US11980661B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to mutant viruses, and in particular, mutant influenza viruses. The mutant viruses disclosed herein include a mutant M2 sequence, and are useful in immunogenic compositions, e.g., as vaccines. Also disclosed herein are methods, compositions and cells for propagating the viral mutants, and methods, devices and compositions related to vaccination.
US11980655B2
Methods of treatment with stable liquid formulations of glucagon-like peptide 1 or analogues thereof
Stable liquid formulations of GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogues and method of using such formulations in the treatment of disorders or conditions are provided.
US11980654B2
A method to inhibit neutrophil recruitment to damaged tissue, thereby inhibiting inflammation in a subject. The method includes administering to an anti-inflammatory amount of a myeloid-derived growth factor (“MYDGF”). Also disclosed are corresponding pharmaceutical compositions of matter containing the MYDGF.
US11980653B2
The present invention provides methods and taste-modifying kits for facilitating cleansing of the gastrointestinal tract of a patient prior to a diagnostic, surgical or therapeutic procedure. The methods and taste-modifying kits can improve patient compliance, and thus, efficacy of the preparation. Specifically, the present methods make the gastrointestinal tract preparation composition palatable for the patient to consume. For example, for a patient preparing to undergo colonoscopy, the present methods make the bowel preparation solution taste significantly less salty.
US11980652B2
The invention provides compositions, methods and treatment regimens for treating cancer comprising periodic subcutaneous administration of the fusion protein of SEQ ID NO:1 to a cancer patient resulting in enhanced activation of CD8+ T-cells with minimal effects on regulatory T cell (Treg) expansion and providing enhanced anti-tumor efficacy while also mitigating T cell inactivation/exhaustion.
US11980646B2
Aerosol sprays are provided that include one or more bacterial species and at least one siloxane suitable for applying said one or more bacterial species to a surface or into the environment. Such sprays may also include a propellant under pressure. Such aerosol sprays may be used for restoring or maintaining a healthy skin microbiota.
US11980645B2
Compositions and methods of use for modulating bile acids, including phenylalanocholic acid, tyrosocholic acid and leucocholic acid, to treat diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease. In embodiments, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions that modulate levels of a bile acid conjugate in a subject. In embodiments, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions that modulate levels of a bile acid conjugate in a particular organ or bodily region of the subject.
US11980641B2
Embodiments of various aspects described herein relate to methods, kits, and cell culture media for generation of podocytes from pluripotent stem (PS) cells, as well as cells produced by the same, and methods of use.
US11980640B2
An embodiment of the invention provides bicistronic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) amino acid constructs. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the CAR constructs are disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer in a mammal and methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal are also disclosed. Methods of making the CAR constructs are disclosed.
US11980638B2
A method of making Cu—Ag3PO4 nanoparticles is provided. The method includes forming a mixture of at least one silver salt, at least one phosphate salt, and at least one copper (II) salt. The method further includes dissolving the mixture in water. The method further includes sonicating the mixture. The method further includes precipitating the Cu—Ag3PO4 nanoparticles or “nanoparticles”. The copper is present in the nanoparticles in an amount of 2 to 23 weight percent (wt. %) based on the total weight of the Cu—Ag3PO4. The nanoparticles of the present disclosure find application in treating cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer. The nanoparticles may also be used in photodegrading environmental pollutants.
US11980627B2
There are disclosed therapies and preventions of prion protein complex infections. The transcription of the amyloid precursor protein gene and PrP gene and the RNA transcript are the rate-limiting steps and are most susceptible for blockage and control of the process of amyloid protein formation and PrPsc formation. Thus, therapies and prevention regimes for prion protein complex infections interrupt this process at the level of DNA transcription to RNA, RNA transport to the mitochondrion for protein synthesis and deposition in the cerebral cortex neurons.
US11980622B1
The present invention relates to extended release pharmaceutical dosage forms of oxcarbazepine.
US11980620B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for treatment of ribosomal disorders and ribosomopathy, e.g. Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA). In some embodiments, the invention relates to methods for the use of a small-molecule autophagy modulator for treatment of ribosomal disorders and ribosomopathy. The invention also relates to small molecule drug discovery and methods of screening compositions to determine their effectiveness for treatment of ribosomal disorders and ribosomopathies.
US11980611B2
Compounds that activate pyruvate kinase R can be used for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Methods and compositions for the treatment of SCD are provided herein, including a therapeutic compound designated as Compound 1.
US11980607B2
Methods of treating malignant lymphoproliferative disorders in a patient, comprising administering an effective amount of a GSK-3β inhibitor, for example 9-ING-41, are provided. Also provided are methods for treating malignant lymphoproliferative disorders comprising administering a GSK-3β inhibitor, for example 9-ING-41, in combination with a second or multiple therapeutic agents.
US11980605B1
The present invention provides a dry powder formulation of 5-MeO-DMT or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers or excipients. The formulations described herein may be used to treat a disease or condition, such as depression or alcohol use disorder in a subject in need thereof.
US11980581B2
Embodiments of the present invention are related to a personal lifting apparatus including an outer frame with a pair of opposing sides, each side including an upper handle, outer vertical support, and a foundation bar. There is an upper crossbar and a lower crossbar extending from one side and connecting to the opposing side. A motor assembly is situated atop the upper crossbar and a threaded rod extends from the upper crossbar to the lower crossbar. An inner frame includes a pair of tracks attached thereto, a seat assembly attached to the pair of tracks and a threaded slide coupler fixedly attached to the seat assembly. The seat is pliable material. The seat assembly is structured to ascend and descend within the outer frame via the slide coupler. It is structured to align with the floor in a first position and lift a seated user to a second position.
US11980580B2
A patient support may be adjustable in height, width, length or a combination thereof. The patient support may be usable with normal sized patients or with bariatric patients. The patient support has a variety of features to enhance operability and/or functionality, including a width adjustable caster frame, width adjustable deck portions, a width adjustable headboard and an extendible foot board to provide extra length. An enhanced lift mechanism can accommodate bariatric patients and alternative functionality in achieving deck positions improves patient comfort. Various parts of the patient support including deck panels and the footboard may be removed and replaced with ease without complicated connectors.
US11980576B2
The present invention discloses a surgical traction system with a hand gripped tension adjustment device that slidably mounts onto a boom structure. When activated the tension adjustment device moves down the boom structure and incrementally adjusts the tension in a traction rope. The boom structure attaches to a bracket assembly that mounts onto the short end of a surgical table.
US11980568B2
A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.
US11980566B2
The invention provides an apparatus for fecal management, comprising a device for collection of fecal discharge, and an insertion component. The device for collection of fecal discharge may comprise an expansile retaining component configured for deployment within a subject's rectum and having an annular cross-section. The insertion component may be configured for rectal insertion of the retaining component, and may include an elongate shaft having a first end positioned proximal to the retaining component and a second end positioned distal to the retaining component. At least one of the retaining component and the elongate shaft may be provided with a plurality of constraining members configured to releasably constrain the retaining component in a collapsed configuration against an external surface of the elongate shaft.
US11980560B2
An ankle foot orthotic assembly for concealing an ankle foot orthotic worn by a user includes a boot that can be worn on a user's foot having the boot extending upwardly on the user's lower leg. The boot has a flap is integrated therein and the flap is positionable in an open position to enhance the user's ability to position their foot and lower leg into the boot. An ankle foot orthotic is integrated into the boot to engage the user's lower leg and the user's foot thereby facilitating the ankle foot orthotic to aid with foot drop syndrome in the user. Moreover, the ankle foot orthotic is positioned inside the boot thereby facilitating the ankle foot to be concealed from observers thereby enhancing the user's self-confidence.
US11980558B2
An orthosis, and components thereof, that may be used as a shoulder brace for immobilization of the arm and shoulder joint may comprise components that may allow for abduction, internal/external rotation and allow for flexion and extension simultaneously. Methods of using the brace and methods of using the brace and treating shoulder injuries are similarly provided.
US11980556B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for flaring a stent deployed within a branch vessel including an ostium communicating with a main vessel, a first end of the stent extending at least partially from the branch. A catheter is provided that includes a first balloon carried on its distal end, and a second balloon that includes a distal section overlying at least a portion of the first balloon and a proximal section. The catheter distal end is introduced into the main vessel and positioned through the ostium and stent into the branch until the first balloon is disposed within the stent. The first balloon is expanded to anchor the stent, and the second balloon is expanded to flare the first end of the stent. Optionally, the first balloon is expanded further, e.g., to expand the stent within the branch body lumen and/or dilate the lesion.
US11980549B2
A method of repairing a fractured bone may include implanting a prosthetic stem into an intramedullary canal of the fractured bone. First and second bone segments of the fractured bone may be robotically machined to include first and second implant-facing surfaces that are substantially negatives of first and second surface portions of the first end of the prosthetic stem. The first and second tuberosities may be machined so that the first and second bone segments have first and second interlocking surfaces shaped to interlock with each other. During implantation, the first and second implant-facing surfaces are in contact with the first and second surface portions of the first end of the prosthetic stem, and the first interlocking surface interlocks with the second interlocking surface.
US11980548B2
The invention discloses a carbon fiber composite artificial bone and a preparation method thereof. The artificial bone includes a carbon fiber composite spring-like frame or includes a carbon fiber composite spring-like frame and a carbon fiber composite plate dowel, and the carbon fiber composite plate dowel is inserted into one end or both ends of a cavity of the spring-like frame or penetrates through the cavity of the carbon fiber composite spring-like frame. The preparation method includes: preparing a spring-like carbon fiber preform through a weaving technology by using carbon fibers as a raw material, performing densification and high-temperature purification treatment and preparing a wear-resistant coating to obtain the carbon fiber composite spring-like frame; and combining the carbon fiber composite spring-like frame with the carbon fiber composite plate bowel to obtain the artificial bone.
US11980544B2
A holder for a hybrid heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The hybrid heart valve includes a non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve and a self-expandable anchoring stent, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. A first suture connects the holder to the valve and constricts an inflow end of the anchoring stent. A second suture connects the holder to the valve and extends down three holder legs to loop through fabric on the valve. Both sutures may loop over a single cutting well on the holder so that severing the first and second sutures at the single cutting well simultaneously releases the tension in the first suture, permitting the inflow end of the anchoring stent to expand, and disconnects the valve holder from the prosthetic heart valve.
US11980537B2
Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, positioning a distal portion of a catheter proximate to the clot material within the blood vessel. The method can further include coupling a pressure source to the catheter via a tubing subsystem including a valve or other fluid control device and, while the valve is closed, activating the pressure source to charge a vacuum. The valve can then be opened to apply the vacuum to the catheter to thereby aspirate at least a portion of the clot material from the blood vessel and into the catheter.
US11980535B2
A cardiovascular graft is provided with highly reduced thrombogenicity. The cardiovascular graft is an electrospun non-woven mesh produced from supramolecular polymers with large diameter fibers. The cardiovascular graft can be implemented as a vascular graft into the human body to allow vascular bypass/reconstruction, or repeated venous access for dialysis treatment, as well as other disorders of small-diameter blood vessels.
US11980529B2
A cylindrical bandage is held in place without using binding means such as strings tied to an upper limb. Additionally, the cylindrical bandage for a lower limb or upper limb fits the shapes and dimensions of a body part and stays on the body part and thus allows great increase in venous return. The cylindrical bandage includes a tubular knit being of a length corresponding to a length of an arm or a leg and a gutter-shaped knit extending from a lengthwise first end of the tubular knit. This gutter-shaped knit has smaller circumferential length than the first end of the tubular knit and has a cut-out section with a horseshoe or V shape.
US11980527B2
Provided is a sensory substitution apparatus and method that combines two or more pieces of multi-sense sensory information to be converted into different multi-sense sensory information, in which received pieces of multiple information are combined to suit sensory characteristics of the user's body and efficiently transmitted to a different sensory organ. According to the present invention includes: receiving input sensory information; classifying the input sensory information; calculating an importance of each of individual sensory information; determining a target sense for which part or all of the individual sensory information, of which an importance is calculated, is to be converted into a new sensory signal incongruent with the corresponding individual sense; and converting the input sensory information into target sensory information to be transmitted to the determined target sense which is an organ.
US11980524B2
This invention provides a measure that makes it possible to prevent more effectively, in comparison with the prior art, the invasion of germs from the gap between a dental prosthesis and the gingiva when the dental prosthesis is used in an oral cavity as well as the infection and inflammation associated therewith. There is a dental prosthesis or a component thereof, characterized in that: the dental prosthesis or the component thereof has hydroxyapatite fine particles on a surface of the dental prosthesis or the component thereof; the hydroxyapatite fine particles are sintered bodies; and the hydroxyapatite fine particles have a mean particle size of 10 to 1,000 nm.
US11980519B2
There is provided a personal care apparatus that is configured to connect to a display apparatus. The personal care apparatus comprises a first control unit configured to: determine a current operation mode of the personal care apparatus as a usage mode or a control mode, and detect a first predetermined user maneuver. The first predetermined user maneuver corresponds to a control operation of the personal care apparatus in the usage mode and corresponds to a control operation of the display apparatus in control mode. When the first predetermined user maneuver is detected, the first control unit is further configured to: perform the control operation of the personal care apparatus if the determined current operation mode is the usage mode, or transmit a control signal corresponding to the control operation of the display apparatus to the display apparatus if the determined current operation mode is the control mode.
US11980516B1
An oral health care device is activated. The oral health care device includes a fluid reservoir and a pump to provide fluid included in the fluid reservoir to a plurality of fluid nozzles. A sensed value is used to determine whether the fluid is being provided to the plurality of fluid nozzles via the pump. A motor associated with the pump is stopped based on whether the fluid is being provided to the plurality of fluid nozzles via the pump.
US11980515B2
The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional visual oral cleaning instrument that includes multiple functions of: a visual dental floss, and/or visual oral forceps, and/or a visual oral irrigator, and/or a visual toothbrush, and/or a detachable visual interdental brush. The dental floss, and/or oral forceps, and/or oral irrigator, and/or toothbrush, and/or interdental brush are/is connected with an oral viewer through a connecting mechanism. In one aspect, a visual oral irrigator includes an oral irrigator, an oral viewer, and a connecting mechanism. The oral irrigator is mounted on the oral viewer through the connecting mechanism. The oral viewer further includes a housing, a power supply system, a lighting system, a viewing system, a circuit system, and a switch.
US11980505B2
A system for visualizing an anatomical target includes an imaging device (105) configured to collect real-time images of an anatomical target. A three-dimensional model (136) is generated from pre- or intra-operative images and includes images of structures below a surface of the anatomical target not visible in the images from the scope. An image processing module (148) is configured to generate an overlay (107) registered to the real-time images and to indicate the structures below the surface and a depth of the structures below the surface. A display device (118) is configured to concurrently display the real-time images and the overlay.
US11980501B2
A system and method for enhancing ultrasound images acquired at a low acoustic power to simulate an acquisition at a high acoustic power is provided. The method may include acquiring, by an ultrasound system, a first ultrasound image at a first acoustic power. The method may include processing, by at least one processor, the first ultrasound image to generate a second ultrasound image simulating a second acoustic power that is greater than the first acoustic power. The method may include presenting the second ultrasound image simulating the second acoustic power at a display system.
US11980485B1
A method and system for determining a treatment outcome prediction for a patient using electroencephalograph (EEG) are disclosed, which include analyzing a brain region mutual interaction characteristics using scalp EEG data from a patient and obtaining a set of brain region mutual interaction feature matrices, performing a feature enhancement process to the brain region mutual interaction feature matrices to extract prominent mutual interaction features and applying a treatment response predictive model to determine a treatment outcome prediction for the patient. Further disclosed is a method of generating a treatment response predictive model using EEG dataset of a group of patients under a clinical treatment. The method and system can be used for determining a treatment outcome prediction for a psychiatric disorder patient and a patient diagnosed with COVID-19 and suffering from psychiatric disorder symptom(s) originated from COVID-19.
US11980484B2
Systems and methods assist with managing a chronic disease of a user such as a chronic respiratory or cardiac disease. The system may include a physiological monitor adapted to be carried by the user and operative to sense a physiological parameter of the user by generating one or more signals. The system may include a management device operatively coupled with the physiological monitor to receive the signal(s) and derive the physiological parameter(s) of the user. The management device, such as with an included processor, may be configured to analyze the physiological and/or environmental parameters to detect a trigger pattern of the parameters, the trigger pattern indicative of a probable event of exacerbation of the chronic respiratory and/or cardiac condition. The management device may then generate automated responses based on the trigger pattern such as by providing instructions for activities and/or treatment for the chronic condition.
US11980474B1
An intraoperative neural monitoring system for use during a surgical procedure on a subject includes a mechanical sensor and a processor. The mechanical sensor is configured to monitor a physical motion of a muscle of the subject and provide a mechanomyography (MMG) signal corresponding to the monitored physical motion. The processor is configured to receive the MMG signal, apply a wavelet transform to the MMG signal, and determine, from the output of the wavelet transform, if the monitored physical motion of the muscle is an artificially induced neuromuscular response that is attributable to an applied electrical stimulus. If the processor determines that the monitored physical motion of the muscle is an artificially induced neuromuscular response, it then provides an indication to a user.
US11980472B2
A system for verifying a candidate pathologic episode of a patient is provided. The system includes an accelerometer configured to be implanted in the patient, the accelerometer configured to obtain accelerometer data along at least one axis. The system also includes a memory configured to store program instructions and one or more processors. When executing the program instructions, the one or more processors are configured to obtain a biological signal and identify a candidate pathologic episode based on the biological signal, analyze the accelerometer data to identify a physical action experienced by the patient, and verify the candidate pathologic episode based on the physical action.
US11980471B2
Disclosed is a portable electrocardiogram measuring device for calculating one or more electrocardiogram leads according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The device may include: a main measurement unit comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and one or more processors; and a sub measurement unit comprising a third electrode, in which the one or more processors measure an electrocardiogram, by receiving electrical signals from at least two electrodes in a measurable state and by calculating different types of electrocardiogram leads based on the number of electrodes in the measurable state and an attachment position of electrodes.
US11980469B2
Example devices are disclosed herein that include a first elongated band coupled to a first housing to be located on a first side of a head of a subject and a second housing to be located near a second side of the head of the subject, the first elongated band comprising a first set of electrodes. The example device also includes a second elongated band coupled to the first housing and to the second housing, the second elongated band comprising a second set of electrodes. In addition, the device includes a third elongated band coupled to the first housing and to the second housing, the third elongated band comprising a third set of electrodes.
US11980465B2
A bipolar stimulation probe including a first electrode, a second electrode, a control module, and switches. The control module is configured to stimulate nerve tissue of a patient by generating (i) a first output signal indicative of a first pulse to be output from the first electrode, and (ii) a second output signal indicative of a second pulse to be output from the second electrode. The first pulse and the second pulse are monophasic. The switches are configured to output from the bipolar stimulation probe (i) the first pulse on the first electrode based on the first output signal, and (ii) the second pulse on the second electrode based on the second output signal.
US11980462B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed mouth-based biosensors and biofuel cells. In one aspect, an electrochemical sensor device for detecting analytes in saliva includes a substrate including an electrically insulative material, a first electrode disposed on the substrate at a first location, in which the first electrode includes a surface including a chemical agent (e.g., a catalyst or a reactant) corresponding to an analyte in saliva; and a second electrode disposed on the substrate at a second location separated from the first electrode by a spacing region, the first and second electrodes capable of sustaining a redox reaction involving the chemical agent and the analyte to produce an electrical signal, such that, when the device is present in the mouth of a user and electrically coupled to an electrical circuit, the device is operable to detect the analyte in the user's saliva.
US11980452B2
A system and method for a multi-function remote ambulatory cardiac monitoring system. The system includes a housing and a microprocessor disposed within the housing. The microprocessor controls the remote ambulatory cardiac monitoring system. The system also includes an electrode for sensing ECG signals and the electrode being in communication with the microprocessor. An integrated cellular module also is included in the system, and the cellular module is connected to the microprocessor and disposed within the housing. The integrated cellular module transmits ECG signals to a remote center.
US11980451B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and software for monitoring blood pressure. In some embodiments, a using a mobile device is used. The blood pressure monitoring system utilizes heart rate measurements at two separate locations on the body to calculate a differential pulse arrival time which is used to estimate blood pressure. The heart rate measurements can be taken simultaneously, or they can be taken sequentially while simultaneously taking ECG measurement. If taken sequentially, the heart rate measurements are aligned with the ECG to determine the differential. Accurate, inexpensive, and discreet blood pressure monitoring is thus provided.
US11980428B2
A computer-implemented method for checking the correct alignment of a hip prosthesis, includes: detecting a 3D model of the pelvic bone of a patient in a preoperative phase, detecting at least one 2D image of the pelvic bone in post-implant situation, selecting an image of the 3D model according to a first inclination thereof and detecting a reference element on said selected image of the 3D model, identifying a plurality of reference points on the 2D image, superimposing the 2D image on said selected image of the 3D model, checking the correct superimposition and correspondence of the reference points of the 2D image with the reference element with said image of the 3D model, and detecting possible differences in the positioning of the pelvic bone in post-implant configuration with respect to the preoperative situation.
US11980427B2
A system for differential recording connectable to an electrical lead with at least two electrodes, including: the lead having a distal end; at least one amplifier electrically connectable to the at least two electrodes, wherein the at least one amplifier subtracts a signal recorded by one of the at least two electrodes, from a signal recorded by the other one of the at least two electrodes to generate a differential signal; a memory configured for storing said differential signal and reference indications of electrical signals associated with neural tissue; a processing circuitry for detection of an anatomical position, wherein the processing circuitry calculates an anatomical position of the electrical lead based on processing of the differential signal and the reference indications of electrical signals associated with the neural tissue.
US11980423B2
The invention relates to a navigation assistance system for assisting in navigating an interventional instrument within a subject. An implanted object opening model (21) and a vessel opening model (27) are generated based on a provided interventional image data set, wherein the models define a respective position, shape and dimension in a frame of reference. These models and a position, which is also provided in the frame of reference, and optionally also a shape (25) of the interventional instrument are used for generating a graphical representation showing the implanted object opening model, the vessel opening model and the provided position and optionally shape of the interventional instrument, thereby providing guidance for a physician, which allows the physician to relatively easily navigate the interventional instrument such that it is moved through the opening of the implanted object and through the opening of the vessel.
US11980422B2
An alignment means of a measurement instrument includes a housing an optical component having a principal axis in a direction parallel to a desired alignment; a first light source positioned at a first distance S1 from the optical component and at a first height h1 from the principle axis; a second light source positioned at a second distance S2 from the optical component and at a second height h2 from the principle axis; and an angle barrier means arranged between the optical component, and the first and second light sources. The housing, the optical component, and the angle barrier means are arranged to block visibility of the first light source along the principal axis at a distance superior to d1′; and block visibility of the second light source along the principal axis at a distance smaller than d2, wherein d2 is smaller than d1′.
US11980411B2
A modular energy system is disclosed including a header module including an enclosure and a display including a coupler. The enclosure defines a recess. The recess includes a first guidewall and a second guidewall. The coupler is removably positionable in the recess. The coupler includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first guidewall is configured to guide the first sidewall as the coupler moves through the recess. The second guidewall is configured to guide the second sidewall as the coupler moves through the recess.
US11980409B2
The disclosure includes a controller and a sheath having an open proximal sheath end coupled to the controller, an open distal sheath end configured for insertion into a vascular system of a patient, and a working lumen extending through the sheath. The system may include a wire extending from the controller through the working lumen, the wire having a distal wire end configured to mechanically treat a vessel wall of a treatment segment, a length of the distal wire end defining a length of the treatment segment. The working lumen may be configured to slidably receive the wire and allow for a passage of a fluid about the wire therethrough to chemically treat the treatment segment. When the system receives a first input the distal wire end may mechanically treat the vessel wall. When the system receives a second input and/or a third input, the system may deliver the fluid.
US11980407B1
An endoscopy device is configured with a flexible cannula or tube for nasal insertion and has multiple parallel and adjacent lumens that provide sub-chambers configured to provide means to diagnose and treat Barrett's esophagus, such as by spray cryo-therapy with no further insertion of tubes. The lumens are configured to impart a small diameter with sufficient flexibility for nasal insertion into a patient's esophagus and accommodate a means any treatment modality. In the case of cryo-therapy, a lumen provides gas pressure relief, and is along the tube, with separate lumens for the delivery of a liquid freezing agent and an imaging means, which includes a source of illumination. Outer lumens may support guide wires used to steer the tube tip and aim the camera to determine the where to immobilize tip before the start of the treatment and/or to correct strictures formed in prior procedures.
US11980392B2
A depth limiter that is configured to couple with a cannula tube of a trocar. The depth limiter includes a body having first and second body portions coupled together and pivotable between open and clamped configurations. The body includes first and second inner surfaces presented by the first and second body portions. In the clamped configuration the first and second inner surfaces form a first cross dimension sized to restrict axial movement of the depth limiter relative to the cannula tube. In the open configuration the first and second inner surfaces form a second cross dimension sized to permit axial movement of the depth limiter relative to the cannula tube. The depth limiter includes first and second locking members, one of which is resiliently biased to engage the other. The locking members are configured to engage each other to lock the body portions in the clamped configuration.
US11980391B2
A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.
US11980390B2
The present invention relates to surgical devices, particularly to a circumcision equipment, enable the circumcision equipment to be suitable for different surgery objects and environments.
US11980382B2
A tissue-resecting end effector includes an outer shaft having a hub housing, an inner shaft including a sun gear, and a drive assembly disposed within the hub housing. The drive assembly includes a first and second drivers disposed about the inner shaft distally and proximally of the sun gear, respectively. The drive assembly further includes a plurality of planetary gears radially disposed about and in meshed engagement with the sun gear between the drivers, and a locking clip proximal of the planetary gears and the sun gear, rotationally keyed to the second driver, and engaged with the first driver via at least one snap-fit engagement. The locking clip retains the drivers and the planetary gears in operable engagement with one another and the sun gear such that a rotational input provided to the second driver drives rotation of the inner shaft.
US11980361B2
The present disclosure provides a closure driving mechanism and a medical stapler including the same. The closure driving mechanism includes a driving part and a cylinder body, the driving part is connected with a closure pulling sheet of the stapler, and a cavity provided with a one-way valve is formed inside the cylinder body. When the driving part moves toward a distal side of the stapler, a volume of the cavity is decreased, the one-way valve is closed, and the driving part drives the closure pulling sheet to move distally, so as to open a head assembly of the stapler. Since the driving part is subjected to a resistance of compressed air in the cavity, a movement speed of the driving part is decreased, and the head assembly is opened slowly to prevent a force of opening the head assembly being too large to damage surrounding tissues.
US11980358B2
A mechanical suture fastener includes a crimpable sleeve defining a channel therein. The crimpable sleeve also has a sleeve length, a channel diameter, and a sleeve length to channel diameter ratio of at least 4.0. The mechanical suture fastener also includes a flange joined to the crimpable sleeve on a distal end of the sleeve. The flange further includes a distal opening which is in communication with a proximal opening defined by the crimpable sleeve. The mechanical suture fastener also includes an inner flange radius of at least 0.007 inches.
US11980353B2
A medical mechatronic male interface device couples a surgical assistance system to a mount. The male interface device includes a base including an end face and a functional body extending from the end face, a first mechanical coupling for positive and/or non-positive coupling to a medical mechatronic female interface device, and at least one first electronic interface configured to connect to a second electronic interface of the female interface device. The functional body includes a centering device that centers the surgical assistance system free of play relative to the base. The centering device includes a first functional surface, a second functional surface, and a third functional surface that together at least partially define a three-sided pyramid. The first mechanical coupling includes a first undercut and a second undercut on the functional body that each define a segment engageable from behind.
US11980342B2
An endoscope in which a reusable part is inserted into a sheath of a single-use portion that includes a needle with an imaging module at its tip and a part of the reusable portion that is not covered by the sheath is covered with a flexible cap that initially was sterile and covered the open end of the sheath, whereby the entire reusable portion is covered and sealed from the environment by the cap and the sheath during a medical procedure.
US11980334B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a surface cleaning head, the surface cleaning head comprising a liquid separation stage having a separated liquid storage region; and, an air treatment stage that is downstream from the liquid separation stage, the air treatment stage having a separated solid storage region.
US11980332B2
A box-type dishwasher, wherein the dishwasher has a fresh-water connection with a feed valve, wherein a water-treatment system with a reverse-osmosis device is provided downstream of the feed valve in order to treat, in particular as required, as least some of the fresh water fed to the dishwasher via the fresh-water connection, wherein a backflow preventer is provided between the feed valve and the reverse-osmosis device in order to prevent water from flowing back from the dishwasher into a fresh-water-supply installation which is, or can be, flow- connected to the fresh-water connection.
US11980331B2
A trolley and method for loading and unloading cleaning robots into a trolley, including for storing, emptying and supplying energy to cleaning robots. The trolley includes an energy supply unit, storage compartments, each storage compartment having a charging contact which is designed to be contacted with a cleaning robot arranged in the corresponding storage compartment to supply the cleaning robot with energy, transport wheels configured to move the trolley over a substrate, a suction system having a foldable suction platform configured to empty one of the cleaning robots arranged on the suction platform, a lift system with a foldable receiving element configured to transport the cleaning robots individually by way of the receiving element in its unfolded state to the storage compartments and away from the storage compartments, and at least one door element configured to close or expose the foldable receiving element and the foldable suction platform.
US11980321B2
A heat transfer system for cooking a food product is provided. The heat transfer system includes an enclosure, heat sources within the enclosure operate to output heat for a cooking process, at least one conveyor positioned relative to the cooking heat elements, and a warming assembly. The warming assembly is configured to receive at least one pan configured to store cooked food product. The warming assembly defines an controlled environment about the at least one pan. A blocking element defines an opening through the enclosure into the controlled environment of the warming assembly.
US11980312B1
A multi-position pillow for providing cervical area support during sleep, the multi-position pillow comprising: an outer cover adapted to be opened; a core support removably associated with the outer cover, the core support comprising a sloped body with a contour hole and venting through holes, wherein a downward slope of the sloped body extends from a first end to a second end, a head connected to the first end and having a hump, and a ledge disposed in the head along a top end of the hump; and a contouring material layer removably associated with the outer cover and compressed over a top of the core support; wherein an association of the outer cover with the core support and the contouring material layer causes the core support and the contouring material layer to be positioned centrally within the outer cover, such that to provide cervical area support to a user.
