US11132896B2
A client terminal displays, on a display device, a visual feature of each of a plurality of vehicles passing through an intersection at a location where an incident occurred and map data indicating a passing direction of each of a plurality of vehicles passing through the intersection and sends, in response to a designation of any one of the plurality of vehicles, an instruction to set the designated vehicle as a tracking target vehicle to the server. When the instruction is received, a server specifies a camera of the intersection at which the tracking target vehicle is highly likely to enter next based on at least a current time and a passing direction of the tracking target vehicle at the intersection and sends camera information of the specified camera to the client terminal. When the camera information is received, the client terminal displays, on the display device, a position of a camera corresponding to the camera information to be superimposed on the map data identifiably.
US11132895B2
A sensor controller includes a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink signal including a first partial signal and a second partial signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit the first partial signal by direct spreading using a first spread code and transmit the second partial signal by direct spreading using a second spread code which is different from the first spread code and which has an identical chip time length to the first spread code. An active stylus includes a receiver configured to receive an uplink signal including a first partial signal and a second partial signal. The receiver is configured to synchronize with the uplink signal by detecting the first partial signal using a first spread code and thereafter detect the second partial signal using a second spread code, which is different from the first spread code and has an identical chip time length to the first spread code.
US11132892B1
In some implementations, techniques are described for detecting abnormal installations in a property monitored by a monitoring (e.g., security) system. For instance, an aberration engine may be used to detect an abnormal sensor or system installation within a property based on comparing detected installation data against local installation patterns of local providers within a certain proximity to the property. In some examples, the attributes (e.g., installation time, components used, number of tests performed, etc.) of a monitoring system installation, including installation of components of the monitoring system, may be compared to average installation times of other nearby installations to detect abnormalities in the installation.
US11132890B2
In an aspect, a fire detection system is described. The first detection system may include isolation circuit having an isolation switch coupled with a system line of the fire detection system and configured to isolate a first side of the system line from a second side of the system line. The isolation circuit may also include a controller coupled with the isolation switch which determines a time delay for determining to isolate the first side from the second side.
US11132888B2
Methods and systems for configuring communication at a premises are described. A network device at a premises may be in communication with a first network and a second network. The network device may receive data from a communication device located at the premises. The network device may transmit the data via the first network or the second network based on configuration data, which may be received from a computing device.
US11132887B2
There is provided an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal that causes a user to more reliably recognize the position of a predetermined object, which includes an image capturing unit that captures the periphery of the user. The eyeglasses-type wearable terminal also includes a determiner that determines whether a predetermined target object is included in a video acquired by image capturing using the image capturing unit. The eyeglasses-type wearable terminal further includes a display unit that displays the position of the predetermined target object in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined target object is included.
US11132870B2
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context.
US11132866B2
A system and method for operating a casino-style video game with a time collection whereby players make a wager and play a video-based game wherein the player controls the path taken through obstacles, prize symbols and time collection icons. The time collection icons are used to control the overall house advantage. That is, the longer a player plays the game, the more chances to win prizes. Time collection is ideal for controlling payouts in a skill-based or pseudo skill-based video game.
US11132865B2
A method of providing gaming services includes allocating to a player, at least one non-monetary sweepstakes entry for use in a sweepstakes game; providing at least one sweepstakes game, the at least one sweepstakes game which is open for entry to one or more eligible players; allow the player to assign, via a graphical user interface, at least one non-monetary sweepstakes entry to the at least one sweepstakes game; receiving from the player, an indication that the at least one non-monetary sweepstakes entry has been assigned to the at least one sweepstakes game; playing the at least one sweepstakes game; awarding to the player on a successful outcome of the sweepstakes game, an allocation of non-monetary sweepstakes entries and notifying the player, via the graphical user interface, of the allocation of non-monetary sweepstakes entries.
US11132861B2
A gaming system includes multiple second gaming machines, a shared display arrangement located in a viewable position relative to the different gaming machines, and a shared display server. Each gaming machine is operable to cause its gaming machine display system to display a first portion of a game play in response to a play initiating input entered through that gaming machine's player input system. Each gaming machine is also operable to initiate a hand-off communication for a given game play in response to a hand-off condition occurring for that game play. The shared display server receives the hand-off communication for a respective game play and supplies control signals to the shared display arrangement. The shared display server functions to, after receipt of a respective hand-off communication for a given game play, cause the shared display arrangement to display a presentation for a second portion of the respective game play.
US11132860B1
A mobile medical supplies distribution system may include a transportable chassis and a service compartment configured to house a medical supplies distribution service agent. In addition, the system may include a supply of select medical supplies.
US11132856B2
Provided is a method, performed by an access authorisation verification apparatus, involving the steps of: obtaining a piece of information from a transmission; identifying a transmission data record using the piece of information obtained from the transmission, wherein the transmission data record comprises address information associated with the transmission; determining an access control apparatus on the basis of a comparison of the address information of the transmission data record with respective address information that is associated with the access control apparatuses and stored on the access authorisation verification apparatus; allowing selection and/or confirmation of an access control apparatus for the determined access control apparatus by a user of the access authorisation verification apparatus; and communicating access authorization information to the access control apparatus in order to gain access to a room associated with the access control apparatus, so that the transmission can be placed into or removed from the room.
US11132844B2
A driving method for an AR/VR display device includes inserting a pre-configuration time period every time a backlight insertion stage is initiated. The driving method includes during the pre-configuration time period, configuring a pre-configuration screen for partial or full-screen pixel lines. The pre-configuration screen includes a black screen, a white screen, or a grayscale screen.
US11132843B2
A controller outputs an image of the virtual space in correspondence with a posture of a first user wearing the mounted display, outputs an image of the virtual space to a touch panel display used by a second user, performs a first action in the virtual space in correspondence with a touch operation performed by the second user on the touch panel display, outputs an image of the virtual space reflecting the first action to the mounted display, and performs a second action in the virtual space reflecting the first action in correspondence with an operation performed by the first user on an operation unit.
US11132834B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a first device in an environment, real-time data associated with the environment and generating map data for the environment based on the real-time data received from the first device. The method may include creating, by merging the map data of the first device with aggregate map data associated with at least one other device, a joint anchor graph that is free of identifiable information, and hosting the joint anchor graph for a shared artificial reality session between the first device and the at least one other device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11132833B2
The method for remote clothing selection includes determination of anthropometric dimensional parameters of a user, automatic assessment of correspondence of a garment to the shape and body measurements of a user, determination and provision of recommendations to a user on the selection of a particular garment and, optionally, visualization of a garment on a digital avatar of this user in the virtual fitting room, including optional change of his/her pose. The invention provides an increase in the efficiency of remote clothing selection by a user, an improvement in user's experience of remote purchase, an increase in user satisfaction and, ultimately, an increase in online sales of clothing and a decrease in the proportion of clothing returned after a purchase due to unsatisfactory matching to the shape and measurements of user's body.
US11132832B2
A mat has an embedded array of light sensors under a micro-faceted lens array to provide an array of light intensity values for various incident angles of incident real world light. Virtual objects may be projected onto the mat and, using the information from the light sensors, virtually illuminated to match the real-world lighting environment. A touch sensor array may be embedded in the mat to allow users to interact with the virtual objects and provide other input. The surface of the micro-faceted lens array may be coated with a patterned infrared (IR) reflective coating, such that the mat passively reflects a specific band of IR wavelengths in a pattern to act as a fiducial marker.
US11132826B2
A device is disclosed. The device may obtain a machine model of a machine and associated motion data for the machine model of the machine. The device may render the machine model into a rendered environment associated with a set of characteristics. The device may capture a set of images of the machine model and the rendered environment based on rendering the machine model into the rendered environment. The device may determine bounding box data for the set of images of the machine model and the rendered environment based on the position of the machine model within the rendered environment relative to an image capture orientation within the rendered environment. The device may provide the set of images of the machine model and the rendered environment and the bounding box data as a data set for object detection.
US11132821B1
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for generating a modified vector drawing based on user input in a magnified view. The disclosed system presents a vector drawing comprising anchor points in a drawing view. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system determines that a user interaction (e.g., a user touch gesture) with the vector drawing results in an ambiguous selection of two or more anchor points. Based on this determination, the disclosed system can determine a magnification level for a magnified view in which the two or more anchor points are spaced at least a touch diameter. The disclosed system may receive a selection of an anchor point in the magnified view and user input indicating an operation to be performed on the selected anchor point. The disclosed system can generate a modified vector drawing by performing the operation.
US11132819B2
A decoding method of multi-view video information is provided. The decoding method of multi-view video information includes: receiving a bit stream about video data of a plurality of videos photographed by a plurality of cameras; generating first information by extracting depth information of a block in a video frame of a plurality of videos from video data included in the bit stream; generating second information by determining whether the same motion estimation is generated between video frames of the plurality of videos; generating third information by extracting pixel information of a block in the video frame of the plurality of videos; and performing block matching and disparity compensation between video frames of the plurality of videos by inputting the first information to third information to a disparity compensation model of multi-view video information which is generated by being trained in advance.
US11132815B2
A system and method for retrieving a blood vessel corresponding positional relation under multi-angle angiography. The system includes an angiography machine, an angiographic image receiving module, a center point calibration module, a corresponding feature point detection module, and a feature point corresponding blood vessel module. The angiography machine is used for performing angiography and collecting angiographic images of multiple projection body positions. The angiographic image receiving module is used for receiving an angiographic image and transmitting the angiographic image to the center point calibration module. The center point calibration module is used for calibrating a center point offset caused by the multi-angle angiography system and transmitting the result to the feature point detection module. The feature point detection module receives several feature points of a target blood vessel of a reference projection angle angiographic image and detects corresponding feature points of a second projection angle angiographic image via a spatial epipolar constraint relationship. The feature point corresponding blood vessel module is used for determining a blood vessel on which the feature points are located. The system simplifies complexity of detection on corresponding relationship, and ensures accuracy of the result while implementing noninvasive detection.
US11132812B2
An output control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a person is a specific person, a processing unit configured to acquire position information of the person, and an output control unit configured to cause a first output device located in the vicinity of the person to output information according to the person on the basis of personal information about the person determined to be the specific person by the determination unit and the position information acquired by the processing unit, wherein the output control unit is configured to cause a second output device to output the information output by the first output device in continuation with the output of the first output device if the person has moved from the vicinity of the first output device to the vicinity of the second output device.
US11132807B2
A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a virtual viewpoint in accordance with user operation, and a display controller configured to perform control such that a first virtual viewpoint image generated based on the virtual viewpoint and a second virtual viewpoint image having a virtual imaging range larger than a virtual imaging range of the first virtual viewpoint image are displayed on a display screen.
US11132796B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11132791B2
Devices, systems, and methods obtain a reference image; obtain a test image; globally align the test image to the reference image; select subfields in the test image; align the subfields in the test image with respective areas in the reference image; warp the test image based on the aligning of the subfields; select anchor points in the reference image; select anchor-edge points in the reference image; realign the subfields in the warped test image with respective areas in the reference image based on the anchor points in the reference image and on the anchor-edge points in the reference image; and warp the warped test image based on the realigning of the subfields.
US11132789B2
A target including a reference object of a known size is prepared. The reference object from target image data, which is generated by photographing the target using a survey instrument, is detected through image processing to calculate first size data on dimensions of the reference object. A defect from external appearance image data, which is generated by photographing an external appearance of a structure using the survey instrument, is detected through image processing to calculate defect data on dimensions of the defect. The first size data is compared with second size data on actual dimensions of the reference object to calculate correction data, which is used to correct the defect data.
US11132778B2
The present invention reduces the amount of data outputted while maintaining the accuracy of an analysis process with a small delay amount, by an image analysis apparatus provided with: a deduction unit that deduces a second quality concerning an object in a second image, which is different from a first image associated with object data relating to an object to be inputted, on the basis of a first quality concerning the object relating to the object data and on the basis of the state of the object in the second image, the state being obtained by using a state model for deducing the position and the size of the object from the object data, while using a quality model for deducing the second quality concerning the object; and a determination unit that determines whether to use the object data for analysis on the basis of the deduced second quality.
US11132777B2
A method for generating a composite image includes receiving a first image that includes an eyeglass lens illuminated by a first illumination source radiating electromagnetic radiation in a first polarization state, and receiving a second image that includes the eyeglass lens illuminated by a second illumination source radiating electromagnetic radiation in a second polarization state. The second polarization state is different from the first polarization state, and the second illumination source is spatially separated from the first illumination source. The method also includes identifying, in the first image, a first portion that represents a reflection of the first illumination source on the eyeglass lens, and generating the composite image in which the first portion is replaced by a corresponding second portion from the second image. The first portion and the second portion represent substantially a same portion of the eyeglass lens.
US11132766B2
An image processing method and device are disclosed. The method is applicable to an image processing device having an operating system, and the method includes: receiving, by an image processing module of the operating system, an instruction of a first application program to call the image processing module of the operating system, where the instruction carries a to-be-displayed image and a resolution of the to-be-displayed image; and when the resolution of the to-be-displayed image is less than a first threshold, performing, by the image processing module, super-resolution processing on the to-be-displayed image, and displaying an image obtained after the super-resolution processing, to resolve a problem of a low image definition in a conventional display method.
US11132764B2
Embodiments can facilitate performing a localized weather analysis for a portion of a sky. For achieving this, optical sensors can be placed in a capture grid network to capture images of the sky portion. The capture grid network may be logically divided into grids. The images captured by the optical sensors may include meta information indicating time and locations on the capture grid network the images were captured. The images can be combined to obtain wide-view images for the sky portion at various points of time. The wide-view images can be used to perform weather analysis such as cloud analysis.
US11132762B2
Systems and methods are described for dynamically fitting a digital image based on the saliency of the image and the aspect ratio of a frame are described. The systems and methods may provide for identifying an aspect ratio of the frame, selecting a salient region of the digital image based on the aspect ratio using a saliency prediction model, and fitting the digital image into the frame so that a boundary of the frame is aligned with a boundary of the salient region.
US11132756B2
A method for registering an Internet of Things (IoT) device to an incident IoT ledger system is provided. A computer aided dispatch (CAD) device sends a first ledger request including an incident record to a distributed incident ledger operated by validation nodes. The CAD device receives a first ledger response indicating that the incident record was accepted and added into the incident ledger after being validated by the nodes. The CAD device then sends a second ledger request to an IoT distributed ledger operated by second validation nodes. The request includes a query to the IoT distributed ledger to find registered IoT devices for affiliating with the incident. The CAD device receives a second ledger response including information identifying registered IoT devices from the IoT distributed ledger. The CAD device then sends an affiliation invitation to an IoT device determined from the registered IoT devices identified in the second ledger response.
US11132750B2
Various embodiments are directed to utilizing an objective impairment injury score risk model. A computing device may receive injury data from a user. The computing device may then perform a security action that protects against unauthorized sharing of the injury data by storing the injury data as a group of linked blocks in a distributed computing system. The computing device may then utilize a machine-learning model to generate a set of questions for the user. The questions may be utilized to determine weighting factors associated with the injury data. The computing device may then utilize the machine-learning model to determine an impairment injury score based on the weighting factors. The may include an objectively determined value associated with a degree of impairment resulting from an injury described in the injury data. Finally, the computing device may display an injury risk management report, based on the score, to the user.
US11132745B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing financial asset to a user in real time. The system receives and validates a first set of data, a second set of data and a third set of data associated with the user. Also, the system obtains a fourth set of data associated with a portable communication device. Further, the system creates a user profile of the user. Further, the system triggers a camera to capture the real-time image of the user based on the verification of the third set of data and the fourth set of data. The real-time image of the user is mapped with image of the user obtained from the user profile. In addition, the system collects one or more modes of transfer of financial asset from the user. The system credits financial asset to the user.
US11132744B2
A portal to provide user interfaces to users to access and/or purchase account features in connection with websites of issuers. The user interfaces have white label configurability that allows the issuers to customize the labeling of the user interfaces such that the user interfaces can be perceived as part of the websites of the issuers of the consumer accounts of the respective users. The user interfaces are configured to present, in a user friendly way, the account features currently in the consumer accounts, as well as optional account features that can be purchased at additional costs.
US11132742B1
Several credit score management user interfaces that may comprise a credit score thresholds user interface, a credit score alert settings user interface, and several credit score alert notification user interfaces, enable a consumer to set and/or adjust credit score goals and warnings, and credit score alert settings. The credit score threshold visual interface may present one or more credit score thresholds (for credit score goals and/or warnings) for the consumer on a line graph. The consumer may set and/or adjust the credit score thresholds based on touch input. The user interfaces may be updated automatically in real-time in response to the touch input. Alerts may be generated and provided to the consumer based on alert settings, changes to the consumer's credit information, the credit score thresholds, and/or macroeconomic events or factors.
US11132740B2
A vehicle is detected at a drive thru terminal and an automated voice-based dialogue is established with a user in the vehicle and the terminal. An order is placed for a transaction using natural-language speech. The automated voice-based dialogue identifies commands, nouns associated with menu items, adjectives associated with modifying the menu items, prepositions associated with modifying the menu items, and exclamations associated with confirming the order and associated menu items. The automated speech is identified and processed based on a specific lexicon associated with a specific type of restaurant. The speech is translated into actions processed through an ordering system/interface as text-based instructions. Feedback for the order and guidance during the order are provided to the user through: speech played over a speaker associated with the terminal, text displayed on a display, and/or images associated with the ordered items.
US11132738B2
The invention provides a refrigerator system, a method and a software program product for controlling and/or advising a diet for a user. The refrigerator system has a refrigerator including a light and a camera that captures an image of contents of the refrigerator. The image is processed by a graphics processing unit (GPU) integrated with the refrigerator and/or a cloud server. The GPU analyses the image to recognise a quantity, a quality, and/or a kind of food articles and/or food packages such as, vegetables, fruits, beverages, etc. A central processing unit (CPU)/GPU of the refrigerator provides diet plans, recipe recommendations, identifies grocery replenishment requirements, updates and shares shopping lists with food delivery agents, etc., based on the analysis of the refrigerator contents. The invention helps in minimizing food wastage, expanding meal options considering expiry dates, and maximizing benefits of a healthy diet by recommending and controlling the user's diet.
US11132736B2
Object driven newsfeeds supporting interest-based social networks aid in the formation of relationships based on similar domains of user interest. A space efficient graphical user interface (GUI) enables access to an object driven newsfeed of contextual and relevant information to aid a consumer/user in making buying decisions in an e-commerce environment.
US11132732B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for upselling customers on mobile device services and hardware. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating a catalog associated with a mobile device; recording data associated with the mobile device and storing the data in the catalog; creating a profile associated with the mobile device based on the catalog; comparing the profile to one or more peer profiles to determine if at least one new item can be offered to a user of the mobile device; identifying one or more new items to offer to the user of the mobile device; and transmitting an offer to the mobile device, the offer including the one or more new items.
US11132722B2
In an example embodiment, user feedback on a purchased item is received from a user. Attributes of the purchased item are identified. Then relevant attributes are determined from the attributes, the determination of relevant attributes being based on user information regarding the user. Comments for the relevant attributes are generated based on the user feedback. The comments are then displayed to the user for selection and posting.
US11132717B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring and policing online advertisements. Content of a website is evaluated and assigned a score. The content evaluated may be either first-party content or third-party content or both. If the score fails predetermined criteria, a report is generated. Synthetic user profiles can be generated using a browser (or other software) to visit a number of predetermined or pseudo-random sites and accumulate user-specific data as it visits each of the sites. The browser stores off the accumulated user-specific data in conjunction with a synthetic user profile.
US11132707B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, that includes a processing system including a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including: creating an initial block in a blockchain, wherein the initial block includes first information describing an advertisement spot generated by a viewer device; adding second information to the initial block that identifies a purchaser of the advertisement spot; calculating a cryptographic hash for the initial block; and sending a copy of the cryptographic hash to a network element of a communications network, wherein the network element records the copy of the cryptographic hash in a hash ledger. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11132701B2
A method for generating predicted survey participation data at a current user device. A server collects training behavioral data related to a website from a plurality of user devices. The server also collects training survey participation data related to the website from at least some of the plurality of user devices. The server analyzes the training survey participation data and the corresponding training behavioral data to infer correlations between the training survey participation data and the corresponding training behavioral data. The server further generates predictive survey participation patterns based on the inferred correlations. The server transmits the predictive survey participation patterns to the current user device. The current device collects current behavioral data related to the website. Then, the current user device determines predicted survey participation data for the current user device in relation to the website based on the current behavioral data and the predictive survey participation patterns.
US11132699B2
Apparatuses, method, and computer program for acquiring and evaluating information and noise removal
An evaluation apparatus includes: a provision information acquiring unit configured to acquire provision information which is associated with a target object and provided to a consumer via a medium; a post information acquiring unit configured to acquire post information posted by a poster; a noise removing unit configured to remove, as noise, at least a specific expression in the provision information from post information in which a degree of matching of the post information with the provision information is a predetermined ratio or more among pieces of post information; and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the target object on the basis of post information whose noise has been removed by the noise removing unit.
US11132697B2
A computing system includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media communicatively connected to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable storage media have instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a user device to process an electronic transaction, identify an anomaly associated with the electronic transaction, transmit a notification to the user device to cause display of data corresponding to the anomaly on the user device, receive a response from the user device indicating that one or more risks associated with the anomaly are acceptable, and update a profile of the user stored in a data store to change a classification of the user from a first classification to a second classification based on the response.
US11132694B2
There are provided systems and methods for authenticating a mobile device for use in a secure transaction. A user having a master device authenticated for use in a secure transaction system, such as an electronic payment system, identifies a secondary device to be enabled for use in processing a secure transaction. The secondary device connects to a companion device and shares information associated with the secondary device and companion device with a transaction processing server, which returns authentication information associated with both devices. When the user initiates a secure transaction, the secondary device identifies whether the third device is in proximity. The secure transaction is processed only if the second and third devices are in communication and authenticated during the transaction. If the secondary device is lost or stolen, the device may be disabled until reauthenticated through the master device.
US11132691B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a system comprising a server and a consumer device in operative communication with the server. The server comprises a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises computer readable program code embodied therein. The computer readable program code is adapted to be executed by the processor to receive an authorization request message for a transaction conducted by a consumer with a merchant, send the authorization request message to an issuer, modify an authorization response message to include receipt preference data, and send the authorization response message comprising the receipt data to the merchant, wherein the merchant generates a receipt for the consumer according to the receipt preference data.
US11132683B2
A methods and system of hosted thin-client payment authorization and authentication services for processing payments for value-added service (VAS) providers is described. A method, performed by a host server operating a thin-client device, includes receiving transaction request data at a host server computer from a thin-client device, where the transaction request data can include financial account data and biometric data. The host-server transmits a verification request message to a VAS provider and receives an indication that it is a valid merchant. The host-server transmits an authorization request message comprising the biometric data to a payment processing network (PPN), where the PPN communicates with an authentication server computer to validate the biometric data, sends the authorization request message to an issuer and receives an authorization response message from the issuer. The host-server receives the authorization response message from the PPN and sends a service fulfillment request to the VAS provider.
US11132679B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool until the hold is released. Responsive to receiving a message that fulfills a condition on the hold and an instruction to execute the transfer, the hold may be released. A register that is in the first resource pool and is associated with the resource may decremented by the first quantity, and a register that is in the second resource pool and is associated with the resource may be incremented by the first quantity.
US11132663B2
A publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex is disclosed, with a man-made tropical, pristine-clear lagoon as the centerpiece of the complex. The lagoon includes a surf feature and surrounding the lagoon are entertainment, educational, sports, and commercial facilities. The complex has a controlled public access and provides the look and feel of a tropical beach with clear waters and sandy beaches. In addition a method for efficiently utilizing facilities and land that are vacant, underutilized, have limited uses, or that are contiguous to or nearby recreational, educational, sports, or commercial venues is disclosed. The method providing a publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex with a centerpiece man-made tropical-style pristine-clear lagoon having a surf feature. The method allows for generating revenue and increasing efficiency by pairing vacant sites, underutilized sites, limited use land, or sites that are contiguous to entertainment, educational, sports, and/or commercial venues with urban beach entertainment complexes. The complex preferably has a controlled public access, thereby allowing entrance upon payment of a fee.
US11132644B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a subset of employees from among a group of employees according to performance data of the group of employees where the group of employees is associated with an employment position and where a group of known desired attributes is associated with the employment position, analyzing employee information for the subset of employees to identify a correlation, identifying an unknown desired attribute according to the correlation, obtaining candidate information for a group of candidates, selecting a subset of candidates from among the group of candidates according to a comparison of the group of known desired attributes, the unknown desired attribute and the candidate information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11132638B2
Systems and methods are provided for capturing product indications from an Internet of Things connected device to estimate supply and replenish. An indication can be received from the IoT connected device located at a location, wherein the indication corresponds to a product stocked at the location. A plurality of indications corresponding to the product can be captured over a period of time. A supply level of the product at one or more warehouses can be established based on the indications, wherein the one or more warehouses supply the location with the product. Computer code can be executed to generate an instruction to ship the product from a supplier to the one or more warehouses based on the estimated supply level. The product can be shipped from the supplier to the one or more warehouses based on the executed computer code.
US11132637B1
Interaction data provides information about particular items that have been picked or placed from a particular fixture. A radio signal that conveys designation data indicative of a particular user is coupled to a body of the user. A smart floor tile may emit the radio signal that is electromagnetically coupled to the user and propagates along the user's body. As the hand of the user approaches the fixture, the radio signal is received using antennas at the fixture. When the user touches an item, the propagation pathway may improve, resulting in an increase in received signal strength. By using information about the radio signal and the known location of the antennas, information such as a position of a hand of the user or which item has been picked or placed may be determined.
US11132635B2
An apparatus for receiving a package delivered by an unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a collapsible package receiver adapted to be movably coupled to a building. The collapsible package receiver is configured to be placed from a collapsed position to a pop-out position to receive the package from the unmanned aerial vehicle. The apparatus has a memory associated with the package receiver which stores computer-readable instructions. A processor is configured to execute the instructions to: (a) determine a characteristic of the package delivered by the unmanned aerial vehicle to the package receiver; and (b) notify a user of the delivery of the package.
US11132632B2
A system and method are disclosed including a production planner that receives a sales forecast for configurations of an automobile. The demand planner also receives constraints associated with an automobile supply chain. The demand planner further models configurations and constraints as a mixed integer linear programming problem, determines a production plan for automobiles, and sends instructions to cause automated machinery to retrieve an amount of automobiles equal to a forecasted production level minus a current inventory level and to move the amount of the automobile to an inventory location of the automobile.
US11132624B2
A model integration method and device are provided. The method includes: obtaining an integrated model, the integrated model having one integrated output value and a plurality of input values, the plurality of input values corresponding to a plurality of output values of a plurality of independent models; performing one or more iterations of optimizing process until a preset iteration stop condition is satisfied: acquiring a prediction output by the integrated model based on a preset test event set; determining an index value of the integrated model based on the prediction output, the index value indicates a performance evaluation of the integrated model; if the index value fails to meet a preset performance requirement; after the preset iteration stop condition is satisfied, determining the integrated model as acceptable.
US11132621B2
A system and method for reaction rules database correction. The method includes receiving a user-input correction to a first reaction rule in a reaction rules database, and locating a second reaction rule in the reaction rules database that is similar to the first reaction rule. The method also includes calculating a correctness score for the second reaction rule, and determining that the correctness score for the second reaction rule is below a threshold correctness score. Additionally, the method includes presenting, in response to the determining that the correctness score for the second reaction rule is below the threshold correctness score, the second reaction rule to a user, receiving a user-input correction to the second reaction rule, and updating the reaction rules database to include the user-input correction to the second reaction rule.
US11132618B2
A method and apparatus for generating a training model based on feedback are provided. The method for generating a training model based on feedback, includes calculating an eigenvector of a sample among a plurality of samples; obtaining scores granted by a user for one or more of the plurality of samples in a round, obtaining scores granted by the user for a first number of samples; obtaining scores granted by the user for a second number of samples in response to detecting, based on the eigenvector, an inconsistency between the scores granted by the user for the first number of samples; and generating a training model based on the scores granted by the user for the first and second numbers of samples. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US11132616B2
A characteristic value estimation device has a sensor data input unit to input sensor data detected by one or more sensors, a model input unit to input a first calculation model, a model learning unit to perform learning on a second calculation model, a model switch to select any one of the first calculation model and the second calculation model, a predictive value calculation unit to calculate an error of the calculation model, a probability distribution correction unit to correct the probability distribution of the uncertain parameter, a virtual sensor value estimation unit to estimate sensor data of a virtual sensor arranged virtually, a characteristic value distribution estimation unit to estimate a detailed distribution of the characteristic value, the sensor data of the virtual sensor, and the sensor data of the sensor, and a reliability calculation unit to calculate a reliability of the precise characteristic value distribution.
US11132610B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to knowledge representation systems which include a knowledge base in which knowledge is represented in a structured, machine-readable format that encodes meaning. Techniques for extracting structured knowledge from unstructured text and for determining the reliability of such extracted knowledge are also described.
US11132607B1
A method for explainable active learning, to be used for an object detector, by using a deep autoencoder is provided. The method includes steps of an active learning device (a) (i) inputting acquired test images into the object detector to detect objects and output bounding boxes, (ii) cropping regions, corresponding to the bounding boxes, in the test images, (iii) resizing the test images and the cropped images into a same size, and (iv) inputting the resized images into a data encoder of the deep autoencoder to output data codes, and (b) (i) confirming reference data codes corresponding to the number of the resized images less than a counter threshold by referring to a data codebook, (ii) extracting specific data codes from the data codes, (iii) selecting specific test images as rare samples, and (iv) updating the data codebook by referring to the specific data codes.
US11132603B2
Provided is a method for generating a one class model based on a data frequency. The method for generating a one class model based on a data frequency includes: generating, by a machine learning apparatus, a plurality of spatial coordinates by arranging a plurality of learning data in corresponding coordinates in a feature space; classifying, by the machine learning apparatus, the plurality of spatial coordinates into a plurality of internal coordinates PI and a plurality of external coordinates PO based on a frequency of the learning data arranged in the respective spatial coordinates which belong to the plurality of spatial coordinates; and generating, by the machine learning apparatus, a one class model based on the plurality of internal coordinates PI based on mutual spatial distances of the plurality of external coordinates PO and the plurality of internal coordinates PI.
