, the information processing device being configured to receive output from each of the sensors included in the device and generate an image in which an image element having been drawn with a pixel value determined on the basis of a value represented by the output from each of the sensors is arranged at a position corresponding to a position at which each of the sensors is arranged, on a mapping space obtained by plane-unfolding a portion that constitutes the surface of the device and on which the sensors are arranged, Further, the information processing device is configured to, upon receipt of input of the generated image, estimate information associated with the position of each of joints of the hand of the user who operates the device and output the estimated information as coordinate information in a three-dimensional space whose origin is placed on a point that moves with the device.
US11943508B2
Techniques for real-time DVR programming employ secure instant message protocol in a DVR environment. An embodiment sends an instant message to the DVR which causes the DVR to open a new secure connection with the service provider for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider. Another embodiment uses an already established connection with an instant message server for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider.
US11943503B2
Methods, systems, and media for generating a media quality score associated with the presentation of a content item are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a plurality of measurement streams associated with a presentation of a video content item comprising a plurality of frames; extracting, using the hardware processor, a plurality of measurements from the plurality of measurement streams; associating each measurement of the plurality of extracted measurements with a particular time position of the presentation of the video content item, wherein groups of measurements are associated with each time position of the presentation of the video content item; determining an interaction score between each measurement in a group of measurements at each particular time position of the plurality of measurement streams to obtain a plurality of interaction scores for the plurality of measurement streams at each time position; combining the plurality of interaction to generate a media quality score for the presentation of the video content item; determining whether the video content item was presented as intended by a content provider; and transmitting a notification that includes the media quality score and that includes an indication of the determination of whether the video content item was presented as intended by the content provider.
US11943502B2
Techniques for a smartphone-based conditional access (CA) system are described. In some embodiments, a headend in the CA system obtains a security profile associated with a pair of receiving devices used by a user, e.g., a first device (e.g., a smartphone) and a second device (e.g., a set-top-box or a TV). The headend dynamically regulates user access to requested media content during each entitlement period by assigning and distributing separate keys to the first and second device based on the security profile. The headend also uses the distributed keys to protect the media content before broadcasting. On the receiving end, one receiving device receives the media content and determines whether it is decryptable by the device. If decryptable, the receiving device (e.g., the set-top-box/TV) decrypts the media content using the keys assigned by the headend. Otherwise, the receiving device forwards the media content to the pairing device for decryption.
US11943500B2
According to an aspect, an apparatus may include a media streaming device including electronic circuitry configured to receive media content wirelessly from a media content source, and an output cord segment having a first end portion integrally coupled to a structure of the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a receiving device, where the electronic circuitry is further configured to transmit the received media content through the output cord segment to the receiving device. The apparatus may include a power cord segment having a first end portion configured to be coupled to the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a power source.
US11943499B2
A media guidance application is provided by which users can define rules for assigning user equipment devices as destinations for media content. For example, a user may define a rule by which selected media content having attributes that satisfy a user-defined condition are downloaded, recorded, or streamed to a particular, user-specified user equipment device. The user may define and manage rules using media guidance menus, and may restrict other users from accessing the rules (e.g., parents restricting children).
US11943492B2
A method includes that a media asset server receives an identifier and a new-language file of a target video and converts the new-language file into a new-language medium file. The media asset server finds a first index file based on the identifier of the target video, and obtains a second index file based on a storage address of the new-language medium file on the media asset server. The media asset server sends the new-language medium file and the second index file to a content delivery server. The content delivery server replaces the storage address of the new-language medium file on the media asset server in the second index file with a storage address of the new-language medium file on the content delivery server to obtain a third index file. The content delivery server generates a first URL of the target video.
US11943490B2
The method comprises registering at least one of an internet protocol (IP) address and a media access control (MAC) address of the security devices, generating a plurality of public key and private key pairs, encrypting and storing private keys comprised in the plurality of public key and private key pairs using a master key provided from a master key management unit, selecting any one of a plurality of public key and private key pairs when the access of the security device is approved and providing a certificate comprising the selected public key to the security device, receiving a symmetric key encrypted with the public key of the certificate from the security device, and decrypting the private key using the master key provided from the master key management unit.
US11943487B2
An encoder may determine one or more encoding characteristics associated with a content segment of a content asset. The one or more encoding characteristics may comprise an estimated bitrate required for transmission of the content segment over a network. The one or more encoding characteristics associated with the content segment may be inserted into a portion of an other content segment, such as into a header of the other content segment. The content segment and the other content segment may be configured for linear transmission, such as using adaptive bitrate streaming. When the other content segment is received at a playback device prior to the content segment, the playback device may use the one or more encoding characteristics of the content segment embedded in the header of the other content segment to determine one or more playback characteristics of the content segment.
US11943486B2
The present disclosure provides a live video broadcast method performed by a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a live broadcast command to live broadcast a video game in real time, and creating a video buffer for the video game based on the live broadcast command; while playing the video game in real time, extracting video picture frames from the video game and storing them in the video buffer; collecting voice data by using a microphone of the terminal device, and synchronously synthesize the voice data and the video picture frames stored in the video buffer into a video streaming media file; and uploading the video streaming media file to a live broadcast server for live broadcasting the video streaming media file on other mobile devices.
US11943485B2
A method for encoding an image having been cut up into partitions. The method includes: predicting data of a current partition based on an already encoded and then decoded reference partition, generating a predicted partition; determining residual data by comparing data relating to the current partition with the predicted partition, the residual data associated with various digital data items. Prior producing a signal containing the encoded information, performing the following steps; determining, from the predetermined residual data, a subset containing residual data capable of being modified; calculating the value of a function representative of the residual data; comparing the calculated value with a value of at least one of the digital data items; based on the comparison, modification or non-modification of at least one of the residual data items of the subset; and, in the event of a modification, entropy encoding the at least one modified residual data item.
US11943481B2
Methods, systems, and devices for performing entropy coding for a palette escape symbol in palette mode coding and decoding are described. An example method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video regions including a current video block and a bitstream representation of the video, wherein the bitstream representation conforms to a format rule that the current video block is coded using a palette mode coding tool, wherein a binarization of an escape symbol for the current video block uses an exponential-Golomb (EG) code of order K, wherein K is a non-negative integer that is unequal to three, and wherein the palette mode coding tool represents the current video block using a palette of representative color values and wherein the escape symbol is used for a sample of the current video block coded without using the representative color values.
US11943472B2
A video decoding method includes determining, based on an area of a current block, whether a multi-prediction combination mode for predicting the current block by combining prediction results obtained according to a plurality of prediction modes is applied to the current block, when the multi-prediction combination mode is applied to the current block, determining the plurality of prediction modes to be applied to the current block, generating a plurality of prediction blocks of the current block, according to the plurality of prediction modes, and determining a combined prediction block of the current block, by combining the plurality of prediction blocks according to respective weights.
US11943466B2
A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture.
US11943461B2
A method includes receiving a bit stream; determining, using the bit stream, whether an adaptive resolution management mode is enabled; determining, using the bit stream, a scaling factor including a vertical scaling constant component and a horizontal scaling constant component; and reconstructing pixel data of a current block in adaptive resolution management mode and using the determined scaling factor, the reconstructing including scaling the current block horizontally by the horizontal scaling constant component and scaling the current block vertically by the vertical scaling constant component. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11943460B2
A computer-implemented method for operating an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving an input by the ANN. The ANN generates a latent representation of the input. The latent representation is communicated according to a bit rate based on a learned latent scaling parameter. The latent scaling parameter is learned based on a channel index and a tradeoff parameter value that corresponds to a value that balances the bit rate and a distortion.
US11943459B2
Signalling of syntax elements in a sequence parameter set of a video bitstream is addressed. Particularly, it is provided a method of decoding a video bitstream wherein a sequence parameter set, SPS, is coded that contains syntax elements that apply to a video sequence, the method comprising obtaining a value of a first syntax element from the SPS used to specify whether a decoded picture buffer, DPB, parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS and obtaining a value of a second syntax element from the SPS, at least when determining that the value of the first syntax element specifies that the DPB parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS, used to specify the presence of a DPB syntax element in the DPB parameters syntax structure, wherein the DPB syntax element is applied to a temporal sublayer except for the highest temporal sublayer in the video sequence.
US11943450B2
A method for estimating blockiness in a video frame of transform-based video encoding includes: obtaining a bitstream of a transform coded video signal, the signal being partitioned into video frames and all operations being performed on a per frame basis, wherein coefficients constituting transforms encoded in the bitstream of the video frames are read; averaging the coefficients of the transforms encoded in the bitstream into one averaged transform matrix per transform block size i; generating or making available one weighting matrix per averaged transform of block size i; computing intermediate weighted average transform matrices; processing all members of each weighted and averaged transform matrix into a single value per transform of block size i, to obtain intermediate signals; and computing a single value by weighting values of the intermediate signals according to an area in the respective video frame and adding up the weighted values of the intermediate signals.
US11943444B2
A method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode, where the conversion includes performing the upsampling operation in which the final prediction block is determined by using a reduced prediction block of the current video block and by using reconstructed neighboring samples of the current video block according to a rule, and where the reduced prediction block is obtained by performing the matrix vector multiplication operation on reduced boundary samples of the current video block.
US11943434B2
A method for image decoding performed by a decoding device includes: deriving a specific value for a current chroma block; when a width and a height of the current chroma block have a value equal to or greater than the specific value, deriving upper peripheral chroma samples of a number equal to the specific value of the current chroma block and left peripheral chroma samples of a number equal to the specific value; deriving CCLM parameters on the basis of the upper peripheral chroma samples, the left peripheral chroma samples, and down-sampled peripheral luma samples; and deriving prediction samples for the current chroma block on the basis of the down-sampled luma samples and the CCLM parameters, where the derived specific value is 2.
US11943427B2
A display modification system for use with a display device, including a camera operable to capture images of at least a portion of the display device, an image analysis unit operable to derive the value of one or more parameters associated with the display of images by the display device in dependence upon the captured images, a modification determination unit operable to determine a modification to be applied to a content display process associated with the display device, where the modification includes changes to a content rendering process for generating content to be displayed by the display device and/or one or more display settings associated with the display device, and a modification communication unit operable to transmit information identifying the determined modification to one or both of the display device and a processing device operable to render content for display by the display device.
US11943417B2
An apparatus has a pixel array, a multi-lens array (MLA) coupled to the pixel array, and circuitry functionally coupled to the pixel array. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels for receiving-and-displaying or sensing-and-outputting a plurality of elemental images. The MLA has a plurality of lenslets. The circuitry has a model for processing the plurality of elemental images. The model and one or more characteristics of the plurality of lenslets are jointly optimized.
US11943409B2
An image forming system includes: an information processing apparatus configured to output information related to a print job to form an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus being configured to be operable in a plurality of power modes including a first normal power mode in which the information is output and a first power saving mode in which power consumption is less than the first normal power mode; and an image forming apparatus having: an image forming unit configured to form an image on the recording medium based on the print job output from the image processing apparatus, and an operation unit to be operated by a user to instruct to form the image by the image forming unit.
US11943407B2
An image reading apparatus includes an image sensor to read a document, a sensor to detect whether the document is loaded on the image reading apparatus, and a processor to, when the sensor detects the document is loaded on the image reading apparatus, and before a scan instruction is input to the image reading apparatus, control the image sensor to execute a pre-scan job with respect to the loaded document using a default set value.
US11943400B2
The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.
US11943390B1
Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for a simple, error free, secure, and controlled information sharing through an audio communication. The system is configured to facilitate the audio communication, generate permanent unique identification number, store map between permanent unique user identification number to the user information to share, facilitate secure and controlled information sharing and easy retrieval of error free shared information through a secure communication mechanism between a client application and a centralized server application. Embodiments herein facilitate user to communicate the permanent unique identification number over the audio communication in place of error free information to be communicated with a caller, by executing the client application and the centralized server application.
US11943387B1
A system and method for monitoring calls or other communications between two parties by a monitoring service. The system may be configured to determine whether the caller is a known or unknown caller. In the event that the system determines that the caller is an unknown caller (i.e., not in either of a “good” caller or “bad” caller database), then the system may process dialog between the two parties to determine whether a potential fraud is being committed. The processing may be performed using artificial intelligence (AI) in real-time. In response to determining that a potential fraud is being committed, the call may be interdicted by automatically adding a third party, such as a security agent, to the call. The system may be configured to selectively play a pre-call message to a non-subscriber of the monitoring service to notify the non-subscriber that the call is being monitored.
US11943385B1
Cross-service usage is dynamically enforced for different network-based services. A cross-service control system may accept requests to specify a usage quota for a client for an interface of a network-based service. A rule to enforce the usage quota may be distributed to request handling nodes for the service. Usage measurements may be collected from the request handling nodes for requests received from the client via the interface. An update to the usage quota may be determined from an evaluation of the usage measurements. The rule at the request handling nodes may be updated to enforce the updated usage quota.
US11943381B2
A technique for selectively configuring a case of a handheld device to shield an antenna from receiving or transmitting wireless signals is disclosed. The technique includes moving a blocking element on the case between a first position and a second position. The blocking element is a physical structure that is rotatable, slidable, or removable to switch between the first position and the second position. In response to moving the blocking element to the first position, the blocking element blocks wireless signals received or transmitted by the antenna of the handheld device. In response to moving the blocking element to the second position, wireless signals can be received or transmitted through the case by the antenna.
US11943374B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for detecting malicious changelog modifications with blockchain. The method includes identifying at least one database transaction that was initiated in response to a request by a user and receiving a first changelog record associated with the at least one database transaction from a target blockchain of at least one changelog blockchain. The method also includes determining a public key associated with the user and attempting a decryption of the first changelog record using the public key. The method further includes detecting tampering of the target blockchain for the at least one database transaction based on determining that the decryption of the first changelog record has failed, and restoring at least part of the target blockchain with at least part of a verified changelog blockchain based on the tampering of the target blockchain.
US11943371B2
Systems and methods for root-level application selective configuration for managing performance of actions on files in a file system including an agent executed on a computing device. The agent can determine files stored in a particular folder and determine file metadata corresponding to the files based on a policy file. The agent can receive a selection of a particular file of the files that corresponds to one of the file metadata. The agent can determine an availability of one or more actions for the particular file as specified by file metadata. The agent can render a context menu that includes menu entries with one or more additional menu entry that corresponds to the actions based on the file metadata. The agent can perform an authentication of a current user account based on the policy file and cause the action to be performed based on privileges of the agent.
US11943364B2
In one embodiment, a set of feature vectors can be derived from any biometric data, and then using a deep neural network (“DNN”) on those one-way homomorphic encryptions (i.e., each biometrics' feature vector) an authentication system can determine matches or execute searches on encrypted data. Each biometrics' feature vector can then be stored and/or used in conjunction with respective classifications, for use in subsequent comparisons without fear of compromising the original biometric data. In various embodiments, the original biometric data is discarded responsive to generating the encrypted values. In another embodiment, the homomorphic encryption enables computations and comparisons on cypher text without decryption of the encrypted feature vectors. Security of such privacy enable biometrics can be increased by implementing an assurance factor (e.g., liveness) to establish a submitted biometric has not been spoofed or faked.
US11943361B2
A client device for use with a gateway device (or a Wi-Fi APD) with a key stored therein and an external server where an original singe sign on (SSO) password is stored. The client device transmits a one time password (OTP) request to the external server, obtains the OTP from the external server, transmits the OTP to the external server to authenticate the client device, transmits an encrypted SSO password request to the external server, onboards the gateway device using a temporary password, receives the encrypted SSO password from the external server, obtains the key from the gateway device, decrypts the encrypted SSO password using the key to obtain the SSO password, and changes the temporary password of the gateway device to the original SSO password.
US11943358B2
One or more embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems that are directed at providing enhanced privacy and security to distributed ledger-based networks (DLNs) via the implementation of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) in the DLNs. ZKPs allow participants of DLNs to prove ownership of accounts on the DLNs without having to necessarily reveal private information such as the private key of the account publicly. As such, the disclosed methods and systems directed at the ZKP-enabled DLNs provide privacy to participants of the DLNs while still allowing the DLNs to remain as consensus-based networks.
US11943356B2
Systems and methods are provided for persistent login. Such persistent login may be based on linking user identity across accounts of different entities to allow each entity to maintain control over their respective sets of user data, while providing a streamlined user experience that avoids much of the repetitive need to login to different services with different login credentials (e.g., during periods of heavy use). Such persistent login may utilize a set of tokens issued and exchanged between devices of the partnering entities. Such tokens may include an access token, refresh token, and identity token. When a user associated with a first entity requests access to information secured by a second entity, such request may be associated with the access token. If the access token is determined to be expired, the refresh token may be used to refresh the access token, which may also trigger issuance of a new refresh token. The refreshed access token may be used in conjunction with the identity token to access the requested information secured by the second entity.
US11943355B2
Methods and compositions for decentralized systems for mitigating climate change are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise: one or more first servers operable to store a plurality of first tokens, wherein each one of the plurality of first tokens is associated with fiscal value; one or more second servers operable to store a plurality of second tokens, wherein each one of the plurality of second tokens corresponds to a unit of voting power; one or more project developer nodes operable to transmit project data corresponding to renewable energy or carbon sequestration; one or more auditor nodes operable to verify an identity, validate credentials, perform a project assessment, generate a smart contract, receive signals, and transmit signals; and one or more steward nodes, wherein each one of the one or more steward nodes is operable to stake tokens for voting power and to distribute voting power.
US11943351B2
An intelligent gateway device provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated with the premises. The device includes a communications and processing infrastructure integrated with a peer and presence messaging based communications protocol for enabling communications between the device and an external support network and between the device and connected digital endpoint devices. A services framework at the gateway device implements the communications and processing infrastructure for enabling service management, service configuration, and authentication of user of services at the intelligent gateway. The framework provides a storage and execution environment for supporting and executing received service logic modules relating to use, management, and support of the digital endpoint devices. Thus, the gateway device provides a network-based services point of presence for a plurality of digital endpoint devices at the premises.
US11943350B2
In certain embodiments, the use of re-usable cold storage keys to sign messages may be facilitated. In some embodiments, an offline computer system (operating within an offline computing environment) may obtain, from a removable computer-readable storage medium, signing key shards corresponding to a signing private key and a blockchain transaction to be signed, where the signing key shards satisfy a key shard threshold that is (i) a number of key shards required for reconstructing the signing private key and (ii) less than a number of key shards derived from the signing private key using a ceremony key. The offline computer system may form a ciphertext of the signing private key using the signing key shards and reconstruct the signing private key by decrypting the ciphertext using the ceremony key. The offline computer system may sign the blockchain transaction using the signing private key.
US11943348B1
Cryptographic techniques are disclosed which employ at least a five-pass protocol (5PP) for a cryptographic exchange of a secret data matrix between two computer systems. This 5PP approach improves the functioning of the computer systems by making their encrypted communications more resistant to potential quantum computing-based attacks while still resisting brute-force attacks by eavesdroppers. For example, the 5PP approach can be used to improve public-key cryptography. The system may comprise a first computer system and a second computer system, where a secret data matrix is known by the first computer system but is not shared with the second computer system in unobscured form. The first and second computer systems can be configured to communicate with each other over a network to share a series of at least five messages in at least five passes between each other that collectively hide the secret data matrix using reversible logic operations that obscure the secret data matrix according to at least five parameters of which (1) at least two are known by the first computer system but are not shared with the second computer system in unobscured form and (2) at least three are known by the second computer system but are not shared with the first computer system in unobscured form.
US11943335B2
An improved data structure approach, and corresponding computational systems and methods are described to provide a technical approach that can be used for improving computational performance where a blockchain data structure is being accessed continuously or periodically for validation of recordals of one or more events that have taken place. A hybrid off-chain (or off-contract)/on-chain solution is utilized to provide a mechanism for establishing data linkages between the off-chain (or off-contract) records and on-chain data payloads.
US11943321B2
Techniques described herein are used to support cross-platform data sharing, access, and management between a communication process flow management platform and a communication platform. Specifically, techniques described herein support a communication process flow management platform detecting an event associated with a communication process flow that control electronic communications between a tenant and a set of users. The platform may generate a data object corresponding to the event. The data object may include metadata associated with the event. The platform may transmit, to a communication platform, a request that includes the data object. The request may be configured to cause an entry associated with the event to be posted into the communication platform.
US11943319B2
Systems and methods for isolating applications associated with multiple tenants within a computing platform receive a request from a client associated with a tenant for running an application on a computing platform. Hosts connected to the platform are associated with a network address and configured to run applications associated with multiple tenants. A host is identified based at least in part on the request. One or more broadcast domain(s) including the identified hosts are generated. The broadcast domains are isolated in the network at a data link layer. A unique tenant identification number corresponding to the tenant is assigned to the broadcast domains. In response to launching the application on the host: the unique tenant identification number is assigned to the launched application and is added to the network address of the host; and the network address of the host is sent to the client associated with the tenant.
US11943315B2
Techniques relating to caching a content object are disclosed. These techniques include receiving, at a first server from a requestor, a revalidation request relating to a content object. The techniques further include determining that metadata describing one or more characteristics of the content object is stored in a cache associated with the first server and that the content object is not stored in the cache, and in response: determining, at the first server, whether to retrieve content object data from any server based on analyzing a metric relating to retrieving the content object, and transmitting from the first server to the requestor, based on analyzing the metadata, a response to the revalidation request indicating that the content object is not modified.