US11980306B2
An apparatus for heating beverages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base and a container for holding liquids. The base has a heater plate that is heated by one or more heater elements attached to the heater plate. A power source in the base provides electricity to the heater elements. The base is removably attachable to the container. The container has an inner cup that sits inside a chassis. The inner cup is made of metal and has an open top for receiving liquid, a circumferential wall, and a closed bottom. The chassis has an open top for receiving a liquid, a circumferential wall, and an open bottom. When the container is attached to the base, the closed bottom of the inner cup is configured to contact the heater plate and receive heat from the heater plate.
US11980299B2
A foot-lifting device for sofas, comprising: a fixed element configured to be constrained in substantially vertical position to the front portion of the structure of a sofa; a footrest which is movable with respect to the fixed element between a closed configuration and an open configuration; a connection kinematism of the footrest to the fixed element; in a closed configuration the footrest is substantially vertical, in open configuration the footrest is in rotated position upwards and translated onwards with respect to the sofa with respect to the position assumed in closed configuration, in that in both the open and closed configurations the extension of the device is wholly in front of the front portion of the structure of the sofa, and in that the kinematism comprises a chain of four articulated quadrilaterals, wherein: both the first and the second quadrilateral comprise a side integral to the fixed element.
US11980295B2
A four-in-one mattress management system and method is disclosed for facilitating various tasks associated with beds of all sizes including making beds; rotating mattresses; holding a bed skirt in place while a mattress is rotated; installing or removing and re-installing a mattress, for example, in order to replace a bed skirt. The system includes an active mode and a passive mode. In an active mode, all four tasks mentioned above can be performed. A passive mode selectable. In a passive mode, the mattress can be easily rotated in a horizontal plane. During that mode, the system holds down the bed skirt while the mattress is being rotated. In an active mode, the present invention facilitates bed making and thus increases the efficiency of the housekeeping staff leaving more time for the housekeeping staff to attend to the rest of the room. The active mode also facilitates installation and replacement of bed skirts.
US11980291B2
A desk accessory is adapted for use with a desk. The desk accessory includes a frame and a clamp. The frame is adapted to support at least one object relative to a tabletop of the desk located above an underlying floor.
US11980278B2
One pouch for storage of multiple components of a mixture is described with a first compartment and a second compartment. At least one channel is defined between the first compartment and the second compartment and at least one seal is installed within the channel. Method of use the pouch includes: locating the channel; breaking the seal; and mixing the contents in the first and second compartment.
US11980277B2
The invention relates to a system (10) for dispensing a product, comprising a dispenser that can house at least two cartridges, each of which includes a reservoir containing a base product, a first base product comprising at least 0.1 wt.-% particles having a density differential relative to the medium containing same, preferably of at least 0.5 g/cm3, in particular particles having a density greater than or equal to 2 g/cm3, and a thickening agent. The dispenser allows at least two base products to be dispensed in adjustable proportions, the viscosity of the first base product being preferably greater than 2 Pa·s and more preferably greater than or equal to 4 Pa·s.
US11980271B2
A hair dryer includes a housing having a main air inlet, a main air outlet and a main interior volume between the main air inlet and the main air outlet. The housing has an auxiliary air inlet, an auxiliary air outlet, and an auxiliary interior volume between the auxiliary air inlet and the auxiliary air outlet. The auxiliary air inlet, the auxiliary air outlet and the auxiliary interior volume each are outside of the main interior volume so that the auxiliary air inlet and the auxiliary air outlet are not in communication with the main air inlet and the main air outlet. A first pair of ion emitters are in the main interior volume. A second pair of ion emitters are in the auxiliary interior volume. A fan is upstream of the first pair of ion emitters in the main interior volume, and selectively generates a main airflow through the housing from the main air inlet to the main air outlet. A heater is in the main interior downstream of the fan and upstream of the main air outlet relative to the main airflow.
US11980266B2
A push-type card holder comprising a holder body, a holder cover and a card pushing assembly, which is arranged in the holder body and comprises a first and a second drive rod, the first drive rod is arranged above the second drive rod; the card pushing assembly comprises a limit rod arranged above the first drive rod by a fixed column, and can rotate around the fixed column; the card pushing assembly comprises a push rod arranged below the second drive rod, the push rod is provided with at least one step, and can be rotated relative to the second drive rod. The present application has a simple structure, the distributed push-out of the card can be realized without a spring structure, and the card is not easy to be stuck.
US11980263B2
The present invention relates to a portable shelter assembly. The assembly includes a support; and an expandable shelter for being supported by the support and expanding to shelter at least one person. The shelter includes ribs extending from the support. Each rib includes one or more proximal elements pivotally mounted to the support. Each rib further includes a distal element extending from the proximal elements and configured to move outwardly to expand the shelter when the proximal elements pivot in a first direction. Advantageously, the distal elements may be simply pulled down one at a time to lift the connected proximal elements and extend the ribs, which is advantageous in windy conditions, or pulled down together to lift the proximal elements and extend the ribs.
US11980261B2
Provided is an ornament adjustable in amount of fragrance emitted therefrom that is capable of providing aesthetic beauty when worn on the human body, while having a function of emitting fragrance, thereby helping the stability of the wearer through an olfactory stimulus and expressing the wearer's uniqueness from the people around him or her, that is capable of exchanging the fragrance with new one easily and conveniently according to the wearer's fragrance preference, and that is capable of allowing the amount of fragrance emitted from a fragrance cartridge accommodated therein to be easily and simply adjusted through various modes according to the wearer's preference or wearing environments, thereby extending the use time of the fragrance cartridge and ensuring luxury and sensible fragrance coordination.
US11980257B2
A buckle assembly that utilizes two molded plastic buckle constructs. The two buckle constructs are separate and distinct but are identical in size and configuration. Each of the buckle constructs has a base and two loop structures that extend as parallel cantilevers from the base. On each buckle construct, there is a gap space disposed between the loop structures. The gap space is sized to receive the loop structure from a second identical buckle construct. When two buckle constructs are brought together, the loop structures intermesh and interlock, therein mechanically joining the two buckle constructs together. A locking tab is provided in one of the loop structures on each buckle construct. The locking tab can be manually depressed to release the mechanical interconnection between the buckle constructs. The buckle constructs can then be easily separated.
US11980253B2
Articles of footwear having an upper and a sole structure and methods of making the articles. The upper includes an adjustment system having a base element, a fluid-filled chamber, an adjusting element, an anchoring element, and a tensile strand. The adjusting element is positioned outward from the fluid-filled chamber. The anchoring element is secured to the base element and is spaced from the adjusting element. The tensile strand extends between the adjusting element and the anchoring element. The adjusting element is operable to change a tension placed upon the tensile strand.
US11980250B2
A convertible shoe may include a sole and a plurality of interchangeable heel portions, each selectively attachable to the sole. The heel portions may each include a mounting surface configured to interface with a heel receiver of the sole. The heel receiver may include a fixed hook and a movable hook, with the movable hook being operable by an actuator coupled to a bottom surface of the sole. In some examples, an upper is secured to the sole of the shoe by one or more clamping plates. In some examples, the sole of the shoe is configured to be biased into a default bend corresponding to a high-heeled state even when a low heel is attached to the heel receiver.
US11980244B1
A metal-less waist belt includes a belt member integrally made to have an elongated belt strap and a fastening arrangement. The elongated belt strap has a first end portion, a second end portion and a belt body portion integrally extended between the first end portion and the second end portion. The fastening arrangement has at least two locking holes spacedly and intervally formed at the first end portion of the belt strap and a locking and alignment mechanism which is integrally formed at the second end portion of the belt strap and configured to lock with the at least two locking holes such that the first end portion is locked and aligned with the second end portion to form a fastening loop with a predetermined circumferential length. The metal-less waist belt has no metal component and is configured to be able to wear without taking off during the security test and allow the wearer to take off and to wear and fasten with one hand operation.
US11980241B2
A garment comprising a plurality of panels connected to one another at respective seams. The plurality of panels includes a front panel and a center back section opposite from the front panel. The center back section defines a center panel axis that is co-axial with a center axis of the garment. A shoulder panel extends between the front panel and the center back section, wherein the shoulder panel is configured and adapted to support and pull back a wearer's shoulders.
US11980240B2
A ventilated jacket includes a body portion having a front side and a rear side, a sleeve portion extending from the body portion, and a ventilation system including a plurality of vent openings configured to allow airflow into and out of the jacket. The ventilation system includes an underarm vent having a first end and a second end, the underarm vent extends across a seam between the body portion and the sleeve portion. The jacket further includes a wing that follows a path established by a rear side of the underarm vent. The wing includes a first end adjacent the first end of the underarm vent and a second end adjacent the second end of the underarm vent. The wing extending outward from the underarm vent to channel oncoming air into the underarm vent when the sleeve portion is held in an extended orientation away from the body portion.
US11980237B2
An electroadhesive clutch device can include a first electrode assembly comprising a first conductive portion that is at least partially covered by a first dielectric insulator, a second electrode assembly comprising a second conductive portion that is at least partially covered by a second dielectric insulator, and an electrical signal generator configured to provide first and second signals to the first and second conductive portions of the electrode assemblies, respectively. The first and second electrode assemblies can be at least partially overlapping and configured to slide relative to each other at respective surfaces that comprise the first and second dielectric insulators.
US11980231B2
An aerosol generating system includes an aerosol generating device including an induction coil that performs a heating operation for heating a susceptor arranged in a cigarette insertion portion and a charging operation for receiving electric power from the outside to charge a power supply, and a charging device including a transmission coil that transmits electric power to the induction coil.
US11980226B2
A vape cartridge assembly according to various aspects of the subject technology may include a cartridge and an adapter. The cartridge may include a magnetic base configured to releasably and magnetically couple the cartridge to a closed system vape device. The adapter may be configured to releasably and magnetically couple the cartridge to an open system vape device.
US11980218B2
The present invention relates to dust-free preparations dispersible in cold water. These preparations consist of particles comprising water-insoluble or only sparingly water-soluble active substance(s), said particles being coated with one or more layers, the outermost layer comprising as principal component one or more hydrophobic powdering agents on which at least one dispersant is absorbed. The invention also relates to a process for producing these particles and to the use thereof in food supplements, foodstuffs, animal feeds, personal-care products, and medicaments.
US11980217B2
Described herein is a food product and methods of manufacturing the same, comprising a corn protein isolate or corn protein concentrate and a polysaccharide; wherein the food product has a density ranging from about 40 g/L to about 350 g/L.
US11980207B2
Provided are methods for producing food products comprising recombinant components, and compositions used in and food products produced by such methods.
US11980206B2
The present invention provides a method for forming caramels having reduced low molecular weight species such as 4-MeI. The low-4-MeI caramels produced by this method have improved stability and taste relative to those known in the art. The invention also extends to the caramels produced by the disclosed methods and the use of such caramels in food and beverages.
US11980203B2
According to embodiments, dry powdered compositions which may be reconstituted to provide a cheese product include at least one cheese component and a color blend. In some embodiments, the color blend includes from about 49.7% to about 87.1% curcumin compounds by weight based on a total amount of a color portion of the color blend; from about 2.1% to about 42.8% annatto carotenoids by weight based on the total amount of the color portion of the color blend; and from about 7.5% to about 10.8% paprika carotenoids by weight based on the total amount of the color portion of the color blend. In embodiments, the powdered composition includes from about 38.5 ppm to about 733.9 ppm curcumin compounds by weight based on the powdered composition; from about 3.6 ppm to about 165.7 ppm annatto carotenoids by weight based on the powdered composition; and from about 5.8 ppm to about 90.7 ppm paprika carotenoids by weight based on the powdered composition.
US11980202B2
The present invention relates to a method for forming a protective coating on a plant tissue following the consecutives steps of: (a) providing a plant having an external surface, wherein a portion of the external surface includes an exposed surface; (b) applying a first aqueous solution that contains a crosslinking agent to the external surface of the plant; and (c) applying to the external surface of the plant a second aqueous solution that contains a polysaccharide which is susceptible to crosslinking by the crosslinking agent, thereby forming a protective coating on the exposed surface of the plant. Further provided is a postharvest plant matter that includes a first segment covered by natural skin, and a second segment having an exposed surface that is coated by a protective coating that contains a polysaccharide with the first segment being essentially free of the protective coating.
US11980201B2
The present invention relates to an oven comprising: ⋅—a first and a second chamber and one heater per chamber to heat a gas which cooks a product, ⋅—at least one gas circulation means, which establishes a gas circulation in one chamber, ⋅—endless conveyor means for transporting products from an inlet through the chambers to the outlet, wherein the conveyor means are at least partially arranged in a helical path, ⋅—separation means to separate the first and second chamber, wherein the conveyor means pass through the separation means, ⋅—natural smoke gaseous supply which supplies gaseous smoke to at least one of the chambers, wherein the smoke supply is provided upstream from the circulation means.
US11980200B2
A warm forming process for forming a meat patty includes heating a ground meat product to a temperature T1, wherein T1>32° F. The ground meat product is formed into an uncooked patty at temperature T1. The uncooked patty is precooked to form a precooked patty having a skin of depth D comprising denatured protein. The skin is formed on at least an area on the outside of the precooked patty. At least a first portion of the meat product disposed beneath said skin is at approximately T1. The precooked patty is cooked to form a cooked patty, wherein said at least a first portion of the meat product is at a temperature T2. The cooked patty is then frozen and then packaged.
US11980190B2
The present invention concerns the use of the microorganisms species Pseudomonas trivialis, Pseudomonas lurida, Phaeophlebiopsis sp., Periconia macrospinosa for preventing and/or treating Fusarium head blight in cereal plants and/or grains.
US11980186B2
The present disclosure provides a preparation method of eucalyptol emulsion and application thereof in biopesticides, belonging to the field of emulsion preparation. The method for preparing the eucalyptol emulsion includes the steps of: (1) adding eucalyptol into a cyclodextrin solution to obtain a mixed solution; (2) evenly mixing an emulsifier and a co-emulsifier to obtain a mixed solution; (3) adding the solution obtained in step (2) and water into the solution obtained in step (1), emulsifying to obtain the eucalyptol emulsion. In steps (1), (2) and (3), the mass percents of substances from which the eucalyptol emulsion is prepared are as follows: 0.5%-1% of cyclodextrin, 2.5%-25% of the eucalyptol, 1.25%-15% of the emulsifier, 0.3%-3.75% of the co-emulsifier and 55.3%-95.5% of the water, and the sum thereof is 100%. The emulsion is extremely stable without stratification after being placed at 20° C., 40° C. and 60° C. for 30 days and also has a good insecticidal effect.
US11980185B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and their use for preventing, eradicating or ameliorating infections. More particularly, the compositions comprise one or more flavonoids, such as naringin and neohesperidin and caprylic acid and/or polylysine. Such compositions can, for example, be employed for reducing or eliminating bacteria, fungi and other parasites from water, such as water intended for drinking or from food.
US11980184B2
A flavonoid combination solution, and a manufacturing method and applications thereof for plant growth development are provided. The flavonoid combination solution are obtained by mixing a first solution with heating to >85° C. or without heating, a second solution without heating and a palm oil blend. The solution is effective in promoting plant growth, enhancing a seed germination rate, reducing pathogens, and reducing/eliminating stunting effects of a herbicide.
US11980178B1
An insect trap assembly including a vented top with a top rim adjacent an insect attractant container, a bottom tip in the container, and a surface between the top rim and the bottom tip, including vent(s) to emit attractant vapor to insects outside the assembly and entrance hole(s) connected to the vent(s), where the vapor and/or a light attracts insects to land and travel on the vent into entrance holes for capture in the container.
US11980174B2
A water tank cleaning tool comprising an underwater air vacuum with separate air and water exhaust channels, allowing the user to vacuum and clean the tank substrate without removing water from the tank.
US11980168B2
A system and method for individualized feeding of animals, based on a mobile feeding device that continuously moves along a feeding trough. The method includes identifying each animal a number of times until a reliable identification is reached, dispensing individually customized combinations of multiple foods and additives, dragging unconsumed food left in the trough and measuring unconsumed food left by each individual animal, ordering animal arrival/exit to the trough by an endless curtain that enables/blocks access to the trough, with alternative options such as unconsumed food recovery and recycling, with an alternative configuration for animals accessing the trough in any order.
US11980161B2
A monitoring and intervening assembly for rearing premises includes: a movable monitoring unit equipped with a unit for monitoring the rearing premises and the animals resident therein, the geographic coordinates of the unit in the premises being determinable with respect to an origin, at least one movable intervening module able to be driven and controlled by the monitoring unit, the intervening module, at rest, being installed in a storage area, the monitoring unit and the intervening module both including interacting mechanical coupling for linking one to the other, the coupling being lockable and unlockable, the monitoring unit being able to continuously monitor the premises and the animals, without however being coupled to the or one of the intervening modules.
US11980142B2
Disclosed is a system for providing autonomous solar-powered irrigation for a selected wetland site. The system comprises an array of solar PV panels with a charge controller; a deep-cycle battery with a battery monitor; a switchboard with off/on switches for the array of solar PV panels and a deep-cycle battery; a submersible water pump and pump controller; a data logger in communication with the array of one or more solar PV panels, the deep-cycle battery, the charge controller, the battery monitor, the pump controller, and plurality of ambient environmental conditions sensors; and a water-tight container for housing therein the deep-cycle battery, the charge controller, the battery monitor, the pump controller, and the PLC data logger. The PLC data logger is configured for wireless communication with a remote microprocessor having installed a computer-implemented program configured for receiving wireless communications from the PLC data logger, and processing, summarizing and reporting the wireless communications, to an operator.
US11980136B2
A machine for making bales from plant matter includes a compression chamber, a conveying device for conveying the plant matter into the compression chamber, a piston able to move in the compression chamber in order to compress the plant matter, and a drive device for driving the translational movement of the piston. The drive device further includes a hydraulic device comprising a hydraulic pump connected to the coupling member, a hydraulic motor powered by the hydraulic pump, a drive member driven by the hydraulic motor and configured to move the piston in a translational movement, and a control device for controlling the movement of the piston.
US11980133B2
The present invention discloses a ground inclination stereo profiling apparatus and method for a mechanical weeding component, and relates to the field of green agriculture. The ground inclination stereo profiling apparatus for the mechanical weeding component includes a rack assembly, an operation depth and inclination intelligent perception and feedback system, a hydraulic depth adjusting system and a control assembly. The operation depth and inclination intelligent perception and feedback system includes a depth synchronous crank-slider mechanism and an inclination synchronous crank-connecting rod mechanism for synchronously transmitting a depth change and horizontal inclination information of the weeding component; the control assembly includes a processor, a first angle sensor and a second angle sensor; the processor controls the hydraulic depth adjusting system and the motor assembly; and the hydraulic depth adjusting system conducts depth adjustment on the weeding component through a hydraulic cylinder.
US11980131B2
In one embodiment, a skid plate comprising an upper surface and an opposing ground engaging surface, the ground engaging surface comprising one or more optical windows flush or extending beyond a plane of the ground engaging surface, each of the optical windows comprising an optically transparent material.
US11980128B1
A weed whacker attaches to the front of a riding lawn mower. The week whacker is attached to the riding lawn mower through a pivoting linkage, and is supported on castors which may be adjustable in height. The weed whacker may thereby traverse uneven terrain which differs from the terrain traversed by the riding lawn mower, continuing to provide an even cut over the terrain. The weed whacker draws its power from the riding lawn mower. The weed whacker may be shifted between the right and left sides of the riding lawn mower. The weed whacker may be controlled by the driver of the riding lawn mower, including unwinding additional cutting wire in response to a control signal from a controller used by the driver of the riding lawn mower.
US11980122B2
A near-plug monitoring system includes particle flow rate sensors coupled to or downstream of a distribution header, wherein the distribution header is coupled to a primary distribution line and a plurality of secondary distribution lines, the distribution header is configured to receive a flow of a granular product from the primary distribution line and to divert the flow of the granular product among the secondary distribution lines. The system includes a controller configured to receive feedback from the particle flow rate sensors, to determine a real-time flow rate of the granular product in the secondary distribution lines, to determine if a near-plug condition is occurring in at least one secondary distribution line based on the real-time flow rate, and to automatically provide a control signal to alter one or more operating parameters of the pneumatic conveyance system when the near-plug condition is occurring to resolve the near-plug condition.
US11985901B2
In some examples, a device includes a charging circuit with a thermoelectric generator and a kinetic energy generator. An embedded controller (EC) monitors a level of a battery in the device. If the level falls below a threshold, the EC may determine, using an accelerometer, whether the device is in motion. If the device is in motion, the EC may use the kinetic energy generator to charge the battery. If the device is not in motion, the EC may determine, using a temperature sensor, whether there is a temperature difference between two portions of the device. If there is a temperature difference, then the EC may use the thermoelectric generator to charge the battery. If the EC determines that the device is not in motion and there is no temperature difference between the two portions, then the EC may instruct the user to charge the device.
US11985896B2
A power generation device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a cooling part; a thermoelectric module disposed on a first region of one surface of the cooling part; a connector part disposed on a second region of the one surface of the cooling part and connected to the thermoelectric module; a heat insulating member disposed on the connector part and disposed so as to expose a side surface of the connector part; a shield member disposed so as to cover the heat insulating member and the connector part; and a first insulating layer disposed between the connector part and the shield member.
US11985891B2
Disclosed are polycyclic aromatic compounds that can be employed in various organic layers of organic electroluminescent devices. Also disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices including the polycyclic aromatic compounds. The organic electroluminescent devices are highly efficient and long lasting and have greatly improved luminous efficiency.
US11985886B2
Provided is a display panel and a display device, the display has a display area having an optical module arrangement region, a first display area, and a second display area, the display panel includes a plurality of pixels provided in the display area, the pixels include first pixels located in the optical module arrangement region, second pixels located in the first display area, and third pixels in the second display area; and pixel circuits including first pixel circuits, second pixel circuits, and third pixel circuits; the second pixel circuits are located in the first display area and electrically connected to the second pixels, the third pixel circuits are located in the second display area and electrically connected to the third pixels, the first pixel circuits are electrically connected to the first pixels and transistors of at least some of the first pixel circuits are located in the first display area.
US11985884B2
A display device prevents cracks from spreading to an active area. The display device includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area having a bending area, a thin-film transistor disposed in the active area, a light-emitting element disposed in the active area and connected to the thin-film transistor, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting element, a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer, a touch pad disposed in the non-active area, a first routing line connecting the touch sensor to the touch pad via a second routing line in the bending area, and a crack prevention layer disposed on the second routing line in the bending area. Thus, the crack prevention layer is capable of preventing the occurrence of cracks in the bending area BA, thus preventing cracks from spreading to the active area AA.
US11985883B2
The disclosure is related to creating different functional micro devices by integrating functional tuning materials and creating an encapsulation capsule to protect these materials. Various embodiments of the present disclosure also related to improve light extraction efficiencies of micro devices by mounting micro devices at a proximity of a corner of a pixel active area and arranging QD films with optical layers in a micro device structure.
US11985878B2
Embodiments of a display device are described. A display device includes first and second sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel includes a first light source having a multi-layer stack and a first substrate configured to support the first light source. The multi-layer stack includes an organic phosphor film or a quantum dot (QD) based phosphor film configured to emit a first light having a first peak wavelength. The first substrate includes a first control circuitry configured to independently control the first light source. The second sub-pixel includes a second light source and a second substrate configured to support the second light source. The second light source has a microLED or a miniLED configured to emit a second light having a second peak wavelength that is different from the first peak wavelength. The second peak wavelength can be in the blue wavelength region of the visible spectrum. The second substrate includes a second control circuitry configured to independently control the second light source.
US11985867B2
A display substrate has a plurality of pixel island regions arranged at intervals and a plurality of bridge regions connecting the plurality of pixel island regions, and includes an opening being disposed between any two adjacent bridge regions. At least one bridge region of the plurality of bridge regions including a first region and two second regions located on two sides of the first region, one second region of the two second regions being connected to one pixel island region adjacent thereto, and another region of the two second regions being connected to one pixel island region adjacent thereto. A stiffness of a portion of the display substrate located in the first region being less than a stiffness of a portion of the display substrate located in each second region.
US11985866B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes an element substrate including an effective pixel region having a plurality of effective pixels on one principal surface side of a first substrate, and a peripheral region positioned around the effective pixel region, a second substrate, and a first and a second bonding member configured to bond the both substrates. The second bonding member includes a material different from that of the first bonding member. In a planar view with respect to the one principal surface, the second substrate is disposed within the element substrate. The first bonding member is provided between the peripheral region and the second substrate. The second bonding member is provided between the effective pixel region and the second substrate. In a planar view with respect to the one principal surface, at least a part of an end portion of the second substrate is positioned on the first bonding member.
US11985858B2
Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. Since a high potential supply line and a low potential supply line overlap each other with a protective film formed of an inorganic insulation material interposed therebetween, short-circuiting of the high potential supply line and the low potential supply line may be prevented.
US11985856B2
A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a light emitting part including a plurality of light emitting diodes; and a thin film transistor (TFT) panel part configured to drive the plurality of light emitting diodes. The plurality of light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the plurality of TFTs, respectively, by a layer disposed between the light emitting diode part and the TFT panel part.
US11985850B2
A display module and a display apparatus, the display apparatus implementing grounding of a support planarization layer (300) by means of at least one of a grounded first heat dissipation layer (400) and second heat dissipation layer (500) being electrically connected to the support planarization layer (300), so that the grounded support planarization layer (300) does not interfere with touch control signals in the display module, improving the touch control performance of the display module.
US11985844B2
A display substrate panel includes a substrate and multiple OLED elements disposed on the substrate, and further includes a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the OLED elements and a light blocking layer disposed on the thin film encapsulation layer and located between two adjacent OLED elements. A display panel includes the above display substrate panel and a cover panel which is aligned and combined into a cell with the display substrate panel, wherein the cover panel includes a color film layer, and the color film layer has a red color film, a green color film and a blue color film which are disposed to correspond to the OLED elements.
US11985835B2
The film structure according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one active monolayer having an energy level quantized in at least one axial direction and at least one barrier alternately stacked with the at least one active monolayer. Current flows through the active monolayer, and the current flow may be limited by the quantized energy level.
US11985829B2
A switching element comprising: a first gate dielectric layer formed over a substrate; a second gate dielectric layer formed over the first gate dielectric layer to overlap a part of the first gate dielectric layer, and including a ferroelectric material; a second gate electrode formed over the second gate dielectric layer; and a first gate electrode located between the first and second gate dielectric layers, and configured to control the second gate dielectric layer to selectively have negative capacitance.
US11985828B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device with large memory capacity. The semiconductor device includes first to seventh insulators, a first conductor, and a first semiconductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first top surface of the first insulator and a first bottom surface of the second insulator. The third insulator is positioned in a region including a side surface and a second top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the first conductor, and a second bottom surface and a side surface of the second insulator. The fourth insulator, the fifth insulator, and the first semiconductor are sequentially stacked on the third insulator. The sixth insulator is in contact with the fifth insulator in a region overlapping the first conductor. The seventh insulator is positioned in a region including the first semiconductor and the sixth insulator.
US11985816B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a drain region positioned in the substrate; a common source region positioned in the substrate and opposing to the drain region; a bit line structure including a bit line conductive layer positioned on the substrate and electrically coupled to the common source region; a cell contact positioned on the substrate, adjacent to the bit line structure, and electrically connected to the drain region; a landing pad positioned above the bit line conductive layer and electrically connected to the cell contact; and an air gap positioned between the landing pad and the bit line conductive layer.
US11985799B2
An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure and a customizable side air dam kit. The frame structure includes a front frame, a rear frame, front-to-back frame members connecting corners of the front and rear frames together, reinforced bracket structures located near ends of the cross members, and extruded horizontal mounting rails parallel to, but inward from, the front-to-back frame members. The ends of the horizontal mounting rails are connected to the reinforced bracket structures. Panels are installed in longitudinal slots in the front-to-back frame members and horizontal mounting rails, each of which is extruded. The customizable side air dam kit includes a framework of horizontal and vertical frame pieces, adapted to connect to the frame structure, and a customizable air dam panel supported by the framework. A plurality of the frame pieces are provided to an installer for use in constructing the framework to fit the specific frame structure.
US11985797B2
A cooling device for dissipating heat from an object. The cooling device comprises a base part arranged for contact with the object, and fins attached to and protruding from the base part in a direction substantially away from the object when in use. The fins are arranged in a first configuration adapted for heat dissipation by natural convection of air and in a second configuration adapted for heat dissipation by forced convection of ambient air movement such as wind. Thereby, the cooling device can provide ample or at least adequate cooling effect on the object both when there is more or less ambient air movement chiefly using the second configuration, and when the ambient air is not moving chiefly using the first configuration.
US11985788B1
In one aspect, an example system implementing the disclosed techniques includes an optically readable label provided at a U position of a plurality of U positions in a data center rack, wherein the optically readable label encodes location identifying information. The system also includes an optical reader provided in an electronic device, the optical reader configured to sense and read the location identifying information encoded on the optically readable label in response to being mounted in the U position in the data center rack and initial power on of the electronic device.
US11985783B2
A communication device which includes at least four first plate communication interfaces disposed along one length of one side of the device housing is disclosed. The device also includes at least four second plate communication interfaces that are disposed along the length of the second side of the device housing. The at least four second plate communication interfaces includes at least four universal serial bus (USB) ports. At least one circuit board is disposed in the device housing and electrically connected to the first and second plate communication interfaces.
US11985778B1
A bracket assembly with a latch plate and a lock plate. The lock plate is mounted in an overlapping arrangement with the latch plate and movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. First openings extend through the latch plate and are arranged to receive fasteners that protrude from the display. Second openings extend through the lock plate and are arranged to receive the fasteners. The second openings have a first portion aligning with the first openings in the latch plate when the lock plate is in the unlocked position to enable the bracket assembly to slide relative to the display in a first direction and a second portion enabling the lock plate to slide in a second direction relative to the latch plate between the locked and unlocked positions. A latch mechanism is configured to secure the lock plate in the locked position.
US11985775B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and proposes a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes: a housing, with an opening provided thereon; a winding shaft, arranged in the housing; a flexible display panel, having one end connected to the winding shaft, and an opposite end extending out of the housing through the opening; a support member, having one end connected to the winding shaft, and an opposite end extending out of the housing through the opening, wherein the support member includes a plurality of support bars arranged side by side, and a length direction of the support bars is consistent with an axial direction of the winding shaft, and each of the support bars is provided with a through hole, and the through hole penetrates two end faces of a width direction of the support bars; a plurality of moving members.