US11132601B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive a plurality of data inputs for training a neural network, wherein the data inputs comprise training data and weights inputs; represent the data inputs in a first form; and represent the weight inputs in a second form. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11132597B2
An RFID tag reading antenna includes a loop antenna including a first loop-shaped conductor having a peripheral length shorter than a ¼ wavelength in a communication frequency; and a split ring resonator including a second loop-shaped conductor having an opening smaller than an opening of the first loop-shaped conductor of the loop antenna and being arranged at a position away from a plane formed by the first loop-shaped conductor by a predetermined distance. In addition, the RFID tag reading antenna is coupled to an RFID tag as a communication partner, in a state where a distance from the RFID tag to the split ring resonator is shorter than a distance from the loop antenna to the split ring resonator.
US11132592B1
Approaches herein provide a transaction card including an interchangeable ID chip. In some approaches, a transaction card may include a body having a first main side opposite a second main side, a first side opposite a second side, and a first end opposite a second end. The transaction card may further include an insert extending within a cutout section of the body, wherein the cutout section extends towards a center of the body from the first side or the second side, and wherein the insert includes an identification chip.
US11132591B2
An apparatus may include a memory to store instructions; and processing circuitry, coupled with the memory, operable to execute the instructions. When executed, the instructions may cause the processing circuitry to identify a matrix code; read a first layer of the matrix code, the first layer comprising a first account identifier associated with an account, wherein the first layer corresponds to a first color channel; and read a second layer of the matrix code, the second layer comprising a set of account data, associated with the account, wherein the second layer corresponds to a second color channel, different than the first color channel.
US11132587B2
At least one storage stores a dictionary having information corresponding to crowd state images, and rectangular regions indicating portions of a given image to be recognized for crowd states, wherein a size of each of the rectangular regions is predetermined. At least one processor extracts regions, which correspond to the rectangular regions, from the given image, and recognizes crowd states in the extracted regions based on the dictionary.
US11132586B2
A method for correcting rolling shutter (RS) effects is presented. The method includes generating a plurality of images from a camera, synthesizing RS images from global shutter (GS) counterparts to generate training data to train the structure-and-motion-aware convolutional neural network (CNN), and predicting an RS camera motion and an RS depth map from a single RS image by employing a structure-and-motion-aware CNN to remove RS distortions from the single RS image.
US11132582B2
When there is an image component common to multiple registered images, the accuracy of individual identification lowers. A decision unit decides, for each partial area, the degree of effectiveness relating to calculation of a score representing a similarity between a registered image obtained by capturing an object to be registered and a collated image obtained by capturing an object to be collated, based on whether or not the partial area contains an image component common to multiple registered images obtained by capturing multiple objects to be registered. A calculation unit calculates the score based on image components contained in the registered image and the collated image and on the degrees of effectiveness.
US11132574B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting a marker and an electronic device thereof. According to various embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device comprises: at least one sensor; a display; a camera; at least one processor connected with the at least one sensor, the display, and the camera; and a communication circuit coupled with the at least one processor. The at least one processor acquires a first image including a marker displayed on another electronic device through the camera, determines a form of the marker on the basis of analysis information of the first image, and can be set so as to transmit information on the form of the marker to the other electronic device through the communication circuit. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11132573B2
The orientation of imagery relative to a compass bearing may be determined based on the position of the sun or other information relating to celestial bodies captured in the image.
US11132570B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a magnetic ink character recognition apparatus comprises a magnetic head; a conveyance module configured to relatively convey a medium on which a magnetic ink character is printed with respect to the magnetic head; an acquisition module configured to acquire a magnetic detection signal of the medium read by the magnetic head; an excluding module configured to exclude a predetermined exclusion section including a reading result of an end portion of the medium from a signal section of the magnetic detection signal; and a recognition module configured to recognize the magnetic ink character based on the magnetic detection signal of the remaining signal section except for the exclusion section.
US11132565B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for Artificial Intelligence (AI) driving analysis and incentives, by utilizing on-board image object analysis to classify driving events and provide driving-based awards.
US11132548B2
There may be provided a method for determining object information related to an object that appears in a media element, the method may include (a) receiving or generating a signature of the media element, wherein the signature may include identifiers, wherein the identifiers may include an object identifier related to the object, wherein the object identifier points to locations of output elements, within an output of a convolutional neural network, of elements of significance in relation to the object; (b) finding a group of contributing portions of the media element that had a significant contribution to the generation, by the convolutional neural network, of the output elements of significance in relation to the object; and (c) determining object information related to the object based on a distribution of the group of the contributing portions of the media element.
US11132545B2
An image recognition method and a terminal, where the method includes obtaining, by the terminal, an image file including a target object recognizing, by the terminal, the target object based on an image recognition model in the terminal using a neural network computation apparatus in the terminal to obtain object category information of the target object, and storing, by the terminal, the object category information in the image file as first label information of the target object. Hence, image recognition efficiency of the terminal can be improved, and privacy of a terminal user can be effectively protected.
US11132543B2
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for performing unconstrained appearance-based gaze estimation. The method includes the steps of identifying an image of an eye and a head orientation associated with the image of the eye, determining an orientation for the eye by analyzing, within a convolutional neural network (CNN), the image of the eye and the head orientation associated with the image of the eye, and returning the orientation of the eye.
US11132540B2
An ink file output method is provided, which includes: generating M (M is an integer of 1 or more) pieces of stroke data SD on the basis of event data generated as M input devices move, respectively; generating N (N is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) kinds of logical names LN (metadata) identifying the M number of input devices; generating a metadata block associating the M pieces of stroke data SD with the N kinds of logical names LN; and writing the M pieces of stroke data SD and the metadata block to an ink file.
US11132539B2
A posture recognition system includes a sensor and a recognition apparatus, wherein the sensor captures a distance image including information on a distance to a subject, at an angular field controlled based on the distance to the subject, and the recognition apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire the distance image and the angular field used when the sensor captures the distance image, from the sensor, and correct the acquired distance image based on a ratio between a first resolution corresponding to another angular field used when a training distance image is captured, and a second resolution corresponding to the acquired angular field, the training distance image being used for generating a learning model which recognizes a posture of the subject.
US11132538B2
A pre-determination process is executed for setting a person determination detection frame in a moving body detection frame surrounding a moving body region detected from an image and determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person and a final determination process of analyzing a distribution state in a moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process and finally determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person based on an analysis result. In the final determination process, an occupancy rate in a specific region in the moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process is calculated, and the image in the person determination detection frame is determined to be a person based on the occupancy rate.
US11132534B2
A monitoring system includes an imaging unit configured to capture a depth image including a distance to a monitoring target person in a vehicle cabin, an estimation unit configured to estimate a three-dimensional human body model of the monitoring target person from the depth image captured by the imaging unit, and a monitoring unit configured to detect a get-off motion by monitoring a motion of a monitoring target portion of the human body model approaching the monitoring coordinate regarding a door manipulation in the cabin on the basis of the human body model estimated by the estimation unit.
US11132528B2
An information processing method includes: obtaining a touch input occurred in a touch sensing area by a touch sensing circuit of a display screen of an electronic device; based on a sensing parameter of the touch input, determining an effective target area within a fingerprint collection area of an in-display fingerprint collection apparatus; and performing a fingerprint recognition process based on the touch input within the effective target area. The fingerprint collection area is smaller than or equal to the touch sensing area.
US11132516B2
A sequence conversion method includes receiving a source sequence, converting the source sequence into a source vector representation sequence, obtaining at least two candidate target sequences and a translation probability value of each of the at least two candidate target sequences according to the source vector representation sequence, adjusting the translation probability value of each candidate target sequence, selecting an output target sequence from the at least two candidate target sequences according to an adjusted translation probability value of each candidate target sequence, and outputting the output target sequence. Hence, loyalty of a target sequence to a source sequence can be improved during sequence conversion.
US11132511B2
A system configured to predict fine-grained affective states. The system comprising a processor configured to execute instructions to create training data comprising content conveying emotions, and to create a trained model by performing an emotion vector space model training process using the training data to train a model using a feed forward neural network that converts discrete emotions into emotion vector representations. The system uses the trained model to predict fine-grained affective states for text conveying an emotion.
US11132507B2
A first vector representation of a first word within a first narrative text and a machine-generated label corresponding to the first word are constructed. Using the first vector representation, an annotator model is trained. The annotator model is configured to produce a set of probabilities, each probability in the set of probabilities representing a probable output annotation corresponding to a word within a narrative text. The training includes minimizing a difference between a first human-generated label corresponding to the first word and a first probable output annotation corresponding to the first word. Using the trained annotator model and a second narrative text, second training data is generated. The trained annotator model is configured to produce an output annotation corresponding to a word within a narrative text. The second training data is usable to train a relation extraction model.
US11132502B2
A system from updating a document to include revisions made by multiple parties that includes an indexing module for building relationships between atom repositories and source files, and a mapping module builds a relationship between multiple atom repositories produced by indexing module that are associated with a same source file family. The system also includes an atom controlling module for controlling atom adding and atom splitting in the multiple atom repository in response to update, insert and delete operations of information units in the source file. The system can also include a synchronizing engine for synchronizing updates from one version of the source file to all versions of the source file in accordance with the atom controlling module that have been made by all users when be viewed by a single user.
US11132501B2
A computer implemented method of providing suggestions of related columns for a table operation in a data management system is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing, by a processor, a table having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, metadata associated with the plurality of columns, and data stored within the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns; receiving, by a processor, a table operation selected by a system or user; processing, by a processor, at least one of the data stored in the plurality of columns and the metadata associated with plurality columns based on a type of the selected table operation to determine at least one relationship between at least two columns of the plurality of columns; and generating, by the processor, dialog data that presents the at least one relationship between the at least two columns to a system or user for use in the table operation.
US11132500B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a client, (i) a task of annotating information, (ii) a set of instructions for performing the task, and (iii) client annotations for a subset of the information within the task; assigning the subset to a plurality of annotators; obtaining (i) annotator annotations for the subset and (ii) a response time for providing the annotator annotation for each piece of information within the subset; identifying improvements to the set of instructions by (i) comparing the annotator annotations to the client annotations and (ii) identifying discrepancies made by the annotators in view of the response time; and generating a new set of instructions, wherein the generating comprises (i) identifying at least one feature of the information that distinguishes correctly annotated information from incorrectly annotated information and (ii) generating an instruction from the at least one feature.
US11132496B2
While reducing memory usage, page related data is made available. Data obtaining means (101) of an electronic book display device (1) obtains electronic book data including a plurality of pages stored in storing means (100) for storing the electronic book data. Display controlling means (103) displays, on display means (14), one or more pages specified in the plurality of pages based on the electronic book data obtained by the data obtaining means (101). Page related data generating means (104) generates, before the display means (14) displays at least one of preceding and succeeding pages to the one or more pages displayed on the display means (14), page related data based on the at least one of the pages and writes the generated page related data in the storing means (100).
US11132495B1
State of the art viewport design approach faces challenge in addressing customization of view port design. A method and device for dynamic view port generation providing enhanced viewport usability of text messages to be displayed on screen by considering type of user and customized typeface is provided. Determining of a customized typeface is based on user's reading capability tested during initial type face set up by the device. The customization of typeface includes applying kerning spacing and glyphs adjustment to squeeze area of the displayed text, still maintaining less ambiguity during reading. For received messages to be displayed, maximum size of window for a viewport is obtained on-the-fly with a constraint of maximum or optimal number of viewports displayed at a time on device screen. NLP is applied to each message to condense text in the message such that maximum information is conveyed while displaying minimum words.
US11132493B2
System and method of providing layout information for generated images based on a hybrid application
One or more non-transitory computer-readable recording media stores instructions, which when executed by an information processing device that communicates with a communication terminal, causes the information processing device to: retrieve, for each of one or more pieces of second information, respective function related information pertaining to a game executed by the communication terminal, determine, for each of the one or more pieces of second information, whether the retrieved respective function related information satisfies a respective predetermined condition; for each respective function related information that satisfies the respective predetermined condition, generate an image corresponding to a respective one of the one or more pieces of second information; generate layout information for overlaying each generated image on first information displayed on a display of the communication terminal, the one or more pieces of second information generated by a second application program and the first information generated by a first application program.
US11132485B2
A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: running a Monte Carlo simulation of possible integrated circuit (IC) process variations of each of a plurality of IC cell types, wherein each of the plurality of IC cell types is defined by multiple specific transistors and multiple specific interconnects; based on the results of the Monte Carlo simulation, creating a library of IC cell types and their corresponding behavioral values for each of the possible IC process variations, and storing the library in a non-transient memory; receiving an IC design embodied as a digital file; correlating the received IC design with the library; and predicting a frequency distribution and a power distribution of ICs manufactured according to the IC design.
US11132481B1
An augmented reality (AR) system for generating and displaying a pre-disaster Enhanced Situation Visualization (ESV) is provided. The AR system may include an ESV computing device, a user computing device operated by a user and a reference database. The user computing device may transmit a reference request message to the ESV device, the reference request message including an image and/or GPS location of a property. The ESV computing device may determine the subject of the image is the property, retrieve reference information including peril maps associated with the property from the reference database, and determine situation information specific to the subject. The reference and situation information including a loss estimate may be displayed on the user computing device to provide an ESV of the property. The ESV may be used for insurance-related activities, such as handling, adjusting, and/or generating an insurance policy, premium, and/or discount, and/or generating insurance-related recommendations.
US11132458B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a data volume having data from multiple tenants therein. Data in the data volume is separated into objects using tenant identifiers from metadata corresponding to portions of the data, where each object corresponds to a respective tenant. The objects are stored in object storage, and the metadata is updated with information pertaining to the object which the data in the data volume was separated into. Moreover, updating the metadata with the information is performed after the data in the data volume has been separated. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US11132456B2
According to the present application, systems, devices and methods for sharing media files may promote sharing of media without the need for the media to be first moved or copied to a storage repository. Such systems, devices and methods for sharing media may further enable lists of files to be shared and responses to be delivered to the media owner during playback by a user. A local device may be utilized to enable the storing and sharing of media that is hosted off the cloud. Streaming from the file sharing system or the local device is facilitated through the system.
US11132454B2
A device (e.g., a phone) can be provided by an entity (e.g., a business) to a user (e.g., an employee). The device includes a profile manager that allows the user to configure a personal profile comprising any of applications, settings, and stored data. The device is also configurable with an entity profile determined by the entity that also may include applications, settings, and stored data. The user can select from operating modes comprising at least a personal mode, and a unity mode; an entity mode also may be available for selection. The profile manager, based on the selected mode, determines whether entity profile data and applications are available to the user, and which applications from either profile may conduct user-perceptible activities. The profile manager may periodically verify entity profile rights with a server, and if verification fails, then the profile manager can restrict entity profile data and applications access, regardless of operating mode.
US11132448B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for encryption using wavelet transformation are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes generating a modified item of cryptographic information by randomly incorporating one or more characters into a user-provided item of cryptographic information; converting the modified item of cryptographic information to a matrix code; creating multiple bands of data by applying wavelet transformation to the matrix code; generating one or more encrypted items of cryptographic information by converting a selected one of the multiple bands of data into a sequence of multiple characters by applying an encoding process to the selected band of data; and storing the encrypted items of cryptographic information in a database for use in authentication requests.
US11132430B2
One or more implementations of the present specification provide a login method. A set of dynamic information is displayed on a user-device, in which the set of dynamic information is displayed as a part of a login process. A first electroencephalogram (EEG) signal indicative of a user-response to the displayed dynamic information is received, in which the EEG signal is detected by a monitoring device. It is determined that the first EEG signal matches a second EEG signal that corresponds to the displayed dynamic information stored in a login authentication library. The login authentication library stores a plurality of template EEG signals obtained from users (during an enrollment process) as responses to corresponding sets of dynamic information. In response to determining that the first EEG signal matches the second EEG signal, a login request is transmitted to a server.
US11132429B2
A computing device for authenticating a user is provided. The computing device is operative to display a first text to the user, acquire a representation of the user subvocalizing a part of the first text, derive a user phrasing signature from the acquired representation, and authenticate the user in response to determining that the user phrasing signature and a reference phrasing signature fulfill a similarity condition. Optionally, the computing device may be further operative to determine if the user is authorized to read the first text. Further optionally, the computing device may be operative to reveal obfuscated parts of the first text in response to determining that the user is authorized to read the first text, or to discontinue displaying the first text, or to obfuscate at least part of the first text, in response to determining that the user is not authorized to read the first text.
US11132422B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include displaying a electronic user interface that includes a plurality of user-selectable options corresponding to taxonomy information for a plurality of optimization problems. The operations may further include receiving a first user input selecting a first template for a specific optimization problem of the plurality of optimization problems. The first user input may include a selection of at least one user-selectable option of the plurality of user-selectable options. The operations may further include receiving a second user input via the selected first template for the specific optimization problem and providing a call to the optimization solver machine to generate a solution for the specific optimization problem based on the received second user input. The second user input may include input data for a plurality of parameters of the specific optimization problem, specified in the selected first template.
US11132416B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method for updating business information. A business at a business location and a reference image for the business at the business location may be selected for an update. From a number of more recent images, a comparison image may be selected based on a likelihood that the comparison image captures the business location. Text and visual features reference image may be compared with text and visual features of the comparison image to determine a text similarity score and a features similarity score. A confidence level indicating whether the business in the reference image is in the comparison image may then be determined using the text similarity score and the feature similarity score. According to the confidence level, the business information of the business may be updated.
US11132412B1
Methods and systems for receiving docketing data are disclosed. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: obtaining, by a first party, a patent file wrapper from a publicly accessible database of patent records, the patent-file wrapper including a plurality of patent documents; receiving, from the first party, user input that tags a patent document of the plurality of patent documents in the patent file wrapper, wherein the patent document that is tagged is associated with a patent activity that occurred within a threshold period of time: and transmitting, to a second party by the first party, a communication that includes the tagged patent document.
US11132396B2
Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying, at a video sharing service, a first video content item that includes an embedded sound recording; identifying a composition associated with the embedded sound recording, wherein the embedded sound recording is a particular version of the composition; identifying one or more artists associated with the composition based on a group of metadata associated with the composition, wherein each item of metadata is provided by a content owner that has provided a sound recording associated with the composition to the video sharing service; identifying a second video content item associated with the embedder sound recording based at least in part on the identified one or more artists; receiving, from a user device, a request to present the first video content item on the user device; and, in response to receiving the request, causing the user device to present a user interface for presenting the first video content item in a first portion of the user interface and information related to the embedded sound recording in a second portion of the user interface, wherein the information related to the embedded sound recording includes indications of the one or more artists and a link to the second video content item.
US11132387B2
An event display method and an event display device are provided. The method includes: acquiring types of events; setting colors for the events based on the types of the events; grouping the events based on starting times and ending times of the respective events; and displaying the events based on the grouping and colors of the events. According to the embodiments, the event type, event distribution and event duration can be intuitively displayed, the user can quickly screen out valid events and quickly acquire valid information of the events, thereby quickly positioning a fault and determining a cause for the fault.
US11132385B2
An information processing device includes a memory that stores cluster information indicating multiple programs belonging to a cluster; and a processor that acquires a graph including multiple nodes corresponding to the multiple programs indicated by the cluster information and multiple edges indicating dependencies between the multiple programs, selects, from among the multiple nodes, a cut node that is arranged so that when the cut node is removed from the graph, the graph is divided into multiple disconnected partial graphs, extracts a word used in a program corresponding to the cut node among the multiple programs, and uses the extracted word to generate additional information to be associated with the cluster.
US11132384B2
A multi-column index is generated based on an interleaving of data bits for selectivity for efficient processing of data in a relational database system. Two or more columns may be identified for inclusion in the multi-column index for a relational database table. Based, at least in part, on the interleaving of data bits for selectivity from the identified columns, a multi-column index is generated for the relational database table that provides a respective index value for each entry in the relational database table. The entries of the relational database table may then be stored according to the index values of the multi-column index.
US11132379B2
A data modification request for modifying data in a primary database is received at the primary database. Based on the data modification request, second data in the primary database is modified to first data. Based on the data modification request, a first log and a second log are generated, where the first log is a simplified log including the first data and the second log is a complete log including the second data. Persistence processing is performed on the first log. A modification result that corresponds to the data modification request is returned.
US11132377B2
Example embodiments described herein pertain to a geographic information system (GIS), configured to obtain geospatial data representing a geographic area, assign a projection and coordinate system to the geospatial data, apply a transformation to the geospatial data, and generate a tile cache based on the transformed geospatial data, the tile cache including the determined projection and coordinate system.
US11132376B2
A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for a write operation of an input record in a data store associated with a sharded database and an alternate-key-global-index (AKGI) database; generating a new optimistic lock value, the new optimistic lock value being unique in the sharded database; when the data store does not include a data record associated with the input record, creating the dummy data record in the data store; locking the data record for the write operation by setting the DROpLock of the data record to the new optimistic lock value; and performing the write operation of the input record in the AKGI database and the sharded database. In this embodiment, performing the writing operation further comprising inserting or updating an index record derived from the data record before updating the data record and locking the index record before inserting or updating the index record. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11132375B2
A method for providing access to a database for product life cycle support (PLCS database), the method comprising receiving from a client apparatus an input data item including heading data identifying the input data item; correlating said heading data with a data field used in the PLCS database amongst all data fields used in the PLCS database thereby identifying a correlated entry in the PLCS database to be associated with the input data item; searching the PLCS database using said correlated entry; retrieving one or more data elements from the PLCS database according to said search; outputting to the client apparatus a return data item which includes said heading data identifying the return data item and which includes said retrieved data elements(s).
US11132373B1
An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements decoupled update cycle and disparate search frequency dispatch for dynamic elements of an asset monitoring and reporting system. The AMRS identifies occurrence of an update to a visualization of a client dashboarding component of an AMRS, the visualization comprising dynamic elements and corresponding dynamic element searches that are each associated with a search query to be submitted for execution to obtain a value of a metric of an asset node associated with a respective dynamic element. The AMRS further sends a request indicative of the dynamic elements to a server component of the AMRS, receives dynamic element objects for the dynamic elements, the dynamic element objects specifying search queries corresponding to the dynamic elements, modifies dynamic element searches of the dashboarding component in accordance with the search queries, and stores a definition of the visualization as control information.
US11132370B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a candidate answer variant engine. The mechanisms receive an indication of a structured portion of content in a corpus, generate a plurality of groupings of elements of the structured portion of content, and generate, for each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements, and for each element in the grouping of elements, a corresponding grouping vector representation, corresponding to the element. The mechanisms, for each grouping vector representation of each grouping of elements in the plurality of groupings of elements perform a similarity measure calculation between the grouping vector representation and a vector representation of an input question, and select an element corresponding to the grouping vector representation for inclusion as a candidate answer variant based on results of the similarity measure calculation. The mechanisms perform question answering operations based on an analysis of one or more candidate answer variants.
US11132367B1
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement the automatic creation of an auto-partitioning second index (APSI) for a storage object in a storage service. According to embodiments, when a query to the storage object is received specifying a sort condition based on an attribute of the storage object, the storage service may determine that an APSI should be created to optimize for queries with that type of sort condition. The storage service then automatically creates a new APSI that is partitioned according to an auto-generated partition key and stores the data in sorted order in each partition based on the attribute as a sort key. Later queries to the storage object specifying the same type of sort condition are forwarded to the new APSI. A query directed to the APSI is divided into subqueries sent to APSI's partitions in parallel, and results are aggregated to produce the final query result.
US11132364B1
A computing system determines a response to a query. A bin start value and a bin stop value is defined for each bin based on an input bin option. End nodes are split based on the bin start value and the bin stop value of each bin to define a second plurality of end nodes. Each start node of a plurality of start nodes that is connected to each end node of the second plurality of end nodes is identified based on the respective link attributes of a plurality of link attributes. Overlapping start nodes of the plurality of start nodes that overlap at an end node of the second plurality of end nodes are identified based on a predefined overlap query graph that defines a connectivity to identify between a start node and the end node. The identified overlapping start nodes are output as a response to the predefined overlap query graph.
US11132358B2
A method includes searching an initial set of documents for an initial set of query names. Each query name of the initial set of query names is associated with at least one document of the initial set of documents. The method also includes prioritizing the initial set of query names based on at least one topic label. The method also includes searching an additional set of documents to generate candidate query names. The method also includes prioritizing the candidate query names based on the at least one topic label. The method further includes applying a temporal search filter to each candidate query name to determine whether the candidate query name was processed within a time frame. The method further includes performing disambiguation processing on each candidate query name not processed within the time frame.
US11132357B1
A big-data view integration platform generates integration guided user interfaces (GUIs). A first edge node ingests push-based and pull-based data from a plurality of platform services, which include legacy and non-legacy services having incompatible communication protocols. An event-based queue receives from the first edge node a plurality of queue events as indirect push-based data. A second set of queue events includes direct push-based data as received directly from a non-legacy platform service. A conformity component integrates the push-based data, the pull-based data, and the plurality of queue events into integration data having an enhanced integration format. A view integration component generates a plurality of data views from the integration data. A second edge node exposes the plurality of data views via an access services application programming interface (API). A new service execution component accesses the access services API to generate integration GUIs based on the data views.
US11132345B2
Methods and systems for generating a database index and searching the database index are described herein. In one aspect this may include receiving an item of database data, wherein the item of database data comprises a sequence of data elements. Groups of data elements may be identified within the received item of database data. If any one or more of the identified groups of data elements have not been previously identified within the item of database data and/or previous items database data then the one or more identified group may be stored as index entries in a database index. Information describing the sequence of the groups of neighbouring data elements may be recorded within the database index as they are located within the item of database data. The database index may be searched based on a received search term comprising a sequence of data elements.
US11132342B2
Input time series data of a particular time length may be received, and pre-processed to obtain processed time series data. The processed time series data may then be decomposed into a plurality of pieces of time series data of the particular time length at different levels, and a detection of whether a piece of time series data at a particular level includes a periodic component candidate in a frequency domain may be performed. In response to detecting that the piece of time series data at the particular level includes the periodic component candidate in the frequency domain, a validation may be performed to determine whether the periodic component candidate in the piece of time series data at the particular level is a true periodic component of the input time series data in a time domain.
US11132339B2
Techniques are provided for synchronous replication for synchronous mirror copy guarantee. A file system dependent technique for synchronous mirror copy guarantee is provided by overriding default behavior of a persistent fence so that the persistent fence is activated to block operations targeting a storage object having a synchronous replication relationship based upon the synchronous replication relationship being out of sync. The default behavior of the persistent fence is overridden to allow operations to be executed upon the storage object based upon the synchronous replication relationship being in sync. A file system independent technique for synchronous mirror copy guarantee is provided by intercepting operations before the operations are received by a file system. The operations are selectively forwarded to the file system or not based upon a state of a synchronous replication relationship.
US11132335B2
A file fingerprint may be provided as a composite of multiple hashes of different portions of the file. The composite hash allows the fingerprinting process to be interrupted while still providing information about a likely hood of two files being identical.
US11132334B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for filtering dynamically loadable namespaces (DLNs). An exemplary method comprises, in response to a job submitted by an application, obtaining a DLN portion of a global single namespace of a file system, wherein the DLN is associated with the job and is maintained in a capacity tier of a storage system; obtaining filtering directives from a user; reducing the DLN using a filtering mechanism on a directory tree associated with the DLN, based on the filtering directives, by removing files in the directory tree of the DLN that do not satisfy requirements of the filtering directives to generate a filtered DLN; and dynamically loading the filtered DLN, including reduced metadata for the filtered DLN relative to the DLN, from the capacity tier into a performance tier of the storage system for processing by the application.
US11132333B2
A file access request is received from an application. One or more file types for the file access request are identified, and one or more file hosts supporting files of the identified one or more file types are also identified. A user interface is displayed, the user interface including a hosted area. Within the hosted area, at least one of the one or more file hosts displays a portion of the user interface identifying one or more files of at least one file host that can be selected for retrieval, or one or more locations that can be selected to which the one or more files are saved.
US11132329B2
An electronic control device includes: a partially reconfigurable logic circuit in which a calculation unit which is reconfigured and executes calculation and a storage unit which stores calculation target date to be calculated by the calculation unit is configured; and a processing control unit which transmits circuit data for reconfiguring the calculation unit and the calculation target date to the logic circuit. When the processing control unit obtains next calculation target data which is the calculation target date relating to a next calculation unit which is the calculation unit after completion of reconfiguration, transmission of the next calculation target date to the storage unit is started regardless of whether the reconfiguration of the next calculation unit is completed, and upon completion of the reconfiguration, the next calculation unit performs calculation using the next calculation target date.
US11132326B1
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to route data transfers between hardware devices. In at least one embodiment, a path over which to transfer data from a first hardware component of a computer system to a second hardware component of a computer system is determined based, at least in part, on one or more characteristics of different paths usable to transfer the data.
US11132319B2
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems, methods, and devices for controlling power management entry. A PCIe root port controller can be configured to receive, at a downstream port of the root port controller, from an upstream switch port, a first power management entry request; reject the first power management entry request; transmit a negative acknowledgement message to the upstream switch port; initiate a timer for at least 20 microseconds; during the 20 microseconds, ignore any power management entry requests received from the upstream switch port; receive, after the expiration of the 20 microseconds, a subsequent power management entry request; accept the subsequent power management entry request; and transmit an acknowledgement of the acceptance of the subsequent power management entry request to the upstream switch port.
US11132318B2
A peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) physical function is coupled to a controller. The controller is configured to allocate a first portion of resources for use by the PCIe physical function. A PCIe virtual function is coupled to the controller. The is configured to allocate a second portion of resources for use by the PCIe virtual function based, at least in part, on a total number of PCIe physical functions and a total number of PCIe virtual functions associated with the apparatus.
US11132316B2
A Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) (125) that may configure itself is disclosed. The BMC (125) may include an access logic (415) to determine a configuration of a chassis (105) that includes the BMC (125). The BMC (125) may also include a built-in self-configuration logic (420) to configure the BMC (125) responsive to the configuration of the chassis (105). The BMC (125) may self-configure without using any BIOS, device drivers, or operating systems.