US11943311B2
An ephemeral content distribution system associated with exchanging calibrated communications using a wave dynamic communication protocol based at least on a current wave-state of a user is disclosed. The system transmits a wave-based request for wave dynamic communications associated with a first user. The system processes wave-geographic information associated with a bounded geographical region based on a wave-state of a second user that received the wave-based request. The system processes wave-identity information associated with the wave-state of the second user. The system next receives a response of the second user to the wave-based request in accordance with the wave-state of the second user. The system further facilitates an exchange of the calibrated communications between the first and the second user based on the wave-identity of the second user using the wave dynamic communication protocol associated with discrete epochs of the calibrated communications in the ephemeral content distribution system. Corresponding methods and a computer-readable device are also disclosed.
US11943310B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining activity patterns based upon user activity and/or performing operations based upon the activity patterns are provided. For example, activity performed using a communication interface associated with a user account may be detected. The activity may be analyzed to determine an activity pattern associated with a first set of conditions. The activity pattern may be stored in a user profile associated with the user account. The user profile may comprise a plurality of activity patterns. Each activity pattern of the plurality of activity patterns may be associated with a set of conditions of a plurality of sets of conditions. It may be determined that the first set of conditions are met. Responsive to determining that the first set of conditions are met, one or more operations associated with the activity pattern may be performed.
US11943307B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating a modified web farm framework for routing web traffic based on similarities between web traffic requests. A computing platform may receive a request to establish a server connection to host a virtual workspace. The computing platform may identify a pod and a server within the pod with network capacity to host the virtual workspace. The computing platform may assign the virtual workspace to the pod and the server, and may generate a cookie indicating connection details associated with the virtual workspace. The computing platform may receive a consumer request to connect to the virtual workspace and may transmit the cookie to the consumer. The computing platform may monitor and analyze the server connection, and may modify the server assignment associated with the virtual workspace based on determining the server connection was lost and/or terminated.
US11943299B2
A brewing device, a stand, and server for remotely monitoring a brewed beverage's status. The stand and/or server includes a wireless communication subsystem to establish wireless communications with a remote brewing device. The stand and/or brewer may wirelessly send one or more of the status updates regarding the brewed beverage server to the remote brewing device with the wireless communication subsystem. The remote brewer device establishes a user interface from which the status updates can be viewed by mobile device(s) wirelessly connected to the brewer device.
US11943297B2
Techniques for delivering a distributed network security service providing isolation of customer data are described. One example method includes assigning a first node in a distributed network to a first customer; assigning a second node in the distributed network to a second customer; configuring the assigned first node to process network traffic only from the first customer; configuring the assigned second node to process network traffic only from the second customer; processing, by the assigned first node, network traffic associated with the first customer; and processing, by the assigned second node, network traffic associated with the second customer, wherein the network traffic of the first customer is isolated from the network traffic of the second customer, wherein the network traffic of the customers is kept isolated from one another.
US11943291B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method to synchronize files from a hosted file system where the client endpoint devices have direct access to the files stored on a hosted file store. When the client desires to synchronize with the files stored on the hosted file store the process identifies a sync role that can process the request. The particular sync role does not need to maintain state with the client device or the file store. The state necessary for the processing of the synchronization process is maintained separate from the sync role such that any sync role in the system can pick up the requests and process the requests. Once the role has been selected the synchronization process proceeds as normal. As state is not maintained by the sync role multiple roles can process the request or two roles can handle different portions of the process.
US11943284B2
An overload protection mechanism for network nodes in an edge node cluster uses two tier reinforcement learning models; one at the edge node level and one at the cluster level. The node level reinforcement learning model optimizes a routing policy for a service/application to determine whether an edge node receiving a client request shall handle the traffic for the service/application. The cluster level reinforcement learning model optimizes a policy for an application that determines which neighboring edge node shall be considered to handle a client request for the given application in case of redirection or proxy by the edge node receiving the client request.
US11943274B2
Portion- or tile-based video streaming concepts are described.
US11943271B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for streaming immersive media. Content is ingested in a first two-dimension format or a first three-dimensional format, whereby the format references a neural network. The ingested content is converted to a second two-dimensional or a second three-dimensional format based on the referenced neural network. The converted content is streamed to a client end-point, such as a television, a computer, a head-mounted display, a lenticular light field display, a holographic display, an augmented reality display, or a dense light field display.
US11943264B2
Described embodiments enable device users sharing content items via a content management system to view and modify content items within native applications on their client devices. In various embodiments, a client application detects a save operation on a content item and prompts a user to provide a comment based on changes to the content item. User comments and metadata are provided to a content management system to create a historical log that provides a comprehensive summary of user interactions with a content item, including comments regarding content item changes, version information, and timestamps. The content management system provides the comments and other log contents to client applications associated with other users sharing the content item. The client applications use the comments and log information to provide notifications to the users regarding content item changes and comments by sharing users.
US11943263B2
Systems and methods are described for providing recommendations for an improved user experience in online meetings. A recommendation engine can aggregate data from user devices to make recommendations before, during and after online meetings. Before a meeting, the recommendation engine can recommend which of a user's devices to use for the meeting. During the meeting, the recommendation engine can identify current or anticipated issues and recommend changes the user can make to correct or prevent the issue. After meetings, the recommendation engine can aggregate data and identify an ongoing issue for one or multiple users. The recommendation engine can identify the cause of the issue and make recommendations to the user or an administrator accordingly.
US11943255B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting a presence of a malicious application are disclosed. In an example, a method includes determining a prediction for human user interaction with webpage content of a website by identifying webpage elements in the webpage content, where the webpage elements are for human user interaction, and determining at least one of spatial density of cursor movements or cursor velocity vectors relative to the webpage elements that are indicative of human user interaction with the webpage content. The method further includes using the prediction for human user interaction with the webpage content to determine if received webpage interaction information from a client device is indicative of a presence of a malicious application. The method provides an indication of the presence of the malicious application if the received interaction information is indicative of the presence of a malicious application.
US11943237B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by each of one or more peripheral peers of a blockchain network, a sequence of new blocks from an orderer peer, calculating hashes for the sequence of new blocks, adding the hashes to a merkle tree, determining the merkle tree is different than merkle trees from a majority of peripheral peers, determining that one or more blocks that correspond to the different merkle trees from the majority of peripheral peers are different from the sequence of new blocks, and in response ceasing committing blocks to the blockchain network.
US11943236B2
Technologies for detecting cyber-attacks against electrical distribution devices include a controller. The controller includes circuitry to determine a first measured value of a first operational parameter of a transformer based upon one or more signals received from one or more sensors of the transformer. The circuitry is also to determine a second measured value of a second operational parameter of the transformer based upon one or more signals received from the one or more sensors of the transformer, calculate a first expected value of the first operational parameter based on the second measured value of the second operational parameter and a model of the transformer that relates the first and second operational parameters, compare the first measured value of the first operational parameter to the first expected value of the first operational parameter, and identify when a difference between the first measured value and the first expected value exceeds a first threshold.
US11943227B2
A device configured to receive an access request for a website from an augmented reality device. The device is further configured to determine a user associated with the augmented reality device is authorized to access the website based on user credentials and to identify a user profile for the user associated with the user credentials. The device is further configured to identify information for flagged web pages that are associated with the website within the user profile and to generate a virtual environment with virtual objects that represent the flagged web pages. The device is further configured to provide access to the virtual environment for the augmented reality device.
US11943223B1
A computerized method for restricting communications between virtual private cloud networks comprises creating a plurality of security domains. Each of the plurality of security domains identifies gateways associated with one or more virtual private cloud networks. Also, the method features generating transit routing data stores in accordance with each of the plurality of security domains; determining whether a connection policy exists between at least a first security domain and a second security domain of the plurality of security domains; and precluding communications between gateways associated with the first security domain and gateways associated with the second security domain in response to determining that no connection policy exists between the first security domain and the second security domain.
US11943218B2
An automated computer operating software system for automatically generating user profiles is disclosed. The system is configured to automatically creates a profile or a number profiles based on biometric methods but also stores the profile(s) information along with an associated device(s) information and user generated data locally and remotely through various hardware modules and can also retrieve this information to any other device based on biometric authentication on the other device and auto adjust the operating parameters according to that other device and its operational parameters and again continue this same kind of auto creating, backing up and retrieving of both the profile of the user and device as well in a continuous loop of infinite number devices and user profiles.
US11943214B2
The present disclosure provides an identity recognition method, including: receiving registration information of a first user; binding a first login password to a first account corresponding to a post; receiving a login request sent by a user terminal; and responding to the login request, and sending data information of the first account binding with a first login password to the user terminal, to make the user terminal display the data information. The present disclosure further provides an identity recognition apparatus, system and a server. According to the identity recognition method, apparatus, system and the server, an account is set to have a corresponding relationship with a post, thus a successor of the post can browse historical-data information of the account corresponding to the post through the login password. Thusly, the user experience is good.
US11943208B2
For communicating between an Internet of Things (IoT) device and a remote computer system, the IoT device may transmit an upload data message via a close range communication circuit to a mobile communication device, for forwarding to the remote computer system. The remote computer system may receive the upload data message via a mobile radio communication network and store an address of the mobile communication device, as a communication relay address for the IoT device. The remote computer system may transmit a download data message via the mobile radio communication network to the communication relay address, for forwarding to the IoT device. The IoT device may receive the download data message from the remote computer system, as forwarded by the mobile communication device via the close range communication circuit.
US11943205B2
Systems and methods for providing access to historical data over a real-time tunnel are disclosed. The method provides a mechanism for secure communication between one or more historians. In an example, attack surfaces on historians in an industrial control system operational technology (OT) network and in an information technology (IT) networks are reduced and possibly entirely eliminated by tunneling through a DMZ (de-militarized zone) or “secured network”.
US11943202B1
A method including receiving, at a VPN server from a user device during an established VPN connection between the VPN server and the user device, a data request for the VPN server to retrieve data of interest from a host device; utilizing, by the VPN server during the established VPN connection, a first exit IP address to transmit a query to the host device for retrieving the data of interest; determining, by the VPN server based on transmitting the query, that the first exit IP address is blocked by the host device; and transmitting, by the VPN server during the established VPN connection and based on determining that the first exit IP address is blocked, the data request to a secondary server to enable retransmission of the query to the host device by utilizing a second exit IP address is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11943200B2
A virtual private network (VPN) security system obtains data regarding a VPN session including (i) for each of a plurality of first subnets, a number of allowed connection attempts by a computer system to that first subnet, (ii) for each of a plurality of second subnets, a number of blocked connection attempts by the computer system to that second subnet, (iii) for each of a plurality of first network ports, a number of allowed connection attempts by the computer system using that first network port, and (iv) for each of a plurality of second network ports, a number of blocked connection attempts by the computer system using that second network port. The security system determines, using a neural network, a metric representing an estimated likelihood that the VPN session is associated with a malicious activity, and controls the VPN session based on the metric.
US11943175B2
A method for controlling activation of a bandwidth part (BWP), a user equipment, and a base station are provided. The method includes: receiving BWP configuration information transmitted by a base station; wherein the BWP configuration information is used to indicate a default BWP corresponding to each component carrier. After receiving the BWP configuration information transmitted by the base station, the method further comprises: receiving a component carrier activation signaling transmitted by the base station; and activating, based on the component carrier activation signaling, a first target component carrier and a default BWP corresponding to the first target component carrier.
US11943158B2
A data communication apparatus, for transmitting one or more blocks of data within a frame including a two-dimensional grid of transmission symbol positions is configured to select a group of transmission symbol positions, which is a subset of the two-dimensional grid of transmission symbol positions, for a transmission of a data portion. The data communication apparatus is configured to select one or more reference symbol positions associated to the selected group of transmission symbol positions, out of a plurality of possibilities, based on an information describing a desired relative position of the reference symbol position with respect to the selected group of transmission symbol positions. Other apparatuses also use a flexible selection of transmission symbol positions and a flexible selection of reference symbol positions. A system, methods and computer programs are also described.
US11943155B2
A device may include a transceiver configured to access a communication network including a primary cell and a secondary cell, and a device controller configured to receive, on the secondary cell, scheduling information for the primary cell, and monitor a common search space for the primary cell. The device controller may be configured to selectively monitor the common search space for broadcast information. The device controller may be configured to selectively monitor the common search space based on a type of the common search space on the primary cell. A method may include scheduling, by a first scheduling mechanism, a primary cell, wherein the first scheduling mechanism comprises scheduling the primary cell by a secondary cell, scheduling, by a second scheduling mechanism, the primary cell, and deactivating the secondary cell based on switching from the first scheduling mechanism to the second scheduling mechanism. The second scheduling mechanism may include self-scheduling.
US11943148B2
Embodiments of this application provide a traffic flow processing method. The method includes: generating and configuring first configuration information for a first edge node and second configuration information for the first relay node, where the first configuration information is used to: replicate a data packet included in a received traffic flow to obtain a first data packet and a second data packet, output, to a first relay node, the obtained first data packet, and output, to a second relay node, the obtained second data packet; generating and configuring second configuration information for the first relay node, where the second configuration information is used to: replicate the first data packet to obtain a third data packet and a fourth data packet, output, to the second relay node, the obtained third data packet, and obtain and output a first received data packet between the obtained fourth data packet and a fifth data packet received from the second relay node.
US11943144B1
Described are systems and methods for providing dynamic, adaptive, real-time traffic rules for applications employing a microservice architecture. Embodiments of the present disclosure can utilize historical and real-time traffic information, as well as real-time computing resource information, to determine flow and retry rules that are to be enforced for one or more services associated with an application. The flow and retry rules can be continuously and iteratively updated based on changing real-time traffic and computing conditions. Advantageously, embodiments of the present disclosure can mitigate failures encountered by client devices in response to application programming interfaces (API) calls to the various services.
US11943138B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for detecting duplicate network device identifiers for routing protocols. A network device may receive a link state packet comprising a first network device identifier for use in a routing protocol. The network device may, upon determining that the link state packet satisfies a set of conditions, start a timer. The network device may, while the timer has not elapsed, maintain a count value of link state packets received that satisfy the set of conditions. The network device may, when the timer has elapsed, determine, based on the count value and a defined threshold value, that a second network device in the network is configured with a second network device identifier for use in the routing protocol that is the same as the first network device identifier.
US11943136B2
A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network, comprising receiving, by the NE, preferred path route (PPR) information comprising a PPR identifier (PPR-ID) and a plurality of PPR-Path Description Elements (PPR-PDEs), wherein a PPR-PDE describing the egress NE comprises a destination flag, an anycast PPR-ID, and an anycast group PPR-ID associated with the egress NE, and updating, by the NE, a forwarding database to include a forwarding entry for the egress NE, wherein the forwarding entry includes the PPR-ID, the anycast PPR-ID, and the anycast group PPR-ID, and wherein the forwarding entry indicates a next element on the PPR graph by which to forward an anycast data packet comprising the anycast PPR-ID.
US11943135B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for modifying a data connection. One apparatus includes a processor, a first interface supporting a first data connection with a 5G core network over a first access and a second interface that communicates with a UE over a second access. The processor receives a request to establish a second data connection with the UE and determines whether the second data connection can be mapped into one of a plurality of QoS flows established over the first data connection. The processor sends a request to establish a new QoS flow over the first data connection upon determining that the second data connection cannot be mapped into an existing QoS flow of the first data connection and relays traffic between the second data connection and the new QoS flow over the first data connection.
US11943133B2
The present invention discloses a hierarchical routing method oriented to a cross-boundary service network. The hierarchical routing method includes the following steps: (1): proposing reference services for services with same or similar functions in a service network, with differences in format and usage mode, and establishing a unified and standardized usage view for a user; and (2): establishing a method for mapping between the reference services and ordinary services to map the multiple ordinary services with similar functions into the unified reference services, and automatically selecting an optimal ordinary service when called by the user. The hierarchical routing method provided by the present invention can implement high-speed routing of service call in the service network, thereby providing a basis for aggregation and interoperation of cross-boundary services.
US11943127B2
A network-based control method for power consumption of an application, a terminal device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The network-based control method may include: identifying a target application having a frequent wakeup or heartbeat detection behavior in response to a freezing function being enabled; monitoring whether a peer server to which the target application is connected is accessible; and freezing the target application by the freezing function in response to the peer server being inaccessible.
US11943120B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center asset telemetry operation. The data center asset telemetry operation includes: monitoring telemetry information for a plurality of data center assets; determining whether any of the telemetry information includes backlogged telemetry aggregation information; and, performing a telemetry aggregation operation when the telemetry aggregation information is backlogged, the telemetry aggregation operation collecting and aggregating the backlogged telemetry aggregation information.
US11943113B2
A shelf label system and a method thereof are provided. The shelf label system includes base stations and at least one server. The at least one server may be configured to: obtain a target network topological structure according to a master base station having a shallowest topological depth and a ranging result between a base station and a superior base station of the base station, where each base station has a single superior base station; generate a transceiving time slot periodic table by allocating a transceiving time slot to each base station according to the target network topological structure; and obtain a synchronous network of the shelf label system by instructing the base stations to transmit and receive synchronous signals according to the transceiving time slot periodic table. The shelf label system further includes electronic shelf labels that receive the synchronous signals from the base stations.
US11943110B2
Configuration information that identifies a plurality of components that define a network is received. Based on the configuration information, a plurality of virtual network function (VNF) instances are caused to be generated on a plurality of general-purpose computing devices to implement the network on the plurality of general-purpose computing devices, each VNF instance corresponding to one of the plurality of components. Based on the configuration information, at least some of the VNF instances of the plurality of VNF instances are configured. Testing data and testing criteria are obtained. The testing data is submitted to the network, and network test results based on the testing data and the testing criteria are output.
US11943108B2
A method for operating a telecom network having an SLA agreement is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining annotated alarm data comprising an indication of a threshold crossing of at least one state variable of the telecom network defined by the SLA. The annotated alarm data further comprises an indication of a desired value of the at least one state variable of the telecom network. Moreover, the method comprises determining a desired state of the telecom network based on the desired value of at least one state variable, and selecting a set of policy actions from a policy action bank. The policy action bank comprises a plurality of policy actions, where each policy action is associated with at least one estimated action effect. The selection of the set of policy actions is accordingly based on the estimated action effects of the plurality of policy actions and on the determined desired state of the telecom network such that the desired state is reachable upon execution of the selected set of policy actions. The method further comprises sending the selected set of policy actions to an action orchestrating module for execution of the selected set of policy actions. Moreover, a corresponding computer program product and system are disclosed.
US11943106B2
Systems and methods of managing a Bluetooth SigMesh network involve a supervisor configured to monitor one or more network parameters of the SigMesh network, such as topology, message identity, transmit count, transmit interval, relay retransmit count, or relay retransmit interval. The supervisor determines whether one or more of the network parameters are to be adjusted for improving transmission efficiency, reducing traffic congestion, avoiding flooding of packets on the mesh network, or ensuring injection of packets in the SigMesh network. The supervisor provides feedback to one or more nodes with the adjusted network parameters to improve transmission efficiency and reduce traffic in the SigMesh network.
US11943099B2
A method according to embodiments of this application includes: A first network device sends a first packet to a second network device, where the first packet includes first indication information, and the first indication information indicates a support status of an iFIT capability corresponding to the first network device or a first service module included in the first network device. The first network device sends the packet to the second network device, to notify the support status of the IFIT capability of the first network device. In this way, the second network device can determine, based on the iFIT capability of the first network device, whether to encapsulate a measurement header, to avoid that a service packet cannot be correctly processed because the first network device cannot strip the measurement header from the service packet.
US11943093B1
Systems and methods are described for enabling graceful recovery of network connections in a virtual machine instance that has been migrated or temporarily halted. To prevent the virtual machine instance from attempting to reuse open connections, which might fail due to migration or halting, a host device identifies open connections just prior to halting the virtual machine instance on the host, and transmits to the virtual machine instance termination signals for the open connections. The host device may further transmit termination signals to the other parties to such connections. Each termination signal may be formatted so as to appear to originate from the other party to the connection, causing both parties to synchronize their knowledge of the connection. On reactivation, the virtual machine instance can recovery the connections without errors associated with attempted utilization of broken connections.
US11943089B2
A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.
US11943085B2
A circuit includes a polar transmitter to generate a radio frequency output from amplitude and phase signal components. The polar transmitter includes an amplifier to combine amplitude and phase signal components. A processor is coupled to the polar transmitter to provide the amplitude and phase signal components. The processor includes: a digital modulation circuit to generate a modulated digital signal including in-phase and quadrature signal components and a correction circuit to calculate and apply a complex digital offset for local oscillator feedthrough of the amplifier. The complex digital offset includes an in-phase offset correction factor and a quadrature offset correction factor.
US11943080B2
Disclosed is a method for estimating dense multipath parameters by means of multipolarized broadband extended array responses, which includes: first transmitting multiple different transmitted signal sequences via a multipolarized antenna array, and processing received data in multiple snapshots according to the known transmitted signals, to obtain channel responses of multipolarized antenna components at all frequency points in a frequency band; extending the obtained channel response matrixes of multiple frequency points in multiple snapshots into a large two-dimensional channel response matrix; then, acquiring a delay parameter regarding multipath propagation by using a reference array element, and estimating two-dimensional departure and arrival angles by using a channel matrix subjected to frequency domain smoothing and dimensionality reduction; and afterwards, pairing the estimated departure and arrival angles, and estimating parameters such as the cross-polarization ratios, the initial phases, and the amplitudes of the sub-paths by using the estimated parameters.
US11943079B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The processor executes a method, including establishing a first link with a first external electronic device using the wireless communication circuit, establishing a second link with a second external electronic device using the wireless communication circuit, determining whether to share, with the second external electronic device, first link information for establishing a channel of the first link based at least on information of the second external electronic device and information of the first external electronic device, transmitting the first link information to the second external electronic device via the second link based on the determination, and transmitting a data packet to the first external electronic device via the first link.