US11985767B2
There is provided a tape feeder for feeding a taped component, in which multiple electric components are taped to a tape having engagement holes formed at equal pitches, to a supply position by engaging feeding claws with the engagement holes, including: a claw member that linearly moves in a state of being engaged with the engagement hole and feeds the taped component toward the feeding claw.
US11985762B2
A flexible laminated sheet manufacturing method includes thermocompression-bonding an insulation film formed of a liquid crystal polymer onto a metal foil between endless belts to form a flexible laminated sheet. The thermocompression bonding includes heating the flexible laminated sheet so that the maximum temperature of the sheet is in the range from a temperature that is 45° C. lower than the melting point of the liquid crystal polymer to a temperature that is 5° C. lower than the melting point. The thermocompression bonding also includes slowly cooling the flexible laminated sheet so that an exit temperature, which is a temperature of the sheet when transferred out of the endless belts, is in the range from a temperature that is 235° C. lower than the melting point of the liquid crystal polymer to a temperature that is 100° C. lower than the melting point.
US11985744B2
In one form, a switching controller includes a buck controller and a bypass circuit. The buck controller has an input for receiving a variable voltage, an output for providing a buck voltage by switching the variable voltage into an inductive output filter according to a switching signal having a variable duty cycle to regulate a current into a load. The bypass circuit is coupled to the buck controller for comparing the variable duty cycle of the switching signal to a threshold, for activating a bypass signal in response to the variable duty cycle exceeding the threshold, and for subsequently de-activating the bypass signal according to a predetermined algorithm.
US11985741B2
A correlated color temperature (CCT) of one or more luminaires is controlled by obtaining a target CCT for the one or more luminaires and obtaining a first profile associated with a first luminaire of the one or more luminaires. A first target power for a first direct-current (DC) power input of the first luminaire and a second target power for a second DC power input of the first luminaire are calculated based on the target CCT and the first profile so that the first target power and the second target power drive the first luminaire to emit light at the target CCT. A first DC power supply is controlled to deliver the first target power to the first DC power input of the first luminaire and a second DC power supply is controlled to deliver the second target power to the second DC power input of the first luminaire.
US11985737B2
An ultra high temperature mineral-insulated shielded cabled is provided as a non-sintered compacted powder, where central conductors and/or a sheath are made of a conducting material selected from tantalum, tungsten, rhodium, rhenium, carbon, and a mixture of at least two of such materials. The mineral insulator is made of an insulating material selected from boron nitride, yttrium oxide, silicon nitride, aluminium nitride, and a mixture of such materials. The conductor is tantalum and the insulator is selected from hafnia, boron nitride, silicon nitride, and a mixture of such materials, in particular for a use at a temperature lower than 1 630° C. or 1 600° C.; or aluminium nitride, in particular at a temperature lower than 1 530° C. or 1 500° C. A device including this cable used below 1800° C., particularly under 1 600° C., in particular under vacuum, as a heating element or transmission cable.
US11985736B2
A fluid heating device includes a container in which fluid is supplied between an inner surface of an outer cylindrical member and outer surfaces of the inner cylindrical members, lamp heaters arranged in an inner cylindrical members, a nozzle member arranged on a leading end side of the lamp heaters and having an air supply port, and a guide mechanism that guides gas supplied from the air supply port of the nozzle member. The inner cylindrical members include a central inner cylindrical member arranged at a center of the outer cylindrical member, and peripheral inner cylindrical members arranged around the central inner cylindrical member. The lamp heaters include a central lamp heater arranged in the central inner cylindrical member and peripheral lamp heaters respectively arranged in the peripheral inner cylindrical members. The guide mechanism guides the gas to a leading end side of the central lamp heater.
US11985734B2
A cooking system positionable on a support surface includes a housing having a hollow chamber including an internal cooking chamber for receiving a food item, at least one radiative heating element arranged within the hollow interior and operable to heat said cooking chamber and a convection heater disposed within the hollow chamber and operable to heat the cooking chamber. The cooking system is operable in a convection cooking mode and during the convection cooking mode, the at least one radiative heating element is selectively energized.
US11985728B2
Improvements are provided to the paging process for an eMTC UE by allowing a base station and the UE to apply a UE-specific DRX cycle for paging, from one set of DRX cycles, when the UE is operating in non-CE mode and apply another UE-specific DRX cycle, from a more restricted set of UE-specific DRX cycles, when the UE is operating in a CE mode. A UE may report and apply certain UE-specific DRX cycles under non-CE mode, and may change a UE-specific DRX cycle to one from a more restricted set when operating in CE mode. Similarly, base stations may receive the reported UE-specific DRX cycle and apply that UE-specific DRX cycle for paging the UE in non-CE mode, while applying a different UE-specific DRX cycle from the more restrictive set for paging the UE in CE mode.
US11985698B2
In an AP, a Trigger frame generator generates a trigger signal instructing an uplink signal transmission, the trigger signal including a terminal information field that includes a terminal ID subfield and a resource unit allocation information subfield, and a radio transmitter/receiver transmits the trigger signal. In a case where the trigger signal includes a first terminal information field specifying one or more contiguous resource units for random access, the Trigger frame generator sets an unused ID that is not to be used as a terminal ID in the first terminal information field.
US11985690B2
The 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 disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure discloses a method and a device for allocating resources of an IAB node.
US11985681B2
A method may include receiving, by a user equipment from a network entity, a first downlink (DL) control signal activating semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) of a first set of downlink data transmissions, the downlink control signal indicating an applicable hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing for the first set of downlink data transmissions and receiving one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions. The user equipment may determine that an applicable HARQ feedback timing for a second set of downlink data transmission previously received with an inapplicable HARQ feedback timing has not been provided. In response to the determination, the user equipment may determine a HARQ feedback timing for the one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions based a second DL control signal indicating an applicable HARQ feedback timing received after reception of the one or more of the first set of downlink data transmissions.
US11985673B2
A method for wireless communication includes that: a terminal device detects M downlink control channels using N groups of search spaces or N groups of control resource sets (CORESETs), N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and different groups of search spaces or different groups of CORESETs are used for detecting different downlink control channels. Further, a terminal device is also provided.
US11985670B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to determine how activation downlink control information (DCI), release DCI, and dynamic retransmission DCI are distinguished for DCI formats 3_0/3_1 for Mode-1 sidelink resource allocation. Furthermore, in case of asynchronous downlink (DL) and sidelink (SL) carriers, embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to determine how a user equipment (UE) determines transmission slots with respect to system frame number (SFN) or direct frame number (DFN) when activated with Type 1 configured scheduling.
US11985669B2
A method of wireless communication performed by a base station includes receiving one or more particular signals. The method further includes receiving one or more transmissions associated with a first CC and a second CC. The one or more transmissions include first data and a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) that are associated with the first CC, and the one or more transmissions further include second data and a second DMRS that are associated with the second CC. A determination whether to demodulate the second data using the first DMRS is based on the one or more particular signals.
US11985665B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a secure edge device for contactless resource distribution and resource crediting from an automobile. In this way, the edge device may be affixed to or embedded within the side or the mirror of an automobile and be able to communicate with a third party device using near field communication. Upon authentication of a user, the edge device may communicate with the third party to transmit and present data about the resource distribution to the automobile display. The system allows for the user to select the resource distribution via the automobile display and provide a completion of resource distributions.
US11985653B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5th (5G) generation or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th (4G) generation communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system may include identifying a resource for transmitting at least one sequence for interference measurement of another base station, based on information received from a management device, and transmitting the at least one sequence through the resource, the information received from the management device may include information of the at least one sequence and the resource, and the information of the at least one sequence and the resource may be generated based on a grouping result of base stations based on an operating frequency.
US11985650B2
A wireless LAN system in which a BSS composed of one wireless LAN base station and a plurality of wireless LAN terminals belonging to the wireless LAN base station, is set as a unit, and a plurality of the BSSs using an identical channel respectively perform uplink multi-user transmission, includes a radio control apparatus that is connected to the wireless LAN base station of each of the plurality of the BSSs and a wireless LAN terminal of the plurality of wireless LAN terminals of each of the plurality of the BSSs, and configured to collect radio information indicating interference states of respective radio waves, group sets of BSSs of the plurality of the BSSs, which are outside of radio wave reachable ranges of each other, as one of a plurality of groups among the plurality of the BSSs using the identical channel according to the radio information, and perform control to shift a timing of channel access for performing uplink multi-user transmission between the plurality of groups.
US11985646B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for communicating in a wireless communications system utilizing a plurality of frequency bands for downlink (DL) transmission and a plurality of frequency bands for uplink (UL) transmission. In an embodiment, a mobile device receives a DL signal via a DL frequency band. The DL signal contains DL-UL frequency band association information which is used to determine a UL frequency band for UL transmission. The mobile device configures its radio-frequency (RF) circuitry to operate in the UL frequency band for UL transmission.
US11985641B2
Node apparatus and methods for providing high-bandwidth, low-latency data service over a content delivery network including existing wireline infrastructure. In one embodiment, a network architecture having service delivery over at least portions of extant hybrid fiber coax (HFC) infrastructure is disclosed, which includes a node that enables standards-compliant ultra-low latency and high data rate services (e.g., 3GPP and IEEE Std. 802.11 services). In one variant, an expanded frequency band (e.g., 1.6 GHz in total bandwidth) is used over the coaxial portions of the HFC infrastructure, which is allocated to two or more sub-bands via 802.11ax protocols. The node is used in various network architectures configured to support different use cases such as for providing a small cell service, a distributed antenna system (DAS) at an enterprise premises or a venue, and a redundancy capability of data communication.
US11985631B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be associated with a reconfigurable surface for reflecting transmissions between second and third UEs (e.g., over sidelink resources). In one example, the first UE may transmit signaling indicating that retransmissions of a first message transmitted between a second and third UE and detected by the first UE may be reflected by the reconfigurable surface associated with the first UE. In another example, the first UE may receive a request from a second UE for signal enhancement using a reconfigurable surface, the request associated with a future transmission by the second UE to a third UE. In either case, the UE may determine to perform signal enhancement using a reconfigurable surface and may then reconfigure the reconfigurable surface for reflecting transmissions or retransmissions from the second UE to the third UE.
US11985629B2
Technology is disclosed for a vehicle-capable user equipment (vUE) operable for sensing-based distributed scheduling 5 of event-based mission critical (MC) vehicle-to everything (V2X) traffic. The vUE can sense sidelink control information (SCI) for semi persistent scheduling (SPS) resource selection from one or more SCI messages received in one or more physical sidelink control channels (PSCCHs) from one or more neighboring vUEs. The vUE can identify: a number of MC resources to transmit event10 based MC data with a selected number of repetitions within a latency budget, wherein the MC resources include one or more of MC-SCI or MC data with the selected number of repetitions; and a number of available resources to transmit event-based MC data within the latency budget. The vUE can select revocable resources from one or more scheduled low-priority resources based on the sensed SCI for SPS resource selection.
US11985625B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a transmitter user equipment (UE) determines a first zone identifier (ID) corresponding to a first zone in which the transmitter UE is located, determines a distance threshold based on a distance requirement of an application associated with the transmitter UE, determines a second zone ID based on the first zone ID, the distance threshold, a size of the first zone, or any combination thereof, and transmits the second zone ID and the distance threshold to one or more receiver UEs. In an aspect, the receiver UE receives the second zone ID and the distance threshold, determines a distance between the receiver UE and the transmitter UE based on the second zone ID and a location of the receiver UE, and transmits, based on the distance being less than the distance threshold, a feedback message to the transmitter UE.
US11985622B2
A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for correcting time of departure of positioning reference signals (PRRs) used in estimating location of a user equipment in wireless networks. In one example implementation, the method may include receiving, by a user equipment (UE), one or more positioning reference signals (PRSs) from each cell of a plurality of cells. The example method may further include determining, by the user equipment (UE), arrival times of positioning reference signals (PRSs) from different cells of the plurality of cells; and transmitting, by the user equipment (UE), reference signal time difference (RSTD) values.
US11985620B2
A network registration method includes: generating first non-access stratum (NAS) signaling, the first NAS signaling comprising first identity identifier information concerning a first user device and second identity identifier information concerning a second user device, wherein when the first user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle, the second user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, and when the first user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, the second user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle; and sending the first NAS signaling to a core network to request for registration of pairing information concerning the unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle controller.
US11985618B2
Methods and apparatus are described for carrying out timing adjustments in a wireless communications network. The approach includes a user equipment (UE) that includes processor circuitry and a radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to obtain a timing advance value for the wireless communication with a satellite base station, and to determine a transmission time for transmission of a random access channel (RACH) preamble based on the timing advance value. The radio front end circuitry transmits the random access preamble at the transmission time. Finally, the processor circuitry is further configured to receive a response to the transmitted random access preamble.
US11985614B2
A cell transmits synchronization signal blocks (SSB) to a user equipment (UE) for the UE to synchronize with the cell. The cell configures a discovery reference signal (DRS) window for synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission to a user equipment (UE), determines that a channel in an unlicensed spectrum is not occupied and transmits multiple SSBs to the UE in response to determining that the channel in the unlicensed spectrum is not occupied.
US11985612B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal including cell information in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving a first SS/PBCH block from a base station; receiving a second SS/PBCH block from the base station after receiving the first SS/PBCH block; and confirming information included in the first SS/PBCH block and the second SS/PBCH block by performing a combining operation on the first SS/PBCH block and the second SS/PBCH block when a transmission beam of the first SS/PBCH block is the same as a transmission beam of the second SS/PBCH block. Therefore, the performance of a communication system can be improved.
US11985611B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for synchronization of multi-user uplink transmissions. An example method can include receiving, by a user terminal, a downlink radio frame transmitted by a satellite; determining, by the user terminal, a downlink propagation delay associated with the downlink radio frame and an uplink propagation delay associated with an uplink radio frame from the user terminal to the satellite; based on the downlink propagation delay and the uplink propagation delay, determining, by the user terminal, an uplink transmission delay indicating an amount of time to delay a transmission of the uplink radio frame to the satellite so the uplink radio frame is received at the satellite at a same target time as one or more additional uplink radio frames from one or more additional user terminals; and transmitting, by the user terminal, the uplink radio frame at a time corresponding to the uplink transmission delay.
US11985609B2
Some embodiments include a processor that receive configuration information from a base station, and store based on the configuration information, a power control (PC) parameter set of a PC process that corresponds to a downlink (DL) reference signal (RS) or a beam-pair link (BPL), where the PC parameter set includes a path loss scaling factor, a command to perform a closed-loop PC process, or a path loss change parameter to be used to trigger a power headroom report (PHR). The processor can perform a PC procedure with respect to the DL RS or the BPL based on the PC parameter set, calculate a path loss estimate based on a downlink reference signal or the BPL, determine the PHR based on the path loss estimate and the path loss change parameter, calculate a power headroom value based on the PC parameter set, and transmit the PHR including the power headroom value.
US11985608B2
Provided are a power control method and apparatus, and an electronic device, where the method includes: determining at least one piece of maximum transmit power-related information; and sending the at least one piece of maximum transmit power-related information to a first communication node, where each of the at least one piece of maximum transmit power-related information is related to a beam or a beam group.
US11985592B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the validity of idle mode measurements. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for determining a validity of one or more idle mode measurements performed for a cellular communications network comprises receiving, from a network node, an idle mode measurement configuration comprising a measurement duration time value and a validity time value for idle mode measurements. The method further comprises, while in a dormant state, performing one or more idle mode measurements according to the idle mode measurement configuration. The method further comprises determining that one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value and deleting the one or more idle mode measurement reports after determining that the one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value.
US11985577B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for provision of an uninterrupted vehicular cloud service. A method according to some embodiments includes determining that an ego vehicle is approaching an overlapping vehicular micro cloud area where a plurality of vehicular micro clouds are active. The method includes retrieving intrinsic data describing driving behavior of members of the plurality of vehicular micro clouds. The method includes retrieving extrinsic data describing a roadway geometry of the overlapping vehicular micro cloud area. The method includes determining, based on one or more of the intrinsic data and the extrinsic data, a strategy for ensuring that the plurality of vehicular micro clouds provide an uninterrupted vehicular cloud service. The method includes taking steps to execute the strategy so that the uninterrupted vehicular cloud service is provided.
US11985576B2
For sidelink vehicle-to-everything (V2X) transmission, a first user equipment (UE) obtains time-and-frequency resources that are bounded by two subchannel boundaries and two slot boundaries. The first UE transmits encoded control information to a second UE in a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) that occupies a first portion of the time-and-frequency resources starting from a lowest resource block (RB) in a lowest subchannel and from an earliest symbol available for sidelink control and data transmission. The first UE further transmits encoded data to the second UE in a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) that occupies a second portion of the time-frequency resources. The second portion includes (a) a first set of RBs in the same symbols as the PSCCH and not used by the PSCCH, and (b) a second set of RBs in symbols not used by the PSCCH.
US11985575B2
Based upon the current position of a vehicle, a processor determines which V2X communication standard to use. If a change from a current V2X protocol being used to a new protocol (required because of the location of the vehicle) is determined, software for the new protocol is loaded to re-configure the processor or other electronic devices in the VCU or elsewhere in the vehicle.
US11985574B2
The present disclosure relates to an environment control system for controlling environmental conditions in a building. The environment control system comprises a plurality of sensors located in different areas of the building. Each sensor is used for determining a measured value for one of the environmental conditions in the area where the sensor is located. Further at least one of the plurality of sensors is configured for exchanging data with at least one mobile computing device for modifying a target value of one of the environmental conditions for the area where the sensor is located. The environment control system further comprises an environment controller for receiving the measured values and the modified target values from the plurality of sensors. The environment controller is further configured for comparing the measured values with the modified target values for each area of the building and generating commands for each area of the building based on a difference between the measured values and modified target values. The environment control system further comprises a plurality of room controllers, such that each room controller is installed in a room in one of the areas of the building. Each room controller is configured for exchanging data with the environment controller to obtain the measured values of the environmental conditions in the room.
US11985572B2
The embodiments herein provide a method for managing short data service (SDS) disposition notifications in a Mission Critical Data (MCData) communication system. The method includes identifying, by a receiving MCData User Equipment (UE), SDS disposition request type Information Element (IE) in a SDS message received from a transmitting MCData UE. Further, the method includes initiating, by the receiving MCData UE, a timer when the disposition request type Information Element (IE) is set as Delivery and Read. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting, by the receiving MCData UE, a consolidated disposition notification to the transmitting MCData UE by stopping the timer when the SDS message is read before expiry of the timer.
US11985570B2
Disclosed is a positioning device, a position measurement server, and a position measurement system capable of estimating a relatively accurate position on the basis of a signal transmitted from a terminal in a mobile communication system. Particularly, the positioning device acquires channel configuration information of an uplink signal of a target terminal, receives the uplink signal of the target terminal through one or more uplink signal reception units on the basis of the channel configuration information, measures information on the received uplink signal, and transmits the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal to the position measurement server, and the position measurement server receives the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal from the positioning device and calculates a position of the target terminal on the basis of the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal.
US11985562B2
A system for interference detection includes one or more processors are configured to receive from one or more access points within a wireless network information indicative of airtime usage of one or more client devices associated with the one or more access points, determine an amount of total interference for at least one of the access points on a first channel, the total interference including foreign interference and in-network interference, determine a correlation between the total interference and the airtime usage of the one or more client devices, determine an amount of the foreign interference or an amount of the in-network interference based on the correlation, and selectively switch the at least one of the access points from communicating on the first channel to communicating on a second channel based on the determined amount of the foreign interference or the determined amount of the in-network interference.
US11985553B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a master node (MN) may receive information indicating one or more candidate target secondary nodes (SNs) for a multi radio access technology dual connectivity (MR-DC) handover of a user equipment (UE), wherein the information indicates that the one or more candidate target SNs are associated with direct forwarding paths with a source radio access network (RAN) node of the UE; select a target SN from the one or more candidate target SNs based at least in part on the received information; and perform the MR-DC handover of the UE, wherein the selected target SN is different than the source RAN node of the UE, and wherein a configuration of the MR-DC handover is based at least in part on a direct forwarding path between the selected target SN and the source RAN node.
US11985551B2
A communication system comprises a plurality of cells, each cell being associated with a respective serving area of TUPF. A base station controls a communication session of a communication device via the base station and a TUPF. Mobility of the communication device between a source cell and a target cell is performed as follows: when the communication session uses a nomadic IP address and the target cell is associated with the same TUPF serving area as the source cell but the base station is unable to determine the TUPF serving area of the target cell, the base station initiates a redirection procedure rather than a handover procedure. When performing the redirection procedure, the communication connection for the communication session via the source cell is broken before the target cell has been prepared to receive communication for the communication session of the communication device.
US11985550B2
A UE activates a PS Data Off service to block downlink and uplink services except the exempted services determined by the HPLMN. To activate PS Data Off, the UE sends an indication to the MME or SGSN, or additionally to a S-CSCF or an IMS network. The UE may receive a confirmation of the PS Data Off activation and/or a list of exempt services. The MME may contact the HSS to notify about the activation of the PS Data Off and receive indication of support of the service or list of exempted services and send the indication and/or packet filtering per PDN to PDN GW(s). The PDN GW may contact a PCRF to get policy rules. The HSS may provide a list of exempt services to the S-CSCF.
US11985549B2
Embodiments contemplate that the transfer of an Internet Protocol (IP) address from one (e.g. a first) Gateway (GW) to another (e.g. a second) Gateway (GW) may improve the Dynamic Mobility Management (DMM) handling in any network environment, including a dense network environment. Embodiments contemplate a dense network may enable a User Equipment (UE or wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)) to be connected to the closest GW while the IP address transfer may enable the usage of a relatively short data path (e.g. perhaps a “shortest” data path), which may be useful in the context of DMM, perhaps even for existing flows. Using the contemplated capability of moving IP addresses may minimize the number of IP addresses allocated and/or the number of tunnels to be maintained.
US11985546B2
A method performed by a wireless communications device for accessing an unlicensed radio frequency band. The wireless communications device is configured to operate in the unlicensed radio frequency band. The unlicensed radio frequency band comprises a plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts and is used by a wireless communications network comprising a network node. The wireless communications device receives, from the network node, an indication enabling the wireless communications device to make a prioritization among the plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts. The wireless communications device accesses the unlicensed radio frequency band in accordance with the prioritization.
US11985545B2
This disclosure provides a method of balancing load in a cellular telecommunications network, the cellular telecommunications network having a first transceiver, a second transceiver, a first core network and a plurality of User Equipment (UE) the method including connecting a UE of the plurality of UEs to the first transceiver and second transceiver in a first non-standalone deployment mode in which the UE communicates control plane traffic and user plane traffic with the first transceiver and communicates user plane traffic only with the second transceiver; monitoring a load of one of more of the first transceiver, second transceiver and the first core network; determining whether the load satisfies a trigger threshold; and, if it does, responding by, connecting the UE to the first transceiver and second transceiver in a second non-standalone deployment mode in which the UE communicates control plane traffic and user plane traffic with the second transceiver and communicates user plane traffic only with the first transceiver.
US11985544B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of handling user traffic in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network. For instance, a data counter for two or more of a plurality of user equipment (UE) bearers handled by an IAB node can be configured. Data corresponding to the two or more UE bearers of the plurality of UE bearers can be received. A first UE bearer can be selected. The first UE bearer is the UE bearer having the lowest data counter value of the two or more UE bearers. Data corresponding to the first UE bearer can be transferred to a mobile terminal (MT) in the IAB node. The data counter for the first UE bearer can be increased by a total size of the transferred data.
US11985523B2
Disclosed is a method for managing multiple remote radio heads (RRHs) in a communication network, the method including, in response to an alarm indicating that a value of an operation parameter of an RRH among the multiple RRHs is beyond a predetermined range, predicting whether the RRH is faulty, based on one or more pieces of operation information of the RRH which respectively correspond to one or more timestamps; and issuing a notification indicating that the RRH is faulty when it is predicted that the RRH is faulty, wherein the one or more pieces of operation information of the RRH comprise at least one of information related to an uptime of the RRH, information related to a type of the alarm, information related to a state of the RRH, and information related to an environment of the RRH.
US11985521B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium provide for scanning, by a device, a radio service area of a small cell radio access node to detect radio signals of one or more radio frequency (RF) bands, the radio signals including transmissions associated with one or more other small cell radio access nodes that are operating in a vicinity of the small cell radio access node, and the small radio access node being configured to alternately operate at multiple RF bands including the one or more RF bands; determining, by the device, a signal strength associated with each of the one or more RF bands; and dynamically optimizing, by device, operation of the small cell radio access node based on the signal strength associated with each of the one or more RF bands.
US11985520B2
A Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) device receives first parameters associated with a user device from a first radio access network (RAN) device. The MEC device performs functions associated with an application being executed by the user device and the MEC device is co-located with the RAN device. The MEC device receives second parameters associated with the user device from a core network device. The MEC device modifies performance of the functions based on the received first and second parameters and provides third parameters associated with the user device to a second RAN device that is co-located with the MEC device for adjusting performance of a network.
US11985519B2
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. The disclosure provides a method for enabling user equipment (UE) actions upon secondary cell group (SCG) deactivation is provided.
US11985518B2
Embodiments of this application provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for physical cell identifier (PCI) conflict detection and optimization. One method includes: receiving a PCI conflict detection notification message for triggering the control network element to perform PCI conflict detection; determining that a PCI conflict exists in at least two cells; determining whether the at least two cells are managed by the control network element; in response to determining that the at least two cells are cells managed by the control network element, performing PCI optimization on PCI conflicted cells managed by the control network element, wherein the PCI conflicted cells comprise the at least two cells; and in response to determining that at least one of the at least two cells is not a cell managed by the control network element, sending a PCI optimization request message to a first management network element, wherein the PCI optimization request message requests the first management network element to perform PCI optimization.
US11985515B2
The present disclosure relates to dynamic antenna array reconfiguration and signaling in millimeter wave bands. A user equipment (UE) may detect an antenna array change condition. The UE may transmit a request for beam training for an antenna array configuration in response to the detecting. The request for beam training may include a requested antenna array configuration for the UE and an indication of beam weights to use with the requested antenna array configuration. A base station may determine whether to grant or deny the requested antenna array configuration for the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of an antenna array configuration for the UE. The base station may transmit the number of reference signals as a set of contiguous channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS). The UE may train the reconfigured active antenna array configuration based on the reference signals.
US11985511B2
A base station transmits, to a wireless device, configuration parameters of a configured grant of an unlicensed cell. Based on the configured grant, the base station receives from the wireless device: one or more code block groups of a transport block, and a code block group transmission information indicating a presence of the one or more code block groups for the transport block. A downlink control information is transmitted that includes: a first field indicating that the base station received the code block group transmission information, and a second field indicating hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for each code block group of the one or more code block groups.
US11985510B1
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11985505B2
A wireless communication system may include a mobile wireless communications device and a wireless accessory device to be paired with it. The wireless accessory device may have a wireless transceiver and an antenna coupled to the wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver and the antenna may be operable in an initial mode and an operational mode after successful pairing. The initial mode may have a shorter range than the operational mode. The mobile wireless communications device may exchange pairing tokens with the wireless accessory device using the initial mode, and communicate with the wireless accessory device using the operational mode after successful pairing.
US11985486B2
Disclosed are a microphone array-based sound signal processing method, apparatus and device. The method comprises: selecting, from a microphone array, a target microphone combination which is used for receiving a sound signal of a target sound source, the target microphone combination comprising a first microphone and at least one second microphone; obtaining target compensation information corresponding to the target microphone combination, the target compensation information comprising a signal compensation parameter of each second microphone with respect to the first microphone; according to the target compensation information, performing signal compensation processing on a second sound signal received by means of the second microphone; and according to the second sound signal subjected to the signal compensation processing and a first sound signal received by means of the first microphone, obtaining a target sound signal and outputting same.
US11985472B2
One or more sensors are configured to contextualize a series of user generated movements to control one or more electronic devices. For example, a set of earphones comprises one or more sensors for sensing a location of the earphones. The one or more sensors enable earphones such as a pair of bluetooth or earphones wirelessly coupled to a bluetooth enabled electronic device, the capability to understand the configuration of use of the earphones. Based on a location and use or non-use of the earphones, one or more contextual responses is able to be applied for a given action.
US11985466B2
The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
US11985456B1
A system can include a splitter configured to receive a first optical signal carrying first data and generate a first optical signal copy and second optical signal copy. Also included is at least one optical processing path includes at least one optical encoder configured to transform the first optical signal copy into a second optical signal carrying the first data and an additional optical feature not present in the first optical signal, at least one optical modulator configured to optically modulate the second optical signal according to a compare data to generate an optical match signal that indicates matches between the compare data and the first data, and at least one photodetector configured to generate an electrical match signal in response to the optical match signal. Corresponding methods are also disclosed.
US11985452B2
A color conversion element includes: a substrate; a phosphor portion that is disposed above the substrate, receives laser light transmitted from an outside, and emits light in a color different from a color of the laser light; a reflective layer that includes a dielectric multilayer film and is disposed on a principal surface of the phosphor portion facing the substrate; and a joining portion interposed between the reflective layer and the substrate to join the reflective layer and the substrate. The joining portion includes an air layer that exposes the reflective layer in a position where the air layer at least partially overlaps an irradiation region in a plan view, the irradiation region being a region irradiated with the laser light on the phosphor portion.
US11985443B2
A solid-state image sensor according to the present disclosure includes a first semiconductor substrate having a photoelectric conversion element and a second semiconductor substrate facing the first semiconductor substrate with an insulating film interposed therebetween, in which the second semiconductor substrate has an amplification transistor that amplifies an electrical signal output from the photoelectric conversion element on a first main surface (MSa), has a region having a resistance lower than a resistance of the second semiconductor substrate on a second main surface (MSb) opposite to the first main surface (MSa), and is grounded via the region.