US11132312B2
To control initialization of a nonvolatile memory device, before assembling a memory system including a first nonvolatile memory device and a second nonvolatile memory device, information data for initialization of the first nonvolatile memory device are stored in the first nonvolatile memory device. After assembling the memory system, the information data are moved from the first nonvolatile memory device to the second nonvolatile memory device. The first nonvolatile memory device is initialized based on the information data stored in the second nonvolatile memory device. An initialization time of the first nonvolatile memory device is reduced efficiently by moving the information data from the first nonvolatile memory device to the second nonvolatile memory device having the rapid speed of the reading operation and using the information data read from the second nonvolatile memory device.
US11132310B2
A system is disclosed. The system may include a processor running an application program and a memory storing data being used by the application program. An upstream interface enables communication with the processor; a downstream interface enables communication with a storage device. The system may also include an acceleration module implemented using hardware and including an Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-F) to execute an acceleration instruction. The storage device may include an endpoint of the storage device for communicating with the acceleration module, a controller to manage operations of the storage device, storage for application data for the application program, and a storage device Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-S) to assist the APM-F in executing the acceleration instruction. The processor, the acceleration module, and the storage device may communicate via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Exchange (PCIe) bus. The acceleration module may support performing the acceleration instruction on the application data on the storage device for the application program without loading the application data into the memory.
US11132305B1
This invention presents a method for error-free, automatic generation of regions for Memory Protection Units (MPUs) to ease development of systems, using MPUs.
US11132303B2
A request to perform a program operation at a memory device is received. An entry of a device block record stored at the memory device is determined to be removed based on parameters associated with the program operation and a firmware block record that corresponds to the device block record. The firmware block record tracks the entries of the device block record. The entries of the device block record are associated with blocks of the memory device and identify start voltages that are applied to wordlines of the blocks to program memory cells associated with the wordlines. A command is submitted to the memory device to remove the entry associated with a particular block from the device block record and to make a space available at the device block record for a new entry associated with a new block that is to be written in view of the program operation.
US11132299B2
A memory interface for interfacing between a memory bus and a cache memory, comprising: a plurality of bus interfaces configured to transfer data between the memory bus and the cache memory; and a plurality of snoop processors configured to receive snoop requests from the memory bus; wherein each snoop processor is associated with a respective bus interface and each snoop processor is configured, on receiving a snoop request, to determine whether the snoop request relates to the bus interface associated with that snoop processor and to process the snoop request in dependence on that determination.
US11132287B2
A computer-implemented system is presented that enables automated testing of web applications operating within a web browser. The system is comprised of a recorder and a recorder interface. The recorder is configured to capture events received from a web page under test and operates to record the captured events in a test script, where the test script is defined in accordance with a scripting language. The recorder is implemented as a browser extension of the web browser. The recorder interface is configured to receive the test script from the recorder and transmit the test script from the computing device to a web portal hosted on a server located remotely from the computing device, where the test script is transmitted from the recorder interface to the web portal using web messaging.
US11132285B1
An issue tracking system includes a host device executing an issue tracking service in communication with a client device executing at least one of an issue reporting application and/or an application under test. The issue reporting application generates a session identifier that defines a debugging session. The application under test can receive the identifier and tag logs or other data generated during the debugging session. The issue reporting application can thereafter receive the debugging data and can populate an issue report template based on that data.
US11132284B2
A method, computer program product, and system is described. A continuous integration environment is identified. A first software test associated with the continuous integration environment is identified. A probationary status for the first software test is determined, the probationary status indicating, at least in part, a potential lack of reliability for the first software test.
US11132280B2
This disclosure relates to identifying and presenting differences between a plurality of recorded executions of an executable entity. One or more models are created over the plurality of recorded prior executions of at least a portion of an executable entity. These models include at least one of (i) a control flow model, or (ii) a data model. An anomalous model data point is identified within these models, and a first location in at least one of the plurality of recorded executions that corresponds to the anomalous model data point is identified. A second location in the at least one of the plurality of recorded executions is also identified. This second location is causal to the anomalous model data point at the first location. The identity of the first and/or second locations in the least one of the plurality of recorded executions is presented.
US11132269B2
A backup control method is proposed to include: (A) two control units executing firmware such that the control units respectively operate in a master mode and a slave mode; (B) the control unit that operates in the master mode generating a health signal when executing the firmware; (C) a logic arithmetic unit determining, based on the health signal, whether the control unit that operates in the master mode functions normally; and (D) when the control unit that operates in the master mode is determined to not function normally, the logic arithmetic unit controlling a light emitting element to emit light, and notifying the control unit that operates in the slave mode such that the control unit which operates in the slave mode enters the master mode.
US11132257B2
A method of rebuilding data stored as encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network (DSN) includes obtaining, by a rebuilding module implemented in a processing device, an identity of a plurality slices-in-error to be rebuilt, wherein each individual slice-in-error is associated with index information specifying: a particular dispersed storage unit associated with the individual slice-in-error; and a number of slices-in-error associated with the particular dispersed storage unit. A first slice-in-error is selected for rebuilding based, at least in part, on the number of slices-in-error associated with a first dispersed storage unit associated with the first slice-in-error. Read slice requests at least a decode threshold number of data slices are issued to the first dispersed storage unit. At least a decode threshold number of slices are received at the rebuilding module, which rebuilds the first slice-in-error using the received slices.
US11132256B2
Example redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage systems and methods provide rebuild of logical data groups. Storage devices are configured as a storage array for storing logical data groups distributed among the storage devices. The logical data groups are written in a configuration of RAID stripes in the storage devices. A failed storage device may be rebuilt using the RAID stripes and completed rebuilds of logical blocks may be tracked during the device rebuild process. A logical group rebuild status may be determined by comparing the completed rebuilds of logical blocks to a logical group map. The logical group rebuild status for each logical data group may be provided as complete in response to all logical blocks in the logical data group having been rebuilt. In the event the array rebuild fails, the logical groups that did complete rebuild may be brought online as a partially completed rebuild to prevent the loss of the entire array.
US11132253B2
Methods, systems, and devices for performing an error correction operation using a direct-input column redundancy scheme are described. A device that has read data from data planes may replace data from one of the planes with redundancy data from a data plane storing redundancy data. The device may then provide the redundancy data to an error correction circuit coupled with the data plane that stored the redundancy data. The error correction circuit may operate on the redundancy data and transfer the result of the operation to select components in a connected error correction circuit. The components to which the output is transferred may be selected based on data plane replaced by the redundancy data. The device may generate syndrome bits for the read data by performing additional operations on the outputs of the error correction circuit.
US11132252B2
The memory device includes a content addressable memory (CAM) block including a plurality of pages, peripheral circuits configured to perform a CAM data read operation to read a CAM data comprising a plurality of check data each indicating whether bad block information is included in a region of the CAM data from a page sequentially selected among the plurality of pages, a CAM data read controller configured to perform a CAM data load operation to receive the CAM data from the peripheral circuits and output the CAM data to an external memory controller, and stop the CAM data load operation based on at least one check data among the plurality of check data included in the CAM data.
US11132238B2
Elastic packaging of application configuration may include selecting at least one configurable attribute from an application model hierarchy, generating at least one formula for the selected at least one configurable attribute, the at least one formula including interface parameters, and tag the generated at least one formula with the selected at least one configurable attribute in an application deployment package, the application deployment package including an application to be deployed on a cloud computer.
US11132236B2
A workgroup-computing-entity-based fail-safe/evolvable hardware core structure is disclosed which includes a 3-hierarchical-level 6-workgroup-Basic-Building-Block (6-wBBB) created to supplant the node-computing-entity-based non-fail-safe/limited evolvable von-Neumann core structure of 3-hierarchical-level 3-node-BBB, (i.e., base-level IO-devices/mid-level main memory/top-level CPU) and all the first-time fail-safe workgroup systems can be subsequently generated in the second period along the workgroup-computing evolutionary timeline. Furthermore, based on the first 6-wBBB evolvable architecture, the workgroup evolutionary processes can go up to 7 generations in creating all the necessary workgroup-computing entity-based hardware core structures, so that all the real-time intelligent workgroup-computing systems can be generated in the third period along the workgroup-computing evolutionary timeline.
US11132235B2
A data processing method of a distributed data processing system, in which the base server collects and standardizes data and generates base data by node cut processing, the central server collects the attribute information of the column of the base data from a plurality of base servers and the relationship between the integration source and the integration destination of the base data by the node cut processing of the base server as base column integrated information, a combination of an integration source and an integration destination capable of reducing the data amount as a result of an replacement for calculating a combination of an integration source and an integration destination capable of reducing the data amount by exchanging the integration source and the integration destination when data is combined, the combination is notified to the base server as an exchange instruction.
US11132234B2
A method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a computer system for managing the placement of virtual machines in a virtual machine network are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method involves determining if at least one virtual machine in a set of virtual machines supporting a process and running on a first host computer needs to be separated from other virtual machines in the set. If at least one virtual machine needs to be separated, then at least one virtual machine is selected to be separated based on the number of memory pages changed. The selected VM is then separated from the other virtual machines in the set.
US11132229B2
The aspects of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for implementing hardware resource allocation. For example, the apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a first value that is indicative of an allocable resource quantity of a hardware resource in a computing device. The processing circuitry also receives a second value that is indicative of a requested resource quantity of the hardware resource by a user, and then determines whether the second value is greater than the first value. When the second value is determined to be less than or equal to the first value, the processing circuitry requests the computing device to allocate the hardware resource of the requested resource quantity to the user, and subtracts the second value from the first value to update the allocable resource quantity of the hardware resource in the computing device.
US11132226B2
Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer program products that leverage infrastructure code (IaC) to provision applications in a computing environment as virtual resources. A plurality of containers operating parallel to one another process resource provisioning requests. A central application provisioner orchestrates the containerized provisioning of resources using IaC. Application provisioner introspects IaC templates defining the provisioning request and creates a graph of the templates, mapping requested resources to containers based on the specification of the containers available. Application provisioner spins up idle containers and distributes resource provisioning tasks amongst the idle containers. An idle container provisions an assigned resource and outputs individual state information describing the provisioned resource. Application provisioner aggregates the individual state information from the containers into a completed state file describing the provisioned application and deploys the provisioned application. Provisioned resources can be destroyed by deprovisioning the resource from the assigned container and outputting modified state information.
US11132219B2
A method and related apparatus for restarting an application being closed because of insufficient memory are provided. The method includes storing application identifiers of the applications which are closed when the free memory of the system is insufficient into a target application list, then when determining the free memory of the system is greater than a preset threshold, automatically starting a process of at least one application indicating by the target application lists.
US11132208B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method for bandgap voting. In some configurations, the method includes receiving: (i) a first set of votes from a first client of a system, and (ii) a second set of votes from a second client of the system, wherein the first set of votes indicate a first desired set of operational parameters for controlling a plurality of physical resources in the system, wherein the second set of votes indicate a second desired set of operational parameters for controlling the plurality of physical resources, and wherein the plurality of physical resources are shared by the first client and the second client.
US11132205B2
An electronic control device is configured to execute processing unit execution operation while executing processing part activation operation. In the processing part activation operation, the activation main processing is performed separately on each of a plurality of processing parts included in a control program, and a start address of a processing unit that is included in a processing part for which the activation main processing has been completed is switched from invalid to valid, in ascending order of the lengths of activation time demanded of the processing parts to be ready for execution. In the processing unit execution operation, a processing unit that is associated with a start address switched to valid is executed.
US11132204B2
A processing system includes a set of queues to store command buffers prior to execution in a corresponding plurality of pipelines. The processing system also includes one or more first doorbells and a second doorbell. The first doorbells map to one or more queues in the set of queues on a one-to-one basis. The second doorbell maps to a subset of the set of queues on a one-to-many basis. A doorbell monitor generates an interrupt in response to an empty queue in the subset becoming a non-empty queue. A scheduler polls the subset in response to the interrupt. The scheduler schedules a command buffer from the non-empty queue for execution or adds the command buffer to a pool for subsequent execution.
US11132199B1
A processor that includes a register file, a latency shifter, a decode unit and a plurality of functional units is introduced. The register file includes a write port. The latency shifter includes a plurality of shifter entries and shifts out a shifter entry among the shifter entries every clock cycle. Each of the shifter entries is associated with a clock cycle and each of shifter entries includes a writeback value that indicates whether the write port of the register file is available for a writeback operation in the associated clock cycles. The decode unit is configured to decode an instruction and issue the instruction according to the writeback value of the latency shifter. The functional units are coupled to the decode unit and the register file and are configured to execute the instruction issued by the decode unit and perform writeback operation to the write port of the register file.
US11132186B2
The invention comprises (i) a compilation method for automatically converting a single-threaded software program into an application-specific supercomputer, and (ii) the supercomputer system structure generated as a result of applying this method. The compilation method comprises: (a) Converting an arbitrary code fragment from the application into customized hardware whose execution is functionally equivalent to the software execution of the code fragment; and (b) Generating interfaces on the hardware and software parts of the application, which (i) Perform a software-to-hardware program state transfer at the entries of the code fragment; (ii) Perform a hardware-to-software program state transfer at the exits of the code fragment; and (iii) Maintain memory coherence between the software and hardware memories. If the resulting hardware design is large, it is divided into partitions such that each partition can fit into a single chip. Then, a single union chip is created which can realize any of the partitions.
US11132181B1
A computer system for configuring an Integrated Development Environment display is provided. The computer system receives a list of system artifacts that is categorized by at least one artifact type and indexed by affected source code elements. In response to a user beginning an IDE session, the computer system assigning an impact relevance threshold to the user and, in response to the user selecting a source code element, the computer system identifies artifacts from the list of artifacts that affect the selected source code element. The computer system, in accordance with impact values assigned to the artifact types for the source code element, selects from the identified artifacts, a set of display artifacts having assigned impact values that meet or exceed the impact relevance threshold assigned to the user. The computer system the set of display artifacts on an IDE display element.
US11132178B2
This disclosure describes techniques for analyzing statistical quality of bitstrings produced by a physical unclonable function (PUF). The PUF leverages resistance variations in the power grid wires of an integrated circuit. Temperature and voltage stability of the bitstrings are analyzed. The disclosure also describes converting a voltage drop into a digital code, wherein the conversion is resilient to simple and differential side-channel attacks.
US11132173B1
A speech-based service platform includes a local device in a user premises and a network-based control service that directs the local device to perform actions for a user. The user may at times request that the service schedule a notification or other action at a specified future time or in response to other stimuli that may occur in the future. Upon receiving a request from the user, the control service immediately instructs the local device to schedule the notification or other action. If the control service is unable to contact the local device, however, the request is canceled and the user is notified that the action has not been scheduled. Non-priority actions requested by the user may be accepted and implemented at the local device when communications become available.
US11132169B2
Wearable audio recorder and retrieval software applications for long term audio and related data recording, visualization, filtering, search, and proof of provenance, providing a record-all and find-later methodology capable of finding audio in multi-year audio data streams. System default state is to record permanently, allowing the user to decide when not to record instead of when to record. User interfaces enable users to retrieve desired recorded audio data by querying other types of recorded data which are related to the desired recorded audio data by way of time and spatial domains.
US11132167B2
Embodiments herein achieve a method for managing display of content on one or more secondary device by a primary device. The method includes causing, by the primary device, to display a user interface comprising the content and a graphical representation of the at least one secondary device connected to the primary device. Further, the method includes detecting by the primary device an input performed to select at least one portion of the content to be displayed on the at least one secondary device. Further, the method includes transmitting by the primary device the at least one selected portion of the content to the secondary device. One or more selected portion is dynamically modified based on information about the at least one secondary device.
US11132165B2
A method for archiving a collaboration session regarding visual content is disclosed. A collaboration session is established from a collaboration server with participant nodes. The visual content is transmitted to the participant nodes. A first multimedia data stream, an annotation data object associated with an annotation to the visual content in timed correlation to a first time reference within the first multimedia data stream, and view parameters are received. A first session record entry associated with the multimedia data stream, the annotation data object, and the view parameters is stored into a session record. The session record includes a plurality of session record entries including the first session record entry. The session record is retrievable by other participant nodes for playing back of the collaboration session in sequence with the session record entries. The first session record entry is transmitted to other participant nodes.
US11132160B2
The present disclosure relates to a display screen and an electronic terminal. The display screen includes a display region including a first display area and a second display area. The first display area has a screen as a first screen, and the second display area has a screen as a second screen. A light transmittance of the first screen is greater than a light transmittance of the second screen. The electronic terminal includes a terminal body, the above display screen, a front device and a control device. The above display screen and electronic terminal can improve the full screen display effect.
US11132159B2
An example system includes a client interface to receive a print job from a client device, wherein the print job includes a user identifier (UID) and a current user location. The example system further includes a controller having an adaptive caching portion to determine that the current user location is a new user location for the UID, identify at least one printer identifier (PID) associated with the new user location, and associate the UID with the new user location and the at least one PID. The system further includes a printer interface to adaptively cache the print job in its entirety at least at one printer corresponding to the at least one PID.
US11132158B2
Disclosed is a control method for an image forming apparatus including firmware and an application operating on the firmware, the control method including registering a size of a defined sheet in a storage unit in accordance with a user operation under control of the firmware, accepting a selection instruction of the registered size of the defined sheet in accordance with the user operation under control of the application, and control printing using the defined sheet having the size according to the selection instruction under the control of the firmware.
US11132153B2
A communication method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed between a communication device and an electrical apparatus by use of non-contact short-range wireless communication method. The electrical apparatus includes a built-in antenna in the vicinity of a first region of a surface exposed to the outside of the electrical apparatus. The antenna is provided for non-contact short-range wireless communication with the communication device. The communication method includes the steps of: preparing a storage box to which information is provided at a predetermined position on an exterior surface of the storage box, the information indicating where the antenna is placed; storing the electrical apparatus in power-off state, into the storage box, and thereby placing the electrical apparatus in the storage box such that the first region of the electrical apparatus is close to the predetermined position of the storage box; and moving the communication device close to the predetermined position of the storage box to initiate communication between the communication device and the electrical apparatus.
US11132148B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, an operation information storage, and control logic. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells. The peripheral circuit may perform a read operation for setup information stored in the memory cell array. The operation information storage may store the setup information. The control logic may control a read operation of the peripheral circuit and a storage operation of the operation information storage. The control logic may control the peripheral circuit and the operation information storage such that a storage section in which the operation information storage stores first setup information and a read section in which the peripheral circuit reads second setup information from the memory cell array are at least partially overlapped with each other.
US11132147B2
Methods, systems, and devices for performing memory command verification are described. A system may include a memory device and a memory controller, which may be external (e.g., a host device). The memory device may receive, from the memory controller, a command indicating a type of operation and an address. The memory device may decode the command and execute an operation (e.g., the operation corresponding to the decoded command) at an execution location on the memory device. The system (e.g., the memory device or the memory controller) may determine whether the executed operation and execution location match the type of operation and address indicated in the command, and the system may thereby determine an error associated with the decoding, the execution, or both of the command.
US11132142B2
A memory device may include a first wordline and a second wordline, each having multiple memory cells. The memory device may also include control circuitry to facilitate writing a data pattern to the memory cells of the first wordline and facilitate copying the data pattern from the first wordline to the second wordline. Copying the first wordline to the second wordline may include activating the second wordline such that the first wordline and the second wordline are simultaneously active. A memory cell of the first wordline may be written a data value of the data pattern, and the memory cell may drive, at least partially, a corresponding memory cell of the second wordline with the data value.
US11132138B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, is for converting an existing storage pool into an intended storage pool in place. The computer-implemented method includes: identifying a request to convert the existing storage pool having a first extent size into the intended storage pool having a second extent size, where the first extent size is larger than the second extent size. For each volume in the existing storage pool: a temporary pause/lock is performed on a volume segment table (VST) entry which corresponds to the given volume, and a new structure is applied to the VST entry. The new structure divides existing physical extents associated with the VST entry into two or more smaller physical extents. Furthermore, for each of the ranks in the existing storage pool, the given rank is converted from the first extent size to the second extent size.
US11132135B2
An aspect includes monitoring, by a server, a round trip latency between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device in a SAN. The secondary storage device replicates the primary storage device in a replication mode that is either an asynchronous replication mode or a synchronous replication mode. Based on the replication mode being the asynchronous replication mode and on detecting that the round trip latency has decreased to a value below a synchronous latency threshold value, the replication mode is set to the synchronous replication mode. Based on the replication mode being the synchronous replication mode and on detecting that the round trip latency has increased to a value above the synchronous latency threshold value, the replication mode is set to the asynchronous replication mode. The monitoring is repeated.
US11132130B2
In a computer system with a hybrid memory architecture consisting of a volatile main memory and a non-volatile main memory, there are provided a segment cleaning method for a storage file system and a memory management apparatus for implementing the same, the segment cleaning method comprising: selecting a victim segment in storage; copying valid blocks in the victim segment to the volatile main memory; and moving the copied valid blocks to the non-volatile main memory. This can effectively overcome cleaning overhead, thereby improving the I/O performance of applications and increasing the lifetime of storage.
US11132125B2
A method and system for pre-attaching volumes onto a host. The method includes analyzing a plurality of hosts in a cloud environment. The method also includes identifying a least populated host based on the analyzation of the hosts. The least populated host is based on the attributes of the hosts. The method also includes identifying at least one popular volume in the cloud environment. The popular volume is a volume type most frequently used by the hosts in the cloud environment. Further, the method includes attaching the popular volume to the least populated host.
US11132117B2
A physiological monitor touchscreen interface presents interface constructs on a touchscreen display that are particularly adapted to finger gestures so to change at least one of a physiological monitor operating characteristic and a physiological touchscreen display characteristic.
US11132115B1
A method of operating a device, which includes providing a user interface with a display artifact; in response to an indication a user selected to copy the display artifact, storing multiple levels of detail of the display artifact; allowing the user to paste a selected level of detail by steps of: in response to an indication a user selected an input field and a paste command, displaying a plurality of paste options for pasting the display artifact into the input field, wherein the plurality of paste options each have a unique level of detail for representing the display artifact; allowing the user to select from the plurality of paste options; and in response to an indication a user selected a paste option from the plurality of paste options, pasting the display artifact with a level of detail associated with the selected paste option into the input filed.
US11132110B1
In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display. The GUI may include a first graphical object indicating data related to a first topic that is to be discussed by first and second participants of a first video conference, and the GUI may include a second graphical object indicating data related to a second topic that is to be discussed by third and fourth participants in a second video conference. The first and second video conferences may be transpiring concurrently. Additionally, the GUI may include a first selector that is selectable to allow a fifth participant to converse audibly in the first video conference, and a second selector that is selectable to allow the fifth participant to converse audibly in the second video conference.
US11132108B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for automatically synchronizing a visual presentation with a live presenter. Visual presentation slides are preprocessed to determine one or more topics for each slide. A topic index contains one or more topics corresponding to slides of the presentation. As a presenter provides a verbal presentation for corresponding slides, natural language processing analyzes the verbal presentation and creates one or more temporal verbal topic categories. The temporal verbal topic categories are used to search the topic index to find one or more slides that best match the current temporal verbal topic categories. In this way, the slides can automatically follow the discussion of the presenter, enabling improved presentations that can enhance the user experience, increase audience engagement, and improve the dissemination of information.
US11132106B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing user-specific applications on a shared user device. The user device can receive a first instance of an application having a Package ID that includes an identification of a first user. When the first user is logged in, the user device can display an icon associated with the first instance of the application, based on the Package ID including an identification of the first user. When the first user is not logged in, the user device can hide the first instance of the application. When a second user is logged in, the device can display a second instance of the application based on the Package ID of the second instance including an identification of the second user. The user device can also display the same instance of a shared application to both the first and second user.
US11132100B1
A system includes an analytics collector that receives world state data to provide status relating to a plurality of mission analytics of an unmanned vehicle or an unmanned vehicle mission planner. An asset filter filters the status from the analytics collector with respect to mission analytics of a subset of selected assets. An analytic aggregator collects the filtered status from the asset filter and generates a visual analytics file based on one or more selected analytics for the subset of selected assets. A rendering pipeline processes the visual analytics file from the analytic aggregator and generates a formatted output file describing a visualization of the plurality of mission analytics from the visual analytics file.
US11132098B2
An electronic panel includes: a base substrate; a first sensor including a first sensing electrode on the base substrate, a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode, a first sensing line connected to the first sensing electrode, and a second sensing line connected to the second sensing electrode; and a second sensor including an additional sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode, wherein the additional sensing electrode overlaps the first sensing line on a plane.
US11132091B2
A touch driving circuit includes: a first sensing driver including a first sensing capacitor connected to a first touch electrode; a second sensing driver including a second sensing capacitor connected to a second touch electrode; and a touch sensing unit connected to the first and second sensing drivers to sense a voltage charged in each of the first and second sensing capacitors. A charging time point of the first sensing capacitor is different from a charging time point of the second sensing capacitor, and a discharging time point of the first sensing capacitor is different from a discharging time point of the second sensing capacitor.
US11132070B1
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for a hybrid position and rate control input device comprising: a housing comprising an upper portion and a lower portion; a force-detecting sensor configured to detect a translation or rotation of the upper portion relative to the lower portion; a motion-detecting sensor within one of the upper portion and the lower portion of the housing, configured to detect motion of the housing relative to a surface; a communication interface positioned within the housing; and a processor positioned within the housing configured to select between a first translation signal from the motion-detecting sensor and a second translation signal from the force-detecting sensor; and transmit, via the communication interface to a computing device, the selected translation signal.
US11132068B2
An information display method for a computer having a keyboard. The method includes selecting a first system information among a plurality of system information, wherein the system information is configured to respectively indicate statuses of a plurality of devices of the computer; selecting a first display pattern among a plurality of display patterns according to the first system information; selecting a first keyboard region for applying the first display pattern; and showing the first system information in real-time by a plurality of first buttons corresponding to the first keyboard region of the keyboard according to the selected first display pattern, the first keyboard region and the first system information.
US11132064B2
The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
US11132059B2
Aspects of the invention include an input device comprising a housing having a region, a haptic element coupled to the housing, the haptic element configured to generate a haptic feedback and couple the haptic feedback to the region of the housing, and a force-sensitive element coupled to the housing, the force-sensitive element configured to detect a threshold input force applied-to and removed-from the region of the housing, the force-sensitive element being different from the haptic element. The haptic element may generate a first haptic feedback in response to the force-sensitive element detecting the threshold force being applied to the region of the housing, and the haptic element may generate a second haptic feedback in response to the force-sensitive element detecting the threshold force being removed from to the region of the housing, the first haptic feedback being different than the second haptic feedback.
US11132047B2
Power management in a computing device. A driver is registered with an operating system (OS) executing on the computing device to receive information about a position of a user interface control. If the user interface control is moved, the driver receives a notification of the user interface control position and determines a power management intervention based on the position. The driver transmits the power management intervention to power control circuitry which sets a power setting of the computing device based on the intervention.
US11132045B2
A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports wireless technology for hands-free use. The system handles telephone calls, email, and SMS text messages. The user can customize the device via a user profile stored on an Internet web server. The system also includes a plurality of power conservation features.
US11132040B2
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) dock includes ports, a processor, and instructions to cause the processor, below a level of an operating system running applications and accessing the USB dock, identify a first port of the plurality of ports as a priority port. The processor may be further caused to detect a connection to the dock. The processor may be further caused to determine whether a candidate port to which the connection is made is the priority port. The processor may be further caused to, based on a determination that the candidate port is the priority port, recover power from other ports and advertise power capabilities of the priority port to a USB element connecting to the dock.
US11132035B2
An air directing device for thermal management in side breathing equipment includes at least three vertical panels disposed in generally parallel relationship and horizontally spaced a fixed distance from one another. Each panel defines a fin arranged orthogonally relative to an airflow path for deflection of cooling air into side breathing equipment. At least one of the panels is an inner panel that is wider than two outer panels. The air directing device further includes at least one connection member connecting the outer panels to one another.
US11132022B2
A wearable computing contact tracing, medical tracking and passport device has a main body with a QR code, at least one indicator light, a location tracker, and a processor. The indicator light provides a first visual indication, such as a red light, of when the user has been exposed to a pandemic disease and a second visual indication, such as a green light, of when the user is immune to the pandemic disease.
US11132020B2
Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a flexible display, a sensor panel, a sensor circuitry, a first housing, a second housing, and a folding structure configured to rotate the first housing or the second housing. The sensor panel includes a plurality of loop coils. The sensor circuitry transmits or receives a first resonance signal to recognize an operation of an electronic pen through the plurality of loop coils, outputs a second resonance signal through a first loop coil included in one panel part of the first panel part or the second panel part, receives the second resonance signal through a second loop coil included in a remaining one panel part of the first panel part or the second panel part, and determines an angle between the first housing and the second housing, based on the received second resonance signal.
US11132008B2
Embodiments include systems and methods of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline. According to an embodiment, a method of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof includes determining a ratio of a second fluid flow to a first fluid flow based on signals received from a tank flow meter in fluid communication with the second fluid flow and a booster flow meter in fluid communication with a blended fluid flow. The blended fluid flow includes a blended flow of the first fluid flow and the second fluid flow. The method further includes comparing the determined ratio to a pre-selected set point ratio thereby to determine a modified flow of the second fluid flow to drive the ratio toward the pre-selected set point ratio. The method further includes controlling a variable speed drive connected to a pump thereby to control the second fluid flow through the pump based on the determined modified flow, the pump being in fluid communication with the second fluid flow.
US11132004B2
Vehicles and methods of navigating vehicles comprise at least three receiver antennae configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals from one or more RF-transmitting antennae coupled to an object, receiver circuitry coupled to the receiver antennae to acquire the RF signals and to determine timing information from the acquired RF signals, memory storing information related to fixed distances between each receiver antenna and each other receiver antenna, a processor configured to determine a relative position of the vehicle with respect to the one or more RF-transmitting antennae based on the stored information related to the fixed distances between each receiver antenna and each other receiver antenna and on the timing information determined by the receiver circuitry, and a control system configured to control operation of the vehicle in response to the relative position of the vehicle with respect to the one or more RF-transmitting antennae determined by the processor.
US11131999B2
A method and apparatus for identifying laser point cloud data of an autonomous vehicle provided with a lidar. A specific implementation of the method includes: acquiring current pose information of the autonomous vehicle in a world coordinate system in response to receiving a latest frame of laser point cloud data collected by the lidar; acquiring from the cache, based on the current pose information, N×N map blocks centered on map blocks corresponding to the current pose information in a preset three-dimensional grid map and pre-loaded into a cache and are; and executing, for each laser point data in the received laser point cloud data, the laser point data identification operations. The implementation realizes identifying whether each laser point data is a static laser point, and can improve the accuracy rate of identifying a laser point data obstacle.