US11943078B2
Techniques for a hub node, provisioned in a site of a hub and spoke overlay network, to receive, store, and/or forward network routing information associated with a spoke, and send packets directly to spoke(s) that are remote from the hub node. A first hub node may receive a network advertisement including a border gateway protocol (BGP) large community string from a first spoke local to the first hub node. The first hub node may send the BGP large community string to a second hub node remote from the first hub node. The second hub node may decode network routing information from the BGP large community string and store the network routing information locally. The second hub node may send a packet from a second spoke local to the second hub node directly to the first spoke without the data packet being routed via the first hub node.
US11943076B2
A user station for a serial bus system and a method for communication in a serial bus system. The user station includes an application for carrying out a task, a transceiver unit for serially receiving a message in the form of a frame from a bus of the bus system, via which user stations of the bus system exchange messages with one another, and a filter module for filtering the received frame. The filter module for filtering is designed to check at least two segments of the frame separately to determine whether or not the received frame is to be passed on to the application.
US11943062B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technology and system for integrating a 5G communication system with IoT technologies to achieve a data rate higher than those of 4G systems. The present disclosure is applicable to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technologies and IoT technologies (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, and security and safety services). The present disclosure proposes a method for supporting a light connected mode as a new terminal operation mode in addition to the idle mode and connected mode to facilitate operations of the terminals and base stations in a mobile communication system.
US11943059B2
A base station may transmit one or more configuration parameters for a cell. The one or more configuration parameters may indicate a periodic resource configuration. The periodic resource configuration may be activatable by predetermined values of: a hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQ ID) field of a first downlink control information (DCI) format; and a redundancy version (RV) field of the first DCI format. The base station may transmit a DCI based on a second DCI format without at least one of the HARQ ID field or the RV field. The base station may activate the periodic resource configuration based on: a size of the HARQ ID field of the DCI and/or the RV field of the DCI being zero; and the periodic resource configuration being in an inactive state.
US11943055B2
Provided is a communication device that implements error correction in a physical layer in combination with HARQ. The communication device on the transmitting side adds a CRC sequence to an information sequence, divides an information sequence having a CRC sequence added thereto into a plurality of sequences, implements first FEC coding by using a sequence obtained by division, adds a CRC sequence to a coded sequence obtained after first FEC coding, implements second FEC coding by using a coded sequence having a CRC sequence added thereto, couples coded sequences obtained after second coding, transmits a coded information sequence obtained after coupling to another communication device, and controls retransmission with a coded sequence obtained after first coding as a unit.
US11943050B2
This disclosure introduces an advancement to the error indication message to provide detailed information about errors in configurations that are arriving from the Layer 2 to the Layer 1. A method is disclosed, comprising: performing physical layer control (PHY) of a wireless signal at a Layer 1 (L1) software module; performing medium access control (MAC) of the wireless signal at a Layer 2 (L2) software module; providing an application programming interface between the L1 software module and the L2 software module for receiving L1 configuration messages and providing error codes to the L2 software module; receiving a L1 configuration message at a Layer 1 software module; and providing an enhanced error code progressively from a L1 software module to the Layer 2 (L2) software module.
US11943048B2
An Ethernet frame transmission method and a communications device are provided. The method includes: removing a specified field from an Ethernet frame; and transmitting the Ethernet frame with the specified field removed to a second device.
US11943045B2
A distributed radio frequency communication system facilitates communication between wireless terminals and a core network. The system includes a group of remote radio units (RRUs). Each RRU of the group of RRUs is coupled to an antenna to communicate with at least some of the mobile terminals and includes electronic circuitry to perform at least a first portion of a first-level protocol of a radio access network (RAN) and communicate over a fronthaul link. The system also includes a baseband unit (BBU) coupled to the core network and the fronthaul link, and communicably coupled to the group of RRUs over the fronthaul link. The BBU includes electronic circuitry to assign one or more RRUs, selected from the group of RRUs, to a cluster of RRUs based on one or more parameters, and to perform at least a second-level protocol of the RAN.
US11943044B1
A communication system has a first satellite, a second satellite, and a physical or wireless connection connecting the first satellite with the second satellite. The satellites each communicate with a different ground station and ensure continuous communication during handover.
US11943034B2
Mechanisms for beam management. An example method, in a network node, comprises transmitting a reference signal so as to enable each of the terminal devices participating in a first part of the beam management procedure to identify in which of a first set of beams the reference signal is received with highest power. The method comprises transmitting the reference signal in a second part of the procedure so as to enable each of the terminal devices to identify in which of a second set of beams the reference signal is received with highest power. The method comprises transmitting the reference signal during a third part of the procedure so as to enable each of the terminal devices to identify in which of a third set of beams the reference signal is received with highest power. There is one third set for each beam in the first set.
US11943032B2
A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US11943026B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for obtaining channel state information (CSI), apparatus, and computer storage medium. One example method includes allocating, by a network device to a terminal device according to a preset rule, a transmission resource for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a cell to which the terminal device belongs. Transmission resources for transmitting SRSs in different cells do not overlap at all or partially overlap. The network device receives the SRS transmitted by the terminal device on the allocated transmission resource, and performs channel quality estimation based on the received SRS to obtain CSI.
US11943020B2
In an aspect, a network device (e.g., BS, core network component, etc.) determines a self-interference measurement (SIM) configuration associated with null-forming at a wireless device (e.g., UE or BS), the null-forming associated with steering at least one receive beam of the wireless device and/or at least one transmit beam of the wireless device away from one or more external sources of self-interference. The network device transmits the SIM configuration to the wireless device. The wireless device performs at least one null-forming procedure in accordance with the SIM configuration.
US11943016B2
Presented herein are techniques to shield transmissions from being received and the information contained in them recovered by unwanted devices. Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) techniques are employed, and in particular the spatial dimension aspects of those techniques. Shield nodes are controlled to transmit in a way to obscure the downlink streams transmitted by a wireless access point that are intended for a particular client device to anything outside of the shielded area, and also to obscure uplink streams from one or more client devices to the wireless access point to anything outside of the shielded area but allowing the uplink streams to be well received by the wireless access point.
US11943014B2
This application provides a channel measurement method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device generates first indication information and sends the first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information is determined based on received precoded reference signals of P ports and is used to indicate Q ports in the P ports; the P ports correspond to P angle-delay pairs; each angle-delay pair includes one angle vector and one delay vector; the precoded reference signal of each of the P ports is obtained by precoding a reference signal based on one angle vector and one delay vector; and the Q ports correspond to Q angle-delay pairs in the P angle-delay pairs.
US11943013B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertains a system and method for wireless inter-networking between a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a local area network (WLAN) employing one or more extended range wireless inter-networking devices. Aspects of the present disclosure more specifically are directed toward a high powered wireless interconnect device that includes high efficiency circuitry to make it possible to implement in a portable or in-vehicle form factor, which may provide reasonable battery life, size, weight, and thermal dissipation. An extended range wireless inter-networking device, according to another embodiment of the disclosure. Aspects of the present disclosure further include a portable wireless access point configured for extended range communications, which may include a high power user equipment (“HPUE”) as disclosed herein. Aspects of the present disclosure further include a WWAN radio for a mobile telecommunication cellular network, which may include a user equipment and/or the network.
US11943009B2
A communication barrier arrangement includes a first driver having a first interface for receiving signals from a first device destined for a second device, an isolation barrier including a first transformer for signal transfer and having a primary winding connected to the first driver and a secondary winding, a second driver connected to the secondary winding and having a first connection terminal for output of the signals towards the second device, a first signal conditioner having a second connection terminal for receiving the signals from the second driver and a second interface for delivering them to the second device and a protection circuit including a resistor in parallel with a first capacitor, the protection circuit being connected between the first and second connection terminals.
US11943008B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for aligning a smartphone providing NFC wireless power for charging a battery of a device, the method comprising: emitting, with a first NFC antenna of the smartphone, an NFC field for wirelessly charging the battery of the device comprising a second NFC antenna; obtaining, with the smartphone, a measured value of a signal representative of the NFC field strength between the smartphone and the device; determining, by the smartphone, a range of values of a plurality of ranges of values the measured value belongs; and emitting, by the smartphone, at least one notification signal to a user with a frequency determined by the determined range of values.
US11943004B1
A method for operating a wireline communication device on a wireless communication network includes (a) receiving a downlink radio frequency (RF) electrical signal at a first connector, (b) converting the downlink RF electrical signal to a downlink access signal having a format that is compatible with the wireline communication device, and (c) providing the downlink access signal to a second connector for transporting to the wireline communication device. A method for extending a wireline communication network includes (a) receiving a downlink wireline signal at a node of the wireline communication network, (b) converting the downlink wireline signal to a downlink RF electrical signal, and (c) converting the downlink RF electrical signal to a downlink wireless signal, for transmission to one or more communication devices which are not physically connected to the wireline communication network.
US11943000B2
A system for powering a network element of a fiber optic wide area network is disclosed. When communication data is transferred between a central office (CO) and a subscriber terminal using a network element to convert optical to electrical (O-E) and electrical to optical (E-O) signals between a fiber from the central office and twisted wire pair, coaxial cable or Ethernet cable transmission lines from the subscriber terminal, techniques related to local powering of a network element or drop site by the subscriber terminal or subscriber premise remote powering device are provided. Certain advantages and/or benefits are achieved using the present invention, such as freedom from any requirement for additional meter installations or meter connection charges and does not require a separate power network.
US11942997B2
Consistent with the present disclosure, a local oscillator is provided in a receiver. The local oscillator laser a first and second mirrors and phase section and heaters are provided adjacent each portion of the laser, such that the temperature and thus the frequency of light output from the local oscillator laser may be tuned. Applying electrical power, such as a current or voltage to the phase section may result in rapid frequency tuning of light output from the local oscillator laser but over a limited frequency range. Temperature changes to the mirror sections, however, may afford frequency tuning over a wider range, but frequency tuning the mirror sections requires more time than that required to tune the phase section. Consistent with the present disclosure, a tuning method and apparatus is provided that optimizes laser tuning by selectively tuning the phase and mirror sections.
US11942994B2
An apparatus for determining an interference in a transmission medium during a transmission of a data input signal according to an embodiment has a transform module configured to transform the data input signal from a time domain to a frequency domain comprising a plurality of frequency channels to obtain a frequency-domain data signal comprising a plurality of spectral coefficients, wherein each spectral coefficient is assigned to one of the frequency channels, an analysis module configured to determine the interference by determining one or more spectral interference coefficients, wherein each spectral interference coefficient is assigned to one frequency channel. The analysis module is configured to determine each spectral interference coefficient depending on the spectral coefficients, and depending on a transfer function, wherein the transfer function is configured to receive two or more argument values, wherein each of the argument values indicates one frequency channel, and wherein the transfer function is configured to return a return value depending on the argument values.
US11942978B1
A phone strap for concealing a mobile phone is disclosed herein. The phone strap comprises a main body and a cover. The main body defines an internal compartment in an upper front section. The main body also has a lens aperture therethrough to the internal compartment. The cover is positioned over the lens aperture.
US11942971B2
Aspects described herein include devices and methods with chain routing of signals for massive antenna arrays. In some aspects, an apparatus is provided that includes a first millimeter wave (mmW) transceiver having a first port, a second port, one or more antenna elements, a plurality of chain mmW transceiver ports, and switching circuitry. The switching circuitry is controllable by control data to route portions of a merged clock and data signal and a merged control and data signal between a first route between the one or more antenna elements and the first port and a second route between the one or more antenna elements and the second port and a third route between the first port and the plurality of chain mmW transceiver ports and a fourth route between the second port and the plurality of chain mmW transceiver ports.
US11942960B2
An analog-to-digital (ADC) converter system and method of using the system that can be used in low power situations. The converter can periodically or recurrently turn off a reference standard in order to conserve power and instead using a stable supply source as a reference voltage. A precise conversion for signal from the analog to the digital domain while maintaining a low quiescent current.
US11942957B2
The present disclosure enables firmware-based interleaved-ADC gain calibration and provides hardware-thresholding enhancements. An on-chip memory may store subADC samples and a microprocessor accesses these stored samples for use with the calibration algorithm. Power estimates may be performed using square of each subADC sample to estimate gain error. Thresholding may be applied to the subADC samples, such as Maximum Amplitude Thresholding, Minimum Power Thresholding, and/or using Histogram Output Memory, to determine that samples are valid and may be used for calibration or that subADC data are to be discarded and a new subADC data capture is to be started.
US11942952B2
An electronic device comprises a first feedback circuit operatively connected to an amplitude detector and a first control input of an oscillator. The first feedback circuit is configured to control an amplitude of an output of the oscillator by continuously applying a first control signal to the first control input in response to an amplitude detected by the amplitude detector. The electronic device further comprises a second feedback circuit operatively connected to the amplitude detector and a second control input of the oscillator. The second feedback circuit is configured to modify one or more amplitude regulating parameters of the oscillator by providing a second control signal in response to the amplitude being beyond an upper or lower amplitude threshold, and refrain from modifying the one or more amplitude regulating parameters when the amplitude is within the upper and lower amplitude thresholds.
US11942947B2
A system comprises pulse generation and measurement circuitry comprising a plurality of pulse generator circuits and a plurality of ports, and management circuitry. The management circuitry is operable to analyze a specification of a controlled system and controlled elements that comprises a definition of a controlled element of the control system, and a definition of one or more pulses available for transmission by the control system. The management circuitry is operable to configure, based on the specification, the pulse generation and measurement circuitry to: generate the one or more pulses via one or more of the plurality of pulse generator circuits; and output the one or more pulses to the controlled element via one or more of the plurality of ports.
US11942943B1
A method of duty cycle adjustment includes conditionally inverting an input clock into a conditionally inverted clock; and adjusting a duty cycle of the conditionally inverted clock in one direction in accordance with an integer that represents an amount of duty cycle adjustment, using an uneven clock buffer and a plurality of uneven clock multiplexers that are cascaded and incrementally activated as a value of the integer increments.
US11942939B2
An apparatus for reducing a temperature influence in measuring a switching current based on stray inductance. The apparatus includes a current detector configured to output a voltage derived from a differential component of a current so as to detect a switching current of a power module, a filter configured to filter the voltage output from the current detector, an integrator configured to integrate a voltage output from the filter, an ADC configured to convert an analog voltage output from the integrator into a digital voltage and sample the digital voltage, a scaler configured to convert a sampled integrator output value output from the ADC into a scaled current value, and a compensator configured to remove a temperature dependent DCR effect from the scaled current value.
US11942935B2
An integrated circuit includes a programmable logic block. The programmable logic block includes a programmable logic array (PLA) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The PLA includes logic cells having a first architecture. The FPGA includes logic cells having a second architecture more complex than the first architecture. The programmable logic block includes an interface coupled to the PLA and the FPGA. An integrated circuit may also include circuitry for selecting one of plurality of clock signals for logic cells of a PLA.
US11942932B2
A level conversion circuit includes a first pin, a second pin, a target pin, a core module and a switch. A first terminal of the switch is connected to the first pin, a second terminal of the switch is connected to the second pin, and the core module is connected to the target pin, the second pin and a control terminal of the switch respectively. The core module is configured to: when a voltage connected to the target pin is at a first reference high level, control the switch to turn on to transmit a signal with a specified voltage amplitude, and pull the first pin to the first reference high level and the second pin to a second reference high level based on the first reference high level; where the first reference high level is higher than the second reference high level.
US11942930B2
A field-effect transistor (FET) based synchronous rectifier for emulating a diode, comprising: a first terminal (20) and a second terminal (30); a first FET (M1) and a second FET (M2), wherein the second FET (M2) is adapted to control operation of the first FET (M1) to thereby allow unidirectional current flow when the two terminals (20, 30) are connected with an external circuit; and wherein the FET based synchronous rectifier comprises a fully integrated single-chip device (10) adapted to emulate a diode.
US11942919B2
A strain compensated heterostructure comprising a substrate comprising silicon carbide material; a first epitaxial layer comprising single-crystal aluminum nitride material formed on a top surface of the substrate; a second epitaxial layer formed on the first epitaxial layer opposite the top surface of the substrate, the second epitaxial layer comprising single-crystal scandium aluminum nitride material; and a third epitaxial layer formed on the second epitaxial layer opposite the first epitaxial layer, the third layer comprising single-crystal aluminum nitride material.
US11942917B2
The present disclosure provides a film bulk acoustic resonator and its fabrication method. The fabrication method includes providing a first substrate, and sequentially forming a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric material layer, and a second electrode layer, on the first substrate; forming a support layer on the second electrode layer and forming a cavity with a top opening in the support layer, where the cavity passes through the support layer; providing a second substrate and bonding the second substrate with the support layer; removing the first substrate; and patterning the first electrode layer, the piezoelectric material layer, and the second electrode layer to form a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode.
US11942916B2
A film bulk acoustic resonator and a fabricating method thereof is provided. The fabricating method includes: fabricating a lower electrode on a first surface of an SOI substrate; forming piezoelectric layers on the first surface of the SOI substrate and the lower electrode; forming top electrodes on the piezoelectric layers; processing an air cavity on a second surface of the SOI substrate, wherein the second surface and the first surface are oppositely arranged. The fabricating method simplifies a preparation process of FBAR, a quality of a AlN film crystal grown though the fabrication method is high, an improvement of a device performance is facilitated, and meanwhile a thickness of a top silicon is controlled through a position of a silicon injected oxygen isolation to regulate a frequency of the film bulk acoustic resonator.
US11942911B2
A radio-frequency power amplifier device includes: a carrier amplifier semiconductor device and a peak amplifier semiconductor device on a multilayer submount substrate; a bias power supply semiconductor device; second radio-frequency signal wiring that transmits a radio-frequency signal to the carrier amplifier semiconductor device and the peak amplifier semiconductor device; and carrier-amplifier bias power supply wiring that is wired in a third wiring layer and supplies a bias power supply voltage. The second radio-frequency signal wiring and the carrier-amplifier bias power supply wiring intersect in a plan view. The radio-frequency power amplifier device includes: a shield pattern that is located in a second wiring layer between a first wiring layer and the third wiring layer; and one or more connection vias disposed in an extension direction of the carrier-amplifier bias power supply wiring. The one or more connection vias are connected to the shield pattern.
US11942906B2
The present invention provides a transmitter including a mixer, a harmonic impedance adjustment circuit and an amplifier. The mixer is configured to mix a first baseband signal with a first oscillation signal to generate a first mixed signal to a first node, and to mix a second baseband signal with a second oscillation signal to generate a second mixed signal to a second node. The harmonic impedance adjustment circuit is coupled between the first node and the second node, and is configured to reduce harmonic components of the first mixed signal and the second mixed signal to generate an adjusted first mixed signal and an adjusted second mixed signal. The amplifier is coupled to the harmonic impedance adjustment circuit, and is configured to generate an amplified signal according to the adjusted first mixed signal and the adjusted second mixed signal.
US11942896B2
A device (9) for protecting a direct current electrical system (1) having one or more modules (2) from electric arcs comprises: a first sensor (10) provided with a first ring of ferromagnetic material configured to generate a first signal, representing a oscillating component of a current flowing through a cable inserted into the ring; a conditioning stage (12), having a bandpass filter, for conditioning the first signal; a first threshold comparator (13); a counter (15); a processor (14); a second sensor (19), configured to generate a second signal representing a direct current component of the current flowing through the cable; a second threshold comparator (20).
US11942892B2
An apparatus and method for mounting a solar panel array on a surface is disclosed. The solar panel array includes a plurality of solar panel modules and a hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly. The hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly includes a component of a rail-based mounting system and a component of a rail-less mounting system. At least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-based mounting system and at least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-less mounting system.
US11942889B2
A first torque calculation unit 114 calculates torque TQ_DC currently generated by a motor 106 based on a DC current DC1. A second torque calculation unit 115 calculates torque TQ_UVW currently generated by the motor 106 based on U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase currents. A torque limit calculation unit 116 calculates a torque limit TQ_LMT1 using a torque limit characteristic map measured in advance based on a current limit DC_LMT1. A torque limit correction unit 117 compares first torque TQ_DC with second torque TQ_UVW to calculate a torque variation degree KP1. Then, the torque limit TQ_LMT1 is corrected using the variation degree KP1 to calculate a torque limit TQ_LMT2. As a result, even if required torque reaches the torque limit, the DC current does not exceed the current limit, and the output of the motor can be fully utilized by approaching the current limit.
US11942887B2
A method and system for operating an electric machine are described. In one example, the system includes a motor stator having a first group of windings and a second group of windings. Each group of the windings is electrically coupled to a different inverter so that the system may have a layer of operational redundancy.
US11942882B2
A method of starting a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with field oriented control (FOC) includes: opening a first control loop of the PMSM; setting a first direction for a first current component of the PMSM; aligning a rotor of the PMSM to the first direction; after aligning the rotor, setting a second direction for the first current component, where the second direction is rotated from the first direction by 90 degrees; after setting the second direction, starting the rotor while the first control loop of the PMSM remains open; after starting the rotor, increasing a rotation speed of the rotor by operating the first control loop in a first closed-loop mode; and after increasing the rotation speed of the rotor, controlling the rotation speed of the rotor by operating the first control loop in a second closed-loop mode different from the first closed-loop mode.
US11942876B2
A power conversion device includes: a power conversion circuit connected to a direct-current power supply and a power system and configured to perform conversion between direct-current power and alternating-current power; a phase-locked loop circuit configured to output a phase instruction value based on a system alternating-current voltage phase of the power system; and a control circuit configured to control the power conversion circuit based on the phase instruction value from the phase-locked loop circuit. The phase-locked loop circuit includes: a phase difference calculation section configured to calculate a phase difference in a predetermined cycle, the phase difference representing a deviation of the phase instruction value from the system alternating-current voltage phase of the power system; a phase difference correction section; and a phase instruction value generation section configured to output the phase instruction value based on an output of the phase difference correction section.