US11985432B2
The image processing apparatus 10 includes image storage means 11 for sequentially storing images continuously captured in time, thinning means 12 for performing a thinning process for the images continuously captured in time, first image evaluation means 13 for performing first focus evaluation on the images after the thinning process is performed, selection means 14 for selecting a plurality of in-focus frame candidates from the images continuously captured in time, based on an evaluation result of the first focus evaluation, second image evaluation means 15 for reading the images of the in-focus frame candidates selected by the selection means 14 from the image storage means 11 and performing second focus evaluation on the read images, and matching image determination means 16 for selecting a matching image for an authentication process from the images of the in-focus frame candidates, based on an evaluation result of the second focus evaluation.
US11985431B2
An imaging system may include an electronic shutter. The electronic shutter may be positioned between an image sensor and a lens module or may be integrated as a package cover for the image sensor. The electronic shutter may selectively attenuate incident light that passes to the image sensor. To increase the dynamic range of the imaging system, the electronic shutter may have a first transparency while a first image is captured by the image sensor and a second, different transparency while a second image is captured by the image sensor. The first and second images are subsequently combined to form a single high dynamic range image. The electronic shutter may be controlled at a global level, at a sub-array level, or at a pixel level.
US11985414B2
A method for image-based orthodontic treatment may include receiving image data of a patient's dentition and an orthodontic appliance, identifying, from the image data, the orthodontic appliance, calculating a misalignment height of a misalignment of the orthodontic appliance with respect to the patient's dentition, determining whether the misalignment height satisfies a misalignment threshold, and in response to satisfying the misalignment threshold, providing a notification.
US11985409B2
A camera module according to the present embodiment comprises: a light-emitting unit for outputting light to an object; a filter allowing the light to pass therethrough; at least one sheet of lens disposed on the filter and condensing the light reflected from the object; a sensor including a plurality of pixels aligned in an array and generating an electrical signal from the light condensed by the lens; and a tilt unit for tilting the filter such that an optical path of the light having passed through the filter is repeatedly moved according to a predetermined rule, wherein the tilt unit includes: a tilting driver for generating an output signal synchronized with an exposure cycle of the sensor on the basis of a trigger signal input from the sensor; and a tilting actuator for tilting the filter diagonally by the output signal.
US11985405B2
A camera module includes a housing, a first lens module configured to be movable in a first direction of the housing, a second lens module configured to be movable in the first direction, a first magnet disposed on the first lens module, a first yoke member disposed on the housing so as to face a first side surface of the first magnet and configured to limit a movement position of the first lens module with respect to the housing, and a second yoke member disposed on the second lens module so as to face a second side surface of the first magnet and configured to limit a movement position of the second lens module with respect to the first lens module.
US11985404B2
An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed on the housing; a first sensing coil, disposed on the housing, for generating a first induced voltage by interacting with the first coil; a first circuit board connected to the first coil and the first sensing coil; and a first amplifier, disposed on the first circuit board, for amplifying the first induced voltage of the first sensing coil and outputting a first amplified signal.
US11985401B2
A camera module having a first housing including an image sensor converting an optical signal into an electrical signal, and a second housing including an imaging optical system focusing the optical signal on the image sensor and a first optical path conversion member disposed on an object-side surface of the imaging optical system and converting an optical path, and carried into or carried out of the first housing in a state of being coupled to the first housing.
US11985396B2
Provided is a system that includes an event-driven vision sensor and an information processing device. The event-driven vision sensor includes a sensor array where a first sensor and a second sensor are arranged in a predetermined pattern. The first sensor generates a first event signal when detecting a change in an intensity of light incident through a first filter. The first filter selectively passes light in a first wavelength band. The second sensor generates a second event signal when detecting a change in an intensity of light incident through a second filter. The second filter selectively passes light in a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band. The information processing device includes a first processing section and a second processing section. The first processing section executes a first process on the basis of the first event signal. The second processing section executes a second process different from the first process on the basis of the second event signal.
US11985392B2
A system, method, and apparatus for Internet Protocol television streaming are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a plurality of remote access points. Each remote access point provides line termination for television programming received via a data feed from a television service provider. The respective remote access point is specifically assigned to an application operating on a client device for maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between the application and the respective data feed from the television service provider.
US11985379B2
A system and method enabling the seamless transition between viewing a recorded portion of a program and rejoining a live stream of that program. The system and method enable the rapid provision of live-streamed content upon the exhaustion of the playback of recorded content. This achieved by utilizing a universal resource locator associated with the source of the content.
US11985376B2
Generative media content (e.g., generative audio) can be played back across multiple playback devices concurrently. A coordinator device can receive a multi-channel stream of media content, with at least some channels comprising generative media content. The coordinator device transmits each of the channels to a plurality of playback devices. A first playback device plays back a first subset of the channels according to first playback responsibilities and a second playback device plays back a second subset of the channels according to second playback responsibilities. The first and/or second playback responsibilities can be dynamically modified over time, for example in response to one or more input parameters.
US11985375B2
A set-top box with enhanced functionality and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box system, first and second set-top boxes each include a housing securing a television input, a television output, a processor, a wireless transceiver, memory, and storage communicatively interconnected by a busing architecture. Each of the set-top boxes is connected to a display, such as a television. A syndication profile associated with the set-top boxes enables a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device to control both displays via each of the set-top boxes.
US11985369B2
Methods and systems are described for managing blackout restrictions. A user device may retrieve a blackout condition from a blackout device. The blackout device may be a node in plurality of blackout nodes. Each of the blackout nodes may store blackout conditions for different corresponding content. The user device may retrieve the blackout condition from a blackout device associated with content in response to a request for the content. The user device may determine whether information associated with the user device satisfies the blackout condition. If the information satisfies the blackout condition, the requested content may be blocked. Alternative content may be output instead of the requested content.
US11985363B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically determining parameter values that control or affect provision of content by a content platform. In one aspect, evaluation points are identified for a parameter. Each evaluation point includes an evaluated parameter value of the parameter and a metric value of a metric corresponding to the provision of digital components by the content platform. A first model is generated using the set of evaluation points. A second model is generated based on the first model and an acquisition function that is based on mean values and confidence intervals of the first model and a configurable exploration weight that controls a priority of exploration for evaluating the parameter. A next parameter value to evaluate is determined from the second model and the content platform is configured to use the next parameter value to provide digital components.
US11985358B2
Provided are an artifact removal method and apparatus based on machine learning (ML), and a method and apparatus for training an artifact removal model based on ML, in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In the method, artifacts that may be generated in a process of compressing a video is preprocessed and removed by using an artifact removal model having a residual learning capability.
US11985357B2
Methods, devices and systems for video coding and encoding, which include constraints, restrictions and signaling for subpictures, slices, and tiles, are described. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule, wherein the format rule conditionally allows coding of a picture in one layer using reference pictures from other layers based on a first syntax element indicating whether the reference pictures from the other layers are present in the bitstream, and wherein the first syntax element is conditionally signaled in the bitstream based on a second syntax element that indicates whether an identifier of a parameter set associated with the picture is not equal to zero.
US11985349B2
An encoder capable of properly handling an image to be encoded or decoded includes processing circuitry and memory connected to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: obtains parameters including at least one of (i) one or more parameters related to a first process for correcting distortion in an image captured with a wide angle lens and (ii) one or more parameters related to a second process for stitching a plurality of images; generates an encoded image by encoding a current image to be processed that is based on the image or the plurality of images; and writes the parameters into a bitstream including the encoded image.
US11985347B2
A method for video encoding is provided. The method includes: generating an inter prediction of a current coding block based on at least one motion vector from a current picture to at least one reference picture respectively; generating an intra prediction of the current coding block based on an intra prediction mode; generating a final prediction of the current coding block by weighted averaging the inter prediction and the intra prediction; determining the current coding block is treated as inter mode upon constructing a most probable mode (MPM) list of a neighboring coding block, or determining the current coding block is treated as intra mode upon constructing an MPM list of a neighboring coding block; and putting entropy-encoded information indicating that the current coding block is treated as inter mode or intra mode in a bitstream to be transmitted to a decoder.
US11985345B2
A method of encoding video data by an electronic device is provided. The electronic device determines whether an affine enabled flag corresponding to one or more image frames included in the video data is true. The electronic device determines a maximum number of zero or more subblock-based merging motion vector prediction candidates corresponding to the one or more image frames when the affine enabled flag is true. The maximum number is in a number range of K to N, N being a first integer and K being a second integer less than N. The electronic device determines that a maximum index is in an index range of 0 to N-K and generated by subtracting the maximum number from N when the affine enabled flag is true. An index value of the maximum index is in an index range of 0 to N-1 when K is 1.
US11985344B2
There is provided a method of providing a sign language video along with a primary video and a primary audio corresponding to the primary video. The method includes generating a plurality of sign language video frames, each of the plurality of sign language video frames representing a respective portion of the sign language video, wherein the sign language video includes sign language corresponding to the primary audio, providing a plurality of primary video frames on a first channel, each of the plurality of primary video frames representing a respective portion of the primary video, and providing the plurality of sign language video frames on a second channel different than the first channel.
US11985332B2
Innovations in unified intra block copy (“BC”) and inter prediction modes are presented. In some example implementations, bitstream syntax, semantics of syntax elements and many coding/decoding processes for inter prediction mode are reused or slightly modified to enable intra BC prediction for blocks of a frame. For example, to provide intra BC prediction for a current block of a current picture, a motion compensation process applies a motion vector that indicates a displacement within the current picture, with the current picture being used as a reference picture for the motion compensation process. With this unification of syntax, semantics and coding/decoding processes, various coding/decoding tools designed for inter prediction mode, such as advanced motion vector prediction, merge mode and skip mode, can also be applied when intra BC prediction is used, which simplifies implementation of intra BC prediction.
US11985328B2
A method of inter-predicting a current block using any one of a plurality of bi-prediction modes is disclosed. The method comprises decoding, from a bitstream, mode information indicating whether a first mode included in the plurality of bi-prediction modes is applied to the current block. When the mode information indicates that the first mode is applied to the current block, the method further comprises: decoding, from the bitstream, first motion information including differential motion vector information and predicted motion vector information for a first motion vector and second motion information not including at least a portion of predicted motion vector information and differential motion vector information for a second motion vector; and deriving the first motion vector based on the first motion information and deriving the second motion vector based on both at least a portion of the first motion information and the second motion information.
US11985324B2
Exemplary video processing methods and apparatuses for encoding or decoding a current block by inter prediction are disclosed. Input data of a current block is received and partitioned into sub-partitions and motion refinement is independently performed on each sub-partition. A reference block for each sub-partition is obtained from one or more reference pictures according to an initial motion vector (MV). A refined MV for each sub-partition is derived by searching around the initial MV with N-pixel refinement. One or more boundary pixels of the reference block for a sub-partition is padded for motion compensation of the sub-partition. A final predictor for the current block is generated by performing motion compensation for each sub-partition according to its refined MV. The current block is then encoded or decoded according to the final predictor.
US11985321B2
A video encoder, a video decoder, and a corresponding method, where the method includes, when a plurality of preset conditions are satisfied, performing bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) processing on a current picture block to obtain a predicted sample value of the current picture block, where the plurality of preset conditions include at least a condition that a height (H) of the current picture block is greater than or equal to 8, a width (W) of the current picture block is greater than or equal to 8, and a product of W and H is greater than 128. Thus encoding/decoding complexity and prediction accuracy can be balanced to some extent.
US11985310B2
A method for derivation of a temporal motion data (TMD) candidate for a prediction unit (PU) in video encoding or video decoding is provided. The derived TMD candidate is for inclusion in an inter-prediction candidate list for the PU. The method includes determining a primary TMD position relative to a co-located PU in a co-located largest coding unit (LCU), wherein the co-located PU is a block in a reference picture having a same size, shape, and coordinates as the PU, and selecting at least some motion data of a secondary TMD position as the TMD candidate when the primary TMD position is in a bottom neighboring LCU or in a bottom right neighboring LCU of the co-located LCU, wherein the secondary TMD position is determined relative to the co-located PU.
US11985305B2
The disclosure relates to a method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising: obtaining a value of a maximum number of merging motion vector prediction, MVP, candidates for a current block, wherein the current block is predicted using intra block copy, IBC mode; setting a value of a MVP index to zero, when the value of the maximum number of MVP candidates for the current block is equal to one; obtaining a motion vector of the current block according to the MVP index and a candidate list; obtaining prediction samples values of the current block according to the motion vector of the current block.
US11985301B2
Disclosed is a test fixture. The test fixture includes a fixture body, a support portion and a first adjustment mechanism; the fixture body is provided with a recess configured for placement of a test camera assembly to be tested, and a depth of the recess is equal to or greater than a thickness of the test camera assembly; the support portion is connected to the fixture body and provided with a support plane parallel to a bottom surface of the recess and configured for placement of a display panel to be tested; and the first adjustment mechanism is arranged on the fixture body and configured to adjust a size of the recess to fasten the test camera assembly.
US11985285B2
A multifunction peripheral includes a storage unit configured to store destination book data including a plurality of destination candidates, a display unit configured to display a destination designation screen including a destination candidate display section for displaying a predetermined number of destination candidates among the plurality of destination candidates and a scroll bar corresponding to the destination candidate display section, an operation unit configured to receive operation for pointing a position in the destination designation screen, and a control unit configured to specify, based on the operation on the operation unit, a destination out of the plurality of destination candidates. The plurality of destination candidates can be classified into a plurality of groups. The display unit adds, to the scroll bar, an identification label for identifying a group of the destination candidates and displays the identification label.
US11985284B2
An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.
US11985279B2
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus displays a questionnaire regarding an apparatus on a control panel. The image forming apparatus acquires answer data to the questionnaire from a user via a touch panel of the control panel. The image forming apparatus acquires related data regarding the apparatus. The image forming apparatus associates the related data with the answer data to transmit the answer data and the related data to another apparatus different from the apparatus.
US11985273B2
The present disclosure includes: a display device; a storage storing device setting information that is unique information, with which the information processing apparatus can be identified, and contains model information of an information processing apparatus; an event detector that detects an event occurring when the predetermined function is implemented; an occurred event determination device that determines a content of the detected event, and acquires event detection information; a browsing destination information generator that generates browsing destination information for at least acquiring manual information corresponding to the occurred event by using the device setting information and the event detection information; and a browsing destination information display device that displays the generated browsing destination information on the display device.
US11985266B1
The mobile communication device comprising a wireless voice communication implementer, a route displaying implementer, and a multiple language implementer.
US11985264B1
A mobile phone stand with an exhibition part comprises a stand part and an exhibition part. The stand part comprises a base frame, a support frame and a pivoting element, the support frame pivots between a closing position and at least one opening position with respect to the base frame by means of the pivoting element and is fixed, and the support frame has a support position allowing a mobile phone to be placed thereat. The exhibition part is rotatably connected to the support frame and comprises at least one cavity, and a flowing medium is disposed in the cavity.
US11985262B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing the secure transfer of assets between blockchain networks. The system can include a storage device that can store a bridge program that is programmed to perform (i) lock operations that lock native assets from a first blockchain network and mint synthetic assets representing the native assets in a second blockchain network, and (ii) unlock operations that unlock the native assets by transferring the native assets to an address in the first blockchain network in response to the synthetic assets being returned or destroyed. The system can include a computer system that loads and executes the bridge program in a secure computing enclave that provides a trusted execution environment. The computer system can then perform the lock operations and the unlock operations to provide a bridge between the first blockchain network and the second blockchain network.
US11985258B2
Systems and methods provide validation of hardware components of an IHS (Information Handling System). An attestation certificate stored to the IHS specifies authenticated instructions for operation of a hardware component of the IHS. This attestation certificate is endorsed by a self-signed root attestation certificate. An identity certificate, also stored to the IHS, specifies an identity of the hardware component and is endorsed using an embedded keypair of the hardware component. The root attestation certificate is validated to ensure it corresponds to the hardware component specified in the identity certificate, where this validation confirms that a public key included in the identity certificate is identical to a public key included in the attestation certificate. Through use of the same public key by both certificates, the attestation certificate can be validated as corresponding to the identity certificate without accessing the embedded keypair of the hardware component used to sign the identity certificate.
US11985248B2
Described in detail herein is a nested blockchain system. The nested blockchain system can include distributed nodes in a network. A node is configured to generate a master cryptographically verifiable distributed ledger represented by a sequence of blocks. The node spawns a first sub cryptographically verifiable ledger represented by a first genesis block containing a hash value referencing the first block generated in the master cryptographically verifiable ledger, in response to a first event. The node purges the first sub cryptographically verifiable ledger, in response to a second event.
US11985246B2
A computer-implemented method for protecting identity metrics may include (i) receiving, by a computing device and from an originating device, an identity metric encrypted by an identity metric protection module on the originating device, where the identity metric includes biometric data about an operator of the originating device, (ii) requesting, by an identity metric protection module on the computing device, a decryption key from an identity metric protection server, (iii) receiving, by the identity metric protection module, the decryption key from the identity metric protection server, (iv) decrypting, by the identity metric protection module, the identity metric with the decryption key received from the identity metric protection server, and (v) providing the decrypted identity metric to an application on the computing device that uses the identity metric to convey a communication from the operator of the originating device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11985240B2
A computing system can have a data storage device connected to a host as part of a distributed computing system with an initial reputation score assigned to the data storage device with a decentralize module. The data storage device is positioned in a hierarchical device organization based on the reputation score with the hierarchical device organization maintained by the decentralize module. A decentralized secret sharing scheme generated by the decentralize module can authenticate the host with multiple different secrets sourced from different components logically positioned in different levels of the hierarchical device organization.
US11985238B2
Embodiments disclose a vehicle-mounted device upgrade method and a related device. The method may be applied to an intelligent vehicle, the intelligent vehicle includes a vehicle-mounted control device, and the method may include: receiving, by the vehicle-mounted control device, a first partial key sent by the communications device; restoring, by the vehicle-mounted control device, a first key by using the first partial key and a second partial key that is stored on the vehicle-mounted control device; and performing, by the vehicle-mounted control device, secure processing on a first upgrade file by using the first key, to obtain the securely processed first upgrade file, where the secure processing includes generating first message authentication code (MAC), and the securely processed first upgrade file includes the first upgrade file and the first MAC. According to this application, the vehicle-mounted device can be securely and efficiently upgraded.
US11985225B2
A computer-implemented exchange method is provided. The method may be performed on one or more blockchains, such as the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. The method comprises the steps of: communicating a first veiled secret value (H(A0)) from a first user to a second user and a second veiled secret value (H(B0) from the second user to the first user; and constructing first and second blockchain transactions (tx1, tx2) each comprising the first veiled secret value and the second veiled secret value, the transactions arranged to be unlockable to transfer control of a respective first or second resource upon provision of both the first secret value (A0) and the second secret value (B0) to the respective blockchain transaction, wherein unlocking of the first blockchain transaction causes a first secret value to be revealed to the second user, and unlocking of the second blockchain transaction causes a second secret value to be revealed to the first user.
US11985220B2
An integrated circuit for a receiving link device includes a processing device to detect, using an equalizer of the receiving link device, that a receiver (RX) pre-cursor value is outside of a threshold value based on a target RX tap value. The processing device further generates, based on the detecting, a plurality of tap messages having a plurality of up or down commands to one of decrease or increase a corresponding transmitter (TX) pre-cursor value of a transmitting link device. The processing device further causes the plurality of tap messages to be provided to a local transmitter to be transmitted to the transmitting link device. The plurality of tap messages is to cause the transmitting link device to adjust the corresponding TX pre-cursor value.
US11985217B2
An apparatus for providing an interface between a first network that operates based on a first protocol and a second network that operates based on a second protocol, includes a receive terminal configured to receive one or more first messages encoded according to the first protocol, the first messages encapsulating a plurality of second messages. The apparatus is configured to extract encapsulated second messages, determine for each of extracted second messages, and based on flow identifying information of each of extracted second messages, a flow to which the extracted second message belongs. The extracted second messages of the flow provide for transmission of the extracted second messages on the second network encoded based on the second protocol with a time spacing there between greater than a predetermined minimum time spacing.
US11985215B2
A communication device in a network may receive a stream of frames from the network, in which each frame includes one or more beacon packets. A communication protocol being used by the network may be identified by tracking a preselected field within a sequence of beacon packets, in which the preselected field varies in a first known manner for a first protocol and in a second known manner for a second protocol. The communication device may then join to the network using the identified communication protocol to transmit and receive data.
US11985214B2
In one implementation, a universal translator device for translating protocols, the device includes one or more peripheral device interfaces through which communication from one or more peripheral devices is received using any of a plurality of protocols; a protocol translator that is (i) preconfigured with translation mappings to translate between each possible permutation of the plurality of protocols and (ii) programmed to translate, using the translation mappings, signals received from the peripheral devices into at least one target protocol; and a wireless interface that is configured to transmit wireless signals in the target protocol, the wireless signals having been translated into the target protocol by the protocol translator.
US11985212B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US11985197B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for communicating with a motor vehicle. The method comprises providing a social media interface for the motor vehicle on a specified vehicle fleet server, wherein a communication is provided via a social media application through the social media interface, receiving a message from a mobile terminal through the social media interface, ascertaining a vehicle function call from the message by an interpretation program, wherein semantics of the message are interpreted by in order to ascertain the vehicle function call, carrying out the ascertained vehicle function call in the motor vehicle, and sending a response message from the vehicle fleet server to the mobile terminal if, as a response to the vehicle function call, the vehicle fleet server obtains a vehicle parameter from the motor vehicle, wherein the response message is generated depending on the obtained vehicle parameter.
US11985196B2
A sensor device may include an environmental sensor configured to sense an environmental parameter and generate a signal representative thereof, a single pair ethernet (SPE) interface configured to cooperate with an SPE link, and a controller provided in communication with the environmental sensor and the SPE interface. The controller may be configured to receive the signal representative of the sensed environmental parameter and to control the SPE interface to generate at least one ethernet frame including data indicative of the sensed environmental parameter for transmission over the SPE link. The controller may be further configured to automatically configure communication with a remote server over the SPE link via the SPE interface.
US11985192B2
The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for synchronizing a content library between a content management system and client devices. Each content item in a user's content library is stored on the content management system and a record of each change to the content library is recorded in a content journal. A client device transmits a synchronization request that a portion of the content journal representing unsynchronized changes be processed to update the content library on the client device. The synchronization request includes a content library identifier and a content journal number identifying the content entry in the content journal last processed by the client device. Synchronization commands are sent based on the content entries not processed by the client device. Updated synchronization data representing the processed content entries is sent to the client device after synchronization is completed.
US11985186B1
The present application addresses the problem of high communication loads in the in-vehicle networks in cities and prolonged time spent by the vehicle in requesting services, and provides a method of drone-assisted caching in an in-vehicle network based on geographic location, the content is divided into local content and comment content; the moving vehicle and the drone only cache the comment content, the roadside unit fixed caches the local content and the comment content according to a ratio. The content delivery method is designed, and a content request latency of the in-vehicle is analyzed, and an optimization problem for minimizing the average request latency is constructed.
US11985183B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products includes, for example, detecting a first personal electronic device associated with a first user in the presence of a second personal electronic device associated with a second user, determining the first personal electronic device in the presence of the second personal electronic device being associated with the first user and the second user being in a business setting, receiving user data regarding the second user in response to the determination of the first user and the second user being in the business setting, and storing the received user data regarding the second user in a first memory for access by the first user on the first personal electronic device.
US11985182B2
A method including: requesting a web resource from a plurality of devices for setting a web UI for the plurality of devices; receiving the web resource from the plurality of devices; requesting device attribute information related to a device attribute from the plurality of devices; receiving the device attribute information from the plurality of devices; checking whether a web resource corresponding to the received device attribute information is stored in a memory of the server; configuring a common setting web UI for a common device attribute and configuring an individual setting web UI for an individual device attribute based on the web resource; and mashing up the common setting web UI and the individual setting web UI and rendering the mashed common setting web UI and individual setting web UI to a single web page of the server.
US11985181B2
An orchestration system and method are described for at least in part orchestrating a multidevice video session in which a plurality of devices each transmit a video, for example of a user, via a network and in which a composition system receives said transmitted videos and composites, for a respective device from the plurality of devices, videos of other devices into one or more video streams and transmits the one or more video streams via the network to the device. A grouping of the users/devices may be determined to allow the video stream(s) to be generated for respective devices in a manner which may be dependent on the group to which they are deemed to belong. In particular, the video stream(s) may be generated by the composition system such that the videos of devices within a same group are shown in a better quality than the videos of devices from another group, as a user of a device may prefer to see the users from the same group in a better quality than the users from another group.
US11985168B2
The technology disclosed describes a system. The system comprises an edge network of a plurality of points of presence of a network security system. Points of presence in the plurality of points of presence are configured to intermediate traffic between clients and cloud applications and to use metadata to apply policies on the intermediated traffic. There are redundancies in metadata synchronization between the points of presence due to metadata migration to a second point of presence from a first point of presence handing off intermediation to the second point of presence within an application session. Each of the points of presence is configured with inline metadata generation logic. The inline metadata generation logic is configured to issue synthetic requests to provide the metadata to the second point of presence without requiring the metadata migration to the second point of presence.
US11985166B2
In some implementations, a network device may establish a secure connection between the network device and another network device based on a first set of keys generated by the network device, wherein the first set of keys are generated based on a first connectivity association key (CAK) and the secure connection is established based on a media access control security (MACsec) protocol. The network device may transmit a message to the other network device, wherein the message includes an indication of a second CAK. The network device may communicate data via the secure connection based on a second set of keys, wherein the second set of keys are generated based on the second CAK.
US11985162B2
A computer method and system for determining patterns in network traffic packets having structured subfields for generating filter candidate regular expressions for DDoS attack mitigation. Stored packets are analyzed to extract a query name for each stored packet. Each query name is segregated into subfields. A Results-table is generated utilizing the segregated subfields of the query names. A Field-length table is generated that contains the length of the Field Values (Field-length) for each Field Name and an associated counter indicating how many instances the Field-length for a Field Name is present in the extracted query names. The Field-length table is analyzed to determine patterns of equal length in the “Results” table. Utilizing the Patterns table, unique combinations of the Field Values are generated as a filter candidate regular expression for DDoS attack mitigation purposes.
US11985161B2
A method of collaboration between protecting services associated with one or more domains. Such a method includes: getting a first agent used by a first protecting service to identify an attack on at least one resource managed by a domain protected by the first protecting service; and transmitting, to at least one second agent used by a second protecting service having taken out a subscription to at least one information-sharing service offered by the first protecting service, at least one piece of information relating to the attack identified by the first agent.
US11985157B2
Interactive interfaces and data structures representing physical and/or visual information are provided using smart pins (also called “pins” herein). Pins representing vectors of information may be provided. For instance, in the context of cybersecurity, each pin may represent an attack vector that an adversary can use to attack a system. Each pin may have a depth meter and may move up or down according to its value in an operating range. Each pin may also have a color, a number, or both, representing its current value in the operating range. Such pins may provide both a three-dimensional representation of data that is intuitive to users.
US11985154B2
Techniques for combining threat-related events associated with different modalities to provide a complete insight into cyber attack life cycles. The techniques may include receiving telemetry data associated with one or more modalities and detecting, based at least in part on the telemetry data, one or more abnormal events associated with security incidents. The one or more abnormal events may include at least a first abnormal event associated with a first modality and a second abnormal event associated with a second modality. The techniques may also include determining that an entity associated with the abnormal events is a same entity and, based at least in part on the entity comprising the same entity, determining that a correlation between the abnormal events is indicative of a security incident. Based at least in part on the correlation, an indication associated with the security incident may be output.
US11985150B2
Cybersecurity on a Controller Area Network (CAN) in a vehicle. In an embodiment, electronic control units (ECUs), connected to a CAN bus, each comprise a hacking detection system, which, during an initialization stage, transmits a message comprising a CAN identifier, used by the respective ECU, to at least one other hacking detection system, receives a message comprising a CAN identifier, used by at least one other ECU, from the other hacking detection system, monitors one or more parameters, including at least one parameter of CAN messages received by the respective ECU and transmitted by the respective ECU, and generates a pattern-detection mechanism based on the monitored one or more parameters. Then, during a detection stage, each hacking detection system monitors the one or more parameters, and detects malicious activity based on the generated pattern-detection mechanism and the one or more parameters monitored during the detection stage.
US11985144B2
Techniques are disclosed relate to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for implementing a browser extension for cyber threat intelligence and response. One system to perform operations comprising: receiving, in a sandbox of a browser by a browser extension, a selection of at least one particular indicator of compromise of the at least one of the indicator of compromise of at least scanned part of a web page; displaying one or more orchestrated responses; receiving a selection of at least one particular orchestrated response of the one or more orchestrated responses; transmitting the selected at least one particular orchestrated response to the cloud-based enrichment and analysis of cybersecurity threat intelligence system; receiving a response including a result of the at least one particular orchestrated response; and displaying the result of the at least one particular orchestrated response.
US11985142B2
A cyber defense system using machine learning models trained on the classification of structured documents, such as emails, in order to identify a cyber threat risk of the incoming or outgoing structured document and to cause one or more autonomous actions to be taken in relation to the structured document based on a comparison of a category the structured document is classified with, a score associated with the classification and a threshold score. For incoming structured documents, the autonomous actions of the cyber defense system may act to contain a malign nature of identified incoming structured documents. For outgoing structured documents, the autonomous actions of the cyber defense system may act to prevent the structured document from being sent to an unintended recipient.
US11985130B2
Intelligent methods of providing online security against hackers, which prevents the hackers from obtaining unauthorized access to secure resources. A first application session established between a first client and a first application of a first host device is detected. The first application is associated with a first plurality of security time limits. A duration of the first application session established between the first client and the first application is monitored. One or more first security actions are executed against the first application session responsive to the duration of the first application session reaching a security time limit of the first plurality of security time limits. One or more second security actions are executed against the first application session responsive to the duration of the first application session reaching another security time limit of the first plurality of security time limits.
US11985110B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a network device, a first set of rules from a security controller of an enterprise network, the first set of rules being different from a second set of rules provided to a firewall by the security controller, implementing, at the network device, the first set of rules received from the security controller, generating, at the network device, a first log including metadata based on the first set of rules, the first log being generated on a per flow basis, notifying, at the network device, a NetFlow of the first log including the metadata of the first set of rules, and providing, from the network device, the first log to a cloud-log store by the NetFlow of the network device, the cloud-log store receiving the first log from the network device and a second log from the firewall.