US11131983B2
A spatial difference measurement method, can include generating first key features of a first skeleton of a nominal 3D model of an object and extrapolating the first key features onto the nominal 3D model. The method can include creating an actual 3D model of the object during or after a construction process (real or simulated). The method can include generating second key features of a second skeleton of the actual 3D model of the object and extrapolating the second key features onto the actual 3D model of the object. The method can include comparing the first key features extrapolated on the nominal 3D model to the second key features extrapolated on the actual 3D model to determine one or more distances between the first and second key features to measure a spatial difference between the nominal 3D model and the object during or after construction.
US11131981B2
The present disclosure provides a functional safety module for industrial devices, the functional safety module being connected between the industrial devices to manage safety according to a state of the industrial devices. The functional safety module may include a first controller and a second controller each configured to execute a common predetermined operation command including operation commands. The first controller is configured to output digital signals, and sequentially convert the digital signals into analog voltages. The second controller is configured to receive the analog voltages, sequentially converts the analog voltages, and outputs the digital signals, and determine whether the first controller is normal.
US11131980B2
An electronic cutting machine includes at least one housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.
US11131971B2
A rotating equipment system with in-line drive-sense circuit (DSC) electric power signal processing includes rotating equipment, in-line drive-sense circuits (DSCs), and one or more processing modules. The in-line DSCs receive input electrical power signals and generate motor drive signals for the rotating equipment. An in-line DSC receives an input electrical power signal, processes it to generate and output a motor drive signal to the rotating equipment via a single line and simultaneously senses the motor drive signal via the single line. Based on the sensing of the motor drive signal via the single line, the in-line DSC provides a digital signal to the one or more processing modules that receive and process the digital signal to determine information regarding one or more operational conditions of the rotating equipment, and based thereon, selectively facilitate one or more adaptation operations on the motor drive signal via the in-line DSC.
US11131970B2
Systems and methods for automated management of buildings and rooms employ a common set of components that may be paired together to form a modular room control interface. The components may comprise a base plate and a front plate that are in data communication with each other when connected together. The base plate may include one set of room monitoring and control functions and the front plate may include a different set of room monitoring and control functions. Different combinations of base plates and front plates may then be paired together to achieve a desired functionality in the modular room control interface. Such an arrangement provides a room control interface that can be quickly and easily configured for any number of different room monitoring and control functions as needed.
US11131965B2
The invention relates to a pivot arbor comprising a metal pivot (3) at each of its ends. The metal is a non-magnetic aluminium alloy in order to limit its sensitivity to magnetic fields, and at least the outer surface (5) of one of the two pivots (3) is deep-hardened to a predetermined depth with respect to the rest of the arbor to harden the pivot or pivots (3). The invention concerns the field of timepiece movements.
US11131950B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sheet supply unit, a printer, a fixing device, and a controller. The sheet supply unit supplies a sheet from a sheet container. The printer forms a toner image to the sheet conveyed from the sheet supply unit. The fixing device includes a heater, a fixing belt, and a pressure roller. The heater includes a heat generating member including a plurality of heating elements arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction and in which a heating element group selected in response to a printing request from the heat generating member generates heat. The fixing belt fixes the toner image heated by the heater to the sheet. The pressure roller presses the fixing belt.
US11131945B2
A belt unit according to an embodiment may include: an endless belt including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a drive roller in contact with the second surface and configured to drive the endless belt. A surface potential of the first surface of the belt is a voltage of not more than 20 volts, 0.1 seconds after an application of a voltage of 6000 volts.
US11131940B2
A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes a binder resin. In dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, a storage modulus G′50T of the toner at 50° C. is 2×106 Pa or more and 3×108 Pa or less, a storage modulus G′100T of the toner at 100° C. is 1×104 Pa or more and 1×106 Pa or less, and tan δT of the toner in an entire temperature range of 50° C. or more and 100° C. or less is 0.05 or more and 1.5 or less.
US11131928B2
The invention provides a resist underlayer film forming composition which contains a compound having a glycoluril skeleton and which prevents collapse of a resist pattern formed on a substrate in a lithography process during semiconductor production; a resist underlayer film which uses this composition; and a method for producing a semiconductor device. The compound is of formula (1-1), wherein each of R1-R4 represents a C2-C10 alkyl group wherein a hydrogen atom is substituted by at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydroxy group, a thiol group, a carboxyl group, C1-C5 alkoxyethyl groups, C1-C5 alkylsulfanyl groups and organic groups containing an ester bond, or a C2-C10 alkenyl group; the R1-R4 moieties may be the same as or different from each other; and each of R5 and R6 represents a hydrogen atom or a group selected from among C1-C10 alkyl groups and a phenyl group.
US11131927B2
A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition which is highly sensitive and in which it is easy to form a resist pattern whose cross-sectional shape is rectangular, a photosensitive dry film which includes a photosensitive resin layer formed from the composition, a method of manufacturing the photosensitive dry film, a method of manufacturing a patterned resist film using the composition, a method of manufacturing a substrate with a template using the composition and a method of manufacturing a plated article using the substrate with the template. A Lewis acid compound is included in the composition that also includes an acid generator which generates an acid by application of an active ray or radiation, and a resin whose solubility in alkali is increased by action of an acid.
US11131924B2
A method for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a shot region of a substrate by using a mold, includes determining a plurality of marks for alignment of the shot region and the mold, performing measurement for the alignment using the plurality of marks determined in the determining, setting an origin position of a coordinate system for acquisition of an alignment error between the shot region and the mold based on an arrangement of the plurality of marks determined in the determining, and acquiring the alignment error based on a measurement result in the measurement and the origin position determined in the setting.
US11131923B2
Systems and processes for controlling an imprinting process that dispenses a plurality of droplets onto a substrate. Droplet information representative of droplets is acquired. A set that includes droplet parameters of the droplets based on the droplet information may be estimated. Each of the droplet parameters is representative of particular droplets. Prior to a template being brought into contact with the droplets, either any of the set is outside ranges, or all of the set are inside ranges, may be determined. In a first case when any of the set are outside the ranges, then the imprinting process may be aborted prior to the template being brought into contact with the droplets. In a second case when all of the set are inside the ranges, then the imprinting process may be performed with the template.
US11131913B2
A light source device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of light source sections, each light source section having at least one light source and the light source sections emitting light beams of mutually different colors, at least one light source substrate mounted with at least one light source section among the plurality of light source sections, and an optical-path combining optical system that combines optical paths of light beams emitted from the respective light source sections, in which the at least one light source section mounted on the light source substrate includes a plurality of the light sources that emits light beams of an identical color.
US11131905B2
A camera module includes an imaging lens assembly and an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is located on an image side of the imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a plastic lens barrel and a plurality of plastic lens elements, wherein the plastic lens elements are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes an object-side outer surface, a lens barrel minimum opening, an object-side outer inclined surface and a reversing inclined surface. The object-side outer surface is a surface of the plastic lens barrel facing towards an object side being closest to the object side and is annular. The reversing inclined surface expands from the lens barrel minimum opening to the image side, wherein a connecting position of the reversing inclined surface and the object-side outer inclined surface forms the lens barrel minimum opening.
US11131893B2
Disclosed is a display substrate including a base substrate, and gate lines, data lines, common electrode lines and common electrodes on the base substrate; the gate lines and the data lines intersect to define pixel areas; the common electrodes are located in the pixel areas; the gate lines and the common electrode lines are alternately arranged one by one; each common electrode lines includes target wire segments and non-target wire segments, the target wire segments are wire segments where the common electrode lines and the data lines intersect, and the non-target wire segments are wire segments on the common electrode line except the target wire segments; and for each common electrode line, a distance between any position point on the target wire segment and a target gate line is less than a distance between the non-target wire segment and the target gate line.
US11131889B2
A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a base; an alignment inducing layer on the base and including a first compound represented by formula A1 or a polymer of the first compound; and a liquid crystal layer on the alignment inducing layer that includes liquid crystals: where R1 may be hydrogen or a polymerizable group, R2 may be a hydrophilic group, SP1 and SP2 may each independently be a single bond, a C1-C12 alkylene group, or a C1-C12 alkoxylene group, Z may be a single bond, an ester group, or an ether group, and X1, X2 and X3 may each independently be hydrogen, a methyl group, fluorine, or chlorine.
US11131883B2
A planar lighting device according to an embodiment includes a substrate and a lens. A plurality of light sources are arranged on the substrate. The lens is formed to have, on an incident surface opposing the plurality of light sources, an optical element having a plurality of first optical parts that include a part that tapers from a bottom face having a hexagonal shape toward a tip, the first optical parts being arranged in a staggered arrangement.
US11131879B2
A backlight module includes a light-transmitting shell, a first light-emitting device, a first light conversion layer and an LGP. The light-transmitting shell includes a first top plate and a first sidewall. The first top plate connects to the first sidewall and two collectively make a non-180° angle, so as to define a first light-mixing space. The first light-emitting device is disposed in the first light-mixing space to provide a first color light. The first light conversion layer is disposed on the first top plate to convert the first color light to a second color light. The LGP has a light incident surface and a light exit surface, the first top plate is disposed between the light incident surface and the first light-emitting device, and the second color light comes into the light guide plate from the light incident surface and is emitted outwards from the light exit surface.
US11131878B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of display elements; a window member disposed on the display panel; and a plurality of first light conversion members that convert the path of light emitted from the display elements and whose cross sections are about 450 nm to about 950 nm in diameter, wherein the first light conversion members directly contact a surface of the window member.
US11131867B2
A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.
US11131858B2
A low-height projector assembly includes a biconvex lens, a converging lens, an aperture stop, and a beam-steerer between the biconvex lens and the converging lens. The biconvex lens has a principal plane, a focal length, and a first optical axis. The converging lens has a second optical axis laterally offset from the first. The beam-steerer is configured to steer light from the biconvex lens to the converging lens. An aperture-stop plane intersects the second optical axis and the aperture stop. On the second optical axis, at least one of a front surface and a back surface of the converging lens is between the aperture-stop plane and the beam-steerer. The axial chief ray's propagation distance from the principal plane to the aperture stop differs from the focal length by less than half the depth of focus of the biconvex lens.
US11131853B2
An eyeglass lens for an optical imaging element for producing a virtual image of an initial image includes a main body and at least one complementary element mounted on the main body. The main body has a material with a first index of refraction n1. A viscous or solid intermediate layer is arranged between the complementary element and the main body at least in the region where the complementary element overlaps with a reflection section of the main body. The material of the viscous or solid intermediate layer has a second index of refraction n2 that satisfies the condition n2
US11131839B2
A sample observation device (1) includes: an emission optical system (3) for emitting planar light (L2) onto a sample (S); a scanning unit (4) for scanning the sample (S) with respect to an emission face (R) of the planar light (L2); an imaging optical system (5) having an observation axis (P2) inclined with respect to the emission face (R) and for forming an image from observation light (L3) generated in the sample (S) in accordance with the emission of the planar light (L2); an image acquiring unit (6) for acquiring a plurality of partial image data corresponding to a part of an optical image according to the observation light (L3) formed as an image by the imaging optical system (5); and an image generating unit (8) for generating observation image data of the sample S based on the plurality of partial image data generated by the image acquiring unit (6).
US11131833B2
An annular optical component includes an inner surface, an outer surface, an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The inner surface includes multiple L-shaped annular grooves. The annular optical component includes multiple stripe-shaped structures disposed in the L-shaped annular grooves. The L-shaped annular grooves include an object-side L-shaped annular groove closest to the object-side surface and an image-side L-shaped annular groove closest to the image-side surface. A bottom diameter of the image-side L-shaped annular groove is larger than a bottom diameter of the object-side L-shaped annular groove. Each L-shaped annular groove includes a first side and a second side located between the object-side surface and the image-side surface. The stripe-shaped structures are disposed on the first side or the second side, and a degree of inclination between the first side and the central axis is larger than a degree of inclination between the second side and the central axis.
US11131831B2
A lens moving apparatus, including a bobbin; a first coil mounted at an outer circumference of the bobbin; a first magnet moving the bobbin in a first direction parallel to an optical axis by interaction with the first coil; a housing supporting the first magnet; an upper elastic member disposed at a top surface of the bobbin and at a top surface of the housing; a lower elastic member disposed at a bottom surface of the bobbin and at a bottom surface of the housing; and first and second winding protrusions disposed with being opposite to each other, the first coil being wound on the first and second winding protrusions.
US11131830B2
An embodiment comprises: a housing supporting a first coil; a bobbin supporting a magnet, the bobbin being moved inside the housing in a first direction, which is parallel with an optical axis, by an electromagnetic interaction between the magnet and the first coil; an elastic member coupled to the bobbin and to the housing; a first circuit board electrically connected to the elastic member; a second circuit board arranged below the housing; a second coil arranged on the second circuit board; and a support member electrically connecting the first circuit board and the second circuit board or electrically connecting the elastic member and the second circuit board.
US11131820B2
Various implementations of epoxy transitions for fiber optic modules are disclosed. As disclosed herein, a fiber optic module system may include a fiber optic module holding a plurality of multi-fiber adapters at a front of the fiber optic module, a multi-fiber cable, and an epoxy transition to transition the multi-fiber cable to a plurality of individual optical fibers inside the fiber optic module. The epoxy transition may be filled with an epoxy to secure the individual optical fibers inside the epoxy transition.
US11131818B2
A telecommunications device includes a rack defining right, left, front, rear, top, and bottom sides, the rack defining mounting locations in a stacked arrangement from the bottom to the top, the mounting locations for receiving modules defining connection locations. A cable storage bay is located at one of the right and left sides of the rack and defines front and rear cable storage areas. Both the front and rear cable storage areas include cable management structures for managing and guiding cables toward and away from the connection locations. A trough is defined at the top of the rack, the trough configured for extending cables to other racks in a front to rear direction, the trough also defining a cable drop-off communicating with the cable storage bay for extending cables to either of the front or rear cable storage areas for further connection to the connection locations.
US11131813B2
An optical connector (100) comprises one or more optical cables (110) disposed within a housing (120). Each optical In cable (110) includes an array of at least one optical waveguide (111) and at least one optical ferrule (112) attached to the array of optical waveguides (111). The housing (120) includes a first housing portion (121) and a second housing portion (122) engaged with the first housing portion (121). The second housing portion (122) comprises at least one carrier (130) and one frame (140). The carrier (130) and frame (140) of the second housing portion (122) are configured to support the one or more optical cables (110). The first housing portion (121) and the second housing portion (122) are configured such that mechanical engagement of the first housing portion (121) with the second housing portion (122) moves the carrier (130) relative to the frame (140). Movement of the carrier (130) relative to the frame (140) causes a bend in each optical waveguide (111) and rotation of each ferrule (112). The bend provides a predetermined spring force of the optical waveguides (111) at a predetermined angle of the ferrule (112).
US11131812B2
A fibre optic connector is described the fibre optic connector comprising a threaded body; a tether strand spreader; a compression seal, when assembled the compression seal located between the tethered strand spreader and the threaded body; a threaded sealing block, connectable to the threaded body, when assembled forcing the tether strand spreader into the threaded body; a fibre terminator; and an elongated sheath connectable to the threaded body and at least partially covering the fibre terminator.
US11131809B2
The invention relates to an integrated polarisation splitter based on a sub-wavelength multimode interference coupler (110), in other words, a multimode interference coupler (110) with an anisotropic multimode waveguide region formed by a plurality of sections of core material (210) and a plurality of sections of a cladding material (230) alternately arranged in a periodic way, with a period (Λ) smaller than the wavelength of a light propagated through said anisotropic region. The core material sections (210) are rotated an angle (α) greater than zero with respect to a perpendicular with an input waveguide (120) to increase the anisotropic character of the multimode waveguide region.
US11131799B2
A backlight unit (5) includes a light guide sheet (21) and a light diffusion sheet (23) provided on the surface of the light guide sheet (21). Assuming that the coefficient of static friction between the light guide sheet (21) and the light diffusion sheet (23) measured at a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 50% in accordance with JIS K 7125 is Y1, and the difference in coefficient of linear expansion between the light guide sheet (21) and the light diffusion sheet (23) measured in accordance with JIS K 7197 is X, the following relational expression (1) is satisfied. [Math. 1] Y1≤1.00×10−4X2−3.43×10−2X+2.35 (1).
US11131796B2
Described examples include a display having a first light source configured to provide a first light and a second light source configured to provide a second light. The display also having a spatial light modulator configured to produce a first modulated light by modulating the first light and configured to produce a second modulated light by modulating the second light. The display also having a first diffractive optical element configured to receive the first modulated light and configured to provide a first image having a first characteristic to display optics; and a second diffractive optical element configured to receive the second modulated light and configured to provide a second image having a second characteristic to the display optics.
US11131785B2
Systems and methods for deployment of ocean bottom seismic receivers into a body of water having a surface and a seabed. The system can include a remote operated vehicle (ROV) comprising a first wireless communication device. The system can include a seismic data receiver deployed on the seabed comprising a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device can be configured to communicate with the second wireless communication device. The ROV can move to a position adjacent to the seismic data receiver. The ROV can establish a wireless link with the seismic data receiver via the first communication device and second wireless communication device.
US11131783B2
Provided herein are neutron imaging systems (e.g., radiography and tomography) systems and methods that provide, for example, high-quality, high throughput 2D and 3D fast or thermal neutron and/or X-ray images. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale imaging of industrial components. In certain embodiments, provided herein are system comprising a plurality of independent neutron absorber-lined collimators (e.g., 4 or more collimators) extending outwards from a central neutron source assembly.
US11131782B2
A diode and a transistor are connected in parallel. The transistor is located on a first doped region forming a PN junction of the diode with a second doped region located under the first region. The circuit functions as an ionizing radiation detection cell by generating a current through the PN junction which changes by a voltage generated across the transistor. This change in voltage is compared to a threshold to detect the ionizing radiation.
US11131772B2
Provided are a LiDAR device and a method of operating the LiDAR device. The LiDAR device includes a light-emitting unit configured to emit modulated light onto an object, a light-receiving unit configured to receive the modulated light reflected by the object, a computation unit configured to calculate a distance to the object based on a reception signal of the modulated light provided by the light-receiving unit, a modulation unit configured to provide a modulation signal to the light-emitting unit to generate the modulated light, and a controller configured to control operations of at least one of the light-emitting unit, the light-receiving unit, the computation unit, and the modulation unit.
US11131769B2
An ECU as an object detection device and a radar device are mounted on a vehicle. The radar device acquires front-view images containing a detection-target object such as a preceding vehicle present within a predetermined area around the vehicle. The radar device recognizes the detection-target object in time series based on the acquired front-view images. The ECU realizes a preceding vehicle selection part, an irregular-detection detecting part and an association processing part. The selection part selects the object when a relationship between the object and the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition. The detecting part detects occurrence of an irregular detection when a first object selected as the preceding vehicle and a second object not selected as the preceding vehicle are detected based on the object. The association processing part performs an association process of associating history of the first object to the second object when the irregular detection has occurred.
US11131756B2
An example LIDAR system includes a detector, an amplifier, a time-to-digital converter (TDC), an integrator, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a processor. The detector is configured to receive a reflected light pulse, where the reflected light pulse is reflected off of an object. The amplifier is coupled to the detector to generate an analog signal in response to the reflected light pulse. The TDC is coupled to the amplifier to generate a first time data and a second time data in response to the analog signal. The integrator is coupled to the amplifier to integrate the analog signal. The ADC is coupled to the integrator to sample an output of the integrator and to generate a digital sample. The processor is configured to process the first time data, the second time data, and the digital sample to estimate a total reflected energy of the reflected light pulse.
US11131755B2
An array-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) unit includes an array of emitter/detector sets configured to cover a field of view for the unit. Each emitter/detector set emits and receives light energy on a specific coincident axis unique for that emitter/detector set. A control system coupled to the array of emitter/detector sets controls initiation of light energy from each emitter and processes time of flight information for light energy received on the coincident axis by the corresponding detector for the emitter/detector set. The time of flight information provides imaging information corresponding to the field of view. Interference among light energy is reduced with respect to detectors in the LiDAR unit not corresponding to the specific coincident axis, and with respect to other LiDAR units and ambient sources of light energy. In one embodiment, multiple array-based LiDAR units are used as part of a control system for an autonomous vehicle.
US11131754B2
A beam steering device includes a waveguide configured to transmit a beam therethrough; a cladding layer provided on the waveguide and including a material having a refractive index that varies according to a voltage applied thereto; and an electrode layer including at least two electrodes configured to independently voltages to at least two portions of the cladding layer.
US11131750B2
A radar device for a vehicle, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a case; a first printed circuit board (PCB) that is accommodated in the case and has a plurality of antenna arrays and an integrated circuit (IC) chip that are formed thereon, wherein the IC chip is connected to the plurality of antenna arrays; and a radome that is coupled to the case and covers the first printed circuit board, wherein the radome includes: a cover facing the first printed circuit board; a first wall connected to the cover surface; and a second wall connected to the cover and facing the first wall, wherein the internal angle between the cover and the first wall and the internal angle between the cover and the second wall are formed to be greater than 90° and less than 180°.
US11131749B2
A MIMO radar sensor is described for motor vehicles as including an antenna array, which is angle-resolving in two directions perpendicular to each other and including multiple receiving antennas, which are situated offset from one another in a first of the two directions, and multiple transmitting antennas, and including a control and evaluation unit for activating the transmitting antennas and for evaluating signals of the receiving antennas. The antenna array includes at least three selectively activatable transmitting antennas, which are offset from one another both in the first direction as well as in the second direction, and the control and evaluation unit is designed for a two-dimensional angle estimation in the first direction and the second direction using the signals received when the transmitting antennas are activated differently.
US11131739B2
A partial discharge calibration standard apparatus may include a first and second rigid members defining respective first and second facing surfaces. An electrically insulating material may be disposed between the facing surfaces. The apparatus may further include a pressure member maintaining the rigid members together, thereby fixing the first and second facing surfaces in a substantially parallel spaced relation across the insulating material such that a partial discharge threshold magnitude for an electrical potential difference between the first and second facing surfaces is determined. The insulating material may prevent a partial discharge of an electrical potential from the first facing surface to the second facing surface below the partial discharge threshold magnitude, while allowing the electrical potential difference to be discharged from the first facing surface to the second facing surface through the insulating material when the electrical potential difference is increased to the partial discharge threshold magnitude.
US11131738B2
A method and system provides an acquisition scheme for generating magnetic resonance elastography displacement data with whole-sample coverage, high spatial resolution, and adequate SNR in a short scan time. The method and system can acquire in-plane and through-plane k-space shots over a volume of a sample divided into a plurality of slabs that each include a plurality of non-adjacent slices to obtain three dimensional multiband, multishot data, can apply multiband radio frequency refocusing pulses to the sample, can acquire navigators before readout, and can correct for non-linear motion errors.
US11131735B2
A computer that determines coefficients in a representation of coil sensitivities and MR information associated with a sample is described. During operation, the computer may acquire MR signals associated with a sample from the measurement device. Then, the computer may access a predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors, where weighted superpositions of the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors using the coefficients represent coil sensitivities of coils in the measurement device, and where the predetermined coil magnetic field basis vectors are solutions to Maxwell's equations. Next, the computer may solve a nonlinear optimization problem for the MR information associated with the sample and the coefficients using the MR signals and the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors.
US11131730B2
A magnetic resonance coil having at least one tuning device for tuning the magnetic resonance coil, a magnetic resonance device, and a method for tuning a magnetic resonance coil are provided. The at least one tuning device includes a plurality of capacitors that are mechanically interlinked.
US11131728B2
A method for initializing a sensor array comprises executing a statistical test on a set consisting of first measurements measured by the sensors of the array, the statistical test being able to detect in the first measurements at least one aberrant measurement caused by a presence of an object, called a disruptor, this disruptor modifying the measured physical quantity nonuniformly, wherein if the execution of the statistical test detects at least one aberrant measurement, then the method comprises signaling the presence of the disruptor, and if the execution of the statistical test does not detect at least one aberrant measurement, then the method comprises acquiring second measurements of the physical quantity, the second measurements being measured by the sensors.
US11131724B2
An exemplary magnetic field measurement system includes a wearable sensor unit and a controller. The wearable sensor unit includes 1) a magnetometer comprising a photodetector and 2) a magnetic field generator configured to generate a compensation magnetic field configured to actively shield the magnetometer from ambient background magnetic fields. The controller is configured to interface with the magnetometer and the magnetic field generator and includes a differential signal measurement circuit configured to measure current output by the photodetector.
US11131703B2
Apparatuses and methods as described herein can be used to help stabilize the gain of a semiconductor-based photomultiplier. In an embodiment, an apparatus can include a semiconductor-based photomultiplier. The apparatus can be configured to inject a first input pulse into the semiconductor-based photomultiplier; determine a revised bias voltage for the semiconductor-based photomultiplier based at least in part on a first output pulse corresponding to the first input pulse and a second output pulse from the semiconductor-based photomultiplier that is obtained at another time as compared to the first output pulse; and adjust a bias voltage for the semiconductor-based photomultiplier to the revised bias voltage. A calibration light source, a temperature sensor, and temperature information are not required to be used for the method.
US11131700B2
The present invention relates to a method of establishing specific electrode positions by providing a multi-point probe and a test sample. The method comprises the measuring or determining of a distance between two of the electrodes of the multi-point probe and establishing a resistance model representative of the test sample. The method further comprises the performing of at least three different sheet resistance measurements and establishing for each of the different sheet resistance measurement a corresponding predicted sheet resistance based on the resistance model. Thereafter the method comprises the establishment of a set of differences constituting the difference between each of the predicted sheet resistance and its corresponding measured sheet resistance, and deriving the specific electrode positions of the multi-point probe on the surface of the test sample by using the distance and performing a data fit by minimizing an error function constituting the sum of the set of differences.
US11131690B2
It is described a contact probe for a testing head of an apparatus for testing electronic devices including a body essentially extended along a longitudinal direction between a contact tip and a contact head, that contact probe comprising at least one multilayer structure, in turn including a superposition of at least one inner layer or core and a first inner coating layer, and an outer coating layer that completely covers the multilayer structure and made of a material having a higher hardness than a material realizing the core.
US11131689B2
Embodiments herein describe structures of low-force wafer test probes and formation thereof. Structures of low-force wafer test probes and their formation via gray scale etch or electroplating is described. Structures are described that include a lower base structure on top of a substrate and an upper blade structure on top of the lower base structure. In various embodiments, a crown of a C4 bump is accommodated by one or both of: i) a cavity present in the lower base structure; and ii) a height of the upper blade structure. Processes for fabricating probe structures are described that include forming lower base structures upon a substrate and forming upper blade structures on top of the lower base structures. The upper blade structures include at least one blade. Each of the blade(s) include a cutting edge that points toward a center point within the probe structure.
US11131681B2
Disclosed herein is a method for predicting or diagnosing psychiatric disorders through analyzing skin tissues samples minimally invasive or non-invasively collected. The method disclosed herein makes it possible to diagnose psychiatric disorders through objective biomarkers at a very early age, without giving pain to subjects because of noninvasive or minimally invasive feature of skin sample collection method.
US11131678B2
An analytical process for detecting antibody in human blood serum, which antibody is directed against blood group antigen, wherein the serum contains an additional antibody directed against a surface antigen, by contacting the serum to be analysed with blood cell membranes, which naturally bear surface blood group antigens, followed by detection of agglutination which indicated the presence of antibody directed against at least one surface antigen of the blood cell membranes. The agglutination reaction caused by the additional antibody is prevented, allowing the detection of anti-blood group antibody.
US11131669B2
A sealed lateral flow device includes a test strip, a base structure, and a removable cover fixed to the base structure. The test strip includes one or more of a sample application zone, a detection zone, and a liquid collection zone. The test strip is disposed within a bottom section of the base structure. The removable cover fixed to the base structure sealingly encloses the test strip within the base structure and forms an airtight seal of the base structure.
US11131664B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing and analyte characterization from one or more cells. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including generation of labeled macromolecules, including major mistocompatability complex (MHC) molecules, dextramers, etc. Labeled macromolecules may be generated using an in vitro transcription reaction. Labeled macromolecules may be generated in one or more partitions.
US11131654B2
A column mainly comprises a tube, a plug, a first filter, a second filter, a stopper, and a connector. The tube mainly comprises a bottomed cylindrical storage part, and a cylindrical bottom-side connection part connected to a bottom of the storage part. The storage part and the bottom-side connection part are coaxially provided. The plug mainly comprises an outer pipe coaxially provided, and an inner pipe provided on an inner side of the outer pipe. The first filter and the second filter each are such a filter as not to enable the filler to pass. The stopper mainly comprises a stopper gripping part, and a stopper insertion part. The connector mainly comprises a connector gripping part and a connector insertion part.
US11131651B2
In a method of inspecting a structure, a first ultrasonic signal generated from a target structure by a first laser beam is received. The first ultrasonic signal is generated by providing the first laser beam generated from a first excitation unit to the target structure. A second ultrasonic signal generated from the target structure by a second laser beam different from the first laser beam is received. The second ultrasonic signal is generated by providing the second laser beam generated from a second excitation unit to the target structure. A third ultrasonic signal generated from the target structure by the first and second laser beams is received. The third ultrasonic signal is generated by simultaneously providing the first and second laser beams to the target structure. It is determined whether the target structure is damaged based on first, second and third ultrasonic frequency spectra that are obtained by converting the first, second and third ultrasonic signals, respectively.
US11131649B2
Method and systems for managing clear-down are provided. The method can include generating a clear-down trigger associated with an ion mobility spectrometer and operating the ion mobility spectrometer in fast clear-down mode in response to the clear-down trigger. Methods and systems can further provide that where the ion mobility spectrometer operates in fast-switching mode, the ion mobility spectrometer alternating a plurality of times between operation according to a positive ion mode and operation according to a negative ion mode, and further operating according to the positive ion mode for less than about 1 second before switching to the operation according to the negative ion mode, and operating according to the negative ion mode for less than about 1 second before switching to the operation according to the positive ion mode.