US11942874B2
A control system of a power converter includes a plurality of carrier wave generating units which are respectively provided for a plurality of power converters connected between a plurality of DC power supplies and a common AC power supply and which are configured to respectively generate carrier waves on the basis of an AC voltage of the AC power supply. The control system of the power converter can thereby synchronize carrier phases of a plurality of power converters.
US11942872B2
The present application discloses a multi-path resonant circuit and a resonant converter. The multi-path resonant circuit includes at least two parallel N-phase resonant circuits, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 3. The at least two parallel N-phase resonant circuits include a first N-phase resonant circuit and a second N-phase resonant circuit. A first resonant inductor in any phase resonant circuit of the first N-phase resonant circuit is coupled with a second resonant inductor in any phase resonant circuit of the second N-phase resonant circuit. In this way, current sharing of the multi-path resonant circuit can be realized through a simpler structure.
US11942865B2
A power converter with a voltage-modulating circuit, a controller, and a sensing circuit. The controller controls switches of a voltage-modulating circuit to provide a level of an output voltage (VOUT) based on an operational mode of the voltage-modulating circuit and a voltage measurement provided by the sensing circuit. The operational mode of the voltage-modulating circuit can be pass-through mode or voltage-modulating. The sensing circuit includes one or more externally programmable connectors configured to determine one or more boundaries of an output voltage window. In the pass-through mode, a level of VOUT will be provided without switching any of the switches when a level of an input voltage (VIN) falls within the output voltage window. In the voltage-modulating mode, a level of VOUT will be provided by switching one or more of the switches when the level of VIN falls outside of the output voltage window having only one boundary.
US11942864B2
A voltage conversion circuit and a display device are provided. The voltage conversion circuit includes a voltage conversion module, a comparison module, and a control module. The voltage conversion module includes at least two voltage conversion units, and the voltage conversion unit converts the input voltage into a target voltage. The comparison module compares each of testing voltages with a reference voltage to generate a feedback signal. The control module receives the feedback signal and controls the voltage conversion unit to convert the input voltage to the target voltage based on the feedback signal.
US11942861B2
Devices and methods for operating a charge pump. In some implementations, a charge pump module includes a clock circuit configured generate to a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the first clock signal having a lower frequency than the second clock signal. The charge pump module also includes a driving circuit configured to generate a first set of clock signals based on the first clock signal and a second set of clock signals based on the second clock signal, the driving circuit coupled to the clock circuit. The charge pump module further includes a charge pump core including a set of capacitances, the charge pump core configured to charge the set of capacitances based the first set of clock signals and the second set of clock signals.
US11942859B2
A level shifter causes a switch to open or close by selecting one of two stored logical values to generate a gate-drive voltage to cause a transition in the switch.
US11942848B2
A busbar assembly is disclosed that includes a carrier, and a plurality of conductors arranged within the carrier such that at least a portion of each of the plurality of conductors are exposed in a radial direction and define electrical contact sites. The carrier can be formed by molding the carrier about the plurality of conductors.
US11942846B2
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative stator winding interface devices, electric motors, and methods of manufacturing an electric motor. In an illustrative embodiment, a stator winding interface device includes phase plates, a neutral plate, and a structure configured to maintain the phase plates and the neutral plate in a rigid orientation.
US11942842B2
In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle. The compacted Litz wire bundle has a serpentine configuration with a central portion having compacted Litz wire and end turns having non-compacted Litz wire.
US11942841B2
According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core and coils having a rectangular cross-section. In one or more slots, a first rectangular conductor, which is positioned innermost in a radial direction and in which a pair of short sides in a cross section face in the radial direction, and a second rectangular conductor, which is positioned outer side of the radial direction than is the first rectangular conductor and in which a pair of long sides in the cross-section face in the radial direction, are disposed. The first rectangular conductor includes a bending part bent toward a circumferential direction. The second rectangular conductor includes a bending part bent toward the circumferential direction and a twisted part twisted about the circumferential direction.
US11942839B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and tools for mounting and/or removing active parts of a stator of an electrical machine, e.g. a generator. The present disclosure also relates to rotors, stators and generators. A method comprises removing one or more active rotor parts of a rotor of an electrical machine when the rotor is in a removal starting position, arranging a replacement tool in a gap left by the removed active rotor parts, rotating the rotor to an alignment position such that the replacement tool is radially aligned with an active stator part to be removed, picking the active stator part to be removed with the replacement tool, rotating the rotor to an extraction position, and removing the active stator part from the rotor.
US11942836B2
A shaft grounding arrangement (X) includes a housing (GG), a shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) supported in the housing (GG), a shaft grounding device (E) for establishing an electrically conductive contact (SK) between the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) and the housing (GG), and a covering element (C) fixedly connected to the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) for protecting the shaft grounding device (E) against environmental influences. The covering element (C) at least partially surrounds the shaft grounding device (E). The shaft grounding device (E) is fixedly connected to the housing (GG). The electrically conductive contact (SK) is formed by a sliding contact between contact elements (EK) of the shaft grounding device (E) and a surface of the covering element (C). A transmission (G) may include the shaft grounding arrangement (X) of this type, and an electric axle drive (EA) may include the transmission (G).
US11942832B2
The present document relates to an electric drive unit, comprising: a stator configured to produce a stator magnetic field, at least a first rotor including first rotor windings, the first rotor windings for instance including multi-phase windings, and at least a first inverter electrically connected with the first rotor windings and configured to produce an electric current in the first rotor windings for producing a first rotor magnetic field. The stator magnetic field is configured to interact with the first rotor magnetic field to exert a torque on the first rotor. The present document further relates to a method of operating the electric drive unit.
US11942830B2
An electric motor monitor having at least one sensor in electrical communication with a memory device and a motor. The memory device is configured to establish a performance baseline of the motor throughout its workload. The signal processing incorporates a memory device such as a microcomputer and/or a programmable logic controller configured to determine the work being performed by the motor by comparing the baseline performance of the motor throughout its work load to at least, the armature amperage of the motor. A wireless system transmits an operating motor's work parameters including, but not limited to, amperage, temperature, vibration, sound, rotation, power, moisture and/or voltage data, to a mobile or fixed base receiver. Data is accessible and viewable in real time. Alerts based on user-defined thresholds of the sensors are sent to an electronic device such as a tablet, a computer, and/or a smart phone.
US11942822B2
Presented are electric machines with optimized stator tooth geometries and multi-gauge stator conductors, methods for making/using such electric machines, and motor vehicles equipped with such electric machines. An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor assembly rotatably attached to the housing, and a stator assembly coaxial with and separated by an airgap from the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes one or more magnets mounted to a rotor core. The stator assembly includes a stator core with multiple axially elongated, circumferentially spaced stator slots, multiple radially aligned stator teeth interleaved between and separating the slots, and multiple electromagnetic windings wound through the slots. Each stator tooth has an elongated tooth body with a tooth head at a radial end of a tooth root, which attaches to a cylindrical hub of the stator core. The tooth head has an axial cross-section with a trapezoidal crown integral with a rectangular tip.
US11942816B2
An electric utility distribution system in which power is supplied by a distribution transformer through an electric utility meter including an apparatus for detecting the presence of a back-feed voltage source connected to the load. The apparatus includes a virtual neutral established in the electric utility meter at ground potential and a remote switch that is opened to interrupt electric power flow from the distribution transformer to the load. The apparatus further includes a balanced voltage divider circuit including a connection point established between a pair of series connected resistive elements. In addition, the apparatus includes a detection circuit configured to monitor a voltage signal at the connection point to detect a back-feed voltage source connected between a neutral conductor of the electric utility distribution system and one of a first or second power line at the load.
US11942813B2
When a module controller of a battery system detects an abnormality of a battery module, the module controller selects the battery module without stopping the battery module. After that, the module controller compares a current value of a current supplied to a load, with a total value of rated currents of all battery modules that are normal and that are supplying power to the load. When the current value of the current supplied to the load is greater than the total value of the rated currents of the battery modules, the module controller performs a control to stop all the battery modules. When the current value of the current supplied to the load is less than or equal to the total value of the rated currents of all the battery modules that are supplying power to the load, the module controller performs a control to stop the abnormal battery module and not to stop the normal battery modules.
US11942798B2
Eyewear and receptacles for housing such eyewear include components of a wireless power transfer system. The eyewear includes a receiver system for receiving power from a transmission system associated with the receptacle(s). The receiver system includes at least one receiver antenna, for receiving wireless power from the transmission system, and a repeater antenna for repeating the wireless power signal to the receiver antenna. The receiver antenna is positioned proximate to a first arm of the eyewear and the repeater is positioned proximate to a second arm of the eyewear. Positioning of the receiver and repeater antennas allows for positional freedom of the eyewear and/or the arms of the eyewear, when mechanically received by the receptacle.
US11942793B2
A device operative to transfer power wirelessly includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s). The DSC generates a drive signal based on a reference signal and provides the drive signal to a first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor, and simultaneously senses the drive signal via the single line, to facilitate electromagnetic coupling to a second coil to transfer power wirelessly to another device. The DSC also detects electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. The processing module(s) generates the reference signal and processes the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. In some examples, the processing module(s) adapts the reference signal based on detection of the other device (e.g., based on interpreting the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal).
US11942792B2
A method for operating a wireless charging transmitter includes switching, by the wireless charging transmitter, an operating mode of a full bridge inverter of the wireless charging transmitter from a first mode to a second mode; and changing, by the wireless charging transmitter, an operating point of the wireless charging transmitter from a first operating point associated with the first mode to a second operating point associated with the second mode, the second operating point being selected to dampen a change in a rectifier voltage of a wireless charging receiver inductively coupled to the wireless charging transmitter.
US11942791B2
A self-powered wireless keyboard by modifying the structure of a traditional membrane keyboard having a volcanic crater structure. Not damaging the original membrane keyboard structure, a micro magnet core is installed inside a cylindrical protrusion block under the key cap as a mover of the induction power generation device, and an induction coil is wound in a key slot of the keyboard base as the stator of the induction power generation device. In this way, when each key is pressed, it will produce induction current. A layer of flexible solar cell can be laid on the upper surface of the key, which can generate electricity by collecting the light energy in the surrounding environment during the time of daily illumination.
US11942786B2
A power supply circuit, a compensation circuit and a harmonic distortion compensation method thereof are disclosed. The power supply circuit includes a rectifier and filter module, a main power stage module, a voltage waveform detection module and a compensation module. The rectifier and filter module converts an AC voltage into a DC voltage. The main power stage module receives the DC voltage and provides power to a load. The voltage waveform detection module is configured to detect a waveform of the DC voltage and derive, from the waveform, information about each cycle of the DC voltage. The compensation module is configured to generate a compensation signal based on the information about each cycle of the DC voltage and trigger the main power stage module to perform compensation operation based on the compensation signal. The compensation operation is performed to accomplish total harmonic distortion compensation of the power supply circuit.
US11942779B2
According to at least one aspect, a controller having a mode of operation including one of an on mode and an off mode is provided including a voltage supply node, a mode of operation signal node, a powered component, a switching device coupled in series between the voltage supply node and the powered component, a power supply detector coupled to the switching circuit, the voltage supply node, and the mode of operation signal node, the power supply detector being configured to receive a mode of operation signal indicative of the mode of operation of the controller from the mode of operation signal node, determine that the controller is in the off mode based on the mode of operation signal, and control the switching device to prevent a current from passing from the voltage supply node to the powered component responsive to determining that the controller is in the off mode.
US11942775B2
A high voltage battery cluster, and an overcurrent protection circuit and a switch box of the high voltage battery cluster are provided. The overcurrent protection circuit includes a first fusing module and a second fusing module. Since a withstand current-time curve of the first fusing module is different from a withstand current-time curve of the second fusing module, in a case that an overcurrent fault occurs in a high voltage battery cluster, one fusing module can cause an open circuit in the high voltage battery cluster prior to another fusing module, thereby preventing the high voltage battery cluster from being broken by a large current when an overcurrent fault occurs in the high voltage battery cluster, thus ensuring an electrical safety of the high voltage battery cluster.
US11942769B2
The present disclosure provides a protector for a wire harness that can suppress attachment of water to a surrounding electrical component. In a longitudinal direction X along the horizontal direction of the protector main body portion 11 in a state in which a protector is mounted in a vehicle, there is a first region A1 where an electrical component E is located below a protector main body portion 11, and a second region A2 where there is no electrical component E below the protector main body portion 11. A groove 21 that is open vertically upward is provided in an outer surface of the protector main body portion 11. The groove 21 extends over the first region A1 and the second region A2, and is inclined vertically downward while extending toward the second region A2.
US11942763B2
In one embodiment, the semiconductor laser (1) comprises a semiconductor layer sequence (2) based on the material system AlInGaN with at least one active zone (22) for generating laser radiation. A heat sink (3) is thermally connected to the semiconductor layer sequence (2) and has a thermal resistance towards the semiconductor layer sequence (2). The semiconductor layer sequence (2) is divided into a plurality of emitter strips (4) and each emitter strip (4) has a width (b) of at most 0.3 mm in the direction perpendicular to a beam direction (R). The emitter strips (4) are arranged with a filling factor (FF) of less than or equal to 0.4. The filling factor (FF) is set such that laser radiation having a maximum optical output power (P) can be generated during operation.
US11942762B2
A surface-emitting laser device according to an embodiment comprises: a first electrode; a substrate arranged on the first electrode; a first reflection layer arranged on the substrate; an active region arranged on the first reflection layer and including a cavity; an opening region arranged on the active region and including an aperture and an insulation region; a second reflection layer arranged on the opening region; a second electrode arranged on the second reflection layer; and a delta doping layer arranged in the opening region. The thickness of the insulation region becomes thinner in the direction of the aperture, and the delta doping layer can be arranged at the aperture.
US11942761B2
Provided here are: a laser diode section provided on a surface of an n-type InP substrate; a spot-size converter section provided on a surface of the n-type InP substrate, the spot-size converter section being composed of a core layer which causes emitted laser light to propagate therein, a p-type InP cladding layer on a front surface side of the core layer, an n-type InP cladding layer—on a back surface side of the core layer, n-type InP cladding layers provided on the both sides of the core layer, and a p-type InP cladding layer provided on respective surfaces of the p-type InP cladding layer and the first cladding layers; a window region provided on a surface of the n-type InP substrate—that is placed on a front-end side of the core layer; and a monitor PD as a monitor section provided on a surface of the window region.
US11942759B2
The present technology can be used to control the current injection profile in the longitudinal direction of a high-power diode laser in order to optimize current densities as a function of position in the cavity to promote higher reliable output power and increase the electrical to optical conversion efficiency of the device beyond the level which can be achieved without application of this technique. This approach can be utilized, e.g., in the fabrication of semiconductor laser chips to improve the output power and wall plug efficiency for applications requiring improved performance operation.
US11942758B2
A manufacturing method comprises: a material preparation step of forming a metal layer on a front side surface of a submount bar body which is to face a laser bar on which a front side electrode and a back side electrode are formed, to prepare a submount bar on which the laser bar is to be mounted; a jig installation step of installing the submount bar and the laser bar that are provided in plural number alternately stacked each other on an installation jig; a bonding step of bonding the metal layer and the back side electrode by increasing the temperature of the installation jig; and a protective film forming step of forming a protective film on cleaved end faces of the laser bar in a protective film forming apparatus using the installation jig in which the submount bars and the laser bars are installed, after the bonding step.
US11942751B2
Disclosed is a laser device including: a laser light source configured to emit laser light; a phase control unit configured to receive the laser light emitted from the laser light source, to control a spatial phase of a portion of the laser light, to emit the portion of the light as control light, and to emit another portion of the laser light as non-control light; a first optical system configured to irradiate an object with the control light emitted from the phase control unit; a detector configured to detect the non-control light emitted from the phase control unit; a second optical system configured to cause the non-control light emitted from the phase control unit to converge toward a detection surface of the detector.
US11942749B2
A plug connection device for connecting an electrical cable and establishing a ground connection to an external component may have at least one plug connector and fastening means electrically and mechanically connectable therewith. The plug connector may have a housing and a plug body which is connectable to a conductor of the electrical cable and receivable in an axial direction in a receptacle of the housing. The contact element may plug into the housing to make electrical contact with the plug body received in the receptacle. The contact element and connection element are electrically connected to one another. The connection element may be connected to a ground cable that is connectable with the external component to establish, independently of the electrical cable, the ground connection with the external component via the plug body, contact element, connection part and the ground cable.
US11942748B2
Method for establishing a connection between an electrical connecting element for a motor vehicle on-board network and a cable of the motor vehicle on-board network in which the cable (2) is provided with a metallic stranded conductor (4), firstly the metallic stranded conductor is mechanically compacted in such a way that a flat area is formed, whereby during the compacting, a material bond is formed between strands of the stranded conductor (4), and subsequently, the connecting element is connected to the flat region in a material bond.
US11942746B2
A terminal feeder and crimper includes a support to rotatably support a terminal strip reel obtained by winding together a terminal strip and an interleaf on top of each other, a crimper to crimp a terminal of the terminal strip onto a wire, a terminal strip feeder to feed the terminal strip dispensed from the terminal strip reel to the crimper, an interleaf take-up reel to take up the interleaf dispensed from the terminal strip reel, and a driver connected to the interleaf take-up reel to rotate the interleaf take-up reel. The driver is capable of changing a rotational torque to be applied to the interleaf take-up reel.
US11942745B2
A crimping machine includes a storage arrangement having a plurality of feeding bowls for separated contact elements. The crimping machine further includes a device for transporting the contact elements to a crimp head. At least some of the feeding bowls are designed with a common vibration driver and can be driven via a common control unit.
US11942740B2
A motor includes a frame having an outer diameter of 10 millimeters or less and an inner surface. The motor also includes an annular magnet attached to the inner surface of the frame, a bracket provided at the frame, and a columnar brush formed of carbon and having an outer peripheral surface. In addition, the motor includes a commutator contacting the outer peripheral surface of the brush, and an elastic member supporting the brush at the bracket. A part of the elastic member is disposed inside of the columnar brush.
US11942738B2
A structural connector system for providing an electrical connection between electronic componentry is disclosed. The structural connector system includes a structural member, including an electrically insulating matrix, an electrically conducting path, a first end surface, a second end surface, and a first component engaging surface. The first component engaging surface includes a first mechanical coupler configured to mechanically couple a first electronic component or a first chassis component to the structural member and a first electrical coupler configured to electrically couple the first electronic component or the first chassis component to a first end of the electrically conducting path. The structural member further includes a second component engaging surface that includes a second mechanical coupler and a second electrical coupler configured to electrically couple the first electronic component, the first chassis component, the second electronic component, or the second chassis component to a second end of the electrically conducting path.
US11942718B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of string light sockets, and discloses an assembled type waterproof male and female plug for string light connection. The assembled type waterproof male and female plug includes a first electrical wire and a second electrical wire; the first electrical wire is provided with a male connector; the second electrical wire is provided with a female connector; the male connector and the female connector can be plugged to each other; the male connector includes a first assembly part and a second assembly part; the first assembly part is provided with a first conductive terminal group; and the first conductive terminal group is provided with at least two plugging ends for connecting the female connector.
US11942715B2
A terminal position assurance device and a corresponding connector assembly are disclosed. The terminal position assurance device includes a main body having a main board, an upper board, and a lower board. The upper board and the lower board are arranged perpendicularly to the main board and are located on the same side of the main board. The upper board and the lower board have distal ends away from the main board. The terminal position assurance device further includes an extension arm extending from the distal end of the upper board in a direction substantially perpendicular to the main board and a stopper extending from an outer edge of the extension arm and thus going beyond the main body.
US11942711B2
Provided is a connector which includes: an insulating housing; and a conductive terminal, in which the terminal is fixed to the housing, and includes a mounting portion connected to a board and a contact portion protruding from the mounting portion in a fitting direction, and a thickness of the contact portion is greater than a thickness of the mounting portion in a direction perpendicular to the board.
US11942694B2
Systems and methods relating to self-calibration of an antenna array of a transceiver are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a transceiver to perform self-calibration for transmit (Tx) antenna elements and receive (Rx) antenna elements in an antenna array comprises performing gain measurements and phase measurements for pairs of Tx and Rx antenna elements in the antenna array. The method further comprises processing the gain measurements and the phase measurements based on combinations of Tx and Rx antenna elements having symmetrical coupling properties to obtain gain and phase calibration values for the plurality of Tx antenna elements and the plurality of Rx antenna elements in the antenna array and applying the gain and phase calibration values at the transceiver. In this manner, self-calibration can be performed at the transceiver dynamically with low complexity.
US11942692B2
Provided is an in-band full-duplex MIMO antenna, which includes: a substrate; and transmission antenna elements and reception antenna elements separately coaxially disposed on the same plane of the substrate, in which the transmission antenna elements have a first polarization characteristic, and the reception antenna elements have a second polarization characteristic different from the first polarization characteristic.
US11942668B2
In one or more embodiments of the novel aircraft fuel cell system without the use of a buffer battery, the fuel cell and compressor would be sized sufficiently larger for the intended application, allowing the compressor to change speeds much faster. This in turn would allow power outputs to change much quicker. If power outputs can change as quickly as the application dictates, then a buffer battery is not necessary. In one or more embodiments, because the system is mostly electronically controlled, software can be written to protect the fuel cell from instantaneous power spikes. If a large power output is suddenly requested of the fuel cell, the software can smooth out the demand curve to provide an easier load profile to follow.