US11985106B2
A method for managing a request to access an internet site originating from a device and transmitted through a telecommunication network. The method includes: receiving a request including a domain name, originating from the device, intended to be transmitted to a domain name resolution server; routing the request to a domain name resolution server; receiving a response including an IP address and information, called first information, linked to the IP address; transmitting or not transmitting the request over the network as a function of the first information.
US11985103B1
The disclosed technologies address problems that users face when using email applications. Various embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for organizing and prioritizing emails in an email application so that a user has greater control over a display of email messages.
US11985102B2
A message suggestion service may use clusters of pre-approved messages to improve the quality of messages suggested to users. During a conversation, messages of the conversation may be processed with a neural network to compute a conversation encoding vector. The neural network may also be used to compute pre-approved message encoding vectors of the pre-approved messages. Distances between the conversation encoding vector and the pre-approved message encoding vectors may be used to select one or more clusters. Distances between the conversation encoding vector and the pre-approved message encoding vectors may then be used to select one or more pre-approved messages from the selected clusters. The selected pre-approved messages may then be presented as suggested messages to a user.
US11985094B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may utilize priority levels associated with packets or transmissions to determine whether to transmit feedback for a received transmission. The UE may compare priority levels between a transmission subject to a feedback condition and a transmission scheduled to be received when the feedback is scheduled to be transmitted to determine whether to send the feedback. The UE may communicate with the transmitting device according to the comparison and the determining. The UE may determine signal conditions causing a NAK and determine to send the NAK based on the signal conditions.
US11985090B2
Provided are an information indication method and apparatus, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. The information indication method includes described below, first information is sent to a terminal, where the first information includes a re-synchronization signal (RSS) configuration indication, the RSS configuration indication is used for indicating whether RSS configuration information of a neighboring cell is the same as RSS configuration information of a serving cell, so that the terminal acquires the RSS configuration information of the neighboring cell according to the RSS configuration information of the serving cell in a case where the RSS configuration information of the neighboring cell is the same as the RSS configuration information of the serving cell.
US11985089B2
Various embodiments relate to a method of sounding a plurality of stations (STAs) with mixed operating bandwidths using a null data packet (NDP), wherein the bandwidth of the NDP is wider than the bandwidth of one STA, including: grouping STAs of mixed operating bandwidth in one sounding sequence by a beamformer; transmitting a null data packet announcement (NDPA) to the STAs, wherein the NDPA indicates the requested partial bandwidth channel feedback for each STA by the beamformer; transmitting the wide-bandwidth NDP to the STAs by the beamformer; transmitting beamforming report poll (BFRP) frame to the STAs to trigger uplink transmission of channel feedback reports by the beamformer; and receiving by the beamformer a partial bandwidth channel feedback within the STA's operating bandwidth from the STAs; receiving and parsing channel feedback reports from the STAs used for following steered OFDMA transmissions by the beamformer.
US11985086B2
Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal, which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved.
US11985082B2
A method of reporting CSI in a COMP system by a terminal, receiving DRX configuration information from a first and a second base station; receiving first configuration information related to CSI report of a first BWP and second configuration information related to a CSI report of a second BWP from the first and the second base station, the first BWP is composed of a plurality of first subbands including at least one first subband, the second BWP is composed of a plurality of second subbands including at least one second subband, and the first configuration information and the second configuration information are received only during a specific time based on the DRX configuration information; and based on the at least one first subband and second subband overlapping partially or entirely, reporting a first CSI for overlapping at least one subband to the first and the second base station.
US11985080B2
For example, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs; and transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field.
US11985079B2
The disclosure provides a method and device in User Equipment (UE) and base station for wireless communication. The UE receives Q1 first-type information groups, and transmits or receives a first radio signal in a first time-frequency resource according to a configuration of a first information group; the first information group is one of the Q1 first-type information groups; a frequency domain position of the first time-frequency resource is used for determining the first information group from the Q1 first-type information groups; each of the Q1 first-type information groups includes at least one of relevant information to a subcarrier spacing. The disclosure establishes an association between the frequency domain position of the first time-frequency resource and the first information group, thereby simplifying the reception of the first-type information group, improving the flexibility of scheduling of frequency domain resources on unlicensed spectrum, and improving the overall performance of the system.
US11985076B1
An example method for automated cluster configuration includes the operations of: receiving cluster configuration data identifying a plurality of nodes of a cluster; receiving a workload description characterizing plurality of respective workloads of the plurality of nodes; analyzing the workload description to identify, among the plurality of nodes, a plurality of nodes of a first type and a plurality of nodes of the second type; configuring, on at least a subset of the plurality of nodes of the second type, respective node proxies, wherein each node proxy is configured to forward, over a second network, to a chosen node of the first type, incoming requests received over a first network; and configuring an endpoint proxy to forward, over a first network, to one of: a chosen node of the first type or a chosen node of the second type, incoming requests received over an external network.
US11985071B2
Provided are method and apparatus for processing data packets, a device, and a storage medium that relate to the field of communications. The method includes: receiving multiple data packets of an identical service transmitted in multiple frequency bands, where each of the data packets carries arrangement indication information; and sorting the data packets based on the arrangement indication information carried in each of the data packets.
US11985067B2
Systems and methods for flowlet switching using memory instructions. One embodiment is a method of distributing packets over multiple paths. The method includes determining an elapsed time between a packet and a previous packet. The method further includes, in response to determining that the elapsed time is less than an inter-packet gap threshold: retaining a previously selected path value indicated in the flow record, and providing the previously selected path value to the processing thread for transmitting the packet over a previously selected path associated with the previous packet. The method also further includes, in response to determining that the elapsed time is greater than the inter-packet gap threshold: updating the flow record by replacing the previously selected path value with the path value of the selected path of the memory instruction, and providing the path value to the processing thread for transmitting the packet over the selected path.
US11985065B2
A first security rule set for traffic of a compute instance run at a virtualization server is stored in response to a programmatic request. A second security rule set for traffic of a network function accelerator of the virtualization server is stored in response to another programmatic request. Prior to delivery of network messages to the compute instance or from the accelerator, compliance with the applicable security rule set is verified.
US11985064B1
A detection mechanism is disclosed for identifying peers transmitting network traffic towards a cloud provider using routing prefixes that were not advertised for that peer. Once detected, an alarm condition can occur and the peer notified to remove any static route configurations. In one embodiment, a collector server computer can be used to acquire routing prefixes advertised to a peer. A second server computer can be used to obtain network traffic received from the peer. A comparison can then be made between the advertised prefixes and the network traffic being received. If network traffic is being received for unadvertised prefixes, then an alarm condition can occur. The detection mechanism can regularly inspect active traffic flows against BGP route advertisements at fixed intervals. For peers that are identified that are not in compliance with route advertisements, the alarm condition can occur for follow-up remediation.
US11985063B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for providing interoperable heterogenous networks. A method comprises configuring a logical network with a first network and a second network; receiving a request message from a source device by the first border device in the first network, wherein the request message includes a related to a media access control (MAC) address associated with a destination device in the second network; sending a proxy message to the second border device based on the request message, the proxy message having a source address that identifies an external IP address associated with the first border device; receiving a response message including the MAC address of the destination device, wherein the response message is addressed to the external address of the first border device; and sending a border gateway protocol (BGP) update including the MAC address of the destination device.
US11985062B2
Methods and apparatuses for enabling multi-host multipath secure transport with Quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Connections (QUIC) are described herein. A method performed by a client endpoint may involve sending, to a network node, a request to establish a QUIC connection with a destination endpoint, the request to establish the QUIC connection including a flow identifier (ID). The method may involve receiving, from the network node, a response including an indication that the request to establish the QUIC connection with the destination endpoint is accepted. The method may involve encapsulating inner QUIC packetized data within outer QUIC packetized data, the inner QUIC packetized data including the flow ID. The method may involve sending, to the network node, the outer QUIC packetized data for forwarding toward the destination endpoint based on the flow ID.
US11985058B2
A communication broker service of a microservices platform may direct a distributed queue management service to monitor multiple data distribution outboxes of a plurality of microservices of the microservices platform for message data. The communication broker service may receive an indication from the distributed queue management service that the distributed queue management service has retrieved message data from a data distribution outbox of a first microservice. The communication broker service may apply a business logic to identify one or more second microservices that are configured to receive the message data from the first microservice. The communication broker server may then direct the distributed queue management service to distribute the message data of the first microservice from a data store of the distributed queue management service to one or more corresponding data distribution inboxes of the one or more second microservices.
US11985053B2
A device may receive client delay metrics associated with a client device of a network, network delay metrics associated with the network, server delay metrics associated with a server device of the network, and application delay metrics associated with an application provided by the server device. The device may calculate passive and active client delay scores based on the client delay metrics and the application delay metrics, and may calculate passive and active network delay scores based on the network delay metrics. The device may calculate passive and active server delay scores based on the server delay metrics and the application delay metrics, and may calculate passive and active application delay scores based on the application delay metrics. The device may calculate an end user experience score based on the scores, and may perform actions based on the end user experience score.
US11985052B2
The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and systems for monitoring a network connectivity status of an enrollee device. According to one exemplary method, a configurator device acquires at least one channel. The configurator device sends a request packet to the enrollee device using the at least one channel. The request packet can include at least one of: a first request packet for querying whether the enrollee device is connected to a hotspot, a second request packet for querying whether there is a network failure in the enrollee device, or a third request packet for querying a hotspot list of all hotspots found by the enrollee device. The configurator device can acquire network information of the enrollee device according to a corresponding reply packet returned by the enrollee device. Accordingly, a user can determine whether an enrollee device is connected to a network, and the connectivity status of the enrollee device.
US11985030B2
A method of network configuration of a personal identification number (PIN) pads includes receiving a request to upgrade a PIN pad from a merchant or an individual software vendor (ISV) to read microprocessor-enabled or contactless payment vehicles, retrieving a PIN pad configuration hash value from the PIN pad, obtaining current configuration using the hash value, sending instructions to the PIN pad to upgrade the PIN pad over a network if the PIN pad is capable of reading microprocessor-enabled or contactless payment vehicles, and downloading and installing drivers to enable PIN pad readers to read and process at least one of the microprocessor-enabled payment vehicles and contactless payment vehicles according to the instructions. The method further performs additional operations such as updating the PIN pad registry with the PIN pad configuration and enabling the PIN pad to read the microprocessor-enabled or contactless payment vehicles.
US11985026B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a processing method and device for a link recovery procedure, and a terminal. The method comprises: a terminal determining that there is no need to monitor a downlink control channel on a first cell; and the terminal skipping a link recovery procedure, or the terminal determining a set of reference signals and executing, on the basis of the set of reference signals, a link recovery procedure.
US11985025B2
Disclosed are embodiments for automatically resolving faults in a complex network system. Some embodiments monitor one or more of system operational parameter values and message exchanges between network components. A machine learning model detects a fault in the complex network system, and an action is selected based on a cause of the fault. After the action is applied to the complex network system, additional monitoring is performed to either determine the fault has been resolved or additional actions are to be applied to further resolve the fault.
US11985022B2
An example network management apparatus is configured to continuously monitor an environment for a plurality of wireless signals transmitted by a plurality of wireless network devices, and determine first data regarding the wireless network devices, including identifiers of the wireless network devices, locations of the wireless network devices, and network configurations of the wireless network devices. Further, the network management apparatus is configured to access second data regarding physical characteristics of the environment, determining one or more modifications of the network configurations of the wireless network devices, and transmit one or more commands to the wireless network devices to modify one or more of their respective network configurations.
US11985020B2
Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with an Evolved Node-B (eNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a configuration transmission carrying a half-tone shifting indicator. The second circuitry may be operable to select one or more subcarrier frequencies for Uplink (UL) transmission based on the half-tone shifting indicator. The third circuitry may be operable to generate a UL transmission for the one or more subcarrier frequencies. The half-tone shifting indicator may have a first value indicating application of a half-subcarrier offset, and a second value indicating no application of the half-subcarrier offset.
US11985018B2
A pilot sequence includes pilot vectors to be transmitted in a communication channel. A method of determining the pilot sequence comprises determining an orthogonal basis of a real vector space that is an image of a matrix having, respectively as columns, the partial derivatives of the model vector with respect to the different real parameters; and constructing the pilot vectors using the determined orthogonal basis, by grouping the orthogonal vectors of the orthogonal basis in at least one pair and by producing, for each of the at least one pair comprising a first vector and a second vector, a pilot vector by summation of the first vector and a product of the second vector by an imaginary number.
US11985010B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a time-division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that includes a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes collectively includes antennas divided into groups. Reference signals can be transmitted from each group of antennas to one or more other groups of antennas during respective time slots. Channel estimates can be generated based on the received reference signals. The channel estimates can be jointly processed to generate calibration coefficients. Each calibration coefficient can represent a ratio associated with a transmit coefficient and a receive coefficient. Example algorithms for the joint processing are disclosed.
US11985006B2
A relay device to be installed in a vehicle, including: an external wireless communication unit that is configured to perform wireless communication with a communication device that is provided outside of the vehicle; a wired communication unit that is configured to perform wired communication with an ECU for controlling an in-vehicle device that is installed in the vehicle; an in-vehicle wireless communication unit that is configured to perform wireless communication with the ECU; and a communication control unit that is configured to identify information transmitted from the communication device and control communication performed by the wired communication unit or the in-vehicle wireless communication unit in accordance with a result of the identification.
US11985000B2
The techniques disclosed herein provide dynamic curation of sequence events for communication sessions. A system can utilize smart filtering techniques to generate and select sequence events that are designed to optimize user engagement. The system can collect contextual data associated with a communication session, which can be in the form of a private chat session, a multi-user editing session, a group meeting, a live broadcast, etc. The system can utilize the contextual data, and other input data defining user activity, to customize sequence events defining contextually-relevant user interface (UI) layouts, volume levels, camera angles, special effects, and other parameters controlling aspects of the communication session.
US11984997B2
The present disclosure relates to a polarity correction circuit. The polarity correction circuit may include a detection module and a switching module. The detection module may be configured to detect a polarity of a DC voltage transmitted to a powered device and generate one or more control signals based on the polarity of the DC voltage. The switching module may be configured to receive the one or more control signals and a data signal transmitted from the powered device. The switching module may be further configured to adapt a polarity of the data signal based on the one or more control signals such that the polarity of the data signal is accordant with the polarity of the DC voltage.
US11984995B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback message for a broadcast/multicast communication is to be transmitted. The UE may transmit the NACK feedback message, via a radio access network (RAN), to a broadcast/multicast control plane function device of a core network based at least in part on determining that the NACK feedback message is to be transmitted. The UE may receive a retransmission of the broadcast/multicast communication based at least in part on transmitting the NACK feedback message.
US11984990B2
The present disclosure relates to Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) in wireless communication technologies, particularly HARQ for IEEE 802.11, i.e. HARQ for Wi-Fi. One example transmitting device is configured to encapsulate a data unit in a container unit, and encode the container unit into a codeword set of one or more codewords. One example receiving device is configured to receive, from a transmitting device, at least one codeword set of one or more codewords, decode the codewords of the codeword set to obtain a container unit, and decapsulate the container unit to obtain a data unit. A bit-size of the container unit is equal to a bit-size of the codeword set in the transmitting device and the receiving device.
US11984986B2
Methods and systems for management of uplink HARQ processes where fewer than a defined number of repetitions of uplink data are transmitted on configured grant resources. The applied HARQ processes may be varied dependent on the number of repetitions transmitted and dependent on the reception status at the base station.
US11984983B2
Aspects are provided which allow a UE configured with PUCCH repetitions to determine, in response to an indication from a base station to switch carriers for PUCCH transmissions, which CCs of a PUCCH group are configured for PUCCH repetitions, when CCs are configured for PUCCH repetitions, what resources in CCs are configured for PUCCH repetitions, and/or how to count PUCCH repetitions in configured CCs. For instance, the UE may receive a PUCCH configuration from a base station indicating PUCCH repetitions, receive an indication from the base station to switch between CCs in a PUCCH group for PUCCH transmissions, and determine at least one of the following configured by the base station: a subset of the CCs for the PUCCH repetitions, a time pattern of the CCs for the PUCCH repetitions, a resource allocation for each of the PUCCH repetitions, or a count for each of the PUCCH repetitions.
US11984978B2
A method of non-coherent wireless communication performed by a wireless communication device includes generating information bits for transmission to another wireless communication device. The method also includes identifying a configuration for a polar code encoder for encoding the information bits. The method further includes encoding a set of the information bits with a polar code encoding operation based on the configuration to generate a codeword, the configuration rendering the polar code encoding operation incapable of generating a codeword that is a bit-flipped counterpart of another codeword that the polar code encoding operation is capable of generating based on the configuration. The method still further includes transmitting the codeword via a wireless channel without a reference signal.
US11984976B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for interpreting reserved bits and values associated with different releases of a wireless communication protocol. In some implementations, a wireless communication device may determine whether to terminate or continue reception of a physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) if it detects a reserved bit in the physical layer preamble set to an unsupported value (such as a value different than what is defined by a version or release of the wireless communication protocol supported by the wireless communication device). In some other implementations, a wireless communication device may determine whether to terminate or continue reception of a PPDU if it detects a field in the physical layer preamble set to a reserved value (such as defined by a version or release of the wireless communication protocol supported by the wireless communication device).
US11984973B2
A transmission station (STA) of a wireless local area network system, according to various embodiments, may receive information related to the length of a codeword from a reception STA. On the basis of the information related to the length of the codeword, the transmission STA sets the codeword to be retransmitted and transmits same.
US11984971B2
This application relates to a non-communication electronic warfare system design analysis system based on engineering modeling. In one aspect, the system includes a scenario unit transmitting a simulation threat signal corresponding to an input scenario and a threat signal simulator transmitting an actual threat signal. The system may also include an electronic warfare support receiving model unit allocating a jamming technique. The system may further include an electronic warfare support receiving analyzer allocating the jamming technique to the received actual threat signal and an electronic attack jamming model unit modelling a device for generating a simulation jamming signal. The system may further include an electronic attack jamming generator generating an actual jamming signal and a simulation situation demonstration controller analyzing performance by using the actual jamming signal and the actual threat signal.
US11984967B2
Satellite provisioning of cell service for an in-vehicle telematics control unit (“TCU”) is presented. Thus, a truly carrier independent TCU is facilitated. A TCU may be provided with a cellular modem and two or more SIM cards, each associated with a cellular carrier that has approved the modem and their SIM card. The TCU may also be provided with connectivity to a satellite, such as, for example, via an SDARS antenna and processing module, that can receive and process SDARS audio and data signals. When a user desires to change from one of the cellular carriers to another, provisioning data for the new carrier's SIM, now already in the telematics system, may be (i) sent over the satellite, (ii) received at the satellite antenna, and (iii) passed to a telematics processor. The telematics processor, in turn, may (iv) deliver the provisioning data to the cell modem, which may then (v) program the appropriate SIM with the provisioning data, thus allowing cellular communications on the new carrier's network. The inventive functionality facilitates easily switching carriers as one crosses a border, or when a new vehicle is imported to a given country, and cellular service then or there available on one of the approved carriers is easily chosen by a user and turned on. The TCU may also include a Wi-Fi module, configured to receive provisioning instructions or data over a Wi-Fi network.
US11984966B2
A solid state power amplifier uses a Doherty power amplifier that can be implemented as a monolithic microwave integrated circuit. By adjusting the DC bias of the amplifying stages in each branch of the Doherty amplifier, the output power, linearity, and DC power can be adjusted to provide a specified output, where the specification for the output can include the maintaining of desired DC power and linearity. The Doherty power amplifier can be used in a satellite payload or other application utilizing solid state power amplifiers, while providing the proper amount of RF output power and DC power. A single amplifier can have its bias levels adjusted for different output levels, helping to minimize the number of designs that are required for a given satellite payload, reducing the variety of parts in a satellite payload.
US11984965B2
The disclosure relates to an audio processing apparatus for localizing an audio source. The audio processing apparatus comprises a plurality of audio sensors, including a primary audio sensor and at least two secondary audio sensors, configured to detect an audio signal from a target audio source, wherein the primary audio sensor defines at least two pairs of audio sensors with the at least two secondary audio sensors; and processing circuitry configured to: determine for each pair of audio sensors a first set of likelihoods of spatial directions of the target audio source using a first localization scheme; determine a second set of likelihoods of spatial directions of the target audio source using a second localization scheme; and determine a third set of likelihoods of spatial directions of the target audio source on the basis of the first sets of likelihoods and the second set of likelihoods.
US11984952B2
To enable fast beam tracking and/or low latency a first communication device comprising a motion information circuitry configured to obtain motion information representing motion of the first communication device, a communication circuitry configured to communicate with a second communication device, and a parametrization circuitry configured to set one or more communication parameters of the communication performed by the communication circuitry based on the motion information.
US11984941B2
Universal Serial Bus (USB) repeater circuits and methods of operating the same for communicating data signals from a first pair of data terminals to a second pair of data terminals of the repeater. In a first channel, an amplifier stage in a receiver amplifies a differential signal received at the first pair of data terminals to generate a differential signal at first and second output nodes of the receiver, and a transmitting circuit transmits a differential signal at the second pair of data terminals responsive to the differential signal at the first and second output nodes of the receiver. The receiver includes a hysteresis stage that receives an offset in opposition to the differential signal at the first and second output nodes of the receiver. End-of-packet (EOP) dribble in USB communications in the HS mode is reduced by the offset at the hysteresis stage.
US11984935B2
The disclosure provides a method for adjusting an optical link alignment of a first communication device with a remote device. The method includes transmitting or receiving an optical signal; receiving one or more measurements of at least one environmental factor at the first communication device or the remote device; and receiving or detecting an apparent amount of alignment of the optical signal. Then, by one or more processors of the first communication device, determining an estimated error attributable to optical cross coupling and an actual amount of alignment of the optical signal based on the apparent amount of alignment and the estimated error. Next, adjusting the first communication device based on the actual amount of alignment to correct for optical cross coupling.
US11984929B2
The present disclosure provides example method for sending a signal in optical communication, an example optical transmitter, and an example optical communication system. One example method for sending a signal in optical communication includes generating, by an optical transmitter, multiple first subcarriers based on a bit stream. State of polarization (SOP) rotation is performed by the optical transmitter on at least one subcarrier in the multiple first subcarriers to generate multiple second subcarriers, wherein the multiple second subcarriers comprise multiple subcarriers each with a relative SOP rotation angle, and the relative SOP rotation angle is not zero and is not an integer multiple of 90 degrees. The multiple second subcarriers are modulated to an optical signal. The modulated optical signal is sent by the optical transmitter.
US11984920B2
A radio-frequency module includes an integrated circuit (IC) device and an external inductor provided outside the IC device. The IC device includes a plurality of low-noise amplifiers, one or more inductors, and a switching circuit. The plurality of low-noise amplifiers includes a plurality of transistors in one to one correspondence. The one or more inductors are coupled to one or more of the plurality of transistors. Each inductor is coupled to the emitter or source of a corresponding one of the plurality of transistors. The switching circuit is coupled between the emitter or source of each of the plurality of transistors and the external inductor. The external inductor is coupled between the switching circuit and ground in series with each of the one or more inductors via the switching circuit.
US11984919B2
Embodiments herein describe a PIM correction circuit. In a base station, TX and RX RF changes, band pass filters, duplexers, and diplexers can have severe memory effects due to their sharp transition bandwidth from pass band to stop band. PIM interference, generated by the TX signals and reflected onto the RX RF chain will include these memory effects. These memory effects make PIM cancellation complex, requiring complicated computations and circuits. However, the embodiments herein use a PIM correction circuit that separates the memory effects of the TX and RX paths from the memory effects of PIM, thereby reducing PIM cancellation complexity and hardware implementation cost.
US11984918B2
A method detects the surroundings of a node, in particular in the form of a sensor apparatus and/or actuator apparatus, of a communications network. The node is capable of unidirectional or bidirectional radio communication and has a radio module equipped with an antenna, a transmit path and/or receive path, and a power supply apparatus, which is preferably energy self-sufficient, in particular a battery. The surroundings are detected, preferably at repeated time intervals, on the basis of an estimate of the detuning of the antenna of the radio module.
US11984915B2
Example temperature compensation circuits and a phased array apparatus are described. One example temperature compensation circuit is applied to a signal processing path. The example temperature compensation circuit includes a temperature detection circuit, a temperature conversion circuit, and a passive variable attenuator. The passive variable attenuator is configured to be connected in series in the signal processing path. The temperature detection circuit is configured to generate a temperature signal and a reference signal, and output the temperature signal and the reference signal to the temperature conversion circuit. The temperature signal monotonically changes with a temperature of the signal processing path. The temperature conversion circuit is configured to generate a control signal based on the temperature signal and the reference signal. The passive variable attenuator is configured to adjust, under control of the control signal, an attenuation value of a signal processed by the signal processing path.
US11984912B2
On the downlink, a mobile radio signal transmitted by a base station and a television signal may be received over the downlink by an external television aerial located on a building roof. After reception, these signals may be transmitted via a wired communication link to a processing module located in a confined space in which the terminal is located. The mobile radio signal may be extracted, amplified and sent by the processing module so as to be received by the terminal. On the downlink, the terminal may transmit a mobile radio signal to a base station. Alternatively, the terminal may transmit a radiofrequency signal received by the processing module which amplifies it and transmits it to a base station, with or without frequency transposition, and with or without format conversion.
US11984911B2
A transmitter generates an encoded vector by encoding a data vector, the encoded vector representing payload information and parity information. The encoding is mathematically equivalent to calculating three or more forward error correction (FEC) codewords from the data vector and then calculating the encoded vector from the codewords, at least one codeword being calculated from at least one recursion of a mathematical operation, and at least one codeword comprising more than 6 terms. The transmitter transmits a signal representing the encoded vector over a communication channel. A receiver determines a vector estimate from the signal and recovers the data vector from the vector estimate by sequentially decoding the codewords, wherein at least one codeword that is decoded earlier in the decoding enhances an estimate of at least one codeword that is decoded later in the decoding.
US11984893B2
A data retention circuit is provided in the invention. The data retention circuit includes a master latch circuit, a slave latch circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the master latch circuit and the slave latch circuit and receives a clock signal from a clock circuit and a power management signal from a power management unit (PMU). In a normal operation mode, the control circuit transmits the clock signal to the master latch circuit and the slave latch circuit. In sleep mode, power to the master latch circuit is switched off and the control circuit transmits the power management signal to the slave latch circuit.
US11984892B2
A comparator circuit according to the present embodiment: including a comparator element configured to output a matching signal indicating whether or not a value of a first input signal matches a value of a second input signal; a flip-flop circuit including a data input terminal to which a constant potential is supplied and a clock input terminal and configured to hold a value of the data input terminal based on a self-clock signal input to the clock input terminal; and a clock generation circuit configured to generate the self-clock signal based on the matching signal.
US11984876B2
In at least one example, an apparatus includes a logic circuit having a switch control output and first and second logic circuit inputs. A pulse generator has a generator output coupled to the first logic circuit input. An elevated temperature detector has a detector output and a temperature sensor. The detector output is coupled between the second logic circuit input and the temperature sensor.
US11984862B2
Provided is an active filter circuit connected to a power-receiving terminal of a power line for an alternating-current power supplied to a power converter device from an alternating-current power grid or a direct-current power source interconnected with the alternating-current power grid, or for a direct-current power supplied from the direct-current power source for reducing a harmonic component of a conduction noise propagating to the power line and outputting the reduced harmonic; and a controller for monitoring a variation in the state of an input power entering a power source module for generating drive power for an active element constituting the active filter circuit, or a variation in the state of the drive power supplied from the power source module, and diagnosing an abnormality of a circuit operation for a circuit including the active element of the active filter circuit therein.
US11984849B2
In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror and an amplifier, where the amplifier is coupled to a pin of the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes a first switch coupled to the pin, a second switch coupled to the pin and to a charging resistor, and a third switch coupled to the amplifier and an internal resistor, where the internal resistor is internal to the chip. The oscillator circuit includes a bias current source coupled to the current mirror. The system includes an external resistor coupled to the pin, where the external resistor is external to the chip. The system also includes an external capacitor coupled to the pin and coupled in parallel to the external resistor, where the external capacitor is external to the chip.
US11984828B2
A method for determining at least one current fed to an electrical machine of a drive system includes predefining a carrier frequency of the at least one current fed to the electrical machine, detecting an electromechanical feedback signal dependent on the at least one current, at a link circuit capacitor of the drive system, identifying a signal component associated with the at least one current in the feedback signal on the basis of the predefined carrier frequency, and determining the at least one current fed to the electrical machine on the basis of the signal component.
US11984827B2
A motor control apparatus configured to convert an input power supplied from a power supply to an output alternating-current power having a predetermined voltage and a predetermined frequency is provided. The motor control apparatus includes an inverter circuit configured to supply the output alternating-current power to a motor, and is configured to perform a control to suppress an amplitude of a first harmonic component that occurs synchronously with a rotation rate of the motor in a power input into the motor to be lower than or equal to a predetermined value and to suppress an amplitude of a second harmonic component that occurs in an electromagnetic exciting force of the motor at a same frequency as the first harmonic component to be lower than the amplitude of the second harmonic component in a case of the amplitude of the first harmonic component being suppressed to a minimum.
US11984823B2
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure direct to an electrostatic sheet jamming device formed by a sheet having a conductive layer and a dielectric layer. The jamming device includes a first section of the sheet, the first section being separated from the sheet, and a second section of the sheet, the second section being separated from the sheet. The sheet is non-extensible and flexible. The first section and the second section are slidable relative to each other in a first state. The first section and the second section are jammed with each other in a second state when a voltage is applied between a conductive layer of the first section and a conductive layer of the second section.
US11984807B2
A power converter includes an upper-gate circuit, a lower-gate circuit, an inductor, a first current sensor, a second current sensor, a weight adjustment circuit, and a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) controller. The upper-gate circuit receives an input voltage. The lower-gate circuit is coupled to a ground node. The upper-gate circuit and the lower-gate circuit are operated according to the PWM voltage. The inductor is coupled to the upper-gate circuit and the lower-gate circuit. The first current sensor monitors the upper-gate circuit, so as to generate a first detection current. The second current sensor monitors the lower-gate circuit, so as to generate a second detection current. The weight adjustment circuit generates a control current according to the first detection current and the second detection current. The PWM controller generates the PWM voltage according to the control current.