US11131648B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a potentiometric sensor having a cathode and an anode. The cathode is configured to provide a summary voltage representative of at least two voltage points. The anode is configured to provide a first voltage. The cathode is in communication with the anode by a first electrolyte forming an open circuit having an open circuit potential. Within the first electrolyte is a concentration of a target ion. The open circuit potential mathematically corresponds to the concentration of the target ion.
US11131638B2
A calibration method is executed in an analysis device including a spectroscopic element for diffracting a signal generated from a specimen by irradiating the specimen with a primary beam, and a detector that detects the signal diffracted by the spectroscopic element, the detector having a plurality of detection regions arranged in an energy dispersion direction, and the detector detecting the signal to acquire a spectrum of the signal. The calibration method includes determining energy of the signal detected in each of the plurality of detection regions based on a positional relationship between the specimen and the spectroscopic element and a positional relationship between the spectroscopic element and each of the plurality of detection regions.
US11131632B2
A measuring device for the measurement of light signals emitted from samples in wells of a microplate, in particular to a luminescence measuring device for measuring luminescence signals. The luminescence measuring device has a first injector with an injector needle having an outlet end for dispensing a reagent into a well, and a luminescence optical device having an optical axis extending substantially perpendicularly to the microplate and a measuring region surrounding the optical axis. The injector needle extends to below the luminescence optical device and opens with its outlet end into the measuring region. The luminescence measuring device has further a spray deflector arranged between the outlet end of the injector and the luminescence optical device.
US11131631B2
A microscopy method and system includes obtaining a plurality of raw fluorescence images, respective ones of the plurality of raw fluorescence images obtained by exciting a sample using a light source at a respective irradiance value in a weak saturation region of the sample, and capturing the respective raw fluorescence image; applying a plurality of weights to the plurality of raw fluorescence images in a one-to-one correspondence so as to generate a plurality of weighted fluorescence images, wherein a respective weight is based on the respective irradiance value at which the corresponding raw fluorescence image was obtained; and linearly combining the plurality of weighted fluorescence images, thereby generating the output image having a resolution greater than a diffraction limit. Respective raw fluorescence images correspond to irradiance values different from one another.
US11131621B2
An analysis device includes an optical disc drive, a gate information processing unit, a detection circuit, and a gate shift processing unit. The optical disc drive rotates a specimen analysis disc and detects a measurement radial position for an optical pickup. The detection circuit generates gate signals shifted by a gate shift amount in each measurement radial position in a rotating direction of the specimen analysis disc, and generates count values of the respective gate signals. The gate shift processing unit divides a gate signal-corresponding region of the corresponding gate signal by a unit gate shift amount in the rotating direction of the specimen analysis disc to define a plurality of divided regions and sets count values of the divided regions based on the count values of the gate signals.
US11131601B2
A method for in-line optical testing is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, forming an optical device on the substrate, and forming a test circuit on the substrate, the test circuit being optically coupled to the optical device. An optical test is performed on the optical device with the test circuit. The test circuit is then removed.
US11131592B2
A motor unit includes a drive motor having an output shaft with a hollow portion, and a torque sensor arranged inside the hollow portion. The output shaft is formed by a magnetic body. A vehicle can include the motor unit. The drive motor can be a traction motor that generates traction drive force of the vehicle, for example.
US11131586B2
A resistance pattern that contains platinum as a main component is formed into a meander shape and on a main surface of a ceramic substrate. A protective film layer that covers the resistance pattern has a two-layer structure including a trap layer as an inner layer and an overcoat layer as an outer layer. The trap layer contains alumina as a main component and 2 to 30 vol % of platinum. The overcoat layer contains alumina as a main component. With such a configuration, even when reactivity of the platinum resistance pattern becomes higher under high temperature use, platinum contained in the trap layer reacts with oxygen or impurities etc. contained in the ceramic substrate. Thus, reaction of the platinum resistance pattern can be suppressed.
US11131585B2
A process and a device are provided for a contactless determination of a measuring location (32) on a body, which point is intended for the measurement of a skin temperature of a human being (10). A signature (36) indicating a measuring location (32) on the body is detected by means of a sensor system (16). A skin temperature measurement is carried out on the measuring location (32) on the body. A signature (36) detectable in the infrared range and a sensor system (16) sensitive in the infrared range are used. Both the detection of the infrared range signature (36) and the measurement of the skin temperature at the measuring location (32) on the body are carried out by means of the sensor system (16) sensitive in the infrared range.
US11131584B2
A sensor device may determine a first optical sensor value associated with a first displacement and a second optical sensor value associated with a second displacement, wherein the first displacement is between an emitter associated with the first optical sensor value and a sensing location used to determine the first optical sensor value, wherein the second displacement is between an emitter associated with the second optical sensor value and a sensing location used to determine the second optical sensor value, and wherein the first displacement is different from the second displacement. The sensor device may determine one or more measurements using the first optical sensor value and the second optical sensor value, wherein the one or more measurements relate to a first penetration depth associated with the first optical sensor value, and a second penetration depth associated with the second optical sensor value.
US11131583B2
An object state detection and transmission system includes a spectrometer configured to measure a reflectance spectrum based on reflected light reflected by a target object, a spectroscopic terminal apparatus integrally provided with an electronic device, the spectroscopic terminal apparatus being configured to receive a measured reflection spectrum; and a server apparatus connected to the spectroscopic terminal apparatus via a communication line. The electronic device includes a photographic camera configured to photograph the target object to capture a photographed image; a Global Positioning System (GPS) communication unit configured to measure a position of the target object; a sensor configured to measure an azimuth and an angle of the target object; a Central Processing Unit (CPU) configured to clock a current time of the photographing and the measurement; and a wireless communication unit configured to transmit resultant data to the server apparatus.
US11131569B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for calibration determinations for handheld moisture meters in the field. A calibration reference stand emulates a sample with an equivalent moisture content, allowing rapid determination whether a moisture meter is out of calibration, or determination of a new calibration value. The calibration reference stand includes an electromagnetic load, which can be formed of a metal sheet or high dielectric constant material, supported on a platform, and mechanical fixturing for reproducible positioning of a moisture meter on the stand. Associated methods and variations are disclosed.
US11131566B2
An electrostatic sensor detecting a position of an object being approaching the electrostatic sensor includes a first electrode group including electrodes, a second electrode group including electrodes adjacent to the electrodes of the first electrode group, detection circuits connected to electrodes selected from among the electrodes of the first and second electrode groups and having first alternating-current sources and current measurement units, a second alternating-current source connected to unselected electrodes among the electrodes of the first and second electrode groups, and a controller. The controller successively selects electrodes to be connected to the detection circuits from among the electrodes of the first and second electrode groups, causes the selected electrodes to be connected to the detection circuits, and detects a position of the object based on current detected by the current measurement units.
US11131561B2
A vehicle position management method includes granting an information acquisition right, which is a right to receive support information helpful for driving vehicle, when upload information including marker identification information which identifies detected magnetic marker is acquired from vehicle side capable of detecting magnetic marker laid in a road, providing vehicle to which the information acquisition right has been granted with the support information, and identifying and managing a position of vehicle associated with the upload information based on a laying position of magnetic marker identified by the marker identification information included in the upload information.
US11131556B2
A method and system for selecting a point of interest are provided. The method includes receiving a user request from a vehicle user, determining a wait time for each of a plurality of points of interest, identifying a point of interest from the plurality points of interest based on the user request and the determined wait times at the plurality of points of interest, receiving a user input from the vehicle user, and updating navigation directions of a vehicle based on the identified point of interest when the user input includes an acknowledgment of the identified point of interest.
US11131549B2
A navigation system includes a monocentric lens and one or more curved image sensor arrays disposed parallel and spaced apart from the lens to capture respective portions, not all, of the field of view of the lens.
US11131545B2
An integrated photonics optical gyroscope fabricated on a silicon nitride (SiN) waveguide platform comprises a first portion with silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides that constitute a rotation sensing element; and, a second portion with additional silicon nitride (SiN) waveguide-based optical components that constitute a front-end chip to launch light into and receive light from the rotation sensing element. The two portions can be stacked together to have a multi-layer configuration vertically coupled with each other. External elements (e.g., laser, detectors, phase shifter) may be made of different material platform than SiN and can be hybridly integrated to the SiN waveguide platform.
US11131542B2
An imaging unit includes a light source and a pixel array. The light source projects a line of light that is scanned in a first direction across a field of view of the light source. The line of light oriented in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The pixel array is arranged in at least one row of pixels that extends in a direction that is substantially parallel to the second direction. At least one pixel in a row is capable of generating two-dimensional color information of an object in the field of view based on a first light reflected from the object and is capable of generating three-dimensional (3D) depth information of the object based on the line of light reflecting from the object. The 3D-depth information includes time-of-flight information.
US11131537B2
A measurement method using an inductive proximity sensor connected to a cable, the measurement method including the following steps: applying to the cable an excitation voltage at a known reference frequency; acquiring a measurement voltage representative of the excitation current that flows in the cable and in the sensor under the effect of the excitation voltage; multiplying the measurement voltage both by a first reference signal in order to obtain a first measurement signal and also by a second reference signal in order to obtain a second measurement signal; using the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal to evaluate a measurement impedance representative of the impedance of the sensor and of the cable; using the measurement impedance to estimate the inductance of the sensor or the impedance of the sensor; and comparing the inductance of the sensor or the impedance of the sensor with a predefined detection threshold in order to obtain proximity information.
US11131535B2
There is provided a rotary stand capable of reducing the load on a feeder and deformation of a placement plane. A rotary stand includes a feeder that adjusts an inclination of a placement plane. The feeder includes a first contact portion that interlocks with a feeding mechanism to move and a second contact portion pressurized by a spring. The first contact portion and the second contact portion disposed to face each other in the movement direction to sandwich a held part interlocking with the placement plane.
US11131528B2
A non-lethal dazzling turret includes a laser operable in the visible spectrum. The non-lethal dazzling turret can be deployed, for example, behind a counter at a convenience store or a gas station, and can include a camera as well as an on-board computer. The non-lethal dazzling turret can stream video to a remote location where an operator can aim and fire the non-lethal dazzling turret at potential targets as needed. Alternatively, a fully autonomous version is disclosed that can be activated by, for example, a panic button.
US11131527B1
According to exemplary inventive practice, ceramic powder or slurry is selectively deposited at many discrete locations on each of many fiberglass fabric substrates. The sizes and/or shapes of the ceramic deposits vary among the substrates. The substrates are selectively ordered and stacked so that perpendicular through-plane alignments of respective ceramic deposits form selected three-dimensional geometric shapes. The resultant stack of substrates, characterized by many three-dimensional ceramic inclusions, is impregnated with an elastomer or an epoxy that binds the ceramic-deposited substrates together, resulting in a finished composite product. Inventive composite structures can be multifariously designed and embodied to afford selected ballistic and/or structural and/or electromagnetic qualities. Another mode of inventive practice provides for incorporation of the above-described inventive composite product as a layer in a multilayer composite system that also includes a high strain-rate-sensitivity-hardening polymer layer, a hybrid composite fabric layer, a ceramic layer, and a polymeric ballistic fabric layer.
US11131526B2
A handgun slide has a slide body extending longitudinally and includes sides extending down from a top surface. A proximal end portion of the slide body defines a recess configured to receive a sight assembly. A sight assembly can be installed in the recess of the slide by placing the sight assembly in the recess, followed by securing the assembly to the slide. In its installed configuration, at least part of the sight assembly's point-of-aim indicator is recessed below the top surface of the slide.
US11131521B2
The present invention relates to a rocket launching module comprising a base frame (1) comprising at least one rail (2a); a sliding table (3) configured to slide substantially vertically on said rail (2a) when driven by at least one electric linear actuator (11), and a targeting device (4) comprising a turntable (5) on which a pivotable body (6) is mounted, supporting a rocket support portion (7). The sliding table (3) comprises a platform (8) configured to receive the turntable (5) of the targeting device (4).
US11131518B2
A modular barrel system for firearm includes a first barrel segment and a second barrel segment. Each barrel segment comprises a tubular member having an axial bore, a proximal end, and a distal end. The proximal end of the first barrel segment has a first threaded element for removably attaching the first barrel segment to a firearm. The distal end of the first barrel segment has a second threaded element and the proximal end of the second barrel segment has a third threaded element which is complementary with the second threaded element, the third threaded element for removably attaching the second barrel segment to the first barrel segment. In a further aspect, method for the manufacture of a modular barrel system are provided.
US11131510B1
A heat pipe structure is used for cooling a heat source. The heat pipe structure includes a sleeve tube and a shaft. The sleeve tube includes an inner wall. The sleeve tube has a trench on the inner wall. The trench is at an outlet end of the sleeve tube. The trench extends in a circumferential direction of the sleeve tube. The shaft is connected to the heat source. The shaft is inserted into the sleeve tube from the outlet end such that the shaft is rotatable relative to the sleeve tube. The trench surrounds the shaft.
US11131500B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet that defines a storage chamber, a heat exchange space that is defined by the cabinet and positioned rearward of the storage chamber, an evaporator unit that is provided at the heat exchange space, a grill fan assembly that provides a barrier between the heat exchange space and the storage chamber, a drawer door that is configured to be inserted into and withdrawn out of the storage chamber, a draw-out rail provided between an inner surface of the lower storage chamber and both lateral sides of the drawer door to guide a movement of the drawer door into and out of the storage chamber, and a lighting unit provided at a rear surface of the door part and configured to illuminate the drawer part and to guide air coming from the outlet of the grill fan assembly in a downward direction into the storage space.
US11131499B2
A refrigerator includes a main body, a dispenser configured to supply water to the outside of the main body, a water supply flow path connecting the dispenser to a water source; and a valve assembly disposed on the water supply flow path, wherein the valve assembly comprises an elastic member having an outlet whose diameter is reduced by an elastic force, when water is no longer supplied to the valve assembly, so that water remaining in the inside of the water supply flow path is kept by the surface tension of the water.
US11131490B2
The refrigerant device includes a refrigerant circuit, an injection circuit, an inlet temperature sensor, an outlet temperature sensor, and a controller configured to control the operation of the refrigerant circuit. The controller includes an evaluation value calculation unit and a refrigerant amount detection unit. The evaluation value calculation unit calculates an evaluation value indicating a capability of a subcooling heat exchanger in accordance with an inlet temperature detected by the inlet temperature sensor and an outlet temperature detected by the outlet temperature sensor. The refrigerant amount detection unit determines whether there is a shortage of refrigerant in accordance with the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit.
US11131487B2
A heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins arranged in parallel, and a plurality of heat exchanger tubes penetrating the fins. The heat transfer tubes define a plurality of refrigerant passages through which refrigerant is passed inside the heat exchanger. Each of the refrigerant passages is formed as a single independent passage from the refrigerant inlet to the refrigerant outlet.
US11131485B2
A multi-split system and a liquid return prevention control method thereof during defrosting of the multi-split system. The method includes the following steps: when the multi-split system is in heating operation, detecting gas exhaust pressure (PC), gas return pressure (PE) and gas exhaust temperature (TP) of a compressor in real time; if an outdoor unit receives a defrosting instruction, sending a defrosting signal to a diverter and heating indoor units in multiple indoor units, controlling, by means of the diverter, a throttling element (EXV2) to close before first reversing of a four-way valve and last for a pre-set time, so as to reduce the amount of a refrigerant returned to the outdoor unit; and regulating the opening of the throttling element (EXV2) according to the gas exhaust pressure (PC), gas return pressure (PE) and gas exhaust temperature (TP) during defrosting operation of the multi-split system, so that the risk of liquid return occurred to the compressor during a defrosting process, and the safety and reliability of the system are greatly improved.
US11131483B1
A method for improving the efficiency of a solar heating system based on absorbing heat from solar radiation through the surface of an exposed tube to a liquid. The heat transfer device makes use of this fluid to transfer heat from the outside of the wall to the inside of the wall. The inside wall is then used to heat air that is passed over it, and that air is then used to heat up a heat storage system.
US11131464B2
A hydronic panel and system for heating and/or cooling a room is disclosed. The hydronic panel includes a plurality of contiguous channels. A first chamber is located at a first end, preferably the upper end, of the panel and includes an inlet and communicates with a first subset of the channels. A second chamber is located at an opposite end of the panel and communicates with the first subset and also with a second subset of the channels. A third chamber is located at the first end of the panel, the third chamber communicates with the second subset of the channels and includes an outlet. In this configuration, heated or cooled water flows from the inlet into the first chamber, through the first subset of the channels, to the second chamber, through the second subset of the channels, into the third chamber and out the outlet. Consequently, the heated or cooled water can heat or cool the space. In addition to at least one hydronic panel, the system includes a source of heated and/or cooled water under sufficient pressure to cause the water to flow through the panel. The system also includes a controller to control one or both of the temperature of the water and the flow rate of the water through the panel.
US11131458B2
A fuel injector for a multipoint injection system can include a body defining an air cavity for allowing air to flow therethrough and an interior cavity. A fuel is tube disposed at least partially within the interior cavity of the body. The fuel tube can include a first end configured to connect to a fuel injector connector of a fuel manifold, and a second end configured to connect to a fuel distributor of the fuel injector, wherein the fuel injector is configured to be disposed at least partially in a combustor dome. The fuel tube is configured to move in an axial direction to allow flexibility between the fuel manifold and the combustor dome.
US11131455B2
A burner system includes a plurality of burners each including a nipple that is brass and a jet that is brass. The nipple in at least some of the burners has a first end that is open and a second end that is closed. The nipple has a side wall between the first end and the second end. The side wall defines a bore that extends through the first end to the second end. The first end, second end, and side wall of the nipple are of integral, one piece, construction free of joints. The nipple hole extending through the side wall and the jet is engaged with the hole.
US11131443B2
A lighting fixture includes a housing bracket and pair of side rails, each side rail located adjacent opposite sides of the housing bracket. Further, the lighting fixture includes a light guide that is oriented horizontally and securely retained by the pair of side rails. Furthermore, the lighting fixture includes a plurality of light sources that are disposed on or within a cavity defined by at least one of the side rails such that the plurality of light sources are positioned in close proximity to and along an edge of the light guide. The light guide receives light emitted by the plurality of light sources through the edge of the light guide and emits the light through a major surface of the light guide. Further, the lighting fixture includes an end plate and an end cap disposed on each lateral end of the lighting fixture.
US11131437B2
A bonding arrangement and a method for the adhesive bonding of a position-sensitive element to a receiving body, in particular of an optical element, such as a semiconductor light source, a reflector, or the like, wherein a UV-curable adhesive is arranged between the position-sensitive element and the receiving body. Provision is made that the bond between the position-sensitive element and the receiving body has at least one cavity for accommodating the UV-curable adhesive and at least one retaining element that extends into the cavity and projects into the UV-curable adhesive. The cavity has a bottom section that is designed to be sufficiently thin-walled that the adhesive can be cured with UV light that can be radiated through the bottom section.
US11131436B2
A flame simulator includes a light beam source that projects a beam of light, a flame screen, a light beam mover that imparts movement to at least a part of the light beam source, and a range limiter. The light beam source includes a light source adapted to produce light and at least one light conditioner adapted to act on the light from the light source to produce the beam of light with a color, size and shape that mimics a flame when the beam strikes the flame screen. The range limiter is operatively associated with the light beam source so that the beam of light, when being projected, strikes at least a portion of the flame screen and causes illumination of the flame screen by the beam of light.
US11131423B2
Aspects of the present invention provide a display support arm assembly that includes a proximal housing supporting at least one proximal shaft, a distal housing spaced from the proximal housing and supporting at least one distal shaft, and at least one link extending from the at least one proximal shaft to the at least one distal shaft. The at least one link is coupled for pivotal movement about an axis of the at least one proximal shaft. The display support assembly also includes a gas strut extending between the proximal housing and the distal housing. The gas strut provides substantially constant force throughout a range of the vertical adjustment of the display support arm. The display support assembly further includes at least one torque element associated with either or both of the at least one proximal shaft and the at least one distal shaft. The at least one torque element providing force throughout the range of the vertical adjustment of the display support arm, wherein the force is adjustable by adding or subtracting the number of the at least one torque element.
US11131422B2
A multifunctional stand frame for a tablet electronic device comprises a seat; a bottom of the seat serving to connect a back side of a tablet electronic device; the seat having a plurality of retaining holes; in installing, the seat being connected to the tablet electronic device by using a connecting unit to pass through the retaining hole of the seat and a locking hole of the tablet electronic device; so that the seat is installed to the tablet electronic device; a disk being positioned above an upper side of the seat and being rotatably installed to the seat; a center of the disk having a through hole; a fixing shaft extending from an upper side of the seat and penetrating through the through hole of the disk; the disk being loosely arranged to the seat through the retaining hole and being rotatable with respect to the fixing shaft.
US11131421B2
An adjustable extension arm device includes an extension arm unit, a joint unit pivotally connected to the extension arm unit, an extension and retraction unit disposed in the extension arm unit, and an adjusting unit for adjusting the extension and retraction unit. A proximal endcap of the joint unit defines therein an accommodation chamber having a viewing opening. The adjusting unit has a driving carrier connected with the extension and retraction unit, and an adjusting threaded shaft rotatably mounted to the proximal endcap and threadedly engaged with the driving carrier to make a linear movement of the driving carrier relative to the viewing opening. A pointing unit is connected to and moved with the driving carrier to point out the load capacity of the extension and retraction unit during adjustment.
US11131414B2
An electroweldable branch fitting for high diameter pipes comprises at least a first collar (20, 20′) provided with a predetermined radius of curvature (R), wherein the collar (20, 20′) identifies on opposite sides a concave surface (21) and a convex surface (22), further comprising at least one first electrical wire winding (23) associated with the concave surface (21) of the collar (20, 20′) and carrying one first pair of electrical terminals (24), arranged on the convex surface (22) of the collar (20, 20′) for applying an electric current adapted to cause the electrofusion of the collar (20, 20′), wherein the concave surface (21) of the collar (20, 20′) is continuous, i.e. not perforated, and wherein the first electrical wire winding (23) is uniformly distributed on the concave surface (21) at least in the central part thereof, the collar (20, 20′) being provided with a branch sleeve (30), centrally on the convex surface (22), for the connection to a branch pipe, the branch sleeve identifying a blind hole (32) having a bottom wall (32) consisting of the wall of the collar (20, 20′).
US11131406B2
Disclosed is a seal for an engine firewall. The seal including a proximal part having a recess; a distal part having a notch; and a flexible intermediate part integrally extending between the proximal part and the distal part.
US11131399B2
A diaphragm control valve includes a diaphragm valve and a valve control. The diaphragm valve includes a valve housing having a flow channel, a diaphragm, and an actuator. The valve control comprises an actuating element. The valve control comprises a correction element and provides a plurality of predefined correction characteristic lines. The valve control is arranged such that a user can select one of the correction characteristic lines, and the correction element along with the selected correction characteristic line determines a corrected position set value from a preset position set value. The actuating element is configured to determine a manipulated variable from the corrected position set value and to control the actuator using the manipulated variable such that the diaphragm control valve has a predetermined diaphragm control valve characteristic line.
US11131396B2
An inlet valve containing a housing with an entry and an exit and an internal part which together with an external part delimits a flow channel between entry and exit, whereby this flow channel is closable by a valve. The valve includes a piston and a valve member. The piston slides in the housing and is connected with the exit and the valve member is formed by a valve shaft piston which slides in the piston such that in rest mode the valve member is pushed by the piston against valve seat. Between the valve shaft piston and the piston a chamber is enclosed which comes into fluid connection with the pressure vessel and has a blow-off exit forming a fluid connection between the chamber and the entry, whereby the valve shaft piston contains a bypass channel connected with the chamber and the sidewall of the valve shaft piston.
US11131392B2
To prevent a defect in which particles such as impurities flow into a liquid that flows in from an inlet flow path and discharged from an outlet flow path. Provided is a suck-back valve including: a housing part; a valve element part; a diaphragm part; an open-close mechanism that brings the valve element part and a valve seat part into contact or separates the valve element part and the valve seat part from each other to switch between a closed state and an open state; and a suck-back mechanism that moves the diaphragm part in a direction in which the diaphragm part separates from the valve seat part to increase a volume of a valve chamber. The valve element part and the diaphragm part are molded integrally, the open-close mechanism is disposed in an adjacent space, and the valve element part and the open-close mechanism are coupled in the adjacent space.
US11131389B2
Example fluid valves having non-circular flow passageways are disclosed. An example fluid valve includes a body defining a fluid passageway between an inlet and an outlet, at least a portion of the fluid passageway between the inlet and the outlet has a generally non-circular cross-sectional shape when taken along a plane transverse to a direction of fluid flow, the cross-sectional shape includes a curved central axis, with outwardly curved end walls and curved lateral walls joining the curved end walls.
US11131388B2
An assembly is provided for a piece of rotational equipment. This assembly includes a stationary component, a rotating component, and a dry seal assembly. The dry seal assembly is configured to substantially seal an annular gap between the stationary component and the rotating component. The dry seal assembly includes a seal element and a seal land. The seal element is mounted to the stationary component and is configured to sealingly engage the seal land. The seal land is mounted to the rotating component and is configured to permit gas leakage across the dry seal assembly through a passageway in the seal land.
US11131383B2
An electronic cigarette, including an atomization assembly and a battery assembly. The atomization assembly is disposed on the battery assembly. The atomization assembly includes a mouthpiece, a silica seal, a vapor guide tube, an e-liquid tank, a first ceramic silicone ring, a ceramic core, a second ceramic silicone ring, a heating tube, a first seal ring, a second seal ring, a base, a silica insulator, and a joint. The battery assembly includes a pneumatic switch, a silica gel sealing the pneumatic switch, a control plate, a casing, a plurality of screws, a support, a battery core, a first bolt, a second bolt, a transparent screen, and a pedestal. The vapor guide tube is disposed in the e-liquid tank. The first seal ring and the second seal ring are disposed on two ends of the base, respectively. The battery core is fixed on the control plate.
US11131382B2
A park lock arrangement for a vehicle, including a park pawl, an actuating means, and a return spring, where the park pawl is arranged to be in either a release position or in a lock position, wherein the park pawl is longitudinal and includes a body having a lock end and an actuation end, where the park pawl is arranged to slide between the release position and the lock position. The advantage of the invention is that a compact and cost-effective park lock arrangement with is provided.
US11131378B2
A device for providing a transmission with a lubricant or for oil-cooling a piston in the engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a lubricant- or oil-distribution pipe having at least one injection pipe branching off therefrom for delivering the lubricant or the oil to the respective components of the transmission or the engine, and a method for producing same.
US11131377B2
A power take off unit includes an input gear, an output gear, and an intermediary gear that cooperate to transfer power from a rotational power source to an operating target. The power take off unit has a control module that biases the intermediary gear relative to the input gear and the output gear to reduce gear rattle vibrations associated with intermeshed tooth looseness.
US11131372B2
The present invention relates to an equidirectional transfer universal transmission formed by connecting an equidirectional transfer case, a commutator, and an actuator. One of five types of planetary gear trains is used for the equidirectional transfer case, the component corresponding to a term having a maximum absolute value of a coefficient in a motion characteristic equation is used as an input end, and the other two components are respectively used as an inner output end and an outer output end. The commutator includes fourth types of quill shaft commutators and a non-quill shaft commutator, which are set by respective methods. One of two types of single-layer planetary gear trains is used for the actuator. The present invention includes methods for setting respective components of the equidirectional transfer case and the actuator, and includes a connection method. According to the present invention, an output shaft is controlled to revolve around an actuator shaft by inputting a revolving speed, a forward moment and a reverse moment are balanced during revolving, the output shaft has no unidirectional bearing moment, and a revolving control device has a simple structure.
US11131366B2
A belt tensioner controls the pretension of a belt for an ancillary component such as a starter/generator. The ancillary component may apply torque in each direction at different times. The starter/generator has a generator shaft and a generator belt pulley around which the belt passes. A flange is fixed to the starter/generator with a bearing sleeve which surrounds the generator shaft. A first tensioning arm and a second tensioning arm are each formed as circular rings and mounted on the bearing sleeve so as to pivot against each other. One tensioning arm is supported on an inner side of the bearing sleeve while the other tensioning arm is supported on the outer side of the bearing sleeve. Two tensioning rollers are mounted on the tensioning arms and apply a pretensioning force to the belt before and after the generator belt pulley in the belt running direction.
US11131364B2
A gearing assembly for torque transmission may have an epicyclic gearing unit having two ring gears, each having a toothing with a different number of teeth. At least three planetary gears may roll in the two ring gears. One of the ring gears may be stationary and the other ring gear is designed to move. Two of the planetary gears may be bearing gears and a third planetary gear rolls in both ring gears as a force-transmitting gear.
US11131357B2
A torsion bar spring is disclosed. The torsion bar spring can include a first elongated spring bar made of a resiliently flexible material. The first elongated spring bar can have a first coupling interface portion at a distal end and an interior opening oriented along a longitudinal axis. The torsion bar spring can also include a second elongated spring bar made of a resiliently flexible material. The second elongated spring bar can have a second coupling interface portion at the distal end. The second elongated spring bar can be disposed at least partially in the interior opening of the first elongated spring bar. The first and second elongated spring bars can be directly coupled to one another at the first and second coupling interface portions such that uncoupled portions of the first and second elongated spring bars are rotatable relative to one another about the longitudinal axis.
US11131349B2
Vehicle input shafts are disclosed. The vehicle input shafts include a bearing boss, a spline portion, a cylindrical shaft body portion and a drive end. The spline portion includes spline teeth and spline grooves that do not exit directly onto the shaft body. Instead, the spline grooves include blend out fillets that interrupt the spline grooves by providing additional material near the shaft body. The bearing boss includes an increased diameter at a central point along its axial length and decreased diameters at its first and second boss ends.
US11131347B2
A flexible coupling includes a first disc and a second disc arranged along a rotation axis. The first disc and the second disc each include a radially inner hub portion, a radially outer rim portion, and a diaphragm portion extending between the hub portion and the rim portion. The first disc rim portion is connected to the second disc rim portion and the first disc has a diametral response mode that is different than a diametral response mode of the second disc to limit deformation in the flexible coupling when communicating rotation between a drive member and a driven member connected to one another by the flexible coupling. Drive trains and methods of making flexible couplings are also described.