US11942661B2
Batteries according to embodiments of the present technology may include a housing including a first terminal disposed on a first side of the housing and a second terminal disposed on the first side of the housing. The batteries may include an electrode stack positioned within the housing. The electrode stack may include an anode current collector. The anode current collector may define an anode tab along a second side of the anode current collector, and be electrically coupled with the first terminal. The electrode stack may include a cathode current collector. The cathode current collector may define a cathode tab along a second side of the cathode current collector. The cathode tab and anode tab may extend in a direction normal to a direction facing the first side of the housing. The cathode tab may be electrically coupled with the second terminal.
US11942654B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having dual electrolytes, systems of such electrochemical cells, and methods for manufacturing the same. In some embodiments, electrochemical cells can include a cathode disposed on a cathode current collector, an anode disposed on an anode current collector, and a separator disposed therebetween. In some embodiments, the separator can include materials that fluidically and/or chemically isolate the anode from the cathode. In some embodiments, the cathode and/or anode can include a slurry of an active material and a conductive material in a liquid electrolyte. In some embodiments, the anode can be fluidically coupled to an anode degassing port. In some embodiments, the cathode can be fluidically coupled to a cathode degassing port.
US11942648B2
In order to produce a battery carrier which has a battery tray with a cooling plate, a tray plate and a cooling plate are joined to one another, wherein the cooling plate has at least one preshaped cooling duct. The tray plate jointly with the cooling plate is then formed by folding to produce the battery tray. During the folding of the tray plate and the cooling plate, a cooling duct section is bent around a bottom edge of the battery tray. The cooling duct is provided with connection elements via which a cooling fluid is supplied and discharged. During the course of the finishing, end shape-producing shaping of the cooling duct can also be performed. Internal pressure is applied to the cooling duct in order to restore the shape of the cooling duct which collapsed due to the forming.
US11942645B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator has a multilayer structure in which a first filler layer containing phosphate particles, a porous resin substrate, and a second filler layer containing inorganic particles having higher heat resistance than the phosphate particles are stacked in this order from the negative electrode side. The first filler layer is disposed on the porous resin substrate in such a manner that the surface of the first filler layer faces the surface of the negative electrode. The phosphate particles have a BET specific surface area in the range of 5 m2/g or more and 100 m2/g or less.
US11942644B2
A preparation method of a cathode slurry and a battery are provided. The preparation method includes: S1, mixing materials containing a plasticizer and an additive to form a premixed slurry A; and S2, mixing a styrene-butadiene rubber emulsion with the premixed slurry A. The plasticizer includes a first functional group including at least one of a hydroxyl group, a carbonate group, and a ketone group. The additive includes a second functional group including at least one of a carboxyl group, a nitrile group, and an amide group.
US11942640B2
Provided is a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which includes: a silicon-silicon oxide-magnesium silicate composite comprising a silicon oxide (SiOx, 0
US11942636B2
The present application relates to the electrochemical field, and in particular, to a positive electrode material, and an electrochemical energy storage apparatus having thereof. The present application provides a positive electrode material, including a substrate. The substrate includes secondary particles containing primary particles. A surface of the substrate is coated with an oxide coating layer. The oxide coating layer comprises a coating element, and the coating element is selected from one or more of Al, Ba, Zn, Ti, Zr, Mg, W, Y, Si, Sn, B, Co, or P. The electrochemical energy storage apparatus comprises the foregoing positive electrode material.
US11942631B2
A method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method includes: contacting first particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide with a solution containing sodium ions to obtain second particles containing the lithium transition metal composite oxide and sodium element, wherein the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a layered structure and a composition ratio of a number of moles of nickel to a total number of moles of metals other than lithium in a range of from 0.7 to less than 1; mixing the second particles and a boron compound to obtain a mixture; and heat-treating the mixture at a temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 450° C.
US11942629B2
A lithium electrode having an acrylic polymer layer formed on a lithium metal layer wherein the acrylic polymer layer functions as a protective layer for the lithium metal layer, and functions as a release layer in the manufacturing process of the lithium electrode. The acrylic polymer layer shows an effect that does not act as a resistance in the lithium secondary battery comprising the lithium electrode during operation of the battery.
US11942626B1
The invention discloses a method for synthesizing a lithium ferromanganese phosphate composite material. The method produces a lithium ferromanganese phosphate composite material and resolves prior art issues of low molecular surface area and easy water absorption of the product. Furthermore, it minimizes prior method's difficult or expensive steps and lack of flexible control of the iron to manganese ratio within the lithium ferromanganese phosphate compound. In this method, many milling and sintering steps are taken to increase the compound's molecular surface area. Furthermore, selected carbon additives resolve the low conductivity brought about by low molecular surface area. As well, a hydrophobic material is coated on the surface of lithium ferromanganese phosphate to insulate it from outside moisture. Finally, relatively cheap iron sulfate and manganese sulfates are used with oxalate compounds to minimize costs while maximizing control of iron to manganese ratios within the lithium ferromanganese phosphate compound.
US11942624B2
A battery electrode composition is provided comprising composite particles, with each composite particle comprising active material and a scaffolding matrix. The active material is provided to store and release ions during battery operation. For certain active materials of interest, the storing and releasing of the ions causes a substantial change in volume of the active material. The scaffolding matrix is provided as a porous, electrically-conductive scaffolding matrix within which the active material is disposed. In this way, the scaffolding matrix structurally supports the active material, electrically interconnects the active material, and accommodates the changes in volume of the active material.
US11942617B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a module case configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells, an air intake unit provided to one side of the module case and configured to guide an air into the module case to cool the plurality of battery cells, an air discharge unit provided to the other side of the module case and configured to discharge the air introduced into the module case through the air intake unit to the outside of the module case, and at least one sheet member attached to an inner wall of the module case between the air discharge unit and the air intake unit and configured to expand at a predetermined temperature or above to seal an inner space of the module case.
US11942614B2
A thermal management system for an electric vehicle including an energy storage system and a vehicle component that requires cooling. A method for thermal management of an electric vehicle, and an electric vehicle including the thermal management system. The system including a heater arranged to heat the energy storage system, wherein the heater is arranged to be powered by either the energy storage system or an external power source, a control unit for controlling the heater and configured to identify when the heater is powered by the external power source, and to, when the heater is powered by the external power source receive data associated with the ambient temperature, determine whether the ambient temperature is below or above a minimum temperature, control the heater to heat the energy storage system when the ambient temperature is below the minimum temperature. The control unit is arranged to control the heater to heat the vehicle component when the heater is powered by the external power source and the ambient temperature is below the minimum temperature, and to direct excess heat from the vehicle component to the energy storage system when the heater is powered by the energy storage system.
US11942609B2
A system includes a battery pack having a first battery module, a second battery module, and a busbar that couples the first and second battery modules; a battery management controller having a first wireless transceiver; and a battery monitor coupled to the first battery module and to the busbar. The battery monitor includes monitoring circuitry configured to receive a first indication of a parameter of the first battery module; a second wireless transceiver configured to provide the first indication to the battery management controller via a wireless connection to the first wireless transceiver; and a busbar voltage circuit configured to receive a second indication of a voltage across the busbar, and, responsive to the second indication being greater than a voltage threshold, provide a first signal to the second wireless transceiver to cause the second wireless transceiver to be in a higher-power state.
US11942605B2
A solid-state battery including a solid-state battery laminate that includes at least one battery constituent unit including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer along a lamination direction, and defining: an overlapping part in which the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer overlap each other in the lamination direction, and a non-overlapping part in which the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer do not overlap each other in the lamination direction. At least one main surface having a normal in the lamination direction has a recess overlapping the overlapping part and defines a step between the overlapping part and the non-overlapping part or in the non-overlapping part.
US11942604B2
A solid-state battery having a battery body that includes a plurality of adjacent elements. A first external electrode is electrically connected to a first positive electrode. A second external electrode is electrically connected to a first negative electrode. A third external electrode is electrically connected to a second positive electrode. A fourth external electrode is electrically connected to a second negative electrode. A first element and a second element of the plurality of adjacent elements are connected in series by integrating the first external electrode and the fourth external electrode or by integrating the second external electrode and the third external electrode.
US11942602B2
To provide a power storage device whose charge and discharge characteristics are unlikely to be degraded by heat treatment. To provide a power storage device that is highly safe against heat treatment. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, an electrolytic solution, and an exterior body. The separator is located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator contains polyphenylene sulfide or solvent-spun regenerated cellulosic fiber. The electrolytic solution contains a solute and two or more kinds of solvents. The solute contains LiBETA. One of the solvents is propylene carbonate.
US11942593B2
Provided herein is a lithium battery including: a cathode including a cathode active material; an anode including an anode active material; an electrolyte between the cathode and the anode; and a separator impregnated with the electrolyte, wherein the separator includes carboxyl group-containing microbial cellulose nanofibers, and wherein a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermogram of the separator evinces an exothermic reaction peak, represented by a differential value (dH/dT), at a temperature in a range of about 150° C. to about 200° C.
US11942578B2
A phosphor substrate having at least one light emitting element mounted on one surface, includes an insulating substrate, at least one electrode pair disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and bonded to the light emitting element, and a phosphor layer disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate, including a phosphor in which a light emission peak wavelength, in a case where light emitted by the element is used as excitation light, is in a visible light region, in which a bonded surface of the electrode pair facing an outer side in a thickness direction of the insulating substrate, the bonded surface being bonded to the light emitting element, is positioned further on the outer side in the thickness direction than a non-bonded surface other than the bonded surface, and at least a part of the phosphor layer is disposed around the bonded surface of the one surface.
US11942562B2
The present invention belongs to the field of photovoltaic cells and relates to a thermo-photovoltaic cell able of converting into electric power the practical totality of the radiant power emitted from an incandescent source and absorbed by the thermo-photovoltaic cell and returning to the incandescent source a large amount of the non absorbed radiation by means of a mirror. The invention also relates to a module comprising such a thermo-photovoltaic cell and a method of manufacturing such a thermo-photovoltaic cell.
US11942556B2
A device includes a first channel layer, a second channel layer, a gate structure, a source/drain epitaxial structure, and a source/drain contact. The first channel layer and the second channel layer are arranged above the first channel layer in a spaced apart manner over a substrate. The gate structure surrounds the first and second channel layers. The source/drain epitaxial structure is connected to the first and second channel layers. The source/drain contact is connected to the source/drain epitaxial structure. The second channel layer is closer to the source/drain contact than the first channel layer is to the source/drain contact, and the first channel layer is thicker than the second channel layer.
US11942551B2
A semiconductor device includes a multi-channel active pattern, a plurality of gate structures on the multi-channel active pattern and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, the plurality of gate structures including a gate electrode that extends in a second direction different from the first direction, a source/drain recess between the adjacent gate structures, and a source/drain pattern on the multi-channel active pattern in the source/drain recess, wherein the source/drain pattern includes: a semiconductor liner layer including silicon-germanium and extending along the source/drain recess, a semiconductor filling layer including silicon-germanium on the semiconductor liner layer, and at least one or more semiconductor insertion layers between the semiconductor liner layer and the semiconductor filling layer, and wherein the at least one or more semiconductor insertion layers have a saddle structure.
US11942549B2
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In embodiments a first liner is deposited to line a recess between a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin, the first liner comprising a first material. The first liner is annealed to transform the first material to a second material. A second liner is deposited to line the recess, the second liner comprising a third material. The second liner is annealed to transform the third material to a fourth material.
US11942548B2
A multi-gate semiconductor device is formed that provides a first fin element extending from a substrate. A gate structure extends over a channel region of the first fin element. The channel region of the first fin element includes a plurality of channel semiconductor layers each surrounded by a portion of the gate structure. A source/drain region of the first fin element is adjacent the gate structure. The source/drain region includes a first semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer over the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer over the dielectric layer.
US11942544B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first stacked structure including a first lower dielectric layer, a first horizontal gate structure, and a first upper dielectric layer stacked vertically; a second stacked structure including a second lower dielectric layer, a second horizontal gate structure, and a second upper dielectric layer stacked vertically, and having a first side facing a first side of the first stacked structure; a first channel layer formed on the first side of the first stacked structure; a second channel layer formed on the first side of the second stacked structure; a lower electrode layer commonly coupled to lower ends of the first and second channel layers between the first and second stacked structures; a first upper electrode layer coupled to an upper end of the first channel layer; and a second upper electrode layer coupled to an upper end of the second channel layer.
US11942542B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate dielectric layer, a gate electrode, a field plate, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a first portion having a first thickness, a second portion having a second thickness, and a third portion having a third thickness. The first, second and third thicknesses are different from each other, and the first thickness is smaller than the second and third thicknesses. The gate electrode is disposed on the first portion of the gate dielectric layer. The field plate is separated from and electrically coupled to the gate electrode, and is disposed on the second and third portions of the gate dielectric layer. The source and drain electrodes are disposed on the sides of the gate electrode and the field plate, respectively.
US11942541B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure is provided. The source region and a drain region are formed in the substrate. The first gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the source region. The second gate structure is formed on the substrate and adjacent to the drain region. The second gate structure is electrically coupled to the drain region.
US11942539B2
A semiconductor device includes a polycrystalline silicon part buried in a termination region of a silicon layer. The polycrystalline silicon part contacts the silicon layer, has a higher crystal grain density than the silicon layer, and includes a heavy metal. The silicon layer includes a drift layer located in a cell region and the termination region. The drift layer has a lower first-conductivity-type impurity concentration than a silicon substrate. The drift layer includes a same element of heavy metal as the heavy metal included in the polycrystalline silicon part.
US11942538B2
In the direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface through each of the second impurity region and the fourth impurity region, a concentration profile of an n-type impurity has a second relative maximum value and a fourth relative maximum value located closer to the first main surface than a position where the second relative maximum value is exhibited. The fourth relative maximum value is larger than the third relative maximum value, the third relative maximum value is larger than the second relative maximum value, and the second relative maximum value is larger than the first relative maximum value.
US11942535B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a drift region that is of a first conductivity type and is provided in a semiconductor substrate; a base region that is of a second conductivity type and is provided above the drift region; an accumulation region that is of the first conductivity type provided between the base region and the drift region; and an electric field relaxation region that is provided between the base region and the accumulation region, wherein the boundary between the electric field relaxation region and the accumulation region is a location for a half-value for the peak of the doping concentration of the accumulation region, and an integrated concentration of the electric field relaxation region is greater than or equal to 5E14 cm−2 and less than or equal to 5E15 cm−2.
US11942534B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a bipolar transistor with thermal conductor and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a base formed within a semiconductor substrate; a thermal conductive material under the base and extending to an underlying semiconductor material; an emitter on a first side of the base; and a collector on a second side of the base.
US11942533B2
The present disclosure provides channel structures of a semiconductor device and fabricating methods thereof. The method can include forming a superlattice structure with first nanostructured layers and second nanostructured layers on a fin structure. The method can also include removing the second nanostructured layers to form multiple gate openings; forming a germanium epitaxial growth layer on the first nanostructured layers at a first temperature and a first pressure; and increasing the first temperature to a second temperature and increasing the first pressure to a second pressure over a first predetermined period of time. The method can further include annealing the germanium epitaxial growth layer at the second temperature and the second pressure in the chamber over a second predetermined period of time to form a cladding layer surrounding the first nanostructured layers.
US11942532B2
A method includes fabricating a semiconductor device, wherein the method includes depositing a coating layer on a first region and a second region under a loading condition such that a height of the coating layer in the first region is greater than a height of the coating layer in the second region. The method also includes applying processing gas to the coating layer to remove an upper portion of the coating layer such that a height of the coating layer in the first region is a same as a height of the coating layer in the second region.
US11942529B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor layers vertically separated from one another. Each of the plurality of semiconductor layers extends along a first lateral direction. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure that extends along a second lateral direction and comprises at least a lower portion that wraps around each of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The lower portion of the gate structure comprises a plurality of first gate sections that are laterally aligned with the plurality of semiconductor layers, respectively, and wherein each of the plurality of first gate sections has ends that each extend along the second lateral direction and present a first curvature-based profile.
US11942525B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor heterostructure layer and a conductive structure. The semiconductor heterostructure layer includes alternating first semiconductor material layers and second semiconductor material layers. 2DHGs may be generated between each first semiconductor material layer and adjacent second semiconductor material layer. The conductive structure includes a plurality of conductive fingers extending from a surface of the semiconductor heterostructure layer into the semiconductor heterostructure layer. The plurality of conductive fingers are arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the surface. The lengths of the plurality of conductive fingers progressively increase in that direction, so that an end portion of each conductive finger is respectively positioned in a different second semiconductor material layer and is not in contact with the 2DHG.
US11942523B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first nanostructure over a substrate, the first nanostructure including a channel region and a first lightly doped source/drain region, the first lightly doped source/drain region adjacent the channel region; a first epitaxial source/drain region wrapped around four sides of the first lightly doped source/drain region; an interlayer dielectric over the first epitaxial source/drain region; a source/drain contact extending through the interlayer dielectric, the source/drain contact wrapped around four sides of the first epitaxial source/drain region; and a gate stack adjacent the source/drain contact and the first epitaxial source/drain region, the gate stack wrapped around four sides of the channel region.
US11942521B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate (10); a stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) disposed on the substrate (10), the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) maintaining an epitaxial relationship to the substrate (10); a first III-nitride layer (121) disposed on the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11); and a second III-nitride layer (122) disposed on the first III-nitride layer (121), the second III-nitride layer (122) having a band gap energy greater than that of the first III-nitride layer (121), wherein the stack of III-nitride transition layers (11) comprises a first transition layer (111), a second transition layer (112) on the first transition layer (111), and a third transition layer (113) on the second transition layer (112), and wherein the second transition layer (112) has a minimum aluminium molar ratio among the first transition layer (111), the second transition layer (112) and third transition layer (113). The present invention also relates to a method of forming such semiconductor device. The semiconductor device according to the present invention advantageously has a dislocation density less than or equal to 1×109 cm−2 in the first III-nitride layer (121).
US11942519B2
A semiconductor structure includes a superlattice structure, an electrical isolation layer, a channel layer, and a composition gradient layer. The superlattice structure is disposed on a substrate, the electrical isolation layer is disposed on the superlattice structure, the channel layer is disposed on the electrical isolation layer, and the composition gradient layer is disposed between the electrical isolation layer and the superlattice structure. The composition gradient layer and the superlattice structure include a same group III element, and the atomic percentage of the same group III element in the composition gradient layer is gradually decreased in the direction from the superlattice structure to the electrical isolation layer. In addition, a high electron mobility transistor including the semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11942516B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack; a first gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the first gate includes a first gate metal and a first gate dielectric; and a second gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the second gate includes a second gate metal and a second gate dielectric, and the first gate is at least partially between a portion of the second gate and the quantum well stack.
US11942491B2
The present disclosure provides a light sensing unit, a gallium nitride (GaN)-based image sensor, and a display apparatus thereof. The light sensing unit includes: red, green, and blue light sensing sub-units, where materials of a light sensing layer of each of the light sensing sub-units are GaN-based materials containing indium(In). The materials of the light sensing layers may contain different contents of In, such that the light sensing sub-units are enabled to generate or not generate light sensing electrical signals according to different wave lengths of received light. During a GaN-based material growth process, the contents of In in different regions are controlled to prepare the light sensing sub-units at the same time to increase integration degrees of the light sensing unit, the GaN-based image sensor, and the display apparatus containing the light sensing unit to achieve miniaturization.
US11942485B2
A substrate includes a driving backplane, a plurality of first connecting lines and a plurality of second connecting lines. The driving backplane includes a base substrate, at least one first lead group and at least one second lead group. Each first lead group includes a plurality of first leads, and each second lead group includes a plurality of second leads. A first lead group and a corresponding second lead group is disposed in a peripheral region. The plurality of first connecting lines are disposed on at least one side face of the driving backplane, each first connecting line is electrically connected to at least one first lead. The plurality of second connecting lines are disposed on the at least one side face of the driving backplane, each second connecting line is electrically connected to at least one second lead, and is in contact with a corresponding first connecting line.
US11942478B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first source/drain epitaxial feature, a second source/drain epitaxial feature disposed adjacent the first source/drain epitaxial feature, a first dielectric layer disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature, a first dielectric spacer disposed under the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer disposed under the first dielectric layer and in contact with the first dielectric spacer. The second dielectric layer and the first dielectric spacer include different materials.
US11942472B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to high-voltage electrostatic discharge (ESD) devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a vertical silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) connecting to an anode, and includes a buried layer of a first dopant type in electrical contact with an underlying buried layer a second dopant type split with an isolation region of the first dopant type within a substrate.
US11942464B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: aligning a first package component with a second package component, the first package component having a first region and a second region, the first region including a first conductive connector, the second region including a second conductive connector; performing a first laser shot on a first portion of a top surface of the first package component, the first laser shot reflowing the first conductive connector of the first region, the first portion of the top surface of the first package component completely overlapping the first region; and after performing the first laser shot, performing a second laser shot on a second portion of the top surface of the first package component, the second laser shot reflowing the second conductive connector of the second region, the second portion of the top surface of the first package component completely overlapping the second region.
US11942451B2
A semiconductor structure includes a functional die, a dummy die, a redistribution structure, a seal ring and an alignment mark. The dummy die is electrically isolated from the functional die. The redistribution structure is disposed over and electrically connected to the functional die. The seal ring is disposed over the dummy die. The alignment mark is between the seal ring and the redistribution structure, wherein the alignment mark is electrically isolated from the dummy die, the redistribution structure and the seal ring. The insulating layer encapsulates the functional die and the dummy die.