US11984806B1
A semiconductor package includes a VLSI semiconductor die and one or more output circuits connected to supply power to the die mounted to a package substrate. The output circuit(s), which include a transformer and rectification circuitry, provide current multiplication at an essentially fixed conversion ratio, K, in the semiconductor package, receiving AC power at a relatively high voltage and delivering DC power at a relatively low voltage to the die. The output circuits may be connected in series or parallel as needed. A driver circuit may be provided outside the semiconductor package for receiving power from a source and driving the transformer in the output circuit(s), preferably with sinusoidal currents. The driver circuit may drive a plurality of output circuits. The semiconductor package may require far fewer interface connections for supplying power to the die. Multi-output POL circuits may be used in conjunction with on-chip rail-selection and regulation circuitry to further improve efficiency. A three-stage power conversion system includes off-package, on-package and on-chip conversion stages.
US11984798B2
A circuit is described for powering a chime that outputs audio in response to detection of an entity by a video doorbell. The circuit includes a power source for generating a first signal. A first switch is coupled to the power source. The first switch is configured to provide, in response to the first signal, a first direct-current (DC) voltage signal during a first operating mode where the video doorbell receives an input that triggers actuation of the chime in response to detection of the entity. A second switch is coupled to the power source and the first switch. The second switch is configured to provide, in response to the first signal, a second DC voltage signal during a second operating mode where the chime outputs the audio in response to the input that triggers actuation of the chime in response to detection of the entity.
US11984797B2
The present disclosure provides an adapter circuit including a bus capacitor, a PMOS power transistor, and a sampling control module; a positive terminal of the bus capacitor is connected to a DC bus voltage, and a negative terminal of the bus capacitor is connected to a drain of the PMOS power transistor; a gate of the PMOS power transistor is connected to a drive signal, and a source of the PMOS power transistor is grounded; the sampling control module is used to obtain the drive signal by detecting an AC mains input voltage and a power-down voltage when the bus discharges, so as to turn off the PMOS power transistor after the AC mains input voltage reaches a peak value, and turn on the PMOS power transistor after the power-down voltage reaches a set voltage; the drive signal includes a PMOS Turn-on signal and a PMOS Turn-off signal.
US11984796B2
In an embodiment a power converter includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor coupled in series with the first capacitor, wherein the converter is configured to charge, during a first phase, the first and second capacitors by a supply voltage so that a voltage across terminals of each of the first and second capacitors is substantially equal to half the supply voltage and discharge, during a second phase, the second capacitor to a third capacitor.
US11984793B2
Disclosed is a speed reduction device for a vehicle motor. The speed reduction device includes an output gear connected to an output shaft of the motor, a transmission gear engaged with the output gear, a cam formed to be integrated with the transmission gear, a cycloid inner gear, a pair of wedges compressed against the inner peripheral surface of a through hole of the cycloid inner gear by elastic restoring force of a spring and configured to closely contact the cam, a ring gear partially engaged with the cycloid inner gear when the cycloid inner gear is eccentrically rotated, an end plate, and a final output gear configured to finally output rotational force of the cycloid inner gear, thereby preventing backlash between gears during rotational driving of the motor and reliably preventing movement of a seat after swivel adjustment is completed.
US11984787B2
An endplate for an electric machine may include a disc-like body defining at least one opening and a corresponding channel extending therefrom, the channel extending from the at least one opening to a distal diameter of the body, the opening configured to allow coolant to pass therethrough, and a lip arranged around a circumference of the body and extending therefrom, the lip configured to guide the coolant into the at least one opening to supply coolant at an end winding of a stator of the electric machine.
US11984785B2
An iron-core linear motor forcer (100) with integrated aerostatic bearing guidance is disclosed. The motor forcer (100) comprises (i) an iron-core (10) enclosed within an enclosure (13) having an upper surface (11) and a bottom surface (12), wherein the iron-core (10) is mounted with a plurality of coil windings (16), and a plurality of air supply channels (50) are provided substantially in vertical from the upper surface (11) to the bottom surface (12) of the enclosure (13), and each of the air supply channels (50) is terminated at the bottom surface (12) with one or more orifices (32); and (ii) a linear motor stator (20) having a stator surface (22). The iron-core linear motor forcer (100) is frictionless moving on the motor stator (20).
US11984782B2
An object is to provide a stator coil having a corner portion with less start points for partial discharge while reducing loss. A stator coil having a conductor bar includes, at a corner portion thereof: a first insulating layer covering an outer periphery of the conductor bar; an electric conductor having one end electrically connected to the conductor bar on a distal end side of the corner portion, and another end placed on an outer surface of the first insulating layer; a first conductive layer covering an outer periphery of the first insulating layer and the electric conductor located on the outer surface of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer covering an outer periphery of the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer covering an outer periphery of the second insulating layer.
US11984778B2
A voltage limit ellipse is defined in a d-q coordinate system of a rotating electric machine by d-axis and q-axis currents flowing through an armature coil when the magnitude of a voltage vector applied to the armature coil is equal to a voltage limit value. The product of the number of electrical conductor sections per pole in each phase and the number of poles of the rotating electric machine is set to have, when the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine is equal to a maximum rotational speed, the center of the voltage limit ellipse located outside an electric-current limit circle and in a negative d-axis region in the d-q coordinate system and a positive-d-axis-side vertex of the voltage limit ellipse located inside or on the electric-current limit circle.
US11984776B2
A rotor (1) comprising a rotor shaft (13), a rotor core (14) having a core length, windings (12), and two impregnation rings (11), the windings (12) forming protruding windings ends (121), each one of the two impregnation rings (11) comprising an annular portion (111) and a deflector portion (112), the annular portion (111) comprising radial openings (113); and a method for impregnating the rotor (1) comprising starting a rotation of the rotor shaft (13) and impregnating the windings (12) with an impregnating agent through two nozzles respectively located upward each one of the two impregnation rings (11) and oriented towards the radial openings (113), the impregnation agent being guided by the deflector portion (112) towards the protruding windings ends (121) on both sides of the rotor (1) at a same time, in order to impregnate the windings (12) through the core length.
US11984763B2
A permanent magnet rotor core includes a plurality of rotor poles circumferentially-spaced about a central axis and including a first rotor pole and an adjacent second rotor pole that each include an outer wall, and wherein the rotor core includes a rotor diameter. The rotor core also includes a plurality of radial apertures alternately-spaced with the plurality of rotor poles. The rotor core also includes a first protrusion extending from the first rotor pole into a first radial aperture of the plurality of radial apertures positioned between the first rotor pole and the second rotor pole. The rotor core further includes a second protrusion extending from the second rotor pole into the first radial aperture such that a circumferential opening is defined between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The opening extends a first length of between approximately 0.052% and approximately 0.058% of the rotor diameter.
US11984757B2
Device for controlling solar driven water pumps with three selectable modes on the control panel being: I) speed mode with 100% use of the available solar DC power at all times; II) solar mode using available solar DC power only, and III) eco mode combining the use of the available solar DC power with the use of the AC power from a grid or a generator and/or batteries, by automatic switching between two stages, being (i) solar stage running on solar DC power only, and (ii) hybrid stage running with solar DC power and AC power from grid or generator and/or batteries like in speed mode. The purpose of the present disclosure is to preferentially use solar energy from solar panels over AC current from the electric grid or from a generator and/or batteries while ensuring sufficient pumping capacity.
US11984750B2
The present disclosure provides a battery management system including a reception unit configured to receive a start signal and a completion signal of job from another battery management system, a transmission unit configured to transmit the start signal and the completion signal of job by broadcast, a storage unit configured to store a time table including a job code of a plurality of jobs to be executed, a priority of corresponding job, and an execution time and period of corresponding job, a synchronization unit configured to execute synchronization of a job execution time using the received start signal or the received completion signal of job and the time table, and a job execution unit configured to execute a job using the time table stored in the storage unit and a time calculated by the synchronization unit.
US11984745B1
A monitoring system and method for operation of energy storage system are provided, the system includes a collection module, configured to collect operation data of the energy storage system; a predictive module, configured to predict the operation data to obtain predictive data of future development trend of the energy storage system; a processing module, configured to process the operation data and the predictive data to obtain an operation state of battery packs in the energy storage system; a storage module, configured to store the operation data, the predictive data and the operation state of the battery packs; and an evaluation module, configured to evaluate an operation state of the energy storage system according to operation data, predictive data and the operation state of the battery packs. The energy storage system is monitored, and the operation state of the energy storage system is evaluated by combining with power grid dispatch instructions.
US11984743B2
A battery pack having a specified number of battery cells connected to one another and having a monitoring unit, in particular of the type of an SCM circuit, for the individual battery cells. The monitoring unit has a passive input circuit, and is designed to recognize various electrical faults within the passive input circuit using a time measuring unit allocated to the monitoring unit, in particular on the basis of a measurement of rise times of a voltage.
US11984738B2
The present disclosure relates to a charging control method applicable for a first terminal. The method includes: monitoring a Bluetooth communication state between the first terminal and the second terminal in a process of charging the first terminal. When the Bluetooth communication state is monitored to be in an abnormal state, the charging power for charging the first terminal is adjusted reduced based on the charge protocol supported by the first terminal.
US11984726B2
A charge/discharge control method for a charge/discharge element includes receiving a request value (Pfr) of a frequency adjustment capacity according to a system frequency (f) of an electric power system (10) based on a priority degree (β) and the request value (Pfr) being received, the priority degree indicating a degree at which charging or discharging of an own element (EV1) is prioritized over charging or discharging of another charge/discharge element (EV2, EV3, . . . ), correcting the output property to increase an upper limit value or a lower limit value of an output range as the priority degree (β) is higher, and performing charging or discharging with an output determined based on a deviation (Δf) between the system frequency (f) measured at a connection end to the electric power system (10) and a reference frequency (fref) of the electric power system (10) and the output property after the correction.
US11984724B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling power modes in electronic devices are provided. A system may include an electronic device and an input device that sends power mode selection information via a network to a power mode selection receiving component in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a first power component that powers a first component, and a switching component that controls the first power component. The electronic device may include a second power component that powers a second component. The switching component may control the second power component. The power mode selection receiving component and the switching component may be powered independently of the first and the second component. If the power mode selection information indicates an off mode, the electronic device may provide power to the power mode selection receiving component and the switching component and not to the first and the second component.
US11984720B2
A protection circuit is disclosed. The protection circuit includes a direct current (DC) blocking component electrically connected between a neutral of the transformer and a ground, and an overvoltage protection device electrically connected in parallel with the DC blocking component. The overvoltage protection device is constructed to repeatably and reliably provide overvoltage protection in response to a voltage at the transformer neutral above a threshold. The DC blocking component has an impedance below a predetermined value, thereby effectively grounding the neutral of the transformer. The DC blocking component is persistently maintained in connection to the transformer neutral.
US11984719B2
A circuit protection system is provided herein that minimizes the disconnection time of a circuit while protecting other electrical components. Some configurations comprise a set of parallel circuit interruption devices, each connected in series with respective fuses. A control device sets a state of the circuit interruption device based on a current of the circuit. Under certain current loads, the circuit is interrupted without causing a fuse to blow. Under other current loads, the circuit is interrupted by having one or more fuses blow.
US11984718B2
A storage device includes a secondary power source, a charging circuit, a protection circuit and a main system. The secondary power source includes a plurality of capacitors, is charged based on a charging voltage, and generates an internal power supply voltage. The charging circuit generates the charging voltage based on an external power supply voltage. The protection circuit monitors whether at least one of the plurality of capacitors is defective, and blocks at least one defective capacitor. The main system operates based on the external or internal power supply voltage. The protection circuit includes a plurality of resistors, a plurality of transistors and a control circuit. The control circuit monitors whether the at least one of the plurality of capacitors is defective using the plurality of resistors and a plurality of currents associated with the plurality of capacitors, and blocks the at least one defective capacitor using the plurality of transistors and a plurality of control signals.
US11984708B2
A power supply circuit for use with a power supply system. The power supply circuit can be provided within a power supply module connected with one or more additional power supply modules as part of the power supply system. The power supply circuit includes an optocoupler and a resistor ladder connected to the optocoupler. The circuit asserts a synchronization signal responsive to the optocoupler being energized.
US11984705B2
A spark plug assembly includes a spark plug, where the spark plug includes a high voltage connector, an insulator body, a metallic shell, and an electrical conductor at least partly disposed in the insulator body and the metallic shell. The spark plug assembly includes a detection unit having a transmitter device and a receiver device. The transmitter device is coupled to the spark plug and is electrically disposed between the high voltage connector and the electrical conductor. Further, the transmitter device is configured to draw an excitation current from the electrical conductor. The transmitter device includes an optical signal generator that is configured to generate an optical signal in response to the drawn excitation current. The receiver device is disposed in optical communication with the transmitter device and configured to receive the optical signal from the transmitter device.
US11984690B2
A power-inlet plug has an installation seat, an elastic electrical conductive member and an external connector, the elastic electrical conductive member having a fixing portion and an elastic portion electrically connected to the fixing portion, the installation seat is provided with an installation cavity that accommodates the fixing portion and the external connector and a locking mechanism for detachable fix of the installation seat, the installation cavity is provided with an hole providing for the elastic portion extending out, and the elastic portion is provided with a retractable electrical contact. By setting the stop block, the permanent deformation and collapse of the shrapnel can be effectively prevented, and the problems of poor contact and contact failure can be solved. The locking part drives down the locking tongue and the power supply track extrusion locking structure design, effectively prevents the power-inlet plug from falling off.
US11984689B2
The disclosure relates to a conductive housing for the connector and a connector comprising the conductive housing. The conductive housing comprises a plurality of side surfaces, at least one of which comprising a plurality of terminal connection portions spaced apart from one another at an edge portion of the side surface, and a gap being formed between two adjacent terminal connection portions; and a plurality of terminal pins, each of which being connected to the respective terminal connection portion. The conductive housing further comprises at least one conductive elastic piece, one of which being connected between the two adjacent terminal connection portions to at least partially cover the gap between the two adjacent terminal connection portions. By means of such arrangement, the conductive elastic piece covers most areas between the terminal pins so as to enhance electromagnetic compatibility.
US11984677B2
Technologies and implementations for a clip to connect coaxial cables onto a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) are disclosed. The technologies and implementations facilitate improved signal integrity from the cable to various components of the PCBA. Additionally, the technologies and implementations help facilitate management of mechanical variations during connection of the coaxial cable.
US11984675B2
A battery clamp having a first inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a second inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a first outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the first inner metal battery clamp, and a second outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the second inner metal battery clamp. The first inner metal battery clamp member and/or the second inner metal battery clamp member having a battery cable connector configured to allow a user to access the battery cable connector with the user's fingers or a tool while avoiding interference with the handle portions of the battery clamp.
US11984670B2
This application provides a wireless electronic communications device, including: a metal frame on which a first antenna and a second antenna are disposed, where a first preset distance is spaced between the first antenna and the second antenna, and a feeding structure is disposed on each of the first antenna and the second antenna; and a slot structure disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna, where an extension distance of the slot structure in a width direction of the metal frame is less than a width of the metal frame.
US11984668B2
A device includes a patch antenna, which includes a feeding line, and a ground panel over the feeding line. The ground panel has an aperture therein. A low-k dielectric module is over and aligned to the aperture. A patch is over the low-k dielectric module.
US11984661B2
An electronic device may include first and second phased antenna arrays and a triplet of first, second, and third ultra-wideband antennas. An antenna module in the device may include a dielectric substrate. The first and second arrays and the triplet may be formed on the dielectric substrate. The third and second ultra-wideband antennas may be separated by a gap. The first array may be laterally interposed between the third and second ultra-wideband antennas within the gap. The third ultra-wideband antenna may be laterally interposed between the first phased antenna array and at least some of the second array. An integrated circuit may be mounted to the dielectric substrate using an interposer. The antenna module may occupy a minimal amount of space within the device and may be less expensive to manufacture relative to scenarios where the arrays and the ultra-wideband antennas are formed on separate substrates.
US11984657B2
A smart card including a card body having a metal layer including a recess area which opens onto a peripheral edge of the metal layer, an RF chip, a first RF antenna connected to the RF chip and disposed in or facing the recess area, and a second RF antenna electrically insulated from the metal layer and from the first RF antenna. The second RF antenna includes a first antenna part extending facing the metal layer to collect an image current induced by first eddy currents flowing in the metal layer, and a second antenna part electrically connected to the first antenna part and extending facing the recess area to allow a magnetic coupling between the first RF antenna and the second RF antenna.
US11984656B2
[Problem] To provide: an RF tag antenna which is able to be fitted to a tire that contains a steel wire and a carbon powder; an RF tag; a tire which is provided with an RF tag; and a tire with a built-in RF tag. [Solution] An RF tag antenna 10 according to the present invention is used by being fitted to a tire 920 that contains a steel wire 925 and a carbon powder; and the RF tag antenna 10 comprises a ground part 30 and a potential difference formation part 20. The potential difference formation part 20 and the ground part 30 constitute a resonant circuit (LC); and the ground part 30 is electrically connected to the steel wire 925.
US11984651B2
The present invention relates to a roof antenna for a vehicle, comprising a main body, a cover device and a circuit board (PCB layer), wherein the main body is made of metal, wherein at least one mm wave antenna is arranged between the metal main body and the printed circuit board.
US11984646B2
An electronic device includes a first part and a second part that can be folded or expanded relative to each other. The electronic device has a closed state and an open state When the electronic device is in the closed state, a frame of the first part and a frame of the second part partially or totally overlap. The first part includes a first feeding antenna. The second part includes a first parasitic antenna, and when the electronic device is in the closed state, the first parasitic antenna is not grounded and can be coupled to the first feeding antenna.
US11984637B2
A transmission line includes first, second, third, and fourth signal lines, and first, second, third, and fourth electrode pads respectively connected thereto. A first main surface of an external connection portion includes a first region in which the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad are provided, and a second region in which the third electrode pad and the fourth electrode pad are provided. Each of the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad, in a plan view, is surrounded by a ground electrode, and at least one of the third electrode pad and the fourth electrode pad, in the plan view, includes a portion that is not surrounded by the ground electrode.
US11984634B2
A phase shifter assembly, suitable for a base station antenna, includes a main printed circuit board with opposing first and second primary sides. The main printed circuit board has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmission paths on the first primary side and a plurality of RF transmission paths on the second primary side. The phase shifter assembly also includes a first wiper arm rotatably coupled to the main printed circuit board and electrically coupled to the plurality of transmission paths on the first primary side of the main printed circuit board; and a second wiper arm rotatably coupled to the main printed circuit board and electrically coupled to the plurality of transmission paths on the second primary side of the main printed circuit board. Rearwardly extending phase shifter assemblies that are oriented perpendicular to a plane defined by a reflector within a base station antenna are also provided.
US11984632B2
A microwave pulse power switching system comprised of a pulse power switcher and a microwave circulator is interposable between a pulse power source and a pulse power receiver such as an accelerator. The pulse power switcher and microwave circulator are configured to allow switching of the pulse power delivered to the pulse power receiver while isolating the pulse power receiver from the pulse power source.
US11984631B2
Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stacks require a significant nominal compressive loading for proper operation and sealing. This loading is typically provided using relatively thick end plates and tight straps. In certain fuel cell applications, one or more solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stacks are secured in larger enclosures (e.g. for isolation and crashworthiness in automotive applications). The enclosures however can themselves be sturdy enough to provide the necessary loading on the fuel cell stacks within. The present invention takes advantage of that to allow for use of thinner end plates and/or weaker straps which would otherwise be insufficient for use.
US11984619B2
A tab limiting sheet, a top cover assembly, and a battery are provided. The battery is insulated and disposed between a cell body and two tab bodies. The tab limiting sheet includes a first mounting part, a connecting assembly, and a second mounting part. The connecting assembly includes an elastic element and a first support element. Both ends of the elastic element are respectively connected with the first mounting part and the second mounting part. The first support element includes a first supporting part connected with the first mounting part and a second part connected with the second mounting part. When the elastic element is in a natural state, the first supporting part and the second supporting part are spaced in the first direction. When the elastic element is squeezed to a maximum deformation state, the first supporting part is tightly abutted against the second supporting part.
US11984612B2
A battery module includes a module housing with a simplified assembling process and an improved energy density. The battery module includes a battery assembly configured to include a plurality of secondary batteries and has front, rear, upper, lower, left and right sides; and a module housing including a first frame located at the left side of the battery assembly and having a plate shape with opposing ends bent rightward so that bent portions thereof are respectively located at the upper side and the lower side of the battery assembly, and a second frame located at the right side of the battery assembly and having a plate shape with opposing ends bent leftward so that bent portions thereof are respectively located at the upper side and the lower side of the battery assembly and are coupled with the bent portions of the first frame, respectively.
US11984604B2
A lithium ion battery including a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer that contains lithium silicate particles and a binder. The lithium silicate particles include composite particles including a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, wherein a carbon material is present inside the composite particles, and an area ratio of the carbon material occupying a cross section of the composite particles is 0.008 to 6%. The binder includes at least a first resin, wherein the first resin is at least cue selected from the group consisting of polyacrylic acid, a polyacrylic acid salt, and their derivatives. The first resin is contained in an amount of 2 mass % or less in the negative electrode active material layer.
US11984600B2
Provided is a binder composition for an electrochemical device that has excellent viscosity stability and is capable of forming an electrode having excellent peel strength. The binder composition contains a polymer including a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and a halogenated hydrocarbon. The content of the halogenated hydrocarbon is not less than 2 mass ppm and not more than 400 mass ppm relative to the content of the polymer.
US11984592B2
A composite solid electrolyte including: a porous nanostructure; and a solid electrolyte disposed on a surface of the porous nanostructure, wherein the composite solid electrolyte satisfies Equation 1 0
US11984591B1
A sodium-containing oxide positive electrode material and a preparation method therefor and use thereof are disclosed. Also disclosed are a positive electrode plate and uses thereof.
US11984584B2
Described herein are improved composite anodes and lithium-ion batteries made therefrom. Further described are methods of making and using the improved anodes and batteries. In general, the anodes include a porous composite having a plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites. At least one of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites is formed from a dendritic particle, which is a three-dimensional, randomly-ordered assembly of nanoparticles of an electrically conducting material and a plurality of discrete non-porous nanoparticles of a non-carbon Group 4A element or mixture thereof disposed on a surface of the dendritic particle. At least one nanocomposite of the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites has at least a portion of its dendritic particle in electrical communication with at least a portion of a dendritic particle of an adjacent nanocomposite in the plurality of agglomerated nanocomposites.
US11984577B2
Method of solvent-free manufacturing of composite electrodes incorporating radiation curable binders
A method of making an electrode includes the step of mixing active material particles, radiation curable resin precursors, and electrically conductive particles to create an electrode precursor mixture. The electrode precursor mixture is electrostatically sprayed onto a current collector to provide an electrode preform. The electrode preform is heated and calendered to melt the resin precursor such that the resin precursor surrounds the active particles and electrically conductive particles. Radiation is applied to the electrode preform sufficient to cure the radiation curable resin precursors into resin.
US11984574B2
A battery cooling plate includes a first plate and a second plate that are joined together at their respective edges, and are spaced apart to define a coolant volume therebetween. Turbulating inserts can be arranged side-by-side within the coolant volume and multiple rods can extend through the turbulating inserts to at least partially define flow barriers between coolant flow channels. A fluid manifold for the battery cooling plate includes a non-planar wall that extends along a length-wise direction of the fluid manifold to separate a fluid volume into a first portion and a second portion. A series of apertures are arranged along the length-wise direction and successive ones of the apertures are fluidly connected to the first portion and to the second portion in alternating sequence.
US11984568B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery sets in which first unit cells and second unit cells are adjacent to each other. In the first unit cell, a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are oriented and extend in a first direction from a first end portion of a first main body. In the second unit cell, a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are oriented and extend in a second direction opposite to the first direction from a first end portion of a second main body. Then, in the battery set, at least a part of the first main body and the second main body overlap and are in contact with each other. Further, a heat conductive material that conducts heat from the first unit cell or the second unit cell is in contact with the battery set.
US11984565B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an energy storage system (ESS) device that can be used for a moving means such as a construction machine and an electric vehicle, and is configured so that multiple battery packs can be detached to increase a management efficiency of the battery pack. According to embodiment, there is provided a mobile ESS device including a battery pack case electrically connected to a control device of a moving means and installed in the moving means; a battery pack accommodated in the battery pack case and electrically connected to the battery pack case; at least one sensor module disposed in at least one of the battery pack and the battery pack case to sense an electrical state and an environmental state of the battery pack; and a controller accommodated in the battery pack case and electrically connected to the sensor module and the battery pack to monitor and control a state of the battery pack, wherein the controller receives movement information related to movement from the control device of the movement means, controls the sensor module based on the reception of the movement information, and controls the battery pack using the movement information and sensing information sensed by the sensor module.
US11984559B2
A systems and methods for tracking a position of an electrode. The system may include: a notching controller configured to store pitch information of a unit electrode and to acquire electrode coordinate information of the electrode in a roll-to-roll state during a notching process and a cell identification (ID) of the unit electrode; a calculator configured to calculate coordinates of the cell ID from the pitch information and the cell ID; a roll map generator configured to generate a roll map based on the electrode coordinate information transmitted from the notching controller; and a mapping part configured to compare the coordinates of the roll map with the coordinates of the cell ID to derive an electrode position of the electrode during the electrode manufacturing process from which the unit electrode originates.
US11984553B2
A lithium ion-conductive solid electrolyte including a freestanding inorganic vitreous sheet of sulfide-based lithium ion conducting glass is capable of high performance in a lithium metal battery. Such an electrolyte is also manufacturable, and readily adaptable for battery cell and cell component manufacture, in a cost-effective, scalable manner using an automated machine based system, apparatus and methods based on inline spectrophotometry to assess and inspect the quality of such vitreous solid electrolyte sheets and associated components. Suitable manufacturing methods can involve multi-stage thinning of a sulfide glass preform that includes a first thinning operation that involves applying a compressive force onto the preform to form a glass sheet and a second thinning operation that involves applying a tensile force on the as-formed glass sheet (e.g., drawing the sheet by pulling).
US11984549B2
An optoelectronic device including an integrated circuit including light-emitting diodes, thin film transistors, and a stack of electrically-insulating layers, said stack being located between the light-emitting diodes and the transistors, said stack further including conductive elements, between and through said insulating layers, said conductive elements connecting at least some of the transistors to the light-emitting diodes.
US11984536B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a first electrode layer, a light emitting structure on the first electrode layer, a transparent electrode layer between the first electrode layer and the light emitting structure, an interlayer insulating layer between the transparent electrode layer and the first electrode layer, and having first and second openings, a second electrode layer between the first electrode layer and the interlayer insulating layer, and connected to the transparent electrode layer, and an electrode pad contacting the second electrode layer, each of the first openings and at least one of the second openings define one group to have at least first and second groups, the first group being closer to the electrode pad than the second group is, and a distance between the first and second openings in the first group being greater than a distance between the first and second openings in the second group.
US11984532B2
A semiconductor device including a conductive substrate; a semiconductor structure including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer arranged between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer, and including a plurality of recesses; a first electrode electrically connecting the first conductive type semiconductor layer to the conductive substrate; a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer; and an insulating layer arranged inside the plurality of recesses. The plurality of recesses include a first recess and a plurality of second recesses, the first electrode includes a plurality of protrusion electrodes extending to the inside of the second, the active layer includes an inactive area arranged between the semiconductor structure and the first recess, and an active area arranged on the inner side of the first recess.
US11984528B2
A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device includes: forming, on or above a p-type nitride semiconductor tunnel junction layer, a first n-type nitride semiconductor layer that forms a tunnel junction with the p-type nitride semiconductor tunnel junction layer, the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer having a first impurity concentration and a first thickness; forming, on or above the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer, in a nitrogen atmosphere, a second n-type nitride semiconductor layer having a second n-type impurity concentration less than the first n-type impurity concentration and a second thickness; and forming, on or above the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer, in a hydrogen atmosphere, a third n-type nitride semiconductor layer having a third n-type impurity concentration less than the first n-type impurity concentration and a third thickness.
US11984520B2
A light sensing device includes a semiconductor layer including a distributed Bragg reflector including a first surface of the semiconductor layer, and a photoelectric conversion unit including a second surface of the semiconductor layer, and the distributed Bragg reflector has a plurality of holes each having, in a cross-sectional view, a width gradually changing from a first width to a second width according to a width change period; a first electrode in one region of the semiconductor layer; and a second electrode on the second surface of the semiconductor layer and having a reflective metal.
US11984515B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a first n+ region, a first p+ region within the first n+ region, a second n+ region, a second p+ region, positioned between the first n+ region and the second n+ region. The first n+ region, the second n+ region and the second p+ region are positioned within a p− region. A first space charge region and a second space charge region are formed within the p− region. The first space region is positioned between the first n+ region and the second p+ region, and the second space region is positioned between the second p+ region and the second n+ region.
US11984510B2
The present application discloses a composite metal oxide semiconductor which is a metal oxide semiconductor doped with a rare earth oxide. Even doping the praseodymium oxide or ytterbium oxide at a small doping amount, oxygen vacancies could be suppressed as well as the mobility be maintained; critically, the thin-films made thereof can avoid the influence of light on I-V characteristics and stability, which results in great improvement of the stability under illumination of metal oxide semiconductor devices. The present application also disclose the thin-film transistors made thereof the composite metal oxide semiconductor and its application.
US11984474B2
There is disclosed a structure in a wide band gap material such as silicon carbide wherein there is a buried grid and shields covering at least one middle point between two adjacent parts of the buried grid, when viewed from above. Advantages of the invention include easy manufacture without extra lithographic steps compared with standard manufacturing process, an improved trade-off between the current conduction and voltage blocking characteristics of a JBSD comprising the structure.
US11984466B2
A solid-state imaging element according to the present disclosure includes: a first semiconductor substrate that includes a floating diffusion that temporarily holds an electric signal output from a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate that faces the first semiconductor substrate, in which the second semiconductor substrate includes a first transistor disposed on a side facing the first semiconductor substrate, the first transistor including: a channel extending along a thickness direction of the second semiconductor substrate; and a multi-gate extending along the thickness direction of the second semiconductor substrate and sandwiching the channel, and the multi-gate of the first transistor is connected to the floating diffusion.