US11131334B2
A plate-like component with a fastening device reaching through a fastening opening, the fastening device having: a rigid sleeve reaching through the fastening opening, through which a fastening element can be guided, The sleeve is surrounded at its outer circumference by at least one damping/decoupling body composed of a wire mesh, wherein in the region in which it passes through the fastening opening, the damping body has an outer dimension less than the inner dimension of the fastening opening so that an undersizing is produced and in the region outside where it passes through the fastening opening, at least part of the at least one damping body has an outer dimension in a circumference direction which is of such a size that with a maximum sliding within the undersizing, sufficient overlapping is still assured.
US11131333B2
A mounting of a sensor module for use in a storage or transport system, for securing the sensor module to a support of the storage or transport system. The mounting has a clamping device for clamping the mounting to the support, and the clamping device includes at least one slide which is guided in a linearly movable manner and latches in a plurality of latch positions.
US11131323B2
A gas turbine engine includes a harmonic drive driven by an actuator, a drive shaft driven by the harmonic drive, the drive shaft with a first drive gear and a second drive gear. A first variable vane stage with a first actuator gear to direct drive one of a multiple of variable vanes, the first actuator gear meshed with the first drive gear; and a second variable vane stage with a second actuator gear to direct drive one of a multiple of variable vanes, the second actuator gear meshed with the second drive gear.
US11131315B2
Technologies are described for devices and methods for adjusting a position of impellers within a bowl assembly. The devices may comprise an adjuster at the second end of a spacer coupling. The adjuster may include an adjuster sleeve. The adjuster sleeve may be a cylindrical sleeve. The adjuster sleeve may be threaded on an internal side. The adjuster sleeve may be spaced from the driven hub so that the adjuster sleeve can rotate around a driven shaft. The adjuster sleeve may threadedly mate and engage with an externally threaded first end of the driven shaft when the adjuster sleeve is rotated. The rotation of the adjuster sleeve may adjust a position of the driven shaft with respect to the driven hub and may thereby adjust a position of an impeller attached to a second end of the driven shaft with respect to a stationary bowl.
US11131298B2
A compressor includes a terminal cover. The terminal cover includes a first terminal protector protecting a first glass-sealed terminal assembly, a first power line guide guiding first power lines connected to the first glass-sealed terminal assembly, a first power line outlet through which the first power lines extend outward, a second terminal protector protecting a second glass-sealed terminal assembly, a second power line guide guiding second power lines connected to the second glass-sealed terminal assembly, and a second power line outlet through which the second power lines extend outward. The first power line guide guides the first power lines in a guiding direction away from the second terminal protector. The second power line guide guides the second power lines such that the second power lines bypass the first terminal protector and are directed in a direction identical to the guiding direction.
US11131294B1
A scalable plurality of shape memory alloy (SMA) elements are configured to provide a continuous rotation actuator system. The plurality of SMA elements are coupled to a Ring Gear element, as well as to a Sun Gear element and a provision for thermal cycle return assist of the SMA elements. A plurality of Transmission elements provide for controlled rotary actuation in a desired direction with lock capability that provides for continuous rotary motion even as the SMA elements undergo reciprocating rotary action during their thermal cycling without running into system component rotation limits. The innovation distinguishes over other innovative approaches by way of at least the Ring Gear element, the manner of lock control, and the return assist element.
US11131287B2
A device to stabilize, reduce, or control the wave or wind-induced heave (vertical), surge (lateral), or pitching (rolling) motion of a floating or semi-submerged buoyant base, raft, barge, buoy or other buoyant body such as the buoyant base of a wave energy converter or a floating wind turbine base. The device concurrently allows the floating base to self-orient or weathervane to substantially maintains its orientation with respect to the direction of oncoming waves, winds, or wind gusts. The device also facilitates maintaining the submerged depth or vertical orientation of the buoyant base relative to the still water line to compensate for tidal depth changes. The device utilizes a second substantially submerged buoyant body having a center of buoyancy and at least one tensioned seabed connection located substantially below and forward or up-sea or up-wind of the center of buoyancy of the buoyant base. A structural member, which can optionally also be buoyant or integral with the base or second submerged body, connects the submerged buoyant body with the floating base.
US11131284B2
The invention relates to a restarting method for automatically starting an internal combustion engine (2) of a motor vehicle (3) by means of a brake pedal actuation, comprising the following steps: detecting a brake pressure (p) by means of a brake pressure sensor (14); emitting a corresponding brake pressure signal sequence to a control device (13); determining a brake pressure profile (ppr) from the brake pressure signal sequence; determining a reference pressure value (pR) from the brake pressure profile; detecting a brake release status, wherein, with the release of a brake pedal, a brake pressure decrease (Δp) is detected based on the determined reference pressure value (pR), with said decrease exceeding a pressure decrease limit value (ΔpG); emitting a starting signal (SWS) to a starter (15) for starting the internal combustion engine (2), if the brake release status has been detected. The invention also relates to a restarting assembly for a motor vehicle (1) for carrying out a method of this type.
US11131277B2
An internal combustion engine including: an operating state detection unit that detects an operating state of the internal combustion engine; a fuel reforming unit configured to be supplied with a liquid fuel including hydrocarbon and generate a reformed fuel having an octane number larger than that of the supplied liquid fuel; a reformed fuel composition adjusting unit that adjusts the composition of the reformed fuel generated by the fuel reforming unit; and a control device that controls the composition of the reformed fuel by controlling the reformed fuel composition adjusting unit in accordance with the operating state detected by the operating state detection unit.
US11131273B2
In at least some implementations, a charge forming system for a combustion engine includes a first fuel supply device having a first passage from which fuel is discharged for delivery to the engine and a second fuel supply device having a second passage from which fuel is discharged for delivery to the engine. The first passage communicates with the second passage so that the fuel in the first passage is combined with the fuel in the second passage.
US11131267B1
Systems are provided for cooling a cylinder block via bore bridge cooling passages. In one example, a system may include a cylinder block with a first cylinder and a second cylinder adjacent to the first cylinder and a bore bridge positioned between the first cylinder and the second cylinder, the cylinder block further including a coolant jacket at least partially surrounding the first cylinder and the second cylinder. The system may further include a cooling passage positioned within the bore bridge, the cooling passage including an inlet fluidly coupled to the coolant jacket and an outlet positioned at a deck face of the cylinder block, the cooling passage curving from the inlet to the outlet with a curvature greater than zero.
US11131261B2
A method for adjusting an air-fuel ratio of a turbocharged engine that operates without blow though and with blow through is disclosed. In one example, the method provides a way to provide a feed forward fuel adjustment in the presence of engine blow though so that a closed loop controller does not have to exceed its range of control authority.
US11131251B2
Systems and methods for improved gas turbine engine performance are disclosed. The method can include receiving an error function for a wide range of fuels. The error function can provide lower heating value (LHV) corrections over the wide range of fuels. The method can include receiving gas turbine engine operation data for a first period of run time on the gas turbine from one or more sensors of the gas turbine engine. The engine operation data can include a performance data points. The method can include determining an optimum LHV based on the engine operation data for the first period of run time and the error function. The method can then include adjusting fuel consumption of the gas turbine engine based on the optimum LHV.
US11131242B2
A turbocharger for an engine includes a housing, a shaft, a turbine wheel mounted to the shaft for rotation therewith, a compressor wheel mounted to the shaft for rotation therewith, and a bearing cartridge rotatably supporting the shaft relative to the housing. The housing is positioned axially between the turbine and compressor wheels. The bearing cartridge includes an inner ring mounted to the shaft, an outer ring disposed between the inner ring and the housing and movable relative to the housing, and a first and a second plurality of roller elements axially spaced apart from one another and disposed radially between the inner and outer rings to rotatably support the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A radial gap (RD) is defined between the outer ring (134) and the housing (126). Lubricant flows into the radial gap and radially separates the outer ring from the housing during operation of the turbocharger.
US11131239B2
First to fourth exhaust passages are provided in a raw blank of a cylinder block, which can be used for both a first exhaust route and a second exhaust route, one of which is selected for use as an exhaust passage. In the first exhaust route, a fifth exhaust passage couples between opening ends of the first and second exhaust passages and is formed in a separate member from the cylinder block, exhaust gas is allowed to flow via the fourth, first, fifth, second, and third exhaust passages, and a catalyst is placed in the exhaust passages. In the second exhaust route, a communication hole is provided in a partition wall between the fourth exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage while the opening ends of the first and second exhaust passages are closed, and the exhaust gas is allowed to flow via the fourth, second, and third exhaust passages.
US11131238B2
The invention relates to a turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry, comprising a turbine (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) with a turbine rotor (1) which is rotatably mounted in a turbine housing (2); the turbine (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) comprising a blade bearing ring (5) being arranged about a turbine axis (A); wherein the blade bearing ring (5) supports a number of blade shafts (6); wherein adjustable guide blades (7) are arranged at the blade shafts (6) on a front side of the blade bearing ring (5); wherein blade levers (8) are arranged at the blade shafts (6) on a rear side of the blade bearing ring (5); wherein an adjustment ring (9) is arranged coaxially with the blade bearing ring (5) and engages with the blade levers (8), a rotation of the adjustment ring (9) relative to the blade bearing ring (5) providing for an adjustment of the guide blades (7); wherein the adjustment ring (9) comprises at least one axially protruding bearing stop (10), the bearing stop (10) being provided by deformation of the adjustment ring (5).
US11131237B2
A variable nozzle unit includes: a connection pin which includes a shaft; a support ring which is provided with a first through-hole; and a nozzle ring which is provided with a second through-hole, in which the shaft is inserted through the first through-hole and the second through-hole, one end of the shaft is provided with a flange portion having a diameter larger than that of the second through-hole and the other end of the shaft is provided with a head portion having a diameter larger than that of the first through-hole, the flange portion is in contact with the nozzle ring, and an elastic member that urges the support ring toward the nozzle ring is disposed between the head portion and the support ring.
US11131235B2
An engine system comprises a two stroke engine, an exhaust manifold, a tuned pipe coupled to the exhaust manifold and a turbocharger coupled to the engine. The turbocharger comprises a turbine inlet coupled to the exhaust manifold through the tuned pipe, and a turbine outlet coupled to an exhaust pipe. A silencer is coupled to the exhaust pipe. A bypass pipe has a first end coupled to the tuned pipe and a second end bypassing the turbine outlet and a wastegate disposed in the bypass pipe.
US11131228B2
Disclosed is a method for preventing a risk of freezing in a device for supplying reducing agent to a selective catalytic reduction system in an exhaust line, a freezing temperature specific to the agent being stored in memory, the system including a controller operating the system and emitting pulses to an injector, the controller being inactive when the engine is switched off. With the combustion engine switched off, the controller is woken up at predetermined intervals to initiate an emission of a specific electric pulse to the injector with measurements of a current-strength and voltage of the electric pulse providing a value of the electrical resistance of the injector. A temperature of the reducing agent at the injector is estimated as a function of the measured resistance and, when at least the temperature thus estimated is below the freezing temperature, a purge of the device is initiated.
US11131227B2
A heating apparatus for a fluid flow system having a fluid conduit includes at least one heater element and a support member within the conduit. The at least one heater element includes a resistance wire, a sheath, and an electrically insulating material. The sheath has a closed profile shape that extends along a tortuous path through the container body and surrounds the resistance wire along the tortuous path. The insulating material is disposed about the wire between the wire and the sheath. The support member restricts movement of the at least one heater element relative to the fluid conduit. The support member defines a corrugated geometry that follows the tortuous path while contacting the sheath along a majority of a length of the sheath. The support member increases heat transfer from the at least one heater element to a fluid flowing through the fluid conduit.
US11131224B1
An exhaust system includes an exhaust pressure sensing system having sensor conduits structured to fluidly connect to an exhaust conduit in an exhaust system and feed exhaust to a differential pressure sensor. The differential pressure sensor produces a pressure signal indicative of a pressure drop across an exhaust aftertreatment element such as an exhaust filter. A plugging-mitigation conduit provides an always-open leakage path to convey condensate in a stream of leaked exhaust between the sensor conduits to prevent formation of deposits that can impact pressure sensing accuracy.
US11131222B2
A valve actuation system comprises a first motion transfer mechanism operatively connected to a first valve actuation motion source and to the at least one engine valve, a second motion transfer mechanism operatively connected to a second valve actuation motion source; and a selectable coupling mechanism between the first and second motion transfer mechanisms. The coupling mechanism is operable in a first state where first valve actuation motions are conveyed to the at least one engine valve via the first motion transfer mechanism, and a second state where second valve actuation motions are additionally conveyed to the at least one engine valve via the second motion transfer mechanism, the coupling mechanism and the first motion transfer mechanism. During a handoff between the first and second valve actuation motions or vice versa, a difference in valve actuation velocities of the first and second valve actuation motions does not exceed a threshold.
US11131198B2
A unidirectionally solidified article repair method according to one embodiment includes a step of forming a groove part overlapping only on one of a plurality of crystal grain boundaries in a base material made of a unidirectionally solidified alloy in which the plurality of crystal grain boundaries are aligned in one direction, and a step of forming a welded part having a metal composition similar to that of the base material by a metal used in welding with the base material in the groove part.
US11131197B2
A blade is provided including a structure made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement obtained by three-dimensional weaving and a matrix in which the fibrous reinforcement is embedded, the structure made of composite material including an aerodynamically profiled blade portion and a blade root portion, the blade root portion including two sections each connected to the blade portion, a blade root fastening part including a wall delimiting a cavity and an opening formed in the wall, the structure made of composite material extending through the opening so that the blade portion is located outside the fastening part and the blade root portion is located inside the cavity, and a blocking part disposed in the cavity, between the two sections of the blade root portion, in order to keep the two sections apart from each other so as to oppose withdrawal of the blade root portion from the cavity via the opening.
US11131195B2
A tie shaft assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a compressor tie shaft that has an upstream end and a downstream end. The downstream end includes a radially outer threaded surface and a radially inner threaded surface. A turbine tie shaft has an upstream end with a radially outer threaded surface in engagement with the radially inner threaded surface on the compressor tie shaft.
US11131194B2
A rotor assembly for a rotary internal combustion engine is provided. The rotor assembly includes a rotor having a radial groove defined radially in a peripheral surface of the rotor. The groove has a depth and an intermediate shoulder at an intermediate depth. The groove has a first width therealong that is narrower than an intermediate width at the shoulder. An apex seal is received in the groove and protrudes from the peripheral face of the rotor. The apex seal is configured to move radially between a first position and a second position outward of the first position. A biasing member biases the apex seal toward the second position. A platform is disposed in the groove between the apex seal and the biasing member and has a width greater than the first width.
US11131191B2
Rock bolts are typically used to provide support for rock formations and to hold the formation together. Rock bolts may fail due to a number of reasons. Failures in rock bolts may cause overload or loss of preload in the rock bolt. Aspects of the disclosure provide a sensing device for a rock bolt. The sensing device includes a spacer and at least one load sensor. Each said at least one load sensor includes a respective resilient compressible element that is adjacent a respective end of the spacer. The resilient compressible element compresses responsive to a respective load threshold. Each load sensor provides respective sensor output as a function of whether or not the respective resilient compressible element is compressed. The sensing device generates device output indicating a status of the rock bolt.
US11131186B1
A method for rapid wettability evaluation during exploratory drilling of a hydrocarbon. The method include pre-saturation of the sample by a brine, measuring the bulk brine's T2 NMR relaxation parameter, expelling the brine by oil in the sample, measuring the oil's bulk and pore T2 NMR relaxation parameter, measuring the brine's non-reducible content and T2 NMR relaxation parameter of water in the presence of dominant oil content, expelling the oil by the brine and measuring the T2 NMR relaxation parameter of the irreducible oil content in the dominant brine. The measurements are combined in the index: I=[(T2WB−T2WIOIRR)/T2WB]−[(T2OB−T2OIWIRR)/T2OB], where WB is water bulk, OB is oil bulk, WIOIRR—injected pore water at the irreducible oil content, OIWIRR—injected pore oil at the irreducible water content.
US11131183B2
Restriction systems are methods of tracking downhole devices as they are displaced in tubulars are provided. An example restriction system comprises a tubular comprising at least one series of restrictions disposed on an interior surface of the interior of the tubular; a pressure sensor configured to measure the tubular pressure; and a downhole device capable of traversing the series of restrictions. An example method comprises providing a tubular comprising at least one series of restrictions disposed on an interior surface of the interior of the tubular, and a pressure sensor disposed on an interior surface of the interior of the tubular. The example method further comprises introducing a downhole device into the tubular and measuring the pressure within the tubular as the downhole device traverses the at least one series of restrictions.
US11131168B2
A perforating system and method includes a perforating gun with shaped charges and an orientation device. The orientation device provides an orientation datum. Sensors associated with the perforating gun detect relative alignment of each perforating gun as compared to the orientation datum. A detonation signal can be either sent or not sent to the perforating gun in response to the signal received from the orientation sensor.
US11131167B1
Drilling tools are frequently subject to rotation with respect to the central drilling axis caused by torque. A mechanical linkage can be configured to apply force that is proportional to the weight-on-bit on the borehole surface while transmitting axial loads used to generate weight-on-bit. The device can be used to manage drill string twist that could lead to drilling dysfunctions.
US11131166B2
A retainer system, device and method are provided for retaining a severed pipe string such as a landing string suspended from a rig of a floating vessel or platform during a failure of a primary or secondary heave compensation system and prevent the severed pipe string from flying over the rig floor. The retainer system includes a retainer device including a housing mounted to a platform or vessel, the housing defining a through bore for receiving a pipe string suspended from the platform or vessel. A safety sleeve extends through the housing. A stop arrangement is mountable on the pipe string, to permit engagement between the safety sleeve and the stop arrangement in order to limit relative movement between the housing and the pipe string in order to retain a severed pipe string in an emergency situation.
US11131163B2
A plug for sealing a wellbore includes a slip assembly including a plurality of arcuate slip segments, a nose cone coupled to the slip assembly and including a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein at least one of the slip assembly and the nose cone includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced pockets, and wherein at least one of the slip assembly and the nose cone includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced protrusions configured to be received in the pockets.
US11131162B2
A frac plug system, downhole tool and method of securing a frac plug system in a wellbore in a formation. A mandrel includes a first end and a second end. A setting assembly is coupled to the mandrel at the first end, and an anchor is arranged at the second end of the mandrel and receptive to the setting assembly. The anchor is settable to engage the wellbore. A bottom sub is arranged at the second end of the mandrel and includes a first member movable relative to the mandrel. A gas generates a pressure to shift the first member along the mandrel to move the anchor against the setting assembly, securing the setting assembly in the wellbore via radial deployment of the anchor. The mandrel is separated from the bottom sub to leave the setting assembly and the anchor in the wellbore.
US11131161B2
A fluid control system may comprise a flow control device including one or more floats attached within the flow control device, an outlet within the flow control device that is connected to the one or more floats, a regulatory valve that is fluidly connected to the flow control device, and a blocking element placed within the regulatory valve. An autonomous flow control system may comprise a first flow control device attached to a production tubing at a first location in a wellbore, a second flow control device attached to the production tubing at a second location in the wellbore, a first set of floats attached within the first flow control device, and a second set of floats attached within the second flow control device.
US11131151B2
Apparatus and methods are for coupling a drive unit to a tool adapter. A drive unit includes a drive stem; a plurality of sliding coupling members; a retainer; a torque profile; a plurality of drive stem ports; a coupling collar; coupling recesses; a plurality of transmission units; and/or first portions of a hydraulic coupling unit. A tool adapter includes a tool stem; a tool stem sleeve; coupling recesses; a torque profile; a plurality of sliding coupling members; and/or second portions of the hydraulic coupling unit. A method of coupling a drive unit to a tool adapter includes positioning the tool adapter below the drive unit; stabbing a drive stem into an interior of a tool stem sleeve; coupling torque between the drive unit and the tool adapter; and coupling load between the drive unit and the tool adapter by engaging a plurality of sliding coupling members.
US11131150B2
A bottom hole assembly may include a shaft having threads, a first fastener member positioned on the shaft, the first fastener member having first fastener threads that mesh with a first portion of the threads on the shaft, and a second fastener member positioned downhole of the first fastener member on the shaft, the second fastener member having second fastener threads that mesh with a second portion of the threads on the shaft, wherein the first fastener member and the second fastener member interact with each other such that an uphole face of the first fastener threads are pressed against a downhole face of the first portion of the threads on the shaft and a downhole face of the second fastener threads are pressed against an uphole face of the second portion of the threads on the shaft.
US11131149B2
A wired pipe system includes a wired pipe segment having a first end and a second end and a first coupler in the first end and a second coupler in the second end. The system also includes a transmission line disposed in the wired pipe segment between the first and second ends. The transmission line includes an inner conductor, an insulating material surrounding the inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the insulating material and the inner conductor for at least a portion of a length of the transmission line, the other conductor being formed by deforming around the inner conductor a sheet of material into a substantially tubular member.
US11131144B1
A rotary dynamic system includes: a drill pipe; a bearing coupled at a first axial end to the drill pipe; and an outer sleeve coupled to a second axial end of the bearing. The outer sleeve rotates independently of the drill pipe.
US11131138B2
A delivery receiving container for receiving and securely storing packages, the delivery receiving container comprising multiple independently accessible and lockable compartments that can be customized to the size of the package received. Embodiments of the invention can comprise dividers that divide the space inside the container into compartments for the receipt and storage of multiple packages from multiple deliveries. Dividers can be moved as needed to accommodate different package size for efficient use of space. The adjustability of the dividers and the multiple independent access compartment lids allow the delivery receiving container to receive multiple independent deliveries from different delivery companies.
US11131121B2
A highly secure optical key access control system utilizing unique optical refraction properties of non-duplicatable transparent objects to secure premises or computer databases is disclosed. The said access control system includes an optical key containing an optical element with unique refraction properties and an access module comprising a light source, an image catching array and an electronic processor. The optical element of the optical key is inserted into the access module between the light source and the image catching array at the initial and then several following prearranged positions and a resulting set of unique refraction images appearing on the surface of the image catching array is processed with the electronic processor for comparison against preauthorized sets of refraction images to grant or deny access to the protected premises or protected computer databases.
US11131116B2
A gate-latching assembly is configured for utilization with a gate assembly. The gate assembly includes a stationary gate post configured to be mounted to, and to extend from, a working surface once the stationary gate post is mounted to the working surface, and in which the gate assembly also includes a movable gate door configured to be movable relative to the stationary gate post. There is provided a combination for utilization with the gate assembly. The combination includes any one of (A) a striker base assembly and a striker member, (B) a latch base assembly and a latch assembly, and/or (C) a striker base assembly, a striker member, a latch base assembly and a latch assembly.
US11131113B2
A fence rail device includes a rail elongated between a first end and a second end. The rail has an outer wall having a top section, a pair of side sections, and a bottom section defining a hollow interior. The slot extends through the bottom section. A plurality of cross walls includes a top cross wall, a middle cross wall, and a bottom cross wall defining a top interior space, a bottom interior space, an upper middle interior space, and a lower middle interior space within the rail. Each of a pair of lower interior walls extends between the bottom section and the bottom cross wall proximate to a respective one of the side sections. Each of a pair of medial interior walls extends between the bottom cross wall and the lower middle cross wall.
US11131112B2
An expandable canopy tent frame includes two sets of four-bar linkage with overlapping and staggered central axial lines. The central axial hinge point and the side edge hinge point of the two linkage sets are aligned. The central axial hinge points have a lateral bar. The two ends of the lateral bar pass through the slide bushings on the side edge hinge points, and the slide bushings form the support with both sides of the lateral bar. The main structure has at least one fixed end and can be fixed on objects by utilizing that fixed end.
US11131111B2
A drilling machine is disclosed. The drilling machine may include a mast and a machine frame. The mast may include a mast frame, a movable drill head assembly, a first pivot aperture, and a plurality of first lock apertures each corresponding to a different drilling position of the mast. The machine frame may include an engine, a ground engaging assembly having an axle, and a mast coupling assembly having at least a pair of opposed legs, each leg including at least one plate. The at least one plate of each leg may include a second pivot aperture positioned to align with the first pivot aperture to pivotably couple the mast to each leg. The at least one plate may also include a second lock aperture positioned to align with each of the first lock apertures and receive a lock pin for locking the mast in a drilling position.
US11131106B2
An apparatus and method for the containment of vertical structures using a flexible, collapsible, and movable shroud. The shroud containment system protects the surrounding environment by catching liquid and solid debris and contaminants from the inside and protects the enshrouded structure and workers from wind, debris, contaminants, and precipitation on the outside as well as providing enhanced protection against falling persons and equipment. The shroud also conceals the vertical structure in whole or in part and greatly eases the setup, takedown, and relocation of the shroud along the axis of the vertical structure due to its modular, impermanent design and method of erection, collapse, and translation.
US11131099B2
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with angling of long edges and where the short edge locking system has a displaceable tongue that is displaceable essentially in one direction from an inner unlocked position to an final locked position.
US11131092B2
An improved lath is disclosed having a water drainage layer provided in association with the lath. The water drainage layer serves to remove water that might otherwise build up between the lath and wall structure.
US11131078B2
A jib assembly includes a support; a jib attached pivotally to the support for pivotal movement of the jib in relation to the support about a horizontal axis; a first linear hydraulic actuator attached to the support for regulating pivotal movement of the jib and for maintaining the jib in a specific position relative to the support; a lever arm attached unrotatably to the jib; and a draw member attached to the lever arm and to the jib; wherein the first linear hydraulic actuator is attached to the lever arm, and the lever arm is arranged to extend in the direction above the jib.
US11131075B2
An implement attachment adapter, including a centrally located top clevis; two spaced apart lower clevises located below the centrally located top clevis and on opposing sides of a line extending vertically through the top clevis. The two spaced apart lower clevises being are recessed into or behind a first face of a flat plate. The flat plate further includes side tabs located proximate each horizontal peripheral edge thereof extending outwardly away from the first face of the plate. A bottom tab extends outwardly downwardly away from the first face at an obtuse angle relative to the plate. A top bar extends across proximate a top portion of the plate and outwardly away from the first face of the plate and is oriented at an acute angle to the plate. The plate further presents engagement apertures and a second face opposing the first face to which the implement may be coupled.
US11131063B2
Embodiments of the invention a method for producing a composite paper by providing a particulate sorbent, providing a paper pulp, and mixing the particulate sorbent and the paper pulp to develop a mixture. The method includes producing an article from the mixture that includes the particulate sorbent at least partially distributed through at least a portion of the article. Further, the at least one article is configured and arranged to uptake and release carbon dioxide as a function of moisture content. Some embodiments of the invention include a composite paper-like assembly including at least a first and second layer including hydrophobic fibers, and sorbent particles and/or a sorbent loaded paper sandwiched between the first and second porous sheets. Some further embodiments include a method for producing a material that supports a moisture swing by providing a material including activated carbon, and infusing the activated carbon with ionic salt.
US11131060B2
In a skin material, a front face of a first fibrous base material is a first color and a front face of a second fibrous base material is a second color. The second fibrous base material is laminated on a back face of the first fibrous base material. A through hole of the first fibrous base material penetrates the first fibrous base material in a laminating direction. A dimension of the through hole in a first direction is set to a first value (N1). A dimension of the through hole in a second direction is set to a second value (N2). A dimension of the through hole in the laminating direction is set to a third value (N3). The first value (N1) and the second value (N2) are set to be 0.38 times or more and 12 times or less with respect to the third value (N3).
US11131050B2
Present application discloses control method of controlling operation mode of washing machine by communication with washing machine. Control method includes obtaining vibration information indicative of vibration of washing tub of washing machine operating in predetermined first operation mode as operation mode; extracting predetermined feature amount having correlation with strength of floor on which washing machine is placed from vibration information; estimating strength of floor from extracted feature amount; determining whether or not operation mode needs to be changed from first operation mode based on estimated strength; and when determination is made that operation mode needs to be changed from first operation mode, outputting, to washing machine, instruction to change operation mode from first operation mode to second operation mode different from first operation mode.
US11131035B2
The invention relates to a metal plate (1) for a coin (2), for a centre pill (3) of a coin (2) or for a ring (4) of a coin (2), where it is suggested that at least one subregion of a surface, on at least one side of the metal plate (1), has a dual-coloured optical element (5) and that said optical element (5) has at least one first region (6) with a first oxide layer (7) of one first colour which is an interference colour, and at least one second region (8) with a second colour, the first colour being different from the second colour.
US11131032B2
Metallic nanoparticles and related methods of making and using the same are described herein. An aqueous synthesis method is used to create nanoparticle cores comprising alloys of two or more metals at varying metal:metal molar ratios. In some embodiments, the nanoparticle cores described herein form a homogeneous metal alloy. Alternatively, the nanoparticle cores form a heterogeneous metal alloy. The synthesis method can further comprise forming mixed metal oxide shells on the nanoparticle cores.
US11131030B2
Various embodiments include an electrolysis cell with a housing with an anode and a gas diffusion electrode connected as cathode. The gas diffusion electrode has an electrolyte side and a gas side and separates the electrolyte space from a gas space for a reaction gas. There is a support body disposed in the gas space with a contact surface in contact with the gas diffusion electrode. The gas space comprises a first channel system and a second channel system. The first channel system and the second channel system run separately from one another and thus form two separate volumes of the gas space. The first channel system and the second channel system each have openings in the contact surface of the support body.
US11131029B2
Hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) fluid can be transported through an electrochemical device, which has a proton exchange membrane (PEM) disposed between a pair of gas-permeable electrodes that include respective catalysts. At an inlet side, the catalyst facilitates reaction of HFO with hydrogen carrier gas. The resulting cation is transported across PEM in the presence of an electric field applied to the electrodes. At an outlet side, the catalyst of the opposing electrode facilitates dissociation of the cation back into HFO and hydrogen. In some embodiments, the transported HFO has a higher pressure than that before the electrochemical device. In some embodiments, the electrochemical device can be operated in reverse to expand HFO fluid and/or to recapture power. The electrochemical device can thus be used as a compressor or expander for vapor-phase HFO or as a pump or expander for liquid-phase HFO, for example, in power generation or heating/cooling cycles.