US11942441B2
A semiconductor device includes a through-silicon via (TSV) in a TSV zone in a substrate and the TSV extends through the substrate; an ESD cell proximal to a first end of the TSV and in contact with the TSV zone, the ESD cell including a set of diodes electrically connected in parallel to each other; an antenna pad electrically connected to a second end of the TSV; and an antenna electrically connected to the antenna pad and extending in a first direction, the first direction is parallel to a major axis of the TSV. The semiconductor device includes a conductive pillar extending parallel to the TSV at a same side of the substrate as the antenna pad, wherein a first end of the conductive pillar electrically connects to the antenna pad, and a second end of the conductive pillar electrically connects to the set of diodes of the ESD cell.
US11942439B2
A semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, a frame, a redistribution layer, and a first semiconductor die. The substrate has a wiring structure and is surrounded by a molding material. The frame is disposed in the molding material and surrounds the substrate. The redistribution layer is disposed over the substrate and electrically coupled to the wiring structure. The first semiconductor die is disposed over the redistribution layer.
US11942426B2
A semiconductor structure including a first dielectric layer comprising a first conductive metal feature embedded in the first dielectric layer; and a second dielectric layer including a second conductive metal feature embedded in the second dielectric layer, the second conductive metal feature is above and directly contacts the first conductive metal feature, and an interface between the second conductive metal feature and the second dielectric layer includes a repeating scallop shape along its entire length.
US11942422B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, a stadium structure within the stack structure, and conductive contact structures. The stack structure comprises a vertically alternating sequence of conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers. Each of the tiers comprises one of the conductive structures and one of the insulative structures. The stadium structure comprises a forward staircase structure having steps comprising edges of the tiers, and a reverse staircase structure opposing the forward staircase structure and having additional steps comprising additional edges of the tiers. The conductive contact structures vertically extend to upper vertical boundaries of at least some of the conductive structures of the stack structure at the steps of the forward staircase structure and the additional steps of the reverse staircase structure, and are each integral and continuous with one of the conductive structures. Memory devices, electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices are also described.
US11942402B2
An isolator device includes a laminate die having a dielectric laminate material with a metal laminate layer on one side of the dielectric laminate material, the metal laminate layer being a patterned layer providing at least a first plate, including a dielectric layer over the first plate that includes an aperture exposing a portion of the first plate. An integrated circuit (IC) including a substrate having a semiconductor surface includes circuitry including a transmitter and/or a receiver, the IC including a top metal layer providing at least a second plate coupled to a node in the circuitry, with at least one passivation layer on the top metal layer. A non-conductive die attach (NCDA) material for attaching a side of the dielectric laminate material is opposite the metal laminate layer to the IC so that the first plate is at least partially over the second plate to provide a capacitor.
US11942401B2
This disclosure relates to a discrete half bridge semiconductor device including a first cascode arrangement and a second cascode arrangement. Each of the first cascode and second cascode arrangements include a high voltage FET device die and a low voltage FET device die; and the source of the high voltage FET device die is mounted on and connected to a drain of the low voltage FET device die. The source of the low voltage FET device die and gate of the high voltage FET device die are connected to a drain terminal of the high voltage FET device die of the second cascode arrangement at a common connection pad.
US11942399B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of functional blocks, each being configured to provide at least one predetermined function. The functional blocks at least include a first functional block and a second functional block. The first functional block and the second functional block are coupled in serial with a predetermined current flowing therethrough.
US11942393B2
Embodiments herein relate to systems, apparatuses, or processes directed to a substrate that includes a first region to be coupled with a die, and a second region separate and distinct from the first region that has a lower thermal conductivity than the first region, where the second region is to thermally insulate the first region when the die is coupled to the first region. The thermal insulation of the second region may be used during a TCB process to increase the quality of each of the interconnects of the die by promoting a higher temperature at the connection points to facilitate full melting of solder.
US11942384B2
A semiconductor package including a leadframe has a plurality of leads, and a semiconductor die including bond pads attached to the leadframe with the bond pads electrically coupled to the plurality of leads. The semiconductor die includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface including circuitry having nodes coupled to the bond pads. A mold compound encapsulates the semiconductor die. The mold compound is interdigitated having alternating extended mold regions over the plurality of leads and recessed mold regions in between adjacent ones of the plurality of leads.
US11942383B2
A package for mounting on a mounting base is disclosed. In one example, the package comprises a carrier, an electronic component mounted at the carrier, leads electrically coupled with the electronic component and to be electrically coupled with the mounting base, and a linear spacer for defining a spacing with respect to the carrier.
US11942378B2
Techniques related to III-N transistors having improved performance, systems incorporating such transistors, and methods for forming them are discussed. Such transistors include first and second crystalline III-N material layers separated by an intervening layer other than a III-N material such that the first crystalline III-N material layer has a first crystal orientation that is inverted with respect to a second crystal orientation of the second crystalline III-N material layer.
US11942377B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of channel regions, including a p-type channel region and an n-type channel region, disposed over the semiconductor substrate; and a gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer disposed over the plurality of channel regions and a work function metal (WFM) structure disposed over the gate dielectric layer. The WFM structure includes an n-type WFM layer over the n-type channel region and not over the p-type channel region and further includes a p-type WFM layer over both the n-type WFM layer and the p-type channel region. The gate structure further includes a fill metal layer disposed over the WFM structure and in direct contact with the p-type WFM layer.
US11942375B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The method includes forming a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin over a semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor fin is wider than the first semiconductor fin. The method also includes forming a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate, and the gate stack extends across the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. The method further includes forming a first source/drain structure on the first semiconductor fin, and the first source/drain structure is p-type doped. In addition, the method includes forming a second source/drain structure on the second semiconductor fin, and the second source/drain structure is n-type doped.
US11942370B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the forming a first oxide over a substrate; depositing a first insulator over the first oxide; forming an opening reaching the first oxide in the first insulator; depositing a first oxide film in contact with the first oxide and the first insulator in the opening; depositing a first insulating film over the first oxide film by a PEALD method; depositing a first conductive film over the first insulating film; and removing part of the first oxide film, part of the first insulating film, and part of the first conductive film until a top surface of the first insulator is exposed to form a second oxide, a second insulator, and a first conductor. The deposition of the first insulating film is performed while the substrate is heated to higher than or equal to 300°.
US11942369B2
Implementations of a method of forming a semiconductor package may include forming a plurality of notches into a first side of a wafer, the first side of the wafer including a plurality of electrical contacts. The method may also include coating the first side of the wafer and an interior of the plurality of notches with a molding compound, grinding a second side of the wafer to thin the wafer to a desired thickness, forming a back metal on a second side of the wafer, exposing the plurality of electrical contacts through grinding a first side of the molding compound, and singulating the wafer at the plurality of notches to form a plurality of semiconductor packages.
US11942367B2
A semiconductor device such as a fin field effect transistor and its method of manufacture are provided. In some embodiments gate spacers are formed over a semiconductor fin, and a first gate stack is formed over the fin. A first sacrificial material with a large selectivity to the gate spacers is formed over the gate stack, and a second sacrificial material with a large selectivity is formed over a source/drain contact plug. Etching processes are utilized to form openings through the first sacrificial material and through the second sacrificial material, and the openings are filled with a conductive material.
US11942364B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming an interconnect. The method includes forming an etch stop layer (ESL) over a lower conductive structure and forming one or more dielectric layers over the ESL. A first patterning process is performed on the one or more dielectric layers to form interconnect opening and a second patterning process is performed on the one or more dielectric layers to increase a depth of the interconnect opening and expose an upper surface of the ESL. A protective layer is selectively formed on sidewalls of the one or more dielectric layers forming the interconnect opening. A third patterning process is performed to remove portions of the ESL that are uncovered by the one or more dielectric layers and the protective layer and to expose the lower conductive structure. A conductive material is formed within the interconnect opening.
US11942360B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator (e.g., silicon-on-insulator) structure having superior radio frequency device performance, and a method of preparing such a structure, is provided by utilizing a single crystal silicon handle wafer sliced from a float zone grown single crystal silicon ingot.
US11942352B2
A manufacturing method of an LED display is disclosed. The method includes picking up a plurality of LED chips spaced apart at a first interval with a stretchable stamp, spacing apart the plurality of LED chips at a second interval by stretching the stretchable stamp, and transferring the plurality of LED chips to a target substrate.
US11942344B2
In a method of determining a critical temperature of a semiconductor package, heat is applied to at least one semiconductor package. Temperatures of the semiconductor package are measured during the heating. Heights of the semiconductor package are also measured during the heating. A temperature of the semiconductor package measured at a point at which a height from among the measured heights of the semiconductor package is sharply increased so that swelling of the semiconductor package occurs is determined as the critical temperature of the semiconductor package. Thus, the critical temperature of the semiconductor package may be accurately determined.
US11942342B2
A conveying unit includes a housing; a collision prevention mechanism disposed on a sidewall of the housing; a gripping member configured to hold a carrier for carrying a semiconductor structure; a sensor disposed on the gripping member and configured to measure and collect data associated with vibration of the gripping member; and an unit controller disposed on the gripping member and configured to analyze the data from the sensor and control a movement of the conveying unit.
US11942338B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a chamber, a heating member disposed inside the chamber to provide a thermal atmosphere inside the chamber, where the heating member includes a first heater and a second heater facing each other, a height adjustment member including an end disposed between the first heater and the second heater, and a driving unit which drives the end of the height adjustment member to move up or down such that the end of the height adjustment member is located at one of a first height and a second height which are different heights between the first heater and the second heater. Each of the first height and the second height is different from a height of a top surface of the first heater, and different from a height of a bottom surface of the second heater facing the top surface of the first heater.
US11942330B2
Exemplary methods of etching gallium oxide from a semiconductor substrate may include flowing a first reagent in a substrate processing region housing the semiconductor substrate. The first reagent may include HX. X may be at least one of fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. The semiconductor substrate may include an exposed region of gallium oxide. Fluorinating the exposed region of gallium oxide may form a gallium halide and H2O. The methods may include flowing a second reagent in the substrate processing region. The second reagent may be at least one of trimethylgallium, tin acetylacetonate, tetramethylsilane, and trimethyltin chloride. The second reagent may promote a ligand exchange where a methyl group may be transferred to the gallium halide to form a volatile Me2GaY or Me3Ga. Y may be at least one of fluorine, chlorine, and bromine from the second reagent. The methods may include recessing a surface of the gallium oxide.
US11942320B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a base; and forming a silicon nitride film layer on the base by an atomic layer deposition process, where the atomic layer deposition process includes multiple cyclic deposition steps; in each of the cyclic deposition steps, a silicon source gas and a nitrogen source gas are provided to a surface of the base; before each of the cyclic deposition steps, the method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure further includes a repair step; in the repair step, a repair gas is provided to the surface of the base, and the repair gas is a hydrogen-containing repair gas; the repair gas includes a polar molecule for repairing the surface of the base that is damaged.
US11942319B2
A horizontal pre-clean module includes a chamber including a basin and a lid which collectively define a processing area, a rotatable vacuum table disposed in the processing area, a pad conditioning station, a pad carrier positioning arm having a first end and a second end distal from the first end, a pad carrier assembly coupled to the first end of the pad carrier positioning arm, and an actuator coupled to the second end of the pad carrier positioning arm and configured to swing the pad carrier assembly between a first position over the rotatable vacuum table and a second position over the pad conditioning station. The pad carrier assembly includes a gimbal base and a pad carrier coupled to the gimbal base, the gimbal base and the pad carrier are configured to support a buffing pad by a mechanical clamping mechanism and a suction clamping mechanism.
US11942318B2
A mass analyser for use in a mass spectrometer, the mass analyser having: a set of sector electrodes spatially arranged to provide an electrostatic field in a 2D reference plane suitable for guiding ions along an orbit in the 2D reference plane, wherein the set of sector electrodes extend along a drift path that is locally orthogonal to the reference plane so that, in use, the set of sector electrodes provide a 3D electrostatic field region; and an injection interface configured to inject ions into the mass analyser via an injection opening such that the ions injected into the mass analyser are guided by the 3D electrostatic field region along a 3D reference trajectory according to which ions perform multiple turns within the mass analyser whilst drifting along the drift path, wherein each turn corresponds to a completed orbit in the 2D reference plane. The injection interface includes at least one injection deflector located within the mass analyser, the at least one injection deflector being configured to deflect ions injected into the mass analyser in the direction of the drift path, wherein the injection interface is preferably configured so that ions guided along the 3D reference trajectory are, after injection into the mass analyser, kept adequately distant from the injection opening such that they are substantially unaffected by electric field distortions around the injection opening.
US11942317B2
A method for analyzing charged particles may include generating, in or into an ion source region, charged particles from a sample of particles, causing the charged particles to enter a mass spectrometer from the ion source region at each of a plurality of differing physical and/or chemical conditions in a range of physical and/or chemical conditions in which the sample particles undergo structural changes, controlling the mass spectrometer to measure at least the charge magnitudes of the generated charged particles at each of the plurality of differing physical and/or chemical conditions, determining, with a processor, an average charge magnitude of the generated charged particles at each of the plurality of differing physical and/or chemical conditions based on the measured charge magnitudes, and determining, with the processor, an average charge magnitude profile over the range of physical and/or chemical conditions based on the determined average charge magnitudes.
US11942313B2
A mass spectrometer according to an aspect of the present invention includes, to optimize N (where N is an integer of 2 or more) parameters that affect ionization efficiency in an ion source (31), a measurement controller (41) that causes respective units to repeatedly execute measurement on a sample containing a target component while changing values of the N parameters or a value set of M (where M is an integer smaller than N) parameters, in a plurality of stages, and a parameter determiner (53) that sequentially finds an optimum value for each parameter based on a result of the measurement executed under control of the measurement controller (41). At least one parameter whose physical quantity is temperature is optimized prior to all of the parameters whose physical quantities are other than temperature.
US11942312B2
There is provided a gas analyzer apparatus including: a sample chamber which is equipped with a dielectric wall structure and into which only sample gas to be measured is introduced; a plasma generation mechanism that generates plasma inside the sample chamber, which has been depressurized, using an electric field and/or a magnetic field applied through the dielectric wall structure; and an analyzer unit that analyzes the sample gas via the generated plasma. By doing so, it is possible to provide a gas analyzer apparatus capable of accurately analyzing sample gases, even those including corrosive gas, over a long period of time.
US11942311B2
In order to improve the etching depth and/or the etching homogeneity at a substrate, a plasma source with one or more single electrodes or one or more magnets is proposed. The magnet generates a magnetic field in the vicinity of the electrodes, which may be rear-side or front-side.
US11942308B2
A microwave plasma source that generates a microwave plasma in a processing space in which a target substrate is processed, includes: a microwave generation part for generating microwave; a waveguide through which the microwave generated by the microwave generation part propagates; an antenna part including a slot antenna having a predetermined pattern of slots formed therein and being configured to radiate the microwave propagating through the waveguide into the processing space and a microwave-transmitting plate being made of a dielectric material and being configured to transmit the microwave radiated from the slots therethrough and supply the microwave into the processing space; a temperature detector for detecting a temperature at a predetermined position in a microwave propagation path leading to the slot antenna; and an abnormality detection part for receiving the temperature detected by the temperature detector and detect an abnormality in the microwave propagation path based on the detected temperature.
US11942306B1
Atomic layer etching (ALE) of a substrate using a wafer scale wave of precisely controlled electrons is presented. A volume of gaseous plasma including diluent and reactive species and electrons of a uniform steady state composition is generated in a positive column of a DC plasma proximate the substrate. A corrosion layer is formed on the substrate by adsorption of the reactive species to atoms at the surface of the substrate. The substrate is positively biased to draw electrons from the volume to the surface of the substrate and impart energy to the electrons to stimulate electron transitions in the corrosion layer species, resulting in ejection of the corrosion layer species via electron stimulation desorption (ESD). The substrate is negatively biased to repel the electrons from the surface of the substrate back to the volume, followed by a zero bias to restore the steady state composition of the volume.
US11942287B2
A load control device may be configured to control multiple characteristics of one or more electrical loads such as the intensity and color of a lighting load. The load control device may switch from controlling one characteristic of the electrical loads to controlling another characteristic of the electrical loads based on the position of one or more components of the load control device. Such a position may be manipulated by moving the one or more components relative to an idle position of the load control device. The load control device may be a wall-mounted device or a battery-powered remote control device.
US11942282B1
A thermally sensitive ionic redox transistor comprises a channel, a reservoir layer, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the channel and the reservoir layer. A conductance of the channel is varied by changing concentration of ions in the channel layer. The electrolyte layer is configured to undergo a state change at a state transition temperature. Below the state transition temperature, ions in the electrolyte layer are substantially immobile. Above the state transition temperature, ions can move freely between the reservoir layer and the channel across the electrolyte layer in response to a voltage being applied between the channel and the reservoir layer. When the device is cooled below the state transition temperature or temperature range, the ions are trapped in one or more of the layers because the electrolyte layer loses its ionic conductivity. A state of the redox transistor can be read by measuring the conductance of the channel.
US11942279B2
A tantalum capacitor includes a tantalum body comprising a tantalum sintered body containing tantalum powder, a conductive polymer layer disposed on the tantalum sintered body and including a first filler as a non-conductive particle, and a tantalum wire. The first filler includes a core including at least one metal oxide among BaTiO3, Al2O3, SiO2 and ZrO2, and a coating film disposed on a surface of the core.
US11942277B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: forming a first oxide layer over a landing pad layer; forming a middle patterned dielectric layer over the first oxide layer; sequentially forming a second oxide layer and a top dielectric layer over the middle patterned dielectric layer; forming a trench through the top dielectric layer, the second oxide layer and the first oxide layer; conformally forming a bottom conductive layer in the trench; removing a portion of the top dielectric layer adjacent to the trench to expose a portion of the second oxide layer beneath the portion of the top dielectric layer; and performing an etching process to remove the second oxide layer and the first oxide layer. A semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11942272B2
A method for preparing an aramid fiber electrochemical capacitor includes (1) immersing aramid fiber bundles in an aqueous solution; (2) adding polyvinylpyrrolidone into a silver ammonia solution to obtain a solution C, adding an aqueous glucose solution to the solution C to obtain aramid fiber bundles coated with silver nanoparticles; (3) adding the aramid fiber bundles into an aqueous solution containing γ-(2,3-glycidoxy) propyltrimethoxysilane; (4) adding the aramid fiber bundles coated by silver nanoparticles with epoxy groups into an ethanol containing carbon nanotubes with carboxyl groups; (5) adding the aramid fiber bundles with two-layered coatings into an aqueous solution containing pyrrole; (6) heating a mixture of a polyvinyl alcohol, an acid, and water to obtain a polyvinyl alcohol gel, immersing two strands of the aramid fiber bundles, carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticle in the polyvinyl alcohol gel, and twisting the two strands together to obtain the aramid fiber electrochemical capacitor.
US11942269B1
A security assembly may have at least two components including a first component and a second component. The first and second components may be engageable together, and may have an engaged condition and a disengaged condition. The engaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being abutted against each other, and the disengaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being spaced from each other. The security assembly may be configured to utilize a physical manipulation aspect and a magnetic interaction aspect between the first and second components.
US11942267B2
A sintered body containing: a plurality of coated grains each having a metal magnetic body grain coated with a resin layer; a plurality of ferrite grains; and an amorphous phase between the plurality of coated grains and the plurality of ferrite grains. The amorphous phase may contain a metal element that is the same as a metal element contained in the ferrite grains.
US11942265B2
An inductor includes: a first conductor layer including: a pair of first metal pieces; and a first conductor, wherein the first conductor is wound in a spiral shape in the same plane; a second conductor layer including: a pair of second metal pieces, wherein each of the pair of second metal pieces is bonded to a corresponding one of the pair of first metal pieces; and a second conductor, wherein the second conductor is wound in a spiral shape in the same plane, and the second conductor includes an inner circumferential side end portion bonded to an inner circumferential side end portion of the first conductor; a pair of electrodes each of which is bonded to a corresponding one of the pair of second metal pieces; and a sealing resin that covers the first conductor layer, the second conductor layer and the pair of electrodes.
US11942254B2
A three-phase transformer including a transformer housing, a shell-form five-limb transformer core wherein main limbs include two outer main limbs and a middle main limb, three coil arrangements including two outer coil arrangements each arranged around a respective one of the outer main limbs, and a middle coil arrangement arranged around the middle main limb. The outer coil arrangements have an inter-coil insulation configured to electrically insulate the coil arrangements from the transformer housing and from the respective other ones of the coil arrangements, and wherein no inter-coil insulation is provided to the middle coil arrangement.
US11942251B2
A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion; a magnetic core; and a case. The magnetic core includes a plurality of core pieces forming a closed magnetic circuit. The core pieces include two outer core pieces having a portion disposed outside the winding portion. The case includes a first and a second opposing faces are respectively opposed to outer edge faces of the outer core pieces, and a case inclined surface provided on at least one of the first and the second opposing faces. The case inclined surface is inclined such that a distance between the first opposing face and the second opposing face decreases from an opening side of the case toward an inner bottom face of the case, and a core inclined surface on the outer edge face side of the outer core piece is in surface contact with the case inclined surface.
US11942246B2
A non-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention has a chemical composition capable of causing α-γ transformation, and contains 0.0005% to 0.0050% of Ti, in which, in a case where an area ratio of grains having a crystal orientation of an {hkl}
US11942244B2
A surge protection apparatus is disclosed. The surge protection apparatus includes a housing; electronics contained in the housing; and a plurality of metal tabs electrically connected to the electronics, the metal tabs being configured to connect to a terminal block of a relay panel in a substation, the metal tabs electrically connecting the terminal block to the electronics to provide EMP surge protection to the relay panel.
US11942239B2
The present application provides a conductive film, a manufacturing method of the conductive film, and a display device. The present application prevents refracted light by using a first metal layer to fully cover a second metal layer of a middle layer, thereby fundamentally solving black level stripes caused by lateral etching of the second metal layer.