US11984465B2
The present disclosure relates to a CMOS image sensor having a multiple deep trench isolation (MDTI) structure, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, the image sensor comprises a boundary deep trench isolation (BDTI) structure disposed at boundary regions of a pixel region surrounding a photodiode. The BDTI structure has a ring shape from a top view and two columns surrounding the photodiode with the first depth from a cross-sectional view. A multiple deep trench isolation (MDTI) structure is disposed at inner regions of the pixel region overlying the photodiode, the MDTI structure extending from the back-side of the substrate to a second depth within the substrate smaller than the first depth. The MDTI structure has three columns with the second depth between the two columns of the BDTI structure from the cross-sectional view. The MDTI structure is a continuous integral unit having a ring shape.
US11984463B2
A flare-reducing image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, NP in number, and a plurality of microlenses, NML in number, where each of the plurality of microlenses is aligned to a respective one of the plurality of pixels, such that NP=NML. The flare-reducing image sensor further includes a plurality of phase-shifting layers, NL, in number, where each phase-shifting layer is aligned with a respective one of the plurality of microlenses, where NL, is less than or equal to NML.
US11984461B2
The present disclosure provides an image sensor, which may include a driving layer, a negative electrode layer formed in the driving layer, a N-region layer formed above the negative electrode layer. The N-region layer includes multiple cylindrical structures formed of semiconductor materials. The image sensor may also include a light absorption layer formed above the N-region layer. The light absorption layer is composed of a multi-layer structure including a P-region layer formed using quantum dot semiconductor materials. The image sensor may further include a positive electrode layer formed above the light absorption layer and configured to receive incoming light signals.
US11984459B2
An array substrate and an OLED display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a first film layer set and a second film layer set. A bending area of the array substrate has a first trench throughout the first film layer set and a second trench throughout the second film layer set. The first film layer set close to the second film layer set has a blocking part having an etching opening corresponding to the first trench. The etching opening is throughout the blocking part. A bottom of the etching opening connects to a top of the first trench. A bottom of the second trench connects to a top of the blocking part.
US11984447B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a detector configured to output a signal associated with one or more interactions with subatomic particles. The detector comprises a sensor comprising a first diode comprising first semiconductor material abutting a first metal and forming a first junction, wherein the sensor is configured to be exposed to subatomic particles and a voltage reference member configured to generate a reference measurement. The sensor and the voltage reference member form a bandgap reference circuit. The present disclosure also provides methods for detecting subatomic particles from a solid-state detector comprising a first Schottky diode in electrical communication with a reference voltage member comprising a parallel circuit of two or more second Schottky diodes, wherein the first Schottky diode is configured to be exposed to subatomic particles and the second Schottky diodes of the reference voltage member are configured to generate a reference measurement.
US11984446B2
A semiconductor device may include a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor may include a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode and a first dielectric layer disposed between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode at a first height. The second capacitor may be positioned spaced apart from the first capacitor. The second capacitor may include a second lower electrode, a second upper electrode and a second dielectric layer disposed between the second lower electrode and the second upper electrode at a second height different from the first height.
US11984440B2
Semiconductor devices and semiconductor device packages may include at least one first semiconductor die supported on a first side of a substrate. The at least one first semiconductor die may include a first active surface. A second semiconductor die may be supported on a second, opposite side of the substrate. The second semiconductor die may include a second active surface located on a side of the second semiconductor die facing the substrate. The second semiconductor die may be configured to have higher median power consumption than the at least one first semiconductor die during operation. An electronic system incorporating a semiconductor device package is disclosed, as are related methods.
US11984438B2
A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including at least one electromagnetic wave receiver, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the integrated circuits include single crystal transistors; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the integrated circuits include at least one memory circuit, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
US11984434B2
A display device includes a display panel and a light unit. The light unit includes a substrate, a circuit layer disposed on the substrate and including a line, an insulation layer covering the circuit layer, light emitting elements including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light emitting layer, and a conductive layer electrically connected to one of the first electrode and the second electrode to cover at least a portion of the line.
US11984433B2
Power semiconductor devices, and more particularly arrangements of power semiconductor devices for improved thermal performance in high power applications are disclosed. Arrangements for multiple power semiconductor devices within a package and/or module are provided that more efficiently utilize the active device area of each power semiconductor device for a given operational specification. Certain arrangements are provided that reduce the effects of thermal crowding in order to provide increased power capability or a similar power capability in a reduced device size. Improved thermal balancing may be provided by variable spacing and/or variable offset distances between next-adjacent power semiconductor devices. In this manner, active areas of power devices and/or modules may include an increased density of power semiconductor devices within a given area while also exhibiting improved thermal profiles during operation, thereby providing improved operating characteristics and/or increased operating lifetimes.
US11984427B2
A semiconductor device assembly and associated methods are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device assembly includes (1) a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; (2) a first set of stacked semiconductor devices at the first side of the substrate; (3) a second set of stacked semiconductor devices adjacent to one side of the first set of stacked semiconductor devices; (4) a third set of stacked semiconductor devices adjacent to an opposite side of the first set of stacked semiconductor devices; and (5) a temperature adjusting component at the second side and aligned with the second set of stacked semiconductor devices. The temperature adjusting component is positioned to absorb the thermal energy and thereby thermally isolate the second set of stacked semiconductor devices from the first set of stacked semiconductor devices.
US11984423B2
This disclosure relates to a transmission line for high performance radio frequency (RF) applications. One such transmission line can include a bonding layer configured to receive an RF signal, a barrier layer, a diffusion barrier layer, and a conductive layer proximate to the diffusion barrier layer. The diffusion barrier layer can have a thickness that allows a received RF signal to penetrate the diffusion barrier layer to the conductive layer. In certain implementations, the diffusion barrier layer can be nickel. In some of these implementations, the transmission line can include a gold bonding layer, a palladium barrier layer, and a nickel diffusion barrier layer.
US11984422B2
In an embodiment, a method includes attaching a first package component to a first carrier, the first package component comprising: an aluminum pad disposed adjacent to a substrate; a sacrificial pad disposed adjacent to the substrate, the sacrificial pad comprising a major surface opposite the substrate, a protrusion of the sacrificial pad extending from the major surface; and a dielectric bond layer disposed around the aluminum pad and the sacrificial pad; attaching a second carrier to the first package component and the first carrier, the first package component being interposed between the first carrier and the second carrier; removing the first carrier; planarizing the dielectric bond layer to comprise a top surface being coplanar with the protrusion; and etching a portion of the protrusion.
US11984420B2
A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip, a redistribution layer structure disposed under the semiconductor chip, a bump pad disposed under the redistribution layer structure and having an upper structure of a first width and a lower structure of a second width less than the first width, a metal seed layer disposed along a lower surface of the upper structure and a side surface of the lower structure, an insulating layer surrounding the redistribution layer structure and the bump pad, and a bump structure disposed under the bump pad. A first undercut is disposed at one end of the metal seed layer that contacts the upper structure, and a second undercut is disposed at an other end of the metal seed layer that contacts the lower structure.
US11984419B2
Package structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The package structure includes a first bump structure formed over a first substrate. The first bump structure includes a first pillar layer formed over the first substrate and a first barrier layer formed over the first pillar layer. In addition, the first barrier layer has a first protruding portion laterally extending outside a first edge of the first pillar layer. The package structure further includes a second bump structure bonded to the first bump structure through a solder joint. In addition, the second bump structure includes a second pillar layer formed over a second substrate and a second barrier layer formed over the second pillar layer. The first protruding portion of the first barrier layer is spaced apart from the solder joint.
US11984418B2
A method for manufacturing a package includes positioning a copper layer above a die. A zinc layer is positioned on the copper layer. The zinc and copper layers are then heated to produce a brass layer, the brass layer abutting the copper layer. Further, a polymer layer is positioned abutting the brass layer.
US11984414B2
A packaging structure with an antenna and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The packaging structure includes a package, an antenna circuit, an interconnecting circuit, an outer-layer circuit, and a chip. The package is internally packaged with a first conducting through hole column and a second conducting through hole column. The antenna circuit is disposed on a first surface and a sidewall of the package. The interconnecting circuit is packaged in the package, and is connected to the antenna circuit by the first conducting through hole column. The outer-layer circuit is disposed on a second surface of the package, and is connected to the interconnecting circuit by the second conducting through hole column. The outer-layer circuit is further connected to a conductive pin. The chip is packaged in the package, and is connected to the interconnecting circuit or the outer-layer circuit.
US11984404B2
A semiconductor device includes a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and horizontal layers on a lower structure; a memory vertical structure vertically penetrating the stack structure; first and second barrier structures penetrating the stack structure in parallel; a supporter pattern penetrating the stack structure; and through contact plugs penetrating the stack structure. The first barrier structure includes first barrier patterns arranged in a first direction and spaced apart from each other, and second barrier patterns arranged in the first direction and spaced apart from each other. Each of the first and second barrier patterns includes a linear shape extending in the first direction. In a first barrier pattern and a second barrier pattern adjacent to each other, a portion of the first barrier pattern opposes a portion of the second barrier pattern in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11984402B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin; a gate structure over the first fin; a first source/drain region adjacent the gate structure; an etch stop layer over the first source/drain region; a conductive line over the etch stop layer, the conductive line isolated from the first source/drain region by the etch stop layer, a top surface of the conductive line being coplanar with a top surface of the gate structure; and a power rail contact extending through the first fin, the power rail contact connected to the first source/drain region.
US11984401B2
A semiconductor device including a hybrid contact scheme for stacked FET is disclosed with integration of a BSPDN. A double-sided (both frontside and backside of the wafer) contact scheme with buried power rail (BPR) and backside power distribution network (BSPDN) provides optimum contact and interconnect. The stacked FET could include, for example, FINFET over FINFET, FINFET over nanosheet, or nanosheet over nanosheet.
US11984399B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of semiconductor manufacturing technologies, in particular to a semiconductor structure and a mask plate structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, where the substrate is provided therein with active areas and a plurality of bit line structures arranged at intervals in parallel in the substrate. A plurality of word line structures are arranged at intervals in parallel in the substrate. The word line structures and the bit line structures intersect to define a plurality of grids arranged in an array on the substrate. Capacitor plugs are located in the grids. Projection of each of the capacitor plugs on the substrate covers a part of one of the active areas. Cross sections of the capacitor plugs are arcuate in a cross section parallel to a surface of the substrate.
US11984385B2
The present disclosure is related to a lead frame structure. The lead frame structure includes a bottom board and a blocking wall. The bottom board has a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion separates from the second conductive portion. The first and second conductive portions are configured to electrically connect to a light source. The blocking wall is located on the bottom board, and the blocking wall surrounds an opening. The first and the second conductive portions are exposed from the opening. The first and the second conductive portions each have an extending portion. The extending portion extends beyond an external surface of the blocking wall in a horizontal direction.
US11984379B2
Provided is an electronic package, in which a heat dissipating body is formed on an electronic device and is combined with a heat sink so that the electronic device, the heat dissipating body and the heat sink form a receiving space, and a heat dissipating material is formed in the receiving space and in contact with the heat sink and the electronic device, where a fluid regulating space is formed between the heat dissipating material and the heat dissipating body and is used as a volume regulating space for the heat dissipating material during thermal expansion and contraction.
US11984375B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first integrated circuit die having a first contact region and a first non-contact region; an encapsulant contacting sides of the first integrated circuit die; a dielectric layer contacting the encapsulant and the first integrated circuit die, the dielectric layer having a first portion over the first contact region, a second portion over the first non-contact region, and a third portion over a portion of the encapsulant; and a metallization pattern including: a first conductive via extending through the first portion of the dielectric layer to contact the first integrated circuit die; and a conductive line extending along the second portion and third portion of the dielectric layer, the conductive line having a straight portion along the second portion of the dielectric layer and a first meandering portion along the third portion of the dielectric layer.
US11984373B2
An encapsulation hood is fastened onto electrically conductive zones of a support substrate using springs. Each spring has a region in contact with an electrically conductive path contained in the encapsulation hood and another region in contact with a corresponding one of the electrically conductive zones. The fastening of the part of the encapsulation hood onto the support substrate compresses the springs and further utilizes a bead of insulating glue located between the compressed springs.
US11984372B2
A package structure and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming first electrical connectors and second electrical connectors on a first side of an interposer wafer. An integrated circuit die is bonded to the first side of the interposer wafer using the first electrical connectors. A stiffener structure is attached to the first side of the interposer wafer adjacent the integrated circuit die. The stiffener structure covers the second electrical connectors in a plan view. The integrated circuit die and the stiffener structure are encapsulated with a first encapsulant. The interposer wafer and the stiffener structure are singulated to form a stacked structure.
US11984370B2
A semiconductor testing structure forming method includes: a semiconductor substrate is provided, and the semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of active areas arranged separately; a first conductive wire is formed at a preset distance from the plurality of active areas in the semiconductor substrate, and the first conductive wire is connected with a substrate of a respective active device formed in each of the plurality of active areas; a plurality of first contact holes is formed on the first conductive wire; and a first metal layer is formed on top of each of the plurality of first contact holes to obtain the semiconductor testing structure, where the first metal layer is electrically connected with a first common pad and the first common pad is configured to perform an electric performance test on the semiconductor testing structure.
US11984366B2
A measurement device and method for a semiconductor structure are provided. The measurement device for the semiconductor structure includes a bearing platform, a clamping mechanism, and an image acquisition system. The clamping mechanism is installed on the bearing platform and includes a clamp disposed along a vertical direction. The clamp is configured to clamp the semiconductor structure such that the semiconductor structure is clamped with a to-be-measured surface facing a side. The image acquisition system is disposed by a side of the clamping mechanism, and is configured to acquire a three-dimensional morphology of the semiconductor structure from the side.
US11984363B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxial feature having a first semiconductor material over the semiconductor substrate, and a second epitaxial feature having a second semiconductor material over the semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor material being different from the first semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes a first silicide layer on the first epitaxial feature, a second silicide layer on the second epitaxial feature, a metal layer on the first silicide layer, a first contact feature over the metal layer, and a second contact feature over the second silicide layer. A first number of layers between the first contact feature and the first epitaxial feature is greater than a second number of layers between the second contact feature and the second epitaxial feature.
US11984348B2
A method is provided for preparing a semiconductor-on-insulator structure comprising a silicon nitride layer deposited by plasma deposition.
US11984330B2
A substrate processing system includes a processing chamber, a substrate support, a laser, and a collimating assembly. The substrate support is disposed in the processing chamber and is configured to support a substrate. The laser is configured to generate a laser beam. The collimating assembly includes lenses or mirrors arranged to direct the laser beam at the substrate to heat an exposed material of the substrate. The lenses or mirrors are configured to direct the laser beam in a direction within a predetermined range of being perpendicular to a surface of the substrate.
US11984327B2
The present invention is a method for producing a power module, including processes (1) to (4) in the following order: (1) a disposition process of disposing a thermosetting resin composition that is solid at 25° C. into a container housing an insulator substrate with multiple semiconductor components mounted thereon; (2) a melt process involving disposing the container having the thermosetting resin composition disposed therein into a molding apparatus capable of heating, pressurization, and depressurization, and heating the container to melt the thermosetting resin composition; (3) a pressurization-depressurization process of performing one or more depressurizations and one or more pressurizations inside the molding apparatus; and (4) a cure process of heating the inside of the molding apparatus to cure the thermosetting resin composition. This is to provide a method for producing a power module having few voids at the time of molding and excellent reliability.
US11984323B2
A chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) system including a capacitive deionization module (CDM) for removing ions from a solution and a method for using the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a planarization unit for planarizing a wafer; a cleaning unit for cleaning the wafer; a wafer transportation unit for transporting the wafer between the planarization unit and the cleaning unit; and a capacitive deionization module for removing ions from a solution used in at least one of the planarization unit or the cleaning unit.
US11984315B2
Structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A structure according to the present disclosure includes an interconnect structure, an aluminum oxide layer over the interconnect structure, and a transistor formed over the aluminum oxide layer. The transistor includes cuprous oxide.
US11984313B2
A semiconductor wafer according to an embodiment includes a support region facing a support member, an outer circumferential region positioned on an outer side of the support region, and an inner circumferential region positioned on an inner side of the support region. The outer circumferential region has a convex portion with a thickness protruded upward with respect to the inner circumferential region or a concave portion with a thickness recessed downward with respect to the inner circumferential region.
US11984300B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a wall member; an insulating member; and a ground member. The wall member is partially placed in an internal space of the chamber and exposed to a space at an outside of the chamber. The insulating member is provided on the wall member. The ground member is made of silicon, provided in the internal space and mounted on the insulating member. The wall member is configured to support the ground member in a non-contact state with the insulating member therebetween. The ground member is in contact with a spherical surface of the insulating member and mounted on the spherical surface.
US11984295B2
A charged particle assessment tool including: an objective lens configured to project a plurality of charged particle beams onto a sample, the objective lens having a sample-facing surface defining a plurality of beam apertures through which respective ones of the charged particle beams are emitted toward the sample; and a plurality of capture electrodes, each capture electrode adjacent a respective one of the beam apertures, configured to capture charged particles emitted from the sample.
US11984294B2
The present invention provides an emitter made of a hafnium carbide (HfC) single crystal that stably emits electrons with high efficiency, a method for manufacturing the emitter, and an electron gun and an electronic device using the emitter. An emitter according to an embodiment of the present invention is an emitter including a nanowire, in which the nanowire is made of the hafnium carbide (HfC) single crystal, at least an end of the nanowire through which electrons are to be emitted is coated with hafnium oxycarbide (HfC1-xOx: 0
US11984289B2
A motor control center includes an enclosure comprising an isolation switch, a main contactor device, and a ground switch device. The isolation switch is selectively manually operable between a connected state and a disconnected state. In the connected state the isolation switch is adapted to conduct electrical power from an associated power source to the main contactor device and wherein the isolation switch in the disconnected state interrupts conduction of electrical power from the associated power source to the main contactor device. The main contactor device is selectively operable between a conductive state and a non-conductive state, wherein the main contactor device is adapted to electrically connect the isolation switch to the ground switch device and to an associated electrical load when the main contactor device is in its conductive state and wherein the main contactor device disconnects said isolation switch from the ground switch device and the associated electrical load when the main contactor device is in its non-conductive state. The ground switch device is manually operable from an open, ungrounded state in which the main contactor device is electrically disconnected from a ground path to a closed, grounded state in which the main contactor device is electrically connected to the ground path. The motor control center further includes an interlock device operably connected between the isolation switch and the ground switch device, wherein the interlock device prevents movement of the isolation switch from the disconnected state to the connected state when the ground switch device is in the grounded state.
US11984288B2
A drive arrangement for a tap changer includes a first movable latch having a first and a second end a first rotatable wheel with a first actuating element, a second rotatable wheel with a first locking element, and a first spring connected between the first and second wheels. The first actuating element is provided on a first half of a first curved surface of the first wheel, the first locking element is provided on a first half of a second curved surface of the second wheel, a second actuating element is provided on a second half of the first curved surface aligned with a first end of a second latch and a second locking element of the second rotating wheel is provided on a second half of the second curved surface aligned with a second end of the second latch.
US11984280B2
A remote controlled miniature circuit breaker includes a helical gear that engages with mating teeth of a slider plate coupled to main contacts of the circuit breaker, the helical gear including a flat portion to allow the sliding plate to slide past the helical gear. A unidirectional motor responds to an external signal to drive the helical gear while engaging the mating teeth of the slider plate, thereby moving the slider plate to close the main contacts. The motor is configured to respond to an external signal to resume the unidirectional rotation of the helical gear to position the flat portion of the gear to allow the slider plate to slide past the helical gear and contact a kicker lever to thereby open the main contacts. A trip lever pivotally mounted separately from the kicker lever, pushes the kicker lever to open the main contacts in a trip operation.
US11984271B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body having a porous structure, an anode lead having a sheet shape, a cathode layer, an anode lead frame electrically connected to the anode lead, and a cathode lead frame electrically connected to the cathode layer. The anode lead includes an embedded portion embedded in the anode body and a protrusion portion protruding to an outside of the anode body. The anode lead has a first main surface facing the cathode lead frame and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The anode lead is located between a center of the anode body and an end face of the anode body in a first direction in which the first main surface faces the cathode lead frame. The end face of the anode body is positioned at a side close to the cathode lead frame.
US11984269B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode; and an external electrode disposed on the body, wherein a first carbon material is disposed in the internal electrode. The first carbon material includes carbon black, which has conductivity, a substantially spherical shape, and a particle diameter of 0.05 μm or less.
US11984267B2
A dielectric composition includes a main ingredient having a perovskite structure represented by ABO3, where A is at least one of Ba, Sr, and Ca and B is at least one of Ti, Zr, and Hf, and a first accessory ingredient. The first accessory ingredient comprises 0.1 mole or more of a rare earth element, 0.02 mole or more of Nb, and 0.25 mole or more and 0.9 mole or less of Mg, a sum of contents of the rare earth element and Nb is 1.5 mole or less.
US11984259B2
An electrical generator and method for operating the same are provided. Accordingly, the generator includes a non-rotatable component supporting a field winding assembly and a rotatable component oriented to rotate relative thereto. The generator also includes an armature winding assembly fixedly coupled to the rotatable component so as to rotate therewith during operation of the generator. The generator also includes a resistive assembly fixedly coupled to the rotatable component so as to rotate therewith during the operation of the generator. The resistive assembly electrically couples at least two separate phase windings of the armature winding assembly. The resistive assembly is also configured to introduce a resistance into the armature winding assembly in response to an electrical fault.
US11984255B2
An integrated magnetic element includes an accommodating part; a current sensor disposed on the accommodating part; and a transformer disposed on the accommodating part. The transformer includes a magnetic core, a first winding including a plurality of wires, and a second winding, wherein some of the plurality of wires passes through the current sensor to shunt and detect current flowing through the first winding, and current values of the wires are detected by the current sensor to obtain a total current value of the first winding of the transformer according to a shunt ratio by the winding construction of the preset transformer.
US11984254B2
A magnetic-component module includes a substrate, a core on a first surface of the substrate, a spacer on the core, a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate, a lead frame that supports the core and that electrically connects the winding to the substrate, and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, the wire bonds, and a portion of the lead frame.
US11984253B2
Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.
US11984246B2
Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device and methods of forming a microelectronic device. In an embodiment the microelectronic device includes a semiconductor die and an inductor that is electrically coupled to the semiconductor die. The inductor may include one or more conductive coils that extend away from a surface of the semiconductor die. In an embodiment each conductive coils may include a plurality of traces. For example, a first trace and a third trace may be formed over a first dielectric layer and a second trace may be formed over a second dielectric layer and over a core. A first via through the second dielectric layer may couple the first trace to the second trace, and a second via through the second dielectric layer may couple the second trace to the third trace.
US11984244B2
The present disclosure discloses a sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet and a preparation method thereof. The sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet includes the following raw materials in mass percentage: 1%-40% of an iron powder or a steel powder with a magnetic induction intensity of more than 1.2 T, not more than 10% of a praseodymium-neodymium metal hydride powder, and a remainder of a neodymium-iron-boron fine powder, wherein the mass percentages of the above raw materials add up to 100%. The preparation method includes: weighing the raw materials in mass percentage; mixing the weighed raw materials uniformly, and then subjecting to magnetic-field press molding, isostatic pressing, sintering and tempering to obtain the sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet.
US11984240B2
A shielded electric wire includes an electric wire including a conductor portion and a cover portion covering the conductor portion, a shielded braid formed of a conductive linear material, the shielded braid covering an outer periphery of the cover portion and a sheath formed of an insulating resin, the sheath being provided around the shielded braid. The electric wire and the shielded braid together form an electric wire assembly. A flexible value of the sheath is equal to or smaller than a flexible value of the electric wire assembly, the flexible value being a value of a load required for bending an object for a predetermined extent.
US11984232B2
A method for producing microencapsulated fuel pebble fuel more rapidly and with a matrix that engenders added safety attributes. The method includes coating fuel particles with ceramic powder; placing the coated fuel particles in a first die; applying a first current and a first pressure to the first die so as to form a fuel pebble by direct current sintering. The method may further include removing the fuel pebble from the first die and placing the fuel pebble within a bed of non-fueled matrix ceramic in a second die; and applying a second current and a second pressure to the second die so as to form a composite fuel pebble.
US11984229B2
Systems and methods to connect care seekers with care providers for caretaking needs are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store seeker profiles for care seekers and/or provider profiles for care providers; present a user interface configured to facilitate generation of individual provider profiles; receive care seeker-defined characteristics of potential care providers; generate new individual provider profiles for individual potential care providers; and/or perform other operations.
US11984225B2
A medical image processing method includes: obtaining a biological tissue image including a biological tissue, recognizing, in the biological tissue image, a first region of a lesion object in the biological tissue; recognizing a lesion attribute matching the lesion object; dividing an image region of the biological tissue in the biological tissue image into a plurality of quadrant regions; obtaining target quadrant position information of a quadrant region in which the first region is located; and generating medical service data according to the target quadrant position information and the lesion attribute.
US11984224B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a raw diagnostic machine for a medical diagnosis of raw medical imaging data generated by a medical imaging machine as opposed to a medical diagnosis of a medical image conventionally reconstructed from the raw medical imaging data. In operation, the raw diagnostic engine includes a medical imaging diagnostic controller implementing a dimension reduction pre-processor for selecting or extracting one or more dimension reduced feature vectors from the raw medical imaging data, and further implementing a raw diagnostic artificial intelligence engine for rendering a diagnostic assessment of the raw medical imaging data as represented by the dimension reduced feature vector(s). The medical imaging diagnostic controller may further control a communication of the diagnostic assessment of the raw medical imaging data (e.g., a display, a printing, an emailing, a texting, etc.).
US11984221B2
A system for automatically detecting medical devices positioned within a room of a healthcare facility includes a patient support apparatus, a headwall unit, and a controller. The patient support apparatus includes at least first and second transceivers and the headwall unit includes at least third and fourth transceivers. At least one of the first and second transceiver and at least one of the third and fourth transceivers are controller to determine first and second estimates of distance between the respective transceiver and a medical device. The controller uses the first and second estimates of distance to determine if the medical device is positioned within a threshold distance of the patient support apparatus and/or within a predetermined volume of space within the room. The transceivers used to determine the first and second estimates of distance may be Bluetooth Low Energy transceivers and/or ultra-wideband transceivers.
US11984219B2
An operation room system includes a processing unit configured to receive data associated with a patient, determine a treatment for the patient, identify a control setting associated with one or more treatment devices that are (i) in communication with the processing unit, and (ii) operable to perform the treatment, and generate a display including the control setting and at least one view of the data.
US11984212B2
A method for tracking dose pattern and patient response may include determining, based at least on one or more dose events at a pump configured to deliver a medication to a patient, a dose pattern for delivering the medication to the patient. One or more vital signs associated with the patient may be received from a patient monitor. A presence of one or more anomalies may be determined based at least on the dose pattern at the pump and the one or more vital signs of the patient. An electronic alert may be sent to a mobile device in response to determining the presence of the one or more anomalies. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including apparatuses and computer program products, are also disclosed.
US11984209B2
A drug management device includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire prescription data including data indicative of a drug prescribed to a subject, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric data including data indicative of variations in a physical quantity of a living body of the subject, a first estimation unit configured to estimate, on the basis of the data indicative of variations in the physical quantity, whether or not the subject has taken the drug, and a second estimation unit configured to, in response to an estimation result indicating that the subject has taken the drug, estimate, on the basis of the data indicative of variations in the physical quantity, whether or not an effect of the drug on the subject satisfies an effect estimation criterion, which is predetermined.
US11984196B2
Disclosed are techniques for characterizing variants of interest and predicting assignments of individuals to communities based on obtained genetic information. To characterize a variant, DNA datasets of reference individuals are accessed and used to generate a cluster with additional individuals. Reference individuals carry a variant at a genetic locus and the additional individuals share IBD with reference individuals. Statistics of genealogical data of the cluster are generated. A result summarizing the characterization of the variant is generated based on the statistics. To determine if an individual belongs to a community, a subset of the individual's haplotypes are inputted into a community-specific model. The model is trained using the training samples that each include haplotypes of reference individuals and a label identifying whether the reference individual belongs to the community. Based on the output of the model, it is determined whether the individual is a member of the community.
US11984191B2
Methods, systems, and devices for pulse based multi-level cell programming are described. A memory device may identify an intermediate logic state to store to a multi-level memory cell capable of storing three or more logic states. The memory device may apply a first pulse with a first polarity to the memory cell to store a SET or RESET state to the memory cell based on identifying the intermediate logic state. As such, the memory device may identify a threshold voltage of the memory cell that stores the SET or RESET state. The memory device may apply a quantity of pulses to the memory cell to store the identified intermediate logic state based on identifying the threshold voltage of the memory cell that stores the SET or RESET state. In some examples, the quantity of pulses may have a second polarity different than the first polarity.
US11984186B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for repairing defective memory cells in regions of a memory array associated with high or low priority levels are disclosed. A repair address generator may be configured to generate a memory address map for repair (e.g., blowing fuses at a fuse circuit), depending on whether certain applications may operate at a high priority level indicative of a low bit error rate or a low priority level indicative of a higher bit error rate. For example, a specified error rate associated with a low priority level may correspond to a threshold error rate for certain applications, such as a neural network application that stores trained weights. Such neural network applications may access trained weights being partially stored in defective memory cells, with the least significant bits of such trained weights being stored in defective memory cells that are not repaired according to the memory address map.
US11984177B2
A memory component comprises a memory unit including an array of memory cells, a controller of the memory unit, and a JTAG test interface including a plurality of contact pads adapted to connect the memory component with a host device and/or a test machine, wherein the test interface further comprises a plurality of test registers, which are configured to store the operating instructions for performing the test of the memory component, and wherein those test registers are organized in a matrix configuration, each row of the matrix being associated with a specific address. A related System-On-Chip device and a related method are further disclosed.
US11984171B2
A memory system configured to dynamically adjust the amount of redundant information stored in memory cells of a wordline on an integrated circuit die based on a bit error rate. For example, in response to a determination that a bit error rate of the wordline is above a threshold, the memory system can store first data items as independent first codewords of an error correction code technique into a first portion of the memory cells of the wordline, generate second data items as redundant information from the first codewords, and store the second data items in a second portion of the memory cells of the wordline. If the bit error rate is below the threshold, third data items can be stored as independent second codewords of the same length as the first codewords in the memory cells of the wordline.