US11131019B2
An apparatus for coating substrates includes a vacuum chamber having an opening through which substrates can be received and a door configured to seal the opening; one or more targets arranged in the vacuum chamber; a cooling unit configured to cool the substrates and/or a heating unit configured to heat the substrates; rotating means configured to rotate substrates relative to the one or more targets, the cooling unit and/or the heating unit; and a lifting chamber that communicates with the interior of the vacuum chamber and is configured to receive the cooling unit and the heating unit. The vacuum chamber defines a lifting axis along which the cooling unit and/or the heating unit and the lifting chamber are arranged, and the apparatus further comprises displacement means configured to displace the cooling unit and/or the heating unit along the lifting axis and between the vacuum chamber and the lifting chamber.
US11131012B2
The invention relates hot work tool steel. The steel comprises the following main components (in wt. %): C 0.27-0.38 Si 0.10-0.35 Mn 0.2-0.7 Cr 4.5-5.5 Mo 2.05-2.90 V 0.4-0.6 N 0.01-0.12 H ≤0.0004 S ≤0.0015 balance optional elements, iron and impurities.
US11131009B2
This high-strength free-cutting copper alloy comprises 75.4-78.0% Cu, 3.05-3.55% Si, 0.05-0.13% P and 0.005-0.070% Pb, with the remainder comprising Zn and inevitable impurities, wherein the amount of Sn existing as inevitable impurities is at most 0.05%, the amount of Al is at most 0.05%, and the total amount of Sn and Al is at most 0.06%. The composition satisfies the following relations: 78.0≤f1=Cu+0.8×Si+P+Pb≤80.8; and 60.2≤f2=Cu−4.7×Si−P+0.5×Pb≤61.5. The area percentage (%) of respective constituent phases satisfies the following relations: 29≤κ≤60; 0≤γ≤0.3; β=0; 0≤μ≤1.0; 98.6≤f3=α+κ; 99.7≤f4=α+κ+γ+μ; 0≤f5=γ+μ≤1.2; and 30≤f6=κ+6×γ1/2+0.5×μ≤62. The long side of the γ phase is at most 25 μm, the long side of the μ phase is at most 20 μm, and the κ phase is present within the α phase.
US11131008B2
An Ir alloy is excellent in high temperature strength while ensuring oxidation wear resistance at high temperature. The heat-resistant Ir alloy includes: 5 mass % to 30 mass % of Rh; 0.3 mass % to 5 mass % of an element group A made of at least one kind of element selected from among Ta and Re; and 0 mass % to 5 mass % of an element group B made of at least one kind of element selected from among Co, Cr, and Ni, wherein the heat-resistant Ir alloy includes 5 mass % or less of the element group A and the element group B in total, and wherein, when the at least one kind of element in the element group A includes Re, the at least one kind of element in the element group B is Co alone, Cr alone, or two or more kinds selected from Co, Cr, and Ni.
US11131007B1
Boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-magnesium (Mg) alloy composites and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The BNNT-Mg alloy composites can have a sandwich structure and can be fabricated by high-pressure spark plasma sintering. A mat of BNNTs can be sputter-coated with Mg, and then sandwiched between Mg alloy particles, followed by a sintering step. The BNNTs can include a hexagonal boron nitride phase.
US11131006B2
The invention relates to a treatment device and a method for removing coatings, comprising a vibratory conveyor with a conveying channel, which is designed in the manner of a trough, in order to form a treatment bath with a liquid decoating medium, comprising an inlet end and an outlet end for bulk material, wherein the conveying direction of the conveying channel runs from the inlet end to the outlet end. The conveying channel has below the surface of the treatment bath at least one feeding device and at least one discharging device for the decoating medium.
US11131005B2
A method for producing a metallic coated steel sheet is provided. The method includes continuously annealing a steel sheet in a continuous annealing furnace and hot dip coating the steel sheet.
US11130995B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for simultaneously determining the presence or absence of fetal aneuploidy and the relative amount of fetal nucleic acids in a sample obtained from a pregnant female. The method encompasses the use of sequencing technologies and exploits the occurrence of polymorphisms to provide a streamlined noninvasive process applicable to the practice of prenatal diagnostics.
US11130985B2
Spot array substrate, method for producing same, and nucleic acid polymer analysis method and device
In order to reduce the cost of producing a spot array substrate and reduce the cost of nucleic acid polymer analysis, a spot array substrate is used which is produced by preparing a resin substrate 402 having a surface on which an uneven pattern is formed and a plurality of bead sitting positions set in a two-dimensional array within the uneven pattern, and loading surface-modified beads onto the bead sitting positions of the resin substrate.
US11130984B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions, kits, systems and apparatus that are useful for isolating nucleic acid molecules from a sample. In particular, the methods generally relate to normalizing the concentration of target nucleic acid molecules from a sample. In one aspect, the invention relates to purifying a primer extension product from a primer extension reaction mixture. In some aspects, nucleic acid molecules obtained using the disclosed methods, kits, systems and apparatuses can be used in various downstream processes including nucleic acid sequencing.
US11130981B2
In order to provide a transformant by which a high containment effect is obtained and which can be prepared by a simple procedure, a method for producing the transformant, and a method for detecting the presence of a reduced phosphorous compound with use of the transformant, a transformant in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a transformant which is defective in functions of a gene encoding a phosphate transporter protein and a gene encoding a phosphate ester transporter protein and into which a gene encoding a hypophosphite transporter protein is introduced.
US11130979B2
The invention provides an improved host strain for production of desired protein.
US11130977B2
The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and a thermostable endoglucanase is present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to compositions suitable for use in processes of the invention.
US11130964B2
Insecticidal proteins exhibiting toxic activity against Coleopteran and Lepidopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC3668, TIC3669, TIC3670, TIC4076, TIC4078, TIC4260, TIC4346, TIC4826, TIC4861, TIC4862, TIC4863, TIC11239, TIC11243, TIC11256, TIC4544, TIC4545, TIC6871, TIC7429, TIC7497, TIC7511, TIC7513, TIC7518, TIC7524, TIC7526, TIC7528, TIC7535 and TIC-3668-type proteins. DNA molecules and constructs are provided which contain a polynucleotide sequence encoding one or more of the disclosed TIC3668-type proteins. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Lepidopteran and Coleopteran infestation are provided which contain polynucleotide sequences encoding the insecticidal proteins of the present invention. Methods for detecting the presence of the polynucleotides or the proteins of the present invention in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Coleopteran and Lepidopteran species pests using any of the TIC3668-type insecticidal proteins are also provided.
US11130961B2
The invention provides a transgenic soybean event MON 87708 plant and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event MON 87708. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87708 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 87708. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 87708.
US11130956B2
The present invention relates to the fields of genetically modified Agrobacterium strains, vaccine adjuvants, and generally molecular biology and immunology. Provided herein are modified Agrobacterium strains that produce lipopolysaccharide (LPS) having reduced toxicity or detoxified lipopolysaccharide, and methods of obtaining such strains for plant-based production of biologies. Also provided herein are uses of reduced or detoxified LPS as adjuvants suitable for clinical use.
US11130953B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the ANGPTL3 gene, as well as methods of inhibiting expression of ANGPTL3 and methods of treating subjects having a disorder of lipid metabolism, such as hyperlipidemia or hypertriglyceridemia, using such dsRNA compositions.
US11130950B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of treating cystic fibrosis in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a nucleic acid miR-9 inhibitor.
US11130948B2
Aspects of the invention relate to methods, compositions for designing and producing a target nucleic acid. In particular, aspects of the invention relate to the multiplex synthesis of target polynucleotides.
US11130946B2
The present invention relates to variants of a parent glucoamylase having altered properties (e.g., improved thermostability and/or specific activity). In particular, the present invention provides compositions comprising the variant glucoamylases, including starch hydrolyzing compositions, animal feed compositions and cleaning compositions. The invention also relates to DNA constructs encoding the variants and methods of producing the glucoamylase variants in host cells.
US11130945B2
Provided are an enzyme involved in a glycyrrhizin biosynthetic system, a gene of the enzyme and use thereof in order to stably and continuously provide a large amount of glycyrrhizin. Glucuronosyltransferase with an activity of further transferring glucuronic acid to the hydroxy group at the 2-position of glucuronic acid in an oleanane-type triterpenoid monoglucuronide is identified to provide the transferase, a gene for the transferase and use thereof.
US11130941B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a substrate for culturing stem cells, including forming a plasma polymer layer from a precursor material on a substrate using plasma, and the precursor material contains a heteroaromatic compound or a linear compound.
US11130933B2
A cleaning composition including a preservative formulation having hydroxy acetophenone and a phospholipid complex is disclosed. The cleaning composition can be loaded on a cleaning wipe and used for personal care. The hydroxyacetophenone provides a preservative booster to the preservative system for the cleaning composition containing a phospholipid complex, such as cocamidopropyl PG-dimonium chloride phosphate, which has some limited independent preservation activity, depending on the level in the final formulation.
US11130927B2
The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition for two-wheeled vehicles, which is able to not only suppress a lowering of fatigue life of engine parts while making fuel saving properties (in particular, fuel saving properties at the time of low speed) favorable but also make clutch friction characteristics of two-wheeled vehicles favorable. The present invention is concerned with a lubricating oil composition for two-wheeled vehicles, including a base oil (A) having a viscosity index of 120 or more, an ethylene-propylene copolymer (B), and a metal-based detergent (C), wherein the content of the ethylene-propylene copolymer (B) is 0.30% by mass or more on the basis of the whole amount of the lubricating oil composition; the metal-based detergent (C) contains a calcium phenate (C1) and a calcium sulfonate (C2), and a mass ratio of the content (Ca1) of the calcium phenate (C1) as expressed in terms of a calcium atom to the content (Ca2) of the calcium sulfonate (C2) as expressed in terms of a calcium atom is satisfied with a relation of (1.0≤Ca1/Ca2); and the lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is less than 9.3 mm2/s and an HTHS viscosity at 150° C. is 2.9 mPa·s or more.
US11130925B2
A carbon nanotori-based lubricant composition for tribological applications, specifically for use in machining operations, which includes distilled water and a specific content of carbon nanotori having specific properties, which make them suitable for proper dispersal in distilled water without precipitation and remaining stable for a long time in dispersion without the need to add surfactants.
US11130922B2
The invention provides a hydrogen boiler based on coal gasification and water decomposition, including a steam boiler which includes an upper furnace and a lower furnace; water and steam in the upper furnace are respectively communicated with water and steam in the lower furnace; and the steam boiler is provided with a casing which has a narrow gap for containing water and a wide wall for heating to generate gas. The steam boiler contains multistage reactors. A coal modification and gasification device is provided at an outer side of the steam boiler and is provided with two chambers. The steam and gasified gas of coal are mixed and enter the reactors for direct burning to promote respective reactions. After several stages of modification and decomposition, the steam and the gasified gas of coal are completely converted to hydrogen.
US11130921B2
Integrated hydrotreating and steam pyrolysis processes for the direct processing of a crude oil to produce olefinic and aromatic petrochemicals.
US11130915B2
Methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) conversion may be performed with forward methanol processing. Methanol may be fed to a first reactor where it may be catalytically converted under dimethyl ether formation conditions in the presence of a first catalyst to form a product mixture comprising dimethyl ether (DME), methanol, and water. The DME may be separated from the methanol and the water and delivered to a second reactor. In the second reactor, the DME may be catalytically converted under MTG conversion conditions in the presence of a second catalyst to form a second product mixture comprising gasoline hydrocarbons and light hydrocarbon gas. The methanol and the water from the first reactor may be separated further to obtain substantially water-free methanol, which may be delivered to the second reactor. The separation of methanol from the water may be performed using the light hydrocarbon gas to effect stripping of the methanol.
US11130912B2
The present invention relates to polymers that include residues of at least one monomer represented by the following Formula (I). With reference to Formula (I), at least one of E1 and E2 independently is, or is independently substituted with, at least one reactive group, such as a (meth)acryloyl group. Monomers represented by Formula (I) and monomer residues thereof have alignment properties, such as photoalignment properties. The present invention also relates to alignment layers that include such polymers, and articles of manufacture, such as optical elements, that include one or more such alignment layers.
US11130905B2
Interactions between aqueous fluids and clay-containing subterranean formations may be problematic due to issues associated with clay destabilization and migration. Functionalized dextrin compounds that are partially oxidized and bear at least one amine group at an oxidation site may promote clay stabilization for more effective treatment of a subterranean formation. Subterranean treatment methods may comprise: providing a clay stabilizing composition comprising an amine-functionalized dextrin compound, the amine-functionalized dextrin compound comprising 2 to about 20 glucose units linked together with α(1,4) glycosidic bonds, and a portion of the glucose units being oxidatively opened and functionalized with at least one amine group at a site of oxidative opening; introducing the clay stabilizing composition into a subterranean formation bearing a clay-containing mineral; and interacting the amine-functionalized dextrin compound with the clay-containing mineral to affect stabilization thereof.
US11130899B2
Methods for cementing a subterranean well and maintaining zonal isolation involve preparing a cement slurry that contains water, an inorganic cement and an expanding agent. The slurry is placed in the annular region between casing and the formation or between two casing strings. After the cement sets, the expanding agent reacts and causes the set cement to be in a state of compression within the annular region. The casing dimensions may fluctuate in response to a temperature change, a pressure change, a mechanical disturbance resulting from a well intervention, or mud contamination or a combination thereof. The expanding agent may further react and maintain a state of compression within the annular region. The state of compression in the annular region may be monitored by acoustic impedance measurements.
US11130890B2
An adhesive composition that exhibits excellent adhesive performance such as curved surface adhesiveness to low-polarity adherends and constant load peeling properties in high-temperature environments, and also an adhesive sheet and a method for producing the same.
US11130887B2
The present application relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, an optical laminate, a pressure-sensitive adhesive polarizing plate and a display device. In the present application, a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having all excellent physical properties such as endurance reliability and interface adhesiveness and being capable of minimizing light leakage occurring under high temperature or high-temperature and humidity conditions can be provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present application can be used for an optical film such as a protective film and a polarizing plate.
US11130885B2
A patch is provided and described that can be used with the installation of a cured-in-place structural liner in a conduit when the conduit has protrusions into the conduit. The patch is made with similar material to the liner, or felt, and is impregnated with epoxy. The patch may be shaped to more closely match the anticipated curve of the outer surface of the liner. Tools for the installation of the patches, a method of use, and tools for measuring the quality of the installation of the patch before the installation of the structural liner, are also described.
US11130876B2
An example inkjet primer fluid includes an alkoxysilane, a surfactant, a co-solvent, and a balance of water; and is at least substantially colorless. In an example method, a primer fluid, including an alkoxysilane, a surfactant, a co-solvent, and a balance of water, is thermal inkjet printed from a thermal inkjet printhead to form a silicon dioxide film on a resistor. Then, a jettable composition, including suspended nanoparticles, is thermal inkjet printed from the thermal inkjet printhead. In another example method, suspended nanoparticles, an alkoxysilane, and a growth mediator are combined to form a mixture. The mixture is heated to a temperature ranging from about 60° C. to about 80° C. and stirred for about 12 hours to about 36 hours to form silicon dioxide coated, suspended nanoparticles. Then, a surfactant, a zwitterionic stabilizer, a co-solvent, and a balance of water are added to the mixture to form a stabilized, jettable composition.
US11130874B2
The present invention refers to a hybrid photopolymer composition for additive manufacturing, —comprising 50-95% by weight of a free radically curable-component, farther comprising at least one (meth)acrylate monomer or oligomer, 5-49% by weight of a cationically curable component, further comprising a cycloaliphatic epoxide, an oxetane mixture, containing a monooxetane compound and a polyoxetane compound, and a thermoplastic polycaprolactone with a molecular weight of 20,000-100,000 g/mol, a free radical photoinitiator, a UV blocker, a cationic photoinitiator, optionally a cationic photosensitiser, and optionally a thermal initiator, wherein the percent by weight is based on the total weight of the photopolymer' composition. The invention also relates to the use of a photopolymer composition according to the present invention for producing a three-dimensional object through additive manufacturing and to a three-dimensional object obtained through additive manufacturing using the photopolymer composition—according the present invention.
US11130868B2
The present invention provides a paint mixture containing a paint and paper sludge-derived sintered carbonized porous grains, the use of the paint mixture for removing lint, a composite structure containing the paint mixture and a lint removal method for the paper machine in the papermaking process, for the printing and/or copying process, and for the electric control panels in the papermaking mill to prevent piling and sticking troubles and/or fire breakout caused by lint generated during the operation of paper machine and equipment in the paper converting process. The provided paint mixture and method also reduces paper breakages of the paper machine. The provided paint mixture and method is composed of preparation of a mixture of paint and paper sludge-derived sintered carbonized porous grains and then paint, e.g., machines and/or equipment located after the Yankee dryer, steel pipe handrails in a household papers manufacturing mill.
US11130861B2
A novel soluble polyfunctional vinyl aromatic copolymer capable of yielding a cured product or molded body having improved heat resistance, compatibility, dielectric properties, wet heat reliability and resistance to thermal oxidative degradation. Disclosed herein is a soluble polyfunctional vinyl aromatic copolymer containing structural units derived from a divinyl aromatic compound (a), styrene (b), and a monovinyl aromatic compound (c) other than styrene. The copolymer includes structural units made up of an unsaturated hydrocarbon group represented by Formula (a1) and derived from the divinyl aromatic compound (a); and the copolymer includes, at terminals thereof, predetermined amounts of specific terminal groups having a vinyl group or a vinylene bond derived from monomers (a), (b), and (c). Also disclosed is a method for producing the copolymer.
US11130858B2
Disclosed is a curable composition with enhanced curing time at ambient temperatures, the curable composition including (a) a resin, e.g., 4,4′-isopropylidenediphenol-epichlorohydrin copolymer and (b) one or more curing agents, wherein a ratio of a weight percentage of the resin to a weight percentage of the curing agent or curing agents is from about 12:1 to about 15:1. Also disclosed is a method of curing a cured-in-place liner, wherein the cured-in-place liner contains the above curable composition.
US11130854B2
Provided is a polymer blend composition comprising high density polyethylene, a propylene polymer having rubber dispersed therein, and a propylene/ethylene copolymer. In one embodiment, there is provided a polymer blend composition comprising from 20 to 55 weight percent of the high density polyethylene, from 20 to 55 weight percent of a propylene polymer having from 10-60% crystallinity, and a propylene/ethylene copolymer comprising the remainder of the composition.
US11130849B2
A process for making a barrier film having a substrate, a base polymer layer applied to the substrate, an oxide layer applied to the base polymer layer, and a top coat polymer layer applied to the oxide layer is provided. An optional inorganic layer can be applied over the top coat polymer layer. The top coat polymer layer is formed by vapor depositing and curing cyclic aza-silane and acrylate monomer. The use of a silane co-deposited with an acrylate to form the top coat layer of the barrier films provide for enhanced resistance to moisture and improved peel strength adhesion of the top coat layer to the underlying barrier stack layers.
US11130848B2
An optical layered film includes at least one A layer including a thermoplastic resin [A] and a B layer formed of a thermoplastic resin [B], wherein the at least one A layer is provided on at least one of surfaces of the B layer, a thickness-direction retardation Rthb of the B layer satisfies the following formula (1), and a tensile elongation at break Sa of a 1.5 mm-thick film (a1) formed of the thermoplastic resin [A] satisfies the following formula (2): (1) |Rthb|≤40 nm, and (2) Sa≥100%.
US11130835B2
A liquid epoxy resin composition is provided. In preferred embodiments, the liquid epoxy resin composition is free of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, and bisphenol S, including epoxides thereof, and is useful in preparing a polyether polymer having utility in coating compositions, including, e.g., coating compositions for use on food or beverage containers.
US11130834B2
Polyamide foams which do not propagate fire are obtained by mixing (i) a liquid isocyanate component which comprises at least one polyisocyanate and in which the molar ratio of aromatic isocyanate groups to the sum of aromatic and aliphatic isocyanate groups is at least 60 mol %, with (ii) at least one liquid isocyanatereactive component which comprises a reactive diluent, and the reactive diluent 10 comprises (a) a chain-extending and/or crosslinking reactive diluent selected from among aliphatic branched C24-66-polycarboxylic acids, alicyclic C24-66-polycarboxylic acids and partial esters of polycarboxylic acids having at least two unesterified carboxyl groups and/or (b) a chain-terminating reactive diluent selected from among aliphatic branched C24-66-monocarboxylic acids, alicyclic C24-66-monocarboxylic acids and partial esters of polycarboxylic acids having one unesterified carboxyl group, wherein the liquid isocyanate-reactive component comprises an aromatic C8-18-polycarboxylic acid and/or an anhydride thereof.
US11130833B2
This invention relates to monodisperse cross-linked hydrogel polymer particles comprising a polymer formed from (a) a hydrophilic vinylic monomer; and (b) a crosslinker comprising at least two vinyl groups. The invention also relates to monodisperse seed particles with a Z-average diameter of from 100 nm to 1500 nm that comprise a plurality of non-crosslinked oligomers of poly N,N-dimethylacrylamide. Also provided are methods of forming the monodisperse cross-linked hydrogel polymer particles and monodisperse seed particles.
US11130829B2
A curable composition that includes an amorphous, peroxide-curable fluoropolymer having a first solubility parameter, a solvent having a second solubility parameter, and a peroxide. The amorphous, peroxide-curable fluoropolymer is present from 60 percent to 97.5 percent by weight versus the weight of the curable composition, and the solvent is present from 1 percent to 39 percent by weight versus the weight of the curable composition. The absolute value of the first solubility parameter minus the second solubility parameter is less than or equal to 8.2 (MPa)1/2. The solvent may have a solubility parameter in a range from 9.6 (MPa)1/2 to 26 (MPa)1/2. Methods of making a cured fluoroelastomer from the curable composition are also disclosed.
US11130828B2
Disclosed is a solution polymerization process, or, alternatively, a method of delivering powder catalysts to a solution polymerization reactor, comprising combining a homogeneous single-site catalyst precursor with α-olefin monomers to form a polyolefin, wherein the homogeneous single-site catalyst precursor is in the form of (i) a dry powder, (ii) suspended in a aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, or (iii) suspended in an oil or wax, wherein the homogeneous single-site catalyst precursor is at a concentration greater than 0.8 mmole/liter when suspended in the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent prior to entering the solution polymerization reactor.
US11130819B2
The present invention relates to antibodies binding to 5T4, including bispecific antibodies binding to 5T4 and CD3. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and use of the antibodies for therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, in particular in cancer therapy.
US11130817B2
Provided are antibodies that bind and inhibit CD73, are capable of increasing the proliferation of T cells in the presence of CD39-expressing B cells and ATP. The invention also relates to cells producing such compounds; methods of making such compounds, and antibodies, fragments, variants, and derivatives thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same; methods of using the compounds to diagnose, treat or prevent cancer.
US11130806B2
The present invention relates to antibodies binding IL-15, in particular humanized antibodies. In particular, the anti-IL-15 antibodies according to the invention are able to neutralize IL-15 activity and are useful in the prevention and/or treatment of an autoimmune disease and/or inflammatory disorder, a malignancy, transplant rejection, metabolic condition and/or an infectious disease caused by parasitic, viral or bacterial pathogens.
US11130803B2
Disclosed herein are monoclonal antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof capable of selectively inhibiting TGFβ1 with high potency. Related compositions, methods and therapeutic use are also disclosed.
US11130800B2
Described herein are methods and antibodies useful for reducing, eliminating, or preventing infection with a bacterial population in domestic animals or humans. Also described herein are antigens useful for targeting by heavy chain antibodies and VHH fragments for reducing a bacterial population in domestic animals or humans.
US11130795B2
The present invention provides methods and materials for treating and preventing autoimmune diseases. In particular, the present invention relates to the discovery that small peptides are capable of interacting with CD40, thereby interfering with the ability of CD40 to interact with CD154, which is important in inflammation. The present invention also relate to the use of such peptides in reducing the inflammatory response, and in particular, the autoimmune inflammatory response. The present invention also relates to the use of such short peptides to prevent or reverse autoimmune disease, and particular, diabetes, in individuals suffering from such disease. It also relates to methods and materials for detecting T-cells that express CD40 (Th40 cells). Also provided are kits for reducing inflammation, treating autoimmune diseases, or detecting Th40 cells.
US11130791B2
The invention relates to IL-22 polypeptides, IL-22 Fc fusion proteins and IL-22 agonists, composition comprising the same, methods of making and methods of using the composition for the treatment of diseases. The invention also relates to IL-22 receptor associated reagents and methods of use thereof.
US11130786B2
The present invention generally relates to polypeptides, polynucleotides, expression vectors, infectious clones, virus particles and immunogenic compositions of recombinant alphaviruses which can be used as vaccines. The present disclosure also relates to methods for eliciting an immune response against alphavirus infection using the immunogenic composition comprising the alphavirus mutants described herein.
US11130784B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for producing microcystin and recombinant cells capable of producing microcystin. The recombinant cells express exogenous microcystin synthase polypeptides under the control of an exogenous promoter, and further express an exogenous phosphopantethienyl transferase (PPTase). The present invention further relates to microcystin as produced in recombinant cells by the methods described herein.
US11130783B2
The present disclosure is related to compositions comprising peptides that bind CD40 and methods of use in inhibiting interaction of CD40 and CD154 and inducing immunosuppression. Provided herein are methods of transplantation and methods of inhibiting donor specific immune response. Also provided herein are methods of treatment for autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and cancer.
US11130782B2
The present invention relates to novel peptide antagonists that inhibit binding of acetylcholine to the active site of the muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The peptide antagonists of the invention are useful in cosmetic compositions that prevent or improve the appearance of skin wrinkles and related skin conditions. The invention further relates to cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a peptide antagonist of the invention, and methods for their use.
US11130775B2
The present invention relates to new solid forms of the compound (2S,3S,4S,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(((4aR,10aR)-7-hydroxy-1-propyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,10,10a-octahydrobenzo[g]quinolin-6-yl)oxy)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-carboxylic acid with the formula (Id) below. The compound of formula (Id) is a prodrug of a catecholamine for use in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and disorders such as Parkinson's Disease.
US11130774B1
A series of 2,2′-dipyridyl ketone (DPK) containing metal complexes have been synthesized with metals including Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ru, Pd, and Pt. These complexes have one, two or three DPK ligands chelated to the metal center. In addition to the DPK ligands the complexes can comprise halogen ligands that can easily exchange with carbon dioxide to allow for reduction to small molecules such as methanol or oxalate. Initial electrochemical measurements show a reversible binding of carbon dioxide to the metal catalyst.
US11130773B2
A drug or agent containing a compound having an agonistic activity to STING as an active ingredient, where the compound is represented by the following general formula (I-1): wherein all symbols represent the same meanings as described in the specification, and the compound can be used as an active ingredient of an agent for suppressing the progression of, suppressing the recurrence of and/or treating cancer or infectious disease.
US11130769B2
The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
US11130768B2
The present invention covers bicyclic pyrazole compounds of general formula (I): in which G, A, R1, R2, R3, and Q are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment, control and/or prevention of diseases, in particular of helminth infections, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US11130766B2
The present invention discloses deuterated thienopiperidine derivatives, a manufacturing method and an application thereof. The deuterated thienopiperidine derivatives in the present invention are of a structure of the following formula (I). The present invention also comprises the application of the deuterated thienopiperidine derivatives as a drug for treating and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
US11130764B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of any one of Formulae (I′), (I), (IA), (II′), (II), (IIA), (IIIA), (III″), (III′), (III), (IIIA), (IV), (V′), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII′), (VIII), (IX′), (IX), and (X). The compounds described herein may be useful in treating and/or preventing a broad range of diseases (e.g., proliferative disease (e.g., cancers (e.g., non-small cell lung cancer, or glioma), inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases), CNS disorder (e.g., drug addiction), metabolic disorder (e.g., diabetes), or infectious disease (e.g., bacterial infection or parasitic infection (e.g., malaria))). Also provided in the present disclosure are pharmaceutical compositions, methods of synthesis of a compound described herein, kits, methods, and uses including or using a compound described herein.
US11130756B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) or a salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R4c, R4d, R5, n, and p are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds as inhibitors of signaling through Toll-like receptor 7, or 8, or 9, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
US11130752B2
The present invention provides a compound having a CaMKII inhibitory action, which is expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of cardiac diseases (particularly catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, postoperative atrial fibrillation, heart failure, fatal arrhythmia) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US11130745B2
The present invention provides triazolone compounds of general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US11130742B2
Copoly(imide oxetane) materials are disclosed that can exhibit a low surface energy while possessing the mechanical, thermal, chemical and optical properties associated with polyimides. The copoly(imide oxetane)s are prepared using a minor amount of fluorinated oxetane-derived oligomer with sufficient fluorine-containing segments of the copoly(imide oxetane)s migrate to the exterior surface of the polymeric material to yield low surface energies. Thus the coatings and articles of manufacture made with the copoly(imide oxetane)s of this invention are characterized as having an anisotropic fluorine composition. The low surface energies can be achieved with very low content of fluorinated oxetane-derived oligomer. The copolymers of this invention can enhance the viability of polyimides for many applications and may be acceptable where homopolyimide materials have been unacceptable.
US11130737B2
Aminoquinoline compounds useful for treating chronic pain, addiction, and other conditions are provided. The aminoquinoline compound is represented by Formula (I): in which the substituents thereof are defined as set forth in the specification.
US11130734B2
Disclosed are an amino alcohol-boron-binol complex as an intermediate, including Complex 3-1-1 shown below, and a method for preparing an optically active amino alcohol by using the same, wherein a racemic amino alcohol is resolved in an enationselective manner using a boron compound and a (R)- or (S)-binol, whereby an amino alcohol derivative with high optical purity can be prepared at high yield.
US11130730B2
The invention relates to novel compounds with the ability to link an immune response to a defined therapeutic target, to the use of said compounds in treating cancer and infectious diseases, to compositions containing said compounds, processes for their preparation and to novel intermediates used in said process.
US11130729B2
Compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed that are useful for inhibition of the biological activity of CCL2, as well as methods of treatment for diseases involving the biological activity of CCL2.
US11130725B2
The present invention relates to methods for slowing deactivation of a catalyst and/or slowing tetraphosphine ligand usage in a hydroformylation process. In one aspect, a method comprises (a) contacting an olefin with carbon monoxide, hydrogen and a catalyst, the catalyst comprising (A) a transition metal, (B) a tetraphosphine having the structure described herein, and, optionally, (C) a monophosphine having the structure described herein, the contacting conducted in one or more reaction zones and at hydroformylation conditions; and (b) adding additional monophosphine having the structure described herein to a reaction zone.