US11942234B2
A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator covering a periphery of the conductor, a shield layer covering a periphery of the insulator, and a sheath covering a periphery of the shield layer. The shield layer is configured to include a lateral winding shielding portion with a plurality of metal wires being helically wrapped around the periphery of the insulator, and a batch plating portion made of a hot-dip plating covering respective peripheries of the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a spaced portion where the adjacent metal wires are spaced apart from each other, and the non-joining portion where the metal wires adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are not joined with each other with the batch plating portion at the spaced portion. A length of the non-joining portion along a cable longitudinal direction is shorter than a winding pitch of the lateral winding shielding portion.
US11942230B2
A spacer grid specifically designed for accident tolerant fuel utilizing fuel rods with SiC cladding for implementation in pressurized water reactors. The spacer grid design allows for ease of SiC fuel rod insertion during the fuel assembly fabrication process by providing a smooth contact geometry. The co-planar support allows the fuel rods to be rotated axially more freely at the grid location than a conventional six-point contact geometry used in existing fuel assembly designs. The fuel rod support cells are attached at their corners which are shared between adjacent support cells.
US11942221B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a disambiguation engine for disambiguating content. Electronic content is received from a corpus of electronic content, and analyzed to identify an ambiguous portion of content. The ambiguous portion of content is a portion of the electronic content whose meaning is not made explicit in the ambiguous portion of content. A context associated with the ambiguous portion of content is determined and a set of one or more context based ambiguous content interpretation rules associated with the determined context is applied to the ambiguous portion of content to generate an interpretation of the ambiguous portion of content. The ambiguous portion of content is annotated based on the interpretation to generate disambiguated electronic content which is stored for processing as part of a subsequent operation.
US11942219B1
Decision support technology is provided for use with patients who may be prone to a cardiovascular condition such as acute coronary syndromes. A mechanism is provided to determine a patient's risk for experiencing a cardiovascular ischemic event at a future time interval based on temporal patterns determined using physiological parameters of the patient such as serum or blood uric acid and/or C-reactive protein (CRP). A forecast or score may be determined indicating whether or not temporal patterns merit intervention to prevent occurrence or reoccurrence of ischemic events, or for determining adherence to or efficacy of treatment or preventive interventions. Based on the forecast or score, appropriate response action such as automatically issuing an alert or notification to a caregiver associated with the patient, may be determined, recommended, or implemented.
US11942216B2
A control method of a robot according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes receiving from an external computer information that instructs the robot to encourage a user to exercise; sensing a user's current position; moving the robot into a predetermined area that includes the user's current position; causing the robot to perform a gesture to encourage the user to exercise; monitoring behavior of the user; and performing driving of the robot along with exercise of the user, based on a result of the monitoring.
US11942204B2
A training script device is described that conveniently allows a user to create a training script defining one or more steps of a workout routine, where each step may include an activity, a duration for performing that activity, and an intensity at which the activity is to be performed. Further, one or more steps of the training script can be self-starting in response to performance data detected by sensors of training script device executing the training script. This conveniently frees the athlete from having to continuously monitor the status of his or her workout activities. Still further, the training script device conveniently allows a user to transfer training scripts to other training script devices, so that athletes can share successful training scripts.
US11942201B2
An apparatus to perform or control obtaining or causing obtaining an image of at least a part of a surface of a sealed unit. The apparatus derives or causes to derive a representation of the at least a part of the surface from the image. The representation includes a set of values representing height levels of corresponding sections of the part of the surface. The apparatus generates or causes generating a string of characters based on the representation of the part of the surface. The string of characters includes a first portion representative of the set of height levels and a second portion generated based on a function of the representation and/or of the first portion of the string of characters. The apparatus associates or causes associating information representing the string of characters with identification information of the sealed unit.
US11942190B2
A method for evaluating thermal reactivity in source rock evaluation may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks may be at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include interpreting kinetic parameters derived from the plurality of source rock samples. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include converting complex format of kinetic parameters into a single variable for reactivity for evaluation and characterization of source rock in the area of interest.
US11942183B2
Methods, systems, and devices for adaptive write operations for a memory device are described. In an example, the described techniques may include identifying a quantity of access operations performed on a memory array, modifying one or more parameters for a write operation based on the identified quantity of access operations, and writing logic states to the memory array by performing the write operation according to the one or more modified parameters. In some examples, the memory array may include memory cells associated with a configurable material element, such as a chalcogenide material, that stores a logic state based on a material property of the material element. In some examples, the described techniques may at least partially compensate for a change in memory material properties due to aging or other degradation or changes over time (e.g., due to accumulated access operations).
US11942182B2
A memory module can be programmed to deliver relatively wide, low-latency data in a first access mode, or to sacrifice some latency in return for a narrower data width, a narrower command width, or both, in a second access mode. The narrow, higher-latency mode requires fewer connections and traces. A controller can therefore support more modules, and thus increased system capacity. Programmable modules thus allow computer manufacturers to strike a desired balance between memory latency, capacity, and cost.
US11942180B2
A memory system includes semiconductor memory devices and a control device. Each of the semiconductor memory devices includes a first pad to which a first signal is input, a second pad to which a second signal is input, a third pad to which a third signal is input, a memory cell array, a sense amplifier, and a data register. In a first mode, after the first signal is switched, a command set instructing a data out operation is input via the second pad. In a second mode, after the first signal is switched, the command is input via at least the third pad. The control device executes a first operation assigning different addresses to the respective semiconductor memory devices and a second operation causing the modes of the respective semiconductor memory devices to be switched from the first to the second mode.
US11942166B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory device includes receiving, at the nonvolatile memory device, a suspend command, suspending, at the nonvolatile memory device, a program operation being performed, in response to the suspend command, receiving, at the nonvolatile memory device, a resume command, and resuming, at the nonvolatile memory device, the suspended program operation in response to the resume command. The program operation includes program loops, each of which includes a bit line setup interval, a program interval, and a verify interval. In the program interval of each of the program loops, a level of a program voltage to be applied to selected memory cells of the nonvolatile memory device increases as much as a first voltage. A difference between a level of the program voltage finally applied s suspend and a level of the program voltage applied first after resume is different from the first voltage.
US11942152B2
There are increasing needs of searching on which data in a storage circuit is most similar to input information from the outside. Expectations for storage circuits having such memory techniques are high, and to enable a computer to handle information from the outside more flexibly is considered an essential technique. To achieve such techniques, a storage circuit needs to have a function of measuring a degree of similarity between stored data and input data. In an approximate-search-circuit, a memory matrix of a conventional storage circuit is caused to function as a data conversion circuit for calculating the inner-product distance between stored data and input data, by inputting the input data to the memory matrix in the form of a time series of pulse-signals, and the location of stored data with the highest inner-product is output from a circuit that calculates the inner-product in real time.
US11942145B2
The present disclosure describes a method for memory cell placement. The method can include placing a memory cell region in a layout area and placing a well pick-up region and a first power supply routing region along a first side of the memory cell region. The method also includes placing a second power supply routing region and a bitline jumper routing region along a second side of the memory cell region, where the second side is on an opposite side to that of the first side. The method further includes placing a device region along the second side of the memory cell region, where the bitline jumper routing region is between the second power supply routing region and the device region.
US11942122B1
A method of determining radial position of a magnetic head that includes a first read sensor and a second read sensor includes: with the first read sensor, detecting a servo spiral formed on a disk; with the second read sensor, detecting the servo spiral; measuring a time interval between when the servo spiral is detected by the first read sensor and when the servo spiral is detected by the second read sensor; and based on the time interval, determining a radial position of the magnetic head relative to the disk.
US11942121B2
A multi-actuator hard disk drive includes a lower actuator with a corresponding voice coil motor assembly (VCMA) including a magnet coupled with a first magnet housing plate, a coaxial upper actuator with a corresponding VCMA including a magnet coupled with a second magnet housing plate, and a central support plate mechanically fastened to an enclosure base, at one or more locations, and positioned between the first magnet housing plate of the first VCMA and the second magnet housing plate of the second VCMA. Thereby, the pivot and VCM tilt and the coil torsion modes of the direct plant transfer function are minimized and the peak-to-peak gain in the coil torsion mode of the coupled plant transfer function is reduced.
US11942106B2
An apparatus for analyzing audio includes a feature acquirer, an output apparatus, at least one memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute a program stored in the at least one memory. The at least one processor is also configured to cause the feature acquirer to acquire a series of feature amounts of an audio signal. The at least one processor is also configured to generate boundary data by inputting the acquired series of feature amounts into a boundary estimation model that has learned relationships between: (i) a series of feature amounts, and (ii) boundary data representative of boundaries, each of the boundaries being between consecutive periods in each of which a chord is continuous.
US11942104B2
A method for enhancing an audio signal in a full duplex communication system includes the steps of: a) receiving a far end audio signal from a communication input; b) forwarding the far end audio signal to an audio speaker; c) receiving a near end audio signal from a microphone; d) performing an echo reduction on the received near end audio signal; e) forwarding the near end audio signal after the echo reduction to a communication output; f) determining whether a residual echo still exists in the near end audio signal after the echo reduction; and g) attenuating the near end audio signal or deactivating its forwarding to the communication output if the existence of residual echo is determined.
US11942099B2
Disclosed example people monitoring methods include detecting a first watermark in a first audio signal obtained from an acoustic sensor, the first watermark identifying media presented by a monitored media device, determining whether a second watermark, different from the first watermark, is embedded in the first audio signal obtained from the acoustic sensor, the second watermark identifying at least one of a mobile device or a user of the mobile device, classifying the second watermark as a media watermark or a people monitoring watermark based on a characteristic of the second watermark, and when the second watermark is determined to be embedded in the first audio signal, reporting at least one of the second watermark or information decoded from the second watermark to identify at least one of the mobile device or the user of the mobile device as being exposed to the media presented by the monitored media device.
US11942064B1
An apparatus for removably attaching gripping members to a mute to hold the mute inside the bell of a musical instrument while the instrument is being played or moved. The apparatus has a gripping member that grips the inner surface of the bell, a rail associated with the outer surface of the mute and a tray member that removably engages the rail while moveably supporting the gripping member. In one configuration, adhesives attaches the rail to the mute and the gripping member to the tray member and the tray member slidably engages the rail. A latch securely locks the tray member on the rail. The system includes the apparatus, additional gripping members, mute and instrument. The method describes the steps of attaching and replacing gripping members on a mute to easily and quickly reposition the mute in the bell or allow use of the mute with other instruments.
US11942062B2
Provided are a frame rate adjusting method and apparatus for a display screen, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining (S110), in response to detecting a swiping operation, a screen scrolling speed; in response to the screen scrolling speed satisfying a predetermined frame-rate-adjustment condition, obtaining (S120) a current frame rate of a screen, a predetermined target frame rate, and a screen scrolling time length corresponding to the swiping operation; determining a current frame period based on the current frame rate, and determining a target frame period based on the predetermined target frame rate (S130); determining (S140) a frame period change based on the current frame period, the target frame period, and the screen scrolling time length; and adjusting (S150) the current frame rate of the screen based on the frame period change during a screen scrolling period.
US11942059B2
An information processing device includes an openable display mechanism that displays a first screen in a first display region in a closed state and displays a second screen in a second display region having a larger area than the first display region in an open state, and a processor configured to execute a display process of lowering a visibility of the second screen when the display mechanism in the closed state changes to the open state.
US11942044B2
A pixel compensation method includes determining an actual driving digital voltage of each organic light-emitting sub-pixel in a detection row; performing mean value calculation based on the actual driving digital voltage of each organic light-emitting sub-pixel in the detection row to determine an average driving digital voltage corresponding to the detection row; calculating a voltage difference between the actual driving digital voltage of the organic light-emitting sub-pixel in the detection row and the average driving digital voltage, and counting the voltage differences to form a voltage difference set; and outputting a corresponding data compensation analog voltage to the organic light-emitting sub-pixel in the detection row when an absolute value of a maximum voltage difference in the voltage difference set is greater than or equal to a target threshold. The pixel compensation method of this disclosure can improve the uneven display and improve the display effect.
US11942043B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller configured to divide the display panel into a first display region and a second display region during a multi-frequency mode, and control the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit so as to drive the first display region at a first driving frequency and drive the second display region at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency, wherein, during the multi-frequency mode, the driving controller sets a frequency for each of horizontal lines in a boundary region, which is adjacent to the first display region, in the second display region to a third driving frequency between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.
US11942037B1
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display control circuit and a control method thereof are provided. The OLED control circuit includes a counting unit, a judgment unit, a remainder calculation unit and a signal compensation unit. The counting unit counts display lines of a current frame according to a vertical synchronization signal to generate a first count value. The judgment unit compares the first count value and a second count value to generate a judgment result. The second count value represents the number of display lines of a previous frame preceding to the current frame. The remainder calculation unit calculates a remainder generated by dividing the first count value by a period of an emission control signal. The signal compensation unit adjusts the emission control signal to compensate for an incomplete period of the emission control signal occurring in the end of the current frame period.
US11942033B2
A driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The driving circuit includes a driving module and an additional module. The driving module includes a first transistor electrically connected to a first signal line and a connection transistor connected to a gate of the first transistor. The connection transistor has a connection node. The additional module includes a second transistor having the same threshold voltage as the first transistor, and the second transistor is connected between the connection node and the first signal line.
US11942032B2
A display apparatus includes a first transistor including a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode respectively electrically connected to a source area and a drain area of the semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode corresponding to a channel area of the semiconductor layer and facing each other, and a capacitor including a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode above the first capacitor electrode, and a third capacitor electrode below the first capacitor electrode.
US11942025B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes on the substrate and spaced apart from each other, a plurality of light-emitting elements on the plurality of pixel electrodes, respectively, and a common electrode layer on the plurality of light-emitting elements and to which a common voltage is applied. The plurality of light-emitting elements include a first light-emitting element that is configured to emit first light according to a first driving current and a second light-emitting element that is configured to emit second light according to a second driving current. An active layer of the first light-emitting element is the same as an active layer of the second light-emitting element.
US11942022B2
A method of correcting input image data for a display device can include receiving input image data by a controller in the display device, a first portion of the input image data corresponding to a first region of a display panel in the display device and a second portion of the input image data corresponding to a second region of the display panel having a pixel density different than a pixel density of the first region; and correcting, by the controller, at least some of the input image data to generate corrected image data based on at least one white correction value or at least one monochromatic correction value.
US11942021B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a first pixel arrangement structure, and a display driver which receives input image data corresponding to a second pixel arrangement structure different from the first pixel arrangement structure. In a normal driving mode, the display driver generates first output image data for all of the plurality of sub-pixels by performing a first rending operation on the input image data, and drives all of the plurality of sub-pixels based on the first output image data. In a low power driving mode, the display driver generates second output image data for a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels by performing a second rending operation different from the first rending operation on the input image data, and drives the portion of the plurality of sub-pixels based on the second output image data.
US11942020B2
Disclosed is a driving circuit including an input circuit, a first output circuit, a second output circuit and a pull-down circuit. Control terminals of the first output circuit and the second output circuit are connected with an output terminal of the input circuit and receive a control signal from the input circuit, and output terminals of the first output circuit and the second output circuit are connected with the pull-down circuit and receive a pull-down signal. Thus, two stages of driving signals output by one stage driving circuit is realized. As compared with the existing architecture under which the two stage driving circuit is needed to output two stages of driving signals, one input circuit and one pull-down circuit are removed. This application also discloses a four-stage driving circuit and a display panel. The number of used components is reduced, and the frame of the display product is narrowed.
US11942018B2
A display device is described including a display panel for displaying an image and an input sensing unit disposed on the display panel for sensing a user input. The input sensing unit includes: an electrode unit including first electrodes and second electrodes which intersect each other and a control unit for determining the proximity of an object or the shape of the object, based on capacitance change values of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. In a first mode the input sensing unit is driven using a self-capacitance method. The control unit may merge the capacitance change values, and determine the proximity of the object based on the merged value. In a second mode based on mutual capacitance, the control unit may determine the shape of the object.
US11942016B2
A display device includes: a gain provider configured to set a time point elapsed by a set period from a time point at which a first region of an input image is detected as a still region, as a set time, and to gradually decrease a gain value from the set time; and a grayscale converter configured to generate an output image by applying the gain value to the first region and a second region including a peripheral region of the first region among the input image, wherein the gain provider is configured to set the set period differently according to size of grayscale values in the first region.
US11942014B2
A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a pixel circuits, a scanning signal line, a data signal line, a first power supply voltage line, a second power supply voltage line, a scanning signal line drive circuit, a data signal line drive circuit, and a display control unit. The display control unit compares data values written in pixels in an n-th row corresponding to the selected scanning signal line with data values written in pixels in an (n−1)-th row which is one row prior to the n-th row of the selected scanning signal line, and corrects the data voltage corresponding to the pixels in the n-th row in a case where a difference between the data values is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
US11942013B2
Disclosed are techniques for improving the color uniformity of a display of a display device. A plurality of images of the display are captured using an image capture device. The plurality of images are captured in a color space, with each image corresponding to one of a plurality of color channels. A global white balance is performed to the plurality of images to obtain a plurality of normalized images. A local white balance is performed to the plurality of normalized images to obtain a plurality of correction matrices. Performing the local white balance includes defining a set of weighting factors based on a figure of merit and computing a plurality of weighted images based on the plurality of normalized images and the set of weighting factors. The plurality of correction matrices are computed based on the plurality of weighted images.
US11942011B2
A display control device includes a display region setting unit, a priority setting unit, and a display control unit. When a positional relationship between a plurality of display objects on a plurality of display regions changes in size or the plurality of display regions and display objects are within a predetermined distance, the display control unit, when the priority of the plurality of display objects is different from each other, changes the attribute information relating to the display objects from visible to invisible in accordance with the priority, and hides the display objects changed to be invisible as the attribute information, and when the priority of the plurality of display objects displayed on the plurality of display regions is not different from each other, does not change the attribute information relating to the display objects from visible to invisible, and cancels change in size of the plurality of display regions.
US11942010B2
A driving method of a display panel and a display device are provided. During a display period of a frame of image, when the display panel performs frequency switching, a data voltage of data signal line of the display panel or a switching voltage of pixels of the display panel is changed synchronously with the frequency switching of a displayed image, effectively alleviating problems of flickering and unsatisfactory display quality when switching between different signal frequencies, and improving a performance of the display panel.
US11942008B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a smart tracking-based projection method and system. The method includes: acquiring information of a real space of a spatial information capturing unit, constructing a 3D model of the real space, and acquiring first position information of a projection picture; acquiring target image information of a target tracking unit, and acquiring second position information of a tracking target based on the target image information; acquiring a target projection region based on the 3D model and the second position information; acquiring, based on the target projection region, rotation information desired by the projection unit; and controlling, based on the rotation information, a drive unit to operate such that the projection picture reaches the target projection region.
US11942000B1
A lighting attachment for a flagpole includes at least one reflector that directs light from a light source to illuminate front and rear faces of the flag. In one embodiment, the reflector has at least one concavely dished parabolic surface. In another embodiment, the reflector is held in a sleeve that rotates about the flagpole in response to flag movement. In still another embodiment, a swivel connector is fastened to the top of the flagpole and a lower lighting unit to illuminate a flag is rotatably engaged around the flagpole. In yet another embodiment, a rotatable flag bracket is held in an outer groove of a sleeve of the finial attachment, and a finial globe is illuminated by a light source. The housing for the lighting attachment and/or the finial attachment may include at least one power source, such as solar panels and associated energy accumulators (e.g., batteries).
US11941998B2
The invention relates to methods for memorizing words in a foreign language. A method provides for the rendition of a foreign song and the synchronous presentation of textual subtitles on a display. The subtitles are produced on the display in the form of blocks placed one underneath another, each of which comprises a fragment of the text of the song and consists of three separate lines: a line containing the text of the song in the foreign language, a line containing the text of a translation into a native language, and a line containing the phonetic transcription of the words of the foreign song in the alphabetic characters of the native language, said line being the middle line in the block. The block is split into columns, each of which includes one word or phrase of the text fragment for the line containing the text of the song in the foreign language.
US11941997B2
A device for providing an indication of brushing activity of a toothbrush comprises an accelerometer configured to produce acceleration data from motion of the toothbrush, and components for filtering the acceleration data to produce gravitational components and filtering the acceleration data to produce linear acceleration components. The device further comprises a component for projecting the gravitational components and the linear acceleration components into an n-dimensional space, where and for performing a clustering process on the projections of gravitational components and linear acceleration components into n-dimensional space to produce clustering results. The clustering results comprise a plurality of clusters each of which represents a brushing area. A brushing area can be determined based on an assignment of subsequent gravitational components and linear acceleration components of acceleration data to a particular cluster, and feedback provided to a user based on the determination of brushing area, thereby providing indication of brushing activity.
US11941992B2
A method for reporting flight path information includes: determining content of flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including at least one of a path positioning point of the UAV, the flight speed of the UAV and the flight altitude of the UAV, the reporting time of the flight path information of the UAV, and the position and altitude of the UAV when the flight path information of the UAV is reported; and reporting, through radio resource control (RRC) signalling, the flight path information of the UAV to the base station. By determining the content of the flight path information of the UAV, and reporting the flight path information of the UAV to the base station by means of RRC signalling, the base station can determine flight-related information according to the content so as to prepare for handover in advance.
US11941990B2
A bus dispatch device includes a vehicle dispatch unit that determines, based on external environment information, a ratio between various classes of in-service buses having different states of a specific amenity.