US11984154B2
A local amplifier circuit includes write control transistors, configured to connect, based on write enable signal, global data line to local data line; column selection transistors, configured to connect, based on column selection signal, bit line to local data line; first control PMOS transistor having gate connected to local data line, one of source or drain connected to global data line, and the other one connected to read control transistor; and second control PMOS transistor having gate connected to complementary local data line, one of source or drain connected to complementary global data line, and the other one connected to read control transistor. Read control transistors are configured to pull up or down levels at terminals of first control PMOS transistor and second control PMOS transistor, each of which is source or drain connected to a respective one of read control transistors, to preset level based on read enable signal.
US11984139B2
A playback device acquires first management information that stores first playback control information and second management information that stores second playback control information. The first playback control information specifies that a video stream of a high-luminance range is to be played, and the second playback control information specifies that a video stream of a standard-luminance range is to be played. A video player acquires and plays the video stream of the high-luminance range based on the first playback control information in a case of playing the content as the high-luminance range. The video player acquires and plays the video stream of the standard-luminance range based on the second playback control information in a case of playing the content as the standard-luminance range.
US11984134B2
A method of processing audio data, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relates to a field of artificial intelligence, in particular to a field of speech processing technology. The method includes: processing spectral data of the audio data to obtain a first feature information; obtaining a fundamental frequency indication information according to the first feature information, wherein the fundamental frequency indication information indicates valid audio data of the first feature information and invalid audio data of the first feature information; obtaining a fundamental frequency information and a spectral energy information according to the first feature information and the fundamental frequency indication information; and obtaining a harmonic structure information of the audio data according to the fundamental frequency information and the spectral energy information.
US11984129B2
A digital audio quality monitoring device uses a deep neural network (DNN) to provide accurate estimates of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from a limited set of features extracted from incoming audio. Some embodiments improve the SNR estimate accuracy by selecting a DNN model from a plurality of available models based on a codec used to compress/decompress the incoming audio. Each model has been trained on audio compressed/decompressed by a codec associated with the model, and the monitoring device selects the model associated with the codec used to compress/decompress the incoming audio. Other embodiments are also provided.
US11984124B2
An example process includes: receiving a natural language input having a start time and including first and second portions respectively received from the start time to a first time and from the start time to a second time after the first time; determining an end time of the natural language input; executing, at least partially between the first time and the end time, a first task flow based on the first portion, including: obtaining a first executable object representing a first candidate action; executing, at least partially between the second time and the end time, a second task flow based on the second portion, including: obtaining a second executable object representing a second candidate action; in response to determining the end time, selecting a candidate action from a plurality of candidate actions each represented by a respective executable object; and executing the respective executable object representing the selected candidate action.
US11984123B2
Examples described herein relate to triggering voice assistant(s) on a network microphone device (NMD). An NMD is a networked computing device that typically includes an arrangement of microphones, such as a microphone array, that is configured to detect sound present in the NMD's environment. Once the voice assistant is triggered, the NMD may start recording voice input as a potential voice command. Within examples, the NMD may operate in a wakewordless mode if certain conditions are met. These conditions may involve detecting user proximity in one of multiple different ranges. For instance, an example NMD may monitor for user proximity in a first range from the playback device via at least one touch-sensitive sensor and/or user line-of-sight in a second range that is further from the playback device than the first range. When either user proximity or user line-of-sight is detected, the NMD may enables the wakewordless mode.
US11984121B2
Information processing device to stop the turn off of power based on voice input for voice operation
An information processing device presents first information indicating that voice input for the voice operation is possible and second information representing a domain of utterance in which voice operation is possible in response to an occurrence of a predetermined state transition, and performs voice recognition for voice input by a user.
US11984119B2
An electronic device and a voice recognition method thereof are provided. A voice recognition method of an electronic device includes receiving trigger voice, storing a characteristic of the trigger voice for voice verification by analyzing the trigger voice. When a user issues a voice command, determining whether the user voice command comprises the characteristic belonging to the trigger voice, and performing function of the electronic device corresponding to the user voice command based on the determination. Accordingly, users may easily use the voice recognition function of the electronic device.
US11984116B2
A system and method of automatically discovering unigrams in a speech data element may include receiving a language model that includes a plurality of n-grams, where each n-gram includes one or more unigrams; applying an acoustic machine-learning (ML) model on one or more speech data elements to obtain a character distribution function; applying a greedy decoder on the character distribution function, to predict an initial corpus of unigrams; filtering out one or more unigrams of the initial corpus to obtain a corpus of candidate unigrams, where the candidate unigrams are not included in the language model; analyzing the one or more first speech data elements, to extract at least one n-gram that comprises a candidate unigram; and updating the language model to include the extracted at least one n-gram.
US11984107B2
An audio signal processing method implemented by an audio system with an audio sensor and a speaker unit includes: measuring, by the audio sensor, acoustic signals reaching the audio sensor, producing a sensor audio signal; retrieving a speaker audio signal corresponding to a speaker acoustic signal from the speaker unit while measuring the acoustic signals reaching the audio sensor to produce the sensor audio signal; converting the speaker and sensor audio signals to speaker and sensor audio spectra; estimating, based on the speaker audio spectrum, an echo audio spectrum of an echo audio signal caused by the speaker acoustic signal in the sensor audio signal; computing, based on the echo audio spectrum and the sensor audio spectrum, echo suppression gains to be applied to the sensor audio spectrum, by using a MMSE-LSA estimator; and applying the echo suppression gains to the sensor audio spectrum.
US11984105B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for minimizing fan noise during a data backup. In one exemplary aspect, a method may comprise initiating, at a computing device, a data backup at a first backup rate, wherein the computing device comprises a fan that regulates an internal temperature of the computing device. The method may comprise calculating a noise level of the fan. The method may comprise comparing the noise level to a threshold noise level. In response to determining that the noise level exceeds the threshold noise level based on the comparison, the method may comprise reducing a backup rate of the data backup to a second backup rate, such that the noise level equals the threshold noise level. The method may comprise performing the data backup at the second backup rate.
US11984104B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is an electric violin comprising a sound bar having a first tang and a second tang. The central portion of the sound bar rests on a top plate of the violin, separated by a separator pad, and the first and second tangs protrude to an inner cavity of the violin through a first and a second plate hole of the top plate. A pickup assembly includes a first and a second pickup, where each of the pickups comprise a bobbin made of two plates separated by a plurality of magnetic polepieces and surrounded by a coil wire. Each of the pickups includes a compression mechanism including a height adjustment screw that holds the compression mechanism at a firm tension while the distance between the plurality of the magnetic polepieces of the pickup and the corresponding tang satisfies a tolerance gap.
US11984089B2
The present invention provides improved driving methods for four particle electrophoretic displays that improves the performance of such displays when they are deployed in low temperature environments and the displays are required to be updated when positioned vertically (i.e., the driving electric fields are substantially perpendicular to the direction of Earth's gravity). Methods are provided for displaying each of the colors at each pixel, as desired, with minimal interference (contamination) from the other particles.
US11984081B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit and a method of driving the same, and a display device. A pixel circuit, including: a light emitting device; a driving sub-circuit configured to drive the light emitting device, the driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor configured to generate a driving current flowing through the light emitting device so that the light emitting device emits light; and a reset sub-circuit configured to reset a voltage between a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
US11984080B2
A pixel compensation circuit includes: a pixel driving circuit including a driving transistor; a detection signal line coupled to the pixel driving circuit and providing a reset signal to a source of the driving transistor or receiving a source voltage of the driving transistor; a sampling module including a switch unit coupled to the detection signal line, a first and second storage units coupled to the switch unit enabling the first storage unit to be connected to the detection signal line, the first storage unit storing a voltage on the detection signal line and taking same as a reference voltage, and enabling the second storage unit to be connected to the detection signal line, the second storage unit storing the source voltage; a comparison and calculation module coupled to the first and second storage units, generates sampling data according to the difference between the reference voltage and the source voltage.
US11984074B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a first reset transistor connected between a first reset voltage end and a gate electrode of a driving transistor, a first capacitor connected in series between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and one of a source electrode or a drain electrode of the driving transistor, and a second capacitor connected in series between the first capacitor and a second voltage end, thereby reducing an influence of a threshold voltage of the driving transistor on a driving current and ensuring light emission stability of light-emitting devices.
US11984071B2
A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting element, a temperature measurement device, a driving control unit, a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value of a driving control parameter based on a measured temperature; and a change unit configured to change a coefficient of a function based on the measured temperature. The calculation unit calculates the correction value with respect to the measured temperature based on a function obtained by expressing a first function, which expresses a relationship between the measured temperature and the correction value, by a combined function of a plurality of third functions each generated by changing a coefficient of a second function, and the change unit changes, based on the measured temperature, the coefficient of the second function to generate the plurality of third functions.
US11984068B2
A display device according to an example can include a display panel including a plurality of sub pixels to display an image, a memory configured to store a look-up table including a gain value, and a deterioration compensating unit configured to compensate the deterioration of the deteriorated sub pixel based on a sensing voltage input from the display panel and update the look-up table by measuring a luminance of the image displayed on the display panel.
US11984067B2
A display substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels located on the substrate, a plurality of driving circuits and a plurality of light sensors, an orthographic projection of the light sensors on the substrate is within a range of an orthographic projection of the driving circuits on the substrate.
US11984059B2
A display control apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable an image display time interval at the display control apparatus, which is connected to the transmission apparatus through a network, to properly follow an image rendering time interval at the transmission apparatus. A data reception section sequentially receives image data indicating an image associated with rendering time data capable of determining an image rendering time for the image in a cloud server. A display timing determination section determines, based on the rendering time data, a display timing of the image indicated by the image data. A display control section controls display of the image in accordance with the determined display timing.
US11984046B2
A surgical skills training model has an elongated body including muscle, fascia, subcutaneous tissue, connective tissue and skin mimicking layers. The fascia and connective tissue layer are made from a material having a stretch direction that is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the muscle layer and the body of the model.
US11984043B2
A computer-implemented method and system for representing and solving at least one of an algebraic problem, a proportions problem, and a linear growth problem. A graphical user interface has a symbolic section and a pictorial section. The symbolic section includes a symbolic representation of the mathematical problem and the pictorial section includes a pictorial representation of the mathematical problem. An input is received from a user. The input is associated with one of the symbolic section and the pictorial section. In response to the input, the other of the symbolic section and the pictorial section is modified such that the symbolic section and the pictorial section track each other. The user solves the mathematical problem by interacting with at least one of the symbolic section and the pictorial section.
US11984038B2
Examples relate to a method for generating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) controller model for controlling an UAV, a system including an UAV, a wind generator, a motion-tracking system and a control module, and to an UAV. The method for training the UAV controller model includes providing a wind generator control signal to a wind generator, to cause the wind generator to emit a wind current towards the UAV. The method includes operating the UAV using the UAV controller model. A flight of the UAV is influenced by the wind generated by the wind generator. The method includes monitoring the flight of the UAV using a motion-tracking system to determine motion-tracking data. The method includes training the UAV controller model using a machine-learning algorithm based on the motion-tracking data.
US11984032B2
Described is an area reservation system. The system includes a server having a memory storing area information and a user computing device coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive and process a signal that the user computing device has accessed the system and is searching for an area to reserve at a user selected location and time; send for display, on the user computing device, area information including available areas to reserve; automatically reserve an area in response to receiving user input requesting reservation of the area; establish a geofence around the reserved area; and send a notification to the user computing device in response to the user computing device entering the geofence of the reserved area.
US11984025B2
A control device included in each vehicle composing a vehicle group predicts a vehicle state of a subject vehicle before a traveling regulation point based on speed information of the subject vehicle, light color information of a traffic signal, and distance information between the subject vehicle and an entrance of the traveling regulation point. Based on the vehicle state, it is determined whether a vehicle of which the vehicle state corresponds to an unenterable state is included in the vehicle group. The unenterable state indicates a state where the subject vehicle cannot enter the traveling regulation point before the traffic signal is changed to the yellow light when its speed is maintained at a current speed. When it is determined that the vehicle in the unenterable state is included in the vehicle group, the subject vehicle is controlled such that it does not enter the traveling regulation point.
US11984003B2
Devices, systems, and methods for removing a security tag from an article are disclosed herein. A device for removing a security tag includes a housing including an opening positioned to receive the tag and at least a portion of the article. A magnet is supported adjacent the opening to retain a tag body and to release a retainer pin therefrom when the tag is inserted into the opening. A pin retractor is positioned in the housing opposite the magnet to capture the retainer pin and retract it from the tag body. The pin retractor is retracted into a collar to strip the pin from the pin retractor. A release frame is positioned proximate the magnet and movable between a first position wherein the magnet retains the tag body, and a second position wherein the tag body is moved away from the magnet, thereby releasing the tag body from the magnet.
US11984002B2
A control device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a warning level indicating a warning measure related to an abnormality that has occurred in a vehicle, from a device installed externally to the vehicle; detect an abnormality that has occurred in the vehicle, from equipment mounted to the vehicle; perform thinning control on a detection result of the abnormality detected according to the warning level; and transmit the detection result resulting from thinning to the device.
US11984000B2
The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner including a data reader comprising a main board, one or more camera modules, and a multi-port network switch disposed within the data reader. A heat management system is disposed within the data reader housing and operably coupled with at least the multi-port network switch to dissipate heat therefrom. The disclosure includes a heat pipe thermally coupled to a switch processor, the heat pipe extending across at least a portion of the bi-optic housing to an air chamber formed within the bi-optic housing.
US11983978B2
A pet door is described herein comprising a motor for locking and unlocking a pet flap of a pet door, wherein the pet flap is rotatably attached to an upper portion of the pet door. The pet door includes a first motion detector for monitoring movement in a first detection region and a second motion detector for monitoring movement in a second detection region, wherein the pet flap of the pet door occupies a plane separating the first detection region from the second detection region when the pet flap is in a locked position. One or more applications running on at least one processor of the pet door are configured to receive a first motion signal from the first motion detector indicating movement of a pet in the first detection region, the receiving the first motion signal including activating an access sequence controlling ingress or egress of a pet.
US11983969B2
Systems and methods for modeling electric vehicle towing are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining that a trailer is connected to a vehicle, generating a surface mapping of the trailer based on output of a sensor assembly of the vehicle, predicting a drag coefficient of the trailer based on the surface mapping, estimating a drag force based on the drag coefficient and the surface mapping, calculating an estimated range for the vehicle based on the drag force, and displaying the estimated range on a human machine interface of the vehicle.
US11983954B2
A photo-capacitance sensor includes an input surface and one or more light sources arranged to illuminate a portion of the input surface. The photo-capacitance sensor also includes an array of photo-capacitors arranged to receive light from the one or more light sources which is reflected from an object in contact with, or proximate to, the illuminated portion of the input surface. The array of photo-capacitors is configured for detecting a reflective pattern of the object.
US11983949B2
Biometric robustness systems and methods are described for detecting biometric signals of a user and adaptively adjusting signal output to control biometric devices(s). In various aspects, the biometrics robustness systems and methods comprise determining a biometric signal pattern of the user based on analysis of biometric signals of the user. The biometric signals of the user are detected by one or more biometric sensors. The biometrics robustness systems and methods may comprise generating, by a processor communicatively coupled to the one or more biometric sensors, an adjusted control output based on an anomaly as detected within the biometric signal pattern. The biometrics robustness systems and methods may comprise providing, by the processor, an adjusted control output to a biometric device to control operation of the biometric device.
US11983946B2
In implementations of refining element associations for form structure extraction, a computing device implements a structure system to receive estimate data describing estimated associations of elements included in a form and a digital image depicting the form. An image patch is extracted from the digital image, and the image patch depicts a pair of elements of the elements included in the form. The structure system encodes an indication of whether the pair of elements have an association of the estimated associations. An indication is generated that the pair of elements have a particular association based at least partially on the encoded indication, bounding boxes of the pair of elements, and text depicted in the image patch.
US11983941B2
A driver monitor detects, based on face images obtained by capturing the face of a driver of a vehicle at different times, a color of the face of the driver and a face orientation angle of the driver in each face image; stores, when a face orientation angle detected from a first face image captured at a first time is included in a predetermined range of face orientation angles, the color detected from the first face image in a memory; and determines that the color of the face is abnormal, when a face orientation angle detected from a second face image captured at a second time later than the first time is included in the range of face orientation angles and a difference between the color detected from the second face image and the color stored in the memory exceeds a variance threshold.
US11983938B2
Systems and methods for curating video and other driving-related data for use in driver coaching, which may include selecting or ranking driving behaviors for coaching, selecting or ranking drivers for coaching, selecting or ranking video and other data to be used in coaching, preparing for, scheduling, and summarizing coaching sessions, matching the format of coaching to the behavior or person being coached, preventing unsafe driving situations, influencing job dispatch decisions based on safety scores, and/or reducing data bandwidth usage based on a determined coaching effectiveness of video data.
US11983936B2
A data collection device of an embodiment includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to acquire an image obtained by capturing surroundings of a first vehicle, determine whether the first vehicle has performed a lane change during a determination period based on information indicating a traveling history of the first vehicle, and collect the image included in the determination period as training data for a determination model that determines whether there is an obstacle in a road in a case where it is determined that the first vehicle has not performed a lane change.
US11983927B1
A method includes receiving, at a processor and from a requestor compute device, a request including a representation of at least one video camera from a set of video cameras. In response to receiving the request, a set of at least one video file is generated by retrieving a set of video clips associated with the at least one video camera and the time range. For each of the at least one video camera, a subset of video clips is selected from the set of video clips for that video camera based on a comparison of anomaly scores for that video camera, and concatenating the subsets of video clips to generate the set of at least one video file. The method also includes sending a signal to cause display of at least one video file from the set of at least one video file via the requestor compute device.
US11983922B2
Systems and methods are described for identifying, using a sensor, a location of an object in an environment, and determining a classification of the object. A human may be identified in proximity with the object, an identity of the human may be determined, and a determination may be made that a hazardous condition may occur, based on a combination of the location of the object, the classification of the object, and the identity of the human in proximity with the object. In response to determining that the hazardous condition may occur, an augmented reality scene associated with the potentially hazardous condition associated with the object may be generated for presentation, at a user device.
US11983921B2
Response methods to human abnormal behaviors for a mobility aid robot having a user-facing camera are disclosed. The mobility aid robot responds to human abnormal behaviors by detecting a face of a human during the robot aiding the human to move through the camera, comparing an initial size of the face and an immediate size of the face in response to the face of the human having detected during the robot aiding the human to move, determining the human as in abnormal behavior(s) in response to the immediate size of the face being smaller than the initial size of the face, and performing response(s) corresponding to the abnormal behavior(s) in response to the human being in the abnormal behavior(s), where the response(s) include slowing down the robot.
US11983911B2
Provided is a method and a system for transmitting information. The method is applicable to a processing device, and includes: acquiring a target image of a display device; determining a target area in the target image; and sending display information to the display device, wherein the display information includes information of the target area; wherein the target area is a partial pixel area of the target image, the target area includes pixels with transparencies less than 1, and transparencies of the pixels outside the target area in the target image are all 1.
US11983896B2
Provided is a line-of-sight detection apparatus that outputs reliability of an estimation result of a line of sight when an eye to be a line-of-sight detection target is switched. The line-of-sight detection apparatus includes: an estimation target selection unit configured to select an eye of a line-of-sight detection target person as one of switchable line-of-sight detection modes; a line-of-sight estimation unit configured to estimate a line of sight of the line-of-sight detection target person in the line-of-sight detection mode; a reliability determination unit configured to determine, based on a first line of sight before the mode is switched and a second line of sight after the mode is switched, reliability of the second line of sight; and a line-of-sight direction output unit configured to output information on the second line of sight and the reliability of the second line of sight.
US11983895B2
A method for determining an eye position using a laser device for a set of smart glasses. The method includes emitting light for scanning an eye along at least one scan line; detecting a plurality of reflection beams of the light reflected along the scan line in order to obtain a plurality of light intensity values, the light intensity values representing intensities of the reflection beams; generating a two-dimensional image of the eye along the scan line using the light intensity values, a high light intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected at the retina and a light intensity value low in comparison to the high intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected outside the retina of the eye; and determining the eye position of the eye within the image using amplitudes of the light intensity values.
US11983892B2
An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of images that is based on image capturing performed by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, acquires three-dimensional shape data of an object which is generated based on the plurality of images and states of the plurality of imaging apparatuses obtained at a time point earlier than a time point of the image capturing, detects that a state of any one of the plurality of imaging apparatuses obtained at a time point of the image capturing is different from a state thereof obtained at a time point earlier than a time point of the image capturing, based on the acquired plurality of images and the acquired three-dimensional shape data, and outputs information that is based on a result of the detection.
US11983882B2
The invention provides an E13B image interpretation method mainly aiming at interpreting numbers and symbols in a check reading code printed with magnetic ink on a check, and defining a plurality of feature areas for each of the numbers and dividing each of the numbers into a plurality of blocks, and then interpreting according to whether an amount of magnetic ink being in the feature areas and a magnetic ink density between the blocks, and also generating a plurality of target pixels for each of the symbols, and then interpreting according to a relative position and a size of the target pixels.
US11983880B2
In a case where the operation program is started, a CPU of the mini-batch learning apparatus functions as a calculation unit, a specifying unit, and an evaluation unit. The calculation unit calculates an area ratio of each of a plurality of classes in mini-batch data. The specifying unit specifies, as a correction target class, a rare class of which the area ratio is lower than a setting value. The evaluation unit evaluates the class determination accuracy of the machine learning model by using a loss function. As correction processing, the evaluation unit sets a weight for a loss value of the rare class to be larger than a weight for a loss value of a class other than the rare class.
US11983879B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can suppress an error in the segmentation of a medical image. An image processing apparatus includes: a segmentation unit (42) that applies deep learning to perform segmentation which classifies a medical image (200) into a specific class on the basis of a local feature of the medical image; and a global feature classification unit (46) that applies deep learning to classify the medical image into a global feature which is an overall feature of the medical image. The segmentation unit shares a weight of a first low-order layer which is a low-order layer with a second low-order layer which is a low-order layer in the global feature classification unit.
US11983867B2
There is provided a mask inspection system and a method of mask inspection. The method comprises: detecting, by the inspection tool, a runtime defect at a defect location on a mask of a semiconductor specimen during runtime scan of the mask, and acquiring, by the inspection tool after runtime and based on the defect location, a plurality sets of aerial images of the runtime defect corresponding to a plurality of focus states throughout a focus process window, each set of aerial images acquired at a respective focus state. The method further comprises for each set of aerial images, calculating a statistic-based EPD value of the runtime defect, thereby giving rise to a plurality of statistic-based EPD values each corresponding to a respective focus state, and determining whether the runtime defect is a true defect based on the plurality of statistic-based EPD values.
US11983862B2
An inspection device and a method for checking an object produced by sintering for potential defects, wherein if at least one predefined prerequisite is satisfied, at least one image is recorded of at least part of the object via an imaging device in the inspection device, and it is checked by the inspection device whether a defect can be detected in the object in at least one image. A predication relating to a potential defect in the object is provided to the inspection device prior to recording the at least one image, and at least one imaging parameter is determined on the basis of the prediction, wherein the at least one image is recorded on the basis of the at least one determined imaging parameter.
US11983855B2
An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect phase changes in multiple predetermined directions from among phase changes in a luminance image in units of mutually different resolutions, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected phase change based on temporal amplitude change information in the multiple directions determined in the luminance image. The reliability estimation unit may estimate the reliability using an amplitude change of multiple resolutions and using a value of an amplitude change equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value among images having multiple resolutions. The reliability may become a greater value as the amplitude change becomes larger.
US11983849B2
An image filling method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium are disclosed. The image filling method includes: performing multilevel encoding processing on features of an image to be filled to generate multilevel encoded feature layers, sizes of the multilevel encoded feature layers being reduced layer by layer; performing layer-by-layer decoding processing on the multilevel encoded feature layers to obtain multilevel decoded feature layers and a first image, there being no missing region in the first image, wherein the layer-by-layer decoding processing includes a concatenation operation on a decoded feature layer and an encoded feature layer with a same size; and performing up-sampling processing on the first image to obtain multilevel up-sampled feature layers and a second image optimized by the up-sampling processing, the up-sampling processing including a concatenation operation on an up-sampled feature layer and a decoded feature layer with a same size.
US11983841B2
An information processing apparatus that generates an image to be displayed, based on shape data indicating a shape of an object and surface characteristics data indicating surface characteristics of the object includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the shape data with different resolutions and the surface characteristics data, a setting unit configured to set a display area including at least part of the object, and a generation unit configured to generate the image to be displayed, based on one of the plurality of pieces of shape data according to the display area and the surface characteristics data.
US11983838B2
A circuit apparatus includes a memory unit and a warp processing unit. The memory unit stores a warp object image. The warp processing unit performs warp processing on the warp object image and generates a display image displayed in a display area. The warp processing unit performs the warp processing on an image of a first view object of the warp object image based on a first warp parameter for vibration correction and distortion correction. Further, the warp processing unit performs the warp processing on an image of a second view object of the warp object image based on a second warp parameter for the distortion correction.
US11983834B1
Aspects described herein relate to three-dimensional (3D) characters and rapidly generating 3D characters from a plurality of 3D source models. In generating the 3D characters, one or more 3D source models may be standardized, applied to a base mesh with material ID assignments, and decomposed to isolate particular polygonal mesh pieces and/or texture map feature selections denoted by the material IDs of the base mesh. The disparate isolated polygonal mesh pieces and/or texture map feature selections may be assembled in a modular fashion to compose unique 3D characters unlike any of those of the one or more 3D models. The 3D characters may be further refined through the addition of features and/or accessories, and may also be processed through machine learning algorithms to further ascertain uniqueness.
US11983826B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a person wearing a fashion item; generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of the person depicted in the video; generating a segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person depicted in the video; outlining a portion of the 3D model based on the segmentation of the fashion item; tracking movement of the portion of the 3D model in the video; and in response to tracking the movement of the portion of the 3D model in the video, modifying a display position of one or more augmented reality elements on the fashion item in the video.
US11983822B2
In some examples, a computer device uses an input video stream to generate an output video stream for presentation to a first user. The output video stream corresponds to a three-dimensional space as seen from a viewing direction specified by a particular user among a set of users including at least the first user and a second user. In response to a request from the first user to follow a perspective of the second user, the computer device determines whether a cyclic dependency would be formed, then updates the output video stream accordingly. If a cyclic dependency would be formed, the computer device maintains the viewing direction of the particular user. If no cyclic dependency would be formed, the computer device switches to generating the output video stream based on a viewing direction associated with the second user.
US11983819B2
An illustrative 3D modeling system accesses 1) a 3D body model bounded by vertices forming an unadorned body (without hair or clothing), and 2) a 2D image depicting an adorned subject (with hair and/or clothing). The set of vertices is configurable to simulate different subjects based on a set of parameters and the adorned subject is outlined in the 2D image by a set of silhouette pixels. The 3D modeling system maps the silhouette pixels to vertices of a particular cross section of the 3D body model using an optimization function configured to even out a distribution of silhouette pixels to vertices. Based on the mapping, the 3D modeling system defines the set of parameters to deform the 3D body model such that the particular cross section conforms to an outline of the adorned subject formed by the set of silhouette pixels. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11983815B2
In various examples, a deep three-dimensional (3D) conditional generative model is implemented that can synthesize high resolution 3D shapes using simple guides—such as coarse voxels, point clouds, etc.—by marrying implicit and explicit 3D representations into a hybrid 3D representation. The present approach may directly optimize for the reconstructed surface, allowing for the synthesis of finer geometric details with fewer artifacts. The systems and methods described herein may use a deformable tetrahedral grid that encodes a discretized signed distance function (SDF) and a differentiable marching tetrahedral layer that converts the implicit SDF representation to an explicit surface mesh representation. This combination allows joint optimization of the surface geometry and topology as well as generation of the hierarchy of subdivisions using reconstruction and adversarial losses defined explicitly on the surface mesh.
US11983812B2
A process for rendering objects includes detecting a first surface of an object oriented in a first position. A first image is captured with a camera and at least partially captures a first marker on the first surface. A prompt requests manipulation of the object into a second position to expose a second surface to the camera in response to detecting a missing image of a marker. A second image of the second surface is captured with the camera and at least partially captures a second marker on the second surface. The object is rendered as a virtual representation in a virtual environment in response to detecting the first marker in the first image and the second marker in the second image. The size of the virtual representation is estimated based on the detected size of at least one of the first marker and the second marker.
US11983807B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for automatically generating motions of an avatar. A message in a session between a user and an electronic conversational agent may be obtained, the avatar being a visual representation of the electronic conversational agent. At least one facial animation and/or body animation may be determined based on at least one part of the message. At least one motion of the avatar may be generated based at least on the facial animation and/or the body animation.
US11983806B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for regenerating a region of an image with a machine learning model based on a text input. Disclosed embodiments involve accessing a digital input image. Disclosed embodiments involve generating a masked image by removing a masked region from the input image. Disclosed embodiments involve accessing a text input corresponding to an image enhancement prompt. Disclosed embodiments include providing at least one of the input image, the masked region, or the text input to a machine learning model configured to generate an enhanced image. Disclosed embodiments involve generating, with the machine learning model, the enhanced image based on at least one of the input image, the masked region, or the text input.
US11983802B2
An exemplary method includes a scene annotation system accessing image scan information of a scene captured by an imaging device of a computing device, generating, based on the image scan information, depth data associated with one or more objects in the scene, providing a two-dimensional (2D) annotation grid for concurrent display together with an image of the scene, at least part of the 2D annotation grid mapped to the depth data, receiving a user input (e.g., via hand gesture, touch screen, mouse, and/or keyboard) that selects a portion of the 2D annotation grid and a corresponding position within the scene where a digital object will be anchored based on the depth data, and instructing the computing device to display, by way of a display device of the computing device and based on the user input, the digital object anchored at the corresponding position within the scene.
US11983801B2
A display control apparatus performs control to display a designation object for designating a tomographic position corresponding to each of a plurality of tomographic images, and a tomographic image corresponding to a designated tomographic position. For a tomographic image with additional information that includes user-added additional information and computer-added additional information and that is set to be added on a tomographic-image by tomographic-image basis, the display control apparatus performs control to display a marking representing the additional information at a position corresponding to a tomographic position of the tomographic image with the additional information on the designation object. If the additional information is added to the tomographic image corresponding to the designated tomographic position, the display control apparatus performs control to display the marking representing the additional information in an emphasized manner.