US11130724B2
The present invention employs a compound represented by the following formula (0): wherein RY is a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms or an aryl group of 6 to 30 carbon atoms; RZ is an N-valent group of 1 to 60 carbon atoms or a single bond; each RT is independently an alkyl group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms optionally having a substituent, an aryl group of 6 to 40 carbon atoms optionally having a substituent, an alkenyl group of 2 to 30 carbon atoms optionally having a substituent, an alkoxy group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms optionally having a substituent, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an amino group, a cyano group, a thiol group, a hydroxy group, or a group in which a hydrogen atom of a hydroxy group is replaced with an acid dissociation group, wherein the alkyl group, the alkenyl group, and the aryl group each optionally contain an ether bond, a ketone bond, or an ester bond, wherein at least one RT is a hydroxy group or a group in which a hydrogen atom of a hydroxy group is replaced with an acid dissociation group; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or not a crosslink; each m is independently an integer of 0 to 9, wherein at least one m is an integer of 1 to 9; N is an integer of 1 to 4, wherein when N is an integer of 2 or larger, N structural formulas within the parentheses [ ] are the same or different; and each r is independently an integer of 0 to 2.
US11130716B2
The present invention provides organic slow-acting fertilizer using psyllium seed husk and a method for producing the same. Macroelements or secondary elements selected from 12 essential nutrient elements (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Fe, Mn, Cu, B, Mo, and Zn) for edible plants are extracted from each of oil cake (collectively referring to residue remaining after extraction of vegetable oil, and including soybean oil cake, palm oil cake, etc.), blood meal (livestock blood), dead fish or bonefish-containing by-products, bone meal, Dead Sea mineral, egg shell, seashell, oystershell, natural gypsum, dolomite, phyllite, and natural salt, by a predetermined extraction process, and are impregnated in larger amounts into a porous material such as zeolite, and organic fertilizers are produced in the form of psyllium seed husk-bound grains for more rapid and effective impregnation so that suitable proportions of element fertilizers can be supplied to each type of plant.
US11130715B2
The present invention provides for biochar coated particles and a method for coating the particles with biochar.
US11130700B2
A method of making a glass-ceramic article includes synthesizing a feedstock gel that includes a base oxide network comprising Na2O, CaO, and SiO2, in which a molar ratio of Na2O:CaO:SiO2 in the gel is 1:2:3, and then converting the feedstock gel into a glass-ceramic article such as a container or a partially-formed container. The conversion of the feedstock gel into a glass-ceramic container may be performed at a temperature that does not exceed 900° C. and may include the steps of pressing the feedstock gel into a compressed solid green-body, sintering the green-body into a solid monolithic body of a glass-ceramic material, deforming the solid monolithic glass-ceramic body into a glass-ceramic preform, and cooling the preform. A glass-ceramic article having a glass-ceramic material that has a molar ratio of Na2O:CaO:SiO2 that is 1:2:3 is also disclosed.
US11130692B2
The present invention relates to a control system for a bioreactor. More particularly, this invention relates to a process and apparatus for reading the characteristics of an industrial waste water stream and dosing amount of nutrients that play a key role to help the microorganisms in the bioreactor work efficiently to remove impurities from the industrial wastewater stream.
US11130687B2
The present invention relates to a coagulant composition comprising a coagulant and a carbon source compound, wherein the coagulant is selected from the group iron and aluminium salts, or any combination thereof. The carbon source includes methanol, ethanol or glycol. The present invention further relates to a method of treating wastewater, e.g. containing nitrogen and/or phosphate, including providing the coagulant composition to wastewater before, during and/or after a biological treatment step, and the use of the coagulant composition in wastewater treatment.
US11130686B2
Systems and methods for dosing slurries to remove suspended solids from the slurry are disclosed. The systems and methods may be used to dewater slurries having relatively high solids content such as earthen slurries. In some embodiments, the zeta potential of the slurry is monitored by an electroacoustic zeta potential sensor to control coagulant addition.
US11130678B2
A novel carbon formation reactor for forming carbon from a carbon-bearing fluidic stream, and method of using the same, is described. The reactor uses a catalyst bearing surface placed within a heated zone in a carbon-bearing fluidic stream to form carbon, which can then be removed from the reactor, with the process repeatable to achieve high extraction efficiencies.
US11130674B2
An integrated package method for MEMS element and ASIC chip includes forming a re-layout layer on a front surface of an ASIC wafer; coating an organic compound layer on the re-layout layer and applying a lithography process to the organic compound layer to from a microcavity array; aligning and bonding an electrode connection pad layer on a front surface of an MEMS element with the microcavity array to form a closed cavity structure; thinning and exposing a silicon substrate on a back surface of the MEMS element to a desired thickness; applying the lithographic process on the MEMS element to expose the electrode connection pad layer and an electrical contact area of the re-layout layer; and manufacturing a metal connection member connected to the electrode connection pad layer and the electrical contact area. An integrated package structure for MEMS element and ASIC chip is also provided.
US11130673B2
A packaging method and a packaging structure are provided. The packaging method includes providing a cap wafer including a groove; forming a sacrificial layer in the groove and a first device on the sacrificial layer; providing a substrate wafer and a second device formed on the substrate wafer; bonding a surface of the cap wafer having the first device formed thereon with a surface of the substrate wafer having the second device formed thereon, to form an electrical connection between the first device and the second device; and removing the sacrificial layer from a side of the cap wafer away from the substrate wafer, to form a cavity. The first device is located in the cavity.
US11130669B2
Fuel dispenser (100) comprising: a fluid inlet (105IN) for receiving fuel from a fuel source, a fluid outlet (105OUT) and a conduit (110) disposed therebetween; inspection means (152) for inspecting the fuel within the conduit (110), the inspection means (152) being configured to provide an output indicative of a type of fuel in the conduit (110); valve means (120) operable selectively to prevent or allow flow of fluid through the conduit (110) from the fluid inlet (105IN) to the fluid outlet (105OUT); and control means (150) configured automatically to cause the valve means (120) to prevent or allow flow of fuel through the conduit (110) in dependence on the output of the fuel inspection means (152) and permitted fluid information, the permitted fluid information being information indicative of a type of fuel that is to be permitted to flow through the conduit (110), the apparatus (100) comprising an electrical generator (140) configured to generate electrical power to charge a charge storage device in response to flow of fluid through the apparatus (100) during an operation in which fluid flows from the fluid inlet (105IN) to the fluid outlet (105OUT) via the conduit (110), the charge storage device being arranged to provide a supply of electrical power for the apparatus.
US11130667B2
A device for filling a container with a filling product includes a filling valve for influencing the supply of the filling product into the container to be filled, generally during the transport, by means of a container transporting device, of the containers to be filled, a dosing valve for dosing a dosing product from a dosing product reservoir into the filling valve, and a main component reservoir for providing a main component at the filling valve. A dosing product changing device is provided for changing the dosing product in the dosing product reservoir during the filling operation.
US11130662B2
Methods and systems for wirelessly transmitting power and/or data.
US11130651B2
A thread guiding device (100) for guiding threads. The thread guiding device (100) comprises a main element (1), at least one cover element (2) and at least one thread guide (3). The at least one thread guide (3) is, or can be, arranged in a recess (11) of the main element (1). The thread guide (3) is, or can be, removably secured to the main element (3) by the cover element (2).
US11130650B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for providing web-like interleaving sheet material on one track or on multiple tracks at a cutting zone in which products supplied on one track or multiple tracks are cut into slices and interleaving sheets are introduced that are cut off from the provided interleaving sheet material in the cutting zone, having a removal device that is configured to remove the material web from a material store, and having a loop store in which the material web forms a loop having a loop portion at the incoming side and a loop portion at the outgoing side, wherein the loop store provides a reception space for the loop whose one side forms a support for the one loop portion and whose side opposite the support forms a boundary for the other loop portion.
US11130636B1
A torque transmission device (1) is provided for a crossbelt-sorter-cart (200) comprising a crossbelt (210). The torque transmission device (1) comprises a rotatable drive end (10) configured to be coupled to a drive (13, 120) for driving the crossbelt (210) of the crossbelt-sorter-cart (200). A rotatable crossbelt end (20) is configured to be coupled to the crossbelt (210) of the crossbelt-sorter-cart (200). An unrotatable support (30) is configured to be fixed to the crossbelt-sorter-cart (200). A coupling (40) connects the drive end (10) to the crossbelt end (20) at the support (30). The coupling (40) allows a transmission of a drive torque originating from the rotating drive end (10) to the crossbelt end (20) and inhibits a belt torque originating from the rotating crossbelt end (20).
US11130635B2
A sub-seating delivery system for event seating venues. The sub-seating system may include a transfer system between a sub-seating conveyor belt and a lower base conveyor belt associated with a plurality of vendors who place orders thereon. The transfer system may incorporate a lift assembly that elevates orders from the base conveyor belt to a relevant sub-seating conveyor belt passing directly under a row of event seating. A delivery robot may be adapted to move an order from the sub-seating conveyor belt to a sub-seating container under a destination seat along the row of event seating. From the sub-seating container, a seated individual may access their ordered items without leaving their seat from which they electronically placed the order.
US11130633B2
An automated warehouse system includes a revolving transport device configured to revolve a holding table to transport the article, a plurality of racks arranged across a forward path and a return path extending from a reference point to a turning point of the revolving transport device, a transport vehicle disposed adjacent to a side of each of the racks and configured to transport the article across the forward path and the return path of the revolving transport device, the transport vehicle including a transferring and placing device configured to transfer and place the article with respect to the rack, a lift transport device configured to lift and lower the article to a position corresponding to each level of each of the racks, and a transfer device configured to transfer the article between the revolving transport device and the lift transport device.
US11130628B2
A cassette for use in dispensing a pleated tubing. The cassette includes an annular body having an annular channel housing with a central cylindrical core. At least one wall has an upper end with a downturn lip disposed thereon. An annular cover extends radially outward from the central cylindrical core over the annular body defining a gap. The cover has a socket into which the upper end with the downturn lip is secured. A tubing is disposed within the annular channel housing and withdrawn from the gap.
US11130618B2
Method for manufacturing a pressurising device for a beverage container, wherein a gas container is provided having a filling opening, into which gas container an amount of dry ice is inserted through the filling opening, where after the filling opening is closed and the dry ice is allowed to sublimate.
US11130615B2
A gift bag having an envelope-shaped pocket therein for transporting and presenting an envelope, card, or other merchandise with the gift bag is provided. The pocket may be integrally formed with the gift bag, or at least partially formed from a separately attached piece, and may be positioned at various locations within the bag. The pocket may also be formed to look like an envelope.
US11130610B2
A merchandise storage and display mount includes a support that fits within a recess of the merchandise to be stored and displayed. The merchandise can be a five-sided protective case for a hand-held electronic device. The case defines an recess that receives a portion of the mount. The mount is formed from a foldable material and can be erected from a flat blank by folding the material and gluing at selected locations. The mount includes stiffeners that add durability to the mount. The mount is durable and can be used in combination with different merchandise storage devices.
US11130606B2
The present invention relates generally to a container that may be sealed and reclosed with a threaded closure. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods of manufacturing a metallic container having an opening with inwardly facing threads that are formed after a threaded closure is inserted at least partially into the opening. The container opening may be selectively sealed and reclosed with the threaded closure which releasably engages the container threads.
US11130601B2
A gas-sealed body with cushioning function is adapted to be inflated by a processing machine. The processing machine includes an inflation bar and pressing wheels adjacent to the inflation bar. The inflation bar is to inflate the gas-sealed body. The pressing wheels roll on a rolling track of the gas-sealed body for conveying the gas-sealed body. The gas-sealed body includes an inflation channel, gas inlets, pillow structures, and gas chambers. Each gas chamber includes one or more gas inlets, one or more cushion-part gas column, and a main-part gas column. When each of the inflation inlets is inflated, the corresponding one or more cushion-part gas column and the corresponding main-part gas column are inflated and expanded in order.
US11130597B2
A sealing tool for forming a joint in a seal positioned on overlying courses of strap includes a body, a motor and drive train housed, at least in part, in the body, a power supply and a sealing assembly mounted to the body. The sealing assembly is operably coupled to the motor. The sealing assembly includes at least one jaw having a pair of opposing jaw elements. Each jaw element has two edges for cutting into the seal and the courses of strap and forming a bent tab. The jaw element edges are configured to cut into the seal and the courses of strap material at different distances into a width of the seal and strap material. A method for forming seal and a seal formed by the tool and method are disclosed.
US11130590B2
Fuel tank inerting systems for aircraft are provided. The systems include a fuel tank, a catalytic reactor arranged to receive a first reactant from a first reactant source and a second reactant from a second reactant source to generate an inert gas that is supplied to the fuel tank to fill an ullage space of the fuel tank, a heat exchanger arranged between the catalytic reactor and the fuel tank and configured to at least one of cool and condense an output from the catalytic reactor to separate out the inert gas, and a controller configured to perform a light-off operation of the catalytic reactor by controlling at least one light-off parameter and, after light-off occurs, adjusting the at least one light-off parameter to an operating level, wherein the at least one light-off parameter comprises a space velocity through the catalytic reactor.
US11130587B2
The invention relates to an improved throttle control system for an aircraft. The throttle system includes providing friction to the throttle to maintain the position of the throttle until the pilot overcomes the friction by using force to move the throttle. The throttle is attached to and positioned about a shaft to provide rotatable movement. The invention uses a first and second friction resistance to maintain the position of the throttle along with an automatic regulating device capable of automatically controlling rotation of the shaft having a geared motor assembly.
US11130585B2
An aerial vehicle includes an airframe, a canopy capable of adjusting a speed of falling during falling, a brake cord having one end connected to the canopy, a wind-up apparatus provided in the airframe and being capable of winding up the other end of the brake cord, a sensor unit that detects a distance to an external object, and a controller that controls an operation of the wind-up apparatus based on a result of detection by the sensor unit. The wind-up apparatus includes a gas generator as a drive source. The controller has the wind-up apparatus operate to wind up the other end of the brake cord by activating the gas generator when the distance detected by the sensor unit is equal to or smaller than a prescribed value.
US11130582B2
Systems and methods of heat management of turbine engines including turbofans, turboprops and turboshafts and fan driven propulsion systems. The propulsion system may comprise a fan, nacelle, an electrical or mechanical heat source and a cooling system consisting of heat exchangers in the fan duct and on the nacelle and coolant pumps. The heat source can be a motor or a generator or turbine machinery or accessories rotationally coupled to rotating shafts. The heat management system transfers heat to the air in the fan flow path to provide additional fan thrust. The heat management system also transfers heat to structural members in the gas flow path that require anti-icing.
US11130581B2
A RAM inlet header (RIH) is provided and includes a body through which RAM air flows from an inlet toward a heat exchanger and a nozzle body arranged along a wall of the body to direct a curtain of cooled air into flows of the RAM air and toward the heat exchanger.
US11130578B1
An ottoman for an aircraft passenger seat is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the ottoman may include a base. The ottoman may include a frame. The ottoman may include a shell. The ottoman may include a resting surface. The ottoman may include an actuation assembly. The actuation assembly is configured to actuating the resting surface from a first actuation position relative to the base. The ottoman may include an attachment surface. The attachment surface provides and anchor point for the actuation assembly.
US11130570B2
A delivery system includes a drone including a prime mover, one or more rotors operatively connected to the prime mover, and a payload attachment system including a latch mechanism having a first selectively deployable clamp member and a second selectively deployable clamp member. The delivery system also includes a plurality of nested reusable totes. Each of the plurality of nested reusable totes includes a body having a base, sides, and a lid, at least two of the sides include a gripping feature. The selectively deployable clamp members are operable to engage with the gripping feature on one or more of the plurality of nested reusable totes.
US11130567B2
Systems and methods for compactly mounted cyclic flight control for a rotorcraft. One embodiment is an apparatus that includes a stick base assembly coupled with a cyclic stick and configured to rotate with respect to a mounting frame to control a pitch and a roll of the rotorcraft. A cyclic housing is pivotably coupled with the mounting frame for rotation about a pitch axis to control pitch, and coupled with a pitch actuator having a pitch force sensor to measure its resistance to rotation. The cyclic housing supports the stick base assembly for independent rotation of the stick base assembly about a roll axis to control roll, and the stick base assembly couples with a roll actuator having a roll force sensor to measure its resistance to rotation.
US11130565B1
A battery powered helicopter uses one or more torque arms as the power source directly driving the main rotor blades, causing them to rotate. The helicopter does not require a combustion engine, a clutch, a reducer, a tail driver, a tail boom, a tail rotor, or a fuel supply system. The output shaft of the high-energy motor is coaxial with the main rotor shaft. The centrifugal force of one or more motor(s) is negligible or minimized. The torque arm assembly includes a plurality of torque arms. Each of the torque arms of the plurality of torque arms includes a propeller and a driving system. The torque arm propellers are hinged so that they can move between a first closed position and a second open position to institute an autorotation safety system.
US11130562B2
Device and method for reducing gust loads acting on control surfaces of an aircraft. Each control surface is movable by at least one actuator, and a flight control system provides reference variables Xsoll and {dot over (X)}soll to actuate the actuator of each control surface. Xsoll indicates a target position, force, or moment of the actuator, and {dot over (X)}soll indicates a time derivative of Xsoll. The device includes: a first sensor system identifying a position, force, or moment, indicated by variable Fext,Boe, as produced by gusts acting from outside on the control surface; and a regulator regulating the actuator of the control surface based on Fext,Boe, Xsoll and {dot over (X)}soll, and XA and {dot over (X)}A, resulting from the actuator acting on the control surface and detected by a second sensor system, wherein regulation of the actuator by the regulator enables compensation of the position, force, or moment produced by gusts acting on the control surface.
US11130559B2
A heater panel includes a face layer. A heater/dielectric layer includes a heater layer between a pair of dielectric layers. The face layer is bonded to a first one of the dielectric layers. A ballistic structure is bonded to a second one of the dielectric layers. The face layer can be bonded directly to the first one of the dielectric layers with a film adhesive. The ballistic structure can be bonded directly to the second one of the dielectric layers with a film adhesive. The ballistic structure can be configured to withstand at least a 5.56 mm bullet impact.
US11130551B1
Wakeboat ballast pump systems and methods are provided to monitor the operational condition and parameters of wakeboat ballast components. Systems and methods for sensing and measurement are provided to detect parameters associated with wakeboat ballast pumps and compartments, including systems and methods that can economically retrofit into existing wakeboat ballast systems. Systems and methods are also provided to enable automated action based on various operational conditions and parameters to improve the safety, automation, performance, convenience, and marketing advantage of wakeboat ballast pumps.
US11130550B2
The device disclosed herein is for a folding mast device for use on watercraft. In the preferred embodiment, the mast is used on a bridge erection boat; however, additional watercraft may also incorporate this device. The mast includes clamps and other components in order to allow the mast to be assembled and disassembled without tools, which also makes the assembly and disassembly quick. The mast is also quickly removable and replaceable. The mast also can incorporate safety features, such as lighting and other devices needed for safe navigation, and is capable of adjusting to accommodate fabrication differences.
US11130549B2
The present disclosure provides generally for a hydrofoil system that may allow a surfboard to glide above the water surface. According to the present disclosure, a rider may be able to manipulate a hydrofoil device attached to a surfboard with limited training and athletic ability. The present disclosure provides for a hydrofoil system that may allow riders to use a light leaning motion to adjust the angle of a front wing to create forward thrust to produce a flow for creating lift. In some aspects, the front wing may tilt to reduce downward drag force in a lifting phase while locking into place during a glide to provide a sustained lift of the surfboard out of the water.
US11130546B2
A crank arm for a bicycle may include a body extending along a body axis and having a first body end and a second body end axially spaced apart from the first body end. The insert may also include an insert provided toward the first body end. The insert may include a base portion having a radially outer surface. At least one extension may extend outwardly from the radially outer surface and may be encased within a corresponding recess in the body whereby relative planar movement between the body and the at least one extension in a first plane. The retaining portion may have a retaining portion width measured in the first direction and the retaining width may be greater than the throat width thereby inhibiting relative radial movement between the at least one extension and the recess and preventing radial extraction of the extension from the corresponding recess.
US11130545B2
A bicycle control device is provided for a bicycle that includes a front wheel, a drive train and a suspension. The drive train includes an input unit to which driving force is input, a rear wheel to which the driving force is transmitted, and a transmission mechanism that transmits the driving force that is input to input unit to the rear wheel. The bicycle control device includes an electronic controller that changes an operation state of the suspension in accordance with movement of at least one of the input unit, the transmission mechanism, the front wheel and the rear wheel in a state in which the rear wheel is not rotated by the driving force that is input to the input unit.
US11130537B1
A system and method are provided for repowering an electric motor-powered PTV to convert it into an engine-powered PTV. The system includes a power unit with an ICE, an integrated CVT, and an integrated forward/reverse gearbox. An adapter system includes an adapter geartrain that includes a transmission intermediate gear that is configured to overdrive a transmission output shaft. The transmission output shaft may be internally splined.
US11130533B2
A giant gully-crossing vehicle for polar scientific expeditions, including a gully-crossing bridge and a vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a stage and a travelling portion. The stage includes a top platform, a front bottom plate, a rear bottom plate and a multifunctional lock platform assembly. The front bottom plate and the rear bottom plate are capable of sliding independently relative to the top platform. The travelling portion includes a first travelling component, a second travelling component, a third travelling component, a fourth travelling component, a fifth travelling component and a sixth travelling component which are symmetrically provided at left and right sides of the stage and below the stage. Bridge bodies of the bridge components can be assembled to two gully-crossing bridges, and are connected to the multifunctional lock platform assembly when crossing gullies.
US11130530B2
Load-bearing structural component (1) in particular of a motor vehicle including a strut-dome (2) to hold the strut and an engine support (3) to fasten an engine wherein the load-bearing structural component (1) is formed in one-piece as a single part.
US11130527B2
A vehicle body includes a plurality of lateral units and a cross unit having a plurality of cross members for connecting the lateral units, where neighboring cross members form a closed structure together with members of the lateral units disposed at opposite sides. The vehicle body entirely surrounds the closed structure.
US11130524B2
A center upper frame connection for a space frame can comprise a center boss; a rearward mounting surface facing rearward; a rearward angular center upper frame tube connection boss oriented downward and rearward; a vertical center upper frame tube connection boss oriented downward; a forward angular center upper frame tube connection boss oriented forward and downward; and a forward angular mounting surface facing forward and upward. The rearward mounting surface can fixedly attach a center upper horizontal frame connection, the rearward angular center upper frame tube connection boss can fixedly attach a first elongate support structure, the vertical center upper frame tube connection boss can fixedly attach a second elongate support structure, the forward angular center upper frame tube connection boss can fixedly attach to a third elongate support structure, and the forward angular mounting surface can fixedly attach a center upper frame nodal connection.
US11130514B1
The sanitary shopping cart handle cover covers the handle of a cart. The sanitary shopping cart handle cover forms a sanitary barrier that prevents pathogens living on the handle with infecting a client using the cart. The sanitary shopping cart handle cover incorporates a primary structure, a plurality of gloves, and a pocket. The plurality of gloves and the pocket attach to the primary structure. The primary structure covers the handle. The primary structure forms a barrier that prevents the transfer of a pathogen from the handle to a client. The pocket forms a sanitary storage structure that allows a client to store a domestic article without placing the domestic article within the containment space of the cart. The plurality of gloves are worn on the hands of the client. The plurality of gloves form personal barriers that prevent the pathogens from reaching the hands of the client.
US11130505B2
An arrangement for lighting a rail vehicle includes at least one energy source, at least one controller, at least one lighting device, at least one electrical line for connecting the energy source to the at least one controller and an electrical line for connecting the controller to the at least one lighting device. Each lighting device includes at least one adjacent controller. A rail vehicle with the lighting arrangement is also provided.
US11130504B2
A propulsion system is composed of vehicles with four wheels having one of the axles connected to a pylon attached to the propulsion plate. The vehicles move over rails of elevated guideways supported by pillars. The top of the elevated guideways has longitudinal slots for allowing passage of pylons of propulsion plates. The elevated guideway is dual and has two power propulsion units for propulsion operation in a push and/or pull mode, one for each elevated guideway. The power propulsion units are installed inside the machine rooms under the pavement of the sob passenger stations supported on pillars. The power propulsion units are connected to the elevated guideways by means of connection ducts. Secondary propulsion ducts are disposed in parallel with the propulsion duct and integrated with its respective flow direction valve which allows that the air flow generated by the power propulsion unit is discharged in the propulsion duct in two distinct positions. The pneumatic propulsion arrangement is completed by isolation valve sets of the guideway section, atmospheric valve sets, set of four air flow control valves mounted in the connection ducts of the power propulsion units and flow direction valves.
US11130500B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle database which enables frequently updated real-time information to be read at high speed from a plurality of sets of input information, and an in-vehicle control apparatus having the in-vehicle database. The in-vehicle electronic control apparatus comprises: a data collection unit which acquires a plurality of pieces of data; a data storage unit which stores the plurality of pieces of data; and a table generation unit which generates a table having storage place identification information for identifying a storage place for the piece of data matching a predetermined data condition among the pieces of data stored in the data storage unit.
US11130499B2
A failure detection device that detects a failure in a plurality of external sensors onboard a vehicle, the failure detection device comprises: an overlapping region storage unit that stores an overlapping region of detection areas of the external sensors; an environment performance storage unit that stores an environment-dependent performance of sensing of the external sensors; an environment information acquisition unit that acquires environment information about the vehicle; a recognition result comparison unit that compares recognition results of an object in the overlapping region from the external sensors; a failure likelihood computation unit that computes a failure likelihood of each external sensor based on a comparison result of the recognition results, the environment information, and the environment-dependent performance; and a failure determination unit that determines a failure in each external sensor based on the failure likelihood of each of the external sensors.
US11130495B2
A power control ECU controls electric power and engine power of a hybrid vehicle. The power control ECU includes a request driving force calculating portion that calculates a request driving force calculated in accordance with an accelerator operation amount, a travel driving force calculating portion that calculates a travel driving force as a value that belatedly follows the request driving force, and a dashpot control processing portion. The dashpot control processing portion sets a value of the request driving force as a value of a final request driving force used to calculate request engine power when a difference of the request driving force with respect to the travel driving force is less than a predetermined positive value, and sets a value that belatedly follows the request driving force when the difference is greater than or equal to the predetermined positive value.
US11130489B2
A driving mode switching device includes a determination section, a notification section, a detection section, and a control section. The determination section is configured to determine whether a state has occurred in which automatic driving needs to be terminated. The notification section is configured to notify a driver of the instruction for performing a switching operation as a predetermined operation of a vehicle in the case of determining, by the determination section, that the state has occurred in which the automatic driving needs to be terminated. The detection section is configured to detect the switching operation. The control section is configured to switch travelling from automatic driving to manual driving in the case of detecting the switching operation by the detection section.
US11130479B2
A vehicle weight sensing system is particularly useful for trailers. An axle tube is mounted to the vehicle or trailer through its suspension members that may be leaf springs. A mounting block is affixed to the axle tube for mounting a strain gauge. The mounting block is fixed to the axle tube between the suspension members connected to the axle tube. The mounting block has a mounting surface opposite to the mating surface and a notch extends from the mating surface toward the mounting surface. The notch terminates between the mating surface and the mounting surface. The notch separates rigidified sections of the mounting block and the rigidified sections straddle the notch. The stain gauge measures strain in the axle and thereby generates a signal proportional to the weight on the trailer. The signal can be used to properly proportion a brake system on the trailer.
US11130478B2
A method for controlling longitudinal dynamics in a motor vehicle during an autonomous driving operation, where the presence of a front vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle is ascertained with the aid of a surround sensor system; ascertaining at least one longitudinal dynamics variable of the front vehicle, which describes the longitudinal vehicle dynamics of the front vehicle, with the aid of the surround sensor system; and ascertaining at least one variable, which is used in a brake control system of the motor vehicle, as a function of the longitudinal dynamics variable of the front vehicle.
US11130474B2
The invention relates to a terminal end piece (8) for a wiper blade. The terminal end piece (8) comprises a peripheral wall (20) which separates an external environment of the terminal end piece (8) from an internal space (11) of the terminal end piece (8). The terminal end piece (8) delimits a first housing (21) which is arranged in the internal space (11) and which extends primarily in a first plane (P1). A second housing (22) is interposed between the peripheral wall (20) and the first housing (21). The terminal end piece (8) comprises at least one locking member (37) which is configured to connect the terminal end piece (8) to a flexible support (6) of the wiper blade (1). The locking member (37) extends at least from the peripheral wall (20) and comprises a stop (46) which is at least partially arranged in the first housing (21), the locking member (37) being configured so that the stop (46) can be displaced in a second plane (P2) transverse to the first plane (P1) when the first end (31) is introduced into the first housing (21).
US11130468B2
An active vent mechanism for an airbag apparatus that includes a first vent hole formed in an airbag and a patch capable of releasing and closing the first vent hole. A portion of the patch is coupled to the outer surface of the airbag. The airbag apparatus includes a coupling member having one end coupled to the patch and the other end entering the airbag and coupled to the airbag. A portion of the patch or a portion of the coupling member penetrates through an opening in the vicinity of the first vent hole. The airbag apparatus includes a substantially cylindrical regulating member into which the coupling member is inserted inside the airbag. The regulating member has a first end coupled to the inner surface of the airbag so as to surround the opening inside the airbag and a second end coupled to the coupling member in a sealed state.
US11130459B2
A sensor protector configured including a mount, a plate shaped cover, and an electromagnetic wave shield is provided. The mount is mounted at a bracket configured to fix a sensor, provided at an inner side of a bumper cover, to a body of a vehicle. The plate shaped cover that extends from a lower portion of the mount toward the bumper cover with an end portion of the cover, at an outer side in a vehicle front-rear direction, separated from the bumper cover, and covers a lower portion of the sensor as viewed from a lower side of the vehicle. The electromagnetic wave shield is provided to at least a portion of the cover.
US11130456B2
A gas turbine engine and methods of operation include a low pressure electric motor-generator arranged for selective operation in a generator mode to generate electrical power or a drive mode to assist rotation of a low pressure drive shaft of the engine.