US11941987B2
A collision avoidance method and system for a mobile robot crossing a road. When a mobile robot approaches a road, it senses road conditions via at least one first sensor, and initiates road crossing if the road conditions are deemed suitable for crossing. As it crosses the road, the mobile robot senses, via at least one second sensor, a change in the road conditions indicating the presence of at least one hazardous moving object. In response to determining that at least one hazardous object in present, the mobile robot initiates a collision avoidance maneuver. A mobile robot configured to avoid collisions while crossing a road includes: at least one first sensor configured to sense road conditions, at least one second sensor configured to sense road conditions, and a processing component configured to carry out one or more collision avoidance maneuvers.
US11941983B2
A driving assistance device includes a recording unit that records vehicle past traveling positions and related position estimation information, and a relative position estimation unit that estimates a vehicle relative position based on a sensor, adds a history of the relative position to the past traveling position, and uses the output of the sensor. The driving assistance device further includes a position estimation unit that estimates a vehicle position with respect to the past traveling positions and adds a history of the estimated position to the past traveling position, in addition to a deviation determination unit that determines deviation from the past traveling positions using a distribution of the past traveling positions, the vehicle position relative to the past traveling positions, and a reference value. The driving assistance device includes a control unit that controls the vehicle to cancel a warning or deviation when the deviation is determined.
US11941970B1
Disclosed herein is a call coordination system configured to manage both static-type and dynamic-type emergency calls via a singular IP address and a single set of SIP peering connections. The call coordination system a unified structural framework wherein individual accounts, whether static or dynamic, are structured into hierarchical parent-child relationships to form linked accounts. These linked accounts can include both static-type and dynamic-type ES accounts. Upon receipt of an incoming call, the call coordination system can determine the call type and processes the call accordingly.
US11941968B2
An electronic device includes a processor, and a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to learn a sound emitted by a legacy device and to issue an output when the electronic device subsequently hears the sound. For example, the electronic device can receive a training input and extract a compact representation of a sound in the training input, which the device stores. The device can receive an audio signal corresponding to an observed acoustic scene and extract a representation of the observed acoustic scene from the audio signal. The electronic device can determine whether the sound is present in the observed acoustic scene at least in part from a comparison of the representation of the observed acoustic scene with the representation of the sound. The electronic device emits a selected output responsive to determining that the sound is present in the acoustic scene.
US11941965B2
An object of the present disclosure is to enable a warning to be issued to a person who is highly likely to be put in danger at a risky point. In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires information indicating a risky point, acquires a state of a person with a predetermined positional relationship to the risky point, and determines whether or not the state of the person is a state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, among a plurality of states of the person assumable at the risky point. Furthermore, in a case where the state of the person is determined to be the state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, the controller causes an output unit to output information indicating a warning.
US11941960B2
A presence alert system (24) includes a sniffer (36), controller-circuitry (38), radio frequency (RF) background data (40), and a software program (42). The sniffer is configured to sample and measure a characteristic of ambient RF signals (33) over time. The controller-circuitry includes one or more processors and one or more storage mediums. The RF background data is stored in at least one of the one or more storage mediums, and is indicative of no moving presence. The software program is stored in at least one of the one or more storage mediums, and is executed by at least one of the one or more processors. The software program is configured to evaluate the measured characteristic of the ambient RF signals, compare the measured characteristic to the RF background data, and thereby determine motion of a presence (34).
US11941956B2
A cash management system comprises a management terminal, a plurality of Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) terminals and one or more intelligent cash holding unit. There are a greater number of EPOS terminals than intelligent cash holding units, whereby one or more intelligent cash holding unit acts as a virtual cash holding unit for more than one EPOS terminal. The or each intelligent cash holding unit comprises a receiver operable to receive a signal comprising an identifier associated with a user, an access module operable, in response to the received signal, to allow access to the intelligent cash holding unit, and a reporting module operable to send a report comprising an identifier relating to the user and data relating to the contents of the cash holding unit to the management terminal. The intelligent cash holding unit can be an intelligent cash drawer unit, optionally connected to an intelligent point of sale safe.
US11941954B1
Images captured for components of a device are monitored for changes by evaluating a first region of interest in the images. Periodically, a command is sent to the device to move one or more of the components to a known position or state. A certain component or set of components associated with being moved based on the command is evaluated in a second region of interest in the images to determine if the corresponding component or set of components is in the known position or state within the images. When the corresponding component or set of components is not identified from the images in the known position or state, a security alert is raised for the device and security operations are processed on the host device.
US11941953B2
A cash depositing system for a user to deposit cash into a user's account via a store, is provided with: a cash handling apparatus that recognizes and counts cash deposited by the user at the store, and obtains an amount of the cash; and a management server that acquires the amount of the cash and account information of the user, and determines whether or not a fund equivalent to an account deposit amount to be deposited into the user's account can be obtained from the store to a management company. In case where the management company can obtain the fund from the store, the management server instruct an external device, which performs account handling for moving the fund between an account of the management company and the user's account, to perform the account handling.
US11941948B2
Table-based gaming actions are disclosed where additional prizes or other gains can be awarded after spinning of a first reward determining wheel of chance by spinning of one or more further wheels of chance where the further spinnings are enabled by a previous spin outcome landing on an outcome selecting segment that awards a partial reward and also awards the spinning of the next successive wheel of chance. Each of the successive wheels of chance is different from the others such that a variety of reward possibilities is provided. For one embodiment, a bonus awarding segment of the first wheel has a highest probability of occurrence and a lowest initial payout value.
US11941946B2
Gaming systems and methods that employ a plurality of mechanical reels for a plurality of plays of a plurality of different games, wherein the different games are associated with different attributes conveyed via a video transmissive display device.
US11941945B2
An electronic gaming machine and method of operation including presenting a spinning reel based game and feature game, includes presenting a feature stage determined in response to multiple individually selectable gameplay options. One of the presented options includes multiple variables unknown to the player at the time of selection. Values for the multiple variables may be determined in response to an outcome established prior to presenting the multiple gameplay options.
US11941944B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an interface capable of receiving identification information on a user retrieved by an information reading apparatus installed in a gaming hall, and a controller capable of retrieving locational information on an object related to the user in the gaming hall from a storage device based on the identification information on the user and performing image processing to create a floor map of the gaming hall in which an image associated with the object is mapped to a corresponding position of the object in the gaming hall. The storage device stores identification information for identifying the object together with the identification information on the user and further stores the locational information for locating the object together with the identification information on the object. The information processing apparatus enables grasp of objects related to the user in the gaming hall.
US11941940B2
A system which accumulates symbols and determines an award based on an event occurring (or not occurring) on a displayed game field associated with a sporting event interacting with a plurality of symbols overlaid on that displayed game field.
US11941933B2
A method for enhanced access control is provided that includes the steps of displaying buttons, by an electronic device, where each button corresponds to a different service. Moreover, the method includes receiving, by the electronic device, input regarding a selected service, transmitting at least one credential for the selected service to a computer, and capturing, by a camera in communication with the computer, facial image data of a user. The method also includes determining whether the facial image data was taken of a live person. In response to determining the facial image data was taken of a live person, a verification transaction is conducted based on the at least one credential and facial image data. In response to verifying the identity of the user as true, the user is granted access to the selected service.
US11941930B2
Provided is a door lock. The door lock includes a door lock body installed on a door and having an opening/closing device; a memory to store a door lock identifier including a door recognition code and a door lock ID corresponding to the door recognition code; an antenna to sequentially receive a first RF signal and a second RF signal from a reader; and a control unit configured to transmit the door recognition code to the reader and configured to determine whether the door lock ID provided from the door lock management server through the reader matches the previously assigned door lock ID of the door lock identifier to control the opening/closing device.
US11941929B2
A movable barrier operator comprising a motor, communication circuitry configured to receive a control signal and communicate with a door lock associated with a passageway door, and a controller. The controller is configured to authenticate the control signal, wherein authenticating the control signal includes associating the signal with a first level of access or a second level of access. The controller is further configured to communicate with the door lock via the communication circuitry to permit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the first level of access and inhibit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the second level of access. The controller is configured to cause the motor to open the movable barrier regardless of association of the control signal with the first level of access or the second level of access.
US11941927B2
Provided are systems, devices, and methods to calculate and display information pertaining to a space. Information pertaining to the space may include a number of one or more objects that are permitted to enter the space and a wait time to enter the space.
US11941919B2
A ticket issuing system has a processor and a storage with instructions thereon. The storage stores a feature value table that associates and stores feature value data including feature information pertaining to biometric information and a feature ID for identifying the feature value data. The instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire user feature information pertaining to biometric information of a user of a ticket to be issued; identify, from among the feature value data stored in the feature value table, similar feature value data for which a similarity with the user feature information satisfies a predetermined criterion to obtain a feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data; and issue a ticket on which authentication information that includes the feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data is recorded.
US11941910B2
A user interface display method of a terminal includes receiving, by the terminal, a first operation from a user to unlock the terminal when a screen of the terminal is off or the terminal displays a first interface, where the first interface is a lock screen of the terminal, displaying, by the terminal, a third user interface when the first operation meets a preset unlock condition and when the user continues to operate the terminal after entering the first operation, receiving, by the terminal in the third user interface, a second operation from the user, and executing a function corresponding to the second operation.
US11941904B2
A computer-implemented method (300) for extracting content (302) from a physical writing surface (304), the method (300) comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a reference frame (306) including image data relating to at least a portion of the physical writing surface (304), the image data including a set of data points; (b) determining an extraction region (308), the extraction region (308) including a subset of the set of data points from which content (302) is to be extracted; (c) extracting content (302) from the extraction region (308) and writing the content (302) to a display frame (394); (d) receiving a subsequent frame (406) including subsequent image data relating to at least a portion of the physical writing surface (304), the subsequent image data including a subsequent set of data points; (e) determining a subsequent extraction region (408), the subsequent extraction region (408) including a subset of the subsequent set of data points from which content (402) is to be extracted; and (f) extracting subsequent content (402) from the subsequent extraction region (408) and writing the subsequent content (402) to the display frame (394).
US11941892B2
A method for providing data for creating a digital map. The method includes: detecting surroundings sensor data of the surroundings during a measuring run of a physical system, preferably a vehicle, the surroundings sensor data capturing the surroundings in an at least partially overlapping manner, first surroundings sensor data including three-dimensional information, and second surroundings sensor data including two-dimensional information; extracting, with the aid of a first neural network situated in the physical system, at least one defined object from the first and second surroundings sensor data into first extracted data; and extracting, with the aid of a second neural network situated in the physical system, characteristic features including descriptors from the first extracted data into second extracted data, the descriptors being provided for a defined alignment of the second extracted data in a map creation process.
US11941891B2
The present disclosure provides a method for detecting a lane line, a vehicle and a computing device. The method includes: generating an optical flow image in accordance with a series of event data from a dynamic vision sensor coupled to a vehicle; determining an initial search region including a start point of the lane line in accordance with the optical flow image; determining a center of gravity of the initial search region; determining a new search region through an offsetting operation on the center of gravity; determining a center of gravity of the new search region; repeating the steps of determining a new search region and determining a center of gravity of the new search region iteratively to acquire centers of gravity of a plurality of search regions; and determining the lane line in accordance with the centers of gravity of the plurality of search regions.
US11941889B2
ADAS includes a processing circuit and a memory which stores instructions executable by the processing circuit. The processing circuit executes the instructions to cause the ADAS to receive, from a vehicle that is in motion, a video sequence, generate a position image including at least one object included in the stereo image, generate a second position information associated with the at least one object based on reflected signals received from the vehicle, determine regions each including at least a portion of the at least one object as candidate bounding boxes based on the stereo image and the position image, and selectively adjusting class scores of respective ones of the candidate bounding boxes associated with the at least one object based on whether a respective first position information of the respective ones of the candidate bounding boxes matches the second position information.
US11941880B2
A system and a method for image-based crop identification are disclosed. The image-based crop identification system includes a database, a communication module and a model library. The database stores sample aerial data and annotated aerial data. The communication module is coupled to the database, and is configured to provide the sample aerial data to a user and receive the annotated aerial data from the user. The model library is coupled to the database, and is configured to obtain the annotated aerial data, train a crop classification model based on the annotated aerial data, and provide the trained crop classification model for subsequent crop identification. The annotated aerial data include determination of the type of the crop appearing in the sample aerial data.
US11941879B2
Implementations are disclosed for selectively operating edge-based sensors and/or computational resources under circumstances dictated by observation of targeted plant trait(s) to generate targeted agricultural inferences. In various implementations, triage data may be acquired at a first level of detail from a sensor of an edge computing node carried through an agricultural field. The triage data may be locally processed at the edge using machine learning model(s) to detect targeted plant trait(s) exhibited by plant(s) in the field. Based on the detected plant trait(s), a region of interest (ROI) may be established in the field. Targeted inference data may be acquired at a second, greater level of detail from the sensor while the sensor is carried through the ROI. The targeted inference data may be locally processed at the edge using one or more of the machine learning models to make a targeted inference about plants within the ROI.
US11941876B2
An appliance includes a camera for calibrating and determining whether the door of the appliance is in a closed position. A controller is operably coupled to the camera. The controller is configured for obtaining one or more images of the appliance chamber or door. An artificial intelligence image recognition process is used to perform image classification and establish a baseline image to determine whether subsequent closing of the appliance door is successful. In the event of a failure to obtain the baseline image or a determination that the door is not closed, operation of the appliance may be disabled.
US11941873B2
In various examples, sensor data may be received that represents a field of view of a sensor of a vehicle located in a physical environment. The sensor data may be applied to a machine learning model that computes both a set of boundary points that correspond to a boundary dividing drivable free-space from non-drivable space in the physical environment and class labels for boundary points of the set of boundary points that correspond to the boundary. Locations within the physical environment may be determined from the set of boundary points represented by the sensor data, and the vehicle may be controlled through the physical environment within the drivable free-space using the locations and the class labels.
US11941869B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data augmentation. The method includes: generating a group of candidate images based on a target image by using a thermodynamic genetic algorithm (TDGA) model, the TDGA model being configured to apply one or more operations of a set of predetermined image processing operations during each evolution process; and determining multiple augmented images from the group of candidate images based on free energy of the group of candidate images, the multiple augmented images being determined as belonging to the same classification with the target image. In this way, data augmentation can be efficiently implemented by a thermodynamic genetic algorithm.
US11941865B2
Disclosed in the present invention is hyperspectral image classification method based on context-rich networks. The method comprises a training stage and a prediction stage, wherein the training stage comprises image pre-processing, sample selection and network training. Firstly, performing normalization on a hyperspectral image, and then randomly selecting an appropriate proportion of marked samples from each category to generate a label map, and performing training by using the designed network; in the prediction stage, directly inputting the whole image into the trained network and obtaining a final classification result. By means of the present invention, data pre-processing, feature extraction, the process of context-rich information capturing, and classification are taken into comprehensive consideration in the whole flow; and the classification of a hyperspectral image is realized by means of constructing an end-to-end network.
US11941864B2
In an image forming apparatus (10), a feature extracted image forming unit (11) includes a line-drawing unit (11A). The line-drawing unit (11A) draws in an image to be processed, for each of a plurality of line-draw groups, a line that passes all the key points included in each of the line-draw groups and has at least one end that is extended to an end of the image to be processed, thereby forming a texture map. Each of the line-draw groups includes at least two key points included in the plurality of predetermined key points.
US11941862B2
An apparatus acquires a low-noise image, which is training data for training an image processing model, and a plurality of high-noise images corresponding to the same scene in the low-noise image data and each having different noise patterns. The apparatus calculates each of errors between a plurality of estimated output values, which is acquired by inputting a different one of the plurality of high-noise images to the image processing model and the low-noise image. Then, the apparatus calculates an anti-noise stability based on an error between the plurality of estimated output values, and trains the image processing model using a loss function including the errors between the plurality of estimated output values and the low-noise image and the anti-noise stability.
US11941861B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of estimating the autofluorescence (AF) signal and other non-target signals in each channel of a multi-channel image of a biological sample that is stained with one or more fluorescent labels. In some embodiments, the estimated autofluorescence signal can then be subtracted or masked from the multi-channel image. In some embodiments, the autofluorescence-removed multichannel image can then be use for further processing (e.g. image analysis, etc.).
US11941852B2
A three-dimensional measurement device includes an image data receiving unit, a camera position selecting unit, a stereoscopic image selecting unit, and a camera position calculator. The image data receiving unit receives data of multiple photographic images. The photographic images are obtained by photographing a measurement target object and a random dot pattern from multiple surrounding viewpoints by use of a camera. The camera position selecting unit selects camera positions from among multiple positions of the camera. The stereoscopic image selecting unit selects the photographic images as stereoscopic images from among the photographic images that are taken from the camera positions selected by the camera position selecting unit. The camera position calculator calculates the camera position from which the stereoscopic images are taken. The selection of the camera positions is performed multiple times in such a manner that at least one different camera position is selected each time.
US11941846B2
A method for ascertaining the pose of an object. The method includes recording a first and a second camera image of the object, ascertaining a correspondence between camera pixels of the camera images and vertices of a 3D model of the object, and ascertaining the pose of the object from a set of poses by minimizing, across the set of poses, a loss function, the loss function for a pose being provided by accumulation of distance measures between projections of the object in the pose onto the respective camera image plane and the corresponding pixels of the respective camera image.
US11941839B2
Provided is a 10-20 system-based position information providing method performed by a computer. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a head image of a subject; receiving, from a user, an input of at least four reference points on the basis of the head image; calculating central coordinates in the head image on the basis of the at least four reference points; and providing 10-20 system-based position information on the basis of the central coordinates.
US11941831B2
An image processing system to estimate depth for a scene. The image processing system includes a fusion engine to receive a first depth estimate from a geometric reconstruction engine and a second depth estimate from a neural network architecture. The fusion engine is configured to probabilistically fuse the first depth estimate and the second depth estimate to output a fused depth estimate for the scene. The fusion engine is configured to receive a measurement of uncertainty for the first depth estimate from the geometric reconstruction engine and a measurement of uncertainty for the second depth estimate from the neural network architecture, and use the measurements of uncertainty to probabilistically fuse the first depth estimate and the second depth estimate.
US11941830B2
In one embodiment, a system includes at least one projector configured to project a plurality of projected patterns, where a projected lighting characteristic of each of the projected patterns varies over a time period in accordance with an associated predetermined temporal lighting-characteristic pattern, a camera configured to capture images of detected patterns during the time period, and one or more processors configured to: determine, for each detected pattern, a detected temporal lighting-characteristic pattern based on variations in a detected lighting characteristic of the detected pattern, identify a detected pattern that corresponds to one of the projected patterns by comparing at least one of the detected temporal lighting-characteristic patterns to at least one of the temporal lighting-characteristic patterns, and compute a depth associated with the detected patterns based on the one or more of the projected patterns, the detected pattern, and a relative position between the camera and the projector.
US11941827B2
A computer-implemented method of performing a three-dimensional 3D point cloud registration with multiple two-dimensional (2D) images may include estimating a mathematical relationship between 3D roto-translations of dominant planes of objects in a 3D point cloud and bi-dimensional homographies in a 2D image plane, thereby resulting in a 3D point cloud registration using multiple 2D images. A trained classifier may be used to determine correspondence between homography matrices and inferred motion of the dominant plane(s) on a 3D point cloud for paired image frames. A homography matrix between the paired images of the dominant plane(s) on the 2D image plane may be selected based on the correspondence between the inferred motions and measured motion of the dominant plane(s) on the 3D point cloud for the paired image frames. The process may be less computationally intensive than conventional 2D-3D registration approaches.
US11941825B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive first volume data and second volume data; set a first symmetry plane for the first volume data and a second symmetry plane for the second volume data; and conduct a registration of the first volume data and the second volume data based on the first symmetry plane and the second symmetry plane.
US11941824B2
A method for determining a hand force and a ground reaction force for a musculoskeletal body of a subject includes obtaining video data for the musculoskeletal body during an action taken by the subject, generating, for each frame of the video data, three-dimensional pose data for the subject based on a three-dimensional skeletal model, and determining the hand force and the ground reaction force based on the three-dimensional pose data. Determining the hand force and the ground reaction force includes implementing a reconstruction of the hand force and the ground reaction force based on the three-dimensional pose data. The method additionally includes applying the three-dimensional pose data, the estimate for the ground reaction force, and the estimate of the hand force, to a neural network or other model to optimize the estimate of the hand force and the estimate of the ground reaction force.
US11941823B2
System and method for producing an adversarial article that may be used to disrupt an automated visual tracking process. An input module receives input related to a specific automated visual tracking process. Based on that input, a pattern-design module generates an adversarial pattern. The adversarial pattern may then be applied to an article, which may be any kind of physical or virtual object. The tracker's normal processing modes are disrupted when the tracker attempts to process an image containing the adversarial article(s). The tracker may be mounted on an autonomous vehicle, a mobile robot, or other mobile or stationary camera surveillance system.
US11941821B2
An image sleep analysis method and system thereof are disclosed. During sleep duration, a plurality of visible-light images of a body are obtained. Positions of image differences are determined by comparing the visible-light images. A plurality of features of the visible-light images are identified and positions of the features are determined. According to the positions of the image differences and features, the motion intensities of the features are determined. Therefore, a variation of the motion intensities is analyzed and recorded to provide accurate sleep quality.
US11941820B1
A method for tracking an object in a low frame rate video is provided. Matching processes are performed between consecutive frames by using conversion feature maps acquired by converting each of features on feature maps of the consecutive frames into feature descriptors including each corresponding feature information and each corresponding location information, thereby allowing object tracking regardless of whether time interval per frame is long or short. The object tracking is performed by matching feature descriptors on a plurality of pyramid feature maps on an entire area of a next frame and feature descriptors on a plurality of cropped feature maps generated by cropping object areas extracted on a current frame, thereby allowing not only quick matching between the cropped areas and the entire area but also the increased accuracy due to no limitation of the feature searching area.
